Top 10 Philip Seymour Hoffman Performances

The Hunger Games

Missing Owning Mahoney and Losing Liza

RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman (July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014), aged 46
You will be remembered as a legend.

The movie "Flawless" where Seymour Hoffman plays a Trans-girl/drag queen alongside Robert De Niro playing a conservative cop who had a stroke is pure acting magic on both sides

I miss him so much! RIP Phillip, you’ll never be forgotten.

Pure genius, sadly missed.

The Count - The Boat That Rocked

Wtfffff where is SYNECDOCHE NEW YORK

Love Liza also had Kathy Bates

Boogie nights role was all time

Miss him. Loved all of his work.

Watch Happiness. He was fantastic. True artist. Blew me away. True actor through and through.

When he needed to be intense, he could do it. Like Patch Adams! The scene about being a prick was dope af. Such a great actor.

Sandy Lyle!

I think it's impossible to pick a single role as his best as he was good in each one. He could play pathetic and damaged. Compassionate and caring. Arrogant and unfeeling. I can think of movie stars almost everyone loved, but somehow, when PSH was in the scene, they were overshadowed by this man.

Owning Mahowny

His acting on Red Dragon was also so good.

Phil and Heath Ledger both died the same way. Drugs really dont care who you are or what you do. It really can hijack anyone, especially the ones who you think would never fall into that.

Why so many brilliant artists walk a fine line between sheer genius and personal depravity I just don't know. He surely was one of those candles that burned oh so brightly.

Go Trump! 💪💪💪💪🎙️🔊🇺🇸🐝

What about Flawless with Robert Dinero. They both were extraordinary.

Love Liza should have made the list.

Mr. Hoffman was beyond superb in his roles. I just wrapped up watching his 14 movie, titled, "God's Pocket" and was blown away, again. Sadly, im guessing that was hus last movie, since he passed the same year from what I've read on wiki. A great no longer with us.

Awful movie but his performance in Along Came Polly is an absolute treasure 🏅🏀

His best role will always be Caden Cotard! Synecdoche, New York.

A Most Wanted Man-It tore me up.

Strove.

Synedoche is my favorite.

My favourite actor of all time.

Never seen a bad performance from him!

I loved Hoffman in Charlie Wilson's War but I must admit that I thought his character's name was Gus (as in Angus) Avocado!😂🤪

Really, he's best at playing the wealthy brat. A few others. That's about it.

Yes, he was a stellar actor. His real addiction was acting. He did drugs both to continue and to escape his addiction to acting. He was making a load of money-- one of the two percent of actors who do. He was brainwashed to do the hideous Broadway roles like Death of A Salesman and others like it and also run a theatre company. Told that if he stopped acting for even a little while, he would lose his career. His mind, body and spirit never got proper rest or exercise. This means he had no real health. He had no genuine friends nor did he have a wife. Hoffman treated himself like he was a machine. But he knew he wasn't one. His body said, stop; his mind would not stop. Machines break and so do people. He tried to "fix" himself by running away. Machines wear out, get scrapped. Hoffman was broken and exhausted. But the acting game doesn't let you go. Without the game, who would he be? Where could he go?
Well, plenty of places. He could say, NO to a part. Leave his theatre company for a time. Stop answering the phone. Stop acting like you aren't famous. Say, YES to life in the countryside for five years. And to a home gym.
Hoffman was sick, hounded and addicted to success. He didn't notice that doing heavy duty stage and film 24/7 would kill him. The actors he wanted to worship him didn't do what he was doing.And they really don't care. They hire thirty stand-ins for movies and have the cash to produce their own films under pseudonyms. They rest a lot.
I saw Dustin Hoffman play Willie Lowman. He was terrible, wooden and soulless. It was ridiculous. He didnt care. I left the theatre within ten minutes. Dustin Hoffman is still alive and he has given a lot of great performances in his lifetime.
If you have to do dope to keep going, it's time to stop acting. If you are tortured and miserable-- S.Hoffman took a lot of parts that he should've turned down. But,the money was flowing. He was played by big players. On some level he knew this. And it terrified him. They wanted him gone. You could tell. Yep.
So he played the workaholic and the guy who just couldn't get away from NYU. And all the LAB work. And the stage work. He hated every minute of it. And he hated the Jealousy in a way- in a way, not.
He did what his father did not do for him. He was an old man. It was all for his children. And it worked.

Loving Liza

My favorite movie with Philip Seymour Hoffman is "Love Liza".

You left out Flawless

His biggest disadvantage is not has successful resources otherwise he will leave his name in actor history

Owning Mahowny mfs!

The fact that you don’t have “Owning Mahoney” on here at all really puts your credibility into question. His performance in that film was a masterclass of conveying emotions in the most realistic and nuanced ways.

One of my top favorite actors, his versatility was unreal. What a loss, RIP

synecdoche erasure.

a most wanted man… best performance

See Love, Liza if you get a chance. It was written by his brother Gordie. Amazing script and a one of a kind performance by Philip.

""Water flows over a damn and under a bridge,you poncie school boy "'..............We lost him too soon.

I knew he was cast in Charlie Wilson’s War, and I waited through 3/4ths of the movie waiting for him to appear onscreen. When I realized he was playing Gus, it blew my mind.

Happ bd, rip mate

Mission impossible 3 is not so so

He stole every scene he was ever in

Shame they didnt mention Flawless. He was Flawless!

One of thr best method actor's of all-time