Dustin Hoffman

Apex — Midnight Cowboy (1969)

25,910 feet (Camp III)

28th highest of 105

An enduring, oft-rewatched summit, edging The Graduate.

The career, climbed — every film on the shared Everest scale; hover for detail

Filmography — by elevation

	Film	Year	Elevation
	Rain Man	1988	28,439 ft
	The Graduate	1967	27,752 ft
	Midnight Cowboy ▲ apex	1969	26,425 ft
	Tootsie	1982	24,830 ft
	Kramer vs. Kramer	1979	24,585 ft
	Hook	1991	24,362 ft
	Little Big Man	1970	23,778 ft
	Marathon Man	1976	23,694 ft
	Lenny	1974	23,516 ft
	Straw Dogs	1971	23,463 ft
	Outbreak	1995	23,340 ft
	Straight Time	1978	23,194 ft
	Death of a Salesman	1985	22,939 ft
	Hero	1992	22,914 ft
	Last Chance Harvey	2008	22,834 ft
	Wag the Dog	1997	22,795 ft
	Agatha	1979	22,711 ft
	Boychoir	2015	22,662 ft
	Alfredo, Alfredo	1972	22,546 ft
	John and Mary	1969	22,470 ft
	Papillon	1973	22,422 ft
	Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium	2007	22,359 ft
	American Buffalo	1996	22,355 ft
	Sphere	1998	22,264 ft
	Moonlight Mile	2002	22,093 ft
	All the President's Men	1976	21,950 ft
	Meet the Fockers	2004	21,743 ft
	Barney's Version	2010	21,684 ft
	Into the Labyrinth	2019	21,486 ft
	Roald Dahl's Esio Trot	2015	21,476 ft
	Ishtar	1987	21,450 ft
	Mad City	1997	21,318 ft
	Billy Bathgate	1991	21,181 ft
	Family Business	1989	21,148 ft
	Sleepers	1996	21,126 ft
	I ♥ Huckabees	2004	21,109 ft
	Kung Fu Panda	2008	21,108 ft
	Runaway Jury	2003	20,975 ft
	Stranger Than Fiction	2006	20,968 ft
	Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	2006	20,904 ft
	Tuner	2026	20,873 ft
	Dick Tracy	1990	20,860 ft
	Finding Neverland	2004	20,784 ft
	The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)	2017	20,744 ft
	The Cobbler	2014	20,735 ft
	Kung Fu Panda 2	2011	20,705 ft
	The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc	1999	20,686 ft
	Little Fockers	2010	20,669 ft
	The Tale of Despereaux	2008	20,667 ft
	Kung Fu Panda 3	2016	20,635 ft
	Kung Fu Panda 4	2024	20,545 ft
	As They Made Us	2022	20,509 ft
	Sam & Kate	2022	20,508 ft
	Confidence	2003	20,359 ft
	Chef	2014	20,310 ft
	The Lost City	2005	20,269 ft
	The Program	2015	20,210 ft
	The Point	1971	20,159 ft
	Racing Stripes	2005	20,147 ft
	Trumbo	2007	20,141 ft
	Spielberg	2017	20,141 ft
	La Classe américaine	1993	20,140 ft
	The Devil's Arithmetic	1999	20,139 ft
	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	2004	20,139 ft
	The Holiday	2006	20,139 ft
	Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff	2010	20,139 ft
	Megalopolis	2024	20,139 ft