Philip Seymour Hoffman

Apex — Capote (2005)

23,930 feet (Camp III)

240th highest of 3,283

Best Actor for a lead role after a decade of definitive supporting ones. Synecdoche, New York is the more ambitious film.

The career, climbed · tap a dot for detail

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Film	Year	Elevation
Capote ▲ apex	2005	19,987 ft
Charlie Wilson's War	2007	19,939 ft
The Master	2012	19,908 ft
Doubt	2008	19,832 ft
A Most Wanted Man	2014	19,695 ft
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead	2007	19,661 ft
Synecdoche, New York	2008	19,639 ft
Mission: Impossible III	2006	19,601 ft
The Boat That Rocked	2009	19,524 ft
Owning Mahowny	2003	19,417 ft
Jack Goes Boating	2010	19,285 ft
Mary and Max	2009	19,232 ft
Love Liza	2002	19,166 ft
God's Pocket	2014	19,134 ft
Happiness	1998	19,082 ft
State and Main	2000	18,989 ft
Magnolia	1999	18,959 ft
The Talented Mr. Ripley	1999	18,874 ft
Flawless	1999	18,851 ft
The Savages	2007	18,836 ft
25th Hour	2002	18,819 ft
A Late Quartet	2012	18,655 ft
Twister	1996	18,647 ft
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1	2014	18,600 ft
Punch-Drunk Love	2002	18,570 ft
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2	2015	18,553 ft
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	2013	18,536 ft
Red Dragon	2002	18,491 ft
Scent of a Woman	1992	18,426 ft
Along Came Polly	2004	18,417 ft
The Ides of March	2011	18,330 ft
Cold Mountain	2003	18,257 ft
Boogie Nights	1997	18,164 ft
Moneyball	2011	18,125 ft
Patch Adams	1998	18,007 ft
The Big Lebowski	1998	17,858 ft
Strangers with Candy	2006	17,856 ft
Hard Eight	1997	17,848 ft
Money for Nothing	1993	17,736 ft
Leap of Faith	1992	17,716 ft
When a Man Loves a Woman	1994	17,710 ft
Next Stop Wonderland	1998	17,697 ft
Montana	1998	17,688 ft
Almost Famous	2000	17,660 ft
The Invention of Lying	2009	17,653 ft
Nobody's Fool	1994	17,651 ft
The Getaway	1994	17,650 ft
My Boyfriend's Back	1993	17,636 ft