Philip Seymour Hoffman

Apex — Capote (2005)

23,040 feet (Camp II)

100th highest of 108

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

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

Film	Year	Elevation
Capote ▲ apex	2005	22,563 ft
The Master	2012	22,032 ft
A Most Wanted Man	2014	21,977 ft
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1	2014	21,976 ft
Synecdoche, New York	2008	21,960 ft
God's Pocket	2014	21,948 ft
Jack Goes Boating	2010	21,941 ft
Owning Mahowny	2003	21,916 ft
Love Liza	2002	21,912 ft
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead	2007	21,898 ft
Doubt	2008	21,891 ft
Mission: Impossible III	2006	21,846 ft
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	2013	21,828 ft
25th Hour	2002	21,819 ft
The Boat That Rocked	2009	21,801 ft
Happiness	1998	21,795 ft
The Savages	2007	21,778 ft
A Late Quartet	2012	21,772 ft
State and Main	2000	21,766 ft
Flawless	1999	21,760 ft
Charlie Wilson's War	2007	21,760 ft
Along Came Polly	2004	21,754 ft
Magnolia	1999	21,753 ft
The Talented Mr. Ripley	1999	21,743 ft
Twister	1996	21,718 ft
Punch-Drunk Love	2002	21,712 ft
Scent of a Woman	1992	21,708 ft
Moneyball	2011	21,708 ft
The Ides of March	2011	21,704 ft
Patch Adams	1998	21,676 ft
Mary and Max	2009	21,667 ft
Boogie Nights	1997	21,665 ft
Cold Mountain	2003	21,658 ft
Almost Famous	2000	21,645 ft
The Big Lebowski	1998	21,632 ft
Red Dragon	2002	21,612 ft
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2	2015	21,610 ft
Strangers with Candy	2006	21,597 ft
Montana	1998	21,595 ft
Hard Eight	1997	21,590 ft
Money for Nothing	1993	21,583 ft
When a Man Loves a Woman	1994	21,579 ft
Leap of Faith	1992	21,577 ft
Next Stop Wonderland	1998	21,575 ft
Nobody's Fool	1994	21,568 ft
The Invention of Lying	2009	21,568 ft
The Getaway	1994	21,567 ft
My Boyfriend's Back	1993	21,566 ft