Philip Seymour Hoffman

Apex — Capote (2005)

23,780 feet (Camp III)

85th highest of 105

An enduring, oft-rewatched summit, edging Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.

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

Filmography — by elevation

	Film	Year	Elevation
	Capote ▲ apex	2005	24,918 ft
	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead	2007	23,228 ft
	Synecdoche, New York	2008	23,166 ft
	Owning Mahowny	2003	22,830 ft
	Love Liza	2002	22,670 ft
	Jack Goes Boating	2010	22,482 ft
	God's Pocket	2014	22,406 ft
	A Most Wanted Man	2014	22,057 ft
	The Boat That Rocked	2009	21,896 ft
	Happiness	1998	21,849 ft
	The Savages	2007	21,714 ft
	State and Main	2000	21,642 ft
	Along Came Polly	2004	21,600 ft
	A Late Quartet	2012	21,574 ft
	Mission: Impossible III	2006	21,488 ft
	25th Hour	2002	21,447 ft
	Doubt	2008	21,328 ft
	The Master	2012	21,278 ft
	Flawless	1999	20,993 ft
	Mary and Max	2009	20,915 ft
	Patch Adams	1998	20,824 ft
	The Ides of March	2011	20,783 ft
	Punch-Drunk Love	2002	20,761 ft
	Moneyball	2011	20,758 ft
	When a Man Loves a Woman	1994	20,756 ft
	Magnolia	1999	20,734 ft
	Charlie Wilson's War	2007	20,727 ft
	Twister	1996	20,540 ft
	Scent of a Woman	1992	20,474 ft
	Strangers with Candy	2006	20,412 ft
	Red Dragon	2002	20,400 ft
	Montana	1998	20,398 ft
	The Talented Mr. Ripley	1999	20,376 ft
	Cold Mountain	2003	20,332 ft
	Money for Nothing	1993	20,312 ft
	The Big Lebowski	1998	20,302 ft
	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1	2014	20,289 ft
	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2	2015	20,279 ft
	Hard Eight	1997	20,267 ft
	Next Stop Wonderland	1998	20,248 ft
	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	2013	20,242 ft
	Boogie Nights	1997	20,234 ft
	Leap of Faith	1992	20,210 ft
	Salinger	2013	20,209 ft
	My Boyfriend's Back	1993	20,167 ft
	The Getaway	1994	20,167 ft
	Nobody's Fool	1994	20,163 ft
	The Invention of Lying	2009	20,151 ft
	Almost Famous	2000	20,145 ft
	I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale	2009	20,144 ft