Anthony Hopkins · Filmography Ranked
Best Anthony Hopkins Films, Ranked by IQ Score
Six decades of the most-disciplined British screen actor. Every Hopkins film, ranked by IQ Score.
Anthony Hopkins's filmography is the most-canonical British post-1970 screen-acting catalog. Two Best Actor Oscars, The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and The Father (2020). The 2020 win made Hopkins the oldest Best Actor winner in Oscar history at age 83.
Anchor picks: The Silence of the Lambs (1991), only the second performer to win Best Actor for a horror role, after Fredric March in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932). The Father (2020), his second Best Actor 30 years later. Howards End (1992), The Remains of the Day (1993) round out the canonical Merchant-Ivory entries.
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Questions about this ranking
What is the best Anthony Hopkins film?
By IQ Score on TV Intelligentsia, The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and The Father (2020) anchor the catalog, both Best Actor Oscar wins. Howards End, The Remains of the Day, and Nixon round out the canonical entries.
How many Oscars has Hopkins won?
Two Best Actor Oscars, The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and The Father (2020). The 2020 win made him the oldest Best Actor winner in Oscar history at age 83.
Which Hopkins performance is most underrated?
The Two Popes (2019), Nixon (1995), and the Westworld TV series (2016-22) are consistently underrated relative to The Silence of the Lambs. Nixon especially demonstrates Hopkins (a Welshman) rendering the specific paranoid-cognitive register of the American president in late-Stone expressionist register.
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