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(#20) Fantastic Mr. Fox
- George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson, Michael Gambon, Adrien Brody, Brian Cox, Jason Schwartzman, Wes Anderson, Jarvis Cocker, Mario Batali, Karen Duffy, Helen McCrory, Roman Coppola, Steven M. Rales, Wallace Wolodarsky, Eric Chase Anderson, Garth Jennings, Hugo Guinness, Jeremy Dawson, Allison Abbate, Tristan Oliver, James Hamilton, Jennifer Furches, Robin Hurlstone, Martin Ballard, Molly Cooper, Juman Malouf, Robert B Hersov
Fantastic Mr. Fox (based on a children’s book by Roald Dahl) is one of four times Dafoe has appeared in a Wes Anderson project thus far. It was the only time, however, he did not appear in person, instead lending his voice to a stop-motion animated rat.
Rat is a villainous character in the film (which earned two Academy Award nominations, losing both to Pixar's Up) whom Dafoe expertly instills with his trademark creepy-but-not-too-creepy presence.
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(#15) Wild at Heart
- Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe, Isabella Rossellini, Laura Dern, Crispin Glover, Sherilyn Fenn, Diane Ladd, Harry Dean Stanton, Jack Nance, Pruitt Taylor Vince, David Patrick Kelly, Sheryl Lee, Freddie Jones, Grace Zabriskie, William Morgan Sheppard, Calvin Lockhart, J. E. Freeman, Marvin Kaplan, John Lurie, Glenn Walker Harris Jr., Gregg Dandridge
David Lynch’s 1990 dark rom-com crime film Wild at Heart was bananas from beginning to end, featuring Nicolas Cage in peak bizarro mode. Competing with Cage's bombastic cartoonishness, however, was a Dafoe performance so evil and deranged, you could tell he was having a blast.
Playing a terrifying heavy by the name of Bobby Peru, Dafoe said his was an experience "where I put on the costume, put on those teeth, grew a little mustache, put on a little accent, and it was all there and I didn't have to do a thing; it did itself."
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(#18) The English Patient
- Willem Dafoe, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Juliette Binoche, Kristin Scott Thomas, Naveen Andrews, Jürgen Prochnow, Torri Higginson, Julian Wadham, Clive Merrison, Kevin Whately, Liisa Repo-Martell, Geordie Johnson, Nino Castelnuovo, Hichem Rostom, Peter Rühring
If you thought Eric Roberts in The Pope of Greenwich Village was the only performance to properly convey the tragedy of losing one's thumbs, you've never seen the 1996 drama The English Patient.
Dafoe plays the supporting character Caravaggio, a hospitalized Canadian intelligence operative who recently lost the most important digits on both his hands after some enhanced interrogation by members of the Third Reich. Outrageously, it seems he was just about the only member of the production who didn't get an Academy Award nomination.
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(#21) Auto Focus
- Willem Dafoe, Maria Bello, Rita Wilson, Greg Kinnear, Ed Begley, Jr., Michael McKean, Alex Meneses, Catherine Dent, Kelly Packard, Olivia Saint, Katie Lohmann, Arden Myrin, John Kapelos, Kurt Fuller, Ron Leibman, Marieh Delfino, Vyto Ruginis, Joe Grifasi, Kevin Kilner, Gary Sievers, Nikita Ager, Kitana Baker, Don McManus, Joseph D. Reitman, Lyle Kanouse, Donnamarie Recco, Michael E. Rodgers, Kate Clarke, Cassie Townsend, Bruce Solomon, Shawn Reaves, Kevin Beard, Evis X. Shaffer, Shannon Murphy, Gibby Brand, Roderick McCarthy, Zen, John Churchill, Zero, Danielle Petty, Bruce Bauer, Jennifer Piper, Jeff Harlan, Cheryl Lynn Bowers, Hannah Feldner-Shaw, Kelly K.C. Quann, LeJon, Michael Tachovsky, Amanda Niles, Owen Masterson, Christopher Neiman, Bill Marinella, Amber Griebel, Jade Ruggiero, Sarah Uhrich, Jacob Hagard, Shelley Coleman-Hiestad, Jennifer Coffmon, Christopher Hagard, Teri Geary
The tale of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane is a sordid one indeed, and making a movie about his last days could easily have turned into a depressing and uncomfortable disaster. But with Greg Kinnear in the lead and Dafoe as Kinnear/Crane's supplier of naughty filmmaking equipment, Auto Focus was met with widespread critical praise.
Yet again, Dafoe proved to the world just how vastly entertaining his ability to artfully exude creepiness can be.
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(#1) Platoon
- Johnny Depp, Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger, Forest Whitaker, Oliver Stone, Keith David, Tony Todd, John C. McGinley, Kevin Dillon, Dale Dye, Richard Edson, Cary Glover, Mark Moses, Francesco Quinn, Henry Strzalkowski, Nick Nicholson, Chris Pedersen, David Neidorf, Paul Sanchez, Reggie Johnson, Mark Ebenhoch, Terry McIlvain, Eric Hahn, Ivan Kane, Robert 'Rock' Galotti, Corkey Ford, H. Gordon Boos, Matthew Westfall, Warren McLean, Peter Hicks, Clarisa Ortacio, Bernardo Manalili, Chris Castillejo, Basile Achara, Li Mai Thao, Steve Barredo, J. Adam Glover, Andrew B. Clark, Li Thi Van, Ron Barracks, Than Rogers, Bob Orwig, Romy Sevilla, Kevin Eshelman
In 1986 Dafoe appeared in Oliver Stone's Platoon and featured in one of the most iconic war movie moments of all time.
With his arms spread wide in an obvious crucifixion allegory, the demise of Sgt. Elias was an incredible scene that resulted in Dafoe earning his first Academy Award nomination (and losing to Michael Caine in Hannah and Her Sisters).
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(#2) The Boondock Saints
- Willem Dafoe, Norman Reedus, Billy Connolly, Ron Jeremy, Sean Patrick Flanery, Jeanna Fine, Dot Jones, Richard Fitzpatrick, Gerard Parkes, Kevin Chapman, Carlo Rota, Joe Pingue, Sergio Di Zio, David Ferry, Layton Morrison, James Binkley, Don Carmody, Jonathan Higgins, Dick Callahan, Brian Mahoney, Tom Barnett, David Della Rocco, Gary Nicholson, Christopher Flockton, Robert Vernon Eaton, Michael Yavnielli, Roberta Angelica, Bob Marley, Jimmy Tingle, Todd Schroeder, Chris Brinker, Nicholas Pasco, Markus Parilo, Bill Craig, Gina Sorell, Robert B. Kennedy, Jeffrey R. Smith, Troy Duffy, Victor Pedtrchenko, Matthew Chaffee, Angelo Tucci, Nathan Amondson, Robert Pemberton, Taylor Duffy, Lauren Piech, Ryan Parks, Elizabeth Brown, Kym Kristalie, Moris Santia, Darren Marsman, John Ferus, Lizz Alexander, Scott Griffith, Derek Murchie, Aleksandar Petko, Peter Windrem, Pat Riccio, William Young, Glen Marc Silot, Anthony Chrysostom, Carmen DiStefano
In The Boondock Saints, Dafoe is FBI special agent Paul Smecker, whose mission is to bring down two vigilante brothers (played by Sean Patrick Flanery and a pre-Walking Dead Norman Reedus).
The character of Smecker is a bit more complicated than others of this sort, as he is an emotionally conflicted gay man who ultimately decides to assist his targets in their quest for ruthless justice. Dafoe plays him with an over-the-top gusto that winds up being ridiculous, weird, and vastly entertaining. While The Boondock Saints won’t be remembered as a great movie, you can't take your eyes off Dafoe.
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