Bob Hoskins was nominated for Best Actor for Mona Lisa and won at Cannes for it, playing a driver whose decency is entirely out of place in the world he works in.
The Long Good Friday gives him a gangster whose empire collapses across a single day, ending on a four-minute unbroken close-up in the back of a car that is one of the great pieces of screen acting.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit required him to perform opposite characters added later, and he reportedly hallucinated afterward. He fell into acting by accident, having been in a pub waiting for a friend.
