Actor: John Goodman

John Goodman has worked with the Coen brothers six times, and Barton Fink is the best of it: a friendly insurance salesman who turns out to be something else entirely, and the corridor sequence is one of the great tonal shifts in American film.

The Big Lebowski gave him Walter, a Vietnam veteran who cannot stop shouting, and the performance is funny because the rage is genuine.

Roseanne made him famous and he has said the discipline of a weekly sitcom taught him more about timing than film ever did.

10 Cloverfield Lane is the late achievement, playing a man whose menace and possible correctness are held in balance for ninety minutes.