American Beauty (1999)
Sam Mendes's 1999 suburban satire. Kevin Spacey as a midlife-crisis dad, Annette Bening as the wife.
Actor: Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey won Best Supporting Actor for The Usual Suspects and Best Actor for American Beauty, and spent a decade as one of the most reliable character leads in American film.
The technique was withholding. Se7en, The Usual Suspects and L.A. Confidential all depend on the audience not knowing what he knows, and he was unusually good at concealing information while appearing forthcoming.
He also ran the Old Vic in London for eleven years.
Multiple allegations of sexual misconduct emerged from 2017, which ended his career in film and television. He was found not liable in a civil trial and acquitted in a criminal trial in the UK, and has not returned to significant work.
