Actor: Michael Douglas

Michael Douglas produced One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which won Best Picture, before establishing himself as an actor, and the producing instinct never left him.

The persona that emerged is a professional man whose confidence is exposed as fragility. Wall Street won him Best Actor as Gordon Gekko, a character intended as a warning and adopted as a role model by the industry it satirised.

Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, Falling Down and Disclosure make a run of films about male grievance that were enormous at the time and are now studied as a document of the period.

Wonder Boys is the best late performance and the least seen, and the Ant-Man films gave him a comfortable elder statesman register.