Twister (1996)
Jan de Bont's 1996 tornado-chase. Foundation for every storm-chasing production since.
Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman won Best Actor for Capote, altering his voice and physical bearing so completely that the performance is closer to possession than impersonation.
He worked repeatedly for Paul Thomas Anderson across five films, and his Boogie Nights performance, a boom operator in love with someone unreachable, contains the single saddest scene in that film.
The Master, Doubt and Charlie Wilson’s War brought three further nominations, and he ran the LAByrinth Theater Company throughout.
He died of an overdose in 2014 at forty-six, having been open about addiction, and the loss is generally described as the largest to American film acting of that decade.
