1. Quentin Tarantino as The LeQuint Dickey Mining Co. Employee (Django Unchained)
Please hear me out. This wont be a popular choice, but theres something about the inherent sliminess of Tarantinos screen presence that makes this work. God knows what his accent is Australian? South African? Rongo Rongo? but, after years of cameoing in his own films (often quite badly), Tarantinos LeQuint Dickey Mining Co. Employee is his best. And if you dont like it, you can take comfort in the fact that he gets one of the most extravagant deaths in the film: exploded to bits by his own dynamite. Not many directors have the balls to act in their own movies; fewer still have the courage to dynamite their character to an early grave, the ultimate exercise in self-deprecation.