5. Gary Oldman
After decades of being cruelly overlooked, Gary Oldman has finally started to receive a portion of the acclaim he so obviously deserves. It was not until 2011 that he finally got an Oscar nomination (for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), though he should have been nominated for Leon: The Professional, JFK and Sid and Nancy. Like others on this list, Oldman is predominantly a character actor, so acclaim rarely goes his way, but he is one of the greatest actors in the history of cinema. Oldman has developed a reputation as being able to play a great outlandish villain, despite being very shy and soft-spoken in real life, and the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, Oliver Stone, Ridley Scott and Tomas Alfredson have enlisted him for their movies. Over the last decade, Oldman is most popular for playing James Gordon in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, but it's impossible not to think he was under used, and that he had so much more to offer than a scene here and there. There's a reason Oldman is held in such high regard by his peers, it's simply because he's one of the finest actors to ever live, it's a shame everybody else is only waking up to his talent now. Top 5 Movies:
1. JFK 2. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 3. True Romance 4. Sid and Nancy 5. Batman Begins