10 Great Movie Performances (No One Ever Talks About)
5. Aaron Eckhart - Thank You For Smoking
As much as you could probably put Aaron Eckhart's underrated performance as The Dark Knight's Harvey Dent on this list - considering how thoroughly he's overshadowed by Heath Ledger's Joker - the strongest work of his career actually came a few years earlier in Jason Reitman's satirical drama Thank You for Smoking.
The chisel-jawed, impossibly slick Eckhart is perfectly cast as Big Tobacco spokesman Nick Naylor, so infuriatingly charming as to be entirely believable in the role of a man intended to re-shape public opinion re: smoking.
And yet, the majority of audiences will associate Eckhart with The Dark Knight and not a whole lot else, despite this being the easy standout turn of his career.
And in what's starting to sound like a broken record, Eckhart was also nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance all while the Academy snubbed him.