15 Best Movie Villains Of The Decade

5. Calvin Candie - Django Unchained (2012)

It might not be the role that ultimately won him his over-due Oscar win, but Leonardo Dicaprio's turn as Calvin Candie in Quentin Tarantino's Westsploitation actioner is an absolute revelation and SHOULD have been his first win.

He's not in it a great deal and he's only one part of an institution of grotesque racism, but Candie bears all the hallmarks of a grandiose, pantomime villain from the likes of the Bond franchise. He has quirks that set him apart, a ludicrous Francophile fetish designed to hide who he is that cannot do anything about the grubby truth of his teeth. He's a man obsessed with appearances but completely undone in that respect by his inherent vices of violence, bigotry and evil.

He is the dark underbelly of the America that has rewarded him and his type, a fortified weed dressed up as a pretty flower and even as his habits - his cocktail drinking, flower-wearing fanciness - appear to make him a bit of a tragicomic idiot, he smashes any doubts over his true villainy with a hammer.