20 Best & Worst Movies From 2018 Oscar Nominees

8. Gary Oldman

Best: Darkest Hour (2017)

Given how great he is, it's quite the test to pick out his best ever performance. He's been stunning and unrecognisable in a number of roles including Dracula, the Dark Knight trilogy, The Fifth Element and Harry Potter, but he has a particular knack for historical figures.

He's already excelled as Sid Vicious, Lee Harvey Oswald, Joe Orton and Beethoven, but his latest mimic-role - as Sir Winston Churchill - is the most stunning. And it's not merely down to a physical transformation - which is unbelievable in itself - because there's real substance here. He's not just copying Churchill's mannerisms, he's playing a character under them who is fragile and incredible in equal measure. It's an Oscar-worthy performance by definition.

Worst: Tiptoes (2003)

Even when he's in bad movies, Oldman is usually good, but he has been known to make some odd decisions in the name of his art. The oddest - and the least successful - was definitely this curious romantic comedy, in which the tall actor plays a dwarf. This time, it's a transformation too far and it comes in the most ludicrous of films, in which Matthew McConaughey plays a tall man from a family of dwarves that he keeps secret.

It's not only ridiculously off-putting to see Oldman try to convince as a dwarf, but there's not even a decent film to distract you from it.