20 Best & Worst Movies From 2018 Oscar Nominees

14. Woody Harrelson

Best: The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)

Harrelson has played a lot of very similar characters over his career - though he's deviated more recently - with the emphasis on affable, charismatic guys with some sort of personality flaw. He was particularly magnificent in True Detective, which would rank as his finest work if it was a movie.

So the next best goes to The People vs. Larry Flynt, which is one of the great films about the American justice system, which was directed by One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest's Milos Forman. In it, he plays the infamous founder of Hustler as he fights the justice system over free speech and taste laws.

He's a delightfully dirty-minded, sleazy, opportunistic drug addict, but Harrelson is so good that he makes him genuinely sympathetic.

Worst: Surfer, Dude (2008)

There's a good reason you probably haven't heard of Surfer, Dude - which put Matthew McConaughey and Harrelson together well before True Detective. It's utterly terrible.

It feels incomplete, like a rough-cut for a bad movie that the studio simply gave up on midway through production. It's unfunny, lazily written and stupid and you really have to wonder why ANYONE would have bothered to sign on, particularly actors of this standing.

At least he had the decency to say the film was the easiest pay he's ever made.