Every Philip Seymour Hoffman Movie Ranked Worst To Best

After years playing memorable bit parts and proving his salt as one of the industry's leading character actors, Hoffman found himself cast as controversial writer Truman Capote in Bennett Miller's searing biopic.

For his performance, Hoffman won his only Oscar, and it wouldn't be a stretch to say it's one of the best deserved Oscar wins in the Academy's history.

Hoffman perfectly balances Capote's fractured emotional state with his innate desire to be loved, his intellectual intensity and his strange charm. It's a performance of a lifetime, and cemented not just Capote as one of the best biopics ever made, but Hoffman as one of his generation's greatest thespians.