20.Body of Lies
Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe
Released: 2008
Directed by: Ridley Scott
19.The Water Diviner
Russell Crowe, Olga Kurylenko
Released: 2014
Directed by: Russell Crowe
18.Romper Stomper
Russell Crowe, Jacqueline McKenzie
Released: 1992
Directed by: Geoffrey Wright
17.The Nice Guys
Matt Bomer, Ryan Gosling
Released: 2016
Directed by: Shane Black
16.State of Play
Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck
Released: 2009
Directed by: Kevin Macdonald
15.Proof of Life
Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe
Released: 2000
Directed by: Taylor Hackford
14.Les Miserables
Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried
Released: 2012
Directed by: Tom Hooper
13.Mystery, Alaska
Russell Crowe, Mike Myers
Released: 1999
Directed by: Jay Roach
12.The Quick and the Dead
Leonardo DiCaprio, Sharon Stone
Released: 1995
Directed by: Sam Raimi
11.A Good Year
Russell Crowe, Marion Cotillard
Released: 2006
Directed by: Ridley Scott
10.The Next Three Days
Olivia Wilde, Elizabeth Banks
Released: 2010
Directed by: Paul Haggis
9.Robin Hood
Cate Blanchett, Russell Crowe
Released: 2010
Directed by: Ridley Scott
8.The Insider
Al Pacino, Russell Crowe
Released: 1999
Directed by: Michael Mann
7.American Gangster
Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe
Released: 2007
Directed by: Ridley Scott
6. 3:10 to Yuma
Christian Bale, Russell Crowe
Released: 2007
Directed by: James Mangold
5.Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany
Released: 2003
Directed by: Peter Weir
4.Cinderella Man
Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger
Released: 2005
Directed by: Ron Howard
3.L.A. Confidential
Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe
Released: 1997
Directed by: Curtis Hanson
2. A Beautiful Mind
Jennifer Connelly, Russell Crowe
Released: 2001
Directed by: Ron Howard
AND IN THE FIRST PLACE ONE OF THE BEST OF ALL TIME FILM
1.Gladiator
Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix
Released: 2000
Directed by: Ridley Scott
BIOGRAPHY
At age four Crowe moved with his family to Australia. He was the son of film and television set caterers, and he made his acting debut at age six on Australian television in the wartime spy adventure series Spyforce. After returning to New Zealand in the late 1970s, Crowe cofounded the rock band Roman Antix, serving as songwriter, guitarist, and lead singer; the group later re-formed as 30 Odd Foot of Grunts and released three full-length albums before disbanding in 2005. Some of the band’s members joined his newer venture, Russell Crowe & the Ordinary Fear of God. In the mid-1980s Crowe began performing in musicals, and from 1986 to 1988 he toured with The Rocky Horror Picture Show as the cross-dressing Dr. Frank N. Furter.
In 1990 Crowe started a film career, appearing in the war drama Prisoners of the Sun and The Crossing, a drama centred on a romantic triangle. In these early efforts, he displayed an innate ability to inhabit the characters he portrayed and for his next film, Proof (1991), received a best supporting actor award from the Australian Film Institute (AFI). Crowe’s career reached a turning point with Romper Stomper (1992), in which he played a menacing neo-Nazi. His performance earned him an AFI best actor award and attracted the attention of Hollywood. After starring as a gay man searching for love in The Sum of Us (1994), Crowe appeared in his first American film, the western The Quick and the Dead (1995). It had little success at the box office, however, as did a series of Hollywood films that followed.
Only with the role of Bud White, a brutish but vulnerable policeman, in the 1950s crime drama L.A. Confidential (1997) did Crowe’s gift for complex performance combine with a well-written story line to help produce a commercial and critical hit. He acted in a number of films in the late 1990s, earning an Academy Award nomination for his role as tobacco-industry whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand in The Insider (1999). Two years later he took the academy’s best actor award for his role as Maximus, a Roman general-turned-gladiator in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator. His commanding performance, which blended scenes of yearning love with those of brutal physical violence, helped make the epic one of the highest-grossing films of 2000. He won a third nomination for the best actor award with his starring role in A Beautiful Mind (2001), the story of John Forbes Nash, a real-life Nobel Prize-winning mathematician suffering from schizophrenia.
