35 Actors List their 5 Favorite Films: Which One Is Your Movie Soul Mate?

By Dustin Rowles | Lists | March 13, 2012 |

RottenTomatoes has been running a weekly feature for several years now, in which they ask a particular actor or director what their five favorite films are. It’s a neat little series, and occasionally, you can try and determine whether that actor or actress is pulling a Rachel Greene and revealing that her favorite movie is Dangerous Liasons instead of what it actually is, Weekend at Bernies. Of the 35 Actors listed below, I actually think they’re all being fairly honest, for better (Dane Cook) or worse (Taylor Lautner) or worst (Megan Fox). I might also note that the fact Kramer vs. Kramer is on both John Krasinski and Emily Blunt’s list does not bode well for their relationship.

Among the titles listed, Kubrick is well represented, as is Marlon Brando, James Dean, Spielberg, and The Wizard of Oz. There’s not a lot of wild cards in the list of five favorites, but among these 35 Actors, based on their movie selections, who would you consider your movie soul mate? That is to say, the one whose Five Films would best jibe with your own?

I would tentatively have to go with Jonah Hill.



1. Ewan McGregor

Harvey

Deliverance

Jaws

Easy Rider

Doctor Zhivago

2. Megan Fox

The Lord of the Rings trilogy

How to Train a Dragon

Kung Fu Panda 2

The Wizard of Oz

Teenage Mutan Ninja Turtle trilogy

3. Elizabeth Olsen

Gone with the Wind

Annie Hall

Manhattan

Roman Holiday

Pal Joey

4. Emily Blunt

Jaws

Kramer vs. Kramer

Princess Bride

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

The Lives of Others

5. Daniel Radcliffe

12 Angry Men

A Matter of Life and Death

Dr. Strangelove

Little Miss Sunshine

Jason and the Argonauts

6. Gina Carano

True Romance

Braveheart

Let Me In (remake)

Cry-Baby

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

7. Emile Hirsch

A Streetcar Named Desire

The Matrix

Raging Bull

Usual Suspects

The English Patient

8. Gary Oldman

Apocalypse Now

The Conversation

The Godfather Part II

Badlands

Ratcatcher

9. Kermit the Frog an Miss Piggy

The Wizard of Oz

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Vanilla Sky

Devil’s Advocate

Deliverance

10. Rosario Dawson

Resovoir Dogs

The Misfits

Network

Killer of Sheep

Man on Wire

11. Aaron Eckhart

Apocalypse Now

Five Easy Pieces

The Getaway

Bringing Up Baby

Midnight Express

12. Abigail Breslin

Meet Me in St. Louis

Insidious

The Help

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Prancer

13. Hayden Panettiere

Life is Beautiful

The Power of One

Moulin Rouge

How to Train Your Dragon

Legends of the Fall

14. Alan Tudyk

All that Jazz

Young Frankenstein

What’s Up Doc?

Sexy Beast

Smokey and the Bandit

15. Taylor Lautner

Braveheart

Gladiator

Man on Fire

Iron Man

The Notebook

16. Joel McHale

Dr. Strangelove

Blade Runner

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Children of Men

Ikiru

17. Nick Frost

Dead Man’s Shoes

Bottle Rocket

Raiders of the Lost Ark

The Shining

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

18. Bradley Cooper

Life Lessons

The Celebration

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

The Conversation

The Shop Around the Corner

19. Nicolas Cage

East of Eden

Streetcar Named Desire

2001

A Clockwork Orange

The Wizard of Oz

20. Amy Adams

Gone with the Wind

Vertigo

The Wizard of Oz

The Shawshank Redemption

Paulie

21. Jane Lynch

Zoolander

Private Benjamin

The Big Lebowski

Ninotchka

The Crossing Guard

22. Justin Long

The Drugstore Cowboy

Back to the Future

Boogie Nights

Way Out West

Annie Hall

23. Tim Burton

Dracula A.D.

The Wicker Man

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

The War of Gargantuas

The Omega Man

24. James McAvoy

The Goonies

Brief Encounter

My Wife is An Actress

The Great Escape

Back to the Future

25. Jonah Hill

Rushmore

Boogie Nights

The Big Lebowski

Back to the Future

Goodfellas

26. Katherine Heigl

Overboard

Coming to America

Steel Magnolias

Charade

The Blind Side

27. Craig Ferguson

Inglourious Basterds

Night of the Hunter

Run Lola Run

In the Name of the Rose

Carry on Screaming

28. Timothy Olyphant

Blue Velvet

Chariots of Fire

Pulp Fiction

Sid and Nancy

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

29. Kristen Bell

The Apartment

The Last King of Scotland

When Harry Met Sally

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

Fletch

30. John Krasinski

Kramer vs. Kramer

Ordinary People

The Verdict

On the Waterfront

The Godfather



31. Dane Cook

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

The Empire Strikes Back

Goodfellas

The Dark Knight

Halloween

32. Seth Rogen

The Big Lebowski

Ghostbusters

The Last Detail

Total Recall

Ghostbusters

33. Robert Pattinson

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

The Exorcist

Prenom Carmen

ivan’s xtc

Corky Romano

34. Jason Statham

Cool Hand Luke

The Godfather

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

The Sting

Enter the Dragon

35. James Franco

Gimme Shelter

My Own Private Idaho

The Bicycle Thief



The Wrestler





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