Actor and comedian Jim Carrey has amassed a wide range of memorable performances that have made him one of the most respected movie stars in history. The Canadian-born actor started alongside great stand-up comedians like Rodney Dangerfield before taking a long break from television with the classic variety series “In Living Color”.
Variety ranks his 10 best film performances to celebrate the actor’s 60ου birthday.
Carrey’s course in the 1990s is one of the most dominant for any actor in the history of cinema. In 1994, he opened three global money-making gamblers – “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” ($ 107 million), “Dumb and Dumber” ($ 270 million) and “The Mask” ($ 351 million). From that point on, she did not stop him.
He moved on to the malicious Riddler in Joel Schumacher’s “Batman Forever” (1995) alongside Val Kilmer before reprinting his role in the underrated “Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls,” which introduced young Sophie Okonedo to the world before winning her Oscar. name for “Hotel Rwanda” (2004).
He made history as the first actor to be paid $ 20 million for Ben Stiller’s black comedy “The Cable Guy” (1996), playing a crazy cable TV installer obsessed with one of his clients, played by Matthew Broderick.
It was the year of the “Titanic” and Carrey remained in the conversation with his opinion about a lawyer who can not lie for 24 hours in the hilarious “Liar Liar” (1997). He received a Golden Globe for his work, an award competition that sparked one of Carrey’s best jokes: “It’s crazy… I mean Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Kline – I do not see how I can lose.”
Seeking to change that, he collaborated with Peter Weir on the drama “The Truman Show” (1998), winning his first Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor, starring Ian McKellen (“Gods and Monsters”) and Tom Hanks. (“Saving Private Ryan”). However, the Academy famously snubbed him in favor of Roberto Benigni (“Life is Beautiful”) and Edward Norton (“American History X”), to whom he referred hilariously when he won the MTV Movie Award for Best Actor.
Carrey’s determination to dare further in the dramatic realm remained constant. He took on the life of Andy Kaufman in Milos Forman’s “Man on the Moon” (1999), which led him to his first and only SAG nod. He also played the overwhelmed Joel Barish in Michel Gondry’s “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (2004), giving him his only BAFTA award.
Since then, he has been a shell of his former self in terms of his box office influence, but there are still hints of his greatness, such as the rogue Steven Russell in “I Love You Phillip Morris” (2009) and even Dr. Robotnik in “Sonic the Hedgehog” (2020).
Reading Variety The ranking of Jim Carrey’s best performances in a movie below:
Honorary report: “Batman Forever” (1995), “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events” (2004), “Me, Myself & Irene” (2000)
