Favorite performances based on historical/famous persons

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I'll kick things off. No particular order:

Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious (Sid & Nancy)
Gary Oldman as Lee Harvey Oswald (JFK)
Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln)
Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler (Downfall)
Peter O'Toole as T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
George C. Scott as George Patton (Patton).

 

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Ben Kingsley as Gandhi (Gandhi)
Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)

 

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Denzel as Malcolm X is the best I've ever seen.

 

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Denzel as Malcolm X is the best I've ever seen.

Agreed.

Anthony Hopkins as Richard Nixon
Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta
Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison
Corey Stoll as Ernest Hemingway
John Hurt as John Merrick
Paul Giamatti as Harvey Pekar
Jeffrey Wright as Basquiat
Woody Harrelson as Larry Flynt
Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman
Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan

Michael Cera as Michael Cera in every movie Michael Cera is in