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{{Short description|American actor (1967–2014)}} | |||
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{{Infobox person | {{Infobox person | ||
| name = Philip Seymour Hoffman | | name = Philip Seymour Hoffman | ||
| image = Philip Seymour Hoffman 2011.jpg | | image = Philip Seymour Hoffman 2011.jpg | ||
| caption = Hoffman in |
| caption = Hoffman in 2011 | ||
| birth_name = Philip Hoffman<!-- See talk page for the source regarding "Seymour" as a stage name --> | |||
| birth_date = July 23, 1967 | |||
| birth_date = {{birth date|1967|7|23}} | |||
| birth_place = ], U.S. | |||
| birth_place = ], U.S. | |||
| death_date = {{dda|2014|2|2|1967|7|23}} | |||
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|2|2|1967|7|23}} | |||
| death_place = ], U.S. | |||
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| death_place = ], U.S. | ||
| awards = ] | |||
| years_active = 1991–2014 | |||
| works = ] | |||
| partner = Mimi O'Donnell (1999–2014) | |||
| alma_mater = ] (]) | |||
| children = 3 | |||
| occupation = {{hlist|Actor|producer|theatre director}} | |||
| years_active = 1991–2014 | |||
| partner = Mimi O'Donnell (1999–2014) | |||
| children = 3, including ] | |||
| relatives = ] (brother) | |||
}} | }} | ||
'''Philip Seymour Hoffman''' (July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014) was an American actor and director. He won the ] for the 2005 biographical film '']'', and received three Academy Award nominations as ]. He also received three ] nominations for his work in the theater. | |||
'''Philip Seymour Hoffman''' (July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014) was an American actor. Known for his distinctive supporting and ]—eccentrics, underdogs, and misfits—he acted in many films and theatrical productions, including leading roles, from the early 1990s until his death in 2014. He was voted one of the 50 greatest actors of all time in a 2022 readers' poll by '']'' magazine.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-12-20 |title=Empire's 50 Greatest Actors Of All Time List, Revealed |url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/best-actors/ |access-date=2024-09-25 |website=Empire |language=en}}</ref> | |||
Hoffman began his acting career in 1991, and the following year started to appear in films. He gradually gained recognition for his supporting work in a series of notable films, including '']'' (1992), '']'' (1996), '']'' (1997), '']'' (1998), '']'' (1998), '']'' (1999), '']'' (1999), '']'' (2000), '']'' (2002), '']'' (2002) and '']'' (2003). | |||
Hoffman studied acting at ]'s ]. He gained recognition for his supporting work, notably in '']'' (1992), '']'' (1997), '']'' (1998), '']'' (1998), '']'' (1999), '']'' (1999), and '']'' (2000). He began to occasionally play leading roles, and for his portrayal of the author ] in '']'' (2005), won the ]. Further Oscar nominations came for playing a brutally frank CIA officer in '']'' (2007), a priest accused of ] in '']'' (2008), and the charismatic leader of a ]-type movement in '']'' (2012). | |||
In 2005, Hoffman played the ] in '']'', for which he won multiple acting awards including an Academy Award for Best Actor. He received another three Academy Award nominations for his supporting work in '']'' (2007), '']'' (2008) and '']'' (2012). Other critically acclaimed films in recent years have included '']'' (2003), '']'' (2007), '']'' (2007), '']'' (2008), '']'' (2011) and '']'' (2011). In 2010, Hoffman made his feature film directorial debut with '']''. | |||
While he mainly worked in ]s, including '']'' (2007) and '']'' (2008), Hoffman also appeared in ] blockbusters, such as '']'' (1996) and '']'' (2006). He played ] in the ] series (2013–2015), in one of his final roles. The feature '']'' (2010) marked his debut as a filmmaker. Hoffman was also an accomplished theater actor and director. He joined the ] ] in 1995, where he directed, produced, and appeared in numerous stage productions. Hoffman received ] nominations for his performances in the ] revivals of ]'s '']'' (2000), ]'s '']'' (2003), and ]'s '']'' (2012). | |||
Hoffman was also an accomplished theater actor and director. He joined the ] in 1995, and has directed and performed in numerous stage productions. His performances in three ] plays led to three Tony Award nominations: two for ] in '']'' (2000) and '']'' (2012); one for ] in '']'' (2003). | |||
Hoffman struggled with ] as a young adult and relapsed in 2012 after many years of sobriety. In February 2014, he died of ]. Remembered for bringing nuance, depth, and humanity to the versatile roles he inhabited, Hoffman was described in his obituary in '']'' as "perhaps the most ambitious and widely admired American actor of his generation".<ref name="NYT">{{cite news |first1=Bruce |last1=Weber |first2=J. David |last2=Goodman |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/movies/philip-seymour-hoffman-actor-dies-at-46.html |title=Philip Seymour Hoffman, Actor of Depth, Dies at 46 |newspaper=] |date=February 2, 2014 |access-date=February 2, 2014 |archive-date=July 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140708100832/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/movies/philip-seymour-hoffman-actor-dies-at-46.html |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
==Early life== | |||
Hoffman was born in ]. His mother, Marilyn O'Connor (née Loucks), who was born in ], is a ] judge, lawyer, and ] activist. His father, Gordon Stowell Hoffman, is a former ] executive.<ref name="filmrefbio" /><ref></ref> He has two sisters, Jill and Emily, and a brother, ], who scripted the 2002 film '']'', in which Philip starred. He has German, English, Irish, Dutch, and remote Polish, ancestry.<ref></ref> His father was ] and his mother Catholic; Hoffman was not raised with a deep commitment to any denomination.<ref name="whitty" /><ref name="faq" /><ref name="actorsstudio" /> Hoffman's parents divorced when he was nine years old.<ref name="yahoo" /> | |||
==Early life and education== | |||
Hoffman attended the 1984 Theater School at the ]. After graduating from Fairport High School, Hoffman attended the ]'s summer program, continuing his acting training with the acting teacher Alan Langdon.<ref name="hoffman.net" /> He received a ] in drama in 1989 from ]'s ]. At NYU, he was a founding member of the theater company the Bullstoi Ensemble with actor Steven Schub and director ].<ref name="seymour1" /> Soon after graduating, he went to ] for ] and ] and remained sober until May 2013, when he entered a detox facility after briefly relapsing.<ref name="drugs" /><ref name="relapse" /> | |||
Philip Hoffman was born on July 23, 1967, in the ] suburb of ].<ref name="NYT"/> His mother, Marilyn O'Connor (née Loucks), came from nearby ] and worked as an elementary school teacher<ref name="mum">{{cite web|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/syracuse-post-standard/2006-03-07/page-78|title=Oscar-Winner's Mother Was Born in Waterloo|date=March 7, 2006|page=78|work=]|first=David L.|last=Shaw|access-date=February 2, 2014|archive-date=June 28, 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130628030559/http://newspaperarchive.com/syracuse-post-standard/2006-03-07/page-78|url-status=live}}</ref> before becoming a lawyer and eventually a ] judge.<ref name="NYT"/><ref name="moody">{{cite news|last=Hattenstone|first=Simon|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman: 'I was moody, mercurial... it was all or nothing'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/oct/28/philip-seymour-hoffman-jack-goes-boating|access-date=February 18, 2014|newspaper=]|date=October 28, 2011|archive-date=February 13, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140213155837/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/oct/28/philip-seymour-hoffman-jack-goes-boating|url-status=live}}</ref> His father, Gordon Stowell Hoffman, was a native of ], and worked for the ]. Hoffman had one brother, ], and two sisters, Jill and Emily.<ref name="mum"/> His ancestry included Irish and German.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.munzinger.de/search/document?index=mol-00&id=00000025183&type=text/html&query.key=zvMXKm15&template=/publikationen/personen/document.jsp&preview=|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman |website=munzinger.de|access-date=March 19, 2019|archive-date=August 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806043734/https://www.munzinger.de/search/document?index=mol-00&id=00000025183&type=text%2Fhtml&query.key=zvMXKm15&template=%2Fpublikationen%2Fpersonen%2Fdocument.jsp&preview=|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/top-ten-american-celebrities-you-may-not-know-are-irish-photos-215647391-237764101.html|title=Top ten American celebrities you may not know are Irish|date=July 16, 2013|website=IrishCentral.com|access-date=October 19, 2021|archive-date=March 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160318105046/http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/top-ten-american-celebrities-you-may-not-know-are-irish-photos-215647391-237764101.html|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
], Hoffman's hometown]] | |||
Hoffman was baptized a ] and attended ] as a child, but did not have a heavily religious upbringing.<ref name="religion">{{cite web|last=Kandra|first=Greg|title=Why Philip Seymour Hoffman deserves a Catholic funeral|url=http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2014/02/06/why-philip-seymour-hoffman-deserves-a-catholic-funeral/comment-page-4/|website=]|access-date=February 18, 2014|date=February 6, 2014|archive-date=February 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222201601/http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2014/02/06/why-philip-seymour-hoffman-deserves-a-catholic-funeral/comment-page-4/|url-status=dead}}</ref> His parents divorced when he was nine, and the children were raised primarily by their mother.<ref name="moody"/> Hoffman's childhood passion was sports, particularly wrestling and baseball,<ref name="moody"/> but at age 12, he attended a stage production of ]'s '']'' and was transfixed. He recalled in 2008, "I was changed—permanently changed—by that experience. It was like a miracle to me."<ref name="higher">{{cite news|last=Hirschberg|first=Lynn|title=A Higher Calling|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/magazine/21hoffman-t.html?pagewanted=all|access-date=February 18, 2014|newspaper=]|date=December 19, 2008|archive-date=February 7, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140207093558/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/magazine/21hoffman-t.html?pagewanted=all|url-status=live}}</ref> Hoffman developed a love for the theater, and proceeded to attend regularly with his mother, who was a lifelong enthusiast.<ref name="I0607"/> He remembered that productions of '']'' and '']'', the latter starring a teenaged ] were also particularly inspirational.<ref name="Buffalo900">{{cite web|first=Jeff|last=Simon|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-12941203.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611071107/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-12941203.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 11, 2014|title=Role Player; Rochester's Philip Seymour Hoffman on Hollywood, good films and the 'star' factor|work=The Buffalo News|date=September 24, 2000|access-date=February 19, 2014|via=highbeam.com}}</ref> At age 14, Hoffman suffered a neck injury that ended his sporting activity, and he began to consider acting.<ref name="higher"/><ref name="nj">{{cite web| last=Whitty| first=Stephen| title=The talented Mr. Hoffman| url=http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/index.ssf/2008/12/the_talented_mr_hoffman.html| work=]| access-date=February 18, 2014| date=December 6, 2008| archive-date=March 5, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140305015554/http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/index.ssf/2008/12/the_talented_mr_hoffman.html| url-status=live}}</ref> Encouraged by his mother, he joined a drama club, and initially committed to it because he was attracted to a female member.<ref name="moody"/><ref name="higher"/> | |||
Acting gradually became a passion for Hoffman: "I loved the camaraderie of it, the people, and that's when I decided it was what I wanted to do."<ref name="nj"/> At age 17, he was selected to attend the 1984 ] in ], where he met his future collaborators ] and ].<ref name="McArdle">{{cite news|first1=Terence|last1=McArdle|first2=DeNeen L.|last2=Brown|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/philip-seymour-hoffman-oscar-winning-actor-found-dead-in-ny-apartment/2014/02/02/eee8eadc-8c3a-11e3-95dd-36ff657a4dae_story.html|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman, Oscar-winning actor, found dead in NY apartment|newspaper=]|date=February 2, 2014|access-date=February 18, 2014|archive-date=July 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170725210521/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/philip-seymour-hoffman-oscar-winning-actor-found-dead-in-ny-apartment/2014/02/02/eee8eadc-8c3a-11e3-95dd-36ff657a4dae_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Miller later commented on Hoffman's popularity at the time: "We were attracted to the fact that he was genuinely serious about what he was doing. Even then, he was passionate."<ref name="higher"/> Hoffman applied for several drama degree programs and was accepted to ]'s (NYU) ].<ref name="higher"/> Between graduating from ] and beginning the program, he continued his training at the ]'s summer program.<ref name="NYT"/> Hoffman had positive memories of his time at NYU, where he supported himself by working as an ]. With friends, he co-founded the Bullstoi Ensemble acting troupe.<ref name="nj"/> He received a drama degree in 1989.<ref name="moody"/> | |||
==Career== | ==Career== | ||
===1991–1995: Early career === | |||
After graduating, Hoffman worked in ] and made additional money with customer service jobs.<ref name="Buffalo900"/><ref name="nj"/> He made his screen debut in 1991, in a '']'' episode called "]", playing a man accused of ].<ref name="vallance">{{cite web|first=Tom|last=Vallance|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/philip-seymour-hoffman-oscarwinner-for-capote-acclaimed-for-an-indelible-succession-of-haunting-enigmatic-performances-9105371.html|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman obituary: Oscar-winner for 'Capote' acclaimed for an indelible succession of haunting, enigmatic performances|work=]|date=February 4, 2014|access-date=February 10, 2014|archive-date=March 30, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140330031112/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/philip-seymour-hoffman-oscarwinner-for-capote-acclaimed-for-an-indelible-succession-of-haunting-enigmatic-performances-9105371.html|url-status=live}}</ref> He made his film debut the following year, when he was credited as "Phil Hoffman" in the ] '']''. After this, he adopted his grandfather's name, Seymour, to avoid confusion with another actor.<ref name="SS03">{{cite web|first=James|last=Mottram|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-12941203.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611071107/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-12941203.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 11, 2014|title=Interview: Philip Seymour Hoffman: Tales of Hoffman|work=Scotland on Sunday|date=January 26, 2003| access-date=February 19, 2014|via=highbeam.com}}</ref> | |||
More film roles promptly followed, with appearances in the studio production '']'', and a small role in the comedy '']'', starring ].<ref>{{cite web|last=Oliver|first=David|title=Timeline: The life of Philip Seymour Hoffman|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2014/02/02/philip-seymour-hoffman-timeline/5163785/|work=]|access-date=February 17, 2014|date=February 2, 2014|archive-date=February 7, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140207035555/http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2014/02/02/philip-seymour-hoffman-timeline/5163785/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| last=Webber| first=Bruce| title=Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman dies from apparent drug overdose| url=http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20140202-actor-philip-seymour-hoffman-dies-from-apparent-drug-overdose.ece?nclick_check=1| access-date=February 17, 2014| newspaper=]| date=February 2, 2014| archive-date=February 24, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224043313/http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20140202-actor-philip-seymour-hoffman-dies-from-apparent-drug-overdose.ece?nclick_check=1| url-status=live}}</ref> Following these roles, he gained attention playing a spoiled private school student in the Oscar-winning ] film '']'' (1992). Hoffman auditioned five times for his role, which '']'' journalist Ryan Gilbey says gave him an early opportunity "to indulge his skill for making unctuousness compelling".<ref name="gilbey">{{cite news|last=Gilbey|first=Ryan|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/03/philip-seymour-hoffman|access-date=February 17, 2014|newspaper=]|date=February 3, 2014|archive-date=March 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180329111350/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/03/philip-seymour-hoffman|url-status=live}}</ref> The film earned US$134 million worldwide<ref>{{cite web|title=Scent of a Woman|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=scentofawoman.htm|website=]|access-date=February 17, 2014|archive-date=February 2, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202151133/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=scentofawoman.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> and was the first to get Hoffman noticed.{{sfn|Mosher|2011|p=110}} Reflecting on ''Scent of a Woman'', Hoffman later said, "If I hadn't gotten into that film, I wouldn't be where I am today."<ref name="vallance"/> At this time, he quit his job in a ] to become a professional actor.<ref name="SS03"/><ref name="RT">{{cite web|last=Palmer|first=Martyn|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman: behind the spin|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-02-03/philip-seymour-hoffman-behind-the-spin|work=]|access-date=February 28, 2014|date=February 3, 2014|orig-year=first published October 2011|archive-date=February 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221044940/http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-02-03/philip-seymour-hoffman-behind-the-spin|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
===Film and television work=== | |||
]'']] | |||
Hoffman's first role was as a defendant in the 1991 '']'' episode "]". He made his film breakthrough in 1992 when he appeared in four feature films, with the most successful film being '']'', in which he played an unscrupulous classmate of ]'s character. He had been stocking shelves at a city grocery store at the time before landing the role and credits the film with starting his career. | |||
Hoffman continued playing small roles throughout the early 1990s. After appearing in '']'' and the critically panned teen zombie picture '']'',{{sfn|Pulliam|Fonseca|2014|p=178}} he had a more notable role playing ]'s wealthy friend in the crime comedy '']''.<ref name="RS">{{cite magazine|first=David|last=Fear|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/philip-seymour-hoffman-1967-2014-20140202|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman, 1967–2014|magazine=]|date=February 2, 2014|access-date=February 10, 2013|archive-date=February 3, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203004442/http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/philip-seymour-hoffman-1967-2014-20140202|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1994, he portrayed an inexperienced mobster in the crime thriller '']'', starring ] and ],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jhb9b|title=The Getaway|website=]|access-date=February 10, 2014|archive-date=July 27, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727194301/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jhb9b|url-status=live}}</ref> and he subsequently appeared with ] and ] in the romantic drama '']''. He then played an uptight police deputy who gets punched by ]—one of Hoffman's acting idols—in the drama '']''.<ref name="vallance"/><ref name="cnn">{{cite web|last=Leopold|first=Todd|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman's Everyman greatness|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/02/showbiz/philip-seymour-hoffman-appreciation/|website=]|access-date=February 17, 2014|date=February 4, 2014|archive-date=May 25, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140525211452/http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/02/showbiz/philip-seymour-hoffman-appreciation|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
Hoffman established a successful and respected film career playing diverse and idiosyncratic characters in supporting roles, working with a wide variety of noted directors, including ], ], ], ], ], ], ] and ]; notably, he has appeared in five out of six of Anderson's feature films to date ('']'', '']'', '']'', '']'' and '']''. | |||
Still considering stage work to be fundamental to his career,{{sfn|Mosher|2011|p=110}}<ref name="theater">{{cite news|last=McNulty|first=Charles|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman, a theatrically charged talent|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-philip-seymour-hoffman-20140203,0,6554576.story|access-date=February 18, 2014|newspaper=]|date=February 5, 2014|archive-date=February 11, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140211075716/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-philip-seymour-hoffman-20140203,0,6554576.story|url-status=live}}</ref> Hoffman joined the ] of New York City in 1995.<ref name="RS"/> This association lasted the remainder of his life; along with appearing in multiple productions, he later became co-artistic director of the theater company with ], and directed various plays over the years.<ref name="theater"/> Hoffman's only film appearance of 1995 was in the 22-minute short comedy ''The Fifteen Minute Hamlet'', which satirized the film industry in an ] setting. He played the characters of Bernardo, ], and ] alongside ]'s ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/av36805|title=Fifteen Minute Hamlet, The|publisher=British Universities Film & Video Council|access-date=February 10, 2014|archive-date=February 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222012651/http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/av36805|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
He appeared in '']'', a documentary about the ]. Throughout his career he has rarely been given a chance to play the lead role. In 2002, however, Hoffman starred as a widower coping with his wife's suicide in '']'', for which his brother, ], wrote the screenplay. In 2003, he played the lead role in '']'' as a bank employee who ]s money to feed his gambling addiction. | |||
===1996–1999: Rising star === | |||
Hoffman continued to play supporting roles in such films as '']'', as a carnally obsessed preacher, '']'', as ]'s crude, ] actor buddy, and '']'', as villainous arms dealer Owen Davian out to kill ]. | |||
Between April and May 1996, Hoffman appeared at the ] in a ] production of ]'s '']''.<ref>{{cite web|author=Brantley, Ben|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/16/theater/theater-review-a-land-of-fairy-tales-creepily-come-true.html|title=Theater Review; A Land of Fairy Tales Creepily Come True|work=The New York Times|date=May 16, 1996|access-date=December 27, 2014|archive-date=December 31, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141231142659/http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/16/theater/theater-review-a-land-of-fairy-tales-creepily-come-true.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Following this, based on his work in ''Scent of a Woman'', he was cast by writer–director ] to appear in his debut feature '']'' (1996).<ref name="gilbey"/> Hoffman had only a brief role in the crime thriller, playing a cocksure young ] player, but it began the most important collaboration of his career.<ref name="gilbey"/>{{efn| Hoffman continued to collaborate with Anderson, appearing in all but one of the director's first six films. The others were ''Boogie Nights'', ''Magnolia'', ''Punch-Drunk Love'', and ''The Master''.<ref name="gilbey"/>}} | |||
Before cementing his creative partnership with Anderson, Hoffman appeared in one of the year's biggest blockbusters,<ref>{{cite web|title=1996 Yearly Box Office|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1996&p=.htm|publisher=Box Office Mojo|access-date=February 17, 2014|archive-date=February 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140214104936/http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1996&p=.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> '']'', playing a grubby, hyperactive ] alongside ] and ]. According to a '']'' survey of ] and ] users, ''Twister'' is the film with which Hoffman is most popularly associated.<ref name="people">{{cite web|author=Heigl, Alex|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20782575,00.html|title=5 Times Philip Seymour Hoffman Was Better Than the Movie|work=People|date=February 2, 2014|access-date=February 10, 2014|archive-date=March 31, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331175029/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20782575,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> He then reunited with Anderson for the director's second feature, '']'', about the ]. The ensemble piece starred ], ], and ]; Hoffman played a ], described by David Fear of '']'' as a "complete, unabashed loser",<ref name="RS"/> who attempts to seduce Wahlberg's character. Warmly received by critics, the film grew into a ],<ref name="vallance"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Boogie Nights: Where Are They Now?|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/boogie-nights-gallery-1.94239|newspaper=Daily News|access-date=January 7, 2015|archive-date=January 8, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150108133531/http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/boogie-nights-gallery-1.94239|url-status=live}}</ref> and has been cited as the role in which Hoffman first showed his full ability. Fear commended the "naked emotional neediness" of the performance, adding that it made for compulsive viewing.<ref name="RS"/><ref>{{cite news|last=Marche|first=Stephen|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman's Perfect Scene in Boogie Nights|url=http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/philip-seymour-hoffman-boogie-nights|access-date=February 17, 2014|newspaper=Esquire|date=February 2, 2014|archive-date=March 1, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301144306/http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/philip-seymour-hoffman-boogie-nights|url-status=live}}</ref> Hoffman later expressed his appreciation for Anderson when he called the director "incomparable".<ref name="master">{{cite web|author=Raab, Scott|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-311291868.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611070918/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-311291868.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 11, 2014|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman: The Actor Talks about the Master, Paul Thomas Anderson, Weight Loss, Anonymity, and Kids|work=Esquire|date=November 1, 2012|access-date=February 19, 2014}}</ref> | |||
{{quote box|width=25em|align=left|quote=That wasn't easy. It's hard to sit in your boxers and jerk off in front of people for three hours. I was pretty heavy, and I was afraid that people would laugh at me. Todd said they might laugh, but they won't laugh {{em|at}} you. He saw what we were working for, which was the pathos of the moment. Sometimes, acting is a really private thing that you do for the world.|source=– Hoffman on his role in '']'' (1998)<ref name="higher"/>}} | |||
Continuing with this momentum, Hoffman appeared in five films in 1998. He had supporting roles in the crime thriller '']'' and the romantic comedy '']'', both of which were commercial failures,<ref>{{cite web|author=Null, Christopher|url=http://www.contactmusic.com/movie-review/montana|title=Montana Movie Review|publisher=Contact Music|access-date=February 18, 2014|date=November 2005|archive-date=February 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222143701/http://www.contactmusic.com/movie-review/montana|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Next Stop, Wonderland|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=nextstopwonderland.htm|publisher=Box Office Mojo|access-date=February 18, 2014|archive-date=February 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222190045/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=nextstopwonderland.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> before working with the ] in their dark comedy '']''. Hoffman had long been a fan of the directors, and relished the experience of working with them.<ref name="BL">{{cite magazine|author=Greene, Andy|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/philip-seymour-hoffman-looks-back-at-the-big-lebowski-20140202|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman Looks Back at 'The Big Lebowski'|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=February 2, 2014|access-date=February 10, 2014|archive-date=July 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140712044152/http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/philip-seymour-hoffman-looks-back-at-the-big-lebowski-20140202|url-status=live}}</ref> Appearing alongside ] and ], Hoffman played Brandt, the smug personal assistant of the titular character. Although it was only a small role, he said it was one for which he was most recognized, in a film that has achieved cult status and a large fan base.<ref name="BL"/> Between March and April 1998, Hoffman made 30 appearances on stage at the ] in a production of ]'s '']'', portraying an ex-heroin addict.{{Sfn|Hischak|2001|p=416}} | |||
Hoffman took an unflattering role in ]'s '']'' (1998),{{sfn|Mosher|2011|p=111}} a ] ] about the lives of three sisters and those around them. He played Allen, a sexually frustrated loner who makes obscene phone calls to women; the character furiously masturbates during one conversation, producing what film scholar Jerry Mosher calls an "embarrassingly raw performance".{{sfn|Mosher|2011|p=111}} Jake Coyle of the ] rated Allen as "one of the creepiest characters in American movies",<ref name="AP">{{cite news|url=https://nypost.com/2014/02/03/5-great-philip-seymour-hoffman-performances/|title=5 Great Philip Seymour Hoffman Performances|newspaper=]|date=February 3, 2014|access-date=February 12, 2014|archive-date=February 6, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140206025520/http://nypost.com/2014/02/03/5-great-philip-seymour-hoffman-performances/|url-status=live}}</ref> but critic Xan Brooks highlighted the pathos that Hoffman brought to the role.<ref name="Brooks">{{cite web|first=Xan|last=Brooks|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/03/philip-seymour-hoffman-great-modern-american-cinema|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman was the one great guarantee of modern American cinema|work=]|date=February 3, 2014|access-date=February 17, 2014|archive-date=February 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222193955/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/03/philip-seymour-hoffman-great-modern-american-cinema|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Happiness'' was controversial but widely praised,<ref>{{cite news|last=Mulgrew|first=John|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman dies aged 46: Capote and Boogie Nights actor found dead|url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/philip-seymour-hoffman-dies-aged-46-capote-and-boogie-nights-actor-found-dead-29972569.html|access-date=February 18, 2014|newspaper=]|date=February 2, 2014|archive-date=February 23, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223070234/http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/philip-seymour-hoffman-dies-aged-46-capote-and-boogie-nights-actor-found-dead-29972569.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and Hoffman's role has been cited by critics as one of his best.<ref name="AP"/><ref>{{cite news|last=Frizell|first=Sam; Grossman, Samantha|title=Watch: Philip Seymour Hoffman's 7 Greatest Movie Roles| url=http://entertainment.time.com/2014/02/02/philip-seymour-hoffman-best-roles/| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202224520/http://entertainment.time.com/2014/02/02/philip-seymour-hoffman-best-roles/| url-status=dead| archive-date=February 2, 2014|access-date=February 18, 2014|newspaper=]|date=February 2, 2014}}</ref> His final 1998 release was more mainstream, appeared as a medical student in the ] comedy '']''. The film was critically panned, but one of the highest-grossing of Hoffman's career.{{sfn|Pratt|2005|p=907}}<ref name="BOM">{{cite web|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?id=philipseymourhoffman.htm|website=]|access-date=February 18, 2014|archive-date=February 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222202658/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?id=philipseymourhoffman.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
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He received his first ] nomination for the ] miniseries '']'', but lost to castmate and personal idol ]. One of Hoffman's earliest roles was as a police deputy who gets punched in the face by Newman in 1994's '']''. He received a second Emmy Award nomination for the ] for ] in his vocal work on ]. | |||
In 1999, Hoffman starred opposite ] as ] Rusty Zimmerman in ]'s drama '']''. Hoffman considered De Niro the most imposing actor with whom he had appeared, and he felt that working with the veteran performer profoundly improved his own acting.<ref name="Buffalo900"/> Hoffman's ability to avoid clichés in playing such a delicate role was noted by critics,<ref name="RS"/><ref name="AVC">{{cite web|first=Emily|last=VanDerWerff|url=https://www.avclub.com/article/in-flawless-philip-seymour-hoffman-gave-warmth-to--201014|title=In Flawless, Philip Seymour Hoffman gave warmth to a transgender stereotype|date=February 4, 2014 |website=]|access-date=February 10, 2014|archive-date=February 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222100045/http://www.avclub.com/article/in-flawless-philip-seymour-hoffman-gave-warmth-to--201014|url-status=live}}</ref> and ] said it confirmed him as "one of the best new character actors".<ref>{{cite news|first=Roger|last=Ebert|authorlink=Roger Ebert|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/flawless-1999|title=Flawless|newspaper=]|date=November 29, 1999|access-date=February 10, 2014|archive-date=April 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200404104444/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/flawless-1999|via=]|url-status=live}}</ref> He was rewarded with his first ] nomination.<ref>{{cite web| title=The 6th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards| url=http://www.sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/6th-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards| publisher=Screen Actors Guild| access-date=February 21, 2014| archive-date=November 1, 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111101204346/http://www.sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/6th-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards| url-status=live}}</ref> Hoffman then reunited with Paul Thomas Anderson, where he was given an atypically virtuous role in the ensemble drama '']''.<ref name="gilbey"/> The film, set over one day in Los Angeles, features Hoffman as a nurse who cares for ]' character, who is dying of cancer. The performance was approved of by the medical industry,{{sfn|Lundy|Janes|2009|p=957}} and Jessica Winter of the '']'' considered it Hoffman's most indelible work, likening him to a guardian angel.{{sfn|Lundy|Janes|2009|p=957}} ''Magnolia'' has been included in lists of the greatest films of all time,<ref>{{cite web|title=Magnolia – The Greatest Films Poll|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/film/4ce2b81fe24cb|work=Sight and Sound|publisher=British Film Institute|access-date=February 18, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160110090541/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/film/4ce2b81fe24cb|archive-date=January 10, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |work=Empire |title=Empire's 500 Greatest Movies of All Time |date=January 5, 2014 |url=https://www.empireonline.com/500/35.asp |access-date=January 5, 2014 |archive-date=October 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019215354/http://www.empireonline.com/500/35.asp |url-status=live }}</ref> and it was a personal favorite of Hoffman's.<ref name="master"/> | |||
In 2005, Hoffman won widespread acclaim for his portrayal of writer ] in the film '']''. His performance received numerous high-profile accolades and awards, including the ], the ], the ], and the ]. In addition, he was also awarded Best Actor by at least ten film critic associations, including the ], ], and ]. | |||
One of the most critically and commercially successful films of Hoffman's career was '']'' (1999),<ref name="BOM"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/philip_seymour_hoffman/|publisher=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=February 18, 2014|archive-date=February 18, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140218025813/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/philip_seymour_hoffman/|url-status=live}}</ref> which he considered "as edgy as you can get for a Hollywood movie".<ref>{{cite news|first=Christopher|last=Kelly|title=The Talented Mr. Ripley|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kGIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA136|date=September 1999|newspaper=]|page=136|access-date=February 18, 2014|archive-date=June 27, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140627165020/http://books.google.com/books?id=kGIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA136|url-status=live}}</ref> He played a "preppy bully" who taunts ]'s ] in the thriller, a character which Jeff Simon of '']'' called "the truest upper class twit in all of American movies".<ref name="Buffalo900"/> Hoffman's performance won praise from ], another of his cinematic idols: "I sat up straight in my seat and said, 'Who is that?' I thought to myself: My God, this actor is fearless," she said. "He's done what we all strive for — he's given this awful character the respect he deserves, and he's made him fascinating."{{sfn|Mosher|2011|p=110}} In recognition of his work in ''Magnolia'' and ''The Talented Mr. Ripley'', Hoffman was named the year's ] by the ].<ref>{{cite web|title=1999 Award Winners|url=http://www.nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/1999/|publisher=National Board of Review|access-date=February 18, 2014|archive-date=September 17, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140917112153/http://www.nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/1999/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
In 2007, Hoffman was nominated for the ] for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for playing ], a CIA officer who helps Congressman ] support a covert war in Afghanistan in the movie '']''. In 2008, he was also nominated for ] for the same role, which he lost to ] for '']''. | |||
===2000–2004: Established star === | |||
In 2008, he appeared in '']'', in which he played Caden Cotard, a man who attempts to build a scale replica of New York inside a warehouse for a play, and '']'', in which he played Father Brendan Flynn, a priest accused of ] a student. He received ] and ] nominations for the latter. He also received a second consecutive nomination for the ] for his performance in ''Doubt''. | |||
] in 2002 promoting '']'']] | |||
In 2012, he starred in Paul Thomas Anderson's critically acclaimed drama '']'', which featured him as the charismatic leader of a nascent movement in ] America. For this role, he was once again nominated for the ]. In 2013, he played Plutarch Heavensbee in '']'', the sequel to ].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/09/showbiz/movies/philip-seymour-hoffman-plutarch-catching-fire/index.html|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman cast as Plutarch in 'Catching Fire'|last=Vary|first=Adam B.|date=July 9, 2012|publisher=CNN|accessdate=August 5, 2012}}</ref> | |||
Following a string of roles in successful films in the late 1990s, Hoffman had established a reputation as a top supporting player who could be relied on to make an impression with each performance.{{sfn|Mosher|2011|pp=109, 114}} His film appearances were likened by David Kamp of '']'' to "discovering a prize in a box of cereal, receiving a bonus, or bumping unexpectedly into an old friend".{{sfn|Mosher|2011|p=110}} According to Jerry Mosher, as the year 2000 began, "it seemed Hoffman was everywhere, poised on the cusp of stardom".{{sfn|Mosher|2011|p=109}} | |||
===Theater work=== | |||
Hoffman also won acclaim for his work in the theater. He joined the ] in 1995, and has staged and performed in numerous productions. | |||
Hoffman had begun to be recognized as a theater actor in 1999, when he received a ] nomination for ] for the off-Broadway play ''The Author's Voice''.<ref name="ibdb">{{cite web|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman|url=http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=70743|publisher=Internet Broadway Database|access-date=February 23, 2014|archive-date=February 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221230651/http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=70743|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Urbaniak|first=James|title=What I Learned from Losing a Role to Philip Seymour Hoffman|url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/02/03/philip_seymour_hoffman_on_stage_taught_me_what_truly_committed_acting_looked.html|access-date=February 25, 2014|newspaper=Slate (magazine)|date=February 3, 2014|archive-date=February 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221185254/http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/02/03/philip_seymour_hoffman_on_stage_taught_me_what_truly_committed_acting_looked.html|url-status=live}}</ref> This success continued with the 2000 Broadway revival of ]'s '']'', where Hoffman alternated roles nightly with co-star ],{{efn|John C. Reilly co-starred with Hoffman in Anderson's films ''Hard Eight'', ''Boogie Nights'', and ''Magnolia'', and the pair were already well-acquainted with each other as actors.}} making 154 appearances between March and July 2000.<ref name="Vanity Fair"/>{{sfn|Mosher|2011|p=111}} ] of ''The New York Times'' felt that it was the best stage performance of Hoffman's career, calling him "brilliant",<ref>{{cite news|author=Brantley, Ben|title=American Dreamer, Ambushed by the Territory 'Death of a Salesman,' With Philip Seymour Hoffman|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/theater/reviews/death-of-a-salesman-with-philip-seymour-hoffman.html?pagewanted=all|date=March 15, 2012|access-date=February 25, 2014|archive-date=March 1, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301060344/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/theater/reviews/death-of-a-salesman-with-philip-seymour-hoffman.html?pagewanted=all|url-status=live}}</ref> and the actor earned a ] nomination for ].<ref name="ibdb"/> The following year, Hoffman appeared with Meryl Streep, ], and John Goodman in a ] production of ]'s '']''—although Brantley felt that this performance was less fully realized.<ref>{{cite news|author=Brantley, Ben|title=Theater review; Streep Meets Chekhov, Up in Central Park|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/13/theater/theater-review-streep-meets-chekhov-up-in-central-park.html|date=August 13, 2001|access-date=December 27, 2014|archive-date=February 12, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110212011246/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/13/theater/theater-review-streep-meets-chekhov-up-in-central-park.html|url-status=live}}</ref> As a stage director, Hoffman received two Drama Desk Award nominations for ]: one for '']'' in 2001, and another for ''Our Lady of 121st Street'' in 2003.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/awardperson.asp?id=70743|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman Awards|publisher=Internet Broadway Database|access-date=February 12, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140220012054/http://www.ibdb.com/awardperson.asp?id=70743|archive-date=February 20, 2014}}</ref> In a 2008 interview, Hoffman opined that "switching hats" between acting and directing helped him improve in both roles.<ref name="bomb">{{cite news | last=Stein | first=June | url=http://bombsite.com/issues/103/articles/3103 | title=Philip Seymour Hoffman | work=Bomb | date=Spring 2008 | access-date=August 1, 2011 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110617155033/http://bombsite.com/issues/103/articles/3103 | archive-date=June 17, 2011 | df=mdy-all }}</ref> | |||
As a director, Hoffman received two ] nomination for ]: one for '']'' in 2001; another for ''Our Lady of 121st Street'' in 2003. Of the difference between acting and directing in a play, Hoffman has said that "the director’s experience is not the real experience...You are the most subjective person in the room. You have no objectivity. You have to take a couple of weeks off and then come back to watch it without telling anyone, and you will see it with different eyes."<ref>Stein, June. , '']'', Spring, 2008. Retrieved August 1, 2011.</ref> | |||
]'s comedy '']'', about the difficulties of shooting a film in rural ], was Hoffman's first film role of 2000 and had a limited release.<ref>{{cite web|title=State and Main|url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=stateandmain.htm|publisher=Box Office Mojo|access-date=February 19, 2014|archive-date=February 24, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224033930/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=stateandmain.htm|url-status=live}}<br/>{{cite web|title=State and Main|date=January 12, 2001 |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/state_and_main/|publisher=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=February 19, 2014|archive-date=February 13, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140213191853/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/state_and_main/|url-status=live}}</ref> He had a more prominent supporting role that year in '']'', ]'s popular ] set in the 1970s music industry.<ref name="AP"/> Hoffman portrayed the enthusiastic rock critic ], a task by which he felt burdened,{{sfn|Mosher|2011|p=113}} but he managed to convey the real figure's mannerisms and sharp wit after watching him in a BBC interview.<ref>{{cite magazine|author=Browne, David|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/cameron-crowe-on-how-philip-seymour-hoffman-became-lester-bangs-20140214|title=Cameron Crowe on How Philip Seymour Hoffman Became Lester Bangs|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=February 14, 2014|access-date=February 16, 2014|archive-date=February 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140214165023/http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/cameron-crowe-on-how-philip-seymour-hoffman-became-lester-bangs-20140214|url-status=live}}</ref> The following year, Hoffman featured as the narrator and interviewer in '']'', a documentary about the ]s. He assumed the position of a "politically informed and alienated ]" who seeks to be educated in U.S. politics, but ultimately reveals the extent of public dissatisfaction in this area.{{sfn|Kellner|2011|p=56}} | |||
As an actor, he first gained recognition in 2000 for the ] play ''The Author's Voice'', receiving a ] nomination for ]. On Broadway, Hoffman starred in the 2000 revival of '']'' and the 2003 revival of '']'', both leading to ] nominations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/awardperson.asp?id=70743|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman Awards|publisher=]|accessdate=May 25, 2012}}</ref> | |||
In 2002, Hoffman was given his first leading role (despite joking at the time "Even if I was hired into a leading-man part, I'd probably turn it into the non-leading-man part"){{sfn|Mosher|2011|p=114}} in ]'s tragicomedy '']'' (2002). His brother Gordy wrote the script, which Hoffman had seen at their mother's house five years earlier, about a widower who starts sniffing gasoline to cope with his wife's suicide. He considered it the finest piece of writing he had ever read, "incredibly humble in its exploration of grief",<ref name="SS03"/> but critics were less enthusiastic about the production. A review for the ] wrote that Hoffman had finally been given a part that showed "what he's truly capable of",<ref>{{cite web|last=Russell|first=Jamie|title=Love Liza (2003)|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2003/01/07/love_liza_2003_review.shtml|publisher=BBC|access-date=February 19, 2014|date=January 25, 2003|archive-date=September 25, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925051102/http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2003/01/07/love_liza_2003_review.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref> but few witnessed this as the film had a limited release and earned only US$210,000.{{sfn|Mosher|2011|p=115}} | |||
In 2012, Hoffman starred as ] in the Broadway revival of ]'s '']'' at the ], prompting the ''New York Times'' critic to conclude that "Mr. Hoffman is one of the finest actors of his generation beyond dispute."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/theater/reviews/death-of-a-salesman-with-philip-seymour-hoffman.html|title=American Dreamer, Ambushed by the Territory|last=Brantley|first=Ben|date=March 15, 2012|work=The New York Times|accessdate=May 17, 2012}}</ref> He received his third Tony Award nomination as ].. | |||
], who cast Hoffman in five of his first six films]] | |||
==Personal life== | |||
Hoffman was in, a longstanding relationship with costume designer Mimi O'Donnell. They met while working on the 1999 play '']'', which Hoffman directed. They had a son, Cooper Alexander, born in March 2003, and two daughters, Tallulah, born in November 2006,<ref name="hancock" /> and Willa, born in October 2008.<ref name="Hirschberg" /> | |||
Hoffman was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on February 2, 2014.<ref>{{cite web|last=Shallwani|first=Pervaiz|title=Award-winning Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman Found Dead in Manhattan Apartment|url=http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304626804579358943360702878|work=Wall Street Journal|accessdate=2 February 2014}}</ref> | |||
Later in 2002, Hoffman starred opposite ] and ] in Anderson's critically acclaimed fourth picture, the surrealist romantic comedy-drama '']'' (2002), where he played an illegal phone-sex "supervisor".<ref>{{cite web|title=Punch Drunk Love|date=October 11, 2002 |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/punchdrunk_love/|publisher=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=February 19, 2014|archive-date=January 19, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140119121308/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/punchdrunk_love/|url-status=live}}</ref> Drew Hunt of the '']'' saw the performance as a fine example of Hoffman's "knack for turning small roles into seminal performances" and praised the actor's comedic ability.<ref name="Hunt">{{cite web|author=Hunt, Drew|url=http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2014/02/09/weekly-top-five-the-best-of-philip-seymour-hoffman|title=Weekly Top Five: The best of Philip Seymour Hoffman|work=Chicago Reader|date=February 9, 2014|access-date=February 12, 2014|archive-date=April 23, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140423141002/http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2014/02/09/weekly-top-five-the-best-of-philip-seymour-hoffman|url-status=live}}</ref> In a very different film, Hoffman was next seen with ] in the high-budget thriller '']'', a prequel to '']'', portraying the meddlesome tabloid journalist ].{{sfn|Mosher|2011|p=117}} His fourth appearance of 2002 came in ]'s drama '']'', playing an English teacher who makes a devastating drunken mistake.{{sfn|Ebert|2010|p=1405}} Both Lee and the film's lead ] were thrilled to work with Hoffman, and Lee confessed that he had long wanted to do a picture with the actor, but had waited until he found the right role.<ref name="movies about">{{cite web| author1=Murray, Rebecca| author2=Topel, Fred| url=http://movies.about.com/library/weekly/aa25thhourinta.htm| title=Philip Seymour Hoffman Talks About '25th Hour'| publisher=About.com| access-date=February 12, 2014| archive-date=October 16, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016002549/http://movies.about.com/library/weekly/aa25thhourinta.htm| url-status=live}}</ref> Hoffman considered his character, Jakob, to be one of the most reticent characters he had ever played, a straight-laced "corduroy-pants-wearing kind of guy."<ref name="SS03"/> ] promoted ''25th Hour'' to one of his "Great Movies" in 2009,<ref>{{cite news |title=Great Movies: 25th Hour |first=Roger |last=Ebert |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091216/REVIEWS08/912169990/1004 |newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times |date=December 16, 2009 |access-date=February 12, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100322193930/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20091216%2FREVIEWS08%2F912169990%2F1004 |archive-date=March 22, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and along with ],<ref>{{cite web|title=Best of the Decade Picks|first=Robert|last=Seidman|url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2009/12/28/at-the-movies-best-of-the-decade-picks/37227/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110102181248/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2009/12/28/at-the-movies-best-of-the-decade-picks/37227|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 2, 2011|date=December 28, 2009 |publisher=At the Movies|via=TV by the Numbers|access-date=December 24, 2014}}</ref> considered it to be one of the best films of the 2000s.<ref>{{cite news|title=The best films of the decade |first=Roger |last=Ebert |url=http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/12/the_best_films_of_the_decade.html |newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times |date=December 30, 2009 |access-date=February 12, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528130622/http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/12/the_best_films_of_the_decade.html |archive-date=May 28, 2010 }}</ref> | |||
==Filmography== | |||
{| class="wikitable sortable" | |||
|- | |||
! Year | |||
! Title | |||
! Role | |||
! class="unsortable" | Notes | |||
|- | |||
| 1991 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Steven Hanauer | |||
| TV Series – Episode: "The Violence of Summer" (credited as Philip Hoffman) | |||
|- | |||
| 1991 | |||
| ''Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole'' | |||
| Klutch | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
| 1992 | |||
| ''Szuler'' | |||
|Martin | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
The drama '']'' (2003) gave Hoffman his second lead role, starring opposite ] as a bank employee who ]s money to feed his ]. It was based on the true story of Toronto banker ], who committed the largest fraud in Canadian history. , Hoffman met with Molony to prepare for the role and help him play the character as accurately as possible.<ref name="RCP">{{cite web|author=Almeida, Joyce|url=http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/discoverpsychiatry/mindsonfilmblog/owningmahowny.aspx|title=Owning Mahowny|publisher=Royal College of Psychiatrists|access-date=February 12, 2014|archive-date=July 3, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140703150434/http://rcpsych.ac.uk/discoverpsychiatry/mindsonfilmblog/owningmahowny.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref> He was determined not to conform to "movie character" stereotypes,{{sfn|Mosher|2011|p=115}} and his portrayal of addiction won approval from the ].<ref name="RCP"/> Roger Ebert assessed Hoffman's performance as "a masterpiece of discipline and precision,"<ref>{{cite news|author=Ebert, Roger|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/owning-mahowny-2003|title=Owning Mahowny|newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times|date=May 16, 2003|access-date=February 12, 2014|archive-date=February 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221101343/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/owning-mahowny-2003|url-status=live}}</ref> but the film earned little at the box office.{{sfn|Mosher|2011|p=116}} | |||
| 1992 | |||
| ''My New Gun'' | |||
| Chris | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
Hoffman's second 2003 appearance was a small role in ]'s successful ] epic '']''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cold Mountain|url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=coldmountain.htm|publisher=Box Office Mojo|access-date=February 19, 2014|archive-date=February 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221142822/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=coldmountain.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> He played an immoral preacher, a complex character that Hoffman described as a "mass of contradictions".{{Sfn|Frazier|Auiler|Minghella|2003}} The same year, from April to August, he appeared with ], ], and ] in a Broadway revival of ]'s '']''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Long Day's Journey Into Night|url=http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=13474|publisher=Internet Broadway Database|access-date=February 25, 2014|archive-date=February 26, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226183614/http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=13474|url-status=live}}</ref> Director ] later commented on the dedication and experience that Hoffman brought to his role of alcoholic Jamie Tyrone: "Every night he ripped it up to an extent that he couldn't leave . Phil carried it with him."<ref>{{cite news|author=Ng, David|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman dead: Theater world recalls a 'great light'|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-philip-seymour-hoffman-dead-theater-reaction-20140202,0,6128034.story|date=February 2, 2014|access-date=February 25, 2014|archive-date=March 2, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302041631/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-philip-seymour-hoffman-dead-theater-reaction-20140202,0,6128034.story|url-status=live}}</ref> Hoffman received his second Tony Award nomination, this time for ].<ref name="ibdb"/> In 2004, he appeared as the crude, has-been actor friend of ]'s character in the box-office hit '']''.{{sfn|Horton|Rapf|2012|p=228}} Reflecting on the role, ''People'' said it proved that "Hoffman could deliver comedic performances with the best of them".<ref name="people"/> | |||
| 1992 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Matt | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
===2005–2009: Critical acclaim=== | |||
| 1992 | |||
] (pictured in 1959) in '']'' (2005).]] | |||
| '']'' | |||
| George Willis, Jr. | |||
|Credited as Philip S. Hoffman | |||
|- | |||
| 1993 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Wiley McCall | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
A turning point in Hoffman's career came with the biographical film '']'' (2005), which dramatized ]'s experience of writing his ] novel '']'' (1966).{{sfn|Mosher|2011|pp=118, 121}} Hoffman took the title role for a project that he co-produced and helped bring to fruition.<ref>{{cite news|last=Moerk|first=Christian|title=Answered Prayers: How 'Capote' Came Together|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/movies/25moer.html?pagewanted=all|access-date=February 20, 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 25, 2005|archive-date=December 24, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224173958/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/movies/25moer.html?pagewanted=all|url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Mosher|2011|p=121}} Portraying the idiosyncratic writer proved highly demanding, requiring significant weight loss and four months of research—such as watching video clips of Capote to help him affect the author's effeminate voice and mannerisms. Hoffman stated that he was not concerned with perfectly imitating Capote's speech, but he did feel a great duty to "express the vitality and the nuances" of the writer.<ref>{{cite web|author=Brand, Madeleine| url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-113543849.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611071105/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-113543849.html| url-status=dead| archive-date=June 11, 2014|title=Interview: Philip Seymour Hoffman discusses his "Capote" obsession|publisher=NPR|date=September 26, 2005| access-date=February 19, 2014}}</ref>{{sfn|Mosher|2011|p=120}} During filming, he stayed in character constantly so as not to lose the voice and posture: "Otherwise," he explained, "I would give my body a chance to bail on me."{{sfn|Mosher|2011|p=120}} ''Capote'' was released to great acclaim, particularly regarding Hoffman's performance.<ref>{{cite web|title=Capote|date=September 30, 2005 |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1151898-capote/|publisher=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=February 20, 2014|archive-date=January 1, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101093747/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1151898-capote/|url-status=live}}</ref> Many critics commented that the role was designed to win awards,{{sfn|Mosher|2011|p=118}} and indeed Hoffman received an ], ], ], ], and various other critics' awards.<ref name="Awards">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/32716/Philip-Seymour-Hoffman/awards |title=Philip Seymour Hoffman awards |access-date=June 22, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307104536/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/32716/Philip-Seymour-Hoffman/awards |archive-date=March 7, 2016 |work=] |date=2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2006, '']'' listed his role in ''Capote'' as the 35th-greatest movie performance of all time.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.empireonline.com/forum/printable.asp?m=371934 |title=Premiere Magazine's Top 100 Greatest Performances |work=Empire |date=March 20, 2006 |access-date=July 2, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418200137/http://www.empireonline.com/forum/printable.asp?m=371934 |archive-date=April 18, 2015 }}</ref> After the film, several commentators began to describe Hoffman as one of the finest, most ambitious actors of his generation.{{sfn|Mosher|2011|p=121}} | |||
| 1993 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Chuck Bronski | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
Hoffman received his only ] nomination for his supporting role in the ] miniseries '']'' (2005), about life in a New England town. He ultimately lost to castmate Paul Newman.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=9 Overlooked Philip Seymour Hoffman Performances|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/pictures/9-overlooked-philip-seymour-hoffman-performances-20140203/empire-falls-2005-0271471|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=February 3, 2014|access-date=February 21, 2014|archive-date=March 2, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302010949/http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/pictures/9-overlooked-philip-seymour-hoffman-performances-20140203/empire-falls-2005-0271471|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2006, he appeared in the summer blockbuster '']'', playing the villainous arms dealer Owen Davian opposite ]. A journalist for '']'' stated that Hoffman's "black-hat performance was one of the most delicious in a Hollywood film since ]'s in '']'' ",<ref name="Vanity Fair">{{cite magazine|author=Hoffman, Jordan|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/vf-hollywood/philip-seymour-hoffman-best-movies|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman's Movie Career: A Streak of Genius, Stopped Too Soon|magazine=Vanity Fair|date=February 2, 2014|access-date=February 12, 2014|archive-date=February 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221213501/http://www.vanityfair.com/vf-hollywood/philip-seymour-hoffman-best-movies|url-status=live}}</ref> and he was generally approved of for bringing gravitas to the action film. With a gross of nearly US$400 million, it exposed Hoffman to a mainstream audience.{{sfn|Mosher|2011|p=122}} | |||
| 1993 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Cochran | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
| 1994 | |||
| ''{{sortname|The|Getaway|dab=1994 film}}'' | |||
| Frank Hansen | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
Returning to independent films in 2007, Hoffman began with a starring role in ]'s '']'', where ] and he played siblings responsible for putting their dementia-ridden father (]) in a care home. Jake Coyle of the Associated Press stated that it was "the epitome of a Hoffman film: a mix of comedy and tragedy told with subtlety, bone-dry humor, and flashes of grace".<ref name="AP"/> Hoffman received a Golden Globe nomination for his performance in ''The Savages''.<ref>{{cite web|title=List of Golden Globe Nominees and Winners|date=December 13, 2007|work=]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/13/movies/awardsseason/14globlist.html|access-date=December 9, 2016|archive-date=June 5, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150605051002/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/13/movies/awardsseason/14globlist.html|url-status=live}}</ref> He next appeared in '']'', the final film by veteran director ], where he played a ] who embezzles funds from his employer to support his drug habit. Mosher comments that the character was one of the most unpleasant of Hoffman's career, but that his "fearlessness again revealed the humanity within a deeply flawed character" as he appeared naked in the opening sex scene.{{sfn|Mosher|2011|p=124}} The film was received positively by critics as a powerful and affecting thriller.<ref>{{cite web|title=Before the Devil Knows You're Dead|date=October 26, 2007 |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/before_the_devil_knows_youre_dead/|access-date=February 21, 2014|archive-date=December 29, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071229000034/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/before_the_devil_knows_youre_dead/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
| 1994 | |||
| ''{{sortname|The|Yearling|dab=1994 film}}'' | |||
| Buck | |||
| TV Film | |||
|- | |||
]'s political film '']'' (2007) gave Hoffman his second Academy Award nomination, again for playing a real individual—], the ] officer who worked with ] (played by ]) to aid the ] ] in their ]. Todd McCarthy wrote of Hoffman's performance: "Decked out with a pouffy '80s hairdo, moustache, protruding gut and ever-present smokes ... whenever he's on, the picture vibrates with conspiratorial electricity."<ref>{{cite news|last=McCarthy|first=Todd|title=Review: 'Charlie Wilson's War'|url=https://variety.com/2007/film/reviews/charlie-wilson-s-war-5-1200554263/|access-date=February 22, 2014|newspaper=Variety|date=November 28, 2007|archive-date=March 7, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140307061642/http://variety.com/2007/film/reviews/charlie-wilson-s-war-5-1200554263/|url-status=live}}</ref> The film was a critical and commercial success,<ref>{{cite web|title=Charlie Wilson's War|date=December 21, 2007 |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/charlie_wilsons_war/|access-date=February 22, 2014|archive-date=October 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009183751/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/charlie_wilsons_war/|url-status=live}}<br/>{{cite web|title=Charlie Wilson's War|url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=charliewilsonswar.htm|publisher=Box Office Mojo|access-date=February 22, 2014|archive-date=February 26, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226131350/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=charliewilsonswar.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> and along with his Oscar nomination for ], Hoffman was nominated for a ] and a ].<ref name="Awards"/> | |||
| 1994 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Gary | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
] in February 2009, where he was nominated for '']'']] | |||
| 1994 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Officer Raymer | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
| 1995 | |||
| ''The Fifteen Minute Hamlet'' | |||
| Bernardo, Horatio & Laertes | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
| 1996 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Young Craps Player | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
The year 2008 contained two significant Hoffman roles. In ]'s enigmatic drama '']'', he starred as Caden Cotard, a frustrated dramatist who attempts to build a scale replica of New York inside a warehouse for a play.<ref>{{cite web|author=French, Philip|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/may/17/synecdoche-new-york-film-review|title=Synecdoche, New York|work=The Guardian|date=May 17, 2009|access-date=February 16, 2014|archive-date=February 23, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223013719/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/may/17/synecdoche-new-york-film-review|url-status=live}}</ref> Hoffman again showed his willingness to reveal unattractive traits, as the character ages and deteriorates, and committed to a deeply psychological role.{{sfn|Mosher|2011|p=126}} Critics were divided in their response to the "ambitious and baffling" film.<ref>{{cite news|last=Ide|first=Wendy|title=Synecdoche, New York|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/cannes/article3993534.ece|access-date=February 22, 2014|newspaper=The Times|date=May 15, 2009|archive-date=March 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210305071940/https://www.the-tls.co.uk/|url-status=dead}}<br/>{{cite web|title=Synecdoche, New York|date=October 24, 2008 |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/synecdoche_new_york/|access-date=February 22, 2014|archive-date=March 2, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302211333/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/synecdoche_new_york/|url-status=live}}</ref> Sonny Bunch of '']'' found it "impressionistic, inaccessible, and endlessly frustrating", likening Hoffman's character to "God, if God lacked imagination".<ref>{{cite web|author=Bunch, Sonny|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/nov/07/synecdoche-a-disappointing-debut-for-kaufman/|title=Movies: 'Synecdoche' a disappointing debut for Kaufman|work=The Washington Times|date=November 7, 2008|access-date=December 27, 2014|archive-date=January 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150102184347/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/nov/07/synecdoche-a-disappointing-debut-for-kaufman/|url-status=live}}</ref> Conversely, Roger Ebert named it the best film of the decade and considered it one of the greatest of all time,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2012/04/the_greatest_films_of_all_time.html/|title=Roger Ebert's Journal: The Greatest Films of All Time|work=Chicago Sun-Times|date=April 26, 2012|access-date=February 16, 2014|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130406025134/http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2012/04/the_greatest_films_of_all_time.html|archive-date=April 6, 2013}}</ref> and ], film critic for '']'', believes Hoffman gave one of cinema's best performances.<ref name="collin">{{cite news|last=Collin|first=Robbie|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman left us with two of the greatest performances in cinema|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10613430/Philip-Seymour-Hoffman-left-us-with-two-of-the-greatest-performances-in-cinema.html|access-date=February 22, 2014|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=February 2, 2014|archive-date=February 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221210918/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10613430/Philip-Seymour-Hoffman-left-us-with-two-of-the-greatest-performances-in-cinema.html|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
| 1996 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Dustin "Dusty" Davis | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
| 1997 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Scotty J. | |||
| {{ubl|]|Nominated — ]}} | |||
|- | |||
| 1997 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Joseph Plumb Martin | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
| 1998 | |||
| ''Culture'' | |||
| Bill | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
Hoffman's second role of the year came opposite Meryl Streep and ] in ]'s ''Doubt'', where he played Father Brendan Flynn—a priest accused of ] a 12-year-old African-American student in the 1960s. Hoffman was already familiar with ] and appreciated the opportunity to bring it to the screen; in preparing for the role, he talked extensively to a priest who lived through the era.<ref>{{cite web|author=Weintraub, Steve|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman Interview – Doubt|url=https://collider.com/entertainment/interviews/article.asp/aid/10232/tcid/1|publisher=Collider|date=December 21, 2008|access-date=February 22, 2014|archive-date=March 2, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302032705/http://collider.com/entertainment/interviews/article.asp/aid/10232/tcid/1|url-status=live}}</ref> The film had a mixed reception, with some critics such as Peter Bradshaw of ''The Guardian'' suspicious of it as ],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/feb/06/doubt-meryl-streep-philip-seymour-hoffman|title=Doubt|work=The Guardian|date=February 6, 2009|access-date=December 28, 2014|archive-date=December 28, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228175434/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/feb/06/doubt-meryl-streep-philip-seymour-hoffman|url-status=live}}</ref> but Hoffman gained second consecutive Best Supporting Actor nominations at the Oscars, BAFTAs, and Golden Globes, and was also nominated by the ].<ref name="Awards"/> | |||
| 1998 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Duncan | |||
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On stage in 2009, Hoffman played ] in ]' futuristic production of '']'' (with the title role by ]), which received mixed reviews.<ref>{{cite news|author=Sciolino, Elaine|title='Desdemona' Talks Back to 'Othello'|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/arts/music/toni-morrisons-desdemona-and-peter-sellarss-othello.html|date=October 25, 2011|access-date=February 25, 2014|archive-date=December 23, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223012746/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/arts/music/toni-morrisons-desdemona-and-peter-sellarss-othello.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Ben Brantley, theatre critic of ''The New York Times'', found it to be "exasperatingly misconceived", remarking that even when Hoffman is attempting to "manipulate others into self-destruction, he comes close to spoiling everything by erupting into genuine, volcanic fury".<ref>{{cite news|author=Brantley, Ben|title=The General in His High-Tech Labyrinth|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/theater/reviews/28brantley.html|date=September 28, 2009|access-date=December 27, 2014|archive-date=March 11, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150311163739/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/theater/reviews/28brantley.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Hoffman also did his first ] for the ] film '']'', although the film did not initially have an American release.<ref>{{cite web|last=Cagin|first=Chris|title=Mary and Max: DVD Review|url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/review/mary-and-max/1776|work=Slant|access-date=February 23, 2014|date=July 19, 2010|archive-date=February 27, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227073051/http://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/review/mary-and-max/1776|url-status=live}}<br/>{{cite web|title=Mary and Max|date=December 22, 2009 |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1209767-mary_and_max/|access-date=February 23, 2014|archive-date=February 5, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140205115930/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1209767-mary_and_max/|url-status=live}}</ref> He played Max, a depressed New Yorker with ], while ] voiced Mary—the Australian girl who becomes his ]. Continuing with animation, Hoffman then worked on an episode of the children's show '']'' and received a ] nomination for ].<ref>{{cite web|author=Serpe, Gina|url=http://uk.eonline.com/news/180623/ellen-dances-her-way-to-daytime-emmy-noms|title=Ellen Dances Her Way to Daytime Emmy Noms|publisher=E!|date=May 12, 2010|access-date=February 16, 2014|archive-date=March 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210305071939/https://www.eonline.com/news/180623/ellen-dances-her-way-to-daytime-emmy-noms|url-status=live}}</ref> Later in the year, he played a brash American disc jockey opposite ] and ] in ]'s British comedy '']'' (also known as ''Pirate Radio'')—a character based on ], a host of ] in 1966.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://radioscarborough.co.uk/presenters/emperor-rosko.html|title=Emperor Rosko|publisher=Radio Scarborough|access-date=February 16, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222053259/http://radioscarborough.co.uk/presenters/emperor-rosko.html|archive-date=February 22, 2014}}</ref> He also had a ] role as a bartender in ]'s '']''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hiscock|first=John|title=Ricky Gervais interview for The Invention of Lying|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/6230362/Ricky-Gervais-interview-for-The-Invention-of-Lying.html|access-date=February 23, 2014|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=September 25, 2009|archive-date=February 6, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140206130252/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/6230362/Ricky-Gervais-interview-for-The-Invention-of-Lying.html|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
| 1998 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Sean | |||
| Nominated — ] | |||
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Reflecting on Hoffman's work in the late 2000s, Mosher writes that the actor remained impressive, but had not delivered a testing performance on the level of his work in ''Capote''. The film critic ] believed that Hoffman showed indecisiveness at this time, unsure whether to play spectacular supporting roles or become a lead actor who is capable of controlling the emotional dynamic and outcome of a film.{{sfn|Mosher|2011|p=127}} | |||
| 1998 | |||
| ''{{sortname|The|Big Lebowski}}'' | |||
| Brandt | |||
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===2010–2014: Final years === | |||
| 1998 | |||
Hoffman's profile continued to grow with the new decade, and he became an increasingly recognizable figure.<ref name="cnn"/> Despite earlier reservations about directing for the screen,<ref name="Buffalo900"/> his first release of the 2010s was also his first as a film director. The independent drama '']'' was adapted from ]'s play of the same name, which Hoffman had starred in and directed for the LAByrinth Theater Company in 2007. He originally intended to only direct the film, but decided to reprise the main role of Jack—a lonely limousine driver looking for love—after the actor he wanted for it was unavailable.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://collider.com/paul-thomas-anderson-interviews-philip-seymour-hoffman-about-jack-goes-boating/|title=Paul Thomas Anderson Interviews Philip Seymour Hoffman About 'Jack Goes Boating'|last=Lussier|first=Germain|year=2011|publisher=Collider|access-date=February 12, 2014|archive-date=February 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222154833/http://collider.com/paul-thomas-anderson-interviews-philip-seymour-hoffman-about-jack-goes-boating/|url-status=live}}</ref> The low-key film had a limited release, and was not a high earner,<ref>{{cite web|title=Jack Goes Boating|url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=jackgoesboating.htm|publisher=Box Office Mojo|access-date=February 23, 2014|archive-date=March 4, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140304073038/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=jackgoesboating.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> though it received many positive reviews.<ref>{{Cite web| title=Jack Goes Boating| date=September 24, 2010| publisher=Rotten Tomatoes| url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jack_goes_boating/| access-date=August 19, 2015| archive-date=August 24, 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150824231812/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jack_goes_boating| url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web| title = Jack Goes Boating| publisher = ]| url = http://www.metacritic.com/movie/jack-goes-boating/| access-date = August 19, 2015| archive-date = November 12, 2020| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201112021044/https://www.metacritic.com/movie/jack-goes-boating| url-status = live}}</ref> However, Dave Edwards of the '']'' remarked that "Hoffman's directing debut delivers a film so weak I could barely remember what it was about as I left",<ref>{{cite web|author=Edwards, Dave|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/going-out/film/jack-goes-boating-film-review-89536|title=Jack Goes Boating film review: That sinking feeling|work=Daily Mirror|date=November 4, 2011|access-date=December 27, 2014|archive-date=February 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216172522/http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/going-out/film/jack-goes-boating-film-review-89536|url-status=live}}</ref> while critic ] appreciated the cinematic qualities that Hoffman brought to the film, and stated that he showed potential as a director.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jack Goes Boating reviewed by Mark Kermode|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00lp7vd|publisher=BBC Radio 5|access-date=February 23, 2014|archive-date=February 23, 2014|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140223172444/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00lp7vd|url-status=live}}</ref> In addition to ''Jack Goes Boating'', in 2010 Hoffman also directed ]'s tragic drama ''The Long Red Road'' for the ] in ]. Steven Oxman of ''Variety'' described the production as "heavy handed" and "predictable", but "intriguing and at least partially successful".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2010/legit/reviews/the-long-red-road-1117942275/|title=Review: ''The Long Red Road''|last=Oxman|first=Steven|date=February 22, 2010|newspaper=Variety|access-date=February 12, 2014|archive-date=August 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806163845/https://variety.com/2010/legit/reviews/the-long-red-road-1117942275/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Allen | |||
| {{ubl|]|Nominated — ]|Nominated — ]}} | |||
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]'' premiere in September 2011]] | |||
| 1998 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Mitch Roman | |||
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| 1999 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Rusty Zimmerman | |||
| {{ubl|]|]|Best Actor Award at the Verona Love Screens Film Festival|Nominated — ] Award for Actor of the Year|Nominated — ]}} | |||
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Hoffman next had significant supporting roles in two films, both released in the last third of 2011. In ]'s '']'', a sports drama about the ] of the ] baseball team, he played the manager ]. The film was a critical and commercial success, and Hoffman was described as "perfectly cast" by Ann Hornaday of '']'', but the real-life Art Howe accused the filmmakers of giving an "unfair and untrue" portrayal of him.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/moneyball |title=Moneyball |publisher=Metacritic |access-date=July 7, 2012 |archive-date=November 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112013612/https://www.metacritic.com/movie/moneyball |url-status=live }}<br/>{{cite web|title=Moneyball|url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=moneyball.htm|publisher=Box Office Mojo|access-date=February 23, 2014|archive-date=June 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190603185632/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=moneyball.htm|url-status=live}}<br/>{{cite news|author=Hornaday, Ann|title=Moneyball|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movies/moneyball,1177497.html#reviewNum1|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=September 23, 2011|access-date=February 23, 2014|archive-date=September 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912213920/http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movies/moneyball,1177497.html#reviewNum1|url-status=dead}}<br/>{{cite web |url=http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/Oakland-Athletics-Art-Howe-former-manager-upset-with-Moneyball-portrayal-Billy-Beane-092711 |title=Howe upset with "Moneyball" portrayal |work=Fox Sports |date=September 27, 2011 |access-date=November 16, 2012 |archive-date=November 16, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121116022735/http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/Oakland-Athletics-Art-Howe-former-manager-upset-with-Moneyball-portrayal-Billy-Beane-092711 |url-status=live }}</ref> Hoffman's second film of the year was ]'s political drama '']'', in which he played the earnest campaign manager to the ] presidential candidate Mike Morris (Clooney). The film was well-received and Hoffman's performance, especially in the scenes opposite ]—who played the rival campaign manager—was positively noted.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_ides_of_march |title=The Ides of March |date=October 7, 2011 |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=October 30, 2011 |archive-date=June 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170603141110/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_ides_of_march/ |url-status=live }}<br/>{{cite news|url=https://nymag.com/movies/reviews/ides-of-march-edelstein-2011-10/|title=K Streetwalkers|last=Edelstein|first=David|date=October 2, 2011|work=The New York Magazine|access-date=February 12, 2014|archive-date=March 2, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302040158/http://nymag.com/movies/reviews/ides-of-march-edelstein-2011-10/|url-status=live}}<br/>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/the-ides-of-march-20111006|title=''The Ides of March''|last=Travers|first=Peter|date=October 6, 2011|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=February 12, 2014|archive-date=March 4, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140304060910/http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/the-ides-of-march-20111006|url-status=live}}</ref> Hoffman's work on the film earned him his fourth BAFTA Award nomination.<ref name="Awards"/> | |||
| 1999 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Phil Parma | |||
| {{ubl|]|]|]|]|Nominated — ]}} | |||
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In the spring of 2012, Hoffman made his final stage appearance, starring as ] in a Broadway revival of '']'' opposite ]. Directed by ], the production ran for 78 performances and was the highest-grossing show in the ]'s history.<ref>{{cite web|title=Death of a Salesman|url=http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=491286|publisher=Internet Broadway Database|access-date=February 23, 2014|archive-date=February 26, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226212157/http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=491286|url-status=live}}<br/>{{cite web|url=http://broadwayworld.com/article/INDUSTRY-INSIGHT-Weekly-Grosses-Analysis-64-ONCE-SALESMAN-Have-Record-Weeks-20120604|title=Industry Insight: Weekly Grosses Analysis – 6/4; Once & Salesman Have Record Weeks|publisher=Broadway World|access-date=February 16, 2014|archive-date=February 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221204628/http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/INDUSTRY-INSIGHT-Weekly-Grosses-Analysis-64-ONCE-SALESMAN-Have-Record-Weeks-20120604|url-status=live}}</ref> Many critics felt that Hoffman, at 44, was too young for the role of 62-year-old Loman,<ref name="NYT"/> and Chris Jones of the '']'' felt that the character had been interpreted poorly.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Jones|first1=Chris|title=Feeling the absence of an everyman in 'Death of a Salesman' on Broadway|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2012/03/15/feeling-the-absence-of-an-everyman-in-death-of-a-salesman-on-broadway/|access-date=December 27, 2014|work=Chicago Tribune|date=March 15, 2012|archive-date=December 27, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141227143900/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-03-15/entertainment/ct-ent-0316-death-salesman-broadway-review-20120315_1_willy-loman-mike-nichols-arthur-miller|url-status=live}}</ref> Hoffman admitted that he found the role difficult,<ref name="master"/> but he nevertheless earned his third Tony Award nomination.<ref name="ibdb"/> | |||
| 1999 | |||
| ''{{sortname|The|Talented Mr. Ripley|dab=film}}'' | |||
| Freddie Miles | |||
| {{ubl|]|]}} | |||
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| 2000 | |||
| ''Titanic 2000'' | |||
| Himself | |||
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Hoffman collaborated with Paul Thomas Anderson for the fifth time in '']'' (2012), where he turned in what critic ] considered the most memorable performance of his career.<ref name="bradshaw"/> Set in 1950s America, the film featured Hoffman as Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a nascent Scientology-type movement who brings a troubled man (]) under his tutelage. Hoffman was instrumental in the project's development, having been involved with it for three years.<ref name="master"/> He assisted Anderson in the writing of the script by reviewing samples of it, and suggested making Phoenix's character, Freddie Quell, the protagonist instead of Dodd.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite news | url = http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/08/19/inside-the-master-paul-thomas-anderson-s-supposed-scientology-movie.html | title = Inside 'The Master', Paul Thomas Anderson's Supposed "Scientology" Movie | date = August 20, 2012 | access-date = August 21, 2012 | first = David | last = Ansen | newspaper = Newsweek | archive-date = January 18, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130118082554/http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/08/19/inside-the-master-paul-thomas-anderson-s-supposed-scientology-movie.html | url-status = live }}</ref> A talented dancer,<ref name="Brooks"/> Hoffman was able to showcase his abilities by performing a jig during a surreal sequence; Bradshaw called it an "extraordinary moment" that "only Hoffman could have carried off."<ref name="bradshaw"/> ''The Master'' was praised as an intelligent and challenging drama,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_master_2011 |title=The Master |date=September 14, 2012 |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=September 24, 2012 |archive-date=March 28, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150328011854/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_master_2011/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and Drew Hunt of the ''Chicago Reader'' also felt that it contained Hoffman's finest work: "He's inscrutable yet welcoming, intimidating yet charismatic, villainous yet fatherly. He epitomizes so many things at once that it's impossible to think of as mere movie character".<ref name="Hunt"/> Hoffman and Phoenix received a joint ] Award at the ] for their performances, and Hoffman was also nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA Award and a SAG Award for the supporting role.<ref name="Awards"/> | |||
| 2000 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Joseph Turner White | |||
| {{ubl|]|]|]}} | |||
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] and ] promoting '']'' at the ] on January 19, 2014, less than two weeks before his death]] | |||
| 2000 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| ] | |||
| {{ubl|]|]|Nominated — ]|Nominated — ] Award for Actor of the Year|Nominated — ]|Nominated — ]}} | |||
'']'' was Hoffman's other film release of 2012, where he played a violinist in a string quartet whose members (played by ], ], and ]) face a crisis when one is diagnosed with ]. The drama received favorable reviews, and Stephen Holden of ''The New York Times'' called Hoffman's performance "exceptional".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/movies/a-late-quartet-directed-by-yaron-zilberman.html|title=The Strings Play On; The Bonds Tear Apart|last=Holden|first=Stephen|date=November 1, 2012|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 16, 2014|archive-date=March 4, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140304212609/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/movies/a-late-quartet-directed-by-yaron-zilberman.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_late_quartet |title=A Late Quartet |date=November 2, 2012 |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=February 2, 2014 |archive-date=February 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140208050420/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_late_quartet/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2013, Hoffman joined the popular ''Hunger Games'' series in its second film, '']'', where he played gamemaker ]. The film finished as the 10th-highest grossing in history to that point,<ref>{{cite news|title='Hunger Games: Catching Fire' 10th highest grossing film|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/hollywood/hunger-games-catching-fire-10th-highest-grossing-film/|access-date=February 26, 2014|newspaper=The Indian Express|date=February 25, 2014|archive-date=February 28, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228112804/http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/hollywood/hunger-games-catching-fire-10th-highest-grossing-film/|url-status=live}}</ref> and Hoffman became recognizable to a new generation of film-goers.<ref name="bradshaw"/> In January 2014, shortly before his death, he attended the ] to promote two films. In ]'s '']'', a thriller based on ]'s novel, Hoffman played a German intelligence officer. His performance was praised by Xan Brooks as one of "terrific, lip-smacking relish: full of mischief, anchored by integrity."<ref>{{cite news|last=Brooks|first=Xan|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman: a career in movie clips|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2014/feb/02/philip-seymour-hoffman-best-movie-clips|access-date=February 26, 2014|newspaper=The Guardian|date=February 2, 2014|archive-date=February 23, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223162725/http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2014/feb/02/philip-seymour-hoffman-best-movie-clips|url-status=live}}</ref> The other was '']'', the directorial debut of actor ], in which Hoffman played a thief.<ref>{{cite news|last=Wilkinson|first=Amber|title=Sundance 2014: God's Pocket, review|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10592517/Sundance-2014-Gods-Pocket-review.html|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=January 23, 2014|access-date=February 26, 2014|archive-date=February 3, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203201048/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10592517/Sundance-2014-Gods-Pocket-review.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In November 2014, nine months after his death, ''],'' was released, in which he had a major role. It was dedicated in his memory.<ref>{{cite news|last=Kermode|first=Mark|title=The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 review – Seymour Hoffman brings wit and gravitas to a spiky media satire|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/23/hunger-games-mockingjay-part-1-one-review|access-date=December 24, 2014|newspaper=The Guardian|date=November 23, 2014|archive-date=December 25, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225003349/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/23/hunger-games-mockingjay-part-1-one-review|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
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| 2001 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Himself | |||
| Theatrically released as ''Last Party 2000'' | |||
At the time of his death, Hoffman was filming '']'', the fourth film in the series, and had already completed the majority of his scenes.<ref name="hg">{{cite web|last=Stewart|first=Andrew|url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/philip-seymour-hoffmans-death-will-not-delay-hunger-games-finale-1201083110/|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman Was Nearly Finished Shooting 'Hunger Games'|work=Variety|date=February 2, 2014|access-date=February 26, 2014|archive-date=July 26, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140726175412/http://variety.com/2014/film/news/philip-seymour-hoffmans-death-will-not-delay-hunger-games-finale-1201083110/|url-status=live}}</ref> His two remaining scenes were rewritten to compensate for his absence.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=42589 | title=Will There Be More Hunger Games After Mockingjay Part 2? | work=Empire | date=October 28, 2014 | access-date=August 3, 2015 | author=O'Hara, Helen | archive-date=September 24, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924130524/http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=42589 | url-status=live }}</ref> The film was released in November 2015.<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.ew.com/article/2012/07/10/mockingjay-split-release-dates | title='Mockingjay' to be split into two movies, release dates announced | magazine=Entertainment Weekly | date=July 10, 2012 | access-date=August 3, 2015 | author=Staskiewicz, Keith | archive-date=August 18, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150818081451/http://www.ew.com/article/2012/07/10/mockingjay-split-release-dates | url-status=live }}</ref> Hoffman was also preparing for his second directorial effort, a ]-era drama titled ''Ezekiel Moss'', which was to star ] and ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/amy-adams-jake-gyllenhaal-join-philip-seymour-hoffman-directed-ezekiel-moss-more-20140201|title=Amy Adams & Jake Gyllenhaal Join Philip Seymour Hoffman-Directed 'Ezekiel Moss'|author=Jagernauth, Kevin|publisher=Indiewire|date=February 1, 2014|access-date=February 6, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221200405/http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/amy-adams-jake-gyllenhaal-join-philip-seymour-hoffman-directed-ezekiel-moss-more-20140201|archive-date=February 21, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> In addition, he had filmed a ] for the ] series '']'', in which he played the lead role of an advertising executive. Plans for a full season were put on hold following his death.<ref>{{cite news|author=Sacks, Ethan|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/philip-seymour-hoffman-series-happyish-limbo-article-1.1601562|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman's Showtime series 'Happyish' now in limbo after actor's death|work=Daily News|access-date=February 6, 2014|archive-date=February 5, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140205033003/http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/philip-seymour-hoffman-series-happyish-limbo-article-1.1601562|url-status=live}}</ref> The role was later passed on to ].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2014/tv/news/steve-coogan-philip-seymour-hoffman-happyish-1201336551/|title=Steve Coogan to Replace Philip Seymour Hoffman in Showtime's 'Happyish'|work=Variety|author=Birnbaum, Debra|access-date=December 22, 2014|date=October 22, 2014|archive-date=December 11, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141211075209/http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/steve-coogan-philip-seymour-hoffman-happyish-1201336551/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
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| 2002 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Wilson Joel | |||
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==Personal life== | |||
| 2002 | |||
] | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Dean Trumbell | |||
| Nominated — ] | |||
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Hoffman rarely mentioned his personal life in interviews, stating in 2012 that he would "rather not because my family doesn't have any choice. If I talk about them in the press, I'm giving them no choice. So I choose not to."<ref name="mottram">{{cite news|last=Mottram|first=James|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman: 'You're not going to watch ''The Master'' and find a lot out about Scientology'|work=The Independent|date=October 28, 2012|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/philip-seymour-hoffman-youre-not-going-to-watch-the-master-and-find-a-lot-out-about-scientology-8227235.html|access-date=February 16, 2014|archive-date=March 31, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331053854/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/philip-seymour-hoffman-youre-not-going-to-watch-the-master-and-find-a-lot-out-about-scientology-8227235.html|url-status=live}}</ref> For 14 years, he was in a relationship with costume designer Mimi O'Donnell, whom he had met in 1999 when they were both working on the Hoffman-directed play '']''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Rothman|first=Michael|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman: Inside the Actor's Very Private Personal Life|publisher=ABC|date=February 3, 2014|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/philip-seymour-hoffman-inside-actors-private-personal-life/story?id=22344551|access-date=December 31, 2014|archive-date=December 31, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141231151058/http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/philip-seymour-hoffman-inside-actors-private-personal-life/story?id=22344551|url-status=live}}</ref> They lived in New York City and had a son, ], and two daughters.<ref>{{cite news|last=Campbell|first=Jon|url=http://www.christianpost.com/news/mimi-odonnell-philip-seymour-hoffman-partner-visited-by-justin-theroux-and-kate-blanchett-after-actors-death-113922/|title=Mimi O'Donnell Supported By Kate Blanchett, Justin Theroux Following Philip Seymour Hoffman's Death|access-date=February 28, 2014|newspaper=The Christian Post|date=February 3, 2014|archive-date=March 1, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301165700/http://www.christianpost.com/news/mimi-odonnell-philip-seymour-hoffman-partner-visited-by-justin-theroux-and-kate-blanchett-after-actors-death-113922/|url-status=live}}</ref> While some reports stated Hoffman and O'Donnell separated in late 2013,<ref name="selby">{{cite web| last=Selby| first=Jenny| title=Philip Seymour Hoffman dead: Last months of actor's life paint a private struggle to cope with the breakdown of his personal life| work=The Independent| date=February 3, 2014| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/philip-seymour-hoffman-found-dead-the-last-few-months-of-the-actors-life-paint-a-private-struggle-to-cope-with-the-breakdown-of-his-personal-life-9103822.html| access-date=February 16, 2014| archive-date=February 16, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140216061226/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/philip-seymour-hoffman-found-dead-the-last-few-months-of-the-actors-life-paint-a-private-struggle-to-cope-with-the-breakdown-of-his-personal-life-9103822.html| url-status=live}}</ref> O'Donnell later said she and Hoffman were both committed to their relationship, but he had moved out of their longtime residence to a nearby apartment to protect their children from the effects of his relapse into substance abuse.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/philip-seymour-hoffman-mimi-odonnell-vogue-january-2018-issue|title=Mimi O'Donnell Reflects on the Loss of Philip Seymour Hoffman and the Devastation of Addiction|website=Vogue|date=December 13, 2017|first=Adam|last=Green|access-date=June 19, 2019|archive-date=June 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190619200135/https://www.vogue.com/article/philip-seymour-hoffman-mimi-odonnell-vogue-january-2018-issue|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
| 2002 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| ] | |||
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He felt that keeping his personal life private was beneficial to his career: "The less you know about me the more interesting it will be to watch me do what I do".<ref name="RT" /> Hoffman was also discreet about his religious and political beliefs, but it is known that he voted for the ] candidate ] in the 2000 presidential election.<ref name="religion" /><ref name="mottram" /> He also donated to ]'s senate campaign and the ].<ref>{{Cite web |last=McCalmont |first=Lucy |title=Hoffman: 8 political moments |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/philip-seymour-hoffman-8-political-moments-103026 |access-date=February 4, 2023 |website=POLITICO |date=February 3, 2014}}</ref> | |||
| 2002 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Jacob Elinsky | |||
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| 2003 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Dan Mahowny | |||
| {{ubl|]|]|Nominated — ]}} | |||
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In a 2006 interview with '']'', Hoffman revealed he had engaged in ] during his time at New York University, saying he had used "anything I could get my hands on. I liked it all."<ref name="aftab">{{cite news|author=Aftab, Kaleem|date=February 2, 2014|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/philip-seymour-hoffman-dead-it-was-anything-i-could-get-my-hands-on-actor-said-of-his-early-drug-use-9102699.html|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman dead: 'It was anything I could get my hands on,' actor said of early drug misuse|newspaper=The Independent|access-date=February 28, 2014|archive-date=March 2, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302191718/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/philip-seymour-hoffman-dead-it-was-anything-i-could-get-my-hands-on-actor-said-of-his-early-drug-use-9102699.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Following his graduation in 1989, he entered a ] at age 22, and remained sober for 23 years. However, he relapsed in 2012, and admitted himself to drug rehabilitation for about ten days in May 2013.<ref name="NYT"/><ref name="aftab"/> | |||
| 2003 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Reverend Veasey | |||
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| 2004 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Sandy Lyle | |||
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| 2005 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Henry, Board Of Education | |||
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==Death== | |||
| 2005 | |||
On February 2, 2014, Hoffman was found dead in the bathroom of his ] apartment by his friend, playwright and screenwriter David Bar Katz.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/philip-seymour-hoffman-david-bar-katz-who-found-him-dead-condemns-media-for-painting-false-picture-9155340.html |title=Philip Seymour Hoffman: David Bar Katz, who found Hoffman dead, condemns media for painting 'false picture' of star in first video interview |last=Selby |first=Jenn |date=February 26, 2014 |access-date=August 4, 2018 |newspaper=] |archive-date=August 4, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180804180235/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/philip-seymour-hoffman-david-bar-katz-who-found-him-dead-condemns-media-for-painting-false-picture-9155340.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He was 46 years old.<ref name="Final">{{cite news|title=Piecing together Philip Seymour Hoffman's final hours|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/04/showbiz/philip-seymour-hoffman-final-hours/|access-date=February 5, 2014|publisher=]|date=February 4, 2014|author1=Prokupecz, Shimon|author2=Mullen, Jethro|author3=Carrol, Jason|archive-date=February 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222055215/http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/04/showbiz/philip-seymour-hoffman-final-hours/|url-status=live}}</ref> Although friends stated that Hoffman's drug use was under control at the time,<ref name="selby"/> detectives searching the apartment found heroin and prescription medication at the scene and revealed that he had a syringe in his arm.<ref name="Four">{{cite news|title=Four People Arrested as Part of Inquiry into Hoffman's Death|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/05/nyregion/test-of-substance-in-hoffmans-home-finds-heroin-without-additive.html|access-date=February 5, 2014|newspaper=]|date=February 4, 2014|first1=J. David|last1=Goodman|first2=Emma G.|last2=Fitzsimmons|archive-date=February 5, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140205071544/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/05/nyregion/test-of-substance-in-hoffmans-home-finds-heroin-without-additive.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Hoffman's death was officially ruled an accident caused by "acute ], including ], ], ]s, and ]".<ref>{{cite web |title=Philip Seymour Hoffman Died From Drugs Mix |url=https://news.sky.com/story/philip-seymour-hoffman-died-from-drugs-mix-10415457 |publisher=Sky News |access-date=February 28, 2014 |archive-date=August 23, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160823084804/http://news.sky.com/story/philip-seymour-hoffman-died-from-drugs-mix-10415457 |url-status=live }}</ref> Michael Schwirtz of '']'' said, "Whether Hoffman had taken all of the substances on the same day, or whether any of the substances had remained in his system from earlier use, was not reported."<ref>{{cite news|author=Schwirtz, Michael|title=Hoffman Killed By Toxic Mix Of Drugs, Official Concludes|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/01/nyregion/hoffman-killed-by-toxic-mix-of-drugs-official-concludes.html?ref=arts|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 28, 2014|access-date=March 1, 2014|archive-date=March 1, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301152316/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/01/nyregion/hoffman-killed-by-toxic-mix-of-drugs-official-concludes.html?ref=arts|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Charlie Mayne | |||
| {{ubl|TV Miniseries|Nominated — ]}} | |||
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A funeral Mass was held at ] in Manhattan on February 7, 2014, and was attended by many of his close friends and former co-stars, including ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] and ]. After the Mass, Hoffman's body was taken to be cremated, with his ashes given to his partner and children.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/philip-seymour-hoffman-funeral/|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman's funeral|website=]|date=February 7, 2014 |access-date=March 3, 2019|archive-date=March 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306042841/https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/philip-seymour-hoffman-funeral/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=February 8, 2014 |title=Family, actors mourn Philip Seymour Hoffman at private funeral |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-philipseymourhoffman-idUSBREA1604A20140208 |access-date=July 14, 2022}}</ref> He left his fortune of around $35 million to Mimi O'Donnell in his October 2004 will, trusting her to distribute money to their children.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/gossip/la-et-mg-philip-seymour-hoffman-estate-will-trust-fund-mimi-odonnell-20140721-story.html| title=Philip Seymour Hoffman didn't want 'trust fund' kids, filing says| work=Los Angeles Times| date=July 21, 2014| access-date=July 21, 2014| author=D'Zurilla, Christine| archive-date=July 22, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140722050207/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/gossip/la-et-mg-philip-seymour-hoffman-estate-will-trust-fund-mimi-odonnell-20140721-story.html| url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
| 2005 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| ] | |||
| {{ubl|]|]|]|]|]|]|]|]|]|]|]|]|]|]|]|]|]|]|]|]|]|]|]|]|Nominated — ]|Nominated — ]}} | |||
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| 2006 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Owen Davian | |||
| Nominated – ] | |||
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| 2007 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Andy Hanson | |||
| {{ubl|Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Actor of the Year|] for Best Ensemble Cast|Sant Jordi Award for Best Foreign Actor (Mejor Actor Extranjero)|Nominated — ]}} | |||
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Hoffman's death was lamented by fans and the film industry and was described by several commentators as a considerable loss to the profession.<ref name="Hunt"/><ref name="collin"/><ref name="bradshaw"/><ref>{{cite web|author=McRady, Rachel|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman Dead at 46: Celebrities React to Shocking Death|url=http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/philip-seymour-hoffman-dead-46-celebrities-react-shocking-death-201422|work=]|date=February 2, 2014|access-date=February 22, 2014|archive-date=February 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221153142/http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/philip-seymour-hoffman-dead-46-celebrities-react-shocking-death-201422|url-status=live}}<br/>{{cite web|author=Rothman, Michael|title=Twitter Reacts in Shock and Grief Over Death of Philip Seymour Hoffman|url=https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2014/02/twitter-reacts-in-shock-and-grief-over-death-of-philip-seymour-hoffman/|publisher=ABC|date=February 2, 2014|access-date=February 22, 2014|archive-date=February 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221222116/http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2014/02/twitter-reacts-in-shock-and-grief-over-death-of-philip-seymour-hoffman/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>Carolan, Michael (February 16, 2014). Philip Seymour Hoffman, relentless in the pursuit of the character. '']'' Retrieved February 18, 2014.</ref> On February 5, 2014, the ] honored his memory by holding a candlelight vigil, and Broadway dimmed its lights for one minute.<ref>{{cite web|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman death: Broadway dims its lights for theatre star|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26062286|publisher=BBC|date=February 6, 2014|access-date=March 1, 2014|archive-date=February 26, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226161650/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26062286|url-status=live}}</ref> Three weeks after Hoffman's death, Katz established the American Playwriting Foundation in Hoffman's memory. With the money received from a libel lawsuit against the '']'' which inaccurately claimed that Hoffman and Katz were lovers, the foundation awards an annual prize of $45,000 to the author of an unproduced play. Katz named this the "Relentless Prize" in honor of Hoffman's dedication to the profession.<ref>{{cite news|last=Dwyer|first=Jim|title=Truth and a Prize Emerge From Lies About Hoffman|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/26/nyregion/after-a-deluge-of-fiction-a-friend-of-hoffmans-insists-on-the-truth.html|access-date=March 1, 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 25, 2014|archive-date=March 1, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301015832/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/26/nyregion/after-a-deluge-of-fiction-a-friend-of-hoffmans-insists-on-the-truth.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.americanplaywritingfoundation.org/the-relentless-award.html | title=The Relentless Award | publisher=The American Playwriting Foundation | date=2015 | access-date=August 30, 2020 | archive-date=August 27, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200827221843/https://americanplaywritingfoundation.org/the-relentless-award.html | url-status=live }}</ref> He would later remember Hoffman with a poem published in ''The Guardian'' in December 2014.<ref>{{cite news|last=Bar Kartz|first=David|date=December 21, 2014|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman remembered by David Bar Katz|newspaper=]|publisher=]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/dec/21/philip-seymour-hoffman-david-bar-katz-observer-obituaries-2014-|access-date=August 4, 2018|archive-date=August 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180804170217/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/dec/21/philip-seymour-hoffman-david-bar-katz-observer-obituaries-2014-|url-status=live}}</ref> In tribute, actress ] dedicated her ] trophy to Hoffman when she received the award for '']'' on February 16.<ref>{{cite news |last=Beaumont-Thomas |first=Ben |date=February 16, 2014 |title=Baftas 2014: Cate Blanchett wins best actress for Blue Jasmine |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/16/baftas-2014-cate-blanchett-best-actress |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140303203715/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/16/baftas-2014-cate-blanchett-best-actress |archive-date=March 3, 2014 |access-date=March 5, 2014 |newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref> Years later, at the ], '']'' actor ] dedicated his win for ] to Hoffman.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://variety.com/2018/film/awards/oscars-sam-rockwell-philip-seymour-hoffman-supporting-actor-1202714637/ | title=Sam Rockwell dedicates Oscar win to PSH | work=Variety Mag | date=March 4, 2018 | access-date=March 4, 2018 | author=Kristopher Tapley | archive-date=June 9, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180609101354/https://variety.com/2018/film/awards/oscars-sam-rockwell-philip-seymour-hoffman-supporting-actor-1202714637/ | url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
| 2007 | |||
| ''{{sortname|The|Savages|dab=film}}'' | |||
| Jon Savage | |||
| {{ubl|Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Actor of the Year|Jury Award for Best Actor at the Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival|]|Sant Jordi Award for Best Foreign Actor (Mejor Actor Extranjero)|Nominated — ]|Nominated — ] for Best Ensemble Cast}} | |||
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==Reception and acting style== | |||
| 2007 | |||
Hoffman was held in high regard within both the film and theater industries, and he was often cited in the media as one of the finest actors of his generation.<ref name="NYT"/><ref name="mottram"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Details of Philip Seymour Hoffman's will released|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/20/philip-seymour-hoffman-will|access-date=February 20, 2014|newspaper=The Guardian|date=February 20, 2014|archive-date=February 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221070549/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/20/philip-seymour-hoffman-will|url-status=live}}</ref> In a 2022 readers' poll by '']'' magazine, he was voted one of the 50 greatest actors of all time.<ref>{{cite news|first1=Ben|last1=Travis|first2=Sophie|last2=Butcher|first3=Nick|last3=De Semlyen|first4=James|last4=Dyer|first5=John|last5=Nugent|first6=Alex|last6=Godfrey|first7=Helen|last7=O'Hara|title=Empire's 50 Greatest Actors of All Time List, Revealed|url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/best-actors/|access-date=March 16, 2023|work=]|date=December 20, 2022|archive-date=December 29, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221229101239/https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/best-actors|url-status=live}}</ref> With his being overweight, one writer considered Hoffman to be "too pudgy to look romantic or heroic";<ref name="Brooks"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21595885-philip-seymour-hoffman-actor-died-february-2nd-aged-46-philip-seymour-hoffman|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman|newspaper=The Economist|date=February 8, 2014|access-date=February 17, 2014|archive-date=February 17, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140217054910/http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21595885-philip-seymour-hoffman-actor-died-february-2nd-aged-46-philip-seymour-hoffman|url-status=live}}</ref> however, the actor said he was grateful for his appearance, as it made him believable in a wide range of roles.{{sfn|Mosher|2011|p=117}} Joel Schumacher once said of him in 2000, "The bad news is that Philip won't be a $25-million star. The good news is that he'll work for the rest of his life".{{sfn|Mosher|2011|p=127}} The '']'' of South Carolina referred to him as an "anti-star", whose real identity remained "amorphous and unmoored".<ref>{{cite news| title=A Look At The Many Faces of Philip Seymour Hoffman| url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/5533009/?terms=Philip+Seymour+Hoffman| newspaper=Aiken Standard| date=November 3, 2007| page=8| via=Newspapers.com| access-date=December 27, 2014| archive-date=December 28, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228191212/http://www.newspapers.com/image/5533009/?terms=Philip+Seymour+Hoffman| url-status=live}}</ref> Hoffman was acutely aware that he was often too unorthodox for the Academy voters. He remarked, "I'm sure that people in the big corporations that run Hollywood don't know quite what to do with someone like me, but that's OK. I think there are other people who are interested in what I do."<ref name="SS03"/> | |||
| '']'' | |||
| ] | |||
| {{ubl|Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Actor of the Year|Sant Jordi Award for Best Foreign Actor (Mejor Actor Extranjero)|Nominated — ]|Nominated — ]|Nominated — ]|Nominated — ]|Nominated — ]|Nominated — ]}} | |||
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| 2008 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Caden Cotard | |||
| {{ubl|] for Best Ensemble Cast|]}} | |||
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Most of Hoffman's notable roles came in independent films, including particularly original ones, but he also featured in several Hollywood blockbusters.<ref name="NYT"/><ref name="gilbey"/> He generally played supporting roles, appearing in both dramas and comedies,<ref>{{cite web|author=Blair, Elizabeth|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-223263459.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611070939/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-223263459.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 11, 2014|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman often delivered unforgettable performances, equally adept at comedy as he was drama|publisher=Weekend All Things Considered| date=February 2, 2014}}</ref> but was noted for his ability to make small parts memorable.<ref name="McArdle"/><ref name="gilbey"/> Peter Bradshaw, film critic for ''The Guardian'', felt that "Almost every single one of his credits had something special about it".<ref name="bradshaw">{{cite news|last=Bradshaw|first=Peter|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman: death of a master|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2014/feb/02/philip-seymour-hoffman-dies|access-date=February 19, 2014|newspaper=The Guardian|date=February 2, 2014|archive-date=May 9, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140509043435/http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2014/feb/02/philip-seymour-hoffman-dies|url-status=live}}</ref> David Fear of ''Rolling Stone'' wrote that Hoffman "added heft to low-budget art films, and nuance and unpredictability to blockbuster franchises. He was a transformative performer who worked from the inside out, blessed with an emotional transparency that could be overwhelming, invigorating, compelling, devastating."<ref name="RS"/> | |||
| 2008 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Father Brendan Flynn | |||
| {{ubl|Nominated — ]|Nominated — ]|Nominated — ]|Nominated — ]|Nominated — ]|Nominated — ]|Nominated — ]|Nominated — ]|Nominated — ]|Nominated — ]}} | |||
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| 2009 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Max Jerry Horowitz | |||
| (Voice Only) | |||
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Hoffman was praised for his versatility and ability to fully inhabit any role,<ref name="vallance"/><ref name="Brooks"/> but specialized in playing creeps and misfits: "his CV was populated almost exclusively by snivelling wretches, insufferable prigs, braggarts and outright bullies" writes the journalist Ryan Gilbey.<ref name="gilbey"/> Hoffman was appreciated for making these roles real, complex and even sympathetic;<ref name="NYT"/><ref name="gilbey"/><ref name="RS"/> while Todd Louiso, director of ''Love Liza'', believed that Hoffman connected to people on screen because he looked like an ordinary man and revealed his vulnerability.<ref>{{cite web|author=Henerson, Evan|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-9015691.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611071112/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-9015691.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 11, 2014|title=Wanted Man: As Philip Seymour Hoffman's Profile Rises, He Continues Playing Adventurous Characters|work=Daily News|date=January 14, 2003|access-date=February 19, 2014}}</ref> Xan Brooks of ''The Guardian'' remarked that the actor's particular talent was to "take thwarted, twisted humanity and ennoble it".<ref name="Brooks"/> "The more pathetic or deluded the character," writes Gilbey, "the greater Hoffman's relish seemed in rescuing them from the realms of the merely monstrous."<ref name="gilbey"/> When asked in 2006 why he undertook such roles, Hoffman responded, "I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me."<ref>{{cite web|last=O'Rourke|first=Meghan|title=An interview with Philip Seymour Hoffman|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/interrogation/2006/01/philip_seymour_hoffman.html|work=]|access-date=February 20, 2014|date=January 31, 2006|archive-date=February 26, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226050819/http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/interrogation/2006/01/philip_seymour_hoffman.html|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
| 2009 | |||
| ''{{sortname|The|Boat That Rocked}}'' | |||
| The Count | |||
| Released as ''Pirate Radio'' in the United States and as ''Radio Rock Revolution'' in Germany | |||
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===Work ethic=== | |||
| 2009 | |||
The journalist Jeff Simon described Hoffman as "probably the most in-demand ] of his generation",<ref name="Buffalo900"/> but Hoffman said he never took it for granted that he would be offered roles.<ref name="movies about"/> Although he worked hard and regularly,<ref name="SS03"/> he was humble about his acting success: an anecdote went that when asked by a friend in the early 2000s if he was having any luck in his career, he quietly replied, "I'm in a film, '']'', that has just come out."<ref name="I0607">{{cite web|author=Aftab, Kaleem|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-10780951.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924183414/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-10780951.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 24, 2015|title=Interview: The Talented Mr Hoffman|work=The Belfast Telegraph|date=June 1, 2007|access-date=February 19, 2014}}</ref> ], who worked with Hoffman on '']'', recalled the actor was intimidating but an exceptional mentor and influence in "a ] way", remarking that "there was a certain weight that came with him".<ref>{{cite web|author=Lewis, Hilary|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/philip-seymour-hoffman-gave-almost-676939|title=The young star of Cameron Crowe's 2000 film recalls what he learned by working with the "intimidating" actor, who was found dead on Sunday|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=February 2, 2014|access-date=February 12, 2014|archive-date=March 1, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301203853/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/philip-seymour-hoffman-gave-almost-676939|url-status=live}}</ref> Hoffman admitted that he sometimes appeared in big-budget studio films for the money, but said, "ultimately my main goal is to do good work. If it doesn't pay well, so be it."<ref name="CST03"/> He kept himself grounded and invigorated as an actor by attempting to appear on stage once a year.<ref name="CST03">{{cite web|author=Pearlman, Cindy|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1488034.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611071028/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1488034.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 11, 2014|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman: Hollywood's hottest go-to guy|work=Chicago Sun-Times|date=May 19, 2003|access-date=February 19, 2014}}</ref> | |||
| ''{{sortname|The|Invention of Lying}}'' | |||
| Jim the Bartender | |||
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| 2009 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Will Toffman | |||
| Episode: No Acting Please<br>Nominated — ] for ] | |||
Hoffman occasionally changed his hair and lost or gained weight for parts,<ref name="McArdle"/> and he went to great lengths to reveal the worst in his characters.{{sfn|Mosher|2011|p=109}} But in a 2012 interview, he confessed that performing to a high standard was a challenge: "The job isn't difficult. Doing it well is difficult."<ref name="gilbey"/> In an earlier interview with ''The New York Times'', he explained how deeply he loved acting but added, "that deep kind of love comes at a price: for me, acting is torturous, and it's torturous because you know it's a beautiful thing ... Wanting it is easy, but trying to be great—well, that's absolutely torturous."<ref name="higher"/> This struggle was confirmed by the author ], who met Hoffman during the adaptation of his novel ''A Most Wanted Man''. While praising the actor's intelligence and intuition, le Carré acknowledged the burden that Hoffman felt: "It was painful and exhausting work, and probably in the end his undoing. The world was too bright for him to handle."<ref>{{cite web|author=Le Carré, John|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/movies/john-le-carre-on-philip-seymour-hoffman.html|title=Staring at the Flame|work=The New York Times|date=July 17, 2014|access-date=January 7, 2015|archive-date=November 2, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141102111122/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/movies/john-le-carre-on-philip-seymour-hoffman.html|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
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| 2010 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Jack | |||
| {{ubl|Also Director/Executive Producer|]|] for Best Actor}} | |||
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| '']'' | |||
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| 2011 | |||
| ''{{sortname|The|Ides of March|dab=film}}'' | |||
| Paul Zara | |||
| Nominated — ]<br>Nominated — ]<br>Nominated — ] | |||
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| 2012 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Lancaster Dodd | |||
|]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]<ref></ref><br>]<br>]<br>]<br />]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>] <small>(shared with ])</small><br>]<ref></ref><br>Nominated — ]<br>Nominated — ]<br>Nominated — ]<br>Nominated — ]<br>Nominated — ]<ref></ref><br>Nominated — ]<br>Nominated — ]<ref></ref><br>Nominated — ]<ref></ref><br>Nominated — ]<br>Nominated — ] | |||
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| 2012 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Robert Gelbart | |||
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| '']'' | |||
| Plutarch Heavensbee | |||
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| '']'' | |||
| Günther Bachmann | |||
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| Plutarch Heavensbee | |||
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==Acting credits and accolades== | |||
==Theatre== | |||
{{main|Philip Seymour Hoffman on screen and stage|List of awards and nominations received by Philip Seymour Hoffman}} | |||
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Hoffman appeared in 55 films and one miniseries during his screen career spanning 22 years. He won the ] for '']'' (2005), and was nominated three times for ] for '']'' (2007), '']'' (2008), and '']'' (2012). He also received five ] nominations (winning one), five ] nominations (winning one), four ]s (winning one), and won the ] at the ].<ref name="Awards"/> Hoffman remained active in theater throughout his career, starring in 10 and directing 19 stage productions (predominantly in New York). He received three ] nominations for his Broadway performances: two for ], in '']'' (2000) and '']'' (2012), and one for ] in '']'' (2003).<ref name="ibdb"/> | |||
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In 2022, a statue of Hoffman was unveiled in his hometown of ]. The statue was sculpted by ] and commissioned by James Declan Tobin, a film producer who befriended Hoffman's mother at the ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Phillip Seymour Hoffman Sculpture |url=https://www.eastman.org/hoffmansculpture |access-date=February 21, 2023 |website=Eastman Museum}}</ref> Originally on loan from a gallery in ],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Craig |first=Gary |title=A life-size sculpture of Philip Seymour Hoffman at Eastman Museum captures actor's spirit |url=https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/lifestyle/2022/05/29/philip-seymour-hoffman-sculpture-eastman-museum-memorializes-actor/9907720002/ |access-date=February 21, 2023 |website=Democrat and Chronicle}}</ref> the statue was permanently installed outside the ] in 2023. Hoffman’s mother, Marilyn O'Connor, called the sculpture "a loving memorial" to her son.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sottile |first=Zoe |title=Statue of Philip Seymour Hoffman donated to George Eastman Museum |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/11/entertainment/philip-seymour-hoffman-statue-rochester-trnd/index.html |access-date=February 21, 2023 |website=CNN|date=February 11, 2023 }}</ref>{{Clear}} | |||
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| 1996 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| RawHeadAndBloodyBones | |||
| April 23, 1996 – May 26, 1996 | |||
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| 1997–98 | |||
| ''Defying Gravity'' | |||
| C.B. | |||
| November 2, 1997 – January 4, 1998 | |||
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| 1998 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Mark | |||
| March 17, 1998 – April 11, 1998 | |||
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| 1999 | |||
| ''The Author's Voice & Imagining Brad'' | |||
| N/A | |||
| May 11, 1999 – May 29, 1999<br>Nominated — ] | |||
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| rowspan=2|2000 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Lee/Austin | |||
| Broadway<br>Mar 2, 2000 – Jul 29, 2000<br>]<br>Nominated — ]<br>Nominated — ] | |||
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| '']'' | |||
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| Director<br>November 29, 2000 – December 31, 2000<br>Nominated — ] | |||
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| rowspan=2|2001 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Konstantin | |||
| August 12, 2001 – August 26, 2001 | |||
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| '']'' | |||
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| Director<br>October 30, 2001 – December 1, 2001 | |||
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| rowspan=3|2003 | |||
| ''Our Lady of 121st Street'' | |||
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| Director<br>March 6, 2003 – July 27, 2003<br>Nominated — ]<br>Nominated — ] | |||
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| '']'' | |||
| James Tyrone, Jr. | |||
| Broadway<br>May 6, 2003 – Aug 1, 2003<br>Nominated — ]<br>Nominated — ] | |||
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| ''Dutch Heart of Man'' | |||
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| Artistic Director<br>September 25, 2003 – October 19, 2003 | |||
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| rowspan=2|2004 | |||
| ''Guinea Pig Solo'' | |||
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| Artistic Director<br>May 9, 2004 – June 6, 2004 | |||
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| ''Sailor's Song'' | |||
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| Executive Director<br>November 7, 2004 – November 21, 2004 | |||
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| 2005 | |||
| '']'' | |||
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| Director/Artistic Director<br>March 2, 2005 – April 3, 2005 | |||
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| rowspan=2|2006 | |||
| ''School of the Americas'' | |||
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| Artistic Director<br>July 6, 2006 – July 23, 2006 | |||
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| ''A Small, Melodramatic Story'' | |||
| | |||
| Artistic Director<br>October 24, 2006 – November 5, 2006 | |||
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| rowspan=2|2007 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Jack | |||
| Artistic Director<br>March 18, 2007 – April 29, 2007<br>Nominated — ]<br>Nominated — ] | |||
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| ''A View From 151st Street'' | |||
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| Artistic Director<br>October 18, 2007 – November 4, 2007 | |||
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| rowspan=2|2008 | |||
| ''Unconditional'' | |||
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| Artistic Director<br>February 18, 2008 – March 9, 2008 | |||
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| ''The Little Flower of East Orange'' | |||
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| Director<br>April 6, 2008 – May 4, 2008 | |||
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| 2009 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Iago | |||
| September 27, 2009 – October 4, 2009 | |||
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| rowspan=1|2012 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Willy Loman | |||
| Broadway<br>Mar 15, 2012 – Jun 2, 2012<br>Nominated — ]<br>Nominated — ] | |||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
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===Notes=== | |||
<ref name="seymour1">Philip Seymour Hoffman on Inside the Actors Studio</ref><ref name="hancock"> | |||
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{{cite news | |||
|last=Hancock | |||
|first=Noelle | |||
|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman and Girlfriend Expecting Second Child | |||
|publisher=] | |||
|date=June 22, 2006 | |||
|url=http://www.usmagazine.com/node/1288 | |||
|accessdate = November 1, 2006}}</ref><ref name="Hirschberg">{{cite news | |||
|author=Hirschberg, Lynn | |||
|title=A Higher Calling | |||
|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/magazine/21hoffman-t.html?_r=1&hp | |||
|work=New York Times | |||
|date=December 19, 2008 | |||
|accessdate=January 4, 2009}} | |||
</ref><ref name="seymour1" /><ref name="hancock" /><ref name="Hirschberg" /><ref name="filmrefbio">{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/65/Philip-Seymour-Hoffman.html |title=Philip Seymour Hoffman Biography (1967–) |publisher=Filmreference.com |date= |accessdate=August 14, 2010}}</ref><ref name="whitty">{{cite web | |||
|first=Stephen |last=Whitty | |||
|url=http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/index.ssf/2008/12/the_talented_mr_hoffman.html | |||
|title=The talented Mr. Hoffman | |||
|publisher=Nj.com | |||
|date=December 8, 2008 | |||
|accessdate=January 4, 2009}}</ref><ref name="faq">{{cite web | |||
|title = PSH Frequently Asked Questions | |||
|url = http://ddraven.tripod.com/psh/faq.html | |||
|accessdate = November 1, 2006 }}</ref><ref name="actorsstudio">{{cite web | |||
|title = Transcript: Inside the Actor's Studio, 2000 | |||
|url = http://ddraven.tripod.com/psh/transcriptitas.html | |||
|accessdate = November 1, 2006 }}</ref><ref name="yahoo">{{cite web | |||
|title = Philip Seymour Hoffman Biography | |||
|publisher=] | |||
|url=http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hc&id=1800021779&cf=biog&intl=us | |||
|accessdate = November 1, 2006}}</ref><ref name="hoffman.net">{{cite web | |||
|url=http://philipseymourhoffman.net/biography.htm | |||
|title=Philip Seymour Hoffman.net A PSH Fansite | |||
|publisher=Philipseymourhoffman.net | |||
|date=July 23, 1967 | |||
|accessdate=August 14, 2010}}</ref> | |||
<ref name="drugs">{{cite news | |||
| title = Nominee Hoffman once struggled with drugs | |||
|agency=Associated Press | |||
|date=February 16, 2006 | |||
|url=http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11390662/ | |||
|accessdate= November 1, 2006}}</ref> | |||
<ref name="relapse">{{cite news | |||
| title = Philip Seymour Hoffman does detox for heroin abuse | |||
|agency=USA Today | |||
|date=May 30, 2013 | |||
|url=http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2013/05/31/philip-seymour-hoffman-detox-heroin-drugs-rehab-abuse/2375141/ | |||
|accessdate= May 30, 2013}}</ref> | |||
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Latest revision as of 18:26, 4 December 2024
American actor (1967–2014)
Philip Seymour Hoffman | |
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Hoffman in 2011 | |
Born | Philip Hoffman (1967-07-23)July 23, 1967 Fairport, New York, U.S. |
Died | February 2, 2014(2014-02-02) (aged 46) New York City, U.S. |
Alma mater | New York University (BFA) |
Occupations |
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Years active | 1991–2014 |
Works | Full list |
Partner | Mimi O'Donnell (1999–2014) |
Children | 3, including Cooper |
Relatives | Gordy Hoffman (brother) |
Awards | Full list |
Philip Seymour Hoffman (July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014) was an American actor. Known for his distinctive supporting and character roles—eccentrics, underdogs, and misfits—he acted in many films and theatrical productions, including leading roles, from the early 1990s until his death in 2014. He was voted one of the 50 greatest actors of all time in a 2022 readers' poll by Empire magazine.
Hoffman studied acting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He gained recognition for his supporting work, notably in Scent of a Woman (1992), Boogie Nights (1997), Happiness (1998), The Big Lebowski (1998), Magnolia (1999), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), and Almost Famous (2000). He began to occasionally play leading roles, and for his portrayal of the author Truman Capote in Capote (2005), won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Further Oscar nominations came for playing a brutally frank CIA officer in Charlie Wilson's War (2007), a priest accused of child sexual abuse in Doubt (2008), and the charismatic leader of a Scientology-type movement in The Master (2012).
While he mainly worked in independent films, including The Savages (2007) and Synecdoche, New York (2008), Hoffman also appeared in Hollywood blockbusters, such as Twister (1996) and Mission: Impossible III (2006). He played Plutarch Heavensbee in the Hunger Games series (2013–2015), in one of his final roles. The feature Jack Goes Boating (2010) marked his debut as a filmmaker. Hoffman was also an accomplished theater actor and director. He joined the off-Broadway LAByrinth Theater Company in 1995, where he directed, produced, and appeared in numerous stage productions. Hoffman received Tony Award nominations for his performances in the Broadway revivals of Sam Shepard's True West (2000), Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night (2003), and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (2012).
Hoffman struggled with drug addiction as a young adult and relapsed in 2012 after many years of sobriety. In February 2014, he died of combined drug intoxication. Remembered for bringing nuance, depth, and humanity to the versatile roles he inhabited, Hoffman was described in his obituary in The New York Times as "perhaps the most ambitious and widely admired American actor of his generation".
Early life and education
Philip Hoffman was born on July 23, 1967, in the Rochester suburb of Fairport, New York. His mother, Marilyn O'Connor (née Loucks), came from nearby Waterloo and worked as an elementary school teacher before becoming a lawyer and eventually a family court judge. His father, Gordon Stowell Hoffman, was a native of Geneva, New York, and worked for the Xerox Corporation. Hoffman had one brother, Gordy, and two sisters, Jill and Emily. His ancestry included Irish and German.
Hoffman was baptized a Catholic and attended Mass as a child, but did not have a heavily religious upbringing. His parents divorced when he was nine, and the children were raised primarily by their mother. Hoffman's childhood passion was sports, particularly wrestling and baseball, but at age 12, he attended a stage production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons and was transfixed. He recalled in 2008, "I was changed—permanently changed—by that experience. It was like a miracle to me." Hoffman developed a love for the theater, and proceeded to attend regularly with his mother, who was a lifelong enthusiast. He remembered that productions of Quilters and Alms for the Middle Class, the latter starring a teenaged Robert Downey Jr. were also particularly inspirational. At age 14, Hoffman suffered a neck injury that ended his sporting activity, and he began to consider acting. Encouraged by his mother, he joined a drama club, and initially committed to it because he was attracted to a female member.
Acting gradually became a passion for Hoffman: "I loved the camaraderie of it, the people, and that's when I decided it was what I wanted to do." At age 17, he was selected to attend the 1984 New York State Summer School of the Arts in Saratoga Springs, where he met his future collaborators Bennett Miller and Dan Futterman. Miller later commented on Hoffman's popularity at the time: "We were attracted to the fact that he was genuinely serious about what he was doing. Even then, he was passionate." Hoffman applied for several drama degree programs and was accepted to New York University's (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts. Between graduating from Fairport High School and beginning the program, he continued his training at the Circle in the Square Theatre's summer program. Hoffman had positive memories of his time at NYU, where he supported himself by working as an usher. With friends, he co-founded the Bullstoi Ensemble acting troupe. He received a drama degree in 1989.
Career
1991–1995: Early career
After graduating, Hoffman worked in off-Broadway theater and made additional money with customer service jobs. He made his screen debut in 1991, in a Law & Order episode called "The Violence of Summer", playing a man accused of rape. He made his film debut the following year, when he was credited as "Phil Hoffman" in the independent film Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole. After this, he adopted his grandfather's name, Seymour, to avoid confusion with another actor.
More film roles promptly followed, with appearances in the studio production My New Gun, and a small role in the comedy Leap of Faith, starring Steve Martin. Following these roles, he gained attention playing a spoiled private school student in the Oscar-winning Al Pacino film Scent of a Woman (1992). Hoffman auditioned five times for his role, which The Guardian journalist Ryan Gilbey says gave him an early opportunity "to indulge his skill for making unctuousness compelling". The film earned US$134 million worldwide and was the first to get Hoffman noticed. Reflecting on Scent of a Woman, Hoffman later said, "If I hadn't gotten into that film, I wouldn't be where I am today." At this time, he quit his job in a delicatessen to become a professional actor.
Hoffman continued playing small roles throughout the early 1990s. After appearing in Joey Breaker and the critically panned teen zombie picture My Boyfriend's Back, he had a more notable role playing John Cusack's wealthy friend in the crime comedy Money for Nothing. In 1994, he portrayed an inexperienced mobster in the crime thriller The Getaway, starring Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, and he subsequently appeared with Andy García and Meg Ryan in the romantic drama When a Man Loves a Woman. He then played an uptight police deputy who gets punched by Paul Newman—one of Hoffman's acting idols—in the drama Nobody's Fool.
Still considering stage work to be fundamental to his career, Hoffman joined the LAByrinth Theater Company of New York City in 1995. This association lasted the remainder of his life; along with appearing in multiple productions, he later became co-artistic director of the theater company with John Ortiz, and directed various plays over the years. Hoffman's only film appearance of 1995 was in the 22-minute short comedy The Fifteen Minute Hamlet, which satirized the film industry in an Elizabethan setting. He played the characters of Bernardo, Horatio, and Laertes alongside Austin Pendleton's Hamlet.
1996–1999: Rising star
Between April and May 1996, Hoffman appeared at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in a Mark Wing-Davey production of Caryl Churchill's The Skriker. Following this, based on his work in Scent of a Woman, he was cast by writer–director Paul Thomas Anderson to appear in his debut feature Hard Eight (1996). Hoffman had only a brief role in the crime thriller, playing a cocksure young craps player, but it began the most important collaboration of his career. Before cementing his creative partnership with Anderson, Hoffman appeared in one of the year's biggest blockbusters, Twister, playing a grubby, hyperactive storm chaser alongside Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton. According to a People survey of Twitter and Facebook users, Twister is the film with which Hoffman is most popularly associated. He then reunited with Anderson for the director's second feature, Boogie Nights, about the Golden Age of Pornography. The ensemble piece starred Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, and Burt Reynolds; Hoffman played a boom operator, described by David Fear of Rolling Stone as a "complete, unabashed loser", who attempts to seduce Wahlberg's character. Warmly received by critics, the film grew into a cult classic, and has been cited as the role in which Hoffman first showed his full ability. Fear commended the "naked emotional neediness" of the performance, adding that it made for compulsive viewing. Hoffman later expressed his appreciation for Anderson when he called the director "incomparable".
– Hoffman on his role in Happiness (1998)That wasn't easy. It's hard to sit in your boxers and jerk off in front of people for three hours. I was pretty heavy, and I was afraid that people would laugh at me. Todd said they might laugh, but they won't laugh at you. He saw what we were working for, which was the pathos of the moment. Sometimes, acting is a really private thing that you do for the world.
Continuing with this momentum, Hoffman appeared in five films in 1998. He had supporting roles in the crime thriller Montana and the romantic comedy Next Stop Wonderland, both of which were commercial failures, before working with the Coen brothers in their dark comedy The Big Lebowski. Hoffman had long been a fan of the directors, and relished the experience of working with them. Appearing alongside Jeff Bridges and John Goodman, Hoffman played Brandt, the smug personal assistant of the titular character. Although it was only a small role, he said it was one for which he was most recognized, in a film that has achieved cult status and a large fan base. Between March and April 1998, Hoffman made 30 appearances on stage at the New York Theatre Workshop in a production of Mark Ravenhill's Shopping and Fucking, portraying an ex-heroin addict.
Hoffman took an unflattering role in Todd Solondz's Happiness (1998), a misanthropic black comedy about the lives of three sisters and those around them. He played Allen, a sexually frustrated loner who makes obscene phone calls to women; the character furiously masturbates during one conversation, producing what film scholar Jerry Mosher calls an "embarrassingly raw performance". Jake Coyle of the Associated Press rated Allen as "one of the creepiest characters in American movies", but critic Xan Brooks highlighted the pathos that Hoffman brought to the role. Happiness was controversial but widely praised, and Hoffman's role has been cited by critics as one of his best. His final 1998 release was more mainstream, appeared as a medical student in the Robin Williams comedy Patch Adams. The film was critically panned, but one of the highest-grossing of Hoffman's career.
In 1999, Hoffman starred opposite Robert De Niro as drag queen Rusty Zimmerman in Joel Schumacher's drama Flawless. Hoffman considered De Niro the most imposing actor with whom he had appeared, and he felt that working with the veteran performer profoundly improved his own acting. Hoffman's ability to avoid clichés in playing such a delicate role was noted by critics, and Roger Ebert said it confirmed him as "one of the best new character actors". He was rewarded with his first Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. Hoffman then reunited with Paul Thomas Anderson, where he was given an atypically virtuous role in the ensemble drama Magnolia. The film, set over one day in Los Angeles, features Hoffman as a nurse who cares for Jason Robards' character, who is dying of cancer. The performance was approved of by the medical industry, and Jessica Winter of the Village Voice considered it Hoffman's most indelible work, likening him to a guardian angel. Magnolia has been included in lists of the greatest films of all time, and it was a personal favorite of Hoffman's.
One of the most critically and commercially successful films of Hoffman's career was The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), which he considered "as edgy as you can get for a Hollywood movie". He played a "preppy bully" who taunts Matt Damon's Tom Ripley in the thriller, a character which Jeff Simon of The Buffalo News called "the truest upper class twit in all of American movies". Hoffman's performance won praise from Meryl Streep, another of his cinematic idols: "I sat up straight in my seat and said, 'Who is that?' I thought to myself: My God, this actor is fearless," she said. "He's done what we all strive for — he's given this awful character the respect he deserves, and he's made him fascinating." In recognition of his work in Magnolia and The Talented Mr. Ripley, Hoffman was named the year's Best Supporting Actor by the National Board of Review.
2000–2004: Established star
Following a string of roles in successful films in the late 1990s, Hoffman had established a reputation as a top supporting player who could be relied on to make an impression with each performance. His film appearances were likened by David Kamp of GQ to "discovering a prize in a box of cereal, receiving a bonus, or bumping unexpectedly into an old friend". According to Jerry Mosher, as the year 2000 began, "it seemed Hoffman was everywhere, poised on the cusp of stardom".
Hoffman had begun to be recognized as a theater actor in 1999, when he received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor for the off-Broadway play The Author's Voice. This success continued with the 2000 Broadway revival of Sam Shepard's True West, where Hoffman alternated roles nightly with co-star John C. Reilly, making 154 appearances between March and July 2000. Ben Brantley of The New York Times felt that it was the best stage performance of Hoffman's career, calling him "brilliant", and the actor earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Play. The following year, Hoffman appeared with Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman, and John Goodman in a Delacorte Theater production of Chekhov's The Seagull—although Brantley felt that this performance was less fully realized. As a stage director, Hoffman received two Drama Desk Award nominations for Outstanding Director of a Play: one for Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train in 2001, and another for Our Lady of 121st Street in 2003. In a 2008 interview, Hoffman opined that "switching hats" between acting and directing helped him improve in both roles.
David Mamet's comedy State and Main, about the difficulties of shooting a film in rural New England, was Hoffman's first film role of 2000 and had a limited release. He had a more prominent supporting role that year in Almost Famous, Cameron Crowe's popular coming-of-age film set in the 1970s music industry. Hoffman portrayed the enthusiastic rock critic Lester Bangs, a task by which he felt burdened, but he managed to convey the real figure's mannerisms and sharp wit after watching him in a BBC interview. The following year, Hoffman featured as the narrator and interviewer in The Party's Over, a documentary about the 2000 U.S. elections. He assumed the position of a "politically informed and alienated Generation-Xer" who seeks to be educated in U.S. politics, but ultimately reveals the extent of public dissatisfaction in this area.
In 2002, Hoffman was given his first leading role (despite joking at the time "Even if I was hired into a leading-man part, I'd probably turn it into the non-leading-man part") in Todd Louiso's tragicomedy Love Liza (2002). His brother Gordy wrote the script, which Hoffman had seen at their mother's house five years earlier, about a widower who starts sniffing gasoline to cope with his wife's suicide. He considered it the finest piece of writing he had ever read, "incredibly humble in its exploration of grief", but critics were less enthusiastic about the production. A review for the BBC wrote that Hoffman had finally been given a part that showed "what he's truly capable of", but few witnessed this as the film had a limited release and earned only US$210,000.
Later in 2002, Hoffman starred opposite Adam Sandler and Emily Watson in Anderson's critically acclaimed fourth picture, the surrealist romantic comedy-drama Punch-Drunk Love (2002), where he played an illegal phone-sex "supervisor". Drew Hunt of the Chicago Reader saw the performance as a fine example of Hoffman's "knack for turning small roles into seminal performances" and praised the actor's comedic ability. In a very different film, Hoffman was next seen with Anthony Hopkins in the high-budget thriller Red Dragon, a prequel to The Silence of the Lambs, portraying the meddlesome tabloid journalist Freddy Lounds. His fourth appearance of 2002 came in Spike Lee's drama 25th Hour, playing an English teacher who makes a devastating drunken mistake. Both Lee and the film's lead Edward Norton were thrilled to work with Hoffman, and Lee confessed that he had long wanted to do a picture with the actor, but had waited until he found the right role. Hoffman considered his character, Jakob, to be one of the most reticent characters he had ever played, a straight-laced "corduroy-pants-wearing kind of guy." Roger Ebert promoted 25th Hour to one of his "Great Movies" in 2009, and along with A. O. Scott, considered it to be one of the best films of the 2000s.
The drama Owning Mahowny (2003) gave Hoffman his second lead role, starring opposite Minnie Driver as a bank employee who embezzles money to feed his gambling addiction. It was based on the true story of Toronto banker Brian Molony, who committed the largest fraud in Canadian history. , Hoffman met with Molony to prepare for the role and help him play the character as accurately as possible. He was determined not to conform to "movie character" stereotypes, and his portrayal of addiction won approval from the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Roger Ebert assessed Hoffman's performance as "a masterpiece of discipline and precision," but the film earned little at the box office.
Hoffman's second 2003 appearance was a small role in Anthony Minghella's successful Civil War epic Cold Mountain. He played an immoral preacher, a complex character that Hoffman described as a "mass of contradictions". The same year, from April to August, he appeared with Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Dennehy, and Robert Sean Leonard in a Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night. Director Robert Falls later commented on the dedication and experience that Hoffman brought to his role of alcoholic Jamie Tyrone: "Every night he ripped it up to an extent that he couldn't leave . Phil carried it with him." Hoffman received his second Tony Award nomination, this time for Best Featured Actor in a Play. In 2004, he appeared as the crude, has-been actor friend of Ben Stiller's character in the box-office hit Along Came Polly. Reflecting on the role, People said it proved that "Hoffman could deliver comedic performances with the best of them".
2005–2009: Critical acclaim
A turning point in Hoffman's career came with the biographical film Capote (2005), which dramatized Truman Capote's experience of writing his true crime novel In Cold Blood (1966). Hoffman took the title role for a project that he co-produced and helped bring to fruition. Portraying the idiosyncratic writer proved highly demanding, requiring significant weight loss and four months of research—such as watching video clips of Capote to help him affect the author's effeminate voice and mannerisms. Hoffman stated that he was not concerned with perfectly imitating Capote's speech, but he did feel a great duty to "express the vitality and the nuances" of the writer. During filming, he stayed in character constantly so as not to lose the voice and posture: "Otherwise," he explained, "I would give my body a chance to bail on me." Capote was released to great acclaim, particularly regarding Hoffman's performance. Many critics commented that the role was designed to win awards, and indeed Hoffman received an Oscar, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, BAFTA, and various other critics' awards. In 2006, Premiere listed his role in Capote as the 35th-greatest movie performance of all time. After the film, several commentators began to describe Hoffman as one of the finest, most ambitious actors of his generation.
Hoffman received his only Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his supporting role in the HBO miniseries Empire Falls (2005), about life in a New England town. He ultimately lost to castmate Paul Newman. In 2006, he appeared in the summer blockbuster Mission: Impossible III, playing the villainous arms dealer Owen Davian opposite Tom Cruise. A journalist for Vanity Fair stated that Hoffman's "black-hat performance was one of the most delicious in a Hollywood film since Alan Rickman's in Die Hard ", and he was generally approved of for bringing gravitas to the action film. With a gross of nearly US$400 million, it exposed Hoffman to a mainstream audience.
Returning to independent films in 2007, Hoffman began with a starring role in Tamara Jenkins's The Savages, where Laura Linney and he played siblings responsible for putting their dementia-ridden father (Philip Bosco) in a care home. Jake Coyle of the Associated Press stated that it was "the epitome of a Hoffman film: a mix of comedy and tragedy told with subtlety, bone-dry humor, and flashes of grace". Hoffman received a Golden Globe nomination for his performance in The Savages. He next appeared in Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, the final film by veteran director Sidney Lumet, where he played a realtor who embezzles funds from his employer to support his drug habit. Mosher comments that the character was one of the most unpleasant of Hoffman's career, but that his "fearlessness again revealed the humanity within a deeply flawed character" as he appeared naked in the opening sex scene. The film was received positively by critics as a powerful and affecting thriller.
Mike Nichols's political film Charlie Wilson's War (2007) gave Hoffman his second Academy Award nomination, again for playing a real individual—Gust Avrakotos, the CIA officer who worked with Congressman Charlie Wilson (played by Tom Hanks) to aid the Afghan Mujahideen in their fight against the Soviet Union. Todd McCarthy wrote of Hoffman's performance: "Decked out with a pouffy '80s hairdo, moustache, protruding gut and ever-present smokes ... whenever he's on, the picture vibrates with conspiratorial electricity." The film was a critical and commercial success, and along with his Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor, Hoffman was nominated for a BAFTA and a Golden Globe Award.
The year 2008 contained two significant Hoffman roles. In Charlie Kaufman's enigmatic drama Synecdoche, New York, he starred as Caden Cotard, a frustrated dramatist who attempts to build a scale replica of New York inside a warehouse for a play. Hoffman again showed his willingness to reveal unattractive traits, as the character ages and deteriorates, and committed to a deeply psychological role. Critics were divided in their response to the "ambitious and baffling" film. Sonny Bunch of The Washington Times found it "impressionistic, inaccessible, and endlessly frustrating", likening Hoffman's character to "God, if God lacked imagination". Conversely, Roger Ebert named it the best film of the decade and considered it one of the greatest of all time, and Robbie Collin, film critic for The Daily Telegraph, believes Hoffman gave one of cinema's best performances.
Hoffman's second role of the year came opposite Meryl Streep and Amy Adams in John Patrick Shanley's Doubt, where he played Father Brendan Flynn—a priest accused of sexually abusing a 12-year-old African-American student in the 1960s. Hoffman was already familiar with the play and appreciated the opportunity to bring it to the screen; in preparing for the role, he talked extensively to a priest who lived through the era. The film had a mixed reception, with some critics such as Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian suspicious of it as Oscar bait, but Hoffman gained second consecutive Best Supporting Actor nominations at the Oscars, BAFTAs, and Golden Globes, and was also nominated by the Screen Actors Guild.
On stage in 2009, Hoffman played Iago in Peter Sellars' futuristic production of Othello (with the title role by John Ortiz), which received mixed reviews. Ben Brantley, theatre critic of The New York Times, found it to be "exasperatingly misconceived", remarking that even when Hoffman is attempting to "manipulate others into self-destruction, he comes close to spoiling everything by erupting into genuine, volcanic fury". Hoffman also did his first vocal performance for the claymation film Mary and Max, although the film did not initially have an American release. He played Max, a depressed New Yorker with Asperger syndrome, while Toni Collette voiced Mary—the Australian girl who becomes his pen pal. Continuing with animation, Hoffman then worked on an episode of the children's show Arthur and received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Performer In An Animated Program. Later in the year, he played a brash American disc jockey opposite Bill Nighy and Rhys Ifans in Richard Curtis's British comedy The Boat That Rocked (also known as Pirate Radio)—a character based on Emperor Rosko, a host of Radio Caroline in 1966. He also had a cameo role as a bartender in Ricky Gervais's The Invention of Lying.
Reflecting on Hoffman's work in the late 2000s, Mosher writes that the actor remained impressive, but had not delivered a testing performance on the level of his work in Capote. The film critic David Thomson believed that Hoffman showed indecisiveness at this time, unsure whether to play spectacular supporting roles or become a lead actor who is capable of controlling the emotional dynamic and outcome of a film.
2010–2014: Final years
Hoffman's profile continued to grow with the new decade, and he became an increasingly recognizable figure. Despite earlier reservations about directing for the screen, his first release of the 2010s was also his first as a film director. The independent drama Jack Goes Boating was adapted from Robert Glaudini's play of the same name, which Hoffman had starred in and directed for the LAByrinth Theater Company in 2007. He originally intended to only direct the film, but decided to reprise the main role of Jack—a lonely limousine driver looking for love—after the actor he wanted for it was unavailable. The low-key film had a limited release, and was not a high earner, though it received many positive reviews. However, Dave Edwards of the Daily Mirror remarked that "Hoffman's directing debut delivers a film so weak I could barely remember what it was about as I left", while critic Mark Kermode appreciated the cinematic qualities that Hoffman brought to the film, and stated that he showed potential as a director. In addition to Jack Goes Boating, in 2010 Hoffman also directed Brett C. Leonard's tragic drama The Long Red Road for the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Steven Oxman of Variety described the production as "heavy handed" and "predictable", but "intriguing and at least partially successful".
Hoffman next had significant supporting roles in two films, both released in the last third of 2011. In Bennett Miller's Moneyball, a sports drama about the 2002 season of the Oakland Athletics baseball team, he played the manager Art Howe. The film was a critical and commercial success, and Hoffman was described as "perfectly cast" by Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post, but the real-life Art Howe accused the filmmakers of giving an "unfair and untrue" portrayal of him. Hoffman's second film of the year was George Clooney's political drama The Ides of March, in which he played the earnest campaign manager to the Democratic presidential candidate Mike Morris (Clooney). The film was well-received and Hoffman's performance, especially in the scenes opposite Paul Giamatti—who played the rival campaign manager—was positively noted. Hoffman's work on the film earned him his fourth BAFTA Award nomination.
In the spring of 2012, Hoffman made his final stage appearance, starring as Willy Loman in a Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman opposite Andrew Garfield. Directed by Mike Nichols, the production ran for 78 performances and was the highest-grossing show in the Ethel Barrymore Theatre's history. Many critics felt that Hoffman, at 44, was too young for the role of 62-year-old Loman, and Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune felt that the character had been interpreted poorly. Hoffman admitted that he found the role difficult, but he nevertheless earned his third Tony Award nomination.
Hoffman collaborated with Paul Thomas Anderson for the fifth time in The Master (2012), where he turned in what critic Peter Bradshaw considered the most memorable performance of his career. Set in 1950s America, the film featured Hoffman as Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a nascent Scientology-type movement who brings a troubled man (Joaquin Phoenix) under his tutelage. Hoffman was instrumental in the project's development, having been involved with it for three years. He assisted Anderson in the writing of the script by reviewing samples of it, and suggested making Phoenix's character, Freddie Quell, the protagonist instead of Dodd. A talented dancer, Hoffman was able to showcase his abilities by performing a jig during a surreal sequence; Bradshaw called it an "extraordinary moment" that "only Hoffman could have carried off." The Master was praised as an intelligent and challenging drama, and Drew Hunt of the Chicago Reader also felt that it contained Hoffman's finest work: "He's inscrutable yet welcoming, intimidating yet charismatic, villainous yet fatherly. He epitomizes so many things at once that it's impossible to think of as mere movie character". Hoffman and Phoenix received a joint Volpi Cup Award at the Venice Film Festival for their performances, and Hoffman was also nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA Award and a SAG Award for the supporting role.
A Late Quartet was Hoffman's other film release of 2012, where he played a violinist in a string quartet whose members (played by Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, and Mark Ivanir) face a crisis when one is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. The drama received favorable reviews, and Stephen Holden of The New York Times called Hoffman's performance "exceptional". In 2013, Hoffman joined the popular Hunger Games series in its second film, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, where he played gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee. The film finished as the 10th-highest grossing in history to that point, and Hoffman became recognizable to a new generation of film-goers. In January 2014, shortly before his death, he attended the Sundance Film Festival to promote two films. In Anton Corbijn's A Most Wanted Man, a thriller based on John le Carré's novel, Hoffman played a German intelligence officer. His performance was praised by Xan Brooks as one of "terrific, lip-smacking relish: full of mischief, anchored by integrity." The other was God's Pocket, the directorial debut of actor John Slattery, in which Hoffman played a thief. In November 2014, nine months after his death, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, was released, in which he had a major role. It was dedicated in his memory.
At the time of his death, Hoffman was filming The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, the fourth film in the series, and had already completed the majority of his scenes. His two remaining scenes were rewritten to compensate for his absence. The film was released in November 2015. Hoffman was also preparing for his second directorial effort, a Prohibition-era drama titled Ezekiel Moss, which was to star Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal. In addition, he had filmed a pilot episode for the Showtime series Happyish, in which he played the lead role of an advertising executive. Plans for a full season were put on hold following his death. The role was later passed on to Steve Coogan.
Personal life
Hoffman rarely mentioned his personal life in interviews, stating in 2012 that he would "rather not because my family doesn't have any choice. If I talk about them in the press, I'm giving them no choice. So I choose not to." For 14 years, he was in a relationship with costume designer Mimi O'Donnell, whom he had met in 1999 when they were both working on the Hoffman-directed play In Arabia We'd All Be Kings. They lived in New York City and had a son, Cooper, and two daughters. While some reports stated Hoffman and O'Donnell separated in late 2013, O'Donnell later said she and Hoffman were both committed to their relationship, but he had moved out of their longtime residence to a nearby apartment to protect their children from the effects of his relapse into substance abuse.
He felt that keeping his personal life private was beneficial to his career: "The less you know about me the more interesting it will be to watch me do what I do". Hoffman was also discreet about his religious and political beliefs, but it is known that he voted for the Green Party candidate Ralph Nader in the 2000 presidential election. He also donated to Al Franken's senate campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
In a 2006 interview with 60 Minutes, Hoffman revealed he had engaged in drug and alcohol misuse during his time at New York University, saying he had used "anything I could get my hands on. I liked it all." Following his graduation in 1989, he entered a drug rehabilitation program at age 22, and remained sober for 23 years. However, he relapsed in 2012, and admitted himself to drug rehabilitation for about ten days in May 2013.
Death
On February 2, 2014, Hoffman was found dead in the bathroom of his Manhattan apartment by his friend, playwright and screenwriter David Bar Katz. He was 46 years old. Although friends stated that Hoffman's drug use was under control at the time, detectives searching the apartment found heroin and prescription medication at the scene and revealed that he had a syringe in his arm. Hoffman's death was officially ruled an accident caused by "acute mixed drug intoxication, including heroin, cocaine, benzodiazepines, and amphetamine". Michael Schwirtz of The New York Times said, "Whether Hoffman had taken all of the substances on the same day, or whether any of the substances had remained in his system from earlier use, was not reported."
A funeral Mass was held at St. Ignatius Loyola Church in Manhattan on February 7, 2014, and was attended by many of his close friends and former co-stars, including Amy Adams, Cate Blanchett, Ellen Burstyn, Louis C.K., Ethan Hawke, Laura Linney, Julianne Moore, Paul Thomas Anderson, Mike Nichols, Joaquin Phoenix, John C. Reilly, Michelle Williams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Diane Sawyer, Ben Stiller, Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, Marisa Tomei, Brian Dennehy, Sam Rockwell, Josh Hamilton, Justin Theroux and Chris Rock. After the Mass, Hoffman's body was taken to be cremated, with his ashes given to his partner and children. He left his fortune of around $35 million to Mimi O'Donnell in his October 2004 will, trusting her to distribute money to their children.
Hoffman's death was lamented by fans and the film industry and was described by several commentators as a considerable loss to the profession. On February 5, 2014, the LAByrinth Theatre Company honored his memory by holding a candlelight vigil, and Broadway dimmed its lights for one minute. Three weeks after Hoffman's death, Katz established the American Playwriting Foundation in Hoffman's memory. With the money received from a libel lawsuit against the National Enquirer which inaccurately claimed that Hoffman and Katz were lovers, the foundation awards an annual prize of $45,000 to the author of an unproduced play. Katz named this the "Relentless Prize" in honor of Hoffman's dedication to the profession. He would later remember Hoffman with a poem published in The Guardian in December 2014. In tribute, actress Cate Blanchett dedicated her BAFTA trophy to Hoffman when she received the award for Blue Jasmine on February 16. Years later, at the 90th Academy Awards, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri actor Sam Rockwell dedicated his win for Best Supporting Actor to Hoffman.
Reception and acting style
Hoffman was held in high regard within both the film and theater industries, and he was often cited in the media as one of the finest actors of his generation. In a 2022 readers' poll by Empire magazine, he was voted one of the 50 greatest actors of all time. With his being overweight, one writer considered Hoffman to be "too pudgy to look romantic or heroic"; however, the actor said he was grateful for his appearance, as it made him believable in a wide range of roles. Joel Schumacher once said of him in 2000, "The bad news is that Philip won't be a $25-million star. The good news is that he'll work for the rest of his life". The Aiken Standard of South Carolina referred to him as an "anti-star", whose real identity remained "amorphous and unmoored". Hoffman was acutely aware that he was often too unorthodox for the Academy voters. He remarked, "I'm sure that people in the big corporations that run Hollywood don't know quite what to do with someone like me, but that's OK. I think there are other people who are interested in what I do."
Most of Hoffman's notable roles came in independent films, including particularly original ones, but he also featured in several Hollywood blockbusters. He generally played supporting roles, appearing in both dramas and comedies, but was noted for his ability to make small parts memorable. Peter Bradshaw, film critic for The Guardian, felt that "Almost every single one of his credits had something special about it". David Fear of Rolling Stone wrote that Hoffman "added heft to low-budget art films, and nuance and unpredictability to blockbuster franchises. He was a transformative performer who worked from the inside out, blessed with an emotional transparency that could be overwhelming, invigorating, compelling, devastating."
Hoffman was praised for his versatility and ability to fully inhabit any role, but specialized in playing creeps and misfits: "his CV was populated almost exclusively by snivelling wretches, insufferable prigs, braggarts and outright bullies" writes the journalist Ryan Gilbey. Hoffman was appreciated for making these roles real, complex and even sympathetic; while Todd Louiso, director of Love Liza, believed that Hoffman connected to people on screen because he looked like an ordinary man and revealed his vulnerability. Xan Brooks of The Guardian remarked that the actor's particular talent was to "take thwarted, twisted humanity and ennoble it". "The more pathetic or deluded the character," writes Gilbey, "the greater Hoffman's relish seemed in rescuing them from the realms of the merely monstrous." When asked in 2006 why he undertook such roles, Hoffman responded, "I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me."
Work ethic
The journalist Jeff Simon described Hoffman as "probably the most in-demand character actor of his generation", but Hoffman said he never took it for granted that he would be offered roles. Although he worked hard and regularly, he was humble about his acting success: an anecdote went that when asked by a friend in the early 2000s if he was having any luck in his career, he quietly replied, "I'm in a film, Cold Mountain, that has just come out." Patrick Fugit, who worked with Hoffman on Almost Famous, recalled the actor was intimidating but an exceptional mentor and influence in "a school-of-hard-knocks way", remarking that "there was a certain weight that came with him". Hoffman admitted that he sometimes appeared in big-budget studio films for the money, but said, "ultimately my main goal is to do good work. If it doesn't pay well, so be it." He kept himself grounded and invigorated as an actor by attempting to appear on stage once a year.
Hoffman occasionally changed his hair and lost or gained weight for parts, and he went to great lengths to reveal the worst in his characters. But in a 2012 interview, he confessed that performing to a high standard was a challenge: "The job isn't difficult. Doing it well is difficult." In an earlier interview with The New York Times, he explained how deeply he loved acting but added, "that deep kind of love comes at a price: for me, acting is torturous, and it's torturous because you know it's a beautiful thing ... Wanting it is easy, but trying to be great—well, that's absolutely torturous." This struggle was confirmed by the author John le Carré, who met Hoffman during the adaptation of his novel A Most Wanted Man. While praising the actor's intelligence and intuition, le Carré acknowledged the burden that Hoffman felt: "It was painful and exhausting work, and probably in the end his undoing. The world was too bright for him to handle."
Acting credits and accolades
Main articles: Philip Seymour Hoffman on screen and stage and List of awards and nominations received by Philip Seymour HoffmanHoffman appeared in 55 films and one miniseries during his screen career spanning 22 years. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Capote (2005), and was nominated three times for Best Supporting Actor for Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Doubt (2008), and The Master (2012). He also received five Golden Globe Award nominations (winning one), five BAFTA Award nominations (winning one), four Screen Actors Guild Awards (winning one), and won the Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival. Hoffman remained active in theater throughout his career, starring in 10 and directing 19 stage productions (predominantly in New York). He received three Tony Award nominations for his Broadway performances: two for Best Leading Actor, in True West (2000) and Death of a Salesman (2012), and one for Best Featured Actor in Long Day's Journey into Night (2003).
In 2022, a statue of Hoffman was unveiled in his hometown of Fairport, New York. The statue was sculpted by David A. Annand and commissioned by James Declan Tobin, a film producer who befriended Hoffman's mother at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Originally on loan from a gallery in New York City, the statue was permanently installed outside the George Eastman Museum in 2023. Hoffman’s mother, Marilyn O'Connor, called the sculpture "a loving memorial" to her son.
References
Notes
- Hoffman continued to collaborate with Anderson, appearing in all but one of the director's first six films. The others were Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, and The Master.
- John C. Reilly co-starred with Hoffman in Anderson's films Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, and Magnolia, and the pair were already well-acquainted with each other as actors.
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