83. ERIC ROBERTS
Star 80 (1983)

It's so easy to think of Eric Roberts as a sibling or, worse, a punchline. But there was a time when he was an actor — he's got the Oscar nomination (for 1985's Runaway Train) to prove it — and he was never better than in Bob Fosse's ode to the fallen starlet Dorothy Stratten. As her lethal leech of a husband, Paul Snider, Roberts captured the needy obsession of a man whose sanity slowly melts away as he falls for a Playmate who burns brighter than the sun.