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Poll: Best Male Lead in Movies About Cinema Fandom and Movie Business

Ever since Hollywood arose, men played in lead roles. Some of these films are telling about movie business or at least about cinematic fandom. Here we have some male protagonists who rocked it.

Which of them is your favorite character?

Tell us here.

Make Your Choice

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    Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator (2004)

    Howard Hughes
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    Brad Pitt in Babylon (2022)

    Jack Conrad
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    Jean Dujardin in The Artist (2011)

    George Valentin
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    Robert De Niro in The Last Tycoon (1976)

    Monroe Stahr
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    Anthony Hopkins in Hitchcock (2012)

    Alfred Hitchcock
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    Paul Dano and Gabriel LaBelle in The Fabelmans (2022)

    Burt Fabelman
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    Josh Brolin in Hail, Caesar! (2016)

    Eddie Mannix
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    John Goodman in Matinee (1993)

    Lawrence Woolsey
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    Ed Wood (1994)

    Ed Wood
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    Joel Courtney and Gabriel Basso in Super 8 (2011)

    Joe Lamb
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    Jeff Daniels and Mia Farrow in The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

    Tom Baxter, Gil Shepherd
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    Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds in Singin' in the Rain (1952)

    Don Lockwood
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    Thomas Mann, Olivia Cooke, and RJ Cyler in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)

    Greg
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    Leonardo DiCaprio in Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)

    Rick Dalton
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    William Holden and Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard (1950)

    Joe Gillis
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    John Turturro in Barton Fink (1991)

    Barton Fink
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    Tim Robbins in The Player (1992)

    Griffin Mill
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    Bryan Cranston in Trumbo (2015)

    Dalton Trumbo
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    Mank (2020)

    Herman Mankiewicz
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    Asa Butterfield in Hugo (2011)

    Hugo Cabret
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    Robert De Niro and Moon Bloodgood in What Just Happened (2008)

    Ben
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    Peter O'Toole in The Stunt Man (1980)

    Eli Cross
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    Kirk Douglas in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

    Jonathan
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    Philippe Noiret in Cinema Paradiso (1988)

    Alfredo
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    Steve Martin in Bowfinger (1999)

    Bowfinger
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    Marcello Mastroianni in 8½ (1963)

    Guido Anselmi
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    Robert Downey Jr. in Chaplin (1992)

    Charles Chaplin
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    Antonio Banderas in Pain and Glory (2019)

    Salvador Mallo
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    Janet Gaynor and Fredric March in A Star Is Born (1937)

    Norman Maine
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    Willem Dafoe in Shadow of the Vampire (2000)

    Max Schreck
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    "Day For Night" Fir. Francois Truffaut, 1973.

    Ferrand, le réalisateur
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    Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year (1982)

    Alan Swann, added on May 8th, 2024.

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