There is no position in the world as influential or pivotal as that of the American presidency.

Unfortunately, its pitfalls and blemishes do undermine what is a magnetic performance from a rather youngAlexander Knox.

Despite it being Oscar-nominated, the performance quite conceivably stands as the most overlooked of Hopkins career.

Every Oscar-Nominated Performance of a U.S. President, Ranked

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4James Whitmore as Harry Truman

‘Give em Hell, Harry!’

In this case,it is the inflammatory figure that is Donald Trump.

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Nixon

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Wilson

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Vice

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Abe Lincoln in Illinois

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Amistad

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Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump looking intently in The Apprentice

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Frost/Nixon

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Daniel Day-Lewis sitting on a rocking chair on a porch as Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln

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Lincoln