Buscemi’s distinguished career has included Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Reservoir Dogs, and the TV miniseries Lonesome Dove (yep, that’s him under the fake teeth and the frontiersman hat). His scrappy physicality and distinctively nasal voice might make him seem an odd choice for a crime kingpin, but Buscemi’s Nucky Thompson rules his Boardwalk Empire as a thinking man’s bad guy, cold-blooded but strategic, ruthless but generous. Even on the verge of getting assassinated all of season 3, Nucky kept things afloat and came out on top. Nucky manages to make it through season 4 without getting killed as well despite his involvement in the distillery. Buscemi has already won a Golden Globe for the role and we’d be surprised if it was his last.