Hans Landa has compared the character to Sherlock Holmes, due to the meticulous, cerebral way Landa searches for Jews and traitors. Landa was also compared to "Die Hard" villain Hans Gruber, played by Alan Rickman, due to his disdain for the inferior intellect of those around him. Hans Landa Standartenführer Hans Landa is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino film "Inglourious Basterds". He is portrayed by Austrian actor Christoph Waltz. For his performance, Waltz won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Best Actor Award at
Alan Rickman Jamie in "Truly, Madly, Deeply" (1991); numerous villains in Hollywood big-budget films, including German criminal Hans Gruber in "Die Hard" (1988), Australian Elliot Marston opposite Tom Selleck in "Quigley Down Under" (1990) and the Sheriff of Nottingham in "" (1991); and the occasional television role such as Dr. Alfred Blalock in HBO's "Something the Lord Made" (2004) and the "mad monk" Rasputin in the HBO biopic "" (1996), for which he won a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award. Rickman's role as Hans Gruber in "Die Hard" earned him a spot on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains