Dustin Hoffman his seventh Academy Award nomination for his performance in "Wag The Dog" (1997), in a role that allowed Hoffman the chance to work with both Robert De Niro and Denis Leary. The movie is a black comedy film produced and directed by Barry Levinson, who also directed Hoffman in "Rain Man" in 1988. The story takes place a few days before a presidential election, where a Washington, D.C. spin doctor (De Niro) distracts the electorate from a sex scandal by hiring a Hollywood film producer (Hoffman) to construct a fake war with Albania. Hoffman, as a caricature of real life
Dustin Hoffman filmography the 1990s, he made appearances in such film as Warren Beatty's action comedy adaptation "Dick Tracy" (1990), Steven Spielberg's "Hook" (1991) as Captain Hook, guest starred in the 1991 "Lisa's Substitute" episode of "The Simpsons", medical disaster "Outbreak" (1995), legal crime drama "Sleepers" (1996), thriller "Mad City" (1997), and the satirical black comedy "Wag the Dog" (1997) alongside Robert De Niro. In the 2000s, he played theatrical producer Charles Frohman in "Finding Neverland", co-starred in the comedy "Meet the Fockers" (both 2004) as Bernie Focker, the fantasy thriller "" (2006), and played the title character in the family comedy "Mr.