Mar adentro
Bardem won Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his role in "Mar Adentro" (2004), released in the United States as "The Sea Inside", in which he portrayed the quadriplegic turned assisted suicide activist Ramón Sampedro. He made his Hollywood debut in a brief appearance as a crime lord who summons Tom Cruise's hitman to do the dirty work of dispatching witnesses in the crime drama "Collateral". He stars in Miloš Forman's 2006 film "Goya's Ghosts" opposite Natalie Portman, where he plays a twisted monk during the Spanish Inquisition.