Dustin Hoffman has starred in a movie.
Dustin Hoffman . He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1980 for Kramer vs. Kramer , and in 1989 for Rain Man . This achievement was soon followed by his breakthrough 1967 film role as Benjamin Braddock , the title character in The Graduate . Kramer vs. Kramer is a 1979 American drama film adapted by Robert Benton from the novel by Avery Corman , and directed by Benton . Rain Man is a 1988 American road comedy-drama film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass .