of cinema's greatest villains and most corrupt cops. CNN's Screening Room series named the character one of the "Top 10 movie psychos". MSN Movies critic Daniel Bettridge wrote, "Oldman's arguably at his best as the crooked cop in Luc Besson's Leon. The English actor is pitch perfect as the nonchalant killer... it's easy to find yourself actually rooting for the charismatic crackpot." Reflecting on his days at drama school, actor Tom Hardy recalled how "everybody... used to do their impressions of [Oldman] in Léon". In 2018, financial news site 24/7 Wall Street declared Stansfield one of internet users' "50 most popular movie villains of all time", based on activity across Ranker, IMDb and Wikipedia. References External links Norman Stansfield at MovieVillains.com Thriller film characters Fictional mass murderers Police misconduct in fiction Film characters introduced in 1994 Fictional characters from New York City Fictional Drug Enforcement Administration personnel Fictional New York City Police Department detectives Fictional murderers of children Fictional drug addicts Fictional nihilists Male film villains Action film villains Gary Oldman