Greatest Film Performances
of the 2010s (US/UK)
Criteria: Film Performances of the 2010s are ranked based on initial and lasting acclaim, popular and cultural recognition, plus influence. In order to qualify for this list the performance has to come from a predominately English-language film produced or co-produced by American or British production companies.
Actor - Film Title (Year of Release)
1. Cate Blanchett
Blue Jasmine (2013)
2. Daniel Day-Lewis
Lincoln (2012)
3. Natalie Portman
Black Swan (2010)
4. Leonardo DiCaprio
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
5. Meryl Streep
The Iron Lady (2011)
6. Matthew McConaughey
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
7. Leonardo DiCaprio
The Revenant (2015)
8. Brie Larson
Room (2015)
9. Cate Blanchett
Carol (2015)
10. Joaquin Phoenix
Joker (2019)
11. Gary Oldman
Darkest Hour (2017)
12. Frances McDormand
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
13. J.K. Simmons
Whiplash (2014)
14. Michael Keaton
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
15. Adam Driver
Marriage Story (2019)
16. Eddie Redmayne
The Theory of Everything (2014)
17. Olivia Colman
The Favourite (2018)
18. Christian Bale
The Fighter (2010)
19. Joaquin Phoenix
The Master (2012)
20. Colin Firth
The King's Speech (2010)
21. Christian Bale
Vice (2018)
22. Casey Affleck
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
23. Sandra Bullock
Gravity (2013)
24. Philip Seymour Hoffman
The Master (2012)
25. Glenn Close
The Wife (2018)
26. Natalie Portman
Jackie (2016)
27. Chiwetel Ejiofor
12 Years a Slave (2013)
28. Renée Zellweger
Judy (2019)
29. Scarlett Johansson
Marriage Story (2019)
30. Emma Stone
La La Land (2016)
31. Mahershala Ali
Moonlight (2016)
32. Gary Oldman
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
33. Julianne Moore
Still Alice (2014)
34. Ethan Hawke
First Reformed (2017)
35. Adam Sandler
Uncut Gems (2019)
36. Joe Pesci
The Irishman (2019)
37. Willem Dafoe
At Eternity's Gate (2018)
38. Viola Davis
Fences (2016)
39. Denzel Washington
Fences (2016)
40. Melissa Leo
The Fighter (2010)
41. Jesse Eisenberg
The Social Network (2010)
42. Jessica Chastain
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
43. Jennifer Lawrence
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
44. Sam Rockwell
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
45. Barkhad Abdi
Captain Phillips (2013)
46. Sally Hawkins
The Shape of Water (2017)
47. Jared Leto
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
48. Jennifer Lawrence
Winter's Bone (2010)
49. James Franco
127 Hours (2010)
50. Rosamund Pike
Gone Girl (2014)
51. Jake Gyllenhaal
Nightcrawler (2014)
52. Timothée Chalamet
Call Me by Your Name (2017)
53. Rooney Mara
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
54. Michelle Williams
My Week with Marilyn (2011)
55. Patricia Arquette
Boyhood (2014)
56. Bruce Dern
Nebraska (2013)
57. Michael Fassbender
Shame (2011)
58. Michael Fassbender
Steve Jobs (2015)
59. Richard E. Grant
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
60. Rami Malek
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
61. Alicia Vikander
Ex Machina (2015)
62. George Clooney
The Descendants (2011)
63. Lupita Nyong'o
12 Years a Slave (2013)
64. Rooney Mara
Carol (2015)
65. Allison Janney
I, Tonya (2017)
66. Joaquin Phoenix
Her (2013)
67. Tom Hanks
Captain Phillips (2013)
68. Lady Gaga
A Star Is Born (2018)
69. Viggo Mortensen
Captain Fantastic (2016)
70. Albert Brooks
Drive (2011)
71. Robert De Niro
The Irishman (2019)
72. Leonardo DiCaprio
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
73. Christian Bale
American Hustle (2013)
74. Christoph Waltz
Django Unchained (2012)
75. Brad Pitt
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
76. Michelle Williams
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
77. Amy Adams
Arrival (2016)
78. Michelle Williams
Blue Valentine (2010)
79. Daniel Kaluuya
Get Out (2017)
80. Regina King
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
81. Robert Duvall
Get Low (2010)
82. Matt Damon
The Martian (2015)
83. Annette Bening
The Kids Are All Right (2010)
84. Benedict Cumberbatch
The Imitation Game (2014)
85. Ralph Fiennes
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
86. Quvenzhané Wallis
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
87. Andrew Garfield
Silence (2016)
88. Melissa McCarthy
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
89. Saoirse Ronan
Lady Bird (2017)
90. Geoffrey Rush
The King's Speech (2010)
91. Judi Dench
Philomena (2013)
92. Javier Bardem
Skyfall (2012)
93. Anne Hathaway
Les Misérables (2012)
94. James Franco
The Disaster Artist (2017)
95. Ruth Negga
Loving (2016)
96. David Oyelowo
Selma (2014)
97. Christopher Plummer
Beginners (2011)
98. Jean Dujardin
The Artist (2011)
99. Jacob Tremblay
Room (2015)
100. Saoirse Ronan
Little Women (2019)
101. Tom Hardy
The Revenant (2015)
102. Ryan Gosling
Drive (2011)
103. Felicity Jones
The Theory of Everything (2014)
104. Carey Mulligan
Never Let Me Go (2010)
105. Elsie Fisher
Eighth Grade (2018)
106. Toni Collette
Hereditary (2018)
107. Al Pacino
The Irishman (2019)
108. Awkwafina
The Farewell (2019)
109. Eddie Murphy
Dolemite is My Name (2019)
110. Ryan Gosling
Blue Valentine (2010)
111. Emma Stone
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
112. Leonardo DiCaprio
Shutter Island (2010)
113. Daniel Day-Lewis
Phantom Thread (2017)
114. Naomi Watts
The Impossible (2012)
115. Amy Adams
The Master (2012)
116. Michael Fassbender
12 Years a Slave (2013)
117. Annette Bening
20th Century Women (2016)
118. Viola Davis
The Help (2011)
119. Michael Shannon
Take Shelter (2011)
120. Willem Dafoe
The Lighthouse (2019)
121. Matthew McConaughey
Interstellar (2014)
122. Willem Dafoe
The Florida Project (2017)
123. Mahershala Ali
Green Book (2018)
124. Tommy Lee Jones
Lincoln (2012)
125. John Hawkes
The Sessions (2012)
126. Adam Driver
Paterson (2016)
127. Ryan Gosling
La La Land (2016)
128. Bradley Cooper
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
129. Edward Norton
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
130. Margot Robbie
I, Tonya (2017)
131. Amy Adams
Vice (2018)
132. Denzel Washington
Flight (2012)
133. Leonardo DiCaprio
Django Unchained (2012)
134. Laura Dern
Marriage Story (2019)
135. Lupita Nyong'o
US (2019)
136. Taron Egerton
Rocketman (2019)
137. Hailee Steinfeld
True Grit (2010)
138. Viggo Mortensen
Green Book (2018)
139. James McAvoy
Filth (2013)
140. Amy Adams
American Hustle (2013)
141. Kate Winslet
Steve Jobs (2015)
142. Idris Elba
Beasts of No Nation (2015)
143. Elizabeth Olsen
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
144. Hugh Jackman
Les Misérables (2012)
145. Bryan Cranston
Trumbo (2015)
146. Woody Harrelson
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
147. Octavia Spencer
The Help (2011)
148. Reese Witherspoon
Wild (2014)
149. Jeff Bridges
Hell or High Water (2016)
150. Johnny Depp
Black Mass (2015)
151. Mark Ruffalo
The Kids Are All Right (2010)
152. Charlotte Rampling
45 Years (2015)
153. Mila Kunis
Black Swan (2010)
154. Robert Redford
All Is Lost (2013)
155. Laurie Metcalf
Lady Bird (2017)
156. Bradley Cooper
A Star Is Born (2018)
157. Charlize Theron
Tully (2018)
158. Andy Serkis
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
159. Helen Hunt
The Sessions (2012)
160. Brendan Gleeson
The Guard (2011)
161. Tilda Swinton
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
162. Lesley Manville
Phantom Thread (2017)
163. Taraji P. Henson
Hidden Figures (2016)
164. Oscar Isaac
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
165. Julie Delpy
Before Midnight (2013)
166. Ethan Hawke
Boyhood (2014)
167. Joel Edgerton
Loving (2016)
168. Mary J. Blige
Mudbound (2017)
169. John David Washington
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
170. Jeff Bridges
True Grit (2010)
171. Julianne Moore
The Kids Are All Right (2010)
172. Amy Adams
The Fighter (2010)
173. Rachel Weisz
The Favourite (2018)
174. Alicia Vikander
The Danish Girl (2015)
175. Saoirse Ronan
Brooklyn (2015)
176. Rene Russo
Nightcrawler (2014)
177. Steve Carell
Foxcatcher (2014)
178. Sylvester Stallone
Creed (2015)
179. Harry Dean Stanton
Lucky (2017)
180. Robert Pattinson
The Lighthouse (2019)
181. Brooklynn Prince
The Florida Project (2017)
182. Demián Bichir
A Better Life (2011)
183. Andrew Garfield
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
184. Greta Gerwig
Frances Ha (2012)
185. Meryl Streep
Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
186. Ryan Gosling
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
187. Natalie Portman
Annihilation (2018)
188. Florence Pugh
Little Women (2019)
189. Naomie Harris
Moonlight (2016)
190. Sally Fields
Lincoln (2012)
191. Brendan Gleeson
Calvary (2014)
192. Jonathan Pryce
The Two Popes (2019)
193. Jennifer Jason Leigh
The Hateful Eight (2015)
194. Michael B. Jordan
Black Panther (2018)
195. Melissa McCarthy
Bridesmaids (2011)
196. Brie Larson
Short Term 12 (2013)
197. Glenn Close
Albert Nobbs (2011)
198. Tom Courtenay
45 Years (2015)
199. Mark Ruffalo
Spotlight (2015)
200. Hugh Jackman
Logan (2018)
1. Cate Blanchett
Blue Jasmine (2013)
2. Daniel Day-Lewis
Lincoln (2012)
3. Natalie Portman
Black Swan (2010)
4. Leonardo DiCaprio
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
5. Meryl Streep
The Iron Lady (2011)
6. Matthew McConaughey
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
7. Leonardo DiCaprio
The Revenant (2015)
8. Brie Larson
Room (2015)
9. Cate Blanchett
Carol (2015)
10. Joaquin Phoenix
Joker (2019)
11. Gary Oldman
Darkest Hour (2017)
12. Frances McDormand
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
13. J.K. Simmons
Whiplash (2014)
14. Michael Keaton
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
15. Adam Driver
Marriage Story (2019)
16. Eddie Redmayne
The Theory of Everything (2014)
17. Olivia Colman
The Favourite (2018)
18. Christian Bale
The Fighter (2010)
19. Joaquin Phoenix
The Master (2012)
20. Colin Firth
The King's Speech (2010)
21. Christian Bale
Vice (2018)
22. Casey Affleck
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
23. Sandra Bullock
Gravity (2013)
24. Philip Seymour Hoffman
The Master (2012)
25. Glenn Close
The Wife (2018)
26. Natalie Portman
Jackie (2016)
27. Chiwetel Ejiofor
12 Years a Slave (2013)
28. Renée Zellweger
Judy (2019)
29. Scarlett Johansson
Marriage Story (2019)
30. Emma Stone
La La Land (2016)
31. Mahershala Ali
Moonlight (2016)
32. Gary Oldman
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
33. Julianne Moore
Still Alice (2014)
34. Ethan Hawke
First Reformed (2017)
35. Adam Sandler
Uncut Gems (2019)
36. Joe Pesci
The Irishman (2019)
37. Willem Dafoe
At Eternity's Gate (2018)
38. Viola Davis
Fences (2016)
39. Denzel Washington
Fences (2016)
40. Melissa Leo
The Fighter (2010)
41. Jesse Eisenberg
The Social Network (2010)
42. Jessica Chastain
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
43. Jennifer Lawrence
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
44. Sam Rockwell
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
45. Barkhad Abdi
Captain Phillips (2013)
46. Sally Hawkins
The Shape of Water (2017)
47. Jared Leto
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
48. Jennifer Lawrence
Winter's Bone (2010)
49. James Franco
127 Hours (2010)
50. Rosamund Pike
Gone Girl (2014)
51. Jake Gyllenhaal
Nightcrawler (2014)
52. Timothée Chalamet
Call Me by Your Name (2017)
53. Rooney Mara
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
54. Michelle Williams
My Week with Marilyn (2011)
55. Patricia Arquette
Boyhood (2014)
56. Bruce Dern
Nebraska (2013)
57. Michael Fassbender
Shame (2011)
58. Michael Fassbender
Steve Jobs (2015)
59. Richard E. Grant
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
60. Rami Malek
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
61. Alicia Vikander
Ex Machina (2015)
62. George Clooney
The Descendants (2011)
63. Lupita Nyong'o
12 Years a Slave (2013)
64. Rooney Mara
Carol (2015)
65. Allison Janney
I, Tonya (2017)
66. Joaquin Phoenix
Her (2013)
67. Tom Hanks
Captain Phillips (2013)
68. Lady Gaga
A Star Is Born (2018)
69. Viggo Mortensen
Captain Fantastic (2016)
70. Albert Brooks
Drive (2011)
71. Robert De Niro
The Irishman (2019)
72. Leonardo DiCaprio
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
73. Christian Bale
American Hustle (2013)
74. Christoph Waltz
Django Unchained (2012)
75. Brad Pitt
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
76. Michelle Williams
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
77. Amy Adams
Arrival (2016)
78. Michelle Williams
Blue Valentine (2010)
79. Daniel Kaluuya
Get Out (2017)
80. Regina King
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
81. Robert Duvall
Get Low (2010)
82. Matt Damon
The Martian (2015)
83. Annette Bening
The Kids Are All Right (2010)
84. Benedict Cumberbatch
The Imitation Game (2014)
85. Ralph Fiennes
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
86. Quvenzhané Wallis
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
87. Andrew Garfield
Silence (2016)
88. Melissa McCarthy
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
89. Saoirse Ronan
Lady Bird (2017)
90. Geoffrey Rush
The King's Speech (2010)
91. Judi Dench
Philomena (2013)
92. Javier Bardem
Skyfall (2012)
93. Anne Hathaway
Les Misérables (2012)
94. James Franco
The Disaster Artist (2017)
95. Ruth Negga
Loving (2016)
96. David Oyelowo
Selma (2014)
97. Christopher Plummer
Beginners (2011)
98. Jean Dujardin
The Artist (2011)
99. Jacob Tremblay
Room (2015)
100. Saoirse Ronan
Little Women (2019)
101. Tom Hardy
The Revenant (2015)
102. Ryan Gosling
Drive (2011)
103. Felicity Jones
The Theory of Everything (2014)
104. Carey Mulligan
Never Let Me Go (2010)
105. Elsie Fisher
Eighth Grade (2018)
106. Toni Collette
Hereditary (2018)
107. Al Pacino
The Irishman (2019)
108. Awkwafina
The Farewell (2019)
109. Eddie Murphy
Dolemite is My Name (2019)
110. Ryan Gosling
Blue Valentine (2010)
111. Emma Stone
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
112. Leonardo DiCaprio
Shutter Island (2010)
113. Daniel Day-Lewis
Phantom Thread (2017)
114. Naomi Watts
The Impossible (2012)
115. Amy Adams
The Master (2012)
116. Michael Fassbender
12 Years a Slave (2013)
117. Annette Bening
20th Century Women (2016)
118. Viola Davis
The Help (2011)
119. Michael Shannon
Take Shelter (2011)
120. Willem Dafoe
The Lighthouse (2019)
121. Matthew McConaughey
Interstellar (2014)
122. Willem Dafoe
The Florida Project (2017)
123. Mahershala Ali
Green Book (2018)
124. Tommy Lee Jones
Lincoln (2012)
125. John Hawkes
The Sessions (2012)
126. Adam Driver
Paterson (2016)
127. Ryan Gosling
La La Land (2016)
128. Bradley Cooper
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
129. Edward Norton
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
130. Margot Robbie
I, Tonya (2017)
131. Amy Adams
Vice (2018)
132. Denzel Washington
Flight (2012)
133. Leonardo DiCaprio
Django Unchained (2012)
134. Laura Dern
Marriage Story (2019)
135. Lupita Nyong'o
US (2019)
136. Taron Egerton
Rocketman (2019)
137. Hailee Steinfeld
True Grit (2010)
138. Viggo Mortensen
Green Book (2018)
139. James McAvoy
Filth (2013)
140. Amy Adams
American Hustle (2013)
141. Kate Winslet
Steve Jobs (2015)
142. Idris Elba
Beasts of No Nation (2015)
143. Elizabeth Olsen
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
144. Hugh Jackman
Les Misérables (2012)
145. Bryan Cranston
Trumbo (2015)
146. Woody Harrelson
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
147. Octavia Spencer
The Help (2011)
148. Reese Witherspoon
Wild (2014)
149. Jeff Bridges
Hell or High Water (2016)
150. Johnny Depp
Black Mass (2015)
151. Mark Ruffalo
The Kids Are All Right (2010)
152. Charlotte Rampling
45 Years (2015)
153. Mila Kunis
Black Swan (2010)
154. Robert Redford
All Is Lost (2013)
155. Laurie Metcalf
Lady Bird (2017)
156. Bradley Cooper
A Star Is Born (2018)
157. Charlize Theron
Tully (2018)
158. Andy Serkis
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
159. Helen Hunt
The Sessions (2012)
160. Brendan Gleeson
The Guard (2011)
161. Tilda Swinton
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
162. Lesley Manville
Phantom Thread (2017)
163. Taraji P. Henson
Hidden Figures (2016)
164. Oscar Isaac
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
165. Julie Delpy
Before Midnight (2013)
166. Ethan Hawke
Boyhood (2014)
167. Joel Edgerton
Loving (2016)
168. Mary J. Blige
Mudbound (2017)
169. John David Washington
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
170. Jeff Bridges
True Grit (2010)
171. Julianne Moore
The Kids Are All Right (2010)
172. Amy Adams
The Fighter (2010)
173. Rachel Weisz
The Favourite (2018)
174. Alicia Vikander
The Danish Girl (2015)
175. Saoirse Ronan
Brooklyn (2015)
176. Rene Russo
Nightcrawler (2014)
177. Steve Carell
Foxcatcher (2014)
178. Sylvester Stallone
Creed (2015)
179. Harry Dean Stanton
Lucky (2017)
180. Robert Pattinson
The Lighthouse (2019)
181. Brooklynn Prince
The Florida Project (2017)
182. Demián Bichir
A Better Life (2011)
183. Andrew Garfield
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
184. Greta Gerwig
Frances Ha (2012)
185. Meryl Streep
Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
186. Ryan Gosling
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
187. Natalie Portman
Annihilation (2018)
188. Florence Pugh
Little Women (2019)
189. Naomie Harris
Moonlight (2016)
190. Sally Fields
Lincoln (2012)
191. Brendan Gleeson
Calvary (2014)
192. Jonathan Pryce
The Two Popes (2019)
193. Jennifer Jason Leigh
The Hateful Eight (2015)
194. Michael B. Jordan
Black Panther (2018)
195. Melissa McCarthy
Bridesmaids (2011)
196. Brie Larson
Short Term 12 (2013)
197. Glenn Close
Albert Nobbs (2011)
198. Tom Courtenay
45 Years (2015)
199. Mark Ruffalo
Spotlight (2015)
200. Hugh Jackman
Logan (2018)
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Edited By: Tim, Bruno
Newly added names are in Red
Last Updated: 2021-02-05Newly added names are in Red