Greatest Film Performances by Year 1950 ‑ 1959

1. Jack Lemmon - Some Like It Hot
2. Cary Grant - North by Northwest
3. Jean-Pierre Leaud - The 400 Blows
4. Simone Signoret - Room at the Top
5. Marilyn Monroe - Some Like It Hot
6. James Stewart - Anatomy of a Murder
7. Doris Day - Pillow Talk
8. Elizabeth Taylor - Suddenly, Last Summer
9. Emmanuelle Riva - Hiroshima Mon Amour
10. Vladimir Ivashov - Ballad of a Soldier
10. John Wayne - Rio Bravo
10. Tatsuya Nakadai - The Human Condition Part I: No Greater Love
10. Audrey Hepburn - The Nun's Story
10. Tony Curtis - Some Like It Hot
10. Charlton Heston - Ben-Hur
10. Faten Hamama - The Nightingale's Prayer
10. Katharine Hepburn - Suddenly, Last Summer
10. Laurence Harvey - Room at the Top
10. Peter Sellers - The Mouse That Roared
10. Jeanne Moreau - The Lovers

1. James Stewart - Vertigo
2. Elizabeth Taylor - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
3. Susan Hayward - I Want to Live!
4. Sidney Poitier - The Defiant Ones
5. Paul Newman - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
6. David Niven - Separate Tables
7. Orson Welles - The Touch of Evil
8. Jeanne Moreau - Elevator to the Gallows
9. Tony Curtis - The Defiant Ones
10. Jacques Tati - Mon Oncle
11. Zbigniew Cybulski - Ashes and Diamonds
12. Spencer Tracy - The Last Hurrah
13. Ingrid Bergman - The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
14. Rosalind Russell - Auntie Mame
15. Alec Guinness - The Horse's Mouth
16. Deborah Kerr - Separate Tables
17. Toshiro Mifune - The Hidden Fortress
18. Vittorio Gassman - Big Deal On Madonna Street
19. Kim Novak - Vertigo
20. Misa Uehara - The Hidden Fortress

1. Giulietta Masina - Nights of Cabiria
2. Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai
3. Henry Fonda - 12 Angry Men
4. Burt Lancaster - The Sweet Smell of Success
5. Max Von Sydow - The Seventh Seal
6. Joanne Woodward - The Three Faces of Eve
7. Toshiro Mifune - Throne of Blood
8. Kirk Douglas - Paths of Glory
9. Victor Sjostrom - Wild Strawberries
10. Tatyana Samoylova - The Cranes Are Flying
11. Charles Laughton - Witness for the Prosecution
12. Lee J. Kobb - 12 Angry Men
13. Tony Curtis - The Sweet Smell of Success
14. Nargis - Mother India
15. Marlon Brando - Sayonara
16. Anna Magnani - Wild Is the Wind
17. Simone Signoret - The Crucible
18. Anthony Franciosa - A Hatful of Rain
19. Marlene Dietrich - Witness for the Prosecution
20. Bibi Andersson - The Seventh Seal

1. John Wayne - The Searchers
2. Kirk Douglas - Lust for Life
3. James Dean - Giant
4. Deborah Kerr - The King and I
5. Ingrid Bergman - Anastasia
6. François Périer - Gervaise
7. Anthony Quinn - Lust for Life
8. Yul Brynner - The King and I
9. Carroll Baker - Baby Doll
10. Karuna Banerjee - Aparajito
11. James Mason - Bigger Than Life
12. Rock Hudson - Giant
13. Cantinflas - Around the World in 80 Days
14. Marilyn Monroe - Bus Stop
15. Yul Brynner - The Ten Commandments
16. James Stewart - The Man Who Knew Too Much
17. Bourvil - La Traverse de Paris
18. Maria Schell - Gervaise
19. Charlton Heston - The Ten Commandments
20. Katharine Hepburn - The Rainmaker

1. James Dean - Rebel Without a Cause
2. Robert Mitchum - The Night of the Hunter
3. Laurence Olivier - Richard lll
4. Anna Magnani - The Rose Tattoo
5. Ernest Borgnine - Marty
6. James Dean - East of Eden
7. Spencer Tracy - Bad Day at Black Rock
8. Katharine Hepburn - Summertime
9. Susan Hayward - I'll Cry Tomorrow
10. Alec Guinness - The Ladykillers
11. Subir Banerjee - Pather Panchali
12. Gunnar Bjorstrand - Smiles of a Summer Night
13. Eva Dahlbeck - Smiles of a Summer Night
14. James Cagney - Love Me or Leave Me
15. Jack Lemmon - Mister Roberts
16. Sal Mineo - Rebel Without a Cause
17. Frank Sinatra - The Man with the Golden Arm
18. Jean Servais - Rififi
19. Karuna Banerjee - Pather Panchali
20. Lillian Gish - Night of the Hunter

1. Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront
2. Toshiro Mifune - Seven Samurai
3. Judy Garland - A Star Is Born
4. Giulietta Masina - La Strada
5. Takashi Shimura - Seven Samurai
6. Jean Gabin - Touchez Pas Au Grisbi
7. James Stewart - Rear Window
8. Humphrey Bogart - The Caine Mutiny
9. Grace Kelly - The Country Girl
10. Karl Malden - On the Waterfront
10. Rod Steiger - On the Waterfront
10. James Mason - A Star Is Born
10. Audrey Hepburn - Sabrina
10. George Sanders - Journey to Italy
10. Seiji Miyaguchi - Seven Samurai
10. Ingrid Bergman - Journey to Italy
10. Bing Crosby - The Country Girl
10. Dorothy Dandridge - Carmen Jones
10. Kinuyo Tanaka - Sansho the Bailiff
10. Anthony Quinn - La Strada

1. Audrey Hepburn - Roman Holiday
2. William Holden - Stalag 17
3. Setsuko Hara - Tokyo Story
4. Marlon Brando - Julius Caesar
5. Montgomery Clift - From Here to Eternity
6. Masayuki Mori - Ugetsu
7. Burt Lancaster - From Here to Eternity
8. Machiko Kyo - Ugetsu
9. Jacques Tati - Mr. Hulot’s Holiday
10. Chishu Ryu - Tokyo Story
11. Marlon Brando - The Wild One
12. Yves Montand - The Wages of Fear
13. Danielle Darrieux - Madame De
14. Alan Ladd - Shane
15. Deborah Kerr - From Here to Eternity
16. Donna Reed - From Here to Eternity
17. Alberto Sordi - I Vitelloni
18. Marilyn Monroe - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
19. Gregory Peck - Roman Holiday
20. Thelma Ritter - Pickup On South Street

1. Takashi Shimura - Ikiru
2. Gary Cooper - High Noon
3. Gene Kelly - Singin' in the Rain
4. Shirley Booth - Come Back, Little Sheba!
5. Marlon Brando - Viva Zapata!
6. Anthony Quinn - Viva Zapata!
7. Joan Crawford - Sudden Fear
8. Simone Signoret - Casque D'or
9. Ingrid Bergman - Europa '51
10. John Wayne - The Quiet Man
11. Laurence Olivier - Carrie
12. Charlie Chaplin - Limelight
13. Kirk Douglas - The Bad and the Beautiful
14. Carlo Battisti - Umberto D
15. Susan Hayward - With a Song in My Heart
16. Kinuyo Tanaka - The Life of Oharu
17. Meena Kumari - Baiju Bawra
18. Julie Harris - The Member of the Wedding
19. Donald O'Connor - Singin' In the Rain
20. Brigitte Fossey - Forbidden Games

1. Marlon Brando - A Streetcar Named Desire
2. Vivien Leigh - A Streetcar Named Desire
3. Katharine Hepburn - The African Queen
4. Claude Laydu - Diary of a Country Priest
5. Humphrey Bogart - The African Queen
6. Montgomery Clift - A Place in the Sun
7. Raj Kapoor - Awaara
8. Fredric March - Death of a Salesman
9. Kirk Douglas - Ace in the Hole
10. Robert Walker - Strangers on a Train
11. Toto - Cops and Robbers
12. Alastair Sim - A Christmas Carol
13. Francesco Golisano - Miracle in Milan
14. Shelley Winters - A Place in the Sun
15. Alec Guinness - The Lavender Hill Mob
16. Setsuko Hara - Early Summer
17. Eleanor Parker - Detective Story
18. Elizabeth Taylor - A Place in the Sun
19. Lee Grant - Detective Story
20. Kim Hunter - A Streetcar Named Desire

1. Gloria Swanson - Sunset Boulevard
2. Bette Davis - All About Eve
3. Toshiro Mifune - Rashomon
4. William Holden - Sunset Boulevard
5. Humphrey Bogart - In a Lonely Place
6. Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday
7. James Stewart - Harvey
8. José Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac
9. Machiko Kyo - Rashomon
10. Anne Baxter - All About Eve
11. Eleanor Parker - Caged
12. George Sanders - All About Eve
13. Louis Calhern - The Magnificent Yankee
14. Sterling Hayden - The Asphalt Jungle
15. Josephine Hull - Harvey
16. Spencer Tracy - Father of the Bride
17. Erich Von Stroheim - Sunset Blvd.
18. Jean Marais - Orpheus
19. Marlon Brando - The Men
20. Sam Jaffe - The Asphalt Jungle