Greatest Film Performances by Year (US/UK) 1960 ‑ 1969

1969

1. Dustin Hoffman - Midnight Cowboy
2. Glenda Jackson - Women in Love
3. Jon Voight - Midnight Cowboy
4. Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
5. Jane Fonda - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
6. Peter O'Toole - Goodbye, Mr. Chips
7. Geneviève Bujold - Anne of the Thousand Days
8. Paul Newman - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
9. Richard Burton - Anne of the Thousand Days
10. Robert Redford - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
11. John Wayne - True Grit
12. Jack Nicholson - Easy Rider
13. William Holden - The Wild Bunch
14. Gig Young - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
15. Goldie Hawn - Cactus Flower
16. Alan Arkin - Popi
17. Dyan Cannon - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
18. Celia Johnson - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
19. Jean Simmons - The Happy Ending
20. Elliot Gould - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

1968

1. Peter O'Toole - The Lion in Winter
2. Katharine Hepburn - The Lion In Winter
3. Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl
4. Henry Fonda - Once Upon a Time in the West
5. Cliff Robertson - Charly
6. Joanne Woodward - Rachel, Rachel
7. Alan Arkin - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
8. Alan Bates - The Fixer
9. Mia Farrow - Rosemary's Baby
10. Patricia Neal - The Subject Was Roses
11. Vanessa Redgrave - Isadora
12. Ron Moody - Oliver!
13. Ruth Gordon - Rosemary's Baby
14. Roddy McDowell - Planet of the Apes
15. Sandra Locke - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
16. Lynn Carley - Faces
17. Steve McQueen - Bullitt
18. Tony Curtis - The Boston Strangler
19. Douglas Rain - 2001: A Space Odyssey
20. Vincent Price - Witchfinder General

1967

1. Paul Newman - Cool Hand Luke
2. Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night
3. Sidney Poitier - In the Heat of the Night
4. Dustin Hoffman - The Graduate
5. Anne Bancroft - The Graduate
6. Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
7. Faye Dunaway - Bonnie & Clyde
8. Edith Evans - The Whisperers
9. Warren Beatty - Bonnie & Clyde
10. Spencer Tracy - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
11. Gene Wilder - The Producers
12. Gene Hackman - Bonnie & Clyde
13. George Kennedy - Cool Hand Luke
14. Audrey Hepburn - Two for the Road
15. Zero Mostel - The Producers
16. Peter Finch - Far from the Madding Crowd
17. Lee Marvin - The Dirty Dozen
18. Carol Channing - Thoroughly Modern Millie
19. John Cassavetes - The Dirty Dozen
20. Sidney Poitier - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

1966

1. Elizabeth Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2. Paul Scofield - A Man for All Seasons
3. Richard Burton - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
4. Michael Caine - Alfie
5. Lynn Redgrave - Georgy Girl
6. Walter Matthau - The Fortune Cookie
7. Alan Arkin - The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming
8. Vanessa Redgrave - Morgan!
9. Sandy Dennis - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
10. Jack Lemmon - The Fortune Cookie
11. Robert Shaw - A Man for All Seasons
12. Steve McQueen - The Sand Pebbles
13. Natalie Wood - This Property Is Condemned
14. George Segal - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
15. James Mason - Georgy Girl
16. Vivien Merchant - Alfie
17. Mako - The Sand Pebbles
18. Wendy Hiller - A Man for All Seasons
19. Geraldine Page - You're a Big Boy Now
20. Max von Sydow - Hawaii

1965

1. Julie Christie - Darling
2. Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou
3. Julie Andrews - The Sound of Music
4. Samantha Eggar - The Collector
5. Simone Signoret - Ship of Fools
6. Omar Sharif - Doctor Zhivago
7. Richard Burton - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
8. Julie Christie - Doctor Zhivago
9. Sidney Poitier - A Patch of Blue
10. Oskar Werner - Ship of Fools
11. Elizabeth Hartman - A Patch of Blue
12. Frank Finlay - Othello
13. Tom Courtenay - Doctor Zhivago
14. Martin Balsam - A Thousand Clowns
15. Terence Stamp - The Collector
16. Shelley Winters - A Patch of Blue
17. Oskar Werner - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
18. Ruth Gordon - Inside Daisy Clover
19. Catherine Deneuve - Repulsion
20. Rod Steiger - Doctor Zhivago

1964

1. Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove
2. Anthony Quinn - Zorba the Greek
3. Peter O'Toole - Becket
4. Audrey Hepburn - My Fair Lady
5. Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins
6. Richard Burton - Becket
7. Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady
8. Anne Bancroft - The Pumpkin Eater
9. Sean Connery - Goldfinger
10. Kim Stanley - Séance on a Wet Afternoon
11. Ava Gardner - The Night of the Iguana
12. George C. Scott - Dr. Strangelove
13. Lila Kedrova - Zorba the Greek
14. Debbie Reynolds - The Unsinkable Molly Brown
15. Rod Steiger - The Pawnbroker
16. Peter Ustinov - Topkapi
17. Tony Randall - Seven Faces of Dr. Lao
18. Sterling Hayden - Dr. Strangelove
19. Melina Mercouri - Topkapi
20. Edith Evans - The Chalk Garden

1963

1. Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field
2. Paul Newman - Hud
3. Albert Finney - Tom Jones
4. Richard Harris - This Sporting Life
5. Shirley MacLaine - Irma la Douce
6. Melvin Douglas - Hud
7. Natalie Wood - Love with the Proper Stranger
8. Steve McQueen - The Great Escape
9. Patricia Neal - Hud
10. Sean Connery - From Russia with Love
11. Rex Harrison - Cleopatra
12. Rachel Roberts - This Sporting Life
13. Stathis Giallelis - America America
14. Hugh Griffith - Tom Jones
15. Cary Grant - Charade
16. Peter Sellers - The Pink Panther
17. Dirk Bogarde - The Servant
18. Margaret Rutherford - The V.I.P.s
19. John Huston - The Cardinal
20. Jerry Lewis - The Nutty Professor

1962

1. Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Peter O'Toole - Lawrence of Arabia
3. Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker
4. Katharine Hepburn - Long Day's Journey into Night
5. Bette Davis - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
6. Robert Mitchum - Cape Fear
7. Burt Lancaster - Birdman of Alcatraz
8. Jack Lemmon - Days of Wine and Roses
9. Omar Sharif - Lawrence of Arabia
10. Frank Sinatra - The Manchurian Candidate
11. Leslie Caron - The L-Shaped Room
12. Lee Remick - Days of Wine and Roses
13. John Wayne - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
14. Alec Guinness - Lawrence of Arabia
15. Geraldine Page - Sweet Bird of Youth
16. Patty Duke - The Miracle Worker
17. Angela Lansbery - The Manchurian Candidate
18. Joan Crawford - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
19. James Mason - Lolita
20. Tom Courtenay - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

1961

1. Paul Newman - The Hustler
2. Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany's
3. Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg
4. Natalie Wood - Splendor in the Grass
5. George C. Scott - The Hustler
6. Spencer Tracy - Judgment at Nuremberg
7. Geraldine Page - Summer and Smoke
8. Jackie Gleason - The Hustler
9. George Chakiris - West Side Story
10. Sidney Poitier - A Raisin in the Sun
11. Rita Moreno - West Side Story
12. Warren Beatty - Splendor in the Grass
13. Piper Laurie - The Hustler
14. Dirk Bogarde - Victim
15. Claudia McNeil - A Raisin in the Sun
16. Judy Garland - Judgment at Nuremberg
17. Shirley MacLaine - The Children's Hour
18. Montgomery Clift - Judgment at Nuremberg
19. Leslie Caron - Fanny
20. Clark Gable - The Misfits

1960

1. Shirley MacLaine - The Apartment
2. Jack Lemmon - The Apartment
3. Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry
4. Kirk Douglas - Spartacus
5. Anthony Perkins - Psycho
6. Elizabeth Taylor - BUtterfield 8
7. Spencer Tracy - Inherit the Wind
8. Laurence Olivier - Spartacus
9. Greer Garson - Sunrise at Campobello
10. Fredric March - Inherit the Wind
11. Laurence Olivier - The Entertainer
12. Deborah Kerr - The Sundowners
13. Melina Mercouri - Never on Sunday
14. Trevor Howard - Sons and Lovers
15. Shirley Jones - Elmer Gantry
16. Sal Mineo - Exodus
16. Jean Simmons - Elmer Gantry
17. Janet Leigh - Psycho
18. Peter Ustinov - Spartacus
20. Fred MacMurray - The Apartment