Greatest Film Performances by Year 1970 ‑ 1979

1. Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs Kramer
2. Peter Sellers - Being There
3. Robert Duvall - Apocalypse Now
4. Sally Field - Norma Rae
5. Meryl Streep - Kramer vs Kramer
6. Al Pacino - ...And Justice for All
7. Robert Duvall - The Great Santini
8. Jack Lemmon - The China Syndrome
9. Melvyn Douglas - Being There
10. Martin Sheen - Apocalypse Now
11. Steve Martin - The Jerk
12. Klaus Kinski - Nosferatu the Vampyre
13. Bette Midler - The Rose
14. Jill Clayburgh - Starting Over
15. Roy Scheider - All That Jazz
16. Sigourney Weaver - Alien
17. Marlon Brando - Apocalypse Now
18. Alexander Kaidanovsky - Stalker
19. Anatoly Solonitsyn - Stalker
20. Frederic Forrest - The Rose

1. 1. Robert De Niro - The Deer Hunter
2. Christopher Walken - The Deer Hunter
3. Ingrid Bergman - Autumn Sonata
4. Jon Voight - Coming Home
5. Jane Fonda - Coming Home
6. Liv Ullmann - Autumn Sonata
7. Hanna Schygulla - The Marriage of Maria Braun
8. Jill Clayburgh - An Unmarried Woman
9. Gary Busey - The Buddy Holly Story
10. Meryl Streep - The Deer Hunter
11. Laurence Olivier - The Boys from Brazil
12. Maggie Smith - California Suite
13. Warren Beatty - Heaven Can Wait
14. Glenda Jackson - Stevie
15. Geraldine Page - Interiors
16. Isabelle Huppert - Violette Noziere
17. Jamie Lee Curtis - Halloween
18. Jackie Chan - Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow
19. Brad Davis - The Midnight Express
20. Ellen Burstyn - Same Time, Next Year

1. Diane Keaton - Annie Hall
2. Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl
3. Alec Guinness - Star Wars
4. Woody Allen - Annie Hall
5. John Travolta - Saturday Night Fever
6. Jane Fonda - Julia
7. Richard Burton - Equus
8. Marcello Mastroianni - A Special Day
9. John Gielgud - Providence
10. Marsha Mason - The Goodbye Girl
11. Sophia Loren - A Special Day
12. Shelley Duvall - 3 Women
13. Anne Bancroft - The Turning Point
14. Jason Robards - Julia
15. Vanessa Redgrave - Julia
16. Sissy Spacek - 3 Women
17. Richard Dreyfuss - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
18. Isabelle Huppert - The Lacemaker
19. Fernando Rey - Elisa, vida mia
20. Bruno S. - Stroszek

1. Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver
2. Peter Finch - Network
3. Liv Ullmann - Face to Face
4. Faye Dunaway - Network
5. Sylvester Stallone - Rocky
6. Sissy Spacek - Carrie
7. Jason Robards - All the President's Men
8. Laurence Olivier - Marathon Man
9. Jodie Foster - Taxi Driver
10. Dustin Hoffman - Marathon Man
11. William Holden - Network
12. David Carradine - Bound for Glory
13. Dustin Hoffman - All the President's Men
14. Piper Laurie - Carrie
15. Burgess Meredith - Rocky
16. Robert Redford - All the President's Men
17.. Gerard Depardieu - The Lost Woman
18. Ana Torrent - Cria Cuervos
19. Talia Shire - Rocky
20. Rita Moreno - The Ritz

1. Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2. Al Pacino - Dog Day Afternoon
3. Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
4. Isabelle Adjani - The Story of Adele H.
5. Delphine Seyrig - Jeanne Dielman
6. Robert Shaw - Jaws
7. George Burns - The Sunshine Boys
8. Amitabh Bachchan - Deewaar
9. Faye Dunaway - The Flight of Condor
10. Lily Tomlin - Nashville
11. Tim Curry - The Rocky Horror Picture Show
12. Giancarlo Giannini - Seven Beauties
13. Glenda Jackson - Hedda
14. Roone Blakley - Nashville
15. Marie-Christine Barrault - Cousin, Cousine
16. Jack Nicholson - The Passenger
17. Brad Dourif - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
18. Amitabh Bachchan - Sholay
19. Maxim Munzuk - Dersu Uzala
20. Margarita Terekhova - Mirror

1. Al Pacino - The Godfather Part II
2. Gena Rowlands - A Woman Under the Influence
3. Liv Ullmann - Scenes from a Marriage
4. Jack Nicholson - Chinatown
5. Ellen Burstyn - Alice Don't Live Here Anymore
6. Gene Hackman - The Conversation
7. Robert De Niro - The Godfather Part II
8. Faye Dunaway - Chinatown
9. Gene Wilder - Young Frankenstein
10. Vittorio Gassman - Scent of a Woman
11. Dustin Hoffman - Lenny
12. Art Carney - Harry & Tonto
13. Brigitte Mira - Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
14. Erland Josephson - Scenes from a Marriage
15. John Cazale - The Godfather Part II
16. El Hedi Ben Salem - Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
17. Valerie Perrine - Lenny
18. Diane Ladd - Alice Don't Live Here Anymore
19. Madeline Kahn - Blazing Saddles
20. Charles Boyer - Stavisky

1. Al Pacino - Serpico
2. Jack Nicholson - The Last Detail
3. Robert De Niro - Mean Streets
4. Jack Lemmon - Save the Tiger
5. Glenda Jackson - A Touch of Class
6. Harvey Keitel - Mean Streets
7. Tatum O'Neal - Paper Moon
8. Robert Redford - The Sting
9. Linda Blair - The Exorcist
10. Paul Newman - The Sting
11. Valentina Cortese - Day for Night
12. Bruce Lee - Enter the Dragon
13. Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were
14. Ellen Burstyn - The Exorcist
15. Max Von Sydow - The Exorcist
16. Sissy Spacek - Badlands
17. Martin Sheen - Badlands
18. Jean-Pierre Leaud - The Mother and the Whore
19. Fernando Fernan Gomez - Spirit of the Beehive
20. Louis de Funes - The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

1. Marlon Brando - The Godfather
2. Klaus Kinski - Aguirre, The Wrath of God
3. Al Pacino - The Godfather
4. Marlon Brando - Last Tango in Paris
5. Liza Minneli - Cabaret
6. Stephane Audran - The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
7. Liv Ullmann - Cries and Whispers
8. Laurence Olivier - Sleuth
9. Peter O'Toole - The Ruling Class
10. Meena Kumari - Pakeeza
11. Michael Caine - Sleuth
12. James Caan - The Godfather
13. Joel Grey - Cabaret
14. Robert Duvall - The Godfather
15. Divine - Pink Flamingos
16. Diana Ross - The Lady Sings the Blues
17. Cicely Tyson - Sounder
18. Ingrid Thulin - Cries and Whispers
19. Margit Carstensten - The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
20. Bruce Lee - Fist of Fury

1. Gene Hackman - The French Connection
2. Jane Fonda - Klute
3. Malcolm McDowell - A Clockwork Orange
4. Topol - Fiddler on the Roof
5. Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
6. Clint Eastwood - Dirty Harry
7. Liv Ullmann - The Emigrants
8. Peter Finch - Sunday Bloody Sunday
9. Julie Christie - McCabe & Mrs. Miller
10. Jean Gabin - Le Chat
11. Dirk Bogarde - Death in Venice
12. Vanessa Redgrave - Mary, Queen of Scotts
13. Ruth Gordon - Harold & Maude
14. Ben Johnson - The Last Picture Show
15. Michael Caine - Get Carter
16. George C. Scott - Hospital
17. Glenda Jackson - Sunday Bloody Sunday
18. Roy Scheider - The French Connection
19. Amitabh Bachchan - Anand
20. Simone Signoret - Le Chat

1. George C. Scott - Patton
2. Jack Nicholson - Five Easy Pieces
3. Gene Hackman - I Never Sang for My Father
4. Melvin Douglas - I Never Sang for My Father
5. James Earl Jones - The Great White Hope
6. Jean-Louis Trintignant - The Conformist
7. Fernando Rey - Tristana
8. Carrie Snodgress - Diary of a Mad Housewife
9. Albert Finney - Scrooge
10. Caren Black - Five Easy Pieces
11. Karl Malden - Patton
12. Jane Alexander - The Great White Hope
13. Ali MacGraw - Love Story
14. Ryan O'Neal - Love Story
15. Catherine Deneuve - Tristana
16. Stefania Sandrelli - The Conformist
17. Alain Delon - Le Cercle Rouge
18. Sally Kellerman - M*A*S*H
19. Barbra Streisand - An Owl and Pussycat
20. Chief Dan George - Little Big Man