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Greatest Screen Performances
per Film Actors - A-C


Criteria: These screen performances are ranked according to their acclaim, influence as well as popularity.

Actors are displayed in alphabetical order by last name.

 Edited By: Tim
Last Updated: 2026-05-17

Woody Allen

(1935 - )
  1. Annie Hall (1977)
  2. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
  3. Manhattan (1979)
  4. The Front (1976)
  5. Zelig (1983)
  6. Play It Again, Sam (1972)
  7. Sleeper (1973)
  8. Stardust Memories (1980)
  9. Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
  10. Husbands and Wives (1992)

Fred Astaire

(1899 - 1987)
  1. Top Hat (1935)
  2. Swing Time (1936)
  3. Easter Parade (1948)
  4. Funny Face (1957)
  5. The Band Wagon (1953)
  6. Holiday Inn (1942)
  7. The Towering Inferno (1974)
  8. You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
  9. You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
  10. The Gay Divorcee (1934)

Richard Attenborough

(1923 - 2014)
  1. Brighton Rock (1947)
  2. Guns at Batasi (1964)
  3. Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
  4. 10 Rillington Place (1971)
  5. The Chess Players (1977)
  6. The Sand Pebbles (1966)
  7. The Great Escape (1963)
  8. The Angry Silence (1960)
  9. Jurassic Park (1993)
  10. Miracle on 34th Street (1994)

Amitabh Bachchan

(1942 - )
  1. Deewaar (1975)
  2. Sholay (1975)
  3. Anand (1971)
  4. Black (2005)
  5. Paa (2009)
  6. Piku (2015)
  7. Pink (2016)
  8. Agneepath (1990)
  9. Mohabbatein (2000)
  10. Amar Akbar Anthony (1977)

Christian Bale

(1974 - )
  1. American Psycho (2000)
  2. The Fighter (2010)
  3. Vice (2018)
  4. American Hustle (2013)
  5. Empire of the Sun (1987)
  6. The Machinist (2004)
  7. The Prestige (2006)
  8. The Big Short (2015)
  9. Batman Begins (2005)
  10. Ford v Ferrari (2019)

Javier Bardem

(1969 - )
  1. No Country for Old Men (2007)
  2. Biutiful (2010)
  3. The Sea Inside (2004)
  4. Before Night Falls (2000)
  5. Skyfall (2012)
  6. Being the Ricardos (2021)
  7. Mondays in the Sun (2002)
  8. Live Flesh (1997)
  9. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
  10. Boca a boca (1995)

John Barrymore

(1882 - 1942)
  1. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
  2. Grand Hotel (1932)
  3. Counsellor at Law (1933)
  4. Twentieth Century (1934)
  5. The Sea Beast (1926)
  6. Svengali (1931)
  7. Sherlock Holmes (1922)
  8. Beau Brummel (1924)
  9. Dinner at Eight (1933)
  10. An American Citizen (1913)

Warren Beatty

(1937 - )
  1. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
  2. Bugsy (1991)
  3. Heaven Can Wait (1978)
  4. Reds (1981)
  5. Splendor in the Grass (1961)
  6. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
  7. Shampoo (1975)
  8. Bulworth (1998)
  9. Dick Tracey (1990)
  10. The Parallax View (1974)

Jean-Paul Belmondo

(1933 - 2021)
  1. Breathless (1960)
  2. Pierrot le Fou (1965)
  3. Léon Morin, Priest (1961)
  4. That Man from Rio (1964)
  5. The Professional (1981)
  6. A Monkey in Winter (1962)
  7. Les Misérables (1995)
  8. Itinerary of a Spoiled Child (1988)
  9. Mississippi Mermaid (1969)
  10. Seven Days... Seven Nights (1960)

Roberto Benigni

(1952 - )
  1. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
  2. Down by Law (1986)
  3. Johnny Stecchino (1991)
  4. The Monster (1994)
  5. Nothing Left to Do But Cry (1984)
  6. The Little Devil (1988)
  7. Night on Earth (1991)
  8. The Tiger and the Snow (2005)
  9. Pinocchio (2019)
  10. Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)

Humphrey Bogart

(1899 - 1957)
  1. Casablanca (1942)
  2. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  3. The African Queen (1951)
  4. The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948)
  5. In a Lonely Place (1950)
  6. To Have and Have Not (1944)
  7. The Caine Mutiny (1954)
  8. The Big Sleep (1946)
  9. High Sierra (1941)
  10. Sahara (1943)

Kenneth Branagh

(1960 - )
  1. Henry V (1989)
  2. Hamlet (1996)
  3. Othello (1995)
  4. Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
  5. My Week with Marilyn (2011)
  6. Conspiracy (2001)
  7. Wallander (2008 - 2016)
  8. Shackleton (2002)
  9. Warm Springs (2005)
  10. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Marlon Brando

(1924 - 2004)
  1. On the Waterfront (1954)
  2. The Godfather (1972)
  3. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  4. Last Tango in Paris (1972)
  5. Viva Zapata! (1952)
  6. Julius Caesar (1953)
  7. The Wild One (1953)
  8. Sayonara (1957)
  9. Apocalypse Now (1979)
  10. The Men (1950)

Jeff Bridges

(1949 - )
  1. The Big Lebowski (1998)
  2. Crazy Heart (2009)
  3. Starman (1984)
  4. True Grit (2010)
  5. The Last Picture Show (1971)
  6. Hell or High Water (2016)
  7. The Fisher King (1991)
  8. The Contender (2000)
  9. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
  10. Fearless (1993)

Yul Brynner

(1920 - 1985)
  1. The King and I (1956)
  2. The Ten Commandments (1956)
  3. The Magnificent Seven (1960)
  4. Anastasia (1956)
  5. The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
  6. Taras Bulba (1962)
  7. Westworld (1973)
  8. The Sound and the Fury (1959)
  9. The Buccaneer (1958)
  10. Battle of Neretva (1969)

Richard Burton

(1925 - 1984)
  1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)
  2. Anne of the Thousand Days (1968)
  3. Becket (1964)
  4. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
  5. Equus (1977)
  6. Look Back in Anger (1959)
  7. The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
  8. My Cousin Rachel (1952)
  9. The Robe (1953)
  10. 1984 (1984)

Steve Buscemi

(1957 - )
  1. Boardwalk Empire (2010 - 2014)
  2. Ghost World (2001)
  3. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
  4. Fargo (1996)
  5. Trees Lounge (1996)
  6. The Death of Stalin (2017)
  7. The Big Lebowski (1998)
  8. Living in Oblivion (1995)
  9. Mystery Train (1989)
  10. Con Air (1997)

Nicolas Cage

(1964 - )
  1. Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
  2. Adaptation. (2002)
  3. Pig (2021)
  4. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
  5. Moonstruck (1987)
  6. Vampire's Kiss (1989)
  7. Mandy (2018)
  8. Dream Scenario (2023)
  9. Raising Arizona (1987)
  10. Wild at Heart (1990)

James Cagney

(1899 - 1986)
  1. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
  2. The Public Enemy (1931)
  3. White Heat (1949)
  4. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
  5. Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
  6. Footlight Parade (1933)
  7. Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
  8. The Roaring Twenties (1939)
  9. Taxi! (1932)
  10. One, Two, Three (1961)

Michael Caine

(1933 - )
  1. Alfie (1966)
  2. Sleuth (1972)
  3. Get Carter (1971)
  4. Educating Rita (1985)
  5. Hannah and Her Sisters (1987)
  6. The Man Who Would be King (1975)
  7. The Cider House Rules (1999)
  8. The Quiet American (2003)
  9. The Italian Job (1969)
  10. The Ipcress File (1965)

Jim Carrey

(1962 - )
  1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
  2. The Truman Show (1998)
  3. Man on the Moon (1999)
  4. The Mask (1994)
  5. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
  6. Dumb and Dumber (1994)
  7. Liar Liar (1997)
  8. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2001)
  9. The Cable Guy (1996)
  10. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

Timothée Chalamet

(1995 - )
  1. Marty Supreme (2025)
  2. Call Me by Your Name (2017)
  3. A Complete Unknown (2024)
  4. Beautiful Boy (2018)
  5. Dune: Part Two (2024)
  6. Dune (2021)
  7. Wonka (2023)
  8. Bones and All (2022)
  9. The King (2019)
  10. Little Women (2019)

Jackie Chan

(1954 - )
  1. Police Story (1985)
  2. Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978)
  3. Project A (1983)
  4. Drunken Master (1978)
  5. New Police Story (2004)
  6. Police Story 3: Super Cop (1992)
  7. Crime Story (1993)
  8. Rumble in the Bronx (1995)
  9. Who Am I? (1999)
  10. Miracles (1989)

Lon Chaney

(1883 - 1930)
  1. The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
  2. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
  3. The Unknown (1927)
  4. He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
  5. The Penalty (1920)
  6. The Unholy Three (1925; 1930)
  7. The Monster (1925)
  8. Tell It to the Marines (1926)
  9. The Miracle Man (1919)
  10. Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)

Charlie Chaplin

(1889 - 1977)
  1. City Lights (1931)
  2. The Great Dictator (1940)
  3. Modern Times (1936)
  4. The Gold Rush (1925)
  5. Limelight (1952)
  6. Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
  7. The Kid (1921)
  8. The Circus (1928)
  9. The Immigrant (1917)
  10. Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)

Montgomery Clift

(1920 - 1966)
  1. From Here to Eternity (1953)
  2. Red River (1948)
  3. A Place in the Sun (1951)
  4. The Search (1948)
  5. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
  6. The Misfits (1961)
  7. The Heiress (1949)
  8. Raintree County (1957)
  9. I Confess (1953)
  10. Freud: The Secret Passion (1962)

George Clooney

(1961 - )
  1. Up in the Air (2009)
  2. The Descendants (2011)
  3. Michael Clayton (2007)
  4. Syriana (2005)
  5. ER (1994 - 1999)
  6. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
  7. Out of Sight (1998)
  8. Three Kings (1999)
  9. From Dusk till Dawn (1996)
  10. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

Sacha Baron Cohen

(1971 - )
  1. Borat (2006)
  2. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
  3. The Spy (2015)
  4. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)
  5. Brüno (2009)
  6. Da Ali G Show (2000–2004)
  7. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
  8. Les Misérables (2012)
  9. Who is America? (2018)
  10. The Dictator (2012)

Ronald Colman

(1891 - 1958)
  1. A Double Life (1947)
  2. Bulldog Drummond (1929)
  3. Condemned (1929)
  4. Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)
  5. Random Harvest (1942)
  6. The White Sister (1923)
  7. Arrowsmith (1931)
  8. The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
  9. The Lost Horizon (1937)
  10. Beau Geste (1926)

Sean Connery

(1930 - 2020)
  1. The Untouchables (1987)
  2. Goldfinger (1964)
  3. From Russia with Love (1963)
  4. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
  5. The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
  6. Dr. No (1961)
  7. The Hunt for Red October (1990)
  8. The Name of the Rose (1986)
  9. The Rock (1996)
  10. Finding Forrester (2000)

Bradley Cooper

(1975 - )
  1. A Star Is Born (2018)
  2. Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
  3. Maestro (2023)
  4. Nightmare Alley (2021)
  5. American Sniper (2014)
  6. Licorice Pizza (2021)
  7. American Hustle (2013)
  8. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
  9. The Hangover (2009)
  10. The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)

Chris Cooper

(1951 - )
  1. Adaptation. (2003)
  2. Lone Star (1996)
  3. American Beauty (1999)
  4. Breach (2007)
  5. October Sky (1999)
  6. The Company Men (2010)
  7. Matewan (1987)
  8. Seabiscuit (2003)
  9. Capote (2005)
  10. August: Osage County (2013)

Gary Cooper

(1901 - 1961)
  1. High Noon (1952)
  2. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
  3. Sergeant Yorke (1941)
  4. Pride of the Yankees (1942)
  5. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
  6. A Farewell to Arms (1932)
  7. Ball of Fire (1941)
  8. Friendly Persuasion (1957)
  9. Along Came Jones (1945)
  10. Meet John Doe (1941)

Kevin Costner

(1955 - )
  1. Dances With Wolves (1990)
  2. Hatfields & McCoys (2012)
  3. Yellowstone (2018 - 2024)
  4. JFK (1991)
  5. The Upside of Anger (2005)
  6. A Perfect World (1993)
  7. Tin Cup (1996)
  8. Bull Durham (1988)
  9. Field of Dreams (1989)
  10. Mr. Brooks (2007)

Tom Courtenay

(1937 - )
  1. The Dresser (1983)
  2. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
  3. 45 Years (2015)
  4. King & Country (1964)
  5. Billy Liar (1963)
  6. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
  7. Last Orders (2001)
  8. A Rather English Marriage (1998)
  9. Little Dorrit (2007)
  10. Unforgotten (2015)

Bryan Cranston

(1969 - )
  1. Breaking Bad (2008 - 2013)
  2. Trumbo (2015)
  3. Malcolm in the Middle (2000 - 2006)
  4. All the Way (2016)
  5. Your Honor (2020-2023)
  6. Sneaky Pete (2015 - 2019)
  7. Better Call Saul (episode: "Breaking Bad") (2022)
  8. Isle of Dogs (2018)
  9. Curb Your Enthusiasm (episode: "Running with the Bulls") (2018)
  10. The Studio (2025)

Russell Crowe

(1964 - )
  1. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
  2. Gladiator (2000)
  3. The Insider (1999)
  4. Cinderella Man (2005)
  5. L.A. Confidential (1997)
  6. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
  7. 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
  8. American Gangster (2007)
  9. The Loudest Voice (2019)
  10. The Nice Guys (2016)

Tom Cruise

(1962 - )
  1. Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
  2. Magnolia (1999)
  3. Jerry Maguire (1996)
  4. Collateral (2004)
  5. Minority Report (2002)
  6. The Last Samurai (2003)
  7. Rain Man (1988)
  8. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
  9. A Few Good Men (1992)
  10. Risky Business (1983)

Benedict Cumberbatch

(1976 - )
  1. Sherlock (2010-2017)
  2. The Power of the Dog (2021)
  3. The Imitation Game (2014)
  4. Hawking (2004)
  5. Patrick Melrose (2018)
  6. Parade's End (2012)
  7. Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
  8. The Fifth Estate (2013)
  9. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
  10. Doctor Strange (2016)
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