Criteria: Film Performances are ranked based on initial and lasting acclaim, popular and cultural recognition, plus influence. In order to qualify for a list the performance has to come from a predominately English-language film produced or co-produced by American or British production companies.
Edited By: Tim, Bruno, Luuk, Sherick.
List Begun: 2026-05-07
1969
1. Dustin Hoffman - Midnight Cowboy 2. Glenda Jackson - Women in Love 3. Jon Voight - Midnight Cowboy 4. Jane Fonda - They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 5. Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 6. Peter O'Toole - Goodbye, Mr. Chips 7. Geneviève Bujold - Anne of the Thousand Days 8. Robert Redford - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 9. Paul Newman - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 10. Richard Burton - Anne of the Thousand Days 11. Jean-Louis Trintignant - Z 12. Jack Nicholson - Easy Rider 13. Jean-Louis Trintignant - My Night At Maud’s 14. John Wayne - True Grit 15. William Holden - The Wild Bunch 16. Gig Young - They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 17. Goldie Hawn - Cactus Flower 18. Liv Ullmann - The Passion of Anna 19. Alan Arkin - Popi 20. Dyan Cannon - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
1968
1. Katharine Hepburn - The Lion In Winter 2. Peter O'Toole - The Lion in Winter 3. Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl 4. Henry Fonda - Once Upon a Time in the West 5. Mia Farrow - Rosemary's Baby 6. Joanne Woodward - Rachel, Rachel 7. Alan Arkin - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 8. Cliff Robertson - Charly 9. Alan Bates - The Fixer 10. Monica Vitti - The Girl with the Pistol 11. Liv Ullmann - Shame 12. Ruth Gordon - Rosemary's Baby 13. Patricia Neal - The Subject Was Roses 14. Vanessa Redgrave - Isadora 15. Ron Moody - Oliver! 16. Jean-Louis Trintignant - The Man Who Lies 17. Claudia Cardinale - Once Upon a Time in the West 18. Douglas Rain - 2001: A Space Odyssey 19. Max Von Sydow - Shame 20. Walter Matthau - The Odd Couple
1967
1. Catherine Deneuve - Belle de Jour 2. Paul Newman - Cool Hand Luke 3. Sidney Poitier - In the Heat of the Night 4. Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night 5. Dustin Hoffman - The Graduate 6. Alain Delon - Le Samourai 7. Anne Bancroft - The Graduate 8. Faye Dunaway - Bonnie & Clyde 9. Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 10. Edith Evans - The Whisperers 11. Warren Beatty - Bonnie & Clyde 12. Spencer Tracy - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 13. Jacques Tati - Playtime 14. Michel Piccoli - Belle de Jour 15. Gene Wilder - The Producers 16. Gene Hackman - Bonnie & Clyde 17. George Kennedy - Cool Hand Luke 18.Audrey Hepburn - Two for the Road 19. Zero Mostel - The Producers 20. Peter Finch - Far from the Madding Crowd
1966
1. Elizabeth Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 2. Bibi Andersson - Persona 3. Paul Scofield - A Man for All Seasons 4. Richard Burton - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 5. Liv Ullmann - Persona 6. Anouk Aimee - A Man and a Woman 7. Michael Caine - Alfie 8. Clint Eastwood - The Good, The Bad and the Ugly 9. Per Oscarsson - Hunger 10. Anatoly Solonitsyn - Andrei Rublev 11. Lynn Redgrave - Georgy Girl 12. Walter Matthau - The Fortune Cookie 13. Alan Arkin - The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming 14.Vanessa Redgrave - Morgan! 15. Sandy Dennis - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 16. Jack Lemmon - The Fortune Cookie 17. Robert Shaw - A Man for All Seasons 18. Jean-Pierre Léaud - Masculin Feminin 19. Louis de Funes - La Grande Vadrouille 20. Franco Nero - Django
1965
1. Julie Christie - Darling 2. Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou 3. Julie Andrews - The Sound of Music 4. Toshiro Mifune - Red Beard 5. Samantha Eggar - The Collector 6. Ida Kaminska - The Shop On Main Street 7. Jean-Paul Belmondo - Pierrot Le Fou 8. Jeanne Moreau - Vive Maria! 9. Richard Burton - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 10. Simone Signoret - Ship of Fools 11. Omar Sharif - Doctor Zhivago 12. Julie Christie - Doctor Zhivago 13. Sidney Poitier - A Patch of Blue 14. Orson Welles - Chimes At Midnight 15. Anna Karina - Pierrot Le Fou 16. Catherine Deneuve - Repulsion 17. Oskar Werner - Ship of Fools 18. Elizabeth Hartman - A Patch of Blue 19. Sean Connery - The Hill 20.Brigitte Bardot - Viva Maria!
1964
1. Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove 2. Anthony Quinn - Zorba the Greek 3. Catherine Deneuve - The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 4. Audrey Hepburn - My Fair Lady 5. Peter O'Toole - Becket 6. Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins 7. Sophia Loren - Marriage, Italian Style 8. Richard Burton - Becket 9. Rod Steiger - The Pawnbroker 10. Kyoko Kishida - Woman in the Dunes 11. Sean Connery - Goldfinger 12. Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady 13. Anne Bancroft - The Pumpkin Eater 14. Monica Vitti -- Red Desert 15. George C. Scott -- Dr. Strangelove 16. Marcello Mastroianni - Marriage, Italian Style 17. Innokenty Smoktunovsky - Hamlet 18.Kim Stanley - Séance on a Wet Afternoon 19. Ava Gardner - The Night of the Iguana 20. Jean-Paul Belmondo - That Man from Rio
1963
1. Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field 2. Paul Newman - Hud 3. Marcello Mastroianni - 8½ 4. Richard Harris - This Sporting Life 5. Marcello Mastroianni - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 6. Albert Finney - Tom Jones 7. Shirley MacLaine - Irma la Douce 8. Gunnar Bjornstrand - Winter Light 9. Brigitte Bardot - Contempt 10. Steve McQueen - The Great Escape 11. Patricia Neal - Hud 12. Melvin Douglas - Hud 13. Natalie Wood - Love with the Proper Stranger 14. Toshiro Mifune - High and Low 15. Burt Lancaster - The Leopard 16. Sophia Loren - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 17. Dirk Bogarde - The Servant 18. Sean Connery - From Russia with Love 19. Peter Sellers - The Pink Panther 20. Claudia Cardinale - The Leopard
1962
1. Peter O'Toole - Lawrence of Arabia 2. Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird 3. Jeanne Moreau - Jules and Jim 4. Bette Davis - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 5. Tatsuya Nakadai - Harakiri 6. Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker 7. Katharine Hepburn - Long Day's Journey into Night 8. Robert Mitchum - Cape Fear 9. Omar Sharif - Lawrence of Arabia 10. Anna Karina - Vivre Sa Vie 11. Burt Lancaster - Birdman of Alcatraz 12. Jack Lemmon - Days of Wine and Roses 13. Frank Sinatra - The Manchurian Candidate 14. Angela Lansbury - The Manchurian Candidate 15. Tom Courtenay - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 16. Vittorio Gassman - Il Sorpasso 17. Anna Magnani - Mamma Roma 18. Corinne Merchand - Cleo from 5 to 7 19. Toshiro Mifune - Sanjuro 20. Peter Sellers - Lolita
1961
1. Paul Newman - The Hustler 2. Toshiro Mifune - Yojimbo 3. Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany's 4. Marcello Mastroianni - Divorce Italian Style 5. Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg 6. Natalie Wood - Splendor in the Grass 7. George C. Scott - The Hustler 8. Harriet Andersson - Through a Glass Darkly 9. Anna Karina - A Woman is a Woman 10. Spencer Tracy - Judgment at Nuremberg 11. Geraldine Page - Summer and Smoke 12. Jackie Gleason - The Hustler 13. Franco Citti - Accattone 14. Jean-Paul Belmondo - Leon Morin, Priest 15. Anouk Aimee - Lola 16. Daniela Rocca - Divorce, Italian Style 17. George Chakiris - West Side Story 18. Clark Gable - The Misfits 19. Deborah Kerr - The Innocents 20. Rita Moreno - West Side Story
1960
1. Marcello Mastroianni - La Dolce Vita 2. Sophia Loren - Two Women 3. Shirley MacLaine - The Apartment 4. Anthony Perkins - Psycho 5. Jean-Paul Belmondo - Breathless 6. Jack Lemmon - The Apartment 7. Monica Vitti - L'avventura 8. Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry 9. Kirk Douglas - Spartacus 10. Spencer Tracy - Inherit the Wind 11. Alain Delon - Purple Noon 12. Jean Seberg - Breathless 13. Hideko Takamine - When a Woman Ascends the Stairs 14. Max Von Sydow - The Virgin Spring 15. Madhubala - Mughal-E-Azam 16. Peter Ustinov - Spartacus 17. Laurence Olivier - Spartacus 18. Charles Aznavour - Shoot the Piano Player 19. Annie Girardot - Rocco and His Brothers 20. Alain Delon - Rocco and His Brothers