Greatest Film Performances by Year
1980 - 1989

  1. Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot
  2. Kenneth Branagh - Henry V
  3. Denzel Washington - Glory
  4. Morgan Freeman - Driving Miss Daisy
  5. Jessica Tandy - Driving Miss Daisy
  6. Tom Cruise - Born on the Fourth of July
  7. Robin Williams - Dead Poets Society
  8. Michelle Pfeiffer - The Fabulous Baker Boys
  9. Pauline Collins - Shirley Valentine
10. Andie MacDowell - Sex, Lies, and Videotape
11. Danny Aiello - Do the Right Thing
12. Morgan Freeman - Glory
13. Meg Ryan - When Harry Met Sally…
14. Gary Oldman - The FIrm
15. Bruce Davison - Longtime Companion
16. Jessica Lange - Music Box
17. Brenda Fricker - My Left Foot
18. Marlon Brando - A Dry White Season
19. Chen Sung-Young - A City of Sadness
20. Julia Roberts - Steel Magnolias

  1. Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man
  2. Philippe Noiret - Cinema Paradiso
  3. Jodie Foster - The Accused
  4. Tom Hanks - Big
  5. Jeremy Irons - Dead Ringers
  6. Glenn Close - Dangerous Liaisons
  7. Kevin Kline - A Fish Called Wanda
  8. Gene Hackman - Mississippi Burning
  9. Carmen Maura - Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
10. Isabelle Adjani - Camille Claudel
11. Alan Rickman - Die Hard
12. Edward James Olmos - Stand and Deliver
13. Isabelle Huppert - The Story of Women
14. Michelle Pfeiffer - Dangerous Liaisons
15. Meryl Streep - A Cry in the Dark
16. Susan Sarandon - Bull Durham
17. Sigourney Weaver - Gorillas in the Mist
18. Forest Whitaker - Bird
19. Stefania Sandrelli - Mignon Has Come To Stay
20. Melanie Griffith - Working Girl

  1. Michael Douglas - Wall Street
  2. Glenn Close - Fatal Attraction
  3. Max Von Sydow - Pelle the Conqueror
  4. Marcello Mastroianni - Dark Eyes
  5. Sean Connery - The Untouchables
  6. Morgan Freeman - Street Smart
  7. Cher - Moonstruck
  8. Robert Downey Jr. - Less Than Zero
  9. Holly Hunter - Broadcast News
10. Jack Nicholson - Ironweed
11. Albert Brooks - Broadcast News
12. Robin Williams - Good Morning Vietnam
13. R. Lee Ermey - Full Metal Jacket
14. Richard E. Grant- Withnail & I
15. Sally Kirkland - Anna
16. Olympia Dukakis - Moonstruck
17. Christian Bale - Empire of the Sun
18. Bruno Ganz - Wings of Desire
19. Meryl Streep - Ironweed
20. Vincent D’onofrio - Full Metal Jacket

  1. Dennis Hopper - Blue Velvet
  2. Willem Dafoe - Platoon
  3. Daniel Auteuil - Jean de Florette
  4. Gary Oldman - Sid & Nancy
  5. Gérard Depardieu - Jean de Florette
  6. Erland Josephson - The Sacrifice
  7. James Woods - Salvador
  8. Paul Newman - The Color of Money
  9. Marlee Matlin- Children of a Lesser God
10. Sigourney Weaver - Aliens
11. Yves Montand - Jean de Florette
12. Bob Hoskins - Mona Lisa
13. Dianne Wiest - Hannah and Her Sisters
14. Matthew Broderick - Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
15. Sissy Spacek - Crimes of the Heart
16. Kathleen Turner - Peggy Sue Got Married
17. Chow Yun-Fat - A Better Tomorrow
18. Jeff Goldblum - The Fly
19. Michael Rooker - Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
20. Michael Caine - Hannah and Her Sisters

  1. William Hurt - Kiss of the Spider Woman
  2. Sandrine Bonnaire - Vagabond
  3. Whoopi Goldberg - The Color Purple
  4. Geraldine Page - The Trip to Bountiful
  5. Anjelica Huston - Prizzi's Honor
  6. Jon Voight - Runaway Train
  7. Aleksei Kravchenko - Come and See
  8. Raúl Juliá - Kiss of the Spider Woman
  9. Harrison Ford - Witness
10. Tatsuya Nakadai - Ran
11. Robert Redford - Out Of África
12. Meryl Streep - Out of África
13. Norma Aleandro - The Official Story
14. Jackie Chan - Police Story
15. Christopher Lloyd - Back to the Future
16. Gerard Depardieu - Police
17. Ken Ogata - Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
18. Jack Nicholson - Prizzi's Honor
19. Klaus Maria Brandauer - Out of África
20. Mieko Harada - Ran

  1. F. Murray Abraham - Amadeus
  2. Albert Finney - Under the Volcano
  3. Sally Field - Places in the Heart
  4. Robert De Niro - Once Upon A Time In America
  5. Harry Dean Stanton - Paris, Texas
  6. Haing S. Ngor - The Killing Fields
  7. Peggy Ashcroft - A Passage to India
  8. John Malkovich - Places in the Heart
  9. James Woods - Once Upon A Time In America
10. Jeff Bridges - Starman
11. Tom Hulce - Amadeus
12. Vanessa Redgrave - The Bostonians
13. Nastassja Kinski - Paris, Texas
14. Claudia Cardinale - Claretta
15. Bill Murray - Ghostbusters
16. Arnold Schwarzenegger - The Terminator
17. Robert Redford - The Natural
18. Alain Delon - Notre Histoire
19. Eddie Murphy - Beverly Hills Cop
20. Robin Williams - Moscow on the Hudson

  1. Shirley MacLaine - Terms of Endearment
  2. Al Pacino - Scarface
  3. Meryl Streep - Silkwood
  4. Robert Duvall - Tender Mercies
  5. Jack Nicholson - Terms of Endearment
  6. Tom Courtenay - The Dresser
  7. Christopher Walken - The Dead Zone
  8. Albert Finney - The Dresser
  9. Jane Alexander - Testament
10. Cher - Silkwood
11. Debra Winger - Terms of Endearment
12. Gerard Depardieu - Danton
13. David Bowie - Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
14. Michael Caine - Educating Rita
15. Tom Conti - Reuben, Reuben
16. Julie Walters - Educating Rita
17. James Woods - Videodrome
18. Jackie Chan - Project A
19. Eric Roberts - Star 80
20. Charles Durning - To Be or Not to Be

  1. Meryl Streep - Sophie's Choice
  2. Ben Kingsley - Gandhi
  3. Robert De Niro - The King of Comedy
  4. Dustin Hoffman - Tootsie
  5. Paul Newman - The Verdict
  6. Jack Lemmon - Missing
  7. Klaus Kinski - Fitzcarraldo
  8. Rutger Hauer - Blade Runner
  9. Jessica Lange - Frances
10. Peter O'Toole - My Favourite Year
11. Julie Andrews - Victor/Victoria
12. Diane Keaton - Shoot the Moon
13. Jan Malmsjo - Fanny and Alexander
14. Sissy Spacek - Missing
15. Glenn Close - The World According to Garp
16. Robert Preston - Victor/Victoria
17. Linda Hunt - The Year of Living Dangerously
18. Harrison Ford - Blade Runner
19. Louis Gossett Jr. - An Officer and a Gentleman
20. Claudia Cardinale - Fitzcarraldo

  1. Isabelle Adjani - Possession
  2. Meryl Streep - The French Lieutenant's Woman
  3. Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond
  4. Katharine Hepburn - On Golden Pond
  5. Harrison Ford - Raiders of the Lost Ark
  6. John Gielgud - Arthur
  7. Diane Keaton - Reds
  8. Paul Newman - Absence of Malice
  9. Jack Nicholson - Reds
10. Dudley Moore - Arthur
11. Jeremy Irons - The French Lieutenant's Woman
12. Bernadette Peters - Pennies from Heaven
13. Howard E. Rollins - Ragtime
13. Maureen Stapleton - Reds
14. Michel Piccoli - Strange Affair
15. Maureen Stapleton - Reds
16. Ian Holm - Chariots of Fire
17. Warren Beatty - Reds
18. Melinda Dillon - Absence of Malice
19. Ben Cross - Chariots of Fire
20. Ian Charleson - Chariots of Fire

  1. Robert De Niro - Raging Bull
  2. Jack Nicholson - The Shining
  3. Sissy Spacek - The Coal Miner's Daughter
  4. John Hurt - The Elephant Man
  5. Catherine Deneuve - The Last Metro
  6. Burt Lancaster - Atlantic City
  7. Timothy Hutton - Ordinary People
  8. Gerard Depardieu - The Last Metro
  9. Tatsuya Nakadai - Kagemusha
10. Joe Pesci - Raging Bull
11. Mary Tyler Moore - Ordinary People
12. Gena Rowlands - Gloria
13. Peter O'Toole - The Stunt Man
14. Leslie Nielsen - Airplane!
15. Marilia Pera - Pixote
16. Michel Piccoli - A Leap in the Dark
17. Anouk Aimee - A Leap in the Dark
18. Donald Sutherland - Ordinary People
19. Anthony Hopkins - The Elephant Man
20. Bob Hoskins - The Long Good Friday