Greatest Screen Performances per Film Actors

[Tim]

I guess, it's up there with his most famous roles but I wouldn't say it's in running for his most acclaimed.

[Tim]

Yura Borisov (1989 - )
1. Anora (2024)
2. Compartment No. 6 (2021)
3. Captain Volkonogov Escaped (2021)
4. AK-47 (2020)
5. The Bull (2019)

David Bowie (1947 - 2016)
1. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
2. The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
3. Labyrinth (1986)
4. Basquiat (1996)
5. The Prestige (2006)

Austin Butler (1991 - )
1. Elvis (2022)
2. Dune: Part Two (2024)
3. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
4. Masters of the Air (2024)
5. Caught Stealing (2025)

Michael Cera (1988 - )
1. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
2. Superbad (2007)
3. Arrested Development (2003 - 2006; 2013 - 2019)
4. Juno (2007)
5. Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus (2013)
6. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)
7. This Is the End (2013)
8. The Phoenician Scheme (2025)
9. Barbie (2023)
10. Molly's Game (2017)

Don Cheadle (1964 - )
1. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
2. Talk to Me (2007)
3. Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
4. A Lesson Before Dying (1999)
5. Miles Ahead (2016)
6. House of Lies (2012 - 2016)
7. Black Monday (2019 - 2021)
8. Crash (2004)
9. Traffic (2000)
10. The Rat Pack (1998)

Nikolay Cherkasov (1903 - 1966)
1. Ivan the Terrible Part 1 (1944)
2. Ivan the Terrible Part 2 (1946)
3. Alexander Nevsky (1938)
4. Don Quixote (1957)
5. Mussorgsky (1950)
6. Alexander Popov (1949)
7. All Remains to People (1963)
8. Happy Sailing (1949)
9. The Children of Captain Grant (1936)
10. Peter the Great (1937)

[Tim]

Choi Min-sik (1962 - )
1. Oldboy (2003)
2. The Admiral: Roaring Currents (2014)
3. Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time (2012)
4. Exhuma (2024)
5. Big Bet (2022)
6. I Saw the Devil (2010)
7. Failan (2001)
8. Shiri (1999)
9. Happy End (1999)
10. Springtime (2004)

Stephen Chow (1962 - )
1. Shaolin Soccer (2001)
2. Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
3. A Chinese Odyssey Part 2: Cinderella (1995)
4. A Chinese Odyssey Part 1: Pandora's Box (1995)
5. Justice, My Foot! (1992)
6. Fight Back to School (1991)
7. All for the Winner (1990)
8. From Beijing with Love (1994)
9. Final Justice (1988)
10. Flirting Scholar (1993)

Chow Yun-fat (1955 - )
1. A Better Tomorrow (1986)
2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
3. The Killer (1989)
4. Hard Boiled (1992)
5. City on Fire (1987)
6. An Autumn's Tale (1987)
7. All About-Ah Long (1989)
8. Hong Kong 1941 (1984)
9. The Postmodern Life of My Aunt (2006)
10. Let the Bullets Fly (2010)

Lee J. Cobb (1911 - 1976)
1. 12 Angry Men (1957)
2. On the Waterfront (1954)
3. The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
4. The Dark Past (1948)
5. Boomerang! (1947)
6. Thieves' Highway (1949)
7. Death of a Salesman (1966)
8. Playhouse 90: Project Immortality (1959)
9. Studio One: No Deadly Medicine (1957)
10. Exodus (1960)

Joseph Cotten (1905 - 1994)
1. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
2. The Third Man (1949)
3. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
4. Citizen Kane (1941)
5. Portrait of Jennie (1948)
6. Since You Went Away (1944)
7. Lydia (1941)
8. Gaslight (1944)
9. Duel in the Sun (1946)
10. The Farmer's Daughter (1947)

Daniel Craig (1968 - )
1. Queer (2024)
2. Casino Royale (2006)
3. Glass Onion (2022)
4. Knives Out (2019)
5. Skyfall (2012)
6. Layer Cake (2004)
7. Road to Perdition (2002)
8. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
9. The Mother (2003)
10. Munich (2005)

[Tim]

Bing Crosby (1903 - 1977)
1. Going My Way (1944)
2. The Country Girl (1954)
3. The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
4. Man on Fire (1957)
5. Stagecoach (1966)
6. Dr. Cook's Garden (1971)
7. Here Comes the Groom (1951)
8. Say One for Me (1959)
9. Holiday Inn (1942)
10. Road to Morocco (1942)

Tony Curtis (1925 - 2010)
1. Some Like It Hot (1959)
2. The Defiant Ones (1958)
3. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
4. The Boston Strangler (1968)
5. Spartacus (1960)
6. Operation Petticoat (1959)
7. The Perfect Furlough (1958)
8. The Persuaders! (1971 - 1972)
9. Houdini (1953)
10. The Outsider (1961)

John Cusack (1966 - )
1. High Fidelity (2000)
2. Being John Malkovich (1999)
3. Say Anything... (1989)
4. The Grifters (1990)
5. Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
6. Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
7. 1408 (2007)
8. Maps to the Stars (2014)
9. Love & Mercy (2014)
10. Identity (2003)

Jeff Daniels (1955 - )
1. The Squid and the Whale (2005)
2. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
3. Something Wild (1986)
4. Gettysburg (1993)
5. Dumb and Dumber (1994)
6. The Newsroom (2012 - 2014)
7. Godless (2017)
8. The Comey Rule (2020)
9. The Looming Tower (2018)
10. Terms of Endearment (1983)

Paul Dano (1984 - )
1. There Will Be Blood (2007)
2. Love & Mercy (2014)
3. Ruby Sparks (2012)
4. Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
5. The Fabelmans (2022)
6. The Batman (2022)
7. Prisoners (2013)
8. L.I.E. (2001)
9. Escape at Dannemora (2018)
10. Youth (2015)

Divine (1945 - 1988)
1. Pink Flamingos (1972)
2. Hairspray (1988)
3. Female Trouble (1974)
4. Polyester (1981)
5. Multiple Maniacs (1970)

[ManPerson]

I think I'd move Say Anything up a spot on Cusack's list.

[Tim]

Bruce Dern (1936 - )
1. Nebraska (2013)
2. Coming Home (1978)
3. That Championship Season (1982)
4. Black Sunday (1977)
5. Silent Running (1972)
6. The Great Gatsby (1974)
7. The Cowboys (1972)
8. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
9. Smile (1975)
10. Family Plot (1976)

August Diehl (1976 - )
1. A Hidden Life (2019)
2. The Counterfeiters (2007)
3. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
4. The Disappearance of Josef Mengele (2025)
5. Love in Thoughts (2004)
6. 23 (1998)
7. The Master and Margarita (2024)
8. The Ninth Day (2004)
9. If Not Us, Who? (2011)
10. The Young Karl Marx (2017)

Robert Donat (1905 - 1958)
1. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
2. The Citadel (1938)
3. The 39 Steps (1935)
4. The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
5. The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
6. The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
7. Perfect Strangers (1945)
8. Lease of Life (1954)
9. Knight Without Armour (1937)
10. The Winslow Boy (1948)

Melvyn Douglas (1901 - 1981)
1. I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
2. Being There (1979)
3. Hud (1963)
4. Ninotchka (1939)
5. As You Desire Me (1932)
6. Captains Courageous (1937)
7. Too Many Husbands (1940)
8. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
9. The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979)
10. The Changeling (1980)

Richard Dreyfuss (1947 - )
1. The Goodbye Girl (1977)
2. Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
4. Jaws (1975)
5. American Graffiti (1973)
6. The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2004)
7. The Education of Max Bickford (2001–2002)
8. The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001)
9. Nuts (1987)
10. What About Bob? (1991)

Michael Clarke Duncan (1957 - 2012)
1. The Green Mile (1999)
2. The Whole Nine Yards (2000)
3. Sin City (2005)
4. Armageddon (1998)
5. The Finder (2012)

[Tim]

Joel Edgerton (1974 - )
1. Train Dreams (2025)
2. Loving (2016)
3. Black Mass (2015)
4. The King (2019)
5. The Gift (2015)
6. Boy Erased (2018)
7. Warrior (2011)
8. The Stranger (2022)
9. Wish You Were Here (2012)
10. The Secret Life of Us (2001 - 2002)

Jesse Eisenberg (1983 - )
1. The Social Network (2010)
2. A Real Pain (2024)
3. The Squid and the Whale (2005)
4. Roger Dodger (2002)
5. The Double (2013)
6. Adventureland (2009)
7. Zombieland (2009)
8. Café Society (2016)
9. Fleishman Is in Trouble (2022)
10. Get Real (1999 - 2000)

Chiwetel Ejiofor (1977 - )
1. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
2. Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
3. Talk to Me (2007)
4. Serenity (2005)
5. Backrooms (2026)
6. Kinky Boots (2005)
7. Dancing on the Edge (2013)
8. The Man Who Fell to Earth (2022)
9. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019)
10. Tsunami: The Aftermath (2006)

Idris Elba (1972 - )
1. The Wire (2002 - 2004)
2. Luther (2010 - 2019)
3. Beasts of No Nation (2015)
4. Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)
5. Hijack (2023 - 2026)
6. Molly's Game (2017)
7. The Suicide Squad (2021)
8. The Harder They Fall (2021)
9. The Jungle Book (2016)
10. Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty (2023)

Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921 - 2007)
1. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
2. The Anchorite (1976)
3. Stico (1985)
4. Ana and the Wolves (1973)
5. The Grandfather (1998)
6. Butterfly's Tongue (1999)
7. All About My Mother (1999)
8. Belle Époque (1992)
9. Mama Turns 100 (1979)
10. Voyage to Nowhere (1986)

Fernandel (1903 - 1971)
1. Little World of Don Camillo (1952)
2. The Sheep Has Five Legs (1954)
3. The Cow and I (1959)
4. Heartbeat (1938)
5. The Well-Digger's Daughter (1940)
6. The Law Is the Law (1958)
7. Topaze (1951)
8. The Red Inn (1951)
9. Harvest (1937)
10. Fric-Frac (1939)

[Dubrow555]

What do you guys think?:

Sam Neill:

1. Jurassic Park
2. Possession
3. In the Mouth of Madness
4. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
5. The Piano
6. Event Horizon
7. Reilly: Ace of Spies
8. Merlin
9. Rams
10. Evil Angels (A Cry in the Dark)

[Tim]

Looks good, nice tribute from you.

[ManPerson]

I like his performance in Hunt for the Wilderpeople.

[Tim]

Alec Baldwin (1958 - )
1. 30 Rock (2006 - 2013)
2. The Cooler (2003)
3. Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
4. It's Complicated (2009)
5. Nuremberg (2000)
6. A Streetcar Named Desire (1995)
7. Saturday Night Live (2016 - 2020; 2024)
8. The Departed (2006)
9. The Hunt for Red October (1990)
10. The Boss Baby (2017)

Tim Curry (1946 - 2026)
1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
2. It (1990)
3. Clue (1985)
4. Legend (1985)
5. Muppet Treasure Island (1996)
6. The Wild Thornberrys (1998 - 2004)
7. Annie (1982)
8. Tales from the Crypt (episode: "Death of Some Salesman") (1993)
9. Ferngully: The Last Rainforest (1992)
10. The Three Musketeers (1993)

Will Ferrell (1967 - )
1. Stranger than Fiction (2006)
2. Elf (2003)
3. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
4. Step Brothers (2008)
5. Saturday Night Live (1995 - 2002)
6. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
7. The Lego Movie (2014)
8. Everything Must Go (2010)
9. The Other Guys (2010)
10. Zoolander (2001)

José Ferrer (1912 - 1992)
1. Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
2. Moulin Rouge (1952)
3. Joan of Arc (1948)
4. The Caine Mutiny (1954)
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
6. Producers' Showcase: Cyrano de Bergerac (1953)
7. The Great Man (1956)
8. I Accuse! (1958)
9. Crisis (1950)
10. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peter Finch (1916 - 1977)
1. Network (1976)
2. Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
3. Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
4. A Town Like Alice (1956)
5. The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)
6. No Love for Johnnie (1961)
7. The Nun's Story (1959)
8. Windom's Way (1957)
9. Raid on Entebbe (1976)
10. Father Brown (1954)

Laurence Fishburn (1961 - )
1. What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)
2. Boyz n the Hood (1991)
3. Othello (1995)
4. The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)
5. Miss Evers' Boys (1997)
6. The Matrix (1999)
7. TriBeCa: The Box (1993)
8. Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
9. Deep Cover (1992)
10. Higher Learning (1995)