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Bruno wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 11:08 am

Bruno wrote: Fri Mar 14, 2025 1:43 pm Did anyone save those top 10 actor performances from the old forum?

Guys?

Honestly...might be fun to start from scratch?

Guys, it's all in the Wayback Machine

Dubrow555 wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 11:14 pm

Bruno wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 11:08 am

Bruno wrote: Fri Mar 14, 2025 1:43 pm Did anyone save those top 10 actor performances from the old forum?

Guys?

Honestly...might be fun to start from scratch?

Yep!

Timi?

Fido wrote: Tue Apr 08, 2025 3:47 am Guys, it's all in the Wayback Machine

How?

https://web.archive.org/web/20240515154 ... com/forum/

Just use this link and browse normally

Fido wrote: Fri Apr 25, 2025 10:51 am https://web.archive.org/web/20240515154 ... com/forum/

Just use this link and browse normally

Thanks, Fido!

I've scoured pretty much every list of performances I could find with the goals of:
1. Finding good foreign performances to add to the list
2. Deemphasizing the oscars a bit in favor of performances with more lasting acclaim or cultural impact

Here's what I've come up with. Feel free to make suggestions, especially for performances I might have missed out on.
2024
1. Adrien Brody - The Brutalist
2. Fernanda Torres - I’m Still Here
3. Mikey Madison - Anora
4. Marianne Jean-Baptiste - Hard Truths
5. Demi Moore - The Substance
6. Ralph Fiennes - Conclave
7. Kieran Culkin - A Real Pain
8. Daniel Craig - Queer
9. Ariana Grande - Wicked
10. Yura Borisov - Anora

11. Cynthia Erivo - Wicked
12. Margaret Qualley - The Substance
13. Zoe Saldana - Emilia Perez
14. Timothée Chalamet - A Complete Unknown
15. Nicole Kidman - Babygirl
16. Guy Pearce - The Brutalist
17. Isabella Rossellini - Conclave
18.. Danielle Deadwyler - The Piano Lesson
19. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor - Nickel Boys
20. Felicity Jones - The Brutalist


2023
1. Emma Stone - Poor Things
2. Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer
3. Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon
4. Sandra Huller - Anatomy of a Fall
5. Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers
6. Da’Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers
7. Robert Downey Jr. - Oppenheimer
8. Koji Yakusho - Perfect Days
9. Ryan Gosling - Barbie
10. Leonardo DiCaprio - Killers of the Flower Moon
11. Charles Melton - May December
12. Franz Rogowski - Passages
13. Greta Lee - Past Lives
14. Carey Mulligan - Maestro
15. Bradley Cooper - Maestro
16. Colman Domingo - Sing, Sing
17. Andrew Scott - All of Us Strangers
18. Mark Ruffalo - Poor Things
19. Margot Robbie - Barbie
20. Jeffrey Wright - American Fiction

2022
1. Cate Blanchett - Tár
2. Michelle Yeoh - Everything Everywhere All at Once
3. Colin Farrell - The Banshees of Inisherin
4. Brendan Fraser - The Whale
5. Ke Huy Quan - Everything Everywhere All at Once
6. Paul Mescal - Aftersun
7. Brendan Gleeson - The Banshees of Inisherin
8. Kerry Condon - The Banshees of Inisherin
9. Danielle Deadwyler - Till
10. Austin Butler - Elvis

11. Barry Keoghan - The Banshees of Inisherin
12. Tang Wei - Decision to Leave
13. Michelle Williams - The Fabelmans
14. Margot Robbie - Babylon
15. Park Hae-Il - Decision to Leave
16. Bill Nighy - Living
17. Stephanie Hsu - Everything Everywhere All at Once
18. Dolly De Leon - Triangle of Sadness
19. Mia Goth - Pearl
20. Viola Davis - The Woman King

2021
1. Kristen Stewart - Spencer
2. Benedict Cumberbatch - The Power of the Dog
3. Penelope Cruz - Parallel Mothers
4. Daniel Kaluuya - Judas and the Black Messiah
5. Denzel Washington - The Tragedy of Macbeth
6. Andrew Garfield - tick, tick... BOOM!
7. Renate Reinsve - Worst Person in the World
8. Will Smith - King Richard
9. Olivia Colman - The Lost Daughter
10. Nicolas Cage - Pig

11. Hiditoshi Nishijima - Drive My Car
12. Jessica Chastain - The Eyes of Tammy Faye
13. Kodi Smit McPhee - The Power of the Dog
14. Troy Kotsur - CODA
15. Ariana DeBose - West Side Story
16. Vincent Lindon - Titane
16. Agathe Rousselle - Titane
18. Andre Day - The United States Vs. Billie Holiday
19. Simon Rex - Red Rocket
20. Kirsten Dunst - The Power of the Dog

2020
1. Anthony Hopkins - The Father
2. Frances McDormand - Nomadland
3. Chadwick Boseman - Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
4. Carey Mulligan - Promising Young Woman
5. Viola Davis - Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
6. Mads Mikkelsen - Another Round
7. Vanessa Kirby - Pieces of a Woman
8. Youn Yuh-jung - Minari
9. Gary Oldman - Mank
10. Steven Yeun - Minari
11. Leslie Odom Jr. - One Night in Miami…
12. Delroy Lindo - Da 5 Bloods
13. Maria Bakalova - Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
14. Olivia Colman - The Father
15. Amanda Seyfried - Mank
16. Ellen Burstyn - Pieces of a Woman
17. Sidney Flanigan - Never Rarely Sometimes Always
18. Elisabeth Moss - The Invisible Man
19. Sacha Baron Cohen - The Trial of the Chicago 7
20. Andy Samberg - Palm Springs

2019
1. Joaquin Phoenix - Joker
2. Antonio Banderas - Pain and Glory
3. Adam Driver - Marriage Story
4. Adam Sandler - Uncut Gems
5. Song Kang-Ho - Parasite
6. Scarlett Johansson - Marriage Story
7. Riz Ahmed - Sound of Metal
8. Joe Pesci - The Irishman
9. Saoirse Ronan - Little Women
10. Renée Zellweger - Judy
11. Robert De Niro - The Irishman
12. Leonardo DiCaprio - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
13. Brad Pitt - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
14. Willem Dafoe - The Lighthouse
15. Bartosz Bielenia - Corpus Christi
16. Adele Haenel - Portrait of a Lady On Fire
17. Lupita Nyong'o - Us
18. Noemie Merlant - Portrait of a Lady On Fire
19. Robert Pattinson - The Lighthouse
20. Florence Pugh - Midsommar

2018
1. Olivia Colman - The Favourite
2. Toni Collette - Hereditary
3. Yalitza Aparicio - Roma
4. Richard E. Grant - Can You Ever Forgive Me?
5. Lady Gaga - A Star Is Born
6. Bradley Cooper - A Star is Born
7. Christian Bale - Vice
8. Willem Dafoe - At Eternity's Gate
9. Regina King - If Beale Street Could Talk
10. Melissa McCarthy - Can You Ever Forgive Me?
11. Steven Yuen - Burning
12. Elsie Fisher - Eighth Grade
13. Michael B. Jordan - Black Panther
14. Rami Malek - Bohemian Rhapsody
15. Mahershala Ali - Green Book
16. Amy Adams - Vice
17. Viggo Mortensen - Green Book
18. Marina de Tavira - Roma
19. Sakura Ando - Shoplifters
20. Charlize Theron - Tully

2017
1. Frances McDormand - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2. Ethan Hawke - First Reformed
3. Daniel Day-Lewis - Phantom Thread
4. Glenn Close - The Wife
5. Timothée Chalamet - Call Me by Your Name
6. Daniel Kaluuya - Get Out
7. Gary Oldman - Darkest Hour
8. Sam Rockwell - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
9. Saoirse Ronan - Lady Bird
10. Sally Hawkins - The Shape of Water

11. Allison Janney - I, Tonya
12. James Franco - The Disaster Artist
13. Willem Dafoe - The Florida Project
14. Laurie Metcalf - Lady Bird
15. Margot Robbie - I, Tonya
16. Juliette Binoche - Let the Sunshine In
17. Woody Harrelson - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
18. Robert Pattinson - Good Time
19. Lesley Manville - Phantom Thread
20. Mary J. Blige - Mudbound

2016
1. Casey Affleck - Manchester by the Sea
2. Isabelle Huppert - Elle
3. Mahershala Ali - Moonlight
4. Natalie Portman - Jackie
5. Emma Stone - La La Land
6. Viola Davis - Fences
7. Amy Adams - Arrival
8. Denzel Washington - Fences
9. Sandra Huller - Toni Erdmann
10. Viggo Mortensen - Captain Fantastic

11. Michelle Williams - Manchester by the Sea
12. Adam Driver - Paterson
13. Peter Simonischek - Toni Erdmann
14. Shahab Hosseini - The Salesman
15. Andrew Garfield - Silence
16. Ruth Negga - Loving
17. Annette Bening - 20th Century Women
18. Ryan Gosling - La La Land
19. Ryan Reynolds - Deadpool
20. Lily Gladstone - Certain Women

2015
1. Brie Larson - Room
2. Cate Blanchett - Carol
3. Leonardo DiCaprio - The Revenant
4. Michael Fassbender - Steve Jobs
5. Rooney Mara - Carol
6. Matt Damon - The Martian
7. Charlotte Rampling - 45 Years
8. Jacob Tremblay - Room
9. Tom Hardy - The Revenant
10. Kate Winslet - Steve Jobs

11. Idris Elba - Beasts of No Nation
12. Bryan Cranston - Trumbo
13. Charlize Theron - Mad Max: Fury Road
14. Johnny Depp - Black Mass
15. Kristen Stewart - Clouds of Sils Maria
16. Saoirse Ronan - Brooklyn
17. Sylvester Stallone - Creed
18. Alicia Vikander - The Danish Girl
19. Jennifer Jason Leigh - The Hateful Eight
20. Tom Courtenay - 45 Years

2014
1. J.K. Simmons - Whiplash
2. Michael Keaton - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
3. Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler
4. Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl
5. Marion Cotillard - Two Days, One Night
6. Julianne Moore - Still Alice
7. Ralph Fiennes - The Grand Budapest Hotel
8. Eddie Redmayne - The Theory of Everything
9. Alicia Vikander - Ex Machina
10. Patricia Arquette - Boyhood

11. Benedict Cumberbatch - The Imitation Game
12. David Oyelowo - Selma
13. Felicity Jones - The Theory of Everything
14. Emma Stone - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
15. Matthew McConaughey - Interstellar
16. Edward Norton - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
17. Anne Dorval - Mommy
18. Antoine Olivier Pilon - Mommy
19. Reese Witherspoon - Wild
20. Andy Serkis - Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

2013
1. Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine
2. Leonardo DiCaprio - The Wolf of Wall Street
3. Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club
4. Adele Exarchopoulos - Blue is the Warmest Colour
5. Sandra Bullock - Gravity
6. Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave
7. Barkhad Abdi - Captain Phillips
8. Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club
9. Toni Servillo - The Great Beauty
10. Bruce Dern - Nebraska
11. Lupita Nyong'o - 12 Years a Slave
12. Lea Seydoux - Blue is the Warmest Colour
13. Joaquin Phoenix - Her
14. Tom Hanks - Captain Phillips
15. Oscar Isaac - Inside Llewyn Davis
16. Scarlett Johansson - Under the Skin
17. Christian Bale - American Hustle
18. Amy Adams - American Hustle
19. Agata Kulesza - Ida
20. Tilda Swinton - Snowpiercer

2012
1. Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln
2. Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master
3. Joaquin Phoenix - The Master
4. Emmanuelle Riva - Amour
5. Mads Mikkelsen - The Hunt
6. Jean-Louis Trintignant - Amour
7. Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
8. Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
9. Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained
10. Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild

11. Javier Bardem - Skyfall
12. Marion Cotillard - Rust and Bone
13. Denis Lavant - Holy Motors
14. Leonardo DiCaprio - Django Unchained
15. Anne Hathaway - Les Misérables
16. Naomi Watts - The Impossible
17. Amy Adams - The Master
18. Sridevi - English Vinglish
19. Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln
20. John Hawkes - The Sessions

2011
1. Rooney Mara - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2. Gary Oldman - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
3. Michael Fassbender - Shame
4. Michelle Williams - My Week with Marilyn
5. George Clooney - The Descendants
6. Ryan Gosling - Drive
7. Albert Brooks - Drive
8. Viola Davis - The Help
9. Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady
10. Kirsten Dunst - Melancholia
11. Leila Hatami - A Separation
12. Michael Shannon - Take Shelter
13. Tilda Swinton - We Need to Talk About Kevin
14. Jean Dujardin - The Artist
15. Peyman Moaadi - A Separation
16. Elizabeth Olsen - Martha Marcy May Marlene
17. Octavia Spencer - The Help
18. Melissa McCarthy - Bridesmaids
19. Anna Paquin - Margaret
20. Omar Sy - The Intouchables

2010
1. Natalie Portman - Black Swan
2. Christian Bale - The Fighter
3. Jesse Eisenberg - The Social Network
4. Javier Bardem - Biutiful
5. Juliette Binoche - Certified Copy
6. Colin Firth - The King's Speech
7. Melissa Leo - The Fighter
8. Yoon Jeong-Hee - Poetry
9. Michelle Williams - Blue Valentine
10. Jennifer Lawrence - Winter's Bone
11. James Franco - 127 Hours
12. Robert Duvall - Get Low
13. Annette Bening - The Kids Are All Right
14. Geoffrey Rush - The King's Speech
15. Christopher Plummer - Beginners
16. Jeff Bridges - True Grit
17. Carey Mulligan - Never Let Me Go
18. Ryan Gosling - Blue Valentine
19. Leonardo DiCaprio - Shutter Island
20. Hailee Steinfeld - True Grit

2009
1. Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
2. Colin Firth - A Single Man
3. Mo'Nique - Precious
4. Carey Mulligan - An Education
5. Tahar Rahim - A Prophet
6. Gabourey Sidibé - Precious
7. Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart
8. George Clooney - Up in the Air
9. Morgan Freeman - Invictus
10. Kim Hye-Ja - Mother
11. Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia
12. Sharlto Copley - District 9
13. Mélanie Laurent - Inglourious Basterds
14. Sam Rockwell - Moon
15. Niels Arestrup - A Prophet
16. Viggo Mortensen - The Road
17. Ricardo Darin - The Secret in Their Eyes
18. Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side
19. Nicolas Cage - Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
20. Saoirse Ronan - The Lovely Bones

2008
1. Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
2. Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler
3. Sean Penn - Milk
4. Meryl Streep - Doubt
5. Robert Downey Jr. - Tropic Thunder
6. Yolande Moreau - Seraphine
7. Kate Winslet - Revolutionary Road
8. Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
9. Kate Winslet - The Reader
10. Kristin Scott Thomas - I've Loved You So Long

11. Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
12. Michael Fassbender - Hunger
13. Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
14. Sally Hawkins - Happy-Go-Lucky
15. Brendan Gleeson - In Bruges
16. Colin Farrell - In Bruges
17. Robert Downey Jr. - Iron Man
18. Angelina Jolie - Changeling
19. Tom Hardy - Bronson
20. Leonardo DiCaprio - Revolutionary Road

2007
1. Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
2. Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
3. Marion Cotillard - La Vie En Rose
4. Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton
5. Philip Seymour Hoffman - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
6. Paul Dano - There Will Be Blood
7. Anamaria Marinca - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
8. Mathieu Amalric - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
9. Saoirse Ronan - Atonement
10. Jeon-Do Yeon - Secret Sunshine
11. Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
12. Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There
13. Keira Knightley - Atonement
14. Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises
15. Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
16. Denzel Washington - American Gangster
17. George Clooney - Michael Clayton
18. Tony Leung Chiu-Wai - Lust, Caution
19. Vlad Ivanov - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
20. Elliott Page - Juno

2006
1. Penelope Cruz - Volver
2. Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada
3. Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland
4. Ulrich Muhe - The Lives of Others
5. Helen Mirren - The Queen
6. Julie Christie - Away from Her
7. Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson
8. Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed
9. Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness
10. Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat

11. Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal
12. Kate Winslet - Little Children
13. Laura Dern - Inland Empire
14. Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
15. Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine
16. Christian Bale - The Prestige
17. Clive Owen - Children of Men
18. Song Kang-Ho - The Host
19. Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal
20. Peter O'Toole - Venus


2005
1. Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
2. Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain
3. Viggo Mortensen - A History of Violence
4. Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line
5. Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener
6. Joaquin Phoenix - Walk the Line
7. Felicity Huffman - Transamerica
8. Amy Adams - Junebug
9. Russell Crowe - Cinderella Man
10. Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain

11. Daniel Auteuil - Cache
12. Keira Knightley - Pride and Prejudice
13. Ed Harris - A History of Violence
14. Charlize Theron - North Country
15. Romain Duris - The Beat That My Heart Skipped
16. Luminita Gheorghiu - The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
17. Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man
18. George Clooney - Syriana
19. Juliette Binoche - Cache
20. Laura Linney - The Squid and the Whale

2004
1. Bruno Ganz - Downfall
2. Kate Winslet - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Leonardo DiCaprio - The Aviator
4. Jamie Foxx - Ray
5. Javier Bardem - The Sea Inside
6. Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby
7. Jim Carrey - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8. Imelda Staunton - Vera Drake
9. Catalina Sandino Moreno - Maria Full of Grace
10. Tony Leung Chiu-Wai - 2046
11. Don Cheadle - Hotel Rwanda
12. Nicole Kidman - Birth
13. Cate Blanchett - The Aviator
14. Julie Delpy - Before Sunset
15. Paul Giamatti - Sideways
16. Gael Garcia Bernal - The Motorcycle Diaries
17. Johnny Depp - Finding Neverland
18. Tom Cruise - Collateral
19. Yuya Yagira - Nobody Knows
20. Annette Bening - Being Julia

2003
1. Charlize Theron - Monster
2. Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
3. Choi Min-Sik - Oldboy
4. Bill Murray - Lost in Translation
5. Sean Penn - Mystic River
6. Naomi Watts - 21 Grams
7. Tim Robbins - Mystic River
8. Uma Thurman - Kill Bill: Vol. 1
9. Scarlett Johansson - Lost in Translation
10. Nicole Kidman - Dogville

11. Ben Kingsley - House of Sand and Fog
12. Peter Dinklage - The Station Agent
13. Benicio del Toro - 21 Grams
14. Song Kang-Ho - Memories of Murder
15. Shoreh Aghdashloo - House of Sand and Fog
16. Holly Hunter - Thirteen
17. Paul Giamatti - American Splendor
18. Jennifer Connelly - House of Sand and Fog
19. Sean Astin - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
20. Keisha Castle-Hughes - Whale Rider

2002
1. Daniel Day-Lewis - Gangs of New York
2. Adrien Brody - The Pianist
3. Nicolas Cage - Adaptation.
4. Julianne Moore - Far from Heaven
5. Jack Nicholson - About Schmidt
6. Meryl Streep - Adaptation.
7. Renée Zellweger - Chicago
8. Nicole Kidman - The Hours
9. Chris Cooper - Adaptation.
10. Salma Hayek - Frida

11. Adam Sandler - Punch-Drunk Love
12. Andy Serkis - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
13. Tony Leung Chiu-Wai - Infernal Affairs
14. Robin Williams – One Hour Photo
15. Leonardo DiCaprio - Catch Me If You Can
16. Catherine Zeta-Jones - Chicago
17. Tom Hanks - Road to Perdition
18. Edward Norton - 25th Hour
19. Javier Camara - Talk To Her
20. Olivier Gourmet - The Son

2001
1. Naomi Watts - Mulholland Dr.
2. Isabelle Huppert - The Piano Teacher
3. Russell Crowe - A Beautiful Mind
4. Denzel Washington - Training Day
5. Ian McKellen - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
6. Audrey Tautou - Amelie
7. Gene Hackman - The Royal Tenenbaums
8. Halle Berry - Monster's Ball
9. Jennifer Connelly - A Beautiful Mind
10. Judi Dench - Iris

11. Benoit Magimel - The Piano Teacher
12. Sissy Spacek - In the Bedroom
13. Nicole Kidman - The Others
14. Renée Zellweger - Bridget Jones's Diary
15. Laura Harring - Mulholland Dr.
16. Maribel Verdu - Y Tu Mama Tambien
17. Gael Garcia Bernal - Y Tu Mama Tambien
18. Steve Buscemi - Ghost World
19. Tom Wilkinson - In the Bedroom
20. Haley Joel Osment - A.I.: Artificial Intelligence

2000
1. Maggie Cheung - In the Mood for Love
2. Ellen Burstyn - Requiem for a Dream
3. Tony Leung Chiu-Wai - In the Mood for Love
4. Tom Hanks - Cast Away
5. Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich
6. Christian Bale - American Psycho
7. Russell Crowe - Gladiator
8. Benicio del Toro - Traffic
9. Ben Kingsley - Sexy Beast
10. Björk - Dancer in the Dark

11. Willem Dafoe - Shadow of the Vampire
12. Michelle Yeoh - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
13. Laura Linney - You Can Count on Me
14. Joaquin Phoenix - Gladiator
15. Gary Oldman - The Contender
16. Guy Pearce - Memento
17. Gael Garcia Bernal - Amores Perros
18. Javier Bardem - Before Night Falls
19. Zhang Ziyi - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
20. Chow Yun-Fat - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

1999
1. Kevin Spacey - American Beauty
2. Hilary Swank - Boys Don’t Cry
3. Brad Pitt - Fight Club
4. Russell Crowe - The Insider
5. Annette Bening - American Beauty
6. Tom Cruise - Magnolia
7. Jim Carrey - Man on the Moon
8. Edward Norton - Fight Club
9. Reese Witherspoon - Election
10. Cecilia Roth - All About My Mother

11. Matt Damon - The Talented Mr. Ripley
12. Richard Farnsworth - The Straight Story
13. Julianne Moore - The End of the Affair
14. John Malkovich - Being John Malkovich
15. Angelina Jolie - Girl, Interrupted
16. Emilie Dequenne - Rosetta
17. Michael Clarke Duncan - The Green Mile
18. Haley Joel Osment - The Sixth Sense
19. Julianne Moore - Magnolia
20. Jim Broadbent - Topsy-Turvy


1998
1. Ian McKellen - Gods and Monsters
2. Edward Norton - American History X
3. Fernanda Montenegro - Central Station
4. Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth
5. Jeff Bridges - The Big Lebowski
6. Tom Hanks - Saving Private Ryan
7. Jim Carrey - The Truman Show
8. John Goodman - The Big Lebowski
9. Emily Watson - Hilary and Jackie
10. Gwyneth Paltrow - Shakespeare in Love

11. Jane Horrocks - Little Voice
12. Dylan Baker - Happiness
13. Philip Seymour Hoffman - Happiness
14. Cameron Diaz - There’s Something About Mary
15. Joseph Fiennes - Shakespeare in Love
16. Kathy Bates - Primary Colors
17. Ulrich Thomsen - The Celebration
18. Catherine Deneuve - Place Vendôme
19. Ed Harris - The Truman Show
20. Elias Coteas - The Thin Red Line

1997
1. Robin Williams - Good Will Hunting
2. Jack Nicholson - As Good as It Gets
3. Robert Duvall - The Apostle
4. Julianne Moore - Boogie Nights
5. Burt Reynolds - Boogie Nights
6. Anthony Hopkins - Amistad
7. Roberto Benigni - Life is Beautiful
8. Pam Grier - Jackie Brown
9. Peter Fonda - Ulee's Gold
10. Samuel L. Jackson - Jackie Brown

11. Judi Dench - Mrs Brown
12. Helena Bonham Carter - The Wings of the Dove
13. Helen Hunt - As Good as It Gets
14. Dustin Hoffman - Wag the Dog
15. Al Pacino - Donnie Brasco
16. Tony Leung Chiu-Wai - Happy Together
17. Ian Holm - The Sweet Hereafter
18. Leslie Cheung - Happy Together
19. Homayoun Ershadi - Taste of Cherry
20. Madhuri Dixit - Dil to Pagal Hai

1996
1. Emily Watson - Breaking the Waves
2. Frances McDormand - Fargo
3. Geoffrey Rush - Shine
4. Ralph Fiennes - The English Patient
5. Edward Norton - Primal Fear
6. Brenda Blethyn - Secrets and Lies
7. Juliette Binoche - The English Patient
8. Kenneth Branagh - Hamlet
9. William H. Macy - Fargo
10. Billy Bob Thornton - Sling Blade

11. Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire
12. Woody Harrelson - The People vs. Larry Flynt
13. Cuba Gooding Jr. - Jerry Maguire
14. Ewan McGregor - Trainspotting
15. Steve Buscemi - Fargo
16. Robert Carlyle - Trainspotting
17. Daniel Auteuil - The Eighth Day
18. Laura Dern - Citizen Ruth
19. Marianne Jean-Baptiste - Secrets and Lies
20. Courtney Love - The People vs. Larry Flynt

1995
1. Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas
2. Kevin Spacey - The Usual Suspects
3. Susan Sarandon - Dead Man Walking
4. Sean Penn - Dead Man Walking
5. Nicole Kidman - To Die For
6. Ian McKellen - Richard III
7. Emma Thompson - Sense and Sensibility
8. Meryl Streep - The Bridges of Madison Country
9. Morgan Freeman - Seven
10. Elizabeth Shue - Leaving Las Vegas
11. Isabelle Huppert - La Ceremonie
12. Julianne Moore - Safe
13. Mira Sorvino - Mighty Aphrodite
14. Vincent Cassel - La Haine
15. Sharon Stone - Casino
16. Harvey Keitel - Ulysses’ Gaze
17. Anthony Hopkins - Nixon
18. Brad Pitt - 12 Monkeys
19. Annie Girardot - Les Misérables
20. Gary Farmer - Dead Man

1994
1. Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump
2. Samuel L. Jackson - Pulp Fiction
3. Johnny Depp - Ed Wood
4. Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemption
5. Tim Robbins - The Shawshank Redemption
6. John Travolta - Pulp Fiction
7. Jessica Lange - Blue Sky
8. Martin Landau - Ed Wood
9. Faye Wong - Chungking Express
10. Linda Fiorentino - The Last Seduction
11. Jodie Foster - Nell
12. Jean Reno - Leon: The Professional
13. Jean-Louis Trintignant - Three Colours: Red
14. Ge You - To Live
15. Tony Leung Chiu-Wai - Chungking Express
16. Dianne Wiest - Bullets over Broadway
17. Massimo Troisi - Il Postino
18. Gong Li - To Live
19. Irene Jacob - Three Colours: Red
20. Uma Thurman - Pulp Fiction

1993
1. Juliette Binoche - Three Colours: Blue
2. Holly Hunter - The Piano
3. Daniel Day-Lewis - In the Name of the Father
4. Tom Hanks - Philadelphia
5. Ralph Fiennes - Schindler's List
6. Bill Murray - Groundhog Day
7. David Thewlis - Naked
8. Anthony Hopkins - The Remains of the Day
9. Angela Bassett - What's Love Got to Do with It
10. Gong Li - Farewell, My Concubine

11. Emma Thompson - The Remains of the Day
12. Val Kilmer - Tombstone
13. Liam Neeson - Schindler's List
14. Denzel Washington - Philadelphia
15. Leonardo DiCaprio - What's Eating Gilbert Grape
16. Tommy Lee Jones - The Fugitive
17. Robin Williams - Mrs. Doubtfire
18. Al Pacino - Carlito's Way
19. Harrison Ford - The Fugitive
20. Sean Penn - Carlito’s Way

1992
1. Denzel Washington - Malcolm X
2. Gene Hackman - The Unforgiven
3. Robert Downey Jr. - Chaplin
4. Emma Thompson - Howard's End
5. Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman
6. Clint Eastwood - The Unforgiven
7. Jack Lemmon - Glengarry Glen Ross
8. Judy Davis - Husbands and Wives
9. Catherine Deneuve - Indochine
10. Gong Li - The Story of Qiu Ju
11. Michelle Pfeiffer - Love Field
12. Al Pacino - Glengarry Glen Ross
13. Sheryl Lee - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
14. Steve Buscemi - Reservoir Dogs
15. Stephen Rea - The Crying Game
16. Brigitte Lin - Swordsman II
17. Sharon Stone - Basic Instinct
18. Marisa Tomei - My Cousin Vinny
19. Jack Nicholson - A Few Good Men
20. Harvey Keitel - Bad Lieutenant

1991
1. Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs
2. Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs
3. Irene Jacob - The Double Life of Veronique
4. Robin Williams - The Fisher King
5. Nick Nolte - The Prince of Tides
6. Geena Davis - Thelma & Louise
7. Robert De Niro - Cape Fear
8. Gong Li - Raise the Red Lantern
9. Michel Piccoli - La Belle Noiseuse
10. Susan Sarandon - Thelma & Louise
11. River Phoenix - My Own Private Idaho
12. Maggie Cheung - Center Stage
13. Warren Beatty - Bugsy
14. Mercedes Ruehl - The Fisher King
15. Chang Chen - A Brighter Summer Day
16. Laura Dern - Rambling Rose
17. Bette Midler - For the Boys
18. Harvey Keitel - Bugsy
19. John Turturro - Barton Fink
20. Tommy Lee Jones - JFK

1990
1. Kathy Bates - Misery
2. Joe Pesci - Goodfellas
3. Gerard Depardieu - Cyrano de Bergerac
4. Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune
5. Anjelica Huston - The Grifters
6. Robert De Niro - Goodfellas
7. Johnny Depp - Edward Scissorhands
8. Julia Roberts - Pretty Woman
9. Ray Liotta - Goodfellas
10. Robert De Niro - Awakenings

11. Robin Williams - Awakenings
12. Al Pacino - Dick Tracy
13. Lorraine Bracco – Goodfellas
14. Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves
15. Leslie Cheung - Days of Being Wild
16. Philippe Noiret - Life, and Nothing But
17. Al Pacino - The Godfather Part III
18. Alison Steadman - Life is Sweet
19. Meryl Streep - Postcards from the Edge
20. Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost

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

1988
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


1987
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
1986
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

1985
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

1984
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

1983
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

1982
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

1981
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
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

1980
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


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

1978
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

1977
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
1976
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

1975
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

1974
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

1973
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

1972
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

1971
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

1970
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

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

1959
1. Jack Lemmon - Some Like It Hot
2. Cary Grant - North by Northwest
3. Jean-Pierre Leaud - The 400 Blows
4. Simone Signoret - Room at the Top
5. Marilyn Monroe - Some Like It Hot
6. James Stewart - Anatomy of a Murder
7. Doris Day - Pillow Talk
8. Elizabeth Taylor - Suddenly, Last Summer
9. Emmanuelle Riva - Hiroshima Mon Amour
10. Vladimir Ivashov - Ballad of a Soldier
11. John Wayne - Rio Bravo
12. Tatsuya Nakadai - The Human Condition Part I: No Greater Love
13. Audrey Hepburn - The Nun's Story
14. Tony Curtis - Some Like It Hot
15. Charlton Heston - Ben-Hur
16. Faten Hamama - The Nightingale's Prayer
17. Katharine Hepburn - Suddenly, Last Summer
18. Laurence Harvey - Room at the Top
19. Peter Sellers - The Mouse That Roared
20. Jeanne Moreau - The Lovers

1958
1. James Stewart - Vertigo
2. Elizabeth Taylor - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
3. Susan Hayward - I Want to Live!
4. Sidney Poitier - The Defiant Ones
5. Paul Newman - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
6. David Niven - Separate Tables
7. Orson Welles - The Touch of Evil
8. Jeanne Moreau - Elevator to the Gallows
9. Tony Curtis - The Defiant Ones
10. Jacques Tati - Mon Oncle
11. Zbigniew Cybulski - Ashes and Diamonds
12. Spencer Tracy - The Last Hurrah
13. Ingrid Bergman - The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
14. Rosalind Russell - Auntie Mame
15. Alec Guinness - The Horse's Mouth
16. Deborah Kerr - Separate Tables
17. Toshiro Mifune - The Hidden Fortress
18. Vittorio Gassman - Big Deal On Madonna Street
19. Kim Novak - Vertigo
20. Misa Uehara - The Hidden Fortress

1957
1. Giulietta Masina - Nights of Cabiria
2. Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai
3. Henry Fonda - 12 Angry Men
4. Burt Lancaster - The Sweet Smell of Success
5. Max Von Sydow - The Seventh Seal
6. Joanne Woodward - The Three Faces of Eve
7. Toshiro Mifune - Throne of Blood
8. Kirk Douglas - Paths of Glory
9. Victor Sjostrom - Wild Strawberries
10. Tatyana Samoylova - The Cranes Are Flying
11. Charles Laughton - Witness for the Prosecution
12. Lee J. Kobb - 12 Angry Men
13. Tony Curtis - The Sweet Smell of Success
14. Nargis - Mother India
15. Marlon Brando - Sayonara
16. Anna Magnani - Wild Is the Wind
17. Simone Signoret - The Crucible
18. Anthony Franciosa - A Hatful of Rain
19. Marlene Dietrich - Witness for the Prosecution
20. Bibi Andersson - The Seventh Seal


1956
1. John Wayne - The Searchers
2. Kirk Douglas - Lust for Life
3. James Dean - Giant
4. Deborah Kerr - The King and I
5. Ingrid Bergman - Anastasia
6. François Périer - Gervaise
7. Anthony Quinn - Lust for Life
8. Yul Brynner - The King and I
9. Carroll Baker - Baby Doll
10. Karuna Banerjee - Aparajito
11. James Mason - Bigger Than Life
12. Rock Hudson - Giant
13. Cantinflas - Around the World in 80 Days
14. Marilyn Monroe - Bus Stop
15. Yul Brynner - The Ten Commandments
16. James Stewart - The Man Who Knew Too Much
17. Bourvil - La Traverse de Paris
18. Maria Schell - Gervaise
19. Charlton Heston - The Ten Commandments
20. Katharine Hepburn - The Rainmaker

1955
1. James Dean - Rebel Without a Cause
2. Robert Mitchum - The Night of the Hunter
3. Laurence Olivier - Richard lll
4. Anna Magnani - The Rose Tattoo
5. Ernest Borgnine - Marty
6. James Dean - East of Eden
7. Spencer Tracy - Bad Day at Black Rock
8. Katharine Hepburn - Summertime
9. Susan Hayward - I'll Cry Tomorrow
10. Alec Guinness - The Ladykillers

11. Subir Banerjee - Pather Panchali
12. Gunnar Bjorstrand - Smiles of a Summer Night
13. Eva Dahlbeck - Smiles of a Summer Night
14. James Cagney - Love Me or Leave Me
15. Jack Lemmon - Mister Roberts
16. Sal Mineo - Rebel Without a Cause
17. Frank Sinatra - The Man with the Golden Arm
18. Jean Servais - Rififi
19. Karuna Banerjee - Pather Panchali
20. Lillian Gish - Night of the Hunter

1954
1. Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront
2. Toshiro Mifune - Seven Samurai
3. Judy Garland - A Star Is Born
4. Giulietta Masina - La Strada
5. Takashi Shimura - Seven Samurai
6. Jean Gabin - Touchez Pas Au Grisbi
7. James Stewart - Rear Window
8. Humphrey Bogart - The Caine Mutiny
9. Grace Kelly - The Country Girl
10. Karl Malden - On the Waterfront

11. Rod Steiger - On the Waterfront
12. James Mason - A Star Is Born
13. Audrey Hepburn - Sabrina
14. George Sanders - Journey to Italy
15. Seiji Miyaguchi - Seven Samurai
16. Ingrid Bergman - Journey to Italy
17. Bing Crosby - The Country Girl
18. Dorothy Dandridge - Carmen Jones
19. Kinuyo Tanaka - Sansho the Bailiff
20. Anthony Quinn - La Strada

1953
1. Audrey Hepburn - Roman Holiday
2. William Holden - Stalag 17
3. Setsuko Hara - Tokyo Story
4. Marlon Brando - Julius Caesar
5. Montgomery Clift - From Here to Eternity
6. Masayuki Mori - Ugetsu
7. Burt Lancaster - From Here to Eternity
8. Machiko Kyo - Ugetsu
9. Jacques Tati - Mr. Hulot’s Holiday
10. Chishu Ryu - Tokyo Story

11. Marlon Brando - The Wild One
12. Yves Montand - The Wages of Fear
13. Danielle Darrieux - Madame De
14. Alan Ladd - Shane
15. Deborah Kerr - From Here to Eternity
16. Donna Reed - From Here to Eternity
17. Alberto Sordi - I Vitelloni
18. Marilyn Monroe - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
19. Gregory Peck - Roman Holiday
20. Thelma Ritter - Pickup On South Street

1952
1. Takashi Shimura - Ikiru
2. Gary Cooper - High Noon
3. Gene Kelly - Singin' in the Rain
4. Shirley Booth - Come Back, Little Sheba!
5. Marlon Brando - Viva Zapata!
6. Anthony Quinn - Viva Zapata!
7. Joan Crawford - Sudden Fear
8. Simone Signoret - Casque D’or
9. Ingrid Bergman - Europa ‘51
10. John Wayne - The Quiet Man
11. Laurence Olivier - Carrie
12. Charlie Chaplin - Limelight
13. Kirk Douglas - The Bad and the Beautiful
14. Carlo Battisti - Umberto D
15. Susan Hayward - With a Song in My Heart
16. Kinuyo Tanaka - The Life of Oharu
17. Meena Kumari - Baiju Bawra
18. Julie Harris - The Member of the Wedding
19. Donald O'Connor - Singin' In the Rain
20. Brigitte Fossey - Forbidden Games

1951
1. Marlon Brando - A Streetcar Named Desire
2. Vivien Leigh - A Streetcar Named Desire
3. Katharine Hepburn - The African Queen
4. Claude Laydu - Diary of a Country Priest
5. Humphrey Bogart - The African Queen
6. Montgomery Clift - A Place in the Sun
7. Raj Kapoor - Awaara
8. Fredric March - Death of a Salesman
9. Kirk Douglas - Ace in the Hole
10. Robert Walker - Strangers on a Train


11. Toto - Cops and Robbers
12. Alastair Sim - A Christmas Carol
13. Francesco Golisano - Miracle in Milan
14. Shelley Winters - A Place in the Sun
15. Alec Guinness - The Lavender Hill Mob
16. Setsuko Hara - Early Summer
17. Eleanor Parker - Detective Story
18. Elizabeth Taylor - A Place in the Sun
19. Lee Grant - Detective Story
20. Kim Hunter - A Streetcar Named Desire

1950
1. Gloria Swanson - Sunset Boulevard
2. Bette Davis - All About Eve
3. Toshiro Mifune - Rashomon
4. William Holden - Sunset Boulevard
5. Humphrey Bogart - In a Lonely Place
6. Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday
7. James Stewart - Harvey
8. José Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac
9. Machiko Kyo - Rashomon
10. Anne Baxter - All About Eve

11. Eleanor Parker - Caged
12. George Sanders - All About Eve
13. Louis Calhern - The Magnificent Yankee
14. Sterling Hayden - The Asphalt Jungle
15. Josephine Hull - Harvey
16. Spencer Tracy - Father of the Bride
17. Erich Von Stroheim - Sunset Blvd.
18. Jean Marais - Orpheus
19. Marlon Brando - The Men
20. Sam Jaffe - The Asphalt Jungle

1949
1. James Cagney - White Heat
2. Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress
3. Setsuko Hara - Late Spring
4. Alec Guinness - Kind Hearts and Coronets
5. Chishu Ryu - Late Spring
6. Orson Welles - The Third Man
7. Katharine Hepburn - Adam's Rib
8. Broderick Crawford - All the King's Men
9. Mercedes McCambridge - All the King's Men
10. Vittorio Gassman - Bitter Rice

11. Ralph Richardson - The Heiress
12. Kirk Douglas - Champion
13. Spencer Tracy - Adam's Rib
14. Dennis Price - Kind Hearts and Coronets
15. Robert Ryan - The Set-Up
16. Richard Todd - The Hasty Heart
17. John Wayne - Sands of Iwo Jima
18. Takashi Shimura - Stray Dog
19. Deborah Kerr - Edward, My Son
20. Gregory Peck - Twelve O'Clock High

1948
1. Laurence Olivier - Hamlet
2. Humphrey Bogart - Treasure of the Sierra Madre
3. Lamberto Maggiorani - Bicycle Thieves
4. Jane Wyman - Johnny Belinda
5. Olivia de Havilland - The Snake Pit
6. Montgomery Clift - Red River
7. Edward G. Robinson - Key Largo
8. Joan Fontaine - Letter From an Unknown Woman
9. Moira Shearer - The Red Shoes
10. Lauren Bacall - Key Largo

11. Walter Huston - Treasure of the Sierra Madre
12. John Wayne - Red River
13. Takashi Shimura - Drunken Angel
14. Anna Magnani - L’amore
15. Irene Dunne – I Remember Mama
16. Barbara Stanwyck - Sorry, Wrong Number
17. Montgomery Clift - The Search
18. Anton Walbrook - The Red Shoes
19. Alec Guinness - Oliver Twist
20. Ingrid Bergman - Joan of Arc

1947
1. Robert Mitchum - Out of the Past
2. Charlie Chaplin - Monsieur Verdoux
3. Richard Widmark - Kiss of Death
4. Ronald Colman - A Double Life
5. Deborah Kerr - Black Narcissus
6. Rosalind Russell - Mourning Becomes Electra
7. Loretta Young - The Farmer's Daughter
8. John Garfield - Body and Soul
9. William Powell - Life with Father
10. Joan Crawford - Possessed

11. Susan Hayward - Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman
12. Michael Redgrave - Mourning Becomes Electra
13. Gregory Peck - Gentleman's Agreement
14. Rita Hayworth - The Lady from Shanghai
15. Edmund Gwenn - Miracle on 34th Street
16. Robert Ryan - Crossfire
17. Jane Greer - Out of the Past
18. Celeste Holm - Gentleman's Agreement
19. Richard Attenborough - Brighton Rock
20. James Mason - Odd Man Out

1946
1. James Stewart - It's a Wonderful Life
2. Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives
3. Olivia de Havilland - To Each His Own
4. Ingrid Bergman - Notorious
5. Cary Grant - Notorious
6. Claude Rains - Notorious
7. Donna Reed - It's a Wonderful Life
8. Humphrey Bogart - The Big Sleep
9. Michele Morgan - Pastoral Symphony
10. Lana Turner - The Postman Always Rings Twice

11. Gregory Peck - The Yearling
12. Jean Marais - Beauty and the Beast
13. Rita Hayworth - Gilda
14. Rosalind Russell - Sister Kenny
15. Lauren Bacall - The Big Sleep
16. Jennifer Jones - A Duel in the Sun
17. Harold Russell - The Best Years of Our Lives
18. Jane Wyman - The Yearling
19. Lionel Barrymore - It's a Wonderful Life
20. Franco Interlenghi - Shoeshine

1945
1. Joan Crawford - Mildred Pierce
2. Ray Milland - The Lost Weekend
3. Anna Magnani - Rome, Open City
4. Celia Johnson - Brief Encounter
5. Ingrid Bergman - Spellbound
6. Greer Garson - The Valley of Decision
7. Trevor Howard - Brief Encounter
8. Gregory Peck - Spellbound
9. Arletty - Children of Paradise
10. Jean-Louis Barrault - Children of Paradise

11. Aldo Fabrizi - Rome, Open CIty
12. Gene Tierney - Leave Her to Heaven
13. Gene Kelly - Anchors Aweigh
14. Ingrid Bergman - The Bells of St. Mary's
15. Bing Crosby - The Bells of St. Mary's
16. Cornel Wilde - Leave Her to Heaven
17. Angela Lansbury - The Picture of Dorian Gray
18. Robert Mitchum - The Story of G.I. Joe
19. Cornel Wilde - A Song to Remember
20. Jennifer Jones - Love Letters

1944
1. Barbara Stanwyck - Double Indemnity
2. Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight
3. Laurence Olivier - Henry V
4. Cary Grant - Arsenic And Old Lace
5. Charles Boyer - Gaslight
6. Humphrey Bogart - To Have and Have Not
7. Nikolai Cherkasov - Ivan the Terrible Part I
8. Bing Crosby - Going My Way
9. Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way
10. Lauren Bacall - To Have and Have Not

11. Alexander Knox - Wilson
12. Cary Grant - None But The Lonely Heart
13. Elizabeth Taylor - National Velvet
14. Claudette Colbert - Since You Went Away
15. Greer Garson - Mrs. Parkington
16. Bette Davis - Mr. Skeffington
17. Edward G. Robinson - Double Indemnity
18. Fred MacMurray - Double Indemnity
19. Margaret O'Brien - Meet Me in St. Louis
20. Clifton Webb - Laura

1943
1. Joseph Cotten - Shadow of a Doubt
2. Jennifer Jones - The Song Of Bernadette
3. Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine
4. Ingrid Bergman - For Whom the Bell Tolls
5. Jean Arthur - The More the Merrier
6. Roger Livesey - The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp
7. Greer Garson - Madame Curie
8. Joan Fontaine - The Constant Nymph
9. Deborah Kerr - The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp
10. Katina Paxinou - For Whom the Bell Tolls

11. Mickey Rooney - The Human Comedy
12. Joel McCrea - The More the Merrier
13. Gary Cooper - For Whom the Bell Tolls
14. Charles Coburn - The More the Merrier
15. Joan Fontaine - Jane Eyre
16. Humphrey Bogart - Sahara
17. Teresa Wright - Shadow of a Doubt
18. Lisbeth Moving - Day of Wrath
19. Walter Pidgeon - Madame Curie
20. Akim Tamiroff - For Whom the Bell Tolls

1942
1. Humphrey Bogart - Casablanca
2. Ingrid Bergman - Casablanca
3. James Cagney - Yankee Doodle Dandy
4. Greer Garson - Mrs. Miniver
5. Carole Lombard - To Be or Not To Be
6 Agnes Moorehead - The Magnificent Ambersons
7. Henry Fonda - The Ox-Bow Incident
8. Katharine Hepburn - Woman of the Year
9. Bette Davis - Now, Voyager
10. Gary Cooper - The Pride of the Yankees

11. Claude Rains - Casablanca
12. Monty Woolley - The Pied Piper
13. Ronald Colman - Random Harvest
14. Teresa Wright - Mrs. Miniver
15. Joseph Cotten - The Magnificent Ambersons
16. Paul Henreid - Casablanca
17. Walter Pidgeon - Mrs. Miniver
18. Teresa Wright - The Pride of the Yankees
19. Susan Peters - Random Harvest
20. Gene Kelly - For Me and My Gal

1941
1. Orson Welles - Citizen Kane
2. Humphrey Bogart - The Maltese Falcon
3. Barbara Stanwyck - The Lady Eve
4. Joan Fontaine - Suspicion
5. Gary Cooper - Sergeant Yorke
6. Peter Lorre - The Maltese Falcon
7. Humphrey Bogart - High Sierra
8. Bette Davis - The Little Foxes
9. Greer Garson - Blossoms in the Dust
10. Walter Huston - All That Money Can Buy

11. Robert Montgomery - Here Comes Mr. Jordan
12. Alida Valli - Old-Fashioned World
12. Barbara Stanwyck - Ball of Fire
13. Olivia de Havilland - Hold Back the Dawn
14. Sydney Greenstreet - The Maltese Falcon
15. Cary Grant - Penny Serenade
16. Gary Cooper - Ball of Fire
17. Joel McCrea - Sullivan's Travels
18. Donald Crisp - How Green Was My Valley
19. Joseph Cotten - Citizen Kane
20. Lon Chaney Jr. - The Wolf Man

1940
1. Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator
2. Katharine Hepburn - The Philadelphia Story
3. Henry Fonda - The Grapes of Wrath
4. James Stewart - The Philadelphia Story
5. Laurence Olivier - Rebecca
6. Cary Grant - His Girl Friday
7. Joan Fontaine - Rebecca
8. Rosalind Russell - His Girl Friday
9. Cary Grant - The Philadelphia Story
10. Bette Davis - The Letter

11. Ginger Rogers - Kitty Foyle
12. Judith Anderson - Rebecca
13. Martha Scott - Our Town
14. James Stewart - The Shop Around the Corner
15. Raymond Massey - Abe Lincoln in Illinois
16. Margaret Sullavan - The Shop Around the Corner
17. John Carradine - The Grapes of Wrath
18. Walter Brennan - The Westerner
19. W.C. Fields - The Bank Dick
20. Jane Darwell - The Grapes of Wrath

1939
1. Vivien Leigh - Gone With the Wind
2. James Stewart - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
3. Clark Gable - Gone With the Wind
4. Greta Garbo - Ninotchka
5. Judy Garland - The Wizard of Oz
6. Laurence Olivier - Wuthering Heights
7. Robert Donat - Goodbye, Mr. Chips
8. Bette Davis - Dark Victory
9. Thomas Mitchell - Stagecoach
10. John Wayne - Stagecoach

11. Claude Rains - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
12. Ray Bolger - The Wizard of Oz
13. Greer Garson - Goodbye, Mr. Chips
14. Jean Renoir - Rules of the Game
15. Henry Fonda - Young Mr. Lincoln
16. Olivia de Havilland - Gone with the Wind
17. Mickey Rooney - Babes in Arms
18. Irene Dunne - Love Affair
19. Thomas Mitchell - Gone With the Wind
20. Geraldine Fitzgerald - Wuthering Heights

1938
1. Cary Grant - Bringing Up Baby
2. Bette Davis - Jezebel
3. James Cagney - Angels with Dirty Faces
4. Katharine Hepburn - Bringing Up Baby
5. Katharine Hepburn - Holiday
6. Spencer Tracy - Boys Town
7. Leslie Howard - Pygmalion
8. Wendy Hiller - Pygmalion
9. Margaret Sullavan - Three Comrades
10. Robert Donat - The Citadel

11. Errol Flynn - The Adventures of Robin Hood
12. Arletty - Hotel Du Nord
13. Michael Redgrave - The Lady Vanishes
14. Mickey Rooney - Boys Town
15. Fay Bainter - White Banners
16. Michel Simon - Port of Shadows
17. Jean Gabin - La Bete Humaine
18. Michele Morgan - Port of Shadows
19. Norma Shearer - Marie Antoinette
20. Jean Gabin - Port of Shadows

1937
1. Jean Gabin - Pepe Le Moko
2. Jean Gabin - The Grand Illusion
3. Spencer Tracy - Captains Courageous
4. Robert Montgomery - Night Must Fall
5. Cary Grant - The Awful Truth
6. Irene Dunne - The Awful Truth
7. Barbara Stanwyck - Stella Dallas
8. Paul Muni - The Good Earth
9. Charles Boyer - Conquest
10. Fredric March - A Star Is Born
11. Janet Gaynor - A Star Is Born
12. Luise Rainer - The Good Earth
13. Paul Muni - The Life of Emile Zola
14. Ronald Colman - The Prisoner of Zenda
15. Beulah Bondi - Make Way for Tomorrow
16. Victor Moore - Make Way for Tomorrow
17. Joseph Schildkraut - The Life of Emile Zola
18. May Whitty - Night Must Fall
19. Thomas Mitchell - The Hurricane
20. Ralph Bellamy - The Awful Truth

1936
1. Charlie Chaplin - The Modern Times
2. Greta Garbo - Camille
3. Gary Cooper - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
4. Paul Muni - The Story of Louis Pasteur
5. Irene Dunne - Theodora Goes Wild
6. Walter Huston - Dodsworth
7. Carole Lombard - My Man Godfrey
8. William Powell - My Man Godfrey
9. Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld
10. Spencer Tracy - San Francisco

11. Fred Astaire - Swing Time
12. Ginger Rogers - Swing Time
13. Jean Arthur - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
14. Paulette Godard - Modern Times
15. Walter Brennan - Come and Get It
16. Miriam Hopkins - These Three
17. Gladys George - Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
18. Eugene Pallette - My Man Godfrey
19. Irene Dunne - Show Boat
20. Akim Tamiroff - The General Died at Dawn

1935
1. Charles Laughton - Mutiny on the Bounty
2. Victor McLaglen - The Informer
3. Katharine Hepburn - Alice Adams
4. Fred Astaire - Top Hat
5. Bette Davis - Dangerous
6. Clark Gable - Mutiny on the Bounty
7. Boris Karloff - The Bride of Frankenstein
8. Paul Muni - Black Fury
9. Ginger Rogers - Top Hat
10. Greta Garbo - Anna Karenina

11. Miriam Hopkins - Becky Sharp
12. Groucho Marx - A Night at the Opera
13. Errol Flynn - Captain Blood
14. Robert Donat - The 39 Steps
15. Elisabeth Bergner - Escape Me Never
16. Merle Oberon - The Dark Angel
17. Claudette Colbert - Private Worlds
18. Franchot Tone - Mutiny on the Bounty
19. Elsa Lanchester - The Bride of Frankenstein
20. Olivia de Havilland - Captain Blood

1934
1. Bette Davis - Of Human Bondage
2. Clark Gable - It Happened One Night
3. Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night
4. William Powell - The Thin Man
5. Myrna Loy - The Thin Man
6. Peter Lorre - The Man Who Knew Too Much
7. W.C. Fields - It's a Gift
8. Michel Simon - L’atalante
9. Shirley Temple - Bright Eyes
10. Jean Gabin - Maria Chapdelaine

11. Stan Laurel - Babes in Toyland
12. Oliver Hardy - Babes in Toyland
13. Frank Morgan - The Affairs of Cellini
14. Norma Shearer - The Barretts of Wimpole Street
15. Grace Moore - One Night of Love
16. Charles Laughton - The Barretts of Wimpole Street
17. John Barrymore - Twentieth Century
18. Victor McLaglen - The Lost Patrol
19. Claudette Colbert - Imitation of Life
20. Marlene Dietrich - The Scarlet Empress

1933
1. Charles Laughton - The Private Life of Henry VIII
2. Katharine Hepburn - Little Women
3. Katharine Hepburn - Morning Glory
4. Greta Garbo - Queen Christina
5. Claude Rains - The Invisible Man
6. Groucho Marx - Duck Soup
7. Oliver Hardy - Sons of the Desert
8. Stan Laurel - Sons of the Desert
9. Barbara Stanwyck - The Bitter Tea of General Yen
10. Rudolf Klein-Rogge - The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

11. Marie Dresser - Dinner at Eight
12. Leslie Howard - Berkeley Square
13. John Barrymore - Counsellor At Law
14. Jean Harlow - Bombshell
15. May Robson - Lady for a Day
16. Jean Harlow - Dinner at Eight
17. Diana Wynyard - Cavalcade
18. Paul Lukas - Little Women
19. James Cagney - Footlight Parade
20. Warner Baxter - 42nd Street

1932
1. Paul Muni - I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
2. Jean Harlow - Red Dust
3. Paul Muni - Scarface
4. Greta Garbo - Grand Hotel
5. Marlene Dietrich - Shanghai Express
6. John Barrymore - Grand Hotel
7. Miriam Hopkins - Trouble in Paradise
8. Herbert Marshall - Trouble in Paradise
9. Clark Gable - Red Dust
10. Joan Crawford - Grand Hotel

11. Gary Cooper - A Farewell to Arms
12. Marie Dressler - Emma
13. Michel Simon - Boudu Saved From Drowning
14. Oliver Hardy - Pack Up Your Troubles
15. Stan Laurel - Pack Up Your Troubles
16. Maurice Chevalier - Love Me Tonight
17. Boris Karloff - The Mummy
18. Johnny Weissmuller - Tarzan the Ape Man
19. Olga Baclanova - Freaks
20. Jeanette MacDonald - Love Me Tonight

1931
1. Peter Lorre - M
2. Charlie Chaplin - City Lights
3. James Cagney - The Public Enemy
4. Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
5. Edward G. Robinson - Little Caesar
6. Boris Karloff - Frankenstein
7. Helen Hayes - The Sin of Madelon Claudet
8. Wallace Beery - The Champ
9. Bela Lugosi - Dracula
10. Irene Dunne - Cimarron
11. Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul
12. Ronald Colman - Arrowsmith
13. Barbara Stanwyck - Night Nurse
14. Michel Simon - La Chienne
15. Jackie Cooper - Skippy
16. Alfred Lunt - The Guardsman
17. Lynn Fontanne - The Guardsman
18. Adolphe Menjou - The Front Page
19. Clark Gable - A Free Soul
20. Norma Shearer - A Free Soul

1930
1. Marlene Dietrich - The Blue Angel
2. Greta Garbo - Anna Christie
3. Norma Shearer - The Divorcee
4. Emil Jannings - The Blue Angel
5. Fredric March - The Royal Family of Broadway
6. Marie Dressler - Min and Bill
7. Marlene Dietrich - Morocco
8. Greta Garbo - Romance
9. Lew Ayers - All Quiet on the Western Front
10. Wallace Beery - The Big House

11. Ruth Chatterton - Sarah and Son
12. Ann Harding - Holiday
13. Nancy Carroll - The Devil's Holiday
14. Norma Shearer - Their Own Desire
15. Louis Wolheim - All Quiet on the Western Front
16. Marie Dressler - Anna Christie
17. Lon Chaney - The Unholy Three
18. Jean Harlow - Hell's Angels
19. George Aliss - The Green Godness
20. Lawrence Tibbett - The Rogue Song

1929
1. Ronald Colman - Bulldog Drummond
2. George Arliss - Disraeli
3. Gloria Swanson - The Trespasser
4. Louise Brooks - Diary of a Lost Girl
5. Ronald Colman - Condemned
6. Louise Brooks - Pandora's Box
7. Paul Muni - The Valiant
8. Ruth Chatterton - Madame X
9. Mary Pickford - Coquette
10. Maurice Chevalier - The Love Parade

11. Jeanette MacDonald - The Love Parade
12. Erich von Stroheim - The Great Gabbo
13. Jeanne Eagels - The Letter
14. Oliver Hardy - Big Business
15. Stan Laurel - Big Business
16. George Bancroft - Thunderbolt
17. Chester Morris - Alibi
18. Louis Wolheim - Condemned
19. Anny Ondra - Blackmail
20. Walter Huston - The Virginian

1928
1. Renee Jeanne Falconetti - The Passion of Joan of Arc
2. Lillian Gish - The Wind
3. Emil Jannings - The Last Command
4. Charlie Chaplin - The Circus
5. Gloria Swanson - Sadie Thompson
6. Conrad Veidt - The Man Who Laughs
7. Buster Keaton - Steamboat Bill Jr.
8. Erich von Stroheim - The Wedding March
9. Warner Baxter - In Old Arizona
10. Buster Keaton - The Cameraman

11. William Powell - The Last Command
12. Lionel Barrymore - Sadie Thompson
13. Janet Gaynor - Street Angel
14. George Bancroft - The Docks of New York
15. James Murray - The Crowd
16. Harold Lloyd - Speedy
17. Richard Barthelmess - The Noose
18. Louis Wolheim - The Racket
19. Lon Chaney - Laugh, Clown, Laugh
20. Betty Compson - The Barker

Think it never really made sense to make 1928 the cutoff date, Oscars aside. We might attempt the rest of the 1920s years at least if not earlier.

I feel like it's a bit harder to choose performances from years without any awards but we can try.

Interesting project for sure - I'm a little lukewarm about adding international performances, but if everyone else is okay I could see us doing that in the future (wouldn't mind adding the performances from Sentimental Value + W. Moura to the upcoming list). I'll add my thoughts as we go, but if we wanna include cultural impact, I'd consider including Florence Pugh in "Midsommar" to the 2019 list for sure.

What cultural impact do you have in mind for Florence Pugh in Midsommar? I'm not necessarily against adding her performance, just wondering.

Feel if all time actors list includes "international" actors and directors includes "international" directors only fair to eventually add "foreign" performances to this list as well.

Strongly agree. I found many lists that include both 'foreign' and US/UK performances, so it's not like they're on completely different playing fields anyway.

ManPerson wrote: Thu Jan 01, 2026 1:24 pm What cultural impact do you have in mind for Florence Pugh in Midsommar? I'm not necessarily against adding her performance, just wondering.

I don't have a ton of evidence to support, but I feel that her "Flower Dress" has become somewhat iconic over the years.

Tim wrote: Thu Jan 01, 2026 4:35 pm Feel if all time actors list includes "international" actors and directors includes "international" directors only fair to eventually add "foreign" performances to this list as well.

This means we would have to update the overall performance list at some point. A couple to consider adding to the yearly lists:

2022: Tang Wei & Park Hae-il (Decision to Leave)
2014: Anne Dorval & Antione Olivier Pilon (Mommy)
2009: Ricardo Darín (The Secret in Their Eyes)
2008: Kristin Scott Thomas (I've Loved You So Long)
2005: Romain Duris (The Beat That My Heart Skipped)
2002: Maribel Verdú (Y tu mama tambien