400 Greatest Movie Actors (Revision Version)

[Tim]

Believe it or not, we have a top 400 now. (Shout out Alena_03) Switched Depardieu with Tracy as I now believe Tracy edges Depardieu in everything but popularity.

1. Marlon Brando
2. Charlie Chaplin
3. Laurence Olivier
4. Robert De Niro
5. James Stewart
6. Jack Nicholson
7. Al Pacino
8. Toshiro Mifune
9. Paul Newman
10. Humphrey Bogart
11. Cary Grant
12. Buster Keaton
13. Dustin Hoffman
14. Marcello Mastroianni
15. John Wayne
16. Daniel Day-Lewis
17. Henry Fonda
18. Denzel Washington
19. Alec Guinness
20. Jack Lemmon
21. Tom Hanks
22. Jean Gabin
23. Gregory Peck
24. Sidney Poitier
25. Gary Cooper
26. James Cagney
27. Leonardo DiCaprio
28. Spencer Tracy
29. Gérard Depardieu
30. Peter O'Toole
31. Gene Hackman
32. Clark Gable
33. Clint Eastwood
34. Richard Burton
35. Max von Sydow
36. Burt Lancaster
37. Robert Mitchum
38. Peter Sellers
39. William Holden
40. Anthony Hopkins
41. Kirk Douglas
42. Michael Caine
43. Morgan Freeman
44. Jean-Paul Belmondo
45. Orson Welles
46. Harold Lloyd
47. Sean Connery
48. Alain Delon
49. Robert Duvall
50. Anthony Quinn
51. Vittorio Gassman
52. Rudolph Valentino
53. George C. Scott
54. Robert Redford
55. Montgomery Clift
56. James Dean
57. Michel Piccoli
58. Klaus Kinski
59. Tom Cruise
60. Harrison Ford
61. Gene Kelly
62. Peter Lorre
63. Fred Astaire
64. Edward G. Robinson
65. Charles Laughton
66. Takashi Shimura
67. Sean Penn
68. Philip Seymour Hoffman
69. Gary Oldman
70. Douglas Fairbanks
71. Max Linder
72. Groucho Marx/The Marx Brothers
73. Ronald Colman
74. Tatsuya Nakadai
75. Johnny Depp
76. Jackie Chan
77. Robin Williams
78. Ben Kingsley
79. Fredric March
80. James Mason
81. Michel Simon
82. Jean-Louis Trintignant
83. Bill Murray
84. Jeff Bridges
85. Amitabh Bachchan
86. Dennis Hopper
87. John Barrymore
88. Chishu Ryu
89. Lon Chaney
90. Tony Leung Chiu Wai
91. Laurel and Hardy
92. Jean-Pierre Léaud
93. Errol Flynn
94. Bruce Lee
95. Albert Finney
96. Emil Jannings
97. Christian Bale
98. Brad Pitt
99. Philippe Noiret
100. John Hurt
101. Russell Crowe
102. Walter Matthau
103. Uttam Kumar
104. Rod Steiger
105. Ralph Fiennes
106. Richard Harris
107. Javier Bardem
108. Woody Allen
109. Raj Kapoor
110. Yves Montand
111. Warren Beatty
112. Louis de Funès
113. Yul Brynner
114. Charlton Heston
115. Steve McQueen
116. Mickey Rooney
117. Boris Karloff
118. Totò
119. Claude Rains
120. Willem Dafoe
121. Kevin Spacey
122. Samuel L. Jackson
123. Dirk Bogarde
124. John Gielgud
125. Vincent Price
126. Chow Yun-fat
127. Alberto Sordi
128. Conrad Veidt
129. George Clooney
130. Christopher Walken
131. Donald Sutherland
132. Ian McKellen
133. Michael Douglas
134. Dilip Kumar
135. Paul Muni
136. Lee Marvin
137. Jacques Tati
138. Jean Marais
139. Jerry Lewis
140. Robert Downey Jr.
141. Joaquin Phoenix
142. Jim Carrey
143. Rock Hudson
144. Naseeruddin Shah
145. Geoffrey Rush
146. Omar Sharif
147. Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
148. Peter Finch
149. Lionel Barrymore
150. Rajesh Khanna
151. Sessue Hayakawa
152. King Baggot
153. Jeremy Irons
154. Jon Voight
155. Kenneth Branagh
156. Richard Attenborough
157. Gérard Philipe
158. Erland Josephson
159. Farid Shawqi
160. Ernest Borgnine
161. Heath Ledger
162. Matt Damon
163. Shah Rukh Khan
164. Charles Boyer
165. William Hurt
166. Will Smith
167. Bing Crosby
168. Liam Neeson
169. Edward Norton
170. Christopher Lee
171. Daniel Auteuil
172. Fernandel
173. Nino Manfredi
174. David Niven
175. Ralph Richardson
176. Erich von Stroheim
177. Richard Dreyfuss
178. William S. Hart
179. Gene Wilder
180. Fernando Rey
181. Maximilian Schell
182. Viggo Mortensen
183. Ryan Gosling
184. Tony Curtis
185. Dev Anand
186. Adel Imam
187. Innokenty Smoktunovsky
188. W.C. Fields
189. Ed Harris
190. Tommy Lee Jones
191. Harvey Keitel
192. Thomas Mitchell
193. Walter Brennan
194. Gunnar Björnstrand
195. Bourvil
196. Aamir Khan
197. José Ferrer
198. Fernando Fernán Gómez
199. Nikolay Cherkasov
200. Nicolas Cage
201. Michel Serrault
202. Ugo Tognazzi
203. William Powell
204. George Sanders
205. Joe Pesci
206. James Earl Jones
207. Song Kang-ho
208. Choi Min-sik
209. Arthur Kennedy
210. Bradley Cooper
211. Joseph Cotten
212. Cantinflas
213. Karl Malden
214. Bruno Ganz
215. John Gilbert
216. Charles Bronson
217. James Coburn
218. Stellan Skarsgård
219. Gian Maria Volonté
220. Eli Wallach
221. John Malkovich
222. Ahmed Zaki
223. Jean-Claude Brialy
224. Melvyn Douglas
225. Bob Hope
226. Walter Huston
227. Abbott and Costello
228. Nanni Moretti
229. Paul Robeson
230. Wallace Beery
231. Tom Courtenay
232. Rex Harrison
233. Benicio del Toro
234. Jake Gyllenhaal
235. Joel McCrea
236. Ewan McGregor
237. Bela Lugosi
238. The Three Stooges
239. Paul Scofield
240. Robert Shaw
241. Gaston Modot
242. John Carradine
243. Harry Dean Stanton
244. Raimu
245. Paul Winfield
246. Mel Gibson
247. Bruce Willis
248. Sylvester Stallone
249. Arnold Schwarzenegger
250. Steve Buscemi
251. Denholm Elliott
252. Roberto Benigni
253. Dana Andrews
254. Michael Chekhov
255. Jason Robards
256. Leslie Cheung
257. Martin Sheen
258. Ethan Hawke
259. Walter Pidgeon
260. Richard Gere
261. Robert Ryan
262. Peter Cushing
263. Takeshi Kitano
264. Rudolf Klein-Rogge
265. Franco Nero
266. Robert Donat
267. Christopher Plummer
268. Peter Ustinov
269. Matthew McConaughey
270. Adrian Brody
271. John Travolta
272. James Woods
273. Donald Crisp
274. Pedro Infante
275. Lee J. Cobb
276. Alan Rickman
277. Alastair Sim
278. Richard Widmark
279. Victor Mature
280. Victor McLaglen
281. Michael Redgrave
282. Armin Mueller-Stahl
283. Anthony Perkins
284. Basil Rathbone
285. Giancarlo Giannini
286. Bob Hoskins
287. Daniel Craig
288. Christoph Waltz
289. Glenn Ford
290. Gael García Bernal
291. Timothée Chalamet
292. James Caan
293. John Cazale
294. John Garfield
295. Martin Balsam
296. Alan Arkin
297. Brendan Gleeson
298. Andy Serkis
299. Leslie Howard
300. Woody Harrelson
301. Adam Sandler
302. Eddie Murphy
303. Steve Martin
304. Martin Landau
305. Aldo Fabrizi
306. Jet Li
307. John Goodman
308. Edward Everett Horton
309. Tim Robbins
310. Ray Milland
311. Mark Ruffalo
312. Sterling Hayden
313. Don Cheadle
314. Chris Cooper
315. Frank Sinatra
316. Roy Scheider
317. Vincent Cassel
318. Rutger Hauer
319. Michael Fassbender
320. John Cleese
321. Jean Rochefort
322. Ken Takakura
323. Colin Firth
324. Kevin Costner
325. Mickey Rourke
326. Mads Mikkelson
327. Curd Jürgens
328. Jürgen Prochnow
329. Gert Fröbe
330. Horst Buchcholz
331. Minoru Chiaki
332. Robert Montgomery
333. Fred MacMurray
334. Donald Pleasence
335. Jean Hersholt
336. Maurice Chevalier
337. River Phoenix
338. Mahershala Ali
339. Tom Hardy
340. Jude Law
341. Barry Fitzgerald
342. Jack Palance
343. Hugh Grant
344. Keanu Reeves
345. Randolph Scott
346. Forest Whitaker
347. Billy Bob Thornton
348. Paul Giamatti
349. Kevin Kline
350. Nick Nolte
351. Charles Bickford
352. Jeff Goldblum
353. Hugh Jackman
354. Bruce Dern
355. Ian Holm
356. Sidney Greenstreet
357. John Turturro
358. Ned Beatty
359. Trevor Howard
360. Benedict Cumberbatch
361. Colin Farrell
362. Jim Broadbent
363. Michael Shannon
364. Tyrone Power
365. Lino Ventura
366. Lee Van Cleef
367. Timothy Spall
368. Ward Bond
369. George Arliss
370. Anthony Wong
371. Oleg Yankovsky
372. Raúl Juliá
373. Jeff Daniels
374. Chadwick Boseman
375. Michael B. Jordan
376. Vittorio De Sica
377. Andrew Garfield
378. Laurence Fishburne
379. Broderick Crawford
380. Paul Lukas
381. Udo Kier
382. Ulrich Mühe
383. Oliver Reed
384. Wallace Reid
385. Alan Hale Sr.
386. Masahiro Motoki
387. Rossano Brazzi
388. Chiwetel Ejiofor
389. Raf Vallone
390. Charles Coburn
391. Dean Stockwell
392. Pierre Fresnay
393. Jean-Pierre Cassel
394. Toni Servillo
395. Michael Keaton
396. Daniel Brühl
397. Antonio Banderas
398. Adam Driver
399. Ralph Bellamy
400. George Bancroft

Alfred Abel
Don Ameche
Edward Arnold
Tadanobu Asano
Lew Ayres
Kevin Bacon
Jean-Pierre Bacri
Alec Baldwin
Sacha Baron Cohen
Jean-Louis Barrault
Richard Barthelmess
Albert Bassermann
Mel Blanc
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Claude Brasseur
Josh Brolin
Mel Brooks
Louis Calhern
Eddie Cantor
Harry Carey Jr.
Sonny Chiba
Brian Cox
James Cromwell
Joe Dallesandro
Ossie Davis
Danny DeVito
Divine
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
James Garner
Götz George
Danny Glover
Hugh Griffith
Edmund Gwenn
Kamal Haasan
Cedric Hardwicke
Jack Hawkins
Stanley Holloway
Oscar Isaac
Ben Johnson
Al Jolson
Louis Jourdan
Louis Jouvet
Shintaro Katsu
George Kennedy
Hardy Krüger
Alan Ladd
Evgeny Leonov
Tony Leung Ka Fai
John Lithgow
Roger Livesey
Christopher Lloyd
William H. Macy
Herbert Marshall
Dean Martin
Malcolm McDowell
John Mills
Tom Mix
Alfred Molina
Frank Morgan
Jorge Negrete
Leslie Nielsen
Ramon Novarro
Daniel Olbrychski
Michael Palin
Jacques Perrin
Richard Pryor
Anthony Quayle
Christopher Reeve
Jean Reno
Burt Reynolds
Sam Rockwell
Roy Rogers
Hrithik Roshan
Kurt Russell
Hiroyuki Sanada
Mack Sennett
Gary Sinise
Sol Kyung-gu
Anatoly Solonitsyn
Terence Stamp
David Strathairn
Henry Travers
Anton Walbrook
M. Emmett Walsh
Jack Warden
H. B. Warner
Tom Wilkinson
Louis Wolheim

[Bruno]

Great job!

Philip Seymour Hoffman greater than Robin Williams?

[Bruno]

Top 200 Actors and their appearances in Greatest Film Performances by Year (US/UK - 2024-1928):

1. Marlon Brando I 11
2. Charlie Chaplin I 6
3. Laurence Olivier I 11
4. Robert De Niro I 16
5. James Stewart I 10
6. Jack Nicholson I 14
7. Al Pacino I 14
8. Toshiro Mifune I
9. Paul Newman I 13
10. Humphrey Bogart I 10
11. Cary Grant I 10
12. Buster Keaton I 2
13. Dustin Hoffman I 10
14. Marcello Mastroianni I
15. John Wayne I 9
16. Daniel Day-Lewis I 7
17. Henry Fonda I 7
18. Denzel Washington I 10
19. Alec Guinness I 9
20. Jack Lemmon I 10
21. Tom Hanks I 7
22. Jean Gabin I
23. Gregory Peck I 6
24. Sidney Poitier I 6
25. Gary Cooper I 7
26. James Cagney I 6
27. Leonardo DiCaprio I 12
28. Spencer Tracy I 12
29. Gérard Depardieu I
30. Peter O'Toole I 9
31. Gene Hackman I 9
32. Clark Gable I 6
33. Clint Eastwood I 3
34. Richard Burton I 5
35. Max von Sydow I 2
36. Burt Lancaster I 6
37. Robert Mitchum I 5
38. Peter Sellers I 4
39. William Holden I 5
40. Anthony Hopkins I 7
41. Kirk Douglas I 7
42. Michael Caine I 7
43. Morgan Freeman I 7
44. Jean-Paul Belmondo I
45. Orson Welles I 3
46. Harold Lloyd I
47. Sean Connery I 5
48. Alain Delon I
49. Robert Duvall I 7
50. Anthony Quinn I 4
51. Vittorio Gassman I
52. Rudolph Valentino I
53. George C. Scott I 5
54. Robert Redford I 7
55. Montgomery Clift I 5
56. James Dean I 3
57. Michel Piccoli I
58. Klaus Kinski I
59. Tom Cruise I 6
60. Harrison Ford I 4
61. Gene Kelly I 4
62. Peter Lorre I 2
63. Fred Astaire I 3
64. Edward G. Robinson I 2
65. Charles Laughton I 4
66. Takashi Shimura I
67. Sean Penn I 3
68. Philip Seymour Hoffman I 5
69. Gary Oldman I 7
70. Douglas Fairbanks I 1
71. Max Linder I
72. Groucho Marx/The Marx Brothers I 2
73. Ronald Colman I 6
74. Tatsuya Nakadai I
75. Johnny Depp I 6
76. Jackie Chan I
77. Robin Williams I 8
78. Ben Kingsley I 3
79. Fredric March I 6
80. James Mason I 6
81. Michel Simon I
82. Jean-Louis Trintignant I
83. Bill Murray I 5
84. Jeff Bridges I 6
85. Amitabh Bachchan I
86. Dennis Hopper I 1
87. John Barrymore I 3
88. Chishu Ryu I
89. Lon Chaney I 3
90. Tony Leung Chiu Wai I
91. Laurel and Hardy I 4
92. Jean-Pierre Léaud I
93. Errol Flynn I 2
94. Bruce Lee I
95. Albert Finney I 5
96. Emil Jannings I 1
97. Christian Bale I 5
98. Brad Pitt I 4
99. Philippe Noiret I
100. John Hurt I 2
101. Russell Crowe I 5
102. Walter Matthau I 3
103. Uttam Kumar I
104. Rod Steiger I 4
105. Ralph Fiennes I 6
106. Richard Harris I 2
107. Javier Bardem I 3
108. Woody Allen I 1
109. Raj Kapoor I
110. Yves Montand I
111. Warren Beatty I 5
112. Louis de Funès I
113. Yul Brynner I 2
114. Charlton Heston I 2
115. Steve McQueen I 3
116. Mickey Rooney I 3
117. Boris Karloff I 3
118. Totò I
119. Claude Rains I 4
120. Willem Dafoe I 5
121. Kevin Spacey I 2
122. Samuel L. Jackson I 1
123. Dirk Bogarde I 2
124. John Gielgud I 2
125. Vincent Price I 1
126. Chow Yun-fat I
127. Alberto Sordi I
128. Conrad Veidt I 1
129. George Clooney I 3
130. Christopher Walken I 3
131. Donald Sutherland I 3
132. Ian McKellen I 3
133. Michael Douglas I 2
134. Dilip Kumar I
135. Paul Muni I 7
136. Lee Marvin I 2
137. Jacques Tati I
138. Jean Marais I
139. Jerry Lewis I 2
140. Robert Downey Jr. I 5
141. Joaquin Phoenix I 5
142. Jim Carrey I 3
143. Rock Hudson I 2
144. Naseeruddin Shah I
145. Geoffrey Rush I 3
146. Omar Sharif I 1
147. Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle I
148. Peter Finch I 3
149. Lionel Barrymore I 4
150. Rajesh Khanna I
151. Sessue Hayakawa I
152. King Baggot I
153. Jeremy Irons I 3
154. Jon Voight I 4
155. Kenneth Branagh I 2
156. Richard Attenborough I 1
157. Gérard Philipe I
158. Erland Josephson I
159. Farid Shawqi I
160. Ernest Borgnine I 1
161. Heath Ledger I 2
162. Matt Damon I 3
163. Shah Rukh Khan I
164. Charles Boyer I 3
165. William Hurt I 1
166. Will Smith I 3
167. Bing Crosby I 3
168. Liam Neeson I 1
169. Edward Norton I 5
170. Christopher Lee I 2
171. Daniel Auteuil I
172. Fernandel I
173. Nino Manfredi I
174. David Niven I 1
175. Ralph Richardson I
176. Erich von Stroheim I 3
177. Richard Dreyfuss I 4
178. William S. Hart I
179. Gene Wilder I 3
180. Fernando Rey I
181. Maximilian Schell I 3
182. Viggo Mortensen I 5
183. Ryan Gosling I 7
184. Tony Curtis I 4
185. Dev Anand I
186. Adel Imam I
187. Innokenty Smoktunovsky I
188. W.C. Fields I 2
189. Ed Harris I 3
190. Tommy Lee Jones I 4
191. Harvey Keitel I 3
192. Thomas Mitchell I 3
193. Walter Brennan I 3
194. Gunnar Björnstrand I
195. Bourvil I
196. Aamir Khan I
197. José Ferrer I 2
198. Fernando Fernán Gómez I
199. Nikolay Cherkasov I
200. Nicolas Cage I 3

[Bruno]

Top 200 Actors with the Most Appearances in Greatest Film Performances by Year (US/UK - 2024-1928)

4. Robert De Niro I 16
6. Jack Nicholson I 14
7. Al Pacino I 14
9. Paul Newman I 13
27. Leonardo DiCaprio I 12
28. Spencer Tracy I 12
1. Marlon Brando I 11
3. Laurence Olivier I 11
5. James Stewart I 10
10. Humphrey Bogart I 10
11. Cary Grant I 10
13. Dustin Hoffman I 10
18. Denzel Washington I 10
20. Jack Lemmon I 10
15. John Wayne I 9
19. Alec Guinness I 9
30. Peter O'Toole I 9
31. Gene Hackman I 9
77. Robin Williams I 8
16. Daniel Day-Lewis I 7
17. Henry Fonda I 7
21. Tom Hanks I 7
25. Gary Cooper I 7
40. Anthony Hopkins I 7
41. Kirk Douglas I 7
42. Michael Caine I 7
43. Morgan Freeman I 7
49. Robert Duvall I 7
54. Robert Redford I 7
69. Gary Oldman I 7
135. Paul Muni I 7
183. Ryan Gosling I 7
2. Charlie Chaplin I 6
23. Gregory Peck I 6
24. Sidney Poitier I 6
26. James Cagney I 6
32. Clark Gable I 6
36. Burt Lancaster I 6
59. Tom Cruise I 6
73. Ronald Colman I 6
75. Johnny Depp I 6
79. Fredric March I 6
80. James Mason I 6
84. Jeff Bridges I 6
105. Ralph Fiennes I 6
34. Richard Burton I 5
37. Robert Mitchum I 5
39. William Holden I 5
47. Sean Connery I 5
53. George C. Scott I 5
55. Montgomery Clift I 5
68. Philip Seymour Hoffman I 5
83. Bill Murray I 5
95. Albert Finney I 5
97. Christian Bale I 5
101. Russell Crowe I 5
111. Warren Beatty I 5
120. Willem Dafoe I 5
140. Robert Downey Jr. I 5
141. Joaquin Phoenix I 5
169. Edward Norton I 5
182. Viggo Mortensen I 5
38. Peter Sellers I 4
50. Anthony Quinn I 4
60. Harrison Ford I 4
61. Gene Kelly I 4
65. Charles Laughton I 4
91. Laurel and Hardy I 4
98. Brad Pitt I 4
104. Rod Steiger I 4
119. Claude Rains I 4
149. Lionel Barrymore I 4
154. Jon Voight I 4
177. Richard Dreyfuss I 4
184. Tony Curtis I 4
190. Tommy Lee Jones I 4
33. Clint Eastwood I 3
45. Orson Welles I 3
56. James Dean I 3
63. Fred Astaire I 3
67. Sean Penn I 3
78. Ben Kingsley I 3
87. John Barrymore I 3
89. Lon Chaney I 3
102. Walter Matthau I 3
107. Javier Bardem I 3
115. Steve McQueen I 3
116. Mickey Rooney I 3
117. Boris Karloff I 3
129. George Clooney I 3
130. Christopher Walken I 3
131. Donald Sutherland I 3
132. Ian McKellen I 3
142. Jim Carrey I 3
145. Geoffrey Rush I 3
148. Peter Finch I 3
153. Jeremy Irons I 3
162. Matt Damon I 3
164. Charles Boyer I 3
166. Will Smith I 3
167. Bing Crosby I 3
176. Erich von Stroheim I 3
179. Gene Wilder I 3
181. Maximilian Schell I 3
189. Ed Harris I 3
191. Harvey Keitel I 3
192. Thomas Mitchell I 3
193. Walter Brennan I 3
200. Nicolas Cage I 3
12. Buster Keaton I 2
35. Max von Sydow I 2
62. Peter Lorre I 2
64. Edward G. Robinson I 2
72. Groucho Marx/The Marx Brothers I 2
93. Errol Flynn I 2
100. John Hurt I 2
106. Richard Harris I 2
113. Yul Brynner I 2
114. Charlton Heston I 2
121. Kevin Spacey I 2
123. Dirk Bogarde I 2
124. John Gielgud I 2
133. Michael Douglas I 2
136. Lee Marvin I 2
139. Jerry Lewis I 2
143. Rock Hudson I 2
155. Kenneth Branagh I 2
161. Heath Ledger I 2
170. Christopher Lee I 2
188. W.C. Fields I 2
197. José Ferrer I 2
70. Douglas Fairbanks I 1
86. Dennis Hopper I 1
96. Emil Jannings I 1
108. Woody Allen I 1
122. Samuel L. Jackson I 1
125. Vincent Price I 1
128. Conrad Veidt I 1
146. Omar Sharif I 1
156. Richard Attenborough I 1
160. Ernest Borgnine I 1
165. William Hurt I 1
168. Liam Neeson I 1
174. David Niven I 1

[Bruno]

I'd like to know what you find most striking or weird when you see these stats.

[ManPerson]

I think Leslie Nielsen could be in the top 400, since he has a couple very acclaimed and culturally impactful performances.

[ManPerson]

Great job!

Philip Seymour Hoffman greater than Robin Williams?

I think

Acclaim: PSH
Influence: Williams
Body of Work: PSH
Popularity: Williams

[Tim]

Great job!

Philip Seymour Hoffman greater than Robin Williams?

I was thinking PSH wins acclaim and body of work, Williams popularity and influence. Close I guess.

[Tim]

I think Leslie Nielsen could be in the top 400, since he has a couple very acclaimed and culturally impactful performances.

Good call, suggestion for a spot?

[ManPerson]

Next to Kevin Costner, maybe?

[Tim]

Do we think Divine could be on the ranked list? If we are to compare him with, say, Andy Serkis:

Acclaim: Serkis
Influence: Divine
Body of Work: Serkis
Popularity: Divine

[ManPerson]

I could definitely see Divine on the list but I find him winning popularity over Serkis to be rather dubious

[Tim]

I'd like to know what you find most striking or weird when you see these stats.

A bit surprised Robin Williams made so many appearances tbh.

[Tim]

I could definitely see Divine on the list but I find him winning popularity over Serkis to be rather dubious

Checked google trends and you are likely right. I guess my thinking was that Andy Serkis himself is much less known than the characters he played even though he gained more fame with time.

[Tim]

I know we are a bit past wikipedia type arguments but upon reading this, wonder if Oldman is deserving of a more generous placement than #69, this touches upon basically all the criteria we use.

Oldman has established a cult following among film fans. He is known for playing the primary antagonist in a number of popular motion pictures, which has seen him referenced in popular culture. At the peak of his popularity in the 1990s, Oldman was dubbed by Empire magazine Hollywood's "psycho deluxe", and was spoofed on popular television shows such as the Fox comedy series In Living Color and MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch, as well as drafted in to appear on the first ever cover of Loaded magazine. In 1993 he appeared in the music video for Annie Lennox's international hit "Love Song for a Vampire", written for the soundtrack to Bram Stoker's Dracula, and had a cameo role as the Devil in the video for Guns N' Roses single "Since I Don't Have You"—Oldman also played the Devil in the 2002 BMW short Beat The Devil, alongside Clive Owen, James Brown and Marilyn Manson. He starred as a sleazy priest in the controversial religious-themed video for David Bowie's 2013 single "The Next Day". In contrast to his often dark on-screen roles, Oldman's affable real-life demeanour has been noted, and he was named as one of Empire's "100 Sexiest Stars in Film History" in 2007. In 2011 readers of Empire voted him the recipient of the Empire Icon Award, which was presented by Colin Firth.

Washington Post and Independent writers noted that Oldman is regarded as one of the greatest actors of his generation. In 2012 The Globe and Mail journalist Lynn Crosbie wrote, "Critics never fail to single Oldman out... he is one of a few truly great living actors—arguably, even, the best". Of his diversity, Yahoo! Movies noted that he had "gained a well-earned reputation as a brilliant chameleon"; the Houston Chronicle dubbed Oldman "the face of versatility". He is noted for his avoidance of the Hollywood celebrity scene, often being referred to as an "actor's actor". His work has been acclaimed by Hollywood figures: Tom Hardy has described Oldman as his "absolute complete and utter hero" and "hands down, the greatest actor that's ever lived"; Brad Pitt, Daniel Radcliffe and Ryan Gosling have also cited Oldman as their favourite actor. Hardy recalled Oldman's influence on students at drama school, stating that "everybody used to quote him in all of his films". Jessica Chastain, Jennifer Lawrence, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hiddleston and Chris Pine have also named Oldman as one of their favourite actors.

Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Shia LaBeouf, Ben Mendelsohn, Johnny Depp, Jason Isaacs and Michael Fassbender have cited Oldman as an influence; Bale called him "the reason I'm acting". Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Fiennes,Keanu Reeves and Ray Winstone have used the term "genius" in reference to Oldman. John Hurt called him "the best of the bunch"; Colin Firth hailed him as "a very strong candidate for the world's best living actor" and a "hero" of his; and Alec Baldwin described him as "preternaturally gifted" and "the greatest film actor of his generation". Kristin Scott Thomas referred to Oldman as "the most amazing, generous actor". Christopher Eccleston hailed Oldman's Academy Award win for Darkest Hour as "massive" to people from working-class backgrounds. He remarked, "Oldman is as fine an actor as Daniel Day-Lewis, but Gary is not double-barrelled." The directors Luc Besson, Tony Scott and Christopher Nolan, with whom Oldman has worked, have lauded his work; Besson in 1997 called him "one of the top five actors in the world", while Scott labelled him a "genius". David Cronenberg said that Oldman "really is a fabulous actor" who gave "the best version" of Jim Gordon (in Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy).

Film critics have also been vocal in their appreciation of Oldman. Roger Ebert hailed him as "one of the great actors, able to play high, low, crass, noble"; while Gene Siskel called him "wonderful" and one of his favourite actors. Peter Travers described Oldman as "one of the best actors on the planet". Prior to his first Academy Award nomination for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Oldman was regarded as one of the greatest actors never nominated for the award; In 2009 Leigh Singer of The Guardian called him "arguably the best actor never Oscar-nominated." Before winning for Darkest Hour, he also carried the label of the greatest actor never to win an Oscar. In 2018 Stuart McGurk of GQ described Oldman as "the master of being brilliant in bad movies".

In 1998 Oldman was honoured at the Camerimage Film Festival, where he was awarded the Krzysztof Kieślowski Award for Acting, the first recipient of the award. In 2011 Oldman received a Tribute Award from the Gotham Awards. In that same year, the Palm Springs International Film Festival announced that Oldman would be receiving its International Star Award, which honours "an actor or actress who has achieved both critical and commercial international recognition throughout their body of work". The PSIFF chairman called Oldman "a performer whose ability to portray the most extreme of characters is a testament to the enormity of his talent". In 2012 The Hollywood Reporter named Oldman the highest-grossing actor in history, based on lead and supporting roles. Films in which he has appeared have grossed over $4.1 billion in the United States, and over $11 billion worldwide.

In 2012 Oldman was among the British cultural icons selected by the artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork—the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover—to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life that he most admires to mark his 80th birthday. In 2014 he received the Dilys Powell Award For Excellence in Film by the London Film Critics.

In 2018 Oldman received the Variety Award at the British Independent Film Awards, which recognises a director, actor, writer or producer who has made a global impact and helped to focus the international spotlight on the UK Variety's vice-president, Steven Gaydos, remarked that Oldman "has blazed a path as one of international cinema's most versatile and valued actors." In the same year, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival awarded Oldman the Maltin Modern Master Award, the highest accolade awarded by SPIFF that honours an individual who has enriched our culture through accomplishments in the motion picture industry. Leonard Maltin claimed Oldman has "once again proven that he is a force to be reckoned with, and a true master of his craft". Oldman was also awarded his first Career Achievement Award by the Hollywood Film Awards. The Make-up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards as well honoured him with the Distinguished Artisan Award, which IATSE President Susan Cabral-Ebert proclaimed him as "a chameleon, an actor who changes his appearance, his voice, everything about himself from film to film".

On the first glance, Oldman and George C. Scott appear to be comparable even though such a jump would require Oldman being ahead of huge stars such as Redford, Cruise, Ford, Kelly, Astaire, as well as the likes of Kinski, Piccoli, Laughton, Penn, PSH. Clift and Dean as well.

[ManPerson]

You do make a pretty strong case. I guess when compared with Dean it would be

Acclaim: Oldman close
Influence: Dean
Popularity: Dean
BoW: Oldman easy

And with Clift
Acclaim: Oldman Close
Influence: Clift
Popularity: Close
BoW: Oldman

Since both of their wins in influence are pretty clear I'd probably have Oldman between Dean and Piccoli.

[Tim]

For curiosity's sake, all the Academy Best Actor winners not on the ranked list, in chronological order:

Warner Baxter (1928)
Cliff Robertson (1968)
Art Carney (1974)
F. Murray Abraham (1984)
Jamie Foxx (2004)
Jean Dujardin (2011)
Eddie Redmayne (2014)
Casey Affleck (2016)
Rami Malek (2018)
Brendan Fraser (2022)
Cillian Murphy (2023)

[Tim]

All the Academy Best Supporting Actor winners not on the ranked list, in chronological order:

Joseph Schildkraut (1937)
Van Heflin (1942)
James Dunn (1945)
Harold Russell (1946)
Edmund Gwenn (1947)
Dean Jagger (1949)
Edmond O'Brien (1954)
Red Buttons (1957)
Burl Ives (1958)
Hugh Griffith (1959)
George Chakiris (1961)
Ed Begley (1962)
George Kennedy (1967)
Jack Albertson (1968)
Gig Young (1969)
John Mills (1970)
Ben Johnson (1971)
Joel Grey (1972)
John Houseman (1973)
George Burns (1975)
Timothy Hutton (1980)
Louis Gossett Jr. (1982)
Haing S. Ngor (1984)
Don Ameche (1985)
Cuba Gooding Jr. (1997)
Jared Leto (2013)
J. K. Simmons (2014)
Mark Rylance (2015)
Sam Rockwell (2017)
Daniel Kaluuya (2021)
Troy Kotsur (2021)
Ke Huy Quan (2022)
Kieran Culkin (2024)