My Awards - Best Actors per Year
by morales_gus | created - 06 Mar 2016 | updated - 1 month ago | Public2023 Joaquin Phoenix for Beau Is Afraid
1. James McAvoy
Actor | Filth
McAvoy was born on 21 April 1979 in Glasgow, Scotland, to James, a bus driver, and Elizabeth (née Johnstone), a nurse. He was raised on a housing estate in Drumchapel, Glasgow by his maternal grandparents (James, a butcher, and Mary), after his parents divorced when James was 11. He went to St ...
2019 for Glass
Others:
Joaquin Phoenix for Joker
Robert Downey Jr. for Avengers: Endgame
Jake Gyllenhaal for Velvet Buzzsaw
Brad Pitt for Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood
Leonardo DiCaprio for Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood
Anthony Hopkins for The Two Popes
Jonathan Pryce for The Two Popes
Chris Hemsworth for Avengers: Endgame
Kang-ho Song for Parasite
2. Josh Brolin
Actor | Avengers: Endgame
Rugged features and a natural charm have worked for Josh Brolin, the son of actor James Brolin. He has played roles as a policeman, a hunter, and the President of the United States.
Brolin was born February 12, 1968 in Santa Monica, California, to Jane Cameron (Agee), a Texas-born wildlife activist,...
2018 for Avengers: Infinity War
Others:
John Krasinski for A Quiet Place
Ryan Reynolds for Deadpool 2
Benicio Del Toro for Sicario: Day of the Soldado
John David Washington for BlackkKlansman
Chadwick Boseman for Black Panther
3. Hugh Jackman
Actor | Les Misérables
Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer and producer. Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as superhero, period, and romance characters. He is best known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film ...
2017 for Logan
Other Nominees:
Brad Pitt for War Machine
Adam Driver for The Last Jedi
Chris Hemsworth for Thor: Ragnarok
Daniel Kaluuya for Get Out
Michael Fassbender for Alien: Covenant
4. Ryan Reynolds
Actor | Deadpool 2
Ryan Rodney Reynolds was born on October 23, 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the youngest of four children. His father, James Chester Reynolds, was a food wholesaler, and his mother, Tamara Lee "Tammy" (Stewart), worked as a retail-store saleswoman. He has Irish and Scottish ancestry. ...
2016 for Deadpool
Other nominees:
John Goodman for 10 Cloverfield Lane
Ben Affleck for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Robert Downey Jr. for Captain America: Civil War
Ryan Gosling for La La Land
5. Benicio Del Toro
Actor | Sicario
Benicio Del Toro emerged in the mid-1990s as one of the most watchable and charismatic character actors to come along in years. A favorite of film buffs, Del Toro gained mainstream public attention as the conflicted but basically honest Mexican policeman in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic (2000).
...
2015 for Sicario
Other nominees:
Matt Damon for The Martian
Chris Pratt for Jurassic World
Josh Hutcherson for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Leonardo DiCaprio for The Revenant
6. Eddie Redmayne
Actor | Les Misérables
British actor Eddie Redmayne won the Academy Award for Best Actor (for The Theory of Everything (2014)).
Edward John David Redmayne was born and raised in London, England, the son of Patricia (Burke) and Richard Charles Tunstall Redmayne, a businessman. His great-grandfather was Sir Richard ...
2014 for The Theory of Everything ?
Other nominees:
Colin Firth for Magic in the Moonlight
Taika Waititi for What We Do in the Shadows
Jemaine Clement for What We Do in the Shadows
Ralph Fiennes for The Grand Budapest Hotel
Christian Bale for Exodus: Gods and Kings
7. Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor | Inception
Few actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, as a supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains (1985) and low budget horror movies, such as Critters 3 (1991), to a major teenage heartthrob in the 1990s,...
2013 for The Wolf of Wall Street and The Great Gatsby
Other nominees:
Joaquin Phoenix for Her
Édgar Ramírez for Libertador
Thiago Mendonça for Somos tão Jovens
Josh Hutcherson for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Jake Gyllenhaal for Prisoners
Hugh Jackman for Prisoners
8. Hugh Jackman
Actor | Les Misérables
Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer and producer. Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as superhero, period, and romance characters. He is best known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film ...
2012 for Les Miserables
Other nominees:
Jamie Foxx for Django Unchained
Logan Lerman for The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Robert Downey Jr. for The Avengers
Johnny Depp for Dark Shadows
9. Daniel Radcliffe
Actor | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Daniel Jacob Radcliffe was born on July 23, 1989 in Fulham, London, England, to casting agent Marcia Gresham (née Jacobson) and literary agent Alan Radcliffe. His father is from a Northern Irish Protestant background, while his mother was born in South Africa, to a Jewish family (from Lithuania, ...
2011 for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Other nominees:
Freddie Highmore for The Art of Getting By
Paul Rudd for Our Idiot Brother
Rhys Ifans for Anonymous
Jamie Campbell Bower for Anonymous
Michael Fassbender for X-Men: First Class
10. Wagner Moura
Actor | Tropa de Elite
Moura was born in Salvador, a city located in Northeast Region of Brazil, but grew up in the small town of Rodelas, Bahia. His mother, Alderiva, was a housewife, and his father, José Moura, was a Sergeant in the Brazilian Air Force. At the age of 13, he moved with his family to Salvador, Bahia.
...
2010 for Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
Other nominees:
Matt Damon for Green Zone
Leonardo DiCaprio for Shutter Island
Ângelo Antônio for Chico Xavier
Robert Downey Jr. for Iron Man 2
11. Brad Pitt
Actor | Fight Club
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri to Jane Etta Pitt (née Hillhouse), a school counselor & William Alvin "Bill" Pitt, a truck company manager. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student ...
2009 for Inglorious Basterds
Other nominees:
Ricardo Darín for El secreto de sus ojos
Zach Galifianakis for The Hangover
Jackie Earle Haley for Watchmen
Joseph Gordon-Levitt for (500) Days of Summer ?
12. Benicio Del Toro
Actor | Sicario
Benicio Del Toro emerged in the mid-1990s as one of the most watchable and charismatic character actors to come along in years. A favorite of film buffs, Del Toro gained mainstream public attention as the conflicted but basically honest Mexican policeman in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic (2000).
...
2008 for Che
Other nominees:
Rory Culkin for Lymelife
Al Pacino for Righteous Kill
Robert De Niro for Righteous Kill
Robert Downey Jr. for Iron Man
13. Wagner Moura
Actor | Tropa de Elite
Moura was born in Salvador, a city located in Northeast Region of Brazil, but grew up in the small town of Rodelas, Bahia. His mother, Alderiva, was a housewife, and his father, José Moura, was a Sergeant in the Brazilian Air Force. At the age of 13, he moved with his family to Salvador, Bahia.
...
2007 for Elite Squad
Other nominees:
Daniel Radcliffe for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Jonah Hill for Superbad
Johnny Depp for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Anthony Hopkins for Fracture
Will Smith for I am Legend
Ryan Gosling for Fracture
14. Denzel Washington
Actor | Fences
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He is the middle of three children of a beautician mother, Lennis, from Georgia, and a Pentecostal minister father, Denzel Washington, Sr., from Virginia. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at ...
2006 for Inside Man
Other nominees:
Leonardo DiCaprio for The Departed and Blood Diamond
Tom Hanks for The Da Vinci Code
Sacha Baron Cohen for Borat
Gerard Butler for 300
15. Hugo Weaving
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Hugo Wallace Weaving was born on April 4, 1960 in Nigeria, to English parents Anne (Lennard), a tour guide and teacher, and Wallace Weaving, a seismologist. Hugo has an older brother, Simon, and a younger sister, Anna, who both also live and work in Australia. During his early childhood, the ...
2005 for V for Vendetta
Other nominees:
Jake Gyllenhaal for Jarhead
Mickey Rourke for Sin City
Jason Statham for Revolver ?
Ewan McGregor for Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Brad Pitt for Mr. & Mrs. Smith
16. Brad Pitt
Actor | Fight Club
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri to Jane Etta Pitt (née Hillhouse), a school counselor & William Alvin "Bill" Pitt, a truck company manager. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student ...
2004 for Troy
Other Nominees:
Will Smith for I, Robot
Cameron Bright for Birth
Will Ferrel for Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Daniel de Oliveira for Cazuza - O Tempo Não Pára
Gael García Bernal for Diarios de Motocicleta
17. Johnny Depp
Actor | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II was born on June 9, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky, to Betty Sue Palmer (née Wells), a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, a civil engineer. He was raised in Florida. He dropped out of school when he was 15, and fronted a series of music-garage bands, including one ...
2003 for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Other nominees:
John Travolta for Basic
Denzel Washington for Out of Time
Lázaro Ramos for The Man Who Copied
Jean-Claude Van Damme for In Hell
Antônio Fagundes for God is Brazilian
18. Jim Caviezel
Actor | The Passion of the Christ
James Patrick Caviezel was born on September 26, 1968 in Mount Vernon, Washington. He was one of five children born to Margaret (Lavery), a former stage actress, and James Caviezel, a chiropractor. The Caviezels are a closely knit Catholic family. He is of Irish (mother) and Swiss-Romansh and ...
2002 for The Count of Monte Cristo
Other nominees:
Leandro Firmino for Cidade de Deus
Leonardo DiCaprio for Catch me if you Can
Eddie Murphy for I Spy
Tom Cruise for Minority Report
19. Anthony Hopkins
Actor | The Silence of the Lambs
Anthony Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937, in Margam, Wales, to Muriel Anne (Yeats) and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker. His parents were both of half Welsh and half English descent. Influenced by Richard Burton, he decided to study at College of Music and Drama and graduated in 1957. In 1965, ...
2001 for Hannibal
Other nominees:
Johnny Depp for From Hell
Ewan McGregor for Moulin Rouge
Woody Allen The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
Keanu Reeves for Sweet November
Jude Law for Enemy at the Gates ?
Ian McKellen in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ?(or for supporting actor?
20. Tom Hanks
Producer | Cast Away
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook. His mother's family, originally surnamed "Fraga", was entirely Portuguese, while his father was of mostly English ancestry. Tom grew up in what he has ...
2000 for Cast Away
Other nominees:
Christian Bale for American Psycho
Jim Carey for Me, Myself and Irene and How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Leonardo DiCaprio for The Beach
Cuba Gooding Jr. for Men of Honor
21. Heath Ledger
Actor | Brokeback Mountain
When hunky, twenty-year-old heart-throb Heath Ledger first came to the attention of the public in 1999, it was all too easy to tag him as a "pretty boy" and an actor of little depth. He spent several years trying desperately to sway this image, but this was a double-edged sword. His work comprised ...
1999 for 10 Things I Hate About You
Other nominees:
Brad Pitt for Fight Club
Edward Norton for Fight Club
Denzel Washington for The Hurricane
Ryan Phillippe for Cruel Intentions
Matt Damon for The Talented Mr. Ripley
22. Edward Norton
Actor | Fight Club
American actor, filmmaker and activist Edward Harrison Norton was born on August 18, 1969, in Boston, Massachusetts, and was raised in Columbia, Maryland.
His mother, Lydia Robinson "Robin" (Rouse), was a foundation executive and teacher of English, and a daughter of famed real estate developer ...
1998 for American History X
Other nominees:
Will Smith for Enemy of the State
Jeff Bridges for Big Lebowski
Nicolas Cage for Snake Eyes
Patrick Stewart for Star Trek: Insurrection
Tom Hanks for Saving Private Ryan
23. Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor | Inception
Few actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, as a supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains (1985) and low budget horror movies, such as Critters 3 (1991), to a major teenage heartthrob in the 1990s,...
1997 for Titanic
Other nominees:
Jack Nicholson for As Good as It Gets
Roberto Benigni for La Vita è Bella
Mel Gibson for Conspiracy Theory
Matt Damon for Good Will Hunting
Keanu Reeves for Devil's Advocate
24. Tom Cruise
Actor | Top Gun
In 1976, if you had told fourteen-year-old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too distant future he would be Tom Cruise, one of the top 100 movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to join the priesthood. ...
1996 for Mission Impossible or Jerry Maguire ?
Other nominees:
Arnold Schwarzenegger for Eraser
Jean-Claude van Damme for The Quest
Robin Williams for Jack
Daniel Day-Lewis for The Crucible
25. Antonio Banderas
Actor | The Mask of Zorro
Antonio Banderas, one of Spain's most famous faces, was a soccer player until breaking his foot at the age of fourteen; he is now an international movie star known for playing Zorro in the eponymous movie series.
He was born José Antonio Domínguez Banderas on August 10, 1960, in Málaga, Andalusia, ...
1995 for Desperado
Other nominees:
Mel Gibson for Brave Heart
James Cromwell for Babe
Brad Pitt for Se7en
Kevin Spacey for The Usual Suspects
26. Tom Hanks
Producer | Cast Away
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook. His mother's family, originally surnamed "Fraga", was entirely Portuguese, while his father was of mostly English ancestry. Tom grew up in what he has ...
1994 for Forrest Gump
Other nominees:
Jim Carrey for The Mask
Tom Cruise for Interview with the Vampire
Leslie Nielsen for Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
Jim Carrey for Dumb & Dumber and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Tim Robbins for The Shawshank Redemption
27. Anthony Hopkins
Actor | The Silence of the Lambs
Anthony Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937, in Margam, Wales, to Muriel Anne (Yeats) and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker. His parents were both of half Welsh and half English descent. Influenced by Richard Burton, he decided to study at College of Music and Drama and graduated in 1957. In 1965, ...
1993 for The Remains of the Day
Other nominees:
Macaulay Culkin for The Good Son
Al Pacino for Carlito's Way
Tom Hanks for Philadelphia ?
Liam Neeson for Schindler's List
Denzel Washington for Philadelphia ?
Woody Allen for Manhattan Murder Mystery
28. Al Pacino
Actor | Serpico
Alfredo James "Al" 'Pacino established himself as a film actor during one of cinema's most vibrant decades, the 1970s, and has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies.
He was born April 25, 1940 in Manhattan, New York City, to Italian-American parents, Rose (nee Gerardi)...
1992 for Scent of a Woman
Other nominees:
Tom Cruise for Far and Away and A Few Good Men
Gary Oldman in Bram Stoker's Dracula
Tim Roth for Reservoir Dogs
29. Anthony Hopkins
Actor | The Silence of the Lambs
Anthony Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937, in Margam, Wales, to Muriel Anne (Yeats) and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker. His parents were both of half Welsh and half English descent. Influenced by Richard Burton, he decided to study at College of Music and Drama and graduated in 1957. In 1965, ...
1991 for The Silence of the Lambs
Other nominees:
Robert De Niro for Cape Fear
Macaulay Culkin for My Girl
Kevin Costner for JFK
Arnold Schwarzenegger for The Terminator 2:Judgement Day
30. Macaulay Culkin
Actor | Home Alone
Macaulay Culkin, one of the most famous American child stars, was born on August 26, 1980 in New York City, New York, USA, as the third of seven children of his father Kit Culkin (a former stage and child actor and also Macaulay's former manager) and mother Patricia Brentrup. He is the brother of ...
1990 for Home Alone
Other nominees:
Johnny Depp for Edward Scisorhands
Patrick Swayze for Ghost
Al Pacino for The Godfather Part III
Sean Connery for The Hunt for Red October
31. Robin Williams
Actor | Mrs. Doubtfire
Robin McLaurin Williams was born on Saturday, July 21st, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois, a great-great-grandson of Mississippi Governor and Senator, Anselm J. McLaurin. His mother, Laurie McLaurin (née Janin), was a former model from Mississippi, and his father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, was a Ford ...
1989 for Dead Poets Society
Other nominees:
Tom Cruise for Born on the Fourth of July ?
Michael J. Fox for Back to the Future Part II
others ?
32. Eddie Murphy
Actor | The Nutty Professor
Edward Regan Murphy was born April 3, 1961 in Brooklyn, New York, to Lillian Lynch (born: Lillian Laney), a telephone operator, and Charles Edward Murphy, a transit police officer who was also an amateur comedian and actor. After his father died, his mother married Vernon Lynch, a foreman at a ...
1988 for Coming to America
Other nominees:
Dustin Hoffman for Rain Man
Jean-Claude van Damme for Bloodsport
Bruce Willis for Die Hard
Tom Hanks for Big ?
33. Kevin Costner
Actor | The Postman
Kevin Michael Costner was born on January 18, 1955 in Lynwood, California, the third child of Bill Costner, a ditch digger and ultimately an electric line servicer for Southern California Edison, and Sharon Costner (née Tedrick), a welfare worker. His older brother, Dan, was born in 1950. A middle ...
1987 for The Untoucheables
Other nominees:
Michael Douglas for Wall Street
Robin Williams for Good Morning, Vietnam
Charlie Sheen for Wall Street
John Candy for Planes, Trains & Automobiles
34. Matthew Broderick
Actor | The Producers
A slight comic actor chiefly known for his boyish charm, Matthew Broderick was born on March 21, 1962 in New York City, to Patricia Broderick (née Biow), a playwright and painter, and James Broderick, an actor. His father had Irish and English ancestry, and his mother was from a Jewish family (from...
1986 for Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Other nominees:
Wil Wheaton for Stand by Me
River Phoenix for Stand by Me
Robert De Niro for The Mission
Charlie Sheen for Platoon
35. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Actor | Terminator 2: Judgment Day
With an almost unpronounceable surname and a thick Austrian accent, who would have ever believed that a brash, quick talking bodybuilder from a small European village would become one of Hollywood's biggest stars, marry into the prestigious Kennedy family, amass a fortune via shrewd investments and...
1985 for Commando
Other nominees:
Michael J. Fox for Back to the Future
Anthony Michael Hall for The Breakfast Club
Judd Nelson for The Breakfast Club
Emilio Estevez for The Breakfast Club
36. Eddie Murphy
Actor | The Nutty Professor
Edward Regan Murphy was born April 3, 1961 in Brooklyn, New York, to Lillian Lynch (born: Lillian Laney), a telephone operator, and Charles Edward Murphy, a transit police officer who was also an amateur comedian and actor. After his father died, his mother married Vernon Lynch, a foreman at a ...
1984 for Beverly Hills Cop
Other nominees:
Michael Biehn for Terminator
Arnold Schwarzenegger for Terminator
John Hurt for Nineteen Eighty-Four
F. Murray Abraham for Amadeus
Robert De Niro for Once Upon a Time in America
37. Al Pacino
Actor | Serpico
Alfredo James "Al" 'Pacino established himself as a film actor during one of cinema's most vibrant decades, the 1970s, and has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies.
He was born April 25, 1940 in Manhattan, New York City, to Italian-American parents, Rose (nee Gerardi)...
1983 for Scarface
Other nominees:
Mark Hamill for Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
38. Henry Thomas
Actor | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Henry Jackson Thomas Jr. is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor and had a lead role in the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), for which he won a Young Artist Award and received Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award, and Saturn Award nominations. Thomas also had roles in films ...
1982 for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Other Nominees:
Sylvester Stallone for First Blood
Woody Allen for A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
39. Harrison Ford
Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark
Harrison Ford was born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy (Nidelman), a radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born John William Ford), an actor turned advertising executive. His father was of Irish and German ancestry, while his maternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Minsk, ...
1981 for Raiders of the Lost Ark
40. Robert De Niro
Actor | Cape Fear
One of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born on August 17, 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English, Dutch, German, and French. He was trained ...
1980 for Raging Bull
Other nominees:
Jack Nicholson for The Shining
Christopher Reeve for Superman II
41. Al Pacino
Actor | Serpico
Alfredo James "Al" 'Pacino established himself as a film actor during one of cinema's most vibrant decades, the 1970s, and has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies.
He was born April 25, 1940 in Manhattan, New York City, to Italian-American parents, Rose (nee Gerardi)...
1979 for ...and justice for all.
Other nominees:
Woody Allen for Manhattan
42. Christopher Reeve
Actor | Superman
Christopher D'Olier Reeve was born September 25, 1952, in New York City, to journalist Barbara Johnson (née Barbara Pitney Lamb) and writer/professor F.D. Reeve (Franklin D'Olier Reeve). He came from an upper-class family; his paternal grandfather was CEO of Prudential Financial, and one of his ...
1978 for Superman
Other nominees:
John Travolta for Grease
Peter Ustinov for Death on the Nile
Bruce Lee for The Game of Death
43. Mark Hamill
Actor | Star Wars
Mark Hamill is best known for his portrayal of Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy - Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) - a role he reprised in Star Wars: Episode VII - ...
1977 for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
Other nominees:
Harrison Ford for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
Woody Allen for Annie Hall
Richard Dreyfuss for Close Encounters of the Third Kind
John Travolta for Saturday Night Fever
44. Sylvester Stallone
Actor | Rocky
Sylvester Stallone is an athletically built, dark-haired American actor/screenwriter/director/producer, the movie fans worldwide have been flocking to see Stallone's films for over 40 years, making "Sly" one of Hollywood's biggest-ever box office draws.
Sylvester Stallone was born on July 6, 1946, ...
1976 for Rocky
Other nominees:
Robert De Niro for Taxi Driver
Jeff Bridges for King Kong
Dustin Hoffman for All the President's Men
45. Al Pacino
Actor | Serpico
Alfredo James "Al" 'Pacino established himself as a film actor during one of cinema's most vibrant decades, the 1970s, and has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies.
He was born April 25, 1940 in Manhattan, New York City, to Italian-American parents, Rose (nee Gerardi)...
1975 for A Dog Day Afternoon
Other Nominees:
Jack Nicholson for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
46. Al Pacino
Actor | Serpico
Alfredo James "Al" 'Pacino established himself as a film actor during one of cinema's most vibrant decades, the 1970s, and has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies.
He was born April 25, 1940 in Manhattan, New York City, to Italian-American parents, Rose (nee Gerardi)...
1974 for The Godfather Part II
Other nominees:
Robert De Niro for The Godfather Part II
Jack Nicholson for Chinatown
47. Bruce Lee
Actor | Jing wu men
Bruce Lee remains the greatest icon of martial arts cinema and a key figure of modern popular media. Had it not been for Bruce Lee and his movies in the early 1970s, it's arguable whether or not the martial arts film genre would have ever penetrated and influenced mainstream North American and ...
1973 for Enter the Dragon
Other nominees:
Al Pacino for Serpico
48. Marlon Brando
Actor | Apocalypse Now
Marlon Brando is widely considered the greatest movie actor of all time, rivaled only by the more theatrically oriented Laurence Olivier in terms of esteem. Unlike Olivier, who preferred the stage to the screen, Brando concentrated his talents on movies after bidding the Broadway stage adieu in ...
1972 for The Godfather
Other nominees:
Al Pacino for The Godfather
Bruce Lee for The Way of the Dragon
49. Gene Wilder
Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
When he was 11, he wanted to be a comedian like Sid Caesar. Then, when he was 15 and saw Lee J. Cobb in 'Death of a Salesman,' he decided he would be a comedy actor and found that Mel Brooks was a great influence on his screen writing. He combined both talents with directing in The World's Greatest...
1971 for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Other Nominees:
Peter Ostrum for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
50. Jon Voight
Actor | Midnight Cowboy
Jon Voight is an American actor of German and Slovak descent. He has won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role as paraplegic Vietnam War veteran Luke Martin in the war film "Coming Home" (1978). He has also been nominated for the same award other two times. He was first ...
1969 for Midnight Cowboy
Others:
George Lazenby for On Her Majesty's Secret Service
51. Dustin Hoffman
Actor | Tootsie
Dustin Lee Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lillian (Gold) and Harry Hoffman, who was a furniture salesman and prop supervisor for Columbia Pictures. He was raised in a Jewish family (from Ukraine, Russia-Poland, and Romania). Hoffman graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955, ...
1967 for The Graduate
52. Clint Eastwood
Actor | Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in ...
1966 for The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
53. Peter Sellers
Actor | Being There
Often credited as the greatest comedian of all time, Peter Sellers was born Richard Henry Sellers to a well-off acting family in 1925 in Southsea, a suburb of Portsmouth. He was the son of Agnes Doreen "Peg" (Marks) and William "Bill" Sellers. His parents worked in an acting company run by his ...
1964 for A Shot in the Dark and Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
54. Gregory Peck
Actor | To Kill a Mockingbird
Eldred Gregory Peck was born on April 5, 1916 in La Jolla, California, to Bernice Mae (Ayres) and Gregory Pearl Peck, a chemist and druggist in San Diego. He had Irish (from his paternal grandmother), English, and some German, ancestry. His parents divorced when he was five years old. An only child...
1962 for To Kill a Mockinbird
Other nominees:
Sean Connery for Dr. No
Phillip Alford for To Kill a Mockinbird
55. George Peppard
Actor | Breakfast at Tiffany's
Handsome and elegant George Peppard occasionally displayed considerable talent through his career, whether action roles or dramatic. Following Broadway and television experience, he made a strong film debut in The Strange One (1957). He started getting noticed when he played Robert Mitchum's ...
1961 for Breakfast at Tiffany's
56. Anthony Perkins
Actor | Psycho
Anthony Perkins was born April 4, 1932 in New York City, to Janet Esselstyn (Rane) and Osgood Perkins, an actor of both stage and film. His father died when he was five. Anthony's paternal great-grandfather was engraver Andrew Varick Stout Anthony. Perkins attended the Brooks School, the Browne & ...
1960 for Psycho
Other nominees:
Jack Lemmon for The Apartment
57. Cary Grant
Actor | North by Northwest
Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant", Grant is said to have replied, "So would I."
Cary Grant was born Archibald Alec Leach on January 18, 1904 in Horfield, Bristol, England, to Elsie Maria (Kingdon) and Elias James Leach, who worked in a factory. His early years in ...
1959 for North by Northwest
58. Henry Fonda
Actor | 12 Angry Men
This remarkable, soft-spoken American began in films as a diffident juvenile. With passing years, he matured into a star character actor who exemplified not only integrity and strength, but an ideal of the common man fighting against social injustice and oppression. He was born in Grand Island, ...
1957 for 12 Angry Men
59. James Stewart
Actor | Vertigo
James Maitland Stewart was born on May 20, 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, to Elizabeth Ruth (Johnson) and Alexander Maitland Stewart, who owned a hardware store. He was of Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and some English descent. Stewart was educated at a local prep school, Mercersburg Academy, where he ...
1954 for Rear Window
Other nominees:
Ray Milland for Dial M for Murder
60. Gene Kelly
Soundtrack | Singin' in the Rain
Eugene Curran Kelly was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the third son of Harriet Catherine (Curran) and James Patrick Joseph Kelly, a phonograph salesman. His father was of Irish descent and his mother was of Irish and German ancestry.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was the largest and most powerful studio in...
1952 for Singin' in the Rain
61. Marlon Brando
Actor | Apocalypse Now
Marlon Brando is widely considered the greatest movie actor of all time, rivaled only by the more theatrically oriented Laurence Olivier in terms of esteem. Unlike Olivier, who preferred the stage to the screen, Brando concentrated his talents on movies after bidding the Broadway stage adieu in ...
1951 for A Streetcar Named Desire
62. William Holden
Actor | Stalag 17
Billy Wilder proclaimed William Holden to be "the ideal motion picture actor". For almost four decades, the handsome, affable 'Golden Holden' was among Hollywood's most durable and engaging stars. He was born William Franklin Beedle Jr., one of three sons to a high school English teacher, Mary ...
1950 for Sunset Boulevard
63. John Dall
Actor | Rope
John Dall was born John Dall Thompson on May 26, 1920, the younger son of Mr. Charles Jenner Thompson and Mrs. Henry (née Worthington) Thompson. He made his Broadway debut in Norman Krasna's comedy, 'Dear Ruth', directed by Moss Hart, in 1944. The show was a hit, running for over a year and a half ...
1948 for Rope
64. James Stewart
Actor | Vertigo
James Maitland Stewart was born on May 20, 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, to Elizabeth Ruth (Johnson) and Alexander Maitland Stewart, who owned a hardware store. He was of Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and some English descent. Stewart was educated at a local prep school, Mercersburg Academy, where he ...
1946 for It's a Wonderful Life
Other Nominees:
Humphrey Bogart for The Big Sleep
Orson Welles for The Stranger
65. Humphrey Bogart
Actor | Casablanca
Humphrey DeForest Bogart was born in New York City, New York, to Maud Humphrey, a famed magazine illustrator and suffragette, and Belmont DeForest Bogart, a moderately wealthy surgeon (who was secretly addicted to opium). Bogart was educated at Trinity School, NYC, and was sent to Phillips Academy ...
1942 for Casablanca
66. Orson Welles
Actor | Citizen Kane
His father, Richard Head Welles, was a well-to-do inventor, his mother, Beatrice (Ives) Welles, a beautiful concert pianist; Orson Welles was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child. When his mother died in 1924 (when he was nine) he traveled the world with his father. He was ...
1941 for Citizen Kane
67. Charles Chaplin
Writer | The Great Dictator
Considered to be one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin lived an interesting life both in his films and behind the camera. He is most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with his popular character, the Little Tramp; the man with the ...
1940 for The Great Dictator
68. Charles Chaplin
Writer | The Great Dictator
Considered to be one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin lived an interesting life both in his films and behind the camera. He is most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with his popular character, the Little Tramp; the man with the ...
1936 for Modern Times
69. Charles Chaplin
Writer | The Great Dictator
Considered to be one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin lived an interesting life both in his films and behind the camera. He is most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with his popular character, the Little Tramp; the man with the ...
1931 for City Lights
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