Mark Johnson Presents
The Top 100 Greatest Performances
(Notated if nominated or won the Oscar for their performance)
1. Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront; won)
2. Vivien Leigh (Gone With the Wind; won)
3. Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca; nominated)
4. Peter O’Toole (Lawrence of Arabia; nominated)
5. James Stewart (It’s a Wonderful Life; nominated)
6. Henry Fonda (Grapes of Wrath; nominated)
7. George C. Scott (Patton; nominated)
8. Robert DeNiro (Raging Bull; won)
9. Marlon Brando (A Streetcar Named Desire; nominated)
10. Ben Kingsley (Gandhi; won)
11. F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus; won)
12. Gloria Swanson (Sunset Boulevard; nominated)
13. Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood; won)
14. Katherine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter; won)
15. Elizabeth Taylor (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; won)
16. James Cagney (Yankee Doodle Dandy; won)
17. Vivien Leigh (A Streetcar Named Desire; won)
18. Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; won)
19. Humphrey Bogart (Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
20. Bette Davis (All About Eve; nominated)
21. James Stewart (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; nominated)
22. Dustin Hoffman (Midnight Cowboy; nominated)
23. Robert DeNiro (Taxi Driver; nominated)
24. Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs; won)
25. Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump; won)
26. Clark Gable (Gone With the Wind; nominated)
27. Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird; won)
28. Gary Cooper (High Noon; won)
29. Meryl Streep (Sophie’s Choice; won)
30. Alec Guinness (The Bridge on the River Kwai; won)
31. Peter Sellers (Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; nominated)
32. James Dean (A Rebel Without a Cause)
33. Paul Newman (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; nominated)
34. Marlon Brando (The Godfather; won)
35. Robert DeNiro (The Deer Hunter; nominated)
36. Charlie Chaplin (City Lights)
37. Orson Welles (Citizen Kane; nominated)
38. Peter Finch (Network; won)
39. Humphrey Bogart (The African Queen; won)
40. Elizabeth Taylor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; nominated)
41. Laurence Olivier (Hamlet; won)
42. Spencer Tracy (Boys Town; won)
43. Faye Dunaway (Network; won)
44. Richard Burton (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; nominated)
45. Katherine Hepburn (The African Queen; nominated)
46. Al Pacino (The Godfather Part II; nominated)
47. Maria Falconetti (The Passion of Joan of Arc)
48. Angela Lansbury (The Manchurian Candidate; nominated)
49. Charles Laughton (The Mutiny on the Bounty; nominated)
50. Jack Lemmon (Days of Wine and Roses; nominated)
51. Clark Gable (It Happened One Night; won)
52. Sydney Poitier (Lillies of the Field; won)
53. Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man; won)
54. Gene Kelly (Singin’ in the Rain)
55. Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs; won)
56. Katherine Hepburn (The Philadelphia Story; nominated)
57. Al Pacino (The Godfather; nominated)
58. Michael Douglas (Wall Street; won)
59. Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain; nominated)
60. Ray Milland (The Lost Weekend; won)
61. Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday; won)
62. Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; won)
63. John Wayne (The Searchers)
64. Greer Garson (Mrs. Miniver; won)
65. Frederic March (The Best Years of Our Lives; won)
66. Montgomery Clift (A Place in the Sun; nominated)
67. Daniel Day-Lewis (My Left Foot; won)
68. Julie Andrews (The Sound of Music; nominated)
69. Sissy Spacek (The Coal Miner’s Daughter; won)
70. Anne Bancroft (The Graduate; nominated)
71. Gene Hackman (The French Connection; won)
72. Tom Hanks (Philadelphia; won)
73. Paul Newman (The Hustler; nominated)
74. Kate Winslet (The Reader; won)
75. Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca)
76. Liza Minelli (Cabaret; won)
77. Diane Keaton (Annie Hall; won)
78. Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore; won)
79. Sean Penn (Mystic River; won)
80. Sally Field (Norma Rae; won)
81. Phillip Seymour Hoffman (Capote; won)
82. Jack Nicholson (Chinatown; nominated)
83. Kirk Douglas (Paths of Glory)
84. Rod Steiger (In the Heat of the Night; won)
85. Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night; won)
86. Kathy Bates (Misery; won)
87. Charlton Heston (Ben-Hur; won)
88. Ernest Borgnine (Marty; won)
89. Faye Dunaway (Chinatown; nominated)
90. Dustin Hoffman (The Graduate; nominated)
91. Sylvester Stallone (Rocky; nominated)
92. Kevin Spacey (American Beauty; won)
93. Jack Nicholson (As Good As It Gets; won)
94. Charlize Theron (Monster; won)
95. Burt Lancaster (The Birdman of Alcatraz; nominated)
96. Marlon Brando (Apocalypse Now)
97. Spencer Tracy (Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner; nominated)
98. Laurence Olivier (Wuthering Heights; nominated)
99. Faye Dunaway (Bonnie and Clyde; nominated)
100. Meryl Streep (Doubt; nominated)
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