Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances

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* Peter O'Toole as T.E Lawrence (#1) * Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy (#2) * Meryl Streep as Sophie Zawistowska (#3) * Al Pacino as Sonny Wortzik (#4) * Bette Davis as Margo Channing (#5) * James Cagney as George M Cohan (#6) * Dustin Hoffman as “Ratso” Rizzo (#7) * James Stewart as George Bailey (#8) * Gene Wilder as Dr Frederick Frankenstein (#9) * Robert De Niro as Jake La Motta (#10) * Daniel Day-Lewis as Christy Brown (#11) * Jack Nicholson as “Badass” Buddusky (#12) * Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine (#13) * Robert Duvall as Mac Sledge (#14) * Tom Hanks as Josh Baskin (#15) * Cary Grant as T.R Devlin (#16) * Denzel Washington as Malcolm X (#17) * Emily Watson as Bess McNeill (#18) * Paul Newman as Frank Galvin (#19) * Al Pacino as Michael Corleone (#20) * Giulietta Masina as Cabiria (#21) * Johnny Depp as Edward Scissorhands (#22) * Russell Crowe as Jeffrey Wigand (#23) * Humphrey Bogart as Fred C Dobbs (#24) * Greta Garbo as Ninotchka (#25) * Maria Falconetti as Joan of Arc (#26) * Marlon Brando as Paul (#27) * Rosalind Russell as Hildy Johnson (#28) * Peter Sellers as Chance the Gardener (#29) * James Stewart as John “Scottie” Ferguson (#30) * Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles (#31) * Dustin Hoffman as Michael Dorsey/ (#33) * Buster Keaton as Johnny Gray (#34) * Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote (#35) * Faye Dunaway Evelyn Cross Mulwray (#36) * Gene Hackman as Harry Caul (#37) * Carole Lombard as Maria Tura (#38) * Laurence Olivier as Richard III (#39) * Nicole Kidman as Suzanne Stone Maretto (#40) * Samuel L Jackson as Jules Winnfield (#41) * Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle (#42) * James Dean as Jim Stark (#43) * Charlie Chaplin as A Tramp (#44) * Reese Witherspoon as Tracy (#45) * Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland (#46) * Jack Nicholson as Randle Patrick McMurphy (#47) * Bill Murray as Phil Connors (#48) * Liv Ullmann as Elisabet Vogler (#49) * Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade (#50) * Henry Fonda as Tom Joad (#51) * Emma Thompson as Miss Kenton (#52) * Daniel Day-Lewis as Bill (#53) * Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord (#54) * Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs (#55) * Jodie Foster as Sarah Tobias (#56) * Max Von Sydow as Lasse Karlsson (#57) * Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley (#58) * Catherine Deneuve as Severine Serizy (#59) * Diane Keaton as Annie Hall (#60) * Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth (#61) * Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious (#62) * Gena Rowlands as Mabel Longhetti (#63) * Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson (#64) * Jack Lemmon as Jerry/Daphne (#65) * Holly Hunter as Jane Craig (#66) * Spencer Tracy as Henry Drummond (#67) * Cary Grant as Dr David Huxley (#68) * Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond (#69) * Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter (#70) * Meryl Streep as Karen Silkwood (#71) * Judy Garland as Esther Blodgett a.k.a (#72) * John Travolta as Tony Manero (#73) * Madeline Kahn as Lili von Shtupp (#74) * Julie Christie as Diana Scott (#75) * Burt Lancaster as J.J Hunsecker (#76) * Morgan Freeman as Leo Smalls Jr., (#77) * Toshiro Mifune as Sanjuro Kuwabatake (#78) * Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow (#79) * Jeanne Moreau as Catherine (#80) * Kate Winslet as Clementine Kruczynski (#81) * George C Scott as General George S(#82) * Hilary Swank as Brandon Teena (#83) * Anjelica Huston as Lilly Dillon (#84) * Jessica Lange as Frances Farmer (#85) * Robert Walker as Bruno Anthony (#86) * John Wayne as Ethan Edwards (#87) * Christopher Walken as Nick Chevotarevich (#88) * Gong Li as Juxian (#89) * Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey “The Dude” (#90) * Jane Fonda as Bree Daniels (#91) * Joan Crawford as Mildred Pierce Beragon (#93) * Peter Lorre as Hans Beckert (#94) * Angela Bassett as Tina Turner (#95) * Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn (#96) * Ben Kingsley as Don Logan (#97) * Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson (#98) * Steve Martin as Navin Johnson (#99) * Malcolm McDowell as Alex DeLarge (#100)

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