The Top 50 Performances Ever
1. Marlon Brando-- On the Waterfront (1954)
2. Robert De Niro-- Raging Bull (1980)
3. Ben Kingsley-- Gandhi (1982)
4. Gena Rowlands-- A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
5. Robert De Niro-- Taxi Driver (1976)
6. Emily Watson-- Breaking the Waves (1996)
7. Dennis Hopper-- Blue Velvet (1986)
8. Jon Voight-- Midnight Cowboy (1969)
9. George C. Scott-- Dr. Strangelove (1964)
10. Charlize Theron-- Monster (2003)
11. Gloria Swanson-- Sunset Blvd. (1950)
12. Julianne Moore-- Boogie Nights (1997)
13. Meryl Streep-- Sophie's Choice (1982)
14. Sissy Spacek-- Badlands (1973)
15. Sean Penn-- Dead Man Walking (1995)
16. F. Murray Abraham-- Amadeus (1984)
17. Giulietta Masina-- La Strada (1954)
18. Maria Falconetti-- The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
19. Jack Nicholson-- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
20. Al Pacino-- Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
21. Peter O'Toole-- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
22. Martin Landau-- Ed Wood (1994)
23. Ralph Fiennes-- Schindler's List (1993)
24. Orson Welles-- The Third Man (1949)
25. Elizabeth Taylor-- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
26. Orson Welles-- Citizen Kane (1941)
27. Anthony Perkins-- Psycho (1960)
28. Jessica Tandy-- Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
29. Marlon Brando-- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
30. Joe Pesci-- Goodfellas (1990)
31. Bjork-- Dancer in the Dark (2000)
32. Barbara Stanwyck-- Double Indemnity (1944)
33. Anthony Hopkins-- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
34. Ellen Burstyn-- Requiem for a Dream (2000)
35. Sean Penn-- The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
36. Bibi Andersson-- Persona (1966)
37. Ruth Gordon-- Harold and Maude (1971)
38. Liv Ullmann-- Persona (1966)
39. Giulietta Masina-- Nights of Cabiria (1957)
40. Vivien Leigh-- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
41. Nicolas Cage-- Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
42. Jack Lemmon-- Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
43. Denzel Washington-- Malcolm X (1992)
44. Harry Dean Stanton-- Paris, Texas (1984)
45. Dustin Hoffman-- Midnight Cowboy (1969)
46. Maggie Gyllenhaal-- Sherrybaby (2006)
47. Chris Cooper-- Adaptation (2002)
48. Jodie Foster-- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
49. Gong Li-- Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
50. Marlon Brando-- The Godfather (1972)
