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badseed

Gender: Male
Age: 35
Location: FL

FelixC wrote:

badseed wrote:

FelixC wrote:

Gary Oldman
Marlon Brando
Ian McKellan
Russell Crowe
Michael Redgrave
James Stewart
Daniel Day-Lewis
Martin Sheen
Jeremy Irons
John Garfield
Guy Pearce
Ray Liotta
Sterling Hayden
WC Fields
Ralph Richardson
James Franco
John Gielgud
Edward G Robinson
Orson Welles
James Mason
Laurence Olivier
Christopher Plummer
Marcello Mastroianni
James Cagney
Joseph Cotten
James Caan
Peter Sellers
Jim Broadbent
Forest Whitaker
William Holden
Paul Newman
Albert Finney
Melvyn Douglas

That's a pretty short list. Not sure if it was intentional. Feel free to edit at any point if you like. If not that's cool too. Enjoy your quirky picks. Never would have expected to see WC Fields on here but he was quite good. And I really love Melvyn Douglas.

Speaking of short lists, maybe someone who's hosted before can help me understand something. Aren't the lists normally weighted based on size? If so what's the proper method for weighing? Like if I'm giving 50 points for #1 and 1 point for #50, what do I do for a top 25? 25-1? 50-26? Something else?

I'm glad I found out that we should rank them in order. I went back and re-did mine because it was nothing close to being in order.
And I finished my actors list.

I think I've only seen 3 Greta Garbo movies. And for some reason I just don't know her well enough. I liked Ninotchka and Anna Christie. And I think I've seen Camille but I don't remember it that well. I'm going to have to check her out again. I know she only has a handful of movies, so it shouldn't take too long to catch up.

Yeah, I think WC Fields was great. I enjoy him as much as anybody else I've ever seen. I was a little disappointed not to see more comedy stars on people's lists. Like Mae West, Margaret Dumont, W.C. Fields etc. But I'm glad to see a few Charlie Chaplins and Buster Keatons.

I apologize for not making it clear in the OP. I guess I just assumed it was the same bunch of us as usual and wasn't expecting any first timers.

I love a handful of modern comedic actors but my general love for comedy gradually drops as time goes by. Chaplin and Keaton are bosses (and Harold Lloyd who was so close for me) then I really love Peter Sellers; after that Gene Wilder, Robin Williams, Jim Carrey and the like are great but when so many of their contemporaries had a higher overall quality of films I had to leave most of them off. Had we done 100 of each gender I'd have fit all those names and probably a few more.

CharlieBarley

Gender: Male
Age: 48
Location: Mount Olympus

Ok - Best Actresses

Here goes:

Susan Sarandon (Rocky Horror Picture Show/Dead Man Walking)
Setsuko Hara (Late Spring/Tokyo Story)
Donna Reed (It's A Wonderful Life)
Sissy Spaceck (Badlands/Carrie)
Jennifer Jones (The Song Of Bernadette)
Geena Davis (Thelma And Louise)
Olivia de Havilland (Gone With The Wind/Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte)
Bette Davis (All About Eve/Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?)
Goldie Hawn (Overboard/Private Benjamin)
Tatum O'Neal (Paper Moon)
Maria Falconetti (The Passion of Joan of Arc)
Jodie Foster (The Accused/The Silence Of The Lambs)
Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth)
Maggie Smith (The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie)
Kate Winslet (Titanic/The Reader)
Olivia Newton-John (Grease)
Toni Collette (Muriel's Wedding)
Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest)
Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist)
Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice)
Judi Dench (Skyfall/Mrs Brown)
Natalya Bondarchuk (Solaris)
Whoopi Goldberg (Sister Act)
Emily Watson (Hilary and Jackie/Angela's Ashes)
Carrie Fisher (Star Wars)
Julie Christie (Dr Zhivago/Don't Look Now)
Carmen Maura (Women On the Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown)
Jamie Lee Curtis (Trading Places)
Rachel Griffiths (Muriel's Wedding/Hilary and Jackie)
Gene Tierney (Leave Her To Heaven)
Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)
Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction)
Stephane Audran (Babette's Feast)
Bibi Anderson (Babette's Feast)
Beatrice Dalle (Betty Blue)
Julie Andrews (Sound of Music)
Judy Garland (The Wizard Of Oz)
Vivien Leigh (Gone With The Wind/A Streetcar Named Desire)
Pam Grier (Coffy)
Emma Thompson (The Remains Of The Day)
Teri Garr (Young Frankenstein/After Hours)
Linda Fiorentino (After Hours/The Last Seduction)
Juliette Binoche (Chocolat/Les Amants du Pont Neuf)
Liza Minelli (Cabaret)
Rosanna Arquette (After Hours/Desperately Seeking Susan)
Audrey Hepburn (Breakfast At Tiffany's)
Emmanuelle Beart (Manon des Sources)
Catherine Deneuve (Belle de Jour/Repulsion)
Julianne Moore (Boogie Nights)
Renee Zellwegger (Bridget Jones'Diary/Jerry Maguire)

hereforashortime

Gender: Male

Favorite Actresses

Meryl Streep
Cate Blanchett
Frances McDormand
Emma Stone
Katherine Hepburn
Viola Davis
Kate Winslet
Amy Adams
Diane Keaton
Shirley MacLaine
Julianne Moore
Jodi Foster
Helena Bonham Carter
Mia Farrow
Jessica Chastain
Emma Thompson
Marion Cotillard
Kathy Bates
Anne Hathaway
Jamie Lee Curtis
Toni Collette
Kim Novak
Sigourney Weaver
Scarlett Johansson
Uma Thurman
Julie Andrews
Michelle Williams
Reese Witherspoon
Julie Delpy
Marisa Tomei
Tilda Swinton
Sally Hawkins
Marilyn Monroe
Glenn Close
Rachel McAdams
Natalie Portman
Bette Davis
Bryce Dallas Howard
Audrey Hepburn
Octavia Spencer
Daine Wiest
Carrie Fisher
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Emma Watson
Grace Kelly
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Winona Ryder
Jennifer Lawrence
Talia Shire
Saoirse Ronan
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badseed

Gender: Male
Age: 35
Location: FL

Alright guys, I'm gonna start doing some work on this tonight. If anyone intends to change any of the lists that have already been posted, please leave a new comment to let me know and I'll update you on my chart. Felix - I won't be including yours as of now; let me know when you've gone back and re-ordered them. If you don't get around to it I'll probably just include your list as it is at the last minute.

badseed

Gender: Male
Age: 35
Location: FL

SquishypuffDave wrote:

Something like this:

1. Philip Seymour Hoffman (Punch Drunk Love)
2. John C Reilly (Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!)
3. Frances McDormand (Fargo)
4. Oscar Isaac (Ex Machina)
5. Walton Goggins (The Shield)
6. Viola Davis (Doubt)
7. Gene Wilder (Young Frankenstein)
8. Gary Oldman (Bram Stoker's Dracula)
9. Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad)
10. Jim Broadbent (Hot Fuzz)

11. Brenda Blethyn (Secrets & Lies)
12. Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
13. Kathy Bates (Misery)
14. Andy Serkis (Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers)
15. Emma Thompson (Stranger Than Fiction)
16. Naomi Watts (Mulholland Drive)
17. Tom Hardy (Locke)
18. Charlize Theron (Monster)
19. Nicolas Cage (Adaptation)
20. Sam Rockwell (Moon)

21. Merrill Streep (Doubt)
22. Steve Carell (The Office)
23. Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)
24. Michael Chiklis (The Shield)
25. Jim Rash (Community)
26. Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski)
27. John Goodman (The Big Lebowski)
28. Bill Murray (Groundhog Day)
29. Paul Dano (Swiss Army Man)
30. Daniel Day Lewis (There Will Be Blood)

You wanna expand any further on this one, Dave? There's literally EIGHT women here (and 22 men, in case anyone still thinks this should have been a single list for "equality" purposes) so they won't hold much weight.

Update Alright, so as of right now I've got the actresses done for the nine users (nutso, Mercury, Tha1ChiefRocka, Gowi, AwaitingAndrew, badseed, StreetSpirit, Stover75, hereforashortime) who submitted at least 50 (one of you guys did like 55 or 60). I've sent a couple PMs out to see if anybody who's close to 50 wants to add a few more. The other lists will be added in at some point but it was easier to start with the top 50s for now (from which we have 202 unique names to have appeared on at least one list). Now I'm gonna get a jump start and do the men's top 50 lists as well. If anyone makes any changes at this point be sure to let me know.

Hayden

badseed wrote:

Update Alright, so as of right now I've got the actresses done for the nine users (nutso, Mercury, Tha1ChiefRocka, Gowi, AwaitingAndrew, badseed, StreetSpirit, Stover75, hereforashortime) who submitted at least 50 (one of you guys did like 55 or 60). I've sent a couple PMs out to see if anybody who's close to 50 wants to add a few more. The other lists will be added in at some point but it was easier to start with the top 50s for now (from which we have 202 unique names to have appeared on at least one list). Now I'm gonna get a jump start and do the men's top 50 lists as well. If anyone makes any changes at this point be sure to let me know.

AAAAAHHH

Aight, I'll have my lists in within 24 hours.
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Mine is finished now.

badseed

Gender: Male
Age: 35
Location: FL

badseed wrote:

Update Alright, so as of right now I've got the actresses done for the nine users (nutso, Mercury, Tha1ChiefRocka, Gowi, AwaitingAndrew, badseed, StreetSpirit, Stover75, hereforashortime) who submitted at least 50 (one of you guys did like 55 or 60). I've sent a couple PMs out to see if anybody who's close to 50 wants to add a few more. The other lists will be added in at some point but it was easier to start with the top 50s for now (from which we have 202 unique names to have appeared on at least one list). Now I'm gonna get a jump start and do the men's top 50 lists as well. If anyone makes any changes at this point be sure to let me know.

I've done the same with the top 50 men's lists (8 out of 9 of the same users as above with the exception of StreetSpirit who hasn't submitted a men's list yet). Fun fact: although no women have acheived this feat, there are three men (out of 207 total) who have appeared on every list tallied so far.

EditBobby and Felix, thanks, I'll add you in as well now.

This is rather tiresome, haha. I think you guys might be surprised how this thing turns out.

CA Dreamin

Gender: Male
Location: LA

badseed wrote:

Update Alright, so as of right now I've got the actresses done for the nine users (nutso, Mercury, Tha1ChiefRocka, Gowi, AwaitingAndrew, badseed, StreetSpirit, Stover75, hereforashortime) who submitted at least 50 (one of you guys did like 55 or 60). I've sent a couple PMs out to see if anybody who's close to 50 wants to add a few more. The other lists will be added in at some point but it was easier to start with the top 50s for now (from which we have 202 unique names to have appeared on at least one list). Now I'm gonna get a jump start and do the men's top 50 lists as well. If anyone makes any changes at this point be sure to let me know.

I've done the same with the top 50 men's lists (8 out of 9 of the same users as above with the exception of StreetSpirit who hasn't submitted a men's list yet). Fun fact: although no women have acheived this feat, there are three men (out of 207 total) who have appeared on every list tallied so far.

EditBobby and Felix, thanks, I'll add you in as well now.

This is rather tiresome, haha. I think you guys might be surprised how this thing turns out.

Hey who doesn't like surprises? Looking forward to seeing how they turn out.

I will get an actor's list in before the Jan 31 deadline. Not sure how it will look, but it will probably be difficult and time-consuming like the actresses list. I spent 2-3 hours on that, much longer than any of our movie lists. Making movie lists is easy. I go to my letterboxd, filter the movies I've watched by decade or genre, sort them by my rating and my lists practically write themselves. Making these acting lists is a lot harder. There's so much to consider. Anyway, I have a feeling the entire cast of Glengarry Glen Ross will make my actors list.

Hayden

Aight, so, actors:

1. Philip Seymour Hoffman (Synecdoche New York)
2. Charlie Chaplin (Modern Times)
3. Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
4. Joaquin Phoenix (Her)
5. Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad)
6. Toshiro Mifune (Yojimbo)
7. Jack Lemmon (The Apartment/Glengarry Glen Ross)
8. Timothy Spall (Life Is Sweet/ Mr. Turner)
9. Javier Bardem (No Country For Old Men/ The Sea Inside)
10. Marcello Mastroianni (La Dolce Vita/Divorce Italian Style)
11. Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca)
12. Gary Oldman (Leon)
13. Sean Penn (This Must Be The Place)
14. Jonathan Pryce (Game of Thrones)
15. Johnny Depp (Edward Scissorhands/ Pirates)
16. David Thewlis
17. Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest)
18. Ralph Fiennes (Schindler’s List)
19. Tom Hanks (The Terminal)
20. Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
21. James Stewart (Vertigo/Rope)
22. Jean-Louis Trintignant (Amour)
23. Marlon Brando (Godfather)
24. Jean-Piette Leaud (Stolen Kisses)
25. Ed Norton (Fight Club)
26. Michael Fassbenders (Shame)
27. Tim Roth (The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And Her Lover)
28. Mark Rylance (Wolf Hall)
29. Christopher Plummer
30. Brad Pitt (Inglourious Basterds)
31. Denzel Washington
32. Leonard DiCaprio (Wolf of Wall Street)
33. Kevin Spacey (Se7en)
34. Spencer Tracy
35. Robert De Niro
36. Peter Sellers (Dr. Stangelove)
37. Orson Welles (The Third Man/ Citizen Kane)
38. Steve Buscemi (Boardwalk Empire)
39. Willem Dafoe
40. Alan Rickman (Harry Potter)
41. Viggo Mortensen (A History of Violence)
42. John Lithgow
43. Brendan Gleeson (In Bruges)
44. Max von Sydow
45. Cillian Murphy

Actresses

1. Meryl Streep (Doubt)
2. Helen Mirren (The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover)
3. Marion Cotillard
4. Audrey Hepburn (Breakfast At Tiffany’s/ Roman Holiday)
5. Jeanne Moreau (La Notte/ Elevator To The Gallows)
6. Juliette Binoche (Certified Copy)
7. Kate Winslet (Eternal Sunshine)
8. Maggie Cheung (Clean/ In The Mood For Love)
9. Frances McDormand
10. Isabelle Huppert (Violette)
11. Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
12. Lea Seydoux (Blue Is The Warmest Colour)
13. Julia Louis-Dreyfous (Veep)
14. Julie Delpy (Before Trilogy)
15. Ellen Burstyn (Requiem For A Dream)
16. Gong Li (Farewell my Concubine)
17. Ingrid Bergman
18. Julianne Moore (Safe)
19. Angela Lansbury
20. Greta Garbo (Ninotchka)
21. Katharine Hepburn
22. Rooney Mara (Carol)
23. Bibi Andersson (Persona)
24. Cate Blanchett (I’m Not There/Manifesto)
25. Tilda Swinton (We Need To Talk About Kevin)
26. Amy Adams (Junebug)
27. Emma Thompson
28. Viola Davis (The Help)
29. Maggie Smith
30. Naomi Watts
31. Emma Stone (La La Land)
32. Laura Dern
33. Penélope Cruz
34. Charlotte Rampling (45 Years)
35. Sissy Spacek
36. Carol Burnett
37. Holly Hunter (The Piano)
38. Shirley Maclaine (The Apartment)
39. Emmanuelle Riva
40. Sandra Hüller

These lists are really bad and English-centered, but I can't seem to figure out any sort of accurate order... this was really difficult. I'm bound to be missing so many, but just cant wrack my brain fast enough. I also feel a little iffy putting people up there that I've only seen one performance from (even if it's a knockout...). So, yeah. There we go.
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