Greatest Film Performances of the 1960s (US/UK)

  Actor - Film Title (Year of Release)

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  1. Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove (1964)
  2. Elizabeth Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
  3. Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
  4. Peter O'Toole - Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  5. Shirley MacLaine - The Apartment (1960)
  6. Peter O'Toole - The Lion in Winter (1968)
  7. Paul Scofield - A Man for All Seasons (1966)
  8. Richard Burton - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
  9. Dustin Hoffman - Midnight Cowboy (1969)
10. Anthony Quinn - Zorba the Greek (1964)
11. Paul Newman - Cool Hand Luke (1967)
12. Katharine Hepburn - The Lion In Winter (1968)
13. Paul Newman - The Hustler (1961)
14. Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night (1967)
15. Sidney Poitier - In the Heat of the Night (1967)
16. Glenda Jackson - Women in Love (1969)
17. Jon Voight - Midnight Cowboy (1969)
18. Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field (1963)
19. Paul Newman - Hud (1963)
20. Jack Lemmon - The Apartment (1960)
21. Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
22. Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry (1960)
23. Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl (1968)
24. Henry Fonda - Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
25. Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker (1962)
26. Kirk Douglas - Spartacus (1960)
27. Michael Caine - Alfie (1966)
28. Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
29. Julie Christie - Darling (1965)
30. Anthony Perkins - Psycho (1960)
31. Katharine Hepburn - Long Day's Journey into Night (1962)
32. Bette Davis - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
33. Robert Mitchum - Cape Fear (1962)
34. Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou (1965)
35. Dustin Hoffman - The Graduate (1967)
36. Jane Fonda - They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
37. Peter O'Toole - Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
38. Julie Andrews - The Sound of Music (1965)
39. Anne Bancroft - The Graduate (1967)
40. Peter O'Toole - Becket (1964)
41. Audrey Hepburn - My Fair Lady (1964)
42. Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
43. Faye Dunaway - Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
44. Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins (1964)
45. Elizabeth Taylor - BUtterfield 8 (1960)
46. Albert Finney - Tom Jones (1963)
47. Spencer Tracy - Inherit the Wind (1960)
48. Burt Lancaster - Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
49. Jack Lemmon - Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
50. Omar Sharif - Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

51. Geneviève Bujold - Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
52. Paul Newman - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
53. Richard Burton - Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
54. Robert Redford - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
55. Samantha Eggar - The Collector (1965)
56. Edith Evans - The Whisperers (1967)
57. Warren Beatty - Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
58. Richard Harris - This Sporting Life (1963)
59. Laurence Olivier - Spartacus (1960)
60. Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
61. Natalie Wood - Splendor in the Grass (1961)
62. Shirley MacLaine - Irma la Douce (1963)
63. Richard Burton - Becket (1964)
64. Cliff Robertson - Charly (1968)
65. John Wayne - True Grit (1969)
66. Simone Signoret - Ship of Fools (1965)
67. Omar Sharif - Doctor Zhivago (1965)
68. Richard Burton - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
69. Spencer Tracy - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
70. Julie Christie - Doctor Zhivago (1965)
71. Sidney Poitier - A Patch of Blue (1965)
72. George C. Scott - The Hustler (1961)
73. Greer Garson - Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
74. Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady (1964)
75. Anne Bancroft - The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
76. Sean Connery - Goldfinger (1964)
77. Gene Wilder - The Producers (1967)
78. Joanne Woodward - Rachel, Rachel (1968)
79. Alan Arkin - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
80. Alan Bates - The Fixer (1968)
81. Mia Farrow - Rosemary's Baby (1968)
82. Jack Nicholson - Easy Rider (1969)
83. Fredric March - Inherit the Wind (1960)
84. Melvin Douglas - Hud (1963)
85. Natalie Wood - Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
86. Steve McQueen - The Great Escape (1963)
87. Kim Stanley - Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
88. Ava Gardner - The Night of the Iguana (1964)
89. Frank Sinatra - The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
90. Laurence Olivier - The Entertainer (1960)
91. Deborah Kerr - The Sundowners (1960)
92. Lynn Redgrave - Georgy Girl (1966)
93. Walter Matthau - The Fortune Cookie (1966)
94. Gene Hackman - Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
95. William Holden - The Wild Bunch (1969)
96. Patricia Neal - Hud (1963)
97. Spencer Tracy - Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
98. Geraldine Page - Summer and Smoke (1961)
99. Jackie Gleason - The Hustler (1961)
100. Leslie Caron - The L-Shaped Room (1962)

101. Lee Remick - Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
102. John Wayne - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
103. Sean Connery - From Russia with Love (1963)
104. Alan Arkin - The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming (1966)
105. Vanessa Redgrave - Morgan! (1966)
106. George Kennedy - Cool Hand Luke (1967)
107. Patricia Neal - The Subject Was Roses (1968)
108. Vanessa Redgrave - Isadora (1968)
109. Ron Moody - Oliver! (1968)
110. Ruth Gordon - Rosemary's Baby (1968)
111. George C. Scott - Dr. Strangelove (1964)
112. Rex Harrison - Cleopatra (1963)
113. Roddy McDowell - Planet of the Apes (1968)
114. Sandra Locke - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
115. Lynn Carley - Faces (1968)
116. Steve McQueen - Bullitt (1968)
117. Sandy Dennis - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
118. Jack Lemmon - The Fortune Cookie (1966)
119. Oskar Werner - Ship of Fools (1965)
120. Elizabeth Hartman - A Patch of Blue (1965)
121. Melina Mercouri - Never on Sunday (1960)
122. Trevor Howard - Sons and Lovers (1960)
123. George Chakiris - West Side Story (1961)
124. Rachel Roberts - This Sporting Life (1963)
125. Stathis Giallelis - America America (1963)
126. Hugh Griffith - Tom Jones (1963)
127. Cary Grant - Charade (1963)
128. Audrey Hepburn - Two for the Road (1967)
129. Zero Mostel - The Producers (1967)
130. Robert Shaw - A Man for All Seasons (1966)
131. Gig Young - They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
132. Goldie Hawn - Cactus Flower (1969)
133. Sidney Poitier - A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
134. Alec Guinness - Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
135. Peter Sellers - The Pink Panther (1963)
136. Geraldine Page - Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
137. Rita Moreno - West Side Story (1961)
138. Lila Kedrova - Zorba the Greek (1964)
139. Debbie Reynolds - The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)
140. Warren Beatty - Splendor in the Grass (1961)
141. Rod Steiger - The Pawnbroker (1964)
142. Steve McQueen - The Sand Pebbles (1966)
143. Frank Finlay - Othello (1965)
144. Tom Courtenay - Doctor Zhivago (1965)
145. Natalie Wood - This Property Is Condemned (1966)
146. George Segal - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
147. Martin Balsam - A Thousand Clowns (1965)
148. Terence Stamp - The Collector (1965)
149. Peter Finch - Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
150. Lee Marvin - The Dirty Dozen (1967)

151. Alan Arkin - Popi (1969)
152. Peter Ustinov - Topkapi (1964)
153. Piper Laurie - The Hustler (1961)
154. Dirk Bogarde - Victim (1961)
155. Patty Duke - The Miracle Worker (1962)
156. Shirley Jones - Elmer Gantry (1960)
157. Sal Mineo - Exodus (1960)
158. Angela Lansbery - The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
159. Joan Crawford - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
160. Tony Curtis - The Boston Strangler (1968)
161. Dyan Cannon - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
162. James Mason - Georgy Girl (1966)
163. Vivien Merchant - Alfie (1966)
164. Shelley Winters - A Patch of Blue (1965)
165. Celia Johnson - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
166. Douglas Rain - 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
167. Jean Simmons - Elmer Gantry (1960)
168. Claudia McNeil - A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
169. Dirk Bogarde - The Servant (1963)
170. Margaret Rutherford - The V.I.P.s (1963)
171. John Huston - The Cardinal (1963)
172. Oskar Werner - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
173. Mako - The Sand Pebbles (1966)
174. Wendy Hiller - A Man for All Seasons (1966)
175. Carol Channing - Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
176. John Cassavetes - The Dirty Dozen (1967)
177. Vincent Price - Witchfinder General (1968)
178. Judy Garland - Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
179. Shirley MacLaine - The Children's Hour (1961)
180. Janet Leigh - Psycho (1960)
181. Peter Ustinov - Spartacus (1960)
182. Fred MacMurray - The Apartment (1960)
183. Jerry Lewis - The Nutty Professor (1963)
184. Montgomery Clift - Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
185. Ruth Gordon - Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
186. Sidney Poitier - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
187. Geraldine Page - You're a Big Boy Now (1966)
188. Catherine Deneuve - Repulsion (1965)
189. Leslie Caron - Fanny (1961)
190. Clark Gable - The Misfits (1961)
191. James Mason - Lolita (1962)
192. Tom Courtenay - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
193. Rod Steiger - Doctor Zhivago (1965)
194. Max von Sydow - Hawaii (1966)
195. Tony Randall - Seven Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
196. Sterling Hayden - Dr. Strangelove (1964)
197. Melina Mercouri - Topkapi (1964)
198. Edith Evans - The Chalk Garden (1964)
199. Jean Simmons - The Happy Ending (1969)
200. Elliot Gould - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)