Greatest Film Performances of the 1970s (US/UK)

  Actor - Film Title (Year of Release)

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  1. Marlon Brando - The Godfather (1972)
  2. Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver (1976)
  3. Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
  4. Al Pacino - The Godfather Part II (1974)
  5. George C. Scott - Patton (1970)
  6. Al Pacino - Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
  7. Gene Hackman - The French Connection (1971)
  8. Diane Keaton - Annie Hall (1977)
  9. Jack Nicholson - Chinatown (1974)
10. Ellen Burstyn - Alice Don't Live Here Anymore (1974)
11. Gena Rowland - A Woman Under Influence (1974)
12. Al Pacino - Serpico (1973)
13. Jane Fonda - Klute (1971)
14. Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs Kramer (1979)
15. Peter Finch - Network (1976)
16. Al Pacino - The Godfather (1972)
17. Marlon Brando - Last Tango in Paris (1972)
18. Malcolm McDowell - A Clockwork Orange (1971)
19. Peter Sellers - Being There (1979)
20. Robert De Niro - The Deer Hunter (1978)
21. Jack Nicholson - The Last Detail (1973)
22. Jon Voight - Coming Home (1978)
23. Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
24. Sylvester Stallone - Rocky (1976)
25. Christopher Walken - The Deer Hunter (1978)
26. Jane Fonda - Coming Home (1978)
27. Jack Lemmon - Save the Tiger (1973)
28. Robert De Niro - The Godfather Part II (1974)
29. Robert De Niro - Mean Streets (1973)
30. Gene Hackman - The Conversation (1974)
31. Dustin Hoffman - Lenny (1974)
32. Sally Field - Norma Rae (1979)
33. Robert Duvall - Apocalypse Now (1979)
34. Al Pacino - ...And Justice for All (1979)
35. Robert Duvall - The Great Santini (1979)
36. Laurence Olivier - Sleuth (1972)
37. Jack Nicholson - Five Easy Pieces (1970)
38. Gene Hackman - I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
39. Topol - Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
40. Art Carney - Harry & Tonto (1974)
41. Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl (1977)
42. Faye Dunaway - Network (1976)
43. Sissy Spacek - Carrie (1976)
44. Faye Dunaway - Chinatown (1974)
45. Melvin Douglas - I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
46. Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
47. Peter O'Toole - The Ruling Class (1972)
48. Liza Minneli - Cabaret (1972)
49. Michael Caine - Sleuth (1972)
50. James Caan - The Godfather (1972)

51. Joel Grey - Cabaret (1972)
52. Robert Duvall - The Godfather (1972)
53. James Earl Jones - The Great White Hope (1970)
54. Alec Guinness - Star Wars (1977)
55. Meryl Streep - Kramer vs Kramer (1979)
56. Jason Robards - All the President's Men (1976)
57. Laurence Olivier - Marathon Man (1976)
58. Peter Finch - Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
59. Glenda Jackson - A Touch of Class (1973)
60. Harvey Keitel - Mean Streets (1973)
61. Julie Christie - McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
62. Gene Wilder - Young Frankenstein (1974)
63. Jill Clayburgh - An Unmarried Woman (1978)
64. Gary Busey - The Buddy Holly Story (1978)
65. Tatum O'Neal - Paper Moon (1973)
66. Robert Redford - The Sting (1973)
67. Linda Blair - The Exorcist (1973)
68. Paul Newman - The Sting (1973)
69. Laurence Olivier - The Boys from Brazil (1978)
70. Jane Fonda - Julia (1977)
71. Richard Burton - Equus (1977)
72. Woody Allen - Annie Hall (1977)
73. John Travolta - Saturday Night Fever (1977)
74. Jack Lemmon - The China Syndrome (1979)
75. Melvyn Douglas - Being There (1979)
76. Martin Sheen - Apocalypse Now (1979)
77. Vanessa Redgrave - Mary, Queen of Scotts (1971)
78. Maggie Smith - California Suite (1978)
79. Meryl Streep - The Deer Hunter (1978)
80. Diana Ross - The Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
81. Cicely Tyson - Sounder (1972)
82. Warren Beatty - Heaven Can Wait (1978)
83. Dustin Hoffman - Marathon Man (1976)
84. William Holden - Network (1976)
85. George Burns - The Sunshine Boys (1975)
86. George C. Scott - Hospital (1971)
87. Glenda Jackson - Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
88. Valerie Perrine - Lenny (1974)
89. Diane Ladd - Alice Don't Live Here Anymore (1974)
90. John Cazale - The Godfather Part II (1974)
91. Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were (1973)
92. Ben Johnson - The Last Picture Show (1971)
93. Roy Scheider - The French Connection (1971)
94. Clint Eastwood - Dirty Harry (1971)
95. Jon Voight - Deliverance (1972)
96. Ellen Burstyn - The Exorcist (1973)
97. Gene Hackman - Scarecrow (1973)
98. John Huston - Chinatown (1974)
99. Carrie Snodgress - Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
100. Albert Finney - Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

101. Faye Dunaway - The Flight of Condor (1975)
102. Robert Shaw - Jaws (1975)
103. Lily Tomlin - Nashville (1975)
104. Jodie Foster - Taxi Driver (1976)
105. Marsha Mason - The Goodbye Girl (1977)
106. Albert Finney - Scrooge (1970)
107. Caren Black - Five Easy Pieces (1970)
108. Karl Malden - Patton (1970)
109. Joanne Woodward - The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972)
110. Marsha Mason - Cinderella Liberty (1973)
111. Joanne Woodward - Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)
112. Marisa Berenson - Cabaret (1972)
113. Jane Alexander - The Great White Hope (1970)
114. Paul Winfield - Sounder (1972)
115. Glenda Jackson - Stevie (1978)
116. Geraldine Page - Interiors (1978)
117. Anne Bancroft - The Turning Point (1977)
118. Jason Robards - Julia (1977)
119. Vanessa Redgrave - Julia (1977)
120. Glenda Jackson - Hedda (1975)
121. Bettle Midler - The Rose (1979)
122. Roone Blakley - Nashville (1975)
123. David Carradine - Bound for Glory (1976)
124. Dustin Hoffman - All the President's Men (1976)
125. Jill Clayburgh - Starting Over (1979)
126. Ruth Gordon - Harold & Maude (1971)
127. Lee Strasberg - The Godfather Part II (1974)
128. Michael V. Gazzo - The Godfather Part II (1974)
129. Roy Scheider - All That Jazz (1979)
130. Maximilian Schell - The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
131. Walter Matthau - The Sunshine Boys (1975)
132. Henry Gibson - Nashville (1975)
133. Frederic Forrest - The Rose (1979)
134. Jill Clayburgh - La Luna (1979)
135. Lily Tomlin - The Late Show (1977)
136. Robert De Niro - New York, New York (1977)
137. James Woods - The Onion Field (1979)
138. Diane Keaton - Looking For Mr. Goodbar (1977)
139. Jane Fonda - The China Syndrome (1979)
140. Sigourney Weaver - Alien (1979)
141. Brad Davis - The Midnight Express (1978)
142. Ali MacGraw - Love Story (1970)
143. Ryan O'Neal - Love Story (1970)
144. Piper Laurie - Carrie (1976)
145. Burgess Meredith - Rocky (1976)
146. James Whitmore - Give 'em Hell, Harry! (1975)
147. Ann-Margaret - Tommy (1975)
148. Richard Dreyfuss - Jaws (1975)
149. Jeff Bridges - The Last Picture Show (1971)
150. John Mills - Ryan's Daughter (1970)

151. John Houseman - The Paper Chase (1973)
152. Julie Christie - Don't Look Now (1973)
153. Sissy Spacek - Badlands (1973)
154. Sally Kellerman - M*A*S*H (1970)
155. Ellen Burstyn - Same Time, Next Year (1978)
156. Maureen Stapleton - Interiors (1978)
157. Maximilian Schell - Julia (1977)
158. Peter Firth - Equus (1977)
159. Tim Curry - The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
160. Burgess Meredith - The Day of the Locust (1975)
161. Richard Farnsworth - Comes a Horseman (1978)
162. John Hurt - The Midnight Express (1978)
163. Robert Redford - All the President's Men (1976)
164. Barbra Streisand - An Owl and Pussycat (1970)
165. Elliott Gould - M*A*S*H (1970)
166. Maggie Smith - Travels with My Aunt (1972)
167. Robert Redford - The Candidate (1972)
168. Max von Sydow - The Exorcist (1973)
169. Christopher Lee - The Wicker Man (1973)
170. Talia Shire - Rocky (1976)
171. John Savage - The Deer Hunter (1978)
172. Anthony Hopkins - Magic (1978)
173. John Cazale - The Deer Hunter (1978)
174. Rita Moreno - The Ritz (1976)
175. Michael Caine - The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
176. Sean Connery - The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
177. Donald Sutherland - Klute (1971)
178. Walter Matthau - Kotch (1971)
179. Dustin Hoffman - Little Big Man (1970)
180. Gene Hackman - Superman (1978)
181. Donald Sutherland - M*A*S*H (1970)
182. Ellen Burstyn - The Last Picture Show (1971)
183. Ann-Margret - Carnal Knowledge (1971)
184. Shirley MacLaine - The Turning Point (1977)
185. Mariel Hemingway - Manhattan (1979)
186. Richard Dreyfuss - Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
187. Diahann Carroll - Claudine (1974)
188. Ingrid Bergman - Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
189. James Caan - The Gambler (1974)
190. Helen Hayes - The Airport (1970)
191. Leonard Frey - Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
192. Robert Duvall - Network (1976)
193. Art Carney - The Late Show (1977)
194. Justin Henry - Kramer vs Kramer (1979)
195. Kris Kristofferson - A Star Is Born (1976)
196. John Wayne - The Shootist (1976)
197. Paul Newman - Slap Shot (1977)
198. Brad Dourif - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
199. Jeanne Berlin - The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
200. Goldie Hawn - Butterflies Are Free (1972)