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Greatest Film Performances of the 2010s (US/UK)

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Criteria: Film Performances of the 2010s are ranked based on initial and lasting acclaim, popular and cultural recognition, plus influence. In order to qualify for this list the performance has to come from a predominately English-language film produced or co-produced by American or British production companies.

Last Updated: 2021-02-05
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  Actor - Film Title (Year of Release)
  1. Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine (2013)
  2. Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln (2012)
  3. Natalie Portman - Black Swan (2010)
  4. Leonardo DiCaprio - The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
  5. Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady (2011)
  6. Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
  7. Leonardo DiCaprio - The Revenant (2015)
  8. Brie Larson - Room (2015)
  9. Cate Blanchett - Carol (2015)
10. Joaquin Phoenix - Joker (2019)
11. Gary Oldman - Darkest Hour (2017)
12. Frances McDormand - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
13. J.K. Simmons - Whiplash (2014)
14. Michael Keaton - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
15. Adam Driver - Marriage Story (2019)
16. Eddie Redmayne - The Theory of Everything (2014)
17. Olivia Colman - The Favourite (2018)
18. Christian Bale - The Fighter (2010)
19. Joaquin Phoenix - The Master (2012)
20. Colin Firth - The King's Speech (2010)
21. Christian Bale - Vice (2018)
22. Casey Affleck - Manchester by the Sea (2016)
23. Sandra Bullock - Gravity (2013)
24. Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master (2012)
25. Glenn Close - The Wife (2018)
26. Natalie Portman - Jackie (2016)
27. Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave (2013)
28. Renée Zellweger - Judy (2019)
29. Scarlett Johansson - Marriage Story (2019)
30. Emma Stone - La La Land (2016)
31. Mahershala Ali - Moonlight (2016)
32. Gary Oldman - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
33. Julianne Moore - Still Alice (2014)
34. Ethan Hawke - First Reformed (2017)
35. Adam Sandler - Uncut Gems (2019)
36. Joe Pesci - The Irishman (2019)
37. Willem Dafoe - At Eternity's Gate (2018)
38. Viola Davis - Fences (2016)
39. Denzel Washington - Fences (2016)
40. Melissa Leo - The Fighter (2010)
41. Jesse Eisenberg - The Social Network (2010)
42. Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
43. Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
44. Sam Rockwell - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
45. Barkhad Abdi - Captain Phillips (2013)
46. Sally Hawkins - The Shape of Water (2017)
47. Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
48. Jennifer Lawrence - Winter's Bone (2010)
49. James Franco - 127 Hours (2010)
50. Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl (2014)
51. Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler (2014)
52. Timothée Chalamet - Call Me by Your Name (2017)
53. Rooney Mara - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
54. Michelle Williams - My Week with Marilyn (2011)
55. Patricia Arquette - Boyhood (2014)
56. Bruce Dern - Nebraska (2013)
57. Michael Fassbender - Shame (2011)
58. Michael Fassbender - Steve Jobs (2015)
59. Richard E. Grant - Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
60. Rami Malek - Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
61. Alicia Vikander - Ex Machina (2015)
62. George Clooney - The Descendants (2011)
63. Lupita Nyong'o - 12 Years a Slave (2013)
64. Rooney Mara - Carol (2015)
65. Allison Janney - I, Tonya (2017)
66. Joaquin Phoenix - Her (2013)
67. Tom Hanks - Captain Phillips (2013)
68. Lady Gaga - A Star Is Born (2018)
69. Viggo Mortensen - Captain Fantastic (2016)
70. Albert Brooks - Drive (2011)
71. Robert De Niro - The Irishman (2019)
72. Leonardo DiCaprio - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
73. Christian Bale - American Hustle (2013)
74. Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained (2012)
75. Brad Pitt - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
76. Michelle Williams - Manchester by the Sea (2016)
77. Amy Adams - Arrival (2016)
78. Michelle Williams - Blue Valentine (2010)
79. Daniel Kaluuya - Get Out (2017)
80. Regina King - If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
81. Robert Duvall - Get Low (2010)
82. Matt Damon - The Martian (2015)
83. Annette Bening - The Kids Are All Right (2010)
84. Benedict Cumberbatch - The Imitation Game (2014)
85. Ralph Fiennes - The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
86. Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
87. Andrew Garfield - Silence (2016)
88. Melissa McCarthy - Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
89. Saoirse Ronan - Lady Bird (2017)
90. Geoffrey Rush - The King's Speech (2010)
91. Judi Dench - Philomena (2013)
92. Javier Bardem - Skyfall (2012)
93. Anne Hathaway - Les Misérables (2012)
94. James Franco - The Disaster Artist (2017)
95. Ruth Negga - Loving (2016)
96. David Oyelowo - Selma (2014)
97. Christopher Plummer - Beginners (2011)
98. Jean Dujardin - The Artist (2011)
99. Jacob Tremblay - Room (2015)
100. Saoirse Ronan - Little Women (2019)

101. Tom Hardy - The Revenant (2015)
102. Ryan Gosling - Drive (2011)
103. Felicity Jones - The Theory of Everything (2014)
104. Carey Mulligan - Never Let Me Go (2010)
105. Elsie Fisher - Eighth Grade (2018)
106. Toni Collette - Hereditary (2018)
107. Al Pacino - The Irishman (2019)
108. Awkwafina - The Farewell (2019)
109. Eddie Murphy - Dolemite is My Name (2019)
110. Ryan Gosling - Blue Valentine (2010)
111. Emma Stone - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
112. Leonardo DiCaprio - Shutter Island (2010)
113. Daniel Day-Lewis - Phantom Thread (2017)
114. Naomi Watts - The Impossible (2012)
115. Amy Adams - The Master (2012)
116. Michael Fassbender - 12 Years a Slave (2013)
117. Annette Bening - 20th Century Women (2016)
118. Viola Davis - The Help (2011)
119. Michael Shannon - Take Shelter (2011)
120. Willem Dafoe - The Lighthouse (2019)
121. Matthew McConaughey - Interstellar (2014)
122. Willem Dafoe - The Florida Project (2017)
123. Mahershala Ali - Green Book (2018)
124. Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln (2012)
125. John Hawkes - The Sessions (2012)
126. Adam Driver - Paterson (2016)
127. Ryan Gosling - La La Land (2016)
128. Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
129. Edward Norton - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
130. Margot Robbie - I, Tonya (2017)
131. Amy Adams - Vice (2018)
132. Denzel Washington - Flight (2012)
133. Leonardo DiCaprio - Django Unchained (2012)
134. Laura Dern - Marriage Story (2019)
135. Lupita Nyong'o - US (2019)
136. Taron Egerton - Rocketman (2019)
137. Hailee Steinfeld - True Grit (2010)
138. Viggo Mortensen - Green Book (2018)
139. James McAvoy - Filth (2013)
140. Amy Adams - American Hustle (2013)
141. Kate Winslet - Steve Jobs (2015)
142. Idris Elba - Beasts of No Nation (2015)
143. Elizabeth Olsen - Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
144. Hugh Jackman - Les Misérables (2012)
145. Bryan Cranston - Trumbo (2015)
146. Woody Harrelson - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
147. Octavia Spencer - The Help (2011)
148. Reese Witherspoon - Wild (2014)
149. Jeff Bridges - Hell or High Water (2016)
150. Johnny Depp - Black Mass (2015)
151. Mark Ruffalo - The Kids Are All Right (2010)
152. Charlotte Rampling - 45 Years (2015)
153. Mila Kunis - Black Swan (2010)
154. Robert Redford - All Is Lost (2013)
155. Laurie Metcalf - Lady Bird (2017)
156. Bradley Cooper - A Star Is Born (2018)
157. Charlize Theron - Tully (2018)
158. Andy Serkis - Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
159. Helen Hunt - The Sessions (2012)
160. Brendan Gleeson - The Guard (2011)
161. Tilda Swinton - We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
162. Lesley Manville - Phantom Thread (2017)
163. Taraji P. Henson - Hidden Figures (2016)
164. Oscar Isaac - Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
165. Julie Delpy - Before Midnight (2013)
166. Ethan Hawke - Boyhood (2014)
167. Joel Edgerton - Loving (2016)
168. Mary J. Blige - Mudbound (2017)
169. John David Washington - BlacKkKlansman (2018)
170. Jeff Bridges - True Grit (2010)
171. Julianne Moore - The Kids Are All Right (2010)
172. Amy Adams - The Fighter (2010)
173. Rachel Weisz - The Favourite (2018)
174. Alicia Vikander - The Danish Girl (2015)
175. Saoirse Ronan - Brooklyn (2015)
176. Rene Russo - Nightcrawler (2014)
177. Steve Carell - Foxcatcher (2014)
178. Sylvester Stallone - Creed (2015)
179. Harry Dean Stanton - Lucky (2017)
180. Robert Pattinson - The Lighthouse (2019)
181. Brooklynn Prince - The Florida Project (2017)
182. Demián Bichir - A Better Life (2011)
183. Andrew Garfield - Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
184. Greta Gerwig - Frances Ha (2012)
185. Meryl Streep - Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
186. Ryan Gosling - Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
187. Natalie Portman - Annihilation (2018)
188. Florence Pugh - Little Women (2019)
189. Naomie Harris - Moonlight (2016)
190. Sally Fields - Lincoln (2012)
191. Brendan Gleeson - Calvary (2014)
192. Jonathan Pryce - The Two Popes (2019)
193. Jennifer Jason Leigh - The Hateful Eight (2015)
194. Michael B. Jordan - Black Panther (2018)
195. Melissa McCarthy - Bridesmaids (2011)
196. Brie Larson - Short Term 12 (2013)
197. Glenn Close - Albert Nobbs (2011)
198. Tom Courtenay - 45 Years (2015)
199. Mark Ruffalo - Spotlight (2015)
200. Hugh Jackman - Logan (2018)

scene from Blue Jasmine with Cate Blanchett

scene from Lincoln with Daniel Day-Lewis

scene from Black Swan with Natalie Portman

scene from The Wolf of Wall Street with Leonardo DiCaprio

scene from The Iron Lady with Meryl Streep

scene from Dallas Buyers Club with Matthew McConaughey








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