2023: Cinema Archives Top 100 Male PERFORMANCES

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1 Robert De Niro – Raging Bull
2 Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood
3 Marlon Brando – On the Waterfront
4 Robert De Niro – Taxi Driver
5 Al Pacino – The Godfather Part II
6 Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
7 John Wayne – The Searchers
8 Toshirô Mifune – Seven Samurai
9 Jean-Paul Belmondo – Breathless
10 Tony Leung – In the Mood for Love

Marlon Brando – The Godfather
James Stewart – Vertigo
Marcello Mastroianni – 8 ½
Peter O’Toole – Lawrence of Arabia
Al Pacino – The Godfather
Denzel Washington – Malcolm X
Takashi Shimura – Ikiru
Emil Jannings – The Last Laugh
Dustin Hoffman – The Graduate
Klaus Kinski – Aguirre, the Wrath of God
David Thewlis – Naked
Henry Fonda – The Grapes of Wrath
James Stewart – It’s a Wonderful Life
Joe Pesci – Goodfellas
Gunnar Björnstrand – Winter Light
Clark Gable – Gone with the Wind
Emil Jannings – The Blue Angel
Lamberto Maggiorani – Bicycle Thieves
29 Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
Malcolm McDowell – A Clockwork Orange
Anatoliy Solonitsyn – Andrei Rublev
Humphrey Bogart – Casablanca
Charlie Chaplin – The Gold Rush
Marlon Brando – A Streetcar Named Desire
Marcello Mastroianni – La Dolce Vita
Marlon Brando – The Last Tango in Paris
Rutger Hauer – Blade Runner
Tom Cruise – Magnolia
Anthony Hopkins – The Silence of the Lambs
Tony Leung – 2046
Kirk Douglas – Paths of Glory
Dennis Hopper – Blue Velvet
Bill Murray – Lost in Translation
Jean-Louis Trintignant – The Conformist
Al Pacino – Dog Day Afternoon
Jack Nicholson – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Christian Bale – American Psycho
Burt Lancaster – The Leopard
Paul Newman – Cool Hand Luke
James Cagney – White Heat
Peter Lorre – M
Peter Sellers – Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Robert Mitchum – Night of the Hunter
Humphrey Bogart – The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Michael Fassbender – Shame
Oscar Isaac – Inside Llewyn Davis
Carlo Battisti – Umberto D
Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
Ray Liotta – Goodfellas
Jean-Pierre Léaud – The 400 Blows
Charlie Chaplin – City Lights
Max von Sydow – The Seventh Seal
Clive Owen – Children of Men
Robert De Niro – The Godfather Part II
Orson Welles – Touch of Evil
Chhabi Biswas – The Music Room
Adam Sandler – Punch-Drunk Love
John Travolta – Pulp Fiction
Martin Sheen – Apocalypse Now
Samuel L. Jackson – Pulp Fiction
Michael Keaton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Henry Fonda – Once Upon a Time in the West
Ralph Fiennes – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Casey Affleck – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network
Gene Hackman – The French Connection
Toshirô Mifune – Rashomon
Daniel Day-Lewis – Gangs of New York
Michael Gambon – The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Takashi Shimura – Seven Samurai
Tatsuya Nakadai – The Human Condition
Robert Shaw – Jaws
Anthony Perkins – Psycho
Jonathan Pryce – Brazil
Jean-Paul Belmondo – Pierrot le Fou
Toshirô Mifune – Yojimbo
William Holden – Network
Jeremy Irons – Dead Ringers
Erland Josephson – The Sacrifice
Morgan Freeman ­– The Shawshank Redemption
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds
Dirk Bogarde – The Servant
Eli Wallach – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Gary Oldman – Sid and Nancy
John Cazale – The Godfather Part II
96 Heath Ledger – Brokeback Mountain
Dustin Hoffman – Midnight Cowboy
Chishû Ryû – There Was a Father
Pete Postlethwaite – Distant Voices, Still Lives
Tony Leung – Chungking Express