How many "classics" do these premier modern actresses have?

In my opinion, these are the classics these actresses have to their name:

Bullock: Gravity (1)
Kidman: (0)
Roberts: (0)
Blanchett: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (3)
Adams: Catch Me If You Can (1)
Theron: Mad Max: Fury Road (1)
Cotillard: Inception (1)
Winslet: Titanic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2)

I was pretty tempted to include Eyes Wide Shut (which I consider to be a masterpiece) for Kidman and Arrival for Adams, but couldn't find enough justification for the former and the latter maybe needs to age a little more for me to be more confident in its path toward becoming a classic. Also considered Pretty Woman for Roberts, but I decided that while general audiences enjoy it, they don't really adore it.

Bullock: Crash

Kidman: 0

Roberts: Pretty Woman

Blanchett: LOTR

Adams: 0

Theron: 0

Cotillard: 0

Winslet: Titanic

Bullock - I want to say Speed but I kinda feel like it's losing that spot over time.

Kidman - Moulin Rouge! easily and then I'd say Eyes Wide Shut is something of a niche classic.

Roberts - Pretty Woman, Erin Brockovich, and Ocean's 11.

Blanchett - The Lord of the Rings trilogy but that almost feels like cheating because she's not even one of the, what, first 10 things people think about when they think of those movies.

Adams - Catch Me If You Can and then maybe Enchanted could be but I want to see it cross generations first.

Theron - Mad Max: Fury Road and I say that fully confident it will maintain staying power.

Cotillard - Inception and The Dark Knight Rises.

Winslet - Titanic and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Im sorry but naming movies that are ten years old or less is wrong.

Yo! Make another thread for actors!

Of this group, it’s Winslet.

Sense and Sensibility
Titanic
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

I mean, the number of options would be too many and the answer would be too obvious with DiCaprio (unless we're including Hanks, but he might fall out of the age range that Good God implemented here). You'd probably have to break that up into generations (or decades they were born in).

The problem with Pitt's filmography is a lot of his films held in high regard are very niche in their acclaim (Jesse James, Tree of Life, hell even Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has proven to be way more of a cinephile than audience favorite). He has three that are inarguable (Se7en, Fight Club, and Basterds), but after that, there's four or five where it's entirely subjective and depends how much you value cinephile/critical plaudits/appreciation in your evaluation.

I think critics actually like and admire the variance of Pitt's career the best out of the three. I certainly don't recall Cruise or DiCaprio getting the type of career retrospective articles from top tier/snobby critics that Pitt received this past year. And he is the only one to win with any of the three major critics groups (if you exclude DiCaprio's LAFCA New Generation award). And Pitt's won three times, twice in 2011, and once this past year. However, DiCaprio easily bests him with the general public and I think at least slightly with cinephiles.

Cruise is tricky because he has a lot of films that have been able to hold up over time, but he doesn't have a single film in the IMDB Top 250 and has only one with a Letterboxd rating of at least 4.0 (and it's one he has a supporting, albeit iconic/instrumental role in). We can argue the merits of such metrics, but I do think you need some semblance of cinephile/artistic clout to justify being deemed a classic.

I think in a consensus poll among cinephiles who put more emphasis on the types of movies DiCaprio and Pitt have done in their careers, Cruise would definitely rank third. Certainly if you went primarily by average Letterboxd and IMDB scores, he would. But with the general public? I could see him ranking at least ahead of Pitt in some circles. 

So, it's probably:

Critics: Pitt, with DiCaprio and Cruise roughly equal in second.
Cinephiles: DiCaprio, but I could hear the argument for Pitt. He did narrowly beat DiCaprio in a poll on AwardsWorthy about this very topic.
General Public: DiCaprio, but I could hear the argument for Cruise.

Well, I'd be more loose than you. I'd definitely give him Inception and probably Wolf of Wall Street and Django as well, at the very least.

as the resident snob i have always felt like the deeper you get into cinephilia the more cruise is valued, at least in the last few years. digital mann has undergone a huge boon and he's probably one of the biggest winners of the still ongoing VA movement, with Collateral being a big one there. the last Mission Impossible has had a ton of street cred among diehard genre heads. late spielberg which utilized him a lot has kinda picked up in these circles too, ditto de palma's "lesser" films like the original M:I. & i tend to see not as much for dicaprio or pitt (to a lesser extent) in terms of upward trajectory of their prior works. but that's basing it more on my experiences and friends.

Your opinion is nice, but there’s literally no objective method of evaluation that supports Cruise as of now other than maybe box office and that’s always a murky evaluative method. Not Letterboxd, not IMDB, not TSPST (yes, he may have two films highly rated overall, but his output this century is quite poor compared to the other two).



I mean, I don’t know how you can ignore that Pitt and DiCaprio have 4-5 films each inside the top 170 (I’ll concede giving Pitt 12 Years a Slave is dubious despite his producing contributions) from this century and Cruise’s highest ranked film is #330. He didn’t even have a film crack the Top 700 from this past decade on the century list.

Bullock: 2 - Gravity, Speed
Kidman: 3 - Dogville, Moulin Rouge, Eyes Wide Shut
Roberts: 2 - Notting Hill, Pretty Woman
Blanchett: 3 - Blue Jasmine, Benjamin Button, The Aviator. Not counting the Hobbits and LOTR. Not "her" movies.
Adams: 3 - Catch Me If You Can, The Master, The Fighter
Theron: 1 - Mad Max: Fury Road
Cotillard: 2 - Inception, Big Fish
Winslet: 2 - Titanic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind