Best Performance by an Actor in a Movie Ever
Ranked by MLKWright
  1. Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca)
  2. Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption)
  3. Kevin Spacey (The Usual Suspects)
  4. Robert de Niro (Raging Bull)
  5. Henry Fonda (Twelve Angry Men)
  6. Samuel L Jackson (Pulp Fiction)
  7. Tom Hanks (Saving Private Ryan)
  8. Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man)
  9. Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption)
  10. Liam Neeson (Schindler's List)
  11. Cary Grant (North by Northwest)
  12. Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie)
  13. Jack Nicholson - Chinatown
  14. Jack Nicholson (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest)
  15. Dustin Hoffman (Midnight Cowboy)
  16. Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)
  17. Joe Pesci (Goodfellas)
  18. Anthony Hopkins - the Remains of the Day
  19. James Stewart - It's a Wonderful Life
  20. Gregory Peck - to Kill a Mockingbird
  21. Daniel Day Lewis (My Left Foot)
  22. John Malkovich - Dangerous Liaisons
  23. Robert de Niro - Taxi Driver
  24. Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs)
  25. Marlon Brando (The Godfather)
  26. Paul Newman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
  27. AL Pacino (Scent of a Woman)
  28. Clark Gable (Gone with the Wind)
  29. Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront)
  30. Kevin Spacey (American Beauty)
  31. Ray Liotta (Goodfellas)
  32. Robin Williams - Dead Poets Society
  33. John Hurt - the Elephant Man
  34. Charlton Heston - Ben-Hur
  35. Robert de Niro (Godfather Part II)
  36. Alec Guinness - the Bridge on the River Kwai
  37. Gene Hackman - the French Connection
  38. James Dean (Rebel without a Cause)
  39. Laurence Olivier - Hamlet
  40. Robert Redford - the Sting
  41. Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda)
  42. Robin Williams - Good Morning Vietnam
  43. Sean Penn - Dead Man Walking
  44. Jack Nicholson (The Shining)
  45. Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven)
  46. Clint Eastwood (Dirty Harry)
  47. Steve McQueen - the Great Escape
  48. Michael Douglas - Wall Street
  49. Will Smith - Ali
  50. Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean