Top 50 Performance by a Male in a Leading Role of All-Time

Submitted by TenthAvenueFreezeOut on Sat, 09/05/2009 - 10:00
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  1. Al Pacino for Dog Day Afternoon
  2. Roy Scheider for All That Jazz
  3. Kevin Spacey for American Beauty
  4. Billy Bob Thornton for Sling Blade
  5. F. Murray Abraham for Amadeus
  6. Philip Baker Hall for Secret Honor
  7. Paul Giamatti for Sideways
  8. Lawrence Olivier for Sleuth
  9. Michael Caine for Sleuth
  10. Jack Nicholson for The Shining
  11. Robert DeNiro for Taxi Driver
  12. Johnny Depp for Ed Wood
  13. Brad Pitt for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  14. John Hurt for The Elephant Man
  15. Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler
  16. Sean Penn for Milk
  17. Maximilian Schell for Judgment at Nuremberg
  18. Klaus Kinski for Woyzeck
  19. Daniel Day-Lewis for My Left Foot
  20. Marlon Brando for Last Tango in Paris
  21. Ray Milland for The Lost Weekend
  22. Nicolas Cage for Adaptation
  23. Johnny Depp for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
  24. Bruno Ganz for Downfall
  25. Robert Blake for In Cold Blood
  26. Tom Hulce for Amadeus
  27. Peter Finch for Network
  28. Peter Greene for Clean, Shaven
  29. Philip Seymour Hoffman for Synecdoche, New York
  30. David Thewlis for Naked
  31. Christian Bale for American Psycho
  32. James Stewart for It’s a Wonderful Life
  33. Bruno Ganz for Wings of Desire
  34. Peter Sellers for Dr. Strangelove
  35. John Turturro for Barton Fink
  36. John Travolta for Saturday Night Fever
  37. Michael Gambon for The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover
  38. James Dean for Rebel Without A Cause
  39. Timothy Hutton for Ordinary People
  40. Dustin Hoffman for Lenny
  41. Humphrey Bogart for The Treasure of Sierra Madre
  42. Malcolm McDowell for A Clockwork Orange
  43. James Franco for James Dean
  44. Ben Kingsley for Gandhi
  45. Leonardo DiCaprio for The Basketball Diaries
  46. Robert DeNiro for The Deer Hunter
  47. James Stewart for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  48. Mark Wahlberg for Boogie Nights
  49. Ewan McGregor for Trainspotting
  50. Paul Newman for Cool Hand Luke