Top male performances

Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter

Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates

Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield

James Stewart as George Bailey

Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone

Jack Nicholson as Randle P. McMurphy

Heath Ledger as the Joker

Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnham

Clark Gable as Rhett Butler

Malcolm McDowell as Alex DeLarge

Robert De Niro as Sgt. Michael "Mike" Vronsky and Christopher Walken as Cpl. Nikanor "Nick" Chevotarevich.

Laurence Olivier as Maxim De Winter

Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump

Robert De Niro as young Vito Corleone

Charles Chaplin as The Tramp (including performances in City Lights, The Circus and The Gold Rush)

Peter O'Toole as T.E. Lawrence

John Hurt as John Merrick

Dustin Hoffman as Raymond Babbitt (including Hoffman performances in Kramer Vs. Kramer and The Graduate)

Leonardo DiCaprio as William "Billy" Costigan

Johnny Depp as 'Captain' Jack Sparrow

Paul Newman as Eddie Felson

Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine

Colin Firth as King George VI

Christoph Waltz as Colonel Hans Landa

Kevin Kline as Otto West

Peter Sellers as Group Captain Lionel Mandrake/President Merkin Muffley/Dr. Strangelove

Ian McKellen as Gandalf

Jack Lemmon as Jerry/Daphne

Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch

Richard Burton as George