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Premiere Mazazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time

From the April 2006 Issue

1. Peter O'Toole as T.E. Lawrence in  Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
2. Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy in  On the Waterfront (1954)
3. Meryl Streep as Sophie Zawistowska in  Sophie's Choice (1982)
4. Al Pacino as Sonny Wortzik in  Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
5. Bette Davis as Margo Channing in  All About Eve (1950)
6. James Cagney as George M. Cohan in  Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
7. Dustin Hoffman as "Ratso" Rizzo in  Midnight Cowboy (1969)
8. James Stewart as George Bailey in  It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
9. Gene Wilder as Dr. Frederick Frankenstein in  Young Frankenstein (1974)
10. Robert De Niro as Jake La Motta in  Raging Bull (1980)
11. Daniel Day-Lewis as Christy Brown in  My Left Foot (1989)
12. Jack Nicholson as "Badass" Buddusky in  The Last Detail (1973)
13. Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine in  The Lion In Winter (1968)
14. Robert Duvall as Mac Sledge in  Tender Mercies (1983)
15. Tom Hanks as Josh Baskin in  Big (1988)
16. Cary Grant as T.R. Devlin in  Notorious (1946)
17. Denzel Washington as Malcolm X in  Malcolm X (1992)
18. Emily Watson as Bess McNeill in  Breaking the Waves (1996)
19. Paul Newman as Frank Galvin in  The Verdict (1982)
20. Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in  The Godfather, Part II (1974)
21. Giulietta Masina as Cabiria in  Nights of Cabiria (1957)
22. Johnny Depp as Edward Scissorhands in  Edward Scissorhands (1990)
23. Russell Crowe as Jeffrey Wigand in  The Insider (1999)
24. Humphrey Bogart as Fred C. Dobbs in  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
25. Greta Garbo as Ninotchka in  Ninotchka (1939)
26. Maria Falconetti as Joan of Arc in  The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
27. Marlon Brando as Paul in  Last Tango In Paris (1972)
28. Rosalind Russell as Hildy Johnson in  His Girl Friday (1940)
29. Peter Sellers as Chance the Gardener in  Being There (1979)
30. James Stewart as John "Scottie" Ferguson in  Vertigo (1958)
31. Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in  Ray (2004)
32. Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in  Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961)
33. Dustin Hoffman as Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels in  Tootsie (1982)
34. Buster Keaton as Johnny Gray in  The General (1927)
35. Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote in  Capote (2005)
36. Faye Dunaway as Evelyn Cross Mulwray in  Chinatown (1974)
37. Gene Hackman as Harry Caul in  The Conversation (1974)
38. Carole Lombard as Maria Tura in  To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
39. Laurence Olivier as Richard III in  Richard III (1955)
40. Nicole Kidman as Suzanne Stone Maretto in  To Die For (1995)
41. Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield in  Pulp Fiction (1994)
42. Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in  Taxi Driver (1976)
43. James Dean as Jim Stark in  Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
44. Charlie Chaplin as a Tramp in  City Lights (1931)
45. Reese Witherspoon as Tracy Flick in  Election (1999)
46. Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland in  Cast Away (2000)
47. Jack Nicholson as Randle Patrick McMurphy in  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
48. Bill Murray as Phil Connors in  Groundhog Day (1993)
49. Liv Ullmann as Elisabet Vogler in  Persona (1966)
50. Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade in  The Maltese Falcon (1941)
51. Henry Fonda as Tom Joad in  The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
52. Emma Thompson as Miss Kenton in  The Remains of the Day (1993)
53. Daniel Day-Lewis as Bill "The Butcher" Cutting in  Gangs of New York (2002)
54. Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord in  The Philadelphia Story (1940)
55. Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs in  In the Heat of the Night (1967)
56. Jodie Foster as Sarah Tobias in  The Accused (1988)
57. Max Von Sydow as Lasse Karlsson in  Pelle the Conqueror (1987)
58. Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley in  Aliens (1986)
59. Catherine Deneuve as Severine Serizy in  Belle de Jour (1967)
60. Diane Keaton as Annie Hall in  Annie Hall (1977)
61. Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth in  Schindler's List (1993)
62. Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious in  Sid and Nancy (1986)
63. Gena Rowlands as Mabel Longhetti in  A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
64. Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson in  The Hustler (1961)
65. Jack Lemmon as Jerry/Daphne in  Some Like It Hot (1959)
66. Holly Hunter as Jane Craig in  Broadcast News (1987)
67. Spencer Tracy as Henry Drummond in  Inherit the Wind (1960)
68. Cary Grant as Dr. David Huxley in  Bringing Up Baby (1938)
69. Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond in  Sunset Boulevard (1950)
70. Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter in  The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
71. Meryl Streep as Karen Silkwood in  Silkwood (1983)
72. Judy Garland as Esther Blodgett, A.K.A. Vicki Lester in  A Star Is Born (1954)
73. John Travolta as Tony Manero in  Saturday Night Fever (1977)
74. Madeline Kahn as Lili Von Shtupp in  Blazing Saddles (1974)
75. Julie Christie as Diana Scott in  Darling (1965)
76. Burt Lancaster as J.J. Hunsecker in  Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
77. Morgan Freeman as Leo Smalls Jr., A.K.A. Fast Black in  Street Smart (1987)
78. Toshiro Mifune as Sanjuro Kuwabatake in  Yojimbo (1961)
79. Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in  Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
80. Jeanne Moreau as Catherine in  Jules and Jim (1962)
81. Kate Winslet as Clementine Kruczynski in  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
82. George C. Scott as General George S. Patton Jr. in  Patton (1970)
83. Hilary Swank as Brandon Teena in  Boys Don't Cry (1999)
84. Anjelica Huston as Lilly Dillon in  The Grifters (1990)
85. Jessica Lange as Frances Farmer in  Frances (1982)
86. Robert Walker as Bruno Anthony in  Strangers On a Train (1951)
87. John Wayne as Ethan Edwards in  The Searchers (1956)
88. Christopher Walken as Nick Chevotarevich in  The Deer Hunter (1978)
89. Gong Li as Juxian in  Farewell My Concubine (1993)
90. Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski in  The Big Lebowski (1998)
91. Jane Fonda as Bree Daniels in  Klute (1971)
92. Clint Eastwood as "Dirty" Harry Callahan in  Dirty Harry (1971)
93. Joan Crawford as Mildred Pierce Beragon in  Mildred Pierce (1945)
94. Peter Lorre as Hans Beckert in  M (1931)
95. Angela Bassett as Tina Turner in  What's Love Got To Do With It (1993)
96. Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn in  Born Yesterday (1950)
97. Ben Kingsley as Don Logan in  Sexy Beast (2000)
98. Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson in  Double Indemnity (1944)
99. Steve Martin as Navin Johnson in  The Jerk (1979)
100. Malcolm McDowell as Alex DeLarge in  A Clockwork Orange (1971)