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YEAR by YEAR: BEST MOVIE ACTING (1935 - 2013) Stats
Can you name the YEAR by YEAR: BEST MOVIE ACTING PERFORMANCES (1935 - 2011)?
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1974 Michael Corleone
Al Pacino
85%
2008 Principal Sr. Aloysius and alleged child abuse
Meryl Streep
84.4%
2011 British Prime Minister
Meryl Streep
84.4%
1954 Dockworker
Marlon Brando
82.5%
1972 Don Vito
Marlon Brando
82.5%
1993 Lawyer sacked because of AIDS
Tom Hanks
82.5%
1975 Randle McMurphy in a mental institution
Jack Nicholson
80%
1997 In a film written by Matt Damon & Ben Afleck
Robin Williams
78.1%
2001 John Nash
Russell Crowe
76.9%
1977 The title role in this Woody Allen film
Diane Keaton
76.3%
2002 Jewish-
Polish musician during the Holocaust
Adrien Brody
73.8%
2005 This young actor died 3 years later
Heath Ledger
73.1%
1986 From slavetrader to Jesuit...
Robert De Niro
72.5%
1943 Owner of Rick's Place
Humphrey Bogart
71.9%
1940 Silent film star & director
Charlie Chaplin
71.3%
2004 Uncle Ray
Jamie Foxx
71.3%
1998 Elizabeth I
Cate Blanchett
70%
1989 Christy Brown dealing with cerebral palsy
Daniel Day Lewis
68.8%
1992 Silent movie legend
Robert Downey Jr.
68.1%
1939 Scarlett
Vivien Leigh
66.9%
1971 Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle
Gene Hackman
66.3%
2012 Jean Valjean
Hugh Jackman
66.2%
1965 Maria von Trapp
Julie Andrews
65.6%
1938 KIm Carnes sang about her eyes
Bette Davis
64.4%
1978 Steel worker friends deal with the Vietnam War
Christopher Walken
62.5%
1976 He is 'mad as hell'
Peter Finch
61.9%
1968 Fanny Brice
Barbra Streisand
60.6%
1973 'Memories, like the corners of my mind...'
Barbra Streisand
60.6%
1988 Gang rape victim
Jodie Foster
60%
1962 British hero
Peter O'Toole
59.4%
1967 'Would you like me to try to seduce you?'
Anne Bancroft
59.4%
1963 Egyptian ruler
Elizabeth Taylor
58.8%
2009 Gay man grieves after loss of his partner
Colin Firth
58.1%
1956 Is she the Tsar's daughter?
Ingrid Bergman
57.5%
1959 Directed by Hitchcock
Cary Grant
57.5%
2013 Positive redneck who befriends a transvestite
Matthew McConaughey
56.8%
1955 First big screen role for shortlived iconic actor
James Dean
55.6%
1948 Danish prince
Laurence Olivier
55%
1980 'I am not an animal!'
John Hurt
55%
1985 A homosexual in an Argentine prison
William Hurt
55%
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1984 Salieri
F Murray Abraham
54.4%
1952 Lone marshal faces a gang
Gary Cooper
53.8%
1960 Plays mother and son
Anthony Perkins
53.1%
1990 Claus von Bulow
Jeremy Irons
52.5%
1996 David Helfgott
Geoffrey Rush
50.6%
1947 Anti-
Semitism reporter
Gregory Peck
48.8%
2003 Serial killer
Charlize Theron
48.8%
1983 Aurora loses a daughter, but gains an astronaut
Shirley Maclaine
48.1%
1951 Plays a British missionary
Katharine Hepburn
47.5%
1945 Long suffering mother in title role
Joan Crawford
46.3%
1949 Willie Stark
Broderick Crawford
46.3%
1991 Directed by Barbra Streisand
Nick Nolte
45%
1936 Swedish actress
Greta Garbo
43.8%
1987 Steve Biko
Denzel Washington
43.8%
1999 'I see dead people'
Haley Joel Osment
43.8%
1979 Chauncey, the gardener
Peter Sellers
43.1%
1981 Father /
daughter conflict
Henry Fonda
42.5%
1957 He helps build the Burma railway
Alec Guinness
41.9%
1969 A teacher with her special girls
Maggie Smith
41.3%
2006 A teacher with a secret or two...
Judi Dench
38.8%
1935 Captain Bligh
Charles Laughton
38.1%
2010 Mother deals with loss of her child
Nicole Kidman
36.9%
1964 The Archbishop of Canterbury
Richard Burton
33.8%
1966 British martyr
Paul Scofield
33.8%
1982 Is this actress crazy or sane?
Jessica Lange
31.9%
1944 She wishes husband were dead in this film noir classic
Barbara Stanwyck
30.6%
1941 The only Oscar winning role under Hitch's direction
Joan Fontaine
29.4%
1958 She's on death row
Susan Hayward
28.8%
2000 11 year old aspiring dancer
Jamie Bell
28.8%
1953 Plays title role in a Western
Alan Ladd
28.1%
1942 Wartime Britain
Greer Garson
27.5%
1950 Fan enters the life of Margo Channing
Anne Baxter
26.9%
1995 George III
Nigel Hawthorne
26.3%
1961 Mother protecting her child from war's horrors
Sophia Loren
25.6%
1937 A Chinese farmer
Luise Rainer
23.8%
1946 Unwed mother gives up her child
Olivia de Havilland
21.9%
1970 The villlage idiot
John Mills
15%
2007 'Little sparrow 2007 '
Marion Cotillard
14.4%
1994 Australian film about a father and his gay son
Jack Thompson
12.5%
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