** There is a ten year moratorium on all new films - so this list does not include released from 2014 to current day film director year 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey Kubrick 1968 2. The Searchers Ford 1956 3. The Passion of Joan of Arc Dreyer 1928 4. Apocalypse Now F. Coppola 1979 5. In the Mood for Love Wong Kar-wai 2000 6. Citizen Kane Welles 1941 7. Sunrise Murnau 1927 8. Nostalghia Tarkovsky 1983 9. Raging Bull Scorsese 1980 10. Vertigo Hitchcock
Robert De Niro – Raging Bull Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood Marlon Brando – On the Waterfront Robert De Niro – Taxi Driver Al Pacino – The Godfather Part II Joaquin Phoenix – The Master John Wayne – The Searchers Toshirô Mifune – Seven Samurai Jean-Paul Belmondo – Breathless Tony Leung – In the Mood for Love Marlon Brando – The Godfather James Stewart - Vertigo Marcello Mastroianni – 8 ½ Peter O’Toole – Lawrence of Arabia Al Pacino – The Godfather Denzel Washington – Malcolm X Takashi Shimura – Ikiru Emil Jannings – The Last Laugh
1. Robert De Niro 2. James Stewart 3. Marlon Brando 4. Toshirô Mifune 5. Al Pacino 6. Jack Nicholson 7. Daniel Day-Lewis 8. Humphrey Bogart 9. Cary Grant 10. Charlie Chaplin 11. Marcello Mastroianni 12. Tony Leung 13. John Wayne 14. Henry Fonda 15. Brad Pitt 16. Leonardo DiCaprio 17. Paul Newman 18. Gene Hackman 19. Clint Eastwood 20. Dustin Hoffman 21. William Holden 22. Robert Mitchum 23. Max von Sydow 24. Emil Jannings 25. Alain Delon 26. Jean-Paul Belmondo 27. Buster Keaton 28. Philip Seymour Hoffman 29. Klaus Kinski 30. Joe Pesci 31. Burt Lancaster 32. Montgomery Clift 33. Joaquin Phoenix 34. Jean-Louis Trintignant 35. Tom Cruise 36. Kirk Douglas 37. Bill Murray 38. Jean Gabin 39.
I’m Thinking of Ending Things – C. Kaufman Decision to Leave – Park Chan-wook The Card Counter - Schrader Dune - Villeneuve The French Dispatch – W. Anderson Mank – Fincher Nomadland - Zhao The Green Knight – Lowery Spencer – Larraín John Wick: Chapter 4 - Stahelski The Underground Railroad – Jenkins The Northman – Eggers Pieces of a Woman – Mundruczó The Batman – Reeves Red, White, and Blue – McQueen Copenhagen Cowboy – Refn Lovers Rock – McQueen Promising Young Woman - Fennell Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths - Iñárritu Everything Everywhere
Maria (Renee) Falconetti – The Passion of the Joan of Arc Juliette Binoche – Three Colours: Blue Emily Watson – Breaking the Waves Gena Rowlands - A Woman Under the Influence Maggie Cheung – In the Mood for Love Natalie Portman – Black Swan Giulietta Masina – La Strada Ingrid Bergman – Casablanca Naomi Watts – Mulholland Drive Isabelle Huppert – The Piano Teacher Anna Karina - Vivre Sa Vie Anna Magnani – Rome, Open City Frances McDormand – Fargo Barbara Stanwyck - Double Indemnity Ellen Burstyn – Requiem for a Dream Charlize Theron – Mad Max: Fury
1. Ingrid Bergman 2. Liv Ullmann 3. Juliette Binoche 4. Barbara Stanwyck 5. Lillian Gish 6. Jeanne Moreau 7. Catherine Deneuve 8. Anna Karina 9. Giulietta Masina 10. Katharine Hepburn 11. Julianne Moore 12. Marlene Dietrich 13. Faye Dunaway 14. Diane Keaton 15. Monica Vitti 16. Frances McDormand 17. Meryl Streep 18. Ellen Burstyn 19. Deborah Kerr 20. Judy Garland 21. Mia Farrow 22. Ingrid Thulin 23. Maggie Cheung 24. Julie Christie 25. Sissy Spacek 26. Bette Davis 27. Tilda Swinton 28. Anna Magnani 29. Maria Falconetti 30. Nicole Kidman 31. Gong Li 32. Emily Watson 33. Naomi
1. Alfred Hitchcock 2. Stanley Kubrick 3. Ingmar Bergman 4. Yasujirô Ozu 5. Federico Fellini 6. Martin Scorsese 7. Francis Ford Coppola 8. Andrei Tarkovsky 9. Orson Welles 10. John Ford 11. Michelangelo Antonioni 12. Akira Kurosawa 13. François Truffaut 14. Jean Renoir 15. Paul Thomas Anderson 16. Jean-Luc Godard 17. Max Ophüls 18. David Lynch 19. Carl Theodor Dreyer 20. Sergio Leone 21. Fritz Lang 22. Kar-Wai Wong 23. Sergei Eisenstein 24. Terrence Malick 25. F.W. Murnau 26. Joseph von Sternberg 27. Woody Allen 28. Steven Spielberg 29. Howard Hawks 30. The Coen Brothers 31. Luis Bunuel
I’ve been doing a “best male actors on the planet” list for years now but this is my first attempt at doing a male actors of a decade list. Here we go: Leonardo DiCaprio – DiCaprio had almost a perfect decade. It’s not worth dwelling too long on 2011’s J. Edgar’s miss--- but it is actually the easiest way to talk about the rest of the decade because the other six films he worked in were absolutely brilliant (and he is brilliant in them). He started the decade in 2010 with Inception and Shutter Island, 2012 brought us Django,
I have been doing a “best female actors on the planet” list for years now but this is my first attempt at doing a female actors of a decade list. Here we go: Emma Stone – Emma Stone runs away with the #1 slot here with only four films from the 2010’s decade in the archives. Four isn’t a lot (unless you’re Daniel Day-Lewis), but included in those four are Birdman, La La Land and The Favourite and she’s sensational in all of them. Those are three of the best sixteen films of the decade. Stone’s standout performance, the
I’ve been doing a “best directors on the planet” list for years now but this is my first attempt at doing a directors of a decade list. Here we go: Christopher Nolan – I don’t think there’s another answer here. He has two of the ten best films (tied with Iñárritu for the most), four of the top 100 (nobody else had four) and didn’t make a film this decade that wasn’t one of the best 100 of the year. Over the 2010’s he’s proven himself capable of making truly beautiful cinematic images (not always the case in the
Emma Stone (1)- Stone would be number one on this list if we combined both male and female and it feels like it’s been a long time since you could say that. In the past five years she’s been dazzling in three masterpieces (Birdman, La La Land, and now The Favourite). That’s two more than any other actress during that stretch. I love Amy Adams and the others on this list but Stone is far and away the best actress in the world right now. Amy Adams (2)- Adams was great in Vice and that’s an archiveable film so 2018
Ryan Gosling (1)- Gosling’s addition of First Man is enough to keep him here. It’s not one of the best performances of the year—but it’s solid, and the other heavy-hitters, DiCaprio, DDL can’t overtake him as they didn’t work. Even Bale’s achievement in Vice, though it’s superior to Goslings, isn’t in a great film either. Daniel Day-Lews (3)- DDL did nothing to surpass Dicaprio in 2018 (they both took another year off) but Phantom Thread is two years more recent than The Revenant. Leonardo Dicaprio (2)- I want to move other actors past him but it was such a weak year
