Greatest Actresses

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century. ~ Denzel Washington

Greats: Bringing Up Baby (1938) (1938); The Philadelphia Story (1940) (1940)★; Woman of the Year (1942) (1942)★; Adam's Rib (1949) (1949); The African Queen (1951) (1951)★; Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) (1959)★; Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) (1967)★; The Lion in Winter (1968) (1968)★; On Golden Pond (1981) (1981)★

Give It a Shot: Stage Door (1937) (1937)

Other Notable Film(s): A Bill of Divorcement (1932) (1932); Christopher Strong (1933) (1933); Morning Glory (1933) (1933)✰; Little Women (1933) (1933); Spitfire (1934) (1934); The Little Minister (1934) (1934); Alice Adams (1935) (1935)✰; Break of Hearts (1935) (1935); Sylvia Scarlett (1935) (1935); Mary of Scotland (1936) (1936); A Woman Rebels (1936) (1936); Quality Street (1937) (1937); Holiday (1938) (1938); Keeper of the Flame (1942) (1942); Dragon Seed (1944) (1944); Without Love (1945) (1945); Undercurrent (1946) (1946); The Sea of Grass (1947) (1947); Song of Love (1947) (1947); State of the Union (1948) (1948); Pat and Mike (1952) (1952)✰; Summertime (1955) (1955)✰; The Iron Petticoat (1956) (1956); The Rainmaker (1956) (1956)✰; Desk Set (1957) (1957); Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) (1962)✰; The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969) (1969); The Trojan Women (1971) (1971); A Delicate Balance (1973) (1973); Rooster Cogburn (1975) (1975); Olly, Olly, Oxen Free (1978) (1978); Grace Quigley (1984) (1984); Love Affair (1994) (1994)

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century. ~ Denzel Washington

Greats: The Deer Hunter (1978) (1978)★; Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) (1979)★; Manhattan (1979) (1979); Sophie's Choice (1982) (1982)★; A Cry in the Dark (1989)★; Adaptation. (2002) (2002)★; Doubt (2008) (2008)★; Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) [voice] (2009)

Give It a Shot: Ironweed (1987) (1987)★; A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) [voice] (2001); The Hours (2002) (2002)✰; The Devil Wears Prada (2006) (2006)★; Julie & Julia (2009) (2009)★

Caution: Out of Africa (1985) (1985)★; Mamma Mia! (2008) (2008)✰; The Iron Lady (2011) (2011)★

Flops: Lions for Lambs (2007) (2007)

Other Notable Film(s): Julia (1977) (1977); The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979) (1979); The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) (1981)✰; Still of the Night (1982) (1982); Silkwood (1983) (1983)✰; Falling in Love (1984) (1984); Plenty (1985) (1985); Heartburn (1986) (1986); She-Devil (1989) (1989)✰; Postcards from the Edge (1990) (1990)✰; Defending Your Life (1991) (1991); Death Becomes Her (1992) (1992)✰; The House of the Spirits (1993) (1993); The River Wild (1994) (1994)✰; The Bridges of Madison County (1995) (1995)✰; Before and After (1996) (1996); Marvin's Room (1996) (1996)✰; Dancing at Lughnasa (1998) (1998); One True Thing (1998) (1998)✰; Music of the Heart (1999) (1999)✰; The Manchurian Candidate (2004) (2004)✰; A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) (2004); Prime (2005) (2005); A Prairie Home Companion (2006) (2006); The Ant Bully (2006) [voice] (2006); Dark Matter (2007) (2007); Evening (2007) (2007); Rendition (2007) (2007); It's Complicated (2009) (2009)✰; Hope Springs (2012) (2012)✰; August: Osage County (2013) (2013)✰; The Homesman (2014) (2014); Into the Woods (2014) (2014)✰; Ricki and the Flash (2015) (2015); Suffragette (2015) (2015); Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) (2016)✰

Greats: Jezebel (1938) (1938)★; Dark Victory (1939) (1939)★; The Letter (1940) (1940)★; The Little Foxes (1941) (1941)★; All About Eve (1950) (1950)★; What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) (1962)★

Give It a Shot: Watch on the Rhine (1943) (1943)

Other Notable Film(s): Of Human Bondage (1934) (1934)✰; Dangerous (1935) (1935)✰; The Petrified Forest (1936) (1936); Now, Voyager (1942) (1942)✰; Mr. Skeffington (1944) (1944)✰; The Star (1952) (1952)✰; Pocketful of Miracles (1961) (1961)✰; Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) (1964); The Nanny (1965) (1965); The Anniversary (1968) (1968); Connecting Rooms (1970) (1970); Bunny O'Hare (1971) (1971); The Scopone Game (1972); Madame Sin (1972) (1972); Burnt Offerings (1976) (1976); Death on the Nile (1978) (1978); Return from Witch Mountain (1978) (1978); The Watcher in the Woods (1980) (1980); The Whales of August (1987) (1987); Wicked Stepmother (1989) (1989)

Greats: Roman Holiday (1953) (1953)★; Sabrina (1954) (1954)★; Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) (1961)★; Charade (1963) (1963)★; My Fair Lady (1964) (1964)★; Wait Until Dark (1967) (1967)★

Give It a Shot: The Children's Hour (1961) (1961)

Other Notable Film(s): War and Peace (1956) (1956)✰; Funny Face (1957) (1957); Love in the Afternoon (1957) (1957)✰; The Nun's Story (1959) (1959)✰; The Unforgiven (1960) (1960); How to Steal a Million (1966) (1966); Two for the Road (1967) (1967)✰; Robin and Marian (1976) (1976)

Greats: Casablanca (1942) (1943)★; Gaslight (1944) (1944)★; The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) (1945)★; Spellbound (1945) (1945); Notorious (1946) (1946); Journey to Italy (1954)

Give It a Shot: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) (1941); Anastasia (1956) (1956)★; Cactus Flower (1969) (1969)✰

Caution: Murder on the Orient Express (1974) (1974)★

Other Notable Film(s): For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) (1943)✰; Joan of Arc (1948) (1948)✰; Stromboli (Terra di Dio) (1950) (1950); Indiscreet (1958) (1958)✰; The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) (1958)✰; Autumn Sonata (1978)✰

Greats: National Velvet (1944) (1944); Father of the Bride (1950) (1950); A Place in the Sun (1951) (1951)★; Giant (1956) (1956)★; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) (1958)★; Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) (1959)★; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) (1966)★

Caution: Conspirator (1949) (1949)

Flops: The Flintstones (1994) (1994)☠

Other Notable Film(s): Lassie Come Home (1943) (1943); Life with Father (1947) (1947); Little Women (1949) (1949); Ivanhoe (1952) (1952); The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) (1954); Raintree County (1957) (1957)✰; BUtterfield 8 (1960) (1960)✰; The V.I.P.s (1963) (1963); Cleopatra (1963) (1963); The Sandpiper (1965) (1965); The Taming of the Shrew (1967) (1967); Doctor Faustus (1967) (1967); The Comedians (1967) (1967); Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) (1967); Ash Wednesday (1973) (1973)✰; The Blue Bird (1976) (1976); A Little Night Music (1977) (1977); The Mirror Crack'd (1980) (1980)

Greats: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) (1999); The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) (2001); The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) (2002); The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) (2003); The Aviator (2004) (2004)★; Carol (2015) (2015)★

Give It a Shot: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) (2004); Babel (2006) (2006); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) (2008); Gake no ue no Ponyo (2008) [voice] (2008); Blue Jasmine (2013) (2013)★

Caution: I'm Not There (2007) (2007)★; Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) (2008)

Other Notable Film(s): Paradise Road (1997) (1997); Oscar and Lucinda (1997) (1997); Elizabeth (1998) (1998)✰; An Ideal Husband (1999) (1999); Pushing Tin (1999) (1999); The Man Who Cried (2000) (2000); The Gift (2000) (2000); Bandits (2001) (2001)✰; Charlotte Gray (2001) (2001); The Shipping News (2001) (2001); Heaven (2002) (2002); Veronica Guerin (2003) (2003)✰; Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) (2003); The Missing (2003) (2003); Little Fish (2005) (2005); The Good German (2006) (2006); Notes on a Scandal (2006) (2006)✰; Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) (2007)✰; Robin Hood (2010) (2010); Hanna (2011) (2011); The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) (2012); The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) (2013); The Monuments Men (2014) (2014); How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) [voice] (2014); The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) (2014); Knight of Cups (2015) (2015); Cinderella (2015) (2015); Truth (2015) (2015); Manifesto (2015) (2015); Song to Song (2017) (2017); Thor: Ragnarok (2017) (2017); Ocean's Eight (2018) (2018); Mowgli (2018) (2018)

Greats: Gone with the Wind (1939) (1939)★; A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) (1951)★

Other Notable Film(s): Waterloo Bridge (1940) (1940); That Hamilton Woman (1941) (1941); Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) (1945); The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) (1961); Ship of Fools (1965) (1965)

Greats: The Lady Eve (1941) (1941)★; Meet John Doe (1941) (1941)★; Double Indemnity (1944) (1944)★

Other Notable Film(s): Night Nurse (1931) (1931); The Miracle Woman (1931) (1931); Baby Face (1933) (1933); Stella Dallas (1937) (1937)✰; Union Pacific (1939) (1939); Golden Boy (1939) (1939); Ball of Fire (1941) (1941)✰; Lady of Burlesque (1943) (1943); Christmas in Connecticut (1945) (1945); The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) (1946); The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947) (1947); Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) (1948)✰; The Furies (1950) (1950); Clash by Night (1952) (1952); Titanic (1953) (1953); Executive Suite (1954) (1954); Forty Guns (1957) (1957); Roustabout (1964) (1964)

Greats: Mildred Pierce (1945) (1945)★; What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) (1962)★

Other Notable Film(s): The Unknown (1927) (1927); West Point (1927) (1927); Grand Hotel (1932) (1932); Rain (1932) (1932); The Women (1939) (1939); A Woman's Face (1941) (1941); Above Suspicion (1943) (1943); Possessed (1947) (1947)✰; Sudden Fear (1952) (1952)✰; Johnny Guitar (1954) (1954)

Greats: A Place in the Sun (1951) (1951)★; The Night of the Hunter (1955) (1955); Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) (1959); Lolita (1962) (1962)★

Give It a Shot: A Double Life (1947) (1947); The Poseidon Adventure (1972) (1972)★

Other Notable Film(s): Winchester '73 (1950) (1950); Executive Suite (1954) (1954); The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) (1959)✰; A Patch of Blue (1965) (1965)✰; Alfie (1966) (1966)✰; The Scalphunters (1968) (1968); Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976) (1976)✰; Heavy (1995) (1995); The Portrait of a Lady (1996) (1996)

Greats: It Happened One Night (1934) (1934)★; Since You Went Away (1944) (1944)★

Give It a Shot: The Palm Beach Story (1942) (1942)

Other Notable Film(s): The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) (1931); Cleopatra (1934) (1934); Imitation of Life (1934) (1934); Private Worlds (1935)✰; Boom Town (1940) (1940); The Egg and I (1947) (1947); Three Came Home (1950) (1950)

Greats: The Miracle Worker (1962) (1962)★; The Graduate (1967) (1967)★; The Elephant Man (1980) (1980)

Give It a Shot: The Turning Point (1977) (1977)★

Flops: Heartbreakers (2001) (2001)

Other Notable Film(s): Don't Bother to Knock (1952) (1952); Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) (1954); Nightfall (1956) (1957); The Pumpkin Eater (1964) (1964)✰; The Slender Thread (1965) (1965); 7 Women (1965) (1966); Young Winston (1972) (1972); The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) (1975); The Hindenburg (1975) (1975); Lipstick (1976) (1976); Fatso (1980) (1980); To Be or Not to Be (1983) (1983)✰; Garbo Talks (1984) (1984)✰; Agnes of God (1985) (1985)✰; 'night, Mother (1986) (1986)✰; 84 Charing Cross Road (1987) (1987); Torch Song Trilogy (1988) (1988); Honeymoon in Vegas (1992) (1992); Love Potion No. 9 (1992) (1992); Point of No Return (1993) (1993); Malice (1993) (1993); Mr. Jones (1993) (1993); How to Make an American Quilt (1995) (1995); Home for the Holidays (1995) (1995); Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) (1995); The Sunchaser (1996) (1996); G.I. Jane (1997) (1997); Great Expectations (1998) (1998); Keeping the Faith (2000) (2000); Up at the Villa (2000) (2000)

Greats: Captain Blood (1935) (1935); Gone with the Wind (1939) (1939)★

Other Notable Film(s): A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) (1935); Anthony Adverse (1936) (1936); The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) (1936); The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) (1938); Dodge City (1939) (1939); The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) (1939); Santa Fe Trail (1940) (1940); Hold Back the Dawn (1941) (1941)✰; They Died with Their Boots On (1941) (1941); The Strawberry Blonde (1941) (1941); In This Our Life (1942) (1942); To Each His Own (1946) (1946)✰; The Dark Mirror (1946) (1946); The Snake Pit (1948) (1948)✰; The Heiress (1949) (1949)✰; My Cousin Rachel (1952) (1952)✰; Not as a Stranger (1955) (1955); Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) (1964); Lady in a Cage (1964) (1964); Airport '77 (1977) (1977); The Swarm (1978) (1978)

Other Notable Film(s): Flesh and the Devil (1926) (1926); The Temptress (1926) (1926); The Mysterious Lady (1928) (1928); A Woman of Affairs (1928) (1928); Romance (1930) (1930)✰; Anna Christie (1930) (1930)✰; Mata Hari (1931) (1931); Grand Hotel (1932) (1932); Queen Christina (1933) (1933); The Painted Veil (1934) (1934); Anna Karenina (1935) (1935); Camille (1936) (1936)✰; Conquest (1937) (1937); Ninotchka (1939) (1939)✰; Two-Faced Woman (1941) (1941)

Greats: Sunset Blvd. (1950) (1950)★

Other Notable Film(s): Sadie Thompson (1928) (1928)✰; The Trespasser (1929) (1929)✰; Queen Kelly (1932) (1929)

Greats: Black Narcissus (1947) (1947)★; From Here to Eternity (1953) (1953)★; The King and I (1956) (1956)★; An Affair to Remember (1957) (1957)★

Give It a Shot: Separate Tables (1958) (1958)★

Other Notable Film(s): Edward, My Son (1949) (1949)✰; Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) (1957)✰; The Sundowners (1960) (1960)✰; The Innocents (1961) (1961)

Greats: Rebecca (1940) (1940)★; Suspicion (1941) (1941)★

Other Notable Film(s): Gunga Din (1939) (1939); The Women (1939) (1939); The Constant Nymph (1943) (1943)✰; Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) (1948); Ivanhoe (1952) (1952); Casanova's Big Night (1954) (1954)

Greats: Doctor Zhivago (1965) (1965)★; Fahrenheit 451 (1966) (1966); Heaven Can Wait (1978) (1978)

Give It a Shot: Darling (1965) (1965)★; Don't Look Now (1973) (1973); Finding Neverland (2004) (2004)

Flops: Power (1986) (1986)

Other Notable Film(s): Billy Liar (1963) (1963); Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) (1967); The Go-Between (1971) (1970); McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) (1971)✰; Shampoo (1975) (1975)✰; Demon Seed (1977) (1977); Hamlet (1996) (1996); Afterglow (1997) (1997)✰; Away from Her (2006) (2006)✰

Greats: High Noon (1952) (1952); Rear Window (1954) (1954); Dial M for Murder (1954) (1954); To Catch a Thief (1955) (1955)

Other Notable Film(s): Fourteen Hours (1951) (1951); Mogambo (1953) (1953)✰; The Country Girl (1954) (1954)✰; Green Fire (1954) (1954); The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954) (1954); The Swan (1956) (1956); High Society (1956) (1956)

Greats: Mary Poppins (1964) (1964)★; The Sound of Music (1965) (1965)★

Give It a Shot: Torn Curtain (1966) (1966); Victor/Victoria (1982) (1982)✰; Shrek 2 (2004) [voice] (2004)

Caution: Shrek the Third (2007) (2007)

Flops: The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) (2004)

Other Notable Film(s): The Americanization of Emily (1964) (1964); Hawaii (1966) (1966); Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) (1967)✰; Star! (1968) (1968)✰; Darling Lili (1970) (1970)✰; The Tamarind Seed (1974) (1974); 10 (1979) (1979)✰; Little Miss Marker (1980) (1980); S.O.B. (1981) (1981); The Man Who Loved Women (1983) (1983); Duet for One (1986) (1986)✰; That's Life! (1986) (1986)✰; A Fine Romance (1992); Relative Values (2000) (2000); The Princess Diaries (2001) (2001); Unconditional Love (2002) (2002); Enchanted (2007) [voice] (2007); Tooth Fairy (2010) (2010); Shrek Forever After (2010) (2010); Despicable Me (2010) (2010)

Greats: They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) (1969)★; The China Syndrome (1979) (1979)★; On Golden Pond (1981) (1981)★

Caution: The Morning After (1986) (1986)★

Flops: Monster-in-Law (2005) (2005)☠

Other Notable Film(s): Tall Story (1960) (1960); Walk on the Wild Side (1962) (1962); The Chapman Report (1962) (1962); Period of Adjustment (1962) (1962)✰; In the Cool of the Day (1963) (1963); Sunday in New York (1963) (1963); Joy House (1964); Circle of Love (1964); Cat Ballou (1965) (1965)✰; The Chase (1966) (1966); The Game Is Over (1966); Any Wednesday (1966) (1966)✰; Hurry Sundown (1967) (1967); Barefoot in the Park (1967) (1967); Spirits of the Dead (1968); Barbarella (1968) (1968); Klute (1971) (1971)✰; Tout va bien (1972) (1972); Steelyard Blues (1973) (1973); A Doll's House (1973) (1973); The Blue Bird (1976) (1976); Fun with Dick and Jane (1977) (1977); Julia (1977) (1977)✰; Coming Home (1978) (1978)✰; Comes a Horseman (1978) (1978); California Suite (1978) (1978); The Electric Horseman (1979) (1979); Nine to Five (1980) (1980); Rollover (1981) (1981); The Dollmaker [TV] (1984)✰; Agnes of God (1985) (1985); Stanley & Iris (1990) (1989); Old Gringo (1989) (1989); Georgia Rule (2007) (2007); All Together (2011); Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (2011) (2011); The Butler (2013) (2013); Youth (2015) (2015)✰

Greats: The Exorcist (1973) (1973)★; Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) (1974)★; Requiem for a Dream (2000) (2000)★

Give It a Shot: Harry and Tonto (1974) (1974); Interstellar (2014) (2014)

Caution: The Yards (2000) (1999); W. (2008) (2008)

Other Notable Film(s): The Last Picture Show (1971) (1971)✰; The King of Marvin Gardens (1972) (1972); Providence (1977) (1977); Same Time, Next Year (1978) (1978)✰; Resurrection (1980) (1980)✰; Dying Young (1991) (1991); When a Man Loves a Woman (1994) (1994); How to Make an American Quilt (1995) (1995); The Spitfire Grill (1996) (1996); Deceiver (1997) (1997); Playing by Heart (1998) (1998); Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) (2002); The Fountain (2006) (2006); The Wicker Man (2006) (2006); Lovely, Still (2008) (2008); Main Street (2010) (2010); Another Happy Day (2011) (2011); Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2011) (2011); Draft Day (2014) (2014); The Calling (2014) (2014)

Greats: Titanic (1997) (1997)★; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) (2004)★; Little Children (2006) (2006)★; Revolutionary Road (2008) (2008)★; Steve Jobs (2015) (2015)★

Give It a Shot: Heavenly Creatures (1994) (1994); Finding Neverland (2004) (2004); The Reader (2008) (2008)★; Carnage (2011) (2011)✰

Caution: The Holiday (2006) (2006); Contagion (2011) (2011)

Other Notable Film(s): A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995) (1995); Sense and Sensibility (1995) (1995)✰; Jude (1996) (1996); Hamlet (1996) (1996); Hideous Kinky (1998) (1998); Holy Smoke (1999) (1999); Quills (2000) (2000); Enigma (2001) (2001); Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001) [voice] (2001); Iris (2001) (2001)✰; The Life of David Gale (2003) (2003); Romance & Cigarettes (2005) (2005); All the King's Men (2006) (2006); Flushed Away (2006) [voice] (2006); The Fox & the Child (2007); Mildred Pierce (2011) [TV series] (2011)✰; Movie 43 (2013) (2013); Labor Day (2013) (2013)✰; Divergent (2014) (2014); A Little Chaos (2014) (2014); The Dressmaker (2015) (2015)

Greats: Since You Went Away (1944) (1944)★

Give It a Shot: Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) (1955)★; The Towering Inferno (1974) (1974)✰

Other Notable Film(s): New Frontier (1939) (1939); Dick Tracy's G-Men (1939) (1939); The Song of Bernadette (1943) (1943)✰; Love Letters (1945) (1945)✰; Cluny Brown (1946) (1946); Duel in the Sun (1946) (1946)✰; Portrait of Jennie (1948) (1948); We Were Strangers (1949) (1949); Madame Bovary (1949) (1949); Gone to Earth (1950) (1950); Carrie (1952) (1952); Ruby Gentry (1952) (1952); Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953); Beat the Devil (1953) (1953); Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955) (1955); The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) (1956); The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957) (1957); A Farewell to Arms (1957) (1957); Tender Is the Night (1962) (1962)

Greats: Bonnie and Clyde (1967) (1967)★; Chinatown (1974) (1974)★; Network (1976) (1976)★

Caution: Mommie Dearest (1981) (1981); Albino Alligator (1996) (1996); The Yards (2000) (1999)

Other Notable Film(s): Hurry Sundown (1967) (1967); Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970) (1970); Little Big Man (1970) (1970); Three Days of the Condor (1975) (1975); The Twilight of the Golds (1996) (1996); The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) (1999)

Greats: The Big Sleep (1946) (1946)

Give It a Shot: Misery (1990) (1990)

Caution: Murder on the Orient Express (1974) (1974)

Other Notable Film(s): To Have and Have Not (1944) (1944); Confidential Agent (1945) (1945); Dark Passage (1947) (1947); Key Largo (1948) (1948); Young Man with a Horn (1950) (1950); Bright Leaf (1950) (1950); How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) (1953); Woman's World (1954) (1954); The Cobweb (1955) (1955); Blood Alley (1955) (1955); Written on the Wind (1956) (1956); Designing Woman (1957) (1957); North West Frontier (1959) (1959); Sex and the Single Girl (1964) (1964); Harper (1966) (1966); The Shootist (1976) (1976); The Fan (1981) (1981); Appointment with Death (1988) (1988); Mr. North (1988) (1988); All I Want for Christmas (1991) (1991); Prêt-à-Porter (1994) (1994); The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) (1996)✰; My Fellow Americans (1996) (1996); Diamonds (1999) (1999); Dogville (2003) (2003); Howl's Moving Castle (2004); Birth (2004) (2004); Manderlay (2005) (2005); The Walker (2007) (2007); Ernest & Celestine (2013); The Forger (2012) (2012)

Greats: Witness for the Prosecution (1957) (1957); Touch of Evil (1958) (1958); Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) (1961)★

Other Notable Film(s): Morocco (1930) (1930)✰; The Blue Angel (1930); Dishonored (1931) (1931); Shanghai Express (1932) (1932); Blonde Venus (1932) (1932); The Scarlet Empress (1934) (1934); The Devil Is a Woman (1935) (1935); Desire (1936) (1936); The Garden of Allah (1936) (1936); Angel (1937) (1937); Destry Rides Again (1939) (1939); Seven Sinners (1940) (1940); The Flame of New Orleans (1941) (1941); Manpower (1941) (1941); The Spoilers (1942) (1942); Pittsburgh (1942) (1942); Kismet (1944) (1944); Golden Earrings (1947) (1947); A Foreign Affair (1948) (1948); Stage Fright (1950) (1950); No Highway in the Sky (1951); Rancho Notorious (1952) (1952); Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) (1956)

Greats: Badlands (1973); Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)★; Missing (1982)★; JFK (1991); Affliction (1998*); In the Bedroom (2001)★; The Help (2011)

Give It a Shot: Carrie (1976)★

Blast from the Past (1999)

Other Notable Film(s): 3 Women (1977); Raggedy Man (1981)✰; The River (1984)✰; Crimes of the Heart (1986)✰; The Straight Story (1999)

Greats: All About Eve (1950) (1950); Some Like It Hot (1959) (1959)✰

Give It a Shot: Monkey Business (1952) (1952); The Seven Year Itch (1955) (1955); Bus Stop (1956) (1956)✰

Caution: River of No Return (1954) (1954)

Other Notable Film(s): Ladies of the Chorus (1948) (1948); Love Happy (1949) (1949); The Asphalt Jungle (1950) (1950); The Fireball (1950) (1950); Home Town Story (1951) (1951); As Young as You Feel (1951) (1951); Love Nest (1951) (1951); Let's Make It Legal (1951) (1951); Clash by Night (1952) (1952); We're Not Married! (1952) (1952); Don't Bother to Knock (1952) (1952); Niagara (1953) (1952); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) (1953); How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) (1953); There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) (1954); The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) (1957); Let's Make Love (1960) (1960); The Misfits (1961) (1961); Something's Got to Give (1962) (1962) [unfinished]

Greats: Gilda★; The Lady from Shanghai★

Other Notable Film(s):

Greats: The Wizard of Oz (1939); Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)★

Other Notable Film(s):

Greats: Persona (1966) (1966); The Passion of Anna (1969); Hour of the Wolf

Other Notable Film(s):

Greats: The Public Enemy (1931) (1931)

Give It a Shot: Dinner at Eight (1933) (1933)

Other Notable Film(s): Hell's Angels (1930) (1930); Platinum Blonde (1931) (1931); Three Wise Girls (1931) (1932); The Beast of the City (1932) (1932); Red-Headed Woman (1932) (1932); Red Dust (1932) (1932); Hold Your Man (1933) (1933); Bombshell (1933) (1933); The Girl from Missouri (1934) (1934); Reckless (1935) (1935); China Seas (1935) (1935); Riffraff (1935) (1936); Wife vs. Secretary (1936) (1936); Suzy (1936) (1936); Libeled Lady (1936) (1936); Personal Property (1937) (1937); Saratoga (1937) (1937)

Greats: To Be or Not to Be (1942)

Other Notable Film(s):

Greats: Top Hat (1935); Swing Time (1936)

Other Notable Film(s):

Other Notable Film(s):

Greats: Boogie Nights (1997)★; The Kids Are All Right (2010)★

Give It a Shot: The Big Lebowski (1998); The Hours (2002)★; Don Jon (2013); Still Alice (2014)★

Other Notable Film(s):

Other Notable Film(s):

Other Notable Film(s):

Greats: Forrest Gump (1994)★; Lincoln (2012)★

Mrs. Doubtfire

Other Notable Film(s): Norma Rae; Murphy's Romance

Greats: The Apartment (1960)★; Terms of Endearment (1983)★

Give It a Shot: The Children's Hour; The Turning Point (1977)★

Other Notable Film(s):

Gosford Park (2001)✰

Give It a Shot: The Pledge (2001); Red (2010)

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

Other Notable Film(s): The Madness of King George (1993)✰; Calendar Girls (2003)✰; The Queen (2006)✰; The Last Station (2009)✰; Hitchcock (2012)✰

Dead Man Walking★; Thelma and Louise★; Bull Durham; Rocky Horror Picture Show

Other Notable Film(s): Atlantic City (1980)✰

Greats: Fargo (1996)★

The Man Who Wasn't There (2001); Burn After Reading (2008)

Other Notable Film(s):

Greats: The Grifters (1990)★; Bugsy (1991); American Beauty (1999)★; The Kids Are All Right (2010)★

Other Notable Film(s): The American President; Being Julia; 20th Century Women (2016)

Greats: Fatal Attraction (1987) (1987)★

Give It a Shot: The Big Chill (1983) (1983)★; The Natural (1984) (1984)★; Reversal of Fortune (1990) (1990)★; Hook (1991) (1991); Air Force One (1997) (1997); Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) (2014); The Girl with All the Gifts (2016) (2016)

Caution: 101 Dalmatians (1996) (1996)✰; Mars Attacks! (1996) (1996)

Flops: 102 Dalmatians (2000) (2000)

Other Notable Film(s): The World According to Garp (1982) (1982)✰; Maxie (1985) (1985)✰; Dangerous Liaisons (1988) (1988)✰; Albert Nobbs (2011) (2011)✰

Greats: The Godfather (1972) (1972); The Godfather Part II (1974) (1974); Annie Hall (1977) (1977)★; Manhattan (1979) (1979); Reds (1981) (1981)★; The Godfather Part III (1990) (1990)

Give It a Shot: Sleeper (1973) (1973); Father of the Bride (1991) (1991); Something's Gotta Give (2003) (2003)★; Morning Glory (2010) (2010)

Flops: Baby Boom (1987) (1987); Because I Said So (2007) (2007)☠

Other Notable Film(s): Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) (1977)✰; Shoot the Moon (1982) (1982)✰; Mrs. Soffel (1984) (1984)✰; Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) (1993)✰; Marvin's Room (1996) (1996)✰

Howards End★

Other Notable Film(s):

Greats: Broadcast News (1987)★; The Piano (1993)★

Give It a Shot: Thirteen★

Other Notable Film(s): The Firm (1993)✰

Other Notable Film(s):

Greats: The Night of the Hunter

Other Notable Film(s):

Other Notable Film(s):

Other Notable Film(s):

Greats: The Pride of the Yankees★

Other Notable Film(s):

Other Notable Film(s):

Greats: Taxi Driver (1976)★; The Silence of the Lambs★

Give It a Shot: The Accused★; Inside Man

Caution: Flight Plan

Other Notable Film(s):

Greats: Gosford Park (2001) (2001)✰

Give It a Shot: Hook (1991); Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)

Caution: Murder by Death (1976)

Other Notable Film(s): The V.I.P.s (1963) (1963)✰; Othello (1965) (1965)✰; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) (1969)✰; Travels with My Aunt (1972) (1972)✰; California Suite (1978) (1978)✰; A Room with a View (1985) (1985)✰; Quartet (2012) (2012)✰; The Lady in the Van (2015) (2015)✰

Greats: Skyfall (2012)

Give It a Shot: Shakespeare in Love (1998)★; My Week with Marilyn (2011)

Caution: J. Edgar (2011)

Other Notable Film(s):

Greats: Alien; Aliens★; Avatar (2009)

Give It a Shot: Working Girl★

Other Notable Film(s):

Give It a Shot: The Divorcee★

Other Notable Film(s):

Greats: The Yearling

Other Notable Film(s):

Other Notable Film(s):

Other Notable Film(s):

Greats: Million Dollar Baby (2004)★

Give It a Shot: Freedom Writers (2007)

Other Notable Film(s): Boys Don't Cry✰

Greats: Repulsion★

Other Notable Film(s):

Greats: Tootsie (1982)★

Other Notable Film(s):

Other Notable Film(s):

Vicky Christina Barcelona (2008)★; Vanilla Sky

Other Notable Film(s): Broken Embraces✰; Nine (2009)✰

The Hours (2002)★; Moulin Rouge!★; The Others; Rabbit Hole (2010)★

Other Notable Film(s):

Greats: Vertigo

Picnic

Other Notable Film(s):

Greats: Singin' in the Rain

Other Notable Film(s):

Other Notable Film(s):

Other Notable Film(s):

Greats: West Side Story

Other Notable Film(s):

Other Notable Film(s):

Other Notable Film(s):

Other Notable Film(s):

Other Notable Film(s):

Greats: Prizzi's Honor★; Crimes and Misdeamenors (1989); The Grifters (1990)★

Other Notable Film(s):

Greats: Sullivan Travels

Other Notable Film(s):

Other Notable Film(s):

Greats: The Goodbye Girl★

Other Notable Film(s):

Give It a Shot: Sweet Bird of Youth★

Other Notable Film(s):

Greats: Rosemary's Baby (1968)★; Broadway Danny Rose (1984); Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

Give It a Shot: Radio Days

Other Notable Film(s): Alice

Greats: The Seventh Seal (1957); Persona (1966) (1966)

Other Notable Film(s):

Give It a Shot: The Devil's Advocate (1997) (1997); The Yards (2000) (2000); The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) (2001); The Italian Job (2003) (2003); Monster (2003) (2003)★; In the Valley of Elah (2007) (2007); Young Adult (2011) (2011)★; Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) (2015)

Caution: Trapped (2002) (2002); Hancock (2008) (2008); Prometheus (2012) (2012)

Other Notable Film(s): That Thing You Do! (1996) (1996); Trial and Error (1997) (1997); Celebrity (1998) (1998); Mighty Joe Young (1998) (1998); The Astronaut's Wife (1999) (1999); The Cider House Rules (1999) (1999); Reindeer Games (2000) (2000); Men of Honor (2000) (2000); The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) (2000); Sweet November (2001) (2001); 15 Minutes (2001) (2001); Waking Up in Reno (2002) (2002); The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) (2004)✰; Head in the Clouds (2004) (2004); North Country (2005) (2005)✰; Æon Flux (2005) (2005); Battle in Seattle (2007) (2007); Sleepwalking (2008) (2008); The Burning Plain (2008) (2008); The Road (2009) (2009); Astro Boy (2009) [voice] (2009); Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) (2012); A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014) (2014); Dark Places (2015) (2015); The Last Face (2016) (2015)

Greats: The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) (1956)

Give It a Shot" Pillow Talk (1959) (1959)★

Other Notable Film(s): Calamity Jane (1953) (1953)

Other Notable Film(s):

Other Notable Film(s):

Give It a Shot: Pretty Woman★

Other Notable Film(s): Erin Brockovich (2000)✰; August (2013)✰

Greats: Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) (1986); The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) (1988); Black Swan (2010) (2010)

Give It a Shot: Boxcar Bertha (1972) (1972); The Natural (1984) (1984); Hoosiers (1986) (1986); Falling Down (1993) (1993)

Other Notable Film(s): Beaches (1988) (1988); The Portrait of a Lady (1996) (1996)

Greats: All About Eve (1950) (1950)★; I Confess (1953) (1953)

Give It a Shot: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) (1942)

Other Notable Film(s): Swamp Water (1941) (1941); The Pied Piper (1942) (1942); Crash Dive (1943) (1943); Five Graves to Cairo (1943) (1943); The North Star (1943) (1943); The Sullivans (1944) (1944); Guest in the House (1944) (1944); A Royal Scandal (1945) (1945); Angel on My Shoulder (1946) (1946); The Razor's Edge (1946) (1946); Homecoming (1948) (1948); The Luck of the Irish (1948) (1948); Yellow Sky (1948) (1948); The Blue Gardenia (1953) (1953); Carnival Story (1954) (1954); The Ten Commandments (1956) (1956); Cimarron (1960) (1960); Walk on the Wild Side (1962); Fools' Parade (1971) (1971)

Greats: An American in Paris (1951) (1951); Gigi (1958) (1958)

Other Notable Film(s): The Man with a Cloak (1951) (1951); Glory Alley (1952) (1952); Lili (1953) (1953)✰; The Glass Slipper (1955) (1955); Daddy Long Legs (1955) (1955); Gaby (1956) (1956); The Doctor's Dilemma (1958) (1958); Austerlitz (1960) (1960); The Subterraneans (1960) (1960); Fanny (1961) (1961); The L-Shaped Room (1962) (1962)✰; Father Goose (1964) (1964); A Very Special Favor (1965) (1965); Promise Her Anything (1966) (1965); Is Paris Burning? (1966); The Man Who Loved Women (1977); Valentino (1977) (1977); Dangerous Moves (1984); Courage Mountain (1990) (1990); Guns (1990) (1990); Damage (1992) (1992); Funny Bones (1995) (1995); Chocolat (2000) (2000); Le divorce (2003) (2003)

Greats: Fight Club (1999) (1999); Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) (2007)✰; The King's Speech (2010) (2010)★

Give It a Shot: Howards End (1992) (1992); Mighty Aphrodite (1995) (1995); Big Fish (2003) (2003); Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) (2007)

Caution: Terminator Salvation (2009) (2009)

Other Notable Film(s): A Room with a View (1985) (1985); Lady Jane (1986) (1986); Maurice (1987) (1987); Francesco (1989) (1989); Getting It Right (1989) (1989); Hamlet (1990) (1990); Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991) (1991); Frankenstein (1994) (1994); Margaret's Museum (1995) (1995); Twelfth Night or What You Will (1996) (1996); Shadow Play (1996); The Wings of the Dove (1997) (1997)✰; A Merry War (1997); The Revengers' Comedies (1998) (1998); The Theory of Flight (1998) (1998); Women Talking Dirty (1999) (1999); Planet of the Apes (2001) (2001); Novocaine (2001) (2001); The Heart of Me (2002) (2002); Till Human Voices Wake Us (2002) (2002); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) (2005); Conversations with Other Women (2005) (2005); The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) [voice] (2005); Corpse Bride (2005) [voice] (2005); Sixty Six (2006) (2006); Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) (2009); Alice in Wonderland (2010) (2010); Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (2010) (2010); Toast (2010) (2010); Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011) (2011); Dark Shadows (2012) (2012); Great Expectations (2012) (2012); Les Misérables (2012) (2012); The Lone Ranger (2013) (2013); The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)

Greats: You Can Count on Me (2000) (2000)★; Mystic River (2003) (2003)

Give It a Shot: Dave (1993) (1993); Primal Fear (1996) (1996)☠; Absolute Power (1997) (1997); The Truman Show (1998) (1998); Breach (2007) (2007)

Man of the Year (2006) (2006)

Other Notable Film(s): Lorenzo's Oil (1992) (1992); Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) (1993); A Simple Twist of Fate (1994) (1994); Congo (1995) (1995); Love Letters (1999) [TV movie] (1999); Lush (2000) (1999); The House of Mirth (2000) (2000); Running Mates (2000) [TV movie] (2000); Maze (2000) (2000); Further Tales of the City (2001) [TV series] (2001); The Laramie Project (2002) [TV movie] (2002); The Mothman Prophecies (2002) (2002); The Life of David Gale (2003) (2003); Love Actually (2003) (2003); P.S. (2004) (2004); Kinsey (2004) (2004)✰; The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) (2005); The Squid and the Whale (2005) (2005)✰; Driving Lessons (2006) (2006); Jindabyne (2006) (2006); The Hottest State (2006) (2006); The Nanny Diaries (2007) (2007); The Savages (2007) (2007)✰; John Adams (2008) [TV series] (2008)✰; The Other Man (2008) (2008); The City of Your Final Destination (2009) (2009); Sympathy for Delicious (2010) (2010); Morning (2010) (2010); The Details (2011) (2011); Arthur Christmas (2011) [voice] (2011); Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) (2012); The Fifth Estate (2013) (2013); Mr. Holmes (2015) (2015); Genius (2016) (2015)

Greats: Doubt (2008)★; The Fighter (2010)★; The Master (2012)★; American Hustle (2013)★; Arrival (2016)★

Other Notable Film(s):

Greats: The English Patient (1996)★

Other Notable Film(s):

The Great White Hope★; All the President's Men (1976)★; Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)★

Other Notable Film(s):

Sunday Bloody Sunday✰

Other Notable Film(s):