Favorite Lead Male Performances
By: Mike
Limit of one performance per actor.
JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO, Breathless (1960)
HUMPHREY BOGART, In a Lonely Place (1950)
MARLON BRANDO, Last Tango in Paris (1972)
EWEN BREMNER, julien donkey-boy (1999)
JEFF BRIDGES, Fearless (1993)
RICHARD BURTON, Equus (1977)
JAMES CAGNEY, White Heat (1949)
JIM CARREY, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
MONTGOMERY CLIFT, A Place in the Sun (1951)
MATT DAMON, The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS, There Will Be Blood (2007)
ROBERT DE NIRO, Raging Bull (1980)
JAMES DEAN, East of Eden (1955)
BENICIO DEL TORO, Che (2008)
LEONARDO DiCAPRIO, Revolutionary Road (2008)
MATT DILLON, Factotum (2005)
AARON ECKHART, In the Company of Men (1997)
LEO FITZPATRICK, Kids (1995)
HENRY FONDA, The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
CLARK GABLE, Gone with the Wind (1939)
VINCENT GALLO, Buffalo ‘66 (1998)
ANDREW GARFIELD, Boy A (2007)
PAUL GIAMATTI, Sideways (2004)
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT, Mysterious Skin (2004)
RYAN GOSLING, Blue Valentine (2010)
CARY GRANT, His Girl Friday (1940)
RICHARD E. GRANT, Withnail & I (1986)
ANDY GRIFFITH, A Face in the Crowd (1957)
GENE HACKMAN, The Conversation (1974)
ETHAN HAWKE, Before Sunset (2004)
DAVID HEMMINGS, Blow-Up (1966)
DUSTIN HOFFMAN, Straw Dogs (1971)
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007)
ROCK HUDSON, All That Heaven Allows (1956)
TIMOTHY HUTTON, The Dark Half (1993)
ERLAND JOSEPHSON, Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
HARVEY KEITEL, Bad Lieutenant (1992)
KLAUS KINSKI, Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
JUDE LAW, Closer (2004)
JEAN-PIERRE LEAUD, The 400 Blows (1959)
HEATH LEDGER, Brokeback Mountain (2005)
PETER LORRE, M (1931)
KARL MALDEN, Baby Doll (1956)
JOHN MALKOVICH, The Sheltering Sky (1990)
JAMES MASON, Bigger Than Life (1956)
MARCELLO MASTROIANNI, La dolce vita (1960)
MALCOLM McDOWELL, A Clockwork Orange (1971)
IAN McKELLEN, Apt Pupil (1998)
STEVE McQUEEN, Papillon (1973)
ROBERT MITCHUM, The Night of the Hunter (1955)
PAUL MUNI, Scarface (1932)
BILL MURRAY, Lost in Translation (2003)
PAUL NEWMAN, The Hustler (1961)
JACK NICHOLSON, Five Easy Pieces (1970)
PETER O’TOOLE, Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
GARY OLDMAN, Sid & Nancy (1986)
AL PACINO, Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
GREGORY PECK, To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
SEAN PENN, Hurlyburly (1998)
ANTHONY PERKINS, Psycho (1960)
RIVER PHOENIX, My Own Private Idaho (1991)
BRAD PITT, The Tree of Life (2011)
MICHAEL PITT, Last Days (2005)
ANTHONY QUINN, La strada (1954)
SAM RILEY, Control (2007)
EDWARD G. ROBINSON, Scarlet Street (1945)
MAURICE RONET, The Fire Within (1963)
MICHAEL ROOKER, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
MICKEY ROURKE, The Wrestler (2008)
ADAM SANDLER, Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
PETER SELLERS, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
MICHAEL SHANNON, Bug (2006)
MARTIN SHEEN, Badlands (1973)
TAKASHI SHIMURA, Ikiru (1952)
KEVIN SPACEY, American Beauty (1999)
JAMES SPADER, sex, lies and videotape (1989)
HARRY DEAN STANTON, Paris, Texas (1984)
JAMES STEWART, Vertigo (1958)
DAVID THEWLIS, Naked (1993)
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN, The Dead Zone (1983)
JOHN WAYNE, The Searchers (1956)
ORSON WELLES, Citizen Kane (1941)
JAMES WOODS, Another Day in Paradise (1998)
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01Jean-Luc Godard
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02Nicholas Ray
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03Bernardo Bertolucci
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04Harmony Korine
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05Peter Weir
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06Sidney Lumet
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07Raoul Walsh
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08Michel Gondry
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09George Stevens
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10Anthony Minghella
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11Paul Thomas Anderson
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12Martin Scorsese
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13Elia Kazan
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14Steven Soderbergh
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15Sam Mendes
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16Bent Hamer
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17Neil LaBute
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18Larry Clark
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19John Ford
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20Victor Fleming
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21Vincent Gallo
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22John Crowley
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23Alexander Payne
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24Gregg Araki
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25Derek Cianfrance
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26Howard Hawks
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27Bruce Robinson
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28Elia Kazan
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29Francis Ford Coppola
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30Richard Linklater
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31Michelangelo Antonioni
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32Sam Peckinpah
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33Sidney Lumet
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34Douglas Sirk
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35George A. Romero
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36Ingmar Bergman
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37Abel Ferrara
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38Werner Herzog
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39Mike Nichols
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40François Truffaut
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41Ang Lee
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42Fritz Lang
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43Elia Kazan
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44Bernardo Bertolucci
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45Nicholas Ray
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46Federico Fellini
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47Stanley Kubrick
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48Bryan Singer
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49Franklin J. Schaffner
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50Charles Laughton
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51Howard Hawks
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52Sofia Coppola
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53Robert Rossen
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54Bob Rafelson
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55David Lean
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56Alex Cox
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57Sidney Lumet
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58Robert Mulligan
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59Anthony Drazan
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60Alfred Hitchcock
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61Gus Van Sant
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62Terrence Malick
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63Gus Van Sant
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64Federico Fellini
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65Anton Corbijn
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66Fritz Lang
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67Louis Malle
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68John McNaughton
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69Darren Aronofsky
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70Paul Thomas Anderson
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71Stanley Kubrick
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72William Friedkin
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73Terrence Malick
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74Akira Kurosawa
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75Sam Mendes
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76Steven Soderbergh
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77Wim Wenders
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78Alfred Hitchcock
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79Mike Leigh
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80David Cronenberg
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81John Ford
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82Orson Welles
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83Larry Clark