EWB's Top Actor

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Votey votey time!

Time to vote for your top actors. I thought it would be nice to offer a few different options for voting so we're going to vote for our ten top MALE LIVING actors, five top FEMALE LIVING actors and five top DEAD actors.

I'm going with fewer females because in previous lists there have been far more votes for men but then only some people included women and some didn't so splitting should be interesting.

If you can't fill a ten or five then just include as many as you can. Usual list style your number 1 will get 10 points down to number 10 getting 1 point. These points will be multiplied by the number of voters so three voters giving an actor 4pts, 5pts, 2pts will mean the actor gets 11x3 = 33pts.

Use "top" to mean whatever you want it to mean but it's YOUR list, not a list you think it should be and not what you think others want you to say.

If you've got any favourite clips of an actor please link to a youtube video in their name.

TOP TEN MALES

1. Cillian Murphy

2. Gary Oldman

3. Sir Ben Kingsley

4. Liam Neeson

5. Joseph Gordon Levitt

6. John Hurt

7. Christian Bale

8. Alan Rickman

9. Jim Caviezel

10. Jeff Bridges

TOP FIVE FEMALES

1. Helen Mirren (RED!)

2. Milla Jovovich (shh)

3. Olivia Wilde

4. Maggie Smith

5. Audrey Tautou

TOP FIVE DECEASED

1. Marlon Brando (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2lRdkNGDcY, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNRBajLM8_4.)

2. Paul Newman

3. Pete Postlethwaite

4. Leslie Nielsen (from Forbidden Planet to his wonderful later comedies).

5. Vincent Price

[TKz]

Best Actor:

1. Gary Oldman

2. Jeff Bridges

3. Christian Bale

4. Michael Fassbender

5. Anthony Hopkins

6. Jack Nicholson

7. Robert Downey Jr

8. Martin Sheen

9. Sean Bean

10. Ian McKellen

Best Actress:

1. Natalie Portman

2. Charlize Theron

3. Emma Stone

4. Sigourney Weaver

5. Olivia Wilde

Best Dead Actor:

1. Marlon Brando

2. Lawrence Olivier

3. Christopher Reeve

4. Alec Guiness

5. Pete Postlethwaite

I'll probably change it around at some point.

[Jimmy]

Top Male Actors

1. Christian Bale

2. Joseph Gordon-Levitt

3. Edward Norton

4. Cillian Murphey

5. Vincent Cassel

6. Leonardo Dicaprio

7. Gary Oldman

8. Bradd Pitt

9. Jon Hamm

10. Adam Scott

Very subjective to change.

Top Female Actors

1. Rooney Mara

2. Scarlett Johansson

3. Chloe Mortez

4. Lizzie Caplan

5. Sarah Michelle Gellar

Top Deceased Actors

1. Marlon Brando

2. Heath Ledger

3. Dennis Hopper

4. Gregory Peck

5. Henry Fonda

[TGC]

Best Actor:

1. Christian Bale

2. Robert Downey Jr

3. Jeff Bridges

4. Morgan Freeman

5. Gary Oldman

6. Joseph Gordon Levitt

7. Cillian Murphy

8. Matt Damon

9. Mandy Patinkin

10. Neil Patrick Harris

Best Actress:

1. Maggie Gyllenhall

2. Charlize Theron

3. Amy Adams

4. Olivia Wilde

5. Vera Farmiga

6. Kate Winslet

7. Marissa Tomei

8. Claire Danes

9. Michelle Monagham

10. Mila Kunis

Best Dead Actor:

1. Patrick Swayze

2. Henry Fonda

3. Heath Ledger

4. Jimmy Stewart

5. Pete Postlethwaite

I made some edits

Edited January 24, 2012 by TGC

[Sousa]

I'm going with fewer females because in previous lists there have been far more votes for men but then only some people included women and some didn't so splitting should be interesting.

I totally understand why you did this, but I still think it would be interesting to see people fill in ten actresses.

You all knew I was going to make this post, didn't you.

[Timmoru Suzuki]

Not happy with this cos I KNOW I'm missing some obvious people.

Men (have blatantly translated 'top' as 'favourite.')

1. Clint Eastwood

2. Patrick Stewart

3. Alan Rickman

4. Alan Alda

5. David Tennant

6. Nathan Fillion

7. Matt Smith

8. James Marsden

9. Robert Downey Jr.

10. Martin Sheen

(I'm sorry Gary Oldman)

Women

1. Natalie Portman

2. Noomi Rapace

3. Scarlett Johansson

4. Helen Mirren

5. Amy Adams

Dead

1. James Stewart

2. Henry Fonda

3. Lee Van Cleef

4. Bela Lugosi

5. Vincent Price

[Josh]

I'm going with fewer females because in previous lists there have been far more votes for men but then only some people included women and some didn't so splitting should be interesting.

I totally understand why you did this, but I still think it would be interesting to see people fill in ten actresses.

You all knew I was going to make this post, didn't you.

If you didn't, then I would. I'm listing 10 actresses. Just count the first 5, if you wish.

This is definitely a mix of "The Best at What They Do" and "I Would Personally Love to Work With/Watch Them." I may have to edit later, as this was toooouuuugh to figure out.

Living Actor:

1. Phillip Seymour Hoffman

2. Dustin Hoffman

3. Jack Nicholson

4. Tom Hanks

5. Gary Oldman

6. Daniel Day-Lewis

7. Hugh Laurie

8. Jeff Bridges

9. Bill Murray

10. Geoffrey Rush

Living Actress:

1. Meryl Streep (How the hell am I the first to list her?)

2. Helen Mirren

3. Cate Blanchett

4. Julianne Moore

5. Amy Poehler (Comic actors/actresses hardly ever get the respect they properly deserve.)

6. Sigourney Weaver

7. Kate Winslet

8. Patricia Clarkson

9. Natalie Portman

10. Marissa Tomei

Deceased:

1. Paul Newman

2. Peter Sellers

3. Jimmy Stewart

4. Marlon Brando

5. Henry Fonda

Jesus, that was tough. And I'm still not certain. Hope I can edit later.

[arwrestling]

BEST LIVING MALE ACTOR

1. Brad Pitt

2. George Clooney

3. Johnny Depp

4. Leonardo DiCaprio

5. Alec Baldwin

6. Mark Whalberg

7. Jack Nicholson

8. Robert DeNiro

9. Dustin Hoffman

10. Morgan Freeman

BEST LIVING FEMALE ACTOR

1. Kate Winslet

2. Angelina Jolie

3. Carla Gugino

4. Betty White

5. Saoirse Ronan

BEST DEAD ACTOR

1. Bea Arthur

2. John Ritter

3. Heath Ledger

4. River Phoenix

5. James Dean

[Pettengill_Mark]

Actors:

1) Robert De Niro

2) Leonardo DiCaprio

3) Martin Sheen

4) Robert Downey Jr

5) Al Pacino

6) Tom Hanks

7) Daniel Day-Lewis

8) James Caan

9) Michael Sheen

10) Bill Murray

Actresses:

1) Helen Mirren

2) Alison Janey

3) Julianne Moore

4) Marrisa Tomei

5) CCH Pounder

DEAD:

1) Marlon Brando

2) Charlie Chaplin

3) Paul Newman

4) Dennis Hopper

5) John Spencer

[Pleatherface]

Living Actor:

1. Tim Curry

2. Donald Glover

3. Jeff Bridges

4. Eddie Izzard

5. Ian McShane

6. Bill Nighy

7. Samuel L Jackson

8. Alan Tudyk

9. Sonny Chiba

10. Simon Pegg

Dead Actor:

1. Jack Klugman

2. Slim Pickens

3. Dennis Hopper

4. Bruce Lee

5. Heath Ledger

Living Actress:

1. Jennifer Saunders

2. Emma Thompson

3. Tilda Swinton

4. Ellen Page

5. Gina Torres

[Skummy]

Best Living Male Actor:

1. Christopher Lee

2. Bill Murray

3. Takeshi Kitano

4. Dustin Hoffman

5. Peter O'Toole

6. Gary Oldman

7. Tom Waits

8. Jeff Bridges

9. Jonathan Rhys Meyers

10. John Sessions

Living Actress

1. Audrey Tatou

2. Cate Blanchett (if only for her portrayal of Bob Dylan)

3. Helen Mirren

4. Scarlett Johansson

5. Maggie Smith

Dead Actors

1. Richard Burton

2. Marlon Brando

3. Robert Mitchum

4. Pete Postlethwaite

5. Errol Flynn

[I Don't Mind]

Top Ten Living Men

1. Brad Pitt

2. Donald Sutherland

3. Jeff Bridges

4. Robert Downey Jr

5. Morgan Freeman

6. Johnny Depp

7. Samuel L. Jackson

8. Sam Rockwell

9. Matt Damon

10. Jason Statham

Top Five Living Women

1. Emma Stone

2. Zooey Deschanel

3. Mila Kunis

4. Alison Brie

5. Kat Dennings

Top Five Deceased

1. Charlton Heston

2. Vincent Price

3. Leslie Nielsen

4. Heath Ledger

5. Chris Farley

[reyrey619]

Living Actors:

1. Daniel Day Lewis

2. Bryan Cranston

3. Timothy Olyphant

4. Robert Downey Jr.

5. Christian Bale

6. Brad Pitt

7. Denzel Washington

8. Bill Murray

9. Christopher Walken

10. Sam Rockwell

Living Actresses:

1. Kate Winslet

2. Amy Poehler

3. Cate Blanchet

4. Emma Stone

5. Tina Fey

Deceased Actors:

1. Marlon Brando

2. Jack Lemmon

3. Dennis Hopper

4. Heath Ledger

5. Vincent Price

[Josh]

I like how some of these Best Actress lists read like "Aw, dammit, I'll never get to have sex with these five women. " And by "like", I mean "Ugh. You guys."

[Asuka's Gonna Kill You]

Living Actors:

1. Leonardo DiCaprio

2. Denzel Washington

3. Brad Pitt

4. Nicolas Cage

5. Anthony Hopkins

6. Colin Farell

7. Will Smith

8. John Travolta

9. Liam Neeson

10. Martin Lawrence

Living Actresses:

1. Chloe Moretz

2. Milla Jovovich

3. Kristen Stewart

4. Emma Stone

5. Kate Winslet

Deceased:

1. Marilyn Monroe

2. Bruce Lee

3. Stan Laurel

4. Oliver Hardy

5. Leslie Nielsen

Edited January 25, 2012 by JohnnyPerfect

[GhostMachine]

Best Actor:

1. Robert Downey Jr

2. Gary Oldman

3. Anthony Hopkins

4. Michael Douglas

5. Denzel Washington

6. Kirk Douglas

7. Liam Neeson

8. Morgan Freeman

9. Samuel L. Jackson

10. Jack Nicholson

Best Actress:

1. Meryl Streep

2. Kate Winslet

3. Angelina Jolie

4. Sigourney Weaver

5. Carla Gugino

Best Dead Actor:

1. Jack Lemmon

2. Jimmy Stewart

3. Alec Guinness

4. Marlon Brando

5. Vincent Price

Of course it goes without saying that the greatest actor who ever lived OR ever WILL live is William Shatner. I'm just saying what I know we're all thinking.

[DFF]

Living Actors

1. Michael Sheen

2. Gary Oldman

3. Alan Rickman

4. Idris Elba

5. Robert Downey Jnr.

6. Matt Smith

7. Joseph Gordon-Levitt

8. Leonardo DiCaprio

9. Benedict Cumberbatch

10.Michael Fassbender

Living Actresses

1. Natalie Portman

2. Noomi Rapace

3. Marion Cotillard

4. Emily Blunt

5. Julie Delpy

6. Milla Jovovich

7. Alison Janney

8. Sigourney Weaver

9. Johanna Wokalek

10. Mila Kunis

Brown Bread

1. James Stewart

2. Basil Rathbone

3. Errol Flynn

4. Danny Kaye

5. Gregory Peck

[Naitch]

Living Actors

1. Gary Oldman

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Living Actresses

1. Natalie Portman

2. Mila Jovovich

3. Helen Mirren

4. Sigourney Weaver

5. Zooey Deschanel

Deceased Actors/Actresses

1. Vincent Price

2. Tony Curtis

3. Jack Lemmon

4. Leslie Nielsen

5. Marilyn Monroe

I'll edit in the rest of the guys later.

Edited January 26, 2012 by Naitch16

[hot rod]

Actors:

1. Joseph Gordon Levitt

2. Christian Bale

3. Cillian Murphy

4. Brad Pitt

5. Robert Downey Jr.

6. James Franco

7. Jason Bateman

8. Gary Oldman

9. Edward Norton

10. Paul Rudd

Poor Daniel Craig just barely missed my list.

Actresses:

1. Natalie Portman

2. Rooney Mara

3. Zooey Deschanel

4. Emma Stone

5. Chloe Moretz (Kick Ass and Let Me In, she's gonna be huge)

Deceased:

1. Bruce Lee

2. Brandon Lee

3. Heath Ledger

4. Leslie Nielsen

5. Brittany Murphy

Edited January 25, 2012 by hot rod

[Furlong]

Actors

Jeff Bridges

Gary Oldman

Tom Hanks

Robert Downey Jr

Edward Norton

John Malkovich

Forest Whitaker

Paul Gimatti

Christian Bale

Michael Sheen

Actresses

Julie Walters

Natalie Portman

Tilda Swinton

Meryl Streep

Mary McDonnell

Deceased

Marlon Brando

Jack Lemmon

John Candy

James Coburn

Ronnie Barker