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Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time

This is Premiere Magazine’s list of the best 100 acting performances. Please do not add any personal favorites to the list.

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1. Lawrence of Arabia (Limited Edition)  
2. On the Waterfront (Special Edition)  
3. Sophie's Choice
by Alan J. Pakula
  
4. Dog Day Afternoon
by Sidney Lumet
  
5. All About Eve
by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  
6. Yankee Doodle Dandy (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Michael Curtiz
  
7. Midnight Cowboy
by John Schlesinger
  
8. It's a Wonderful Life
by Frank Capra
  
9. Young Frankenstein  
10. Raging Bull (Special Edition)  
11. My Left Foot (Special Edition)
by Jim Sheridan
  
12. The Last Detail  
13. The Lion in Winter
by Anthony Harvey (II)
  
14. Tender Mercies
by Bruce Beresford
  
15. Big - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Penny Marshall
  
16. Notorious - Criterion Collection  
17.
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 Malcom X
by Spike Lee
  
18. Breaking the Waves
by Lars von Trier
  
19. The Verdict (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
by Sidney Lumet
  
20. The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
by Francis Ford Coppola
  
21. Nights of Cabiria - Criterion Collection
by Federico Fellini
  
22. Edward Scissorhands (Widescreen Anniversary Edition)
by Tim Burton
  
23. The Insider  
24. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by John Huston
  
25. Ninotchka
by Ernst Lubitsch
  
26. The Passion of Joan of Arc - Criterion Collection
by Carl Theodor Dreyer
  
27. Last Tango in Paris
by Bernardo Bertolucci
  
28. His Girl Friday
by Howard Hawks
  
29. Being There  
30. Vertigo (Collector's Edition)  
31.
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 Ray  
32. Breakfast at Tiffany's (Anniversary Edition)  
33. Tootsie  
34. The General
by Clyde Bruckman
  
35. Capote
by Bennett Miller
  
36. Chinatown  
37. The Conversation  
38. To Be or Not to Be
by Ernst Lubitsch
  
39. Richard III - Criterion Collection  
40. To Die For
by Gus Van Sant
  
41. Pulp Fiction (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)  
42. Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)  
43. Rebel Without a Cause (Two-Disc Special Edition)  
44. City Lights (2 Disc Special Edition)
by Charles Chaplin
  
45. Election
by Alexander Payne
  
46. Cast Away (Two-Disc Special Edition)  
47. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Milos Forman
  
48. Groundhog Day (Special Edition)  
49. Persona
by Ingmar Bergman
  
50. The Maltese Falcon (Three-Disc Collector's Edition)
by John Huston
  
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Created by mestrin on Jun 01, 2007.