AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars

AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars is the American Film Institute's list ranking the top 25 male and 25 female greatest screen legends of American film history and is the second list of the AFI 100 Years... series.

AFI 100 Years... series
1998100 Movies
1999100 Stars
2000100 Laughs
2001100 Thrills
2002100 Passions
2003100 Heroes & Villains
2004100 Songs
2005100 Movie Quotes
200525 Scores
2006100 Cheers
200625 Musicals
2007100 Movies (Updated)
2008AFI's 10 Top 10

The list was unveiled through a CBS special on June 15, 1999, hosted by Shirley Temple (who is herself honored on the female legends list), with 50 then-current actors making the presentations.[1]

AFI defines an "American screen legend" as "an actor or a team of actors with a significant screen presence in American feature-length films (films of 40 minutes or more) whose screen debut occurred in or before 1950, or whose screen debut occurred after 1950 but whose death has marked a completed body of work." In other words, the list generally honors actors recognized for their contributions to classical Hollywood cinema.[1] Jurors selected the final lists from 250 male and 250 female nominees.[2]

The top stars of their respective gender are Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, who starred together in the classic adventure 1951 film The African Queen, for which Bogart won his only Academy Award.

As of May 2022, at 87, Sophia Loren is the only surviving honoree.[1] At the time of the lists' unveiling Gregory Peck, Katharine Hepburn, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley Temple, Lauren Bacall, Kirk Douglas (the longest-lived star at 103) and Sidney Poitier were all still living, but they have since died.

List of 50 greatest screen legends: Top 25 Male and Top 25 Female stars
No. Male legends Female legends
1 Humphrey Bogart

(1899–1957)

 Known for:

The Petrified Forest (1936)

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Casablanca (1942)

To Have and Have Not (1944)

The Big Sleep (1946)

Dark Passage (1947)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

Key Largo (1948)

The African Queen (1951)

The Caine Mutiny (1954)

Nominated for three Academy Awards, won for The African Queen.

 Katharine Hepburn

(1907–2003)

 Known for:

Little Women (1933)

Alice Adams (1935)

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Woman of the Year (1942)

Adam's Rib (1949)

The African Queen (1951)

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

The Lion in Winter (1968)

On Golden Pond (1981)

Nominated for 12 Academy Awards, won for Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981).

2 Cary Grant

(1904–1986)

 Known for:

The Awful Truth (1937)

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

His Girl Friday (1940)

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Penny Serenade (1941)

Suspicion (1941)

None but the Lonely Heart (1944)

Notorious (1946)

An Affair to Remember (1957)

North by Northwest (1959)

Nominated for two Academy Awards, earned Academy Honorary Award in 1970

 Bette Davis

(1908–1989)

 Known for:

Of Human Bondage (1934)

The Petrified Forest (1936)

Jezebel (1938)

Dark Victory (1939)

The Letter (1940)

The Little Foxes (1941)

Now, Voyager (1942)

Mr. Skeffington (1944)

All About Eve (1950)

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

Nominated for 11 Academy Awards, won for Dangerous, and Jezebel.

3 James Stewart

(1908–1997)

 Known for:

You Can't Take It with You (1938)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Harvey (1950)

Rear Window (1954)

Vertigo (1958)

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962)

Nominated for five Academy Awards, won for The Philadelphia Story.

 Audrey Hepburn

(1929–1993)

 Known for:

Roman Holiday (1953)

Sabrina (1954)

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

My Fair Lady (1964)

Nominated for five Academy Awards, won for Roman Holiday.

4 Marlon Brando

(1924–2004)

 Known for:

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Viva Zapata! (1952)

Julius Caesar (1953)

On the Waterfront (1954)

Sayonara (1957)

The Young Lions (1958)

Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)

The Godfather (1972)

Last Tango in Paris (1972)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Nominated for eight Academy Awards, won for On the Waterfront and The Godfather.

 Ingrid Bergman

(1915–1982)

 Known for:

Casablanca (1942)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)

Gaslight (1944)

The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)

Notorious (1946)

Joan of Arc (1948)

Anastasia (1956)

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)

Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

Autumn Sonata (1978)

Nominated for seven Academy Awards, won for Gaslight, Anastasia (1956), and Murder on the Orient Express.

5 Fred Astaire

(1899–1987)

 Known for:

Partnership with Ginger Rogers

The Gay Divorcee (1934)

Top Hat (1935)

Swing Time (1936)

Shall We Dance (1937)

Holiday Inn (1942)

You Were Never Lovelier (1942)

Easter Parade (1948)

The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)

Royal Wedding (1951)

The Band Wagon (1953)

Nominated for one Academy Award, earned Academy Honorary Award award in 1949

 Greta Garbo

(1905–1990)

 Known for:

Flesh and the Devil (1927)

Love (1927)

Anna Christie (1930)

Mata Hari (1931)

Grand Hotel (1932)

Queen Christina (1933)

The Painted Veil (1934)

Anna Karenina (1935)

Camille (1936)

Ninotchka (1939)

Nominated for three Academy Awards, earned Academy Honorary Award in 1955.

6 Henry Fonda

(1905–1982)

 Known for:

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

The Lady Eve (1941)

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

My Darling Clementine (1946)

The Wrong Man (1956)

12 Angry Men (1957)

Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

On Golden Pond (1981)

Nominated for three Academy Awards, won for On Golden Pond, earned Academy Honorary Award award in 1980.

 Marilyn Monroe

(1926–1962)

 Known for:

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

The Seven Year Itch (1955)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

7 Clark Gable

(1901–1960)

 Known for:

Possessed (1931)

Red Dust (1932)

It Happened One Night (1934)

Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

Gone with the Wind (1939)

The Hucksters (1947)

Mogambo (1953)

The Misfits (1961)

Nominated for three Academy Awards, won for It Happened One Night.

 Elizabeth Taylor

(1932–2011)

 Known for:

National Velvet (1944)

Father of the Bride (1950)

A Place in the Sun (1951)

Ivanhoe (1952)

Giant (1956)

Raintree County (1957)

Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

Cleopatra (1963)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)

Nominated for five Academy Awards, won for BUtterfield 8 (1960) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.

8 James Cagney

(1899–1986)

 Known for:

The Public Enemy (1931)

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

White Heat (1949)

Love Me or Leave Me (1955)

Nominated for three Academy Awards, won for Yankee Doodle Dandy

 Judy Garland

(1922–1969)

 Known for:

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

The Clock (1945)

The Harvey Girls (1946)

The Pirate (1948)

Easter Parade (1948)

Summer Stock (1950)

A Star Is Born (1954)

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

I Could Go On Singing (1963)

Nominated for two Academy Awards, earned Academy Juvenile Award in 1940

9 Spencer Tracy

(1900–1967)

 Known for:

Fury (1936)

Captains Courageous (1937)

Boys Town (1938)

Tortilla Flat (1942)

Adam's Rib (1949)

Father of the Bride (1950)

Inherit the Wind (1960)

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

Nominated for nine Academy Awards, won for Captains Courageous and Boys Town

 Marlene Dietrich

(1901–1992)

 Known for:

The Blue Angel (1930)

Morocco (1930)

Shanghai Express (1932)

Blonde Venus (1932)

The Scarlet Empress (1934)

The Devil Is a Woman (1935)

Kismet (1944)

Stage Fright (1950)

Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

Nominated for one Academy Award

10 Charlie Chaplin

(1889–1977)

 Known for:

The Tramp character

The Kid (1921)

The Gold Rush (1925)

City Lights (1931)

Modern Times (1936)

The Great Dictator (1940)

Nominated for three Academy Awards (one for acting), won Academy Award for Original Dramatic Score for Limelight (1952), earned Academy Honorary Awards in 1929 and 1972.

 Joan Crawford

(190?–1977)

 Known for:

Our Dancing Daughters (1928)

Grand Hotel (1932)

Rain (1932)

The Women (1939)

A Woman's Face (1941)

Mildred Pierce (1945)

Humoresque (1946)

Sudden Fear (1952)

Johnny Guitar (1954)

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

Nominated for three Academy Awards, won for Mildred Pierce.

11 Gary Cooper

(1901–1961)

 Known for:

A Farewell to Arms (1932)

Design for Living (1933)

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

Meet John Doe (1941)

Sergeant York (1941)

The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)

High Noon (1952)

Friendly Persuasion (1956)

They Came to Cordura (1959)

Nominated for five Academy Awards, won for Sergeant York and High Noon, earned Academy Honorary Award in 1961.

 Barbara Stanwyck

(1907–1990)

 Known for:

Baby Face (1933)

Stella Dallas (1937)

The Lady Eve (1941)

Ball of Fire (1941)

Double Indemnity (1944)

Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)

The Furies (1950)

Titanic (1953)

Nominated for four Academy Awards, earned Academy Honorary Award in 1982.

12 Gregory Peck

(1916–2003)

 Known for:

The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)

Spellbound (1945)

The Yearling (1946)

Duel in the Sun (1946)

Gentleman's Agreement (1947)

Roman Holiday (1953)

Moby Dick (1956)

Cape Fear (1962)

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

The Omen (1976)

Nominated for five Academy Awards, won for To Kill a Mockingbird.

 Claudette Colbert

(1903–1996)

 Known for:

It Happened One Night (1934)

Cleopatra (1934)

Imitation of Life (1934)

Private Worlds (1935)

Boom Town (1940)

The Palm Beach Story (1942)

Since You Went Away (1944)

The Egg and I (1947)

Nominated for three Academy Awards, won for It Happened One Night.

13 John Wayne

(1907–1979)

 Known for:

Stagecoach (1939)

Red River (1948)

The Searchers (1956)

True Grit (1969)

Nominated for three Academy Awards, won for True Grit.

 Grace Kelly

(1929–1982)

 Known for:

The Country Girl (1954)

High Noon (1952)

Dial M for Murder (1954)

Rear Window (1954)

Nominated for two Academy Awards, won for The Country Girl.

14 Laurence Olivier

(1907–1989)

 Known for:

Wuthering Heights (1939)

Rebecca (1940)

Pride and Prejudice (1940)

That Hamilton Woman (1941)

Henry V (1944)

Hamlet (1948)

Richard III (1955)

Spartacus (1960)

Othello (1965)

Sleuth (1972)

Nominated for 11 Academy Awards (ten for acting), won for Hamlet, earned Academy Honorary Awards in 1947 and 1979.

 Ginger Rogers

(1911–1995)

 Known for:

Partnership with Fred Astaire

The Gay Divorcee (1934)

Top Hat (1935)

Swing Time (1936)

Shall We Dance (1937)

Stage Door (1937)

Carefree (1938)

Kitty Foyle (1940)

The Major and the Minor (1942)

The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)

Monkey Business (1952)

Won Academy award for Kitty Foyle.

15 Gene Kelly

(1912–1996)

 Known for:

For Me and My Gal (1942)

Cover Girl (1944)

Anchors Aweigh (1945)

The Pirate (1948)

On the Town (1949)

Summer Stock (1950)

An American in Paris (1951)

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Brigadoon (1954)

It's Always Fair Weather (1955)

Nominated for one Academy Award, earned Academy Honorary Award in 1952.

 Mae West

(1893–1980)

 Known for:

She Done Him Wrong (1933)

I'm No Angel (1933)

Belle of the Nineties (1934)

My Little Chickadee (1940)

16 Orson Welles

(1915–1985)

 Known for:

Citizen Kane (1941)

Macbeth (1948)

The Third Man (1949)

Touch of Evil (1958)

Nominated for three Academy Awards (one for acting), earned Academy Honorary Award in 1971.

 Vivien Leigh

(1913–1967)

 Known for:

Gentlemen's Agreement (1935)

Gone with the Wind (1939)

Waterloo Bridge (1940)

That Hamilton Woman (1941)

Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)

Anna Karenina (1948)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

The Deep Blue Sea (1955)

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)

Ship of Fools (1965)

Won Academy Awards for Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire.

17 Kirk Douglas

(1916–2020)

 Known for:

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

Champion (1949)

The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

Lust for Life (1956)

Paths of Glory (1957)

Spartacus (1960)

Nominated for three Academy Awards, earned Academy Honorary Award in 1996.

 Lillian Gish

(1893–1993)

 Known for:

The Birth of a Nation (1915)

Broken Blossoms (1919)

Duel in the Sun (1946)

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Nominated for one Academy Award, earned Academy Honorary Award in 1971.

18 James Dean

(1931–1955)

 Known for:

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

East of Eden (1955)

Giant (1956)

Nominated for two Academy Awards.

 Shirley Temple

(1928–2014)

 Known for:

Bright Eyes (1934)

The Little Colonel (1935)

Curly Top (1935)

The Littlest Rebel (1935)

Captain January (1936)

Wee Willie Winkie (1937)

Heidi (1937)

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)

The Little Princess (1939)

The Blue Bird (1940)

Earned Academy Juvenile Award in 1935

19 Burt Lancaster

(1913–1994)

 Known for:

The Crimson Pirate (1952)

From Here to Eternity (1953)

The Rainmaker (1956)

Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Separate Tables (1958)

Elmer Gantry (1960)

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

The Leopard (1963)

The Swimmer (1968)

Atlantic City (1980)

Nominated for four Academy Awards, won for Elmer Gantry.

 Rita Hayworth

(1918–1987)

 Known for:

The Strawberry Blonde (1941)

You Were Never Lovelier (1942)

Cover Girl (1944)

Gilda (1946)

The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

The Loves of Carmen (1948)

Salome (1953)

Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)

Separate Tables (1958)

They Came to Cordura (1959)

20 Marx Brothers

Chico (1887–1961)

Harpo (1888–1964)

Groucho (1890–1977)

 Known for:

Animal Crackers (1930)

Duck Soup (1933)

A Night at the Opera (1935)

A Day at the Races (1937)

Groucho was presented with an Academy Honorary Award in 1973 for "his brilliant creativity and for the unequalled achievements of the Marx Brothers."[3]

 Lauren Bacall

(1924–2014)

 Known for:

To Have and Have Not (1944)

The Big Sleep (1946)

Dark Passage (1947)

Key Largo (1948)

How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

Written on the Wind (1956)

Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

The Shootist (1976)

Misery (1990)

The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)

Nominated for one Academy Award, earned Academy Honorary Award in 2009.

21 Buster Keaton

(1895–1966)

 Known for:

Sherlock Jr. (1924)

The General (1926)

The Cameraman (1928)

Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

Earned Academy Honorary Award in 1960.

 Sophia Loren

(born 1934)

 Known for:

Aida (1953)

The Millionairess (1960)

Two Women (1960)

El Cid (1961)

Boccaccio '70 (1962)

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)

Marriage Italian Style (1964)

Sunflower (1970)

The Voyage (1974)

A Special Day (1977)

Nominated for two Academy Awards, won for Two Women, earned Academy Honorary Award in 1991.

22 Sidney Poitier

(1927–2022)

 Known for:

No Way Out (1950)

Blackboard Jungle (1955)

The Defiant Ones (1958)

Porgy and Bess (1959)

A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

Lilies of the Field (1963)

A Patch of Blue (1965)

To Sir, with Love (1967)

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Nominated for two Academy Awards, won for Lilies of the Field, earned Academy Honorary Award in 2001.

 Jean Harlow

(1911–1937)

 Known for:

Hell's Angels (1930)

Red Dust (1932)

Dinner at Eight (1933)

Reckless (1935)

Saratoga (1937)

23 Robert Mitchum

(1917–1997)

 Known for:

The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)

Crossfire (1947)

Out of the Past (1947)

Angel Face (1953)

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)

Home from the Hill (1960)

The Sundowners (1960)

Cape Fear (1962)

Ryan's Daughter (1970)

Nominated for one Academy Award

 Carole Lombard

(1908–1942)

 Known for:

Hands Across the Table (1935)

My Man Godfrey (1936)

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)

To Be or Not to Be (1942)

Nominated for one Academy Award.

24 Edward G. Robinson

(1893–1973)

 Known for:

Little Caesar (1931)

Double Indemnity (1944)

Key Largo (1948)

The Ten Commandments (1956)

Posthumously earned Academy Honorary Award in 1973.

 Mary Pickford

(1892–1979)

 Known for:

Hearts Adrift (1914)

Pollyanna (1920)

My Best Girl (1927)

Coquette (1929)

Won Academy Award for Coquette, earned Academy Honorary Award in 1976.

25 William Holden

(1918–1981)

 Known for:

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Stalag 17 (1953)

Sabrina (1954)

Network (1976)

Nominated for three Academy Awards, won for Stalag 17.

 Ava Gardner

(1922–1990)

 Known for:

The Killers (1946)

Show Boat (1951)

Mogambo (1953)

The Night of the Iguana (1964)

Nominated for one Academy Award.

Nominees

The legends were chosen out of a list of 250 male and 250 female nominees. The adjoining reference gives the lists of the original selection.[4]

With the death of Sidney Poitier in January 2022, all male living legends and nominees have now died. There are 9 remaining female nominees: Marsha Hunt (104), Angela Lansbury (96), Gina Lollobrigida (94), Ann Blyth (93), Claire Bloom (91), Mitzi Gaynor (90), Rita Moreno (90), Piper Laurie (90) & Margaret O'Brien (85).

The Actors that are part of the complete list of nominees are:

The Actresses that are part of the complete list of nominees are:

NOTE: Those listed in bold indicate that the star is still living.

References
  1. "AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars: The 50 Greatest American Screen Legends". American Film Institute. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
  2. List of the 500 nominated star legends (Archive)
  3. "Academy Awards Acceptance Speeches - Search Results | Margaret Herrick Library | Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences". aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. Retrieved 2021-10-10.
  4. List of the 500 nominated star legends Archive
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