Greatest Film Performances by Year (US/UK) 1990 - 1999

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Criteria: Film Performances are ranked based on initial and
lasting acclaim, popular and cultural recognition, plus
• 1928 - 1939 influence. In order to qualify for a list the performance has
• 1940 - 1949 to come from a predominately English-language film
• 1950 - 1959 produced or co-produced by American or British production
• 1960 - 1969 companies.
• 1970 - 1979
• 1980 - 1989
• 1990 - 1999 Edited By: Tim, Bruno, Luuk, Sherick.
• 2000 - 2009
• 2010 - 2019 List Begun: 2019-07-07
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Music Lists 1999

1. Kevin Spacey - American Beauty

2. Hilary Swank - Boys Don't Cry
3. Brad Pitt - Fight Club
4. Russell Crowe - The Insider
5. Annette Bening - American Beauty
6. Jim Carrey - Man on the Moon
7. Edward Norton - Fight Club
8. Tom Cruise - Magnolia
9. Matt Damon - The Talented Mr.
Ripley
10. Reese Witherspoon - Election
11. Julianne Moore - The End of the
Affair
12. John Malkovich - Being John
Malkovich
13. Richard Farnsworth - The Straight
Story
14. Angelina Jolie - Girl, Interrupted
15. Jim Broadbent - Topsy-Turvy
16. Chris Cooper - American Beauty
17. Denzel Washington - Hurricane
18. Haley Joel Osment - The Sixth
Sense
19. Michael Caine - Cider House Rules
20. Michael Clarke Duncan - Green
Mile

1998

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 1. Ian McKellen - Gods and Monsters
2. Edward Norton - American History
X
3. Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth
4. Jeff Bridges - The Big Lebowski
5. Tom Hanks - Saving Private Ryan
6. Gwyneth Paltrow - Shakespeare in
Love
7. Emily Watson - Hilary and Jackie
8. Jane Horrocks - Little Voice
9. Jim Carrey - The Truman Show
10. John Goodman - The Big Lebowski
11. Dylan Baker - Happiness
12. Philip Seymour Hoffman -
Happiness
13. Joseph Fiennes - Shakespeare in
Love
14. Kathy Bates - Primary Colors
15. Ed Harris - The Truman Show
16. Elias Coteas - The Thin Red Line
17. Billy Bob Thornton - A Simple Plan
18. Michael Caine - Little Voice
19. Christina Ricci - Buffalo '66
20. Bill Murray - Rushmore

1997

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 1. Jack Nicholson - As Good as It Gets
2. Robert Duvall - The Apostle
3. Robin Williams - Good Will Hunting
4. Julianne Moore - Boogie Nights
5. Anthony Hopkins - Amistad
6. Burt Reynolds - Boogie Nights
7. Peter Fonda - Ulee's Gold
8. Samuel L. Jackson - Jackie Brown
9. Helena Bonham Carter - The Wings
of the Dove
10. Helen Hunt - As Good as It Gets
11. Dustin Hoffman - Wag the Dog
12. Pam Greer - Jackie Brown
13. Al Pacino - Donnie Brasco
14. Judi Dench - Mrs Brown
15. Russell Crowe - L.A. Confidential
16. Kim Basinger - L.A. Confidential
17. Greg Kinnear - As Good as It Gets
18. Minnie Driver - Good Will Hunting
19. Matt Damon - Good Will Hunting
20. Aaron Eckhart - In the Company of
Men

1996

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 1. Emily Watson - Breaking the Waves
2. Geoffrey Rush - Shine
3. Frances McDormand - Fargo
4. Ralph Fiennes - The English Patient
5. Edward Norton - Primal Fear
6. Julliette Binoche - The English
Patient
7. Brenda Blythyn - Secrets and Lies
8. Kenneth Branagh - Hamlet
9. Billy Bob Thornton - Sling Blade
10. Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire
11. Woody Harrelson - The People vs.
Larry Flynt
12. Cuba Gooding Jr. - Jerry Maguire
13. William H. Macy - Fargo
14. Ewan McGregor - Trainspotting
15. Steve Buscemi - Fargo
16. Laura Dern - Citizen Ruth
17. Marianne Jean-Baptiste - Secrets
and Lied
18. Courtney Love - The People vs.
Larry Flynt
19. Kate Winslet - Hamlet
20. Robert Carlyle - Trainspotting

1995

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 1. Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas
2. Sean Penn - Dead Man Walking
3. Susan Sarandon - Dead Man
Walking
4. Kevin Spacey - The Usual Suspects
5. Ian McKellen - Richard III
6. Emma Thompson - Sense and
Sensibility
7. Meryl Streep - The Bridges of
Madison Country
8. Morgan Freeman - Seven
9. Mira Sorvino - Mighty Aphrodite
10. Elizabeth Shue - Leaving Las Vegas
11. Sharon Stone - Casino
12. Anthony Hopkins - Nixon
13. Julianne Moore - Safe
14. Brad Pitt - 12 Monkeys
15. Richard Dreyfuss - Mr. Holland's
Opus
16. Nicole Kidman - To Die For
17. Joan Allen - Nixon
18. Kate Winslet - Sense and Sensibility
19. Robert De Niro - Casino
20. Al Pacino - Heat

1994

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 1. Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump
2. Johnny Depp - Ed Wood
3. Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank
Redemption
4. Samuel L. Jackson - Pulp Fiction
5. Jessica Lange - Blue Sky
6. Tim Robbins - The Shawshank
Redemption
7. John Travolta - Pulp Fiction
8. Jodie Foster - Nell
9. Martin Landau - Ed Wood
10. Dianne Wiest - Bullets over Broadway
11. Nigel Hawthorne - The Madness of
King George
12. Gary Sinise - Forrest Gump
13. John Turturro - Quiz Show
14. Hugh Grant - Four Wedding and a
Funeral
15. Kate Winslet - Heavenly Creatures
16. Melanie Lynskey - Heavenly
Creatures
17. Paul Scofield - Quiz Show
18. Paul Newman - Nobody's Foul
19. Helen Mirren - The Madness of King
George
20. Ralph Fiennes - Quiz Show

1993

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 1. Daniel Day-Lewis - In the Name of the
Father
2. Tom Hanks - Philadelphia
3. Holly Hunter - The Piano
4. Anthony Hopkins - The Remains of
the Day
5. Angela Bassett - What's Love Got to
Do with It
6. Ralph Fiennes - Schindler's List
7. Bill Murray - Groundhog Day
8. Emma Thompson - The Remains of
the Day
9. Denzel Washington - Philadelphia
10. Tommy Lee Jones - The Fugitive
11. Leonardo DiCaprio - What's Eating
Gilbert Grape
12. Liam Neeson - Schindler's List
13. Val Kilmer - Tombstone
14. Harrison Ford - The Fugitive
15. David Thewlis - Naked
16. Al Pacino - Carlito's Way
17. Winona Ryder - The Age of
Innocence
18. Michelle Pfeiffer - The Age of
Innocence
19. Stockard Channing - Six Degrees of
Separation
20. Robin Williams - Mrs. Doubtfire

1992

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 1. Denzel Washington - Malcolm X
2. Gene Hackman - The Unforgiven
3. Robert Downey Jr. - Chaplin
4. Emma Thompson - Howard's End
5. Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman
6. Clint Eastwood - The Unforgiven
7. Judy Davis - Husbands and Wives
8. Michelle Pfeiffer - Love Field
9. Jack Lemmon - Glengarry Glen
Ross
10. Al Pacino - Glengarry Glen Ross
11. Steve Buscemi - Reservoir Dogs
12. Stephen Rea - The Crying Game
13. Marisa Tomei - My Cousin Vinny
14. Jack Nicholson - A Few Good Men
15. Harvey Keitel - Bad Lieutenant
16. Sharon Stone - Basic Instinct
17. Miranda Richardson - Enchanted
April
18. Tim Robbins - The Player
19. Susan Sarandon - Lorenzo's Oil
20. Tom Cruise - A Few Good Men

1991

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 1. Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of
the Lambs
2. Jodie Foster - The Silence of the
Lambs
3. Nick Nolte - The Prince of Tides
4. Geena Davis - Thelma & Louise
5. Robin Williams - The Fisher King
6. Robert De Niro - Cape Fear
7. Susan Sarandon - Thelma & Louise
8. River Phoenix - My Own Private
Idaho
9. Warren Beatty - Bugsy
10. Mercedes Ruehl - The Fisher King
11. Laura Dern - Rambling Rose
12. Bette Midler - For the Boys
13. Harvey Keitel - Bugsy
14. Jack Palance - City Slickers
15. John Turturro - Barton Fink
16. Val Kilmer - The Doors
17. Laurence Fishburne - Boyz n the
Hood
18. Tommy Lee Jones - JFK
19. Gary Oldman - JFK
20. Anjelica Huston - The Addams
Family

1990

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 1. Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune
2. Kathy Bates - Misery
3. Anjelica Huston - The Grifters
4. Joe Pesci - Goodfellas
5. Robert De Niro - Goodfellas
6. Julia Roberts - Pretty Woman
7. Robert De Niro - Awakenings
8. Al Pacino - Dick Tracy
9. Johnny Depp - Edward
Scissorhands
10. Robin Williams - Awakenings
11. Ray Liotta - Goodfellas
12. Lorraine Bracco - Goodfellas
13. Kevin Costner - Dances with
Wolves
14. Al Pacino - The Godfather Part III
15. Meryl Streep - Postcards from the
Edge
16. Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost
17. Mia Farrow - Alice
18. Joanne Woodward - Mr. and Mrs.
Bridge
19. Alan Rickman - Truly, Madly,
Deeply
20. Richard Harris - The Field

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