Greatest Film Performances by Year (US/UK) 1980 - 1989

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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 1989

1. Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot

2. Kenneth Branagh - Henry V
3. Morgan Freeman - Driving Miss Daisy
4. Jessica Tandy - Driving Miss Daisy
5. Denzel Washington - Glory
6. Pauline Collins - Shirley Valentine
7. Michelle Pfeiffer - The Fabulous Baker
Boys
8. Tom Cruise - Born on the Fourth of
July
9. Andie MacDowell - Sex, Lies, and
Videotape
10. Robin Williams - Dead Poets Society
11. Danny Aiello - Do the Right Thing
12. Morgan Freeman - Glory
13. Bruce Davison - Longtime Companion
14. Jessica Lange - Music Box
15. Brenda Fricker - My Left Foot
16. Marlon Brando - A Dry White Season
17. Meg Ryan - When Harry Met Sally...
18. Julia Roberts - Steel Magnolias
19. Martin Landau - Crimes and
Misdemeanors
20. Sean Connery - Indiana Jones and the
Last Crusade

1988

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 1. Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man
2. Jodie Foster - The Accused
3. Glenn Close - Dangerous Liaisons
4. Tom Hanks - Big
5. Kevin Kline - A Fish Called Wanda
6. Gene Hackman - Mississippi Burning
7. Edward James Olmos - Stand and
Deliver
8. Jeremy Irons - Dead Ringers
9. Michelle Pfeiffer - Dangerous Liaisons
10. Sigourney Weaver - Gorillas in the
Mist
11. Melanie Griffith - Working Girl
12. Susan Sarandon - Bull Durham
13. Meryl Streep - A Cry in the Dark
14. Martin Landau - Tucker: The Man and
His Dream
15. Shirley MacLaine - Madame
Sousatzka
16. Alec Guinness - Little Dorrit
17. Robert De Niro - Midnight Run
18. John Cleese - A Fish Called Wanda
19. Tom Hulce - Dominick and Eugene
20. Geena Davis - The Accidental Tourist

1987

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 1. Michael Douglas - Wall Street
2. Glenn Close - Fatal Attraction
3. Sean Connery - The Untouchables
4. Morgan Freeman - Street Smart
5. Robert Downey Jr. - Less Than
Zero
6. Meryl Streep - Ironweed
7. Cher - Moonstruck
8. Jack Nicholson - Ironweed
9. Albert Brooks - Broadcast News
10. Robin Williams - Good Morning
Vietnam
11. Holly Hunter - Broadcast News
12. Sally Kirkland - Anna
13. lympia Dukakis - Moonstruck
14. Peter O'Toole - The Last Emperor
15. Denzel Washington - Cry Freedom
16. Robert De Niro - The Untouchables
17. Vanessa Redgrave - Prick Up Your
Ears
18. Gary Oldman - Prick Up Your Ears
19. Richard E. Grant - Withnail & I
20. R. Lee Ermey - Full Metal Jacket

1986

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 1. Dennis Hopper - Blue Velvet
2. Willem Dafoe - Platoon
3. Paul Newman - The Color of Money
4. Gary Oldman - Sid & Nancy
5. James Woods - Salvador
6. Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser
God
7. Dianne Wiest - Hannah and Her
Sisters
8. Bob Hoskins - Mona Lisa
9. Sigourney Weaver - Aliens
10. Sissy Spacek - Crimes of the Heart
11. Kathleen Turner - Peggy Sue Got
Married
12. Michael Caine - Hannah and Her
Sisters
13. Dexter Gordon - Round Midnight
14. Jane Fonda - The Morning After
15. Tom Berenger - Platoon
16. Gene Hackman - Hoosiers
17. Roberto Benigni - Down by Law
18. Daniel Day-Lewis - A Room with a
View
19. Chloe Webb - Sid & Nancy
20. Jeff Goldblum - The Fly

1985

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 1. William Hurt - Kiss of the Spider
Woman
2. Geraldine Page - The Trip to
Bountiful
3. Anjelica Huston - Prizzi's Honor
4. Jon Voight - Runaway Train
5. Raúl Juliá - Kiss of the Spider
Woman
6. Whoopi Goldberg - The Color
Purple
7. Harrison Ford - Witness
8. Robert Redford - Out Of África
9. Meryl Streep - Out of África
10. Jack Nicholson - Prizzi's Honor
11. Klaus Maria Brandauer - Out of
África
12. Jessica Lange - Sweet Dreams
13. Christopher Lloyd - Back to the
Future
14. Roddy McDowall - Fright Night
15. Mia Farrow - The Purple Rose of
Cairo
16. John Gielgud - Plenty
17. Anne Bancroft - Agnes of God
18. Don Ameche - Cocoon
19. Eric Stoltz - Mask
20. Jeff Daniels - The Purple Rose of
Cairo

1984

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 1. F. Murray Abraham - Amadeus
2. Albert Finney - Under the Volcano
3. Sally Field - Places in the Heart
4. Robert De Niro - Once Upon A Time In
America
5. Haing S. Ngor - The Killing Fields
6. Peggy Ashcroft - A Passage to India
7. John Malkovich - Places in the Heart
8. James Woods - Once Upon A Time In
America
9. Jeff Bridges - Starman
10. Tom Hulce - Amadeus
11. Vanessa Redgrave - The Bostonians
12. Robert Redford - The Natural
13. Robin Williams - Moscow on the Hudson
14. Christine Lahti - Swing Shift
15. Kathleen Turner - Romancing the Stone
16. Frances McDormand - Blood Simple
17. Maggie Smith - A Private Function
18. Bill Murray - Ghostbusters
19. Denholm Elliott - A Private Function
20. Ralph Richardson - Greystoke: The
Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

1983

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 1. Shirley MacLaine - Terms of
Endearment
2. Robert Duvall - Tender Mercies
3. Meryl Streep - Silkwood
4. Al Pacino - Scarface
5. Jack Nicholson - Terms of
Endearment
6. Tom Courtenay - The Dresser
7. Albert Finney - The Dresser
8. Christopher Walken - The Dead
Zone
9. Jane Alexander - Testament
10. Cher - Silkwood
11. Debra Winger - Terms of
Endearment
12. Michael Caine - Educating Rita
13. Tom Conti - Reuben, Reuben
14. Julie Walters - Educating Rita
15. Eric Roberts - Star 80
16. Charles Durning - To Be or Not to
Be
17. John Lithgow - Terms of
Endearment
18. Alfre Woodard - Cross Creek
19. Sam Shepard - The Right Stuff
20. Tom Cruise - Risky Business

1982

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 1. Meryl Streep - Sophie's Choice
2. Ben Kingsley - Gandhi
3. Dustin Hoffman - Tootsie
4. Robert De Niro - The King of Comedy
5. Paul Newman - The Verdict
6. Jack Lemmon - Missing
7. Jessica Lange - Frances
8. Peter O'Toole - My Favourite Year
9. Julie Andrews - Victor/Victoria
10. Diane Keaton - Shoot the Moon
11. Sissy Spacek - Missing
12. Rutger Hauer - Blade Runner
13. Glenn Close - The World According
to Garp
14. Robert Preston - Victor/Victoria
15. Linda Hunt - The Year of Living
Dangerously
16. Louis Gossett Jr. - An Officer and a
Gentleman
17. Harrison Ford - Blade Runner
18. Jerry Lewis - The King of Comedy
19. John Lithgow - The World According
to Garp
20. Debra Winger - An Officer and a
Gentleman

1981

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 1. Meryl Streep - The French
Lieutenant's Woman
2. Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond
3. Katharine Hepburn - On Golden Pond
4. Harrison Ford - Raiders of the Lost
Ark
5. John Gielgud - Arthur
6. Diane Keaton - Reds
7. Paul Newman - Absence of Malice
8. Jack Nicholson - Reds
9. Dudley Moore - Arthur
10. Jeremy Irons - The French
Lieutenant's Woman
11. Bernadette Peters - Pennies from
Heaven
12. Howard E. Rollins - Ragtime
13. Maureen Stapleton - Reds
14. Ian Holm - Chariots of Fire
15. Warren Beatty - Reds
16. Melinda Dillon - Absence of Malice
17. Ben Cross - Chariots of Fire
18. Ian Charleson - Chariots of Fire
19. Sissy Spacek - Raggedy Man
20. Christopher Walken - Pennies from
Heaven

1980

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 1. Robert De Niro - Raging Bull
2. Sissy Spacek - The Coal Miner's
Daughter
3. John Hurt - The Elephant Man
4. Burt Lancaster - Atlantic City
5. Jack Nicholson - The Shining
6. Timothy Hutton - Ordinary People
7. Joe Pesci - Raging Bull
8. Peter O'Toole - The Stunt Man
9. Mary Tyler Moore - Ordinary People
10. Gena Rowland - Gloria
11. Donald Sutherland - Ordinary
People
12. Mary Steenburger - Melvin and
Howard
13. Cathy Moriarty - Raging Bull
14. Jack Lemmon - Tribute
15. Anthony Hopkins - The Elephant
Man
16. Bob Hoskins - The Long Good
Friday
17. Jason Robards - Melvin and
Howard
18. Susan Sarandon - Atlantic City
19. Ellen Burstyn - Ressurection
20. Leslie Nielsen - Airplane!

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