pippin06
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4/28/2006 11:07 AM
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AFI's 100 Years, 100 Stars
To continue comparing yardsticks by which to measure movies, as especially in comparison with Oscar, www.afi.com, the official site of the American Film Institute, has the complete listings for their 100 Years series. It is from that series that I compiled the 100 Greatest Movies list.
I am gradually going to be incorporating those lists and ideas into this group, for it seems to me that AFI and the Academy are like hand in glove. Plus, it's interesting to look at them side by side.
The second list AFI compiled was the 100 Years, 100 Stars, focusing on the 50 greatest male and 50 greatest female legends Hollywood has ever known. Instead of making a gimongous list of movies featuring these stars, I am reprinting the list of stars here, and then you are going to see four new Oscar lists crop up: Best Actors, Best Actresses, Best Supporting Actors, and Best Supporting Actresses. Because this group is devoted to Oscars, it's all going to tie in and be informative and interesting. I hope, anyway.
Here is the list of legends. Comments are welcome!
This is the American Film Institute's list of the 50
Greatest American Screen Legends, the top 25 male
and top 25 female legends selected by more than
1,800 leaders from across the film community from
the list of 500.
Men
1. Humphrey Bogart
2. Cary Grant
3. James Stewart
4. Marlon Brando
5. Fred Astaire
6. Henry Fonda
7. Clark Gable
8. James Cagney
9. Spencer Tracy
10. Charlie Chaplin
11. Gary Cooper
12. Gregory Peck
13. John Wayne
14. Laurence Olivier
15. Gene Kelly
16. Orson Welles
17. Kirk Douglas
18. James Dean
19. Burt Lancaster
20. The Marx Brothers
21. Buster Keaton
22. Sidney Poitier
23. Robert Mitchum
24. Edward G. Robinson
25. William Holden
Women
1. Katharine Hepburn
2. Bette Davis
3. Audrey Hepburn
4. Ingrid Bergman
5. Greta Garbo
6. Marilyn Monroe
7. Elizabeth Taylor
8. Judy Garland
9. Marlene Dietrich
10. Joan Crawford
11. Barbara Stanwyck
12. Claudette Colbert
13. Grace Kelly
14. Ginger Rogers
15. Mae West
16. Vivien Leigh
17. Lillian Gish
18. Shirley Temple
19. Rita Hayworth
20. Lauren Bacall
21. Sophia Loren
22. Jean Harlow
23. Carole Lombard
24. Mary Pickford
25. Ava Gardner
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pippin06
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4/30/2006 10:20 AM
posted awhile ago
Re: AFI's 100 Years, 100 Stars
The actor lists are complete! And each film listed shows who the award winner was, if they are ranked as above, it shows that too.
I think the most striking thing to be learned from comparison of the legends and the Oscars is that Oscar has very little to do with the determination of who is legendary. Some of the legends won Oscars. For example, Katharine Hepburn, the #1 Actress, won 4 Oscars, more than anyone else. Bette Davis (#2) won a couple, and Ingrid Bergman won 3 (#4). In fact, the actresses on this list won more Oscars than the actors.
I haven't studied the nominations, but I'm sure most of these people have been nominated once or twice. I'm pretty sure Cary Grant (#2) has been nominated, though he never won.
Yet, I don't think we can deny the "legendary" status of these actors. Though it is interesting to note that the list does not include possible legends from decades beyond the 50's. Maybe they should have expanded the list to 100 after all...since that's what it was advertised as. Anyway, what do you think? Did this list miss anyone that should have been on there? Did the list include someone that should not have been on there?
In partial answer to my own question, I would say the top 3 in each list are pretty hard to disagree with. If I hadn't seen this list and was told to pick 3 people of each gender as my top 3 legends of Hollywood, I probably would've picked Bogey, Cary, and Jimmy, and then Kate, Bette, and Audrey in just that order. What do you think?
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