'Noke, I just sent you my list:
Female:
1. Renee Falconetti - The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
2. Delphine Seyrig - Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
3. Gena Rowlands - A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
4. Isabelle Huppert - The Piano Teacher (2001)
5. Barbara Stanwyck - Double Indemnity (1944)
6. Marlene Dietrich - The Blue Angel (1930)
7. Setsuko Hara - Late Spring (1949)
8. Liv Ullmann - Scenes From a Marriage (1973)
9. Patricia Neal - Hud (1963)
10. Harriet Andersson - Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
11. Rachel Roberts - This Sporting Life (1963)
12. Emmanuelle Riva - Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
13. Agnes Moorehead - The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
14. Michelle Williams - Wendy and Lucy (2008)
15. Lisbeth Movin - Day of Wrath (1943)
16. Anna Magnani - Rome, Open City (1945)
17. Ellen Burstyn - Requiem For a Dream (2000)
18. Miranda Richardson - Spider (2002)
19. Madhabi Mukherjee – Charulata (1964)
20. Susan George - Straw Dogs (1971)
Male:
1. Marlon Brando - A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
2. Miroslaw Baka - A Short Film About Killing (1988)
3. Al Pacino - The Godfather Part 2 (1974)
4. Tatsuya Nakadai - Harakiri (1962)
5. Paul Newman - Hud (1963)
6. Robert De Niro - The Deer Hunter (1978)
7. Humphrey Bogart - In a Lonely Place (1950)
8. Michael Redgrave – The Browning Version (1951)
9. Michel Piccoli - La belle noiseuse (1991)
10. Peter Lorre - M (1931)
11. Jean Gabin - Le jour se leve (1939)
12. Raimu - The Baker's Wife (1938)
13. Emil Jannings - The Last Laugh (1924)
14. Buster Keaton - The General (1926)
15. Jean-Pierre Leaud – The 400 Blows (1959)
16. Marlon Brando - Last Tango in Paris (1972)
17. Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson (2006)
18. Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain (2005)
19. Chishu Ryu - Tokyo Story (1953)
20. Laurence Olivier - The Entertainer (1960)