AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains is a list of the 100 greatest screen characters (50 of both the hero and villain category) chosen by the American Film Institute


Hero ( Actor ) , Film

1 Atticus Finch ( Gregory Peck ) , To Kill a Mockingbird
2 Indiana Jones ( Harrison Ford ) , Raiders of the Lost Ark
3 James Bond ( Sean Connery ) , Dr. No
4 Rick Blaine ( Humphrey Bogart ) , Casablanca
5 Will Kane ( Gary Cooper ) , High Noon
6 Clarice Starling ( Jodie Foster ) , The Silence of the Lambs
7 Rocky Balboa ( Sylvester Stallone ) , Rocky
8 Ellen Ripley ( Sigourney Weaver ) , Aliens
9 George Bailey ( James Stewart ) , It's a Wonderful Life
10 T. E. Lawrence ( Peter O' Toole ) , Lawrence of Arabia
11 Jefferson Smith ( James Stewart ) , Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
12 Tom Joad ( Henry Fonda ) , The Grapes of Wrath
13 Oskar Schindler ( Liam Neeson ) , Schindler's List
14 Han Solo ( Harrison Ford ) , Star Wars
15 Norma Rae Webster ( Sally Field ) , Norma Rae
16 Shane ( Alan Ladd ) , Shane
17 Harry Callahan ( Clint Eastwood ) , Dirty Harry
18 Robin Hood ( Errol Flynn ) , The Adventures of Robin Hood
19 Virgil Tibbs ( Sidney Poitier ) , In the Heat of the Night
20 Butch Cassidy ( Paul Newman ) , Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
and The Sundance Kid ( and Robert Redford ) ,
21 Mahātmā Gandhi ( Ben Kingsley ) , Gandhi
22 Spartacus ( Kirk Douglas ) , Spartacus
23 Terry Malloy ( Marlon Brando ) , On the Waterfront
24 Thelma Dickinson & Louise Sawyer ( Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon ) , Thelma & Louise
25 Lou Gehrig ( Gary Cooper ) , The Pride of the Yankees
26 Superman ( Christopher Reeve ) , Superman
27 Bob Woodward ( Robert Redford ) , All the President's Men
and Carl Bernstein ( and Dustin Hoffman ) ,
28 Juror #8 ( Henry Fonda ) , 12 Angry Men
29 General George S. Patton ( George C. Scott ) , Patton
30 Luke Jackson ( Paul Newman ) , Cool Hand Luke
31 Erin Brockovich ( Julia Roberts ) , Erin Brockovich
32 Philip Marlowe ( Humphrey Bogart ) , The Big Sleep
33 Marge Gunderson ( Frances McDormand ) , Fargo
34 Tarzan ( Johnny Weissmuller ) , Tarzan the Ape Man
35 Alvin C. York ( Gary Cooper ) , Sergeant York
36 Rooster Cogburn ( John Wayne ) , True Grit
37 Obi-Wan Kenobi ( Alec Guinness ) , Star Wars
38 The Tramp ( Charlie Chaplin ) , City Lights
39 Lassie ( Pal (dog actor) ) , Lassie Come Home
40 Frank Serpico ( Al Pacino ) , Serpico
41 Arthur Chipping ( Robert Donat ) , Goodbye, Mr. Chips
42 Father Flanagan ( Spencer Tracy ) , Boys Town
43 Moses ( Charlton Heston ) , The Ten Commandments
44 Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle ( Gene Hackman ) , The French Connection
45 Zorro ( Tyrone Power ) , The Mark of Zorro
46 Batman ( Michael Keaton ) , Batman
47 Karen Silkwood ( Meryl Streep ) , Silkwood
48 Terminator ( Arnold Schwarzenegger ) , Terminator 2: Judgment Day
49 Andrew Beckett ( Tom Hanks ) , Philadelphia
50 General Maximus Decimus Meridius ( Russell Crowe ) , Gladiator














Villain ( Actor ) , Film

1 Hannibal Lecter ( Anthony Hopkins ) , The Silence of the Lambs
2 Norman Bates ( Anthony Perkins ) , Psycho
3 Darth Vader ( David Prowse/James Earl Jones ) , The Empire Strikes Back
4 The Wicked Witch of the West ( Margaret Hamilton ) , The Wizard of Oz
5 Nurse Ratched ( Louise Fletcher ) , One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
6 Mr. Potter ( Lionel Barrymore ) , It's a Wonderful Life
7 Alex Forrest ( Glenn Close ) , Fatal Attraction
8 Phyllis Dietrichson ( Barbara Stanwyck ) , Double Indemnity
9 Pazuzu/Regan MacNeil ( Linda Blair (voiced by Mercedes McCambridge) ) , The Exorcist
10 The Queen ( Voice of Lucille LaVerne ) , Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
11 Michael Corleone ( Al Pacino ) , The Godfather Part II
12 Alex Delarge ( Malcolm McDowell ) , A Clockwork Orange
13 HAL 9000 ( Voice of Douglas Rain ) , 2001: A Space Odyssey
14 Xenomorph ( Bolaji Badejo ) , Alien
15 Amon Göth ( Ralph Fiennes ) , Schindler's List
16 Noah Cross ( John Huston ) , Chinatown
17 Annie Wilkes ( Kathy Bates ) , Misery
18 The Shark ( Bruce ) , Jaws
19 Captain Bligh ( Charles Laughton ) , Mutiny on the Bounty
20 Man ( Man ) , Bambi
21 Mrs. Iselin ( Angela Lansbury ) , The Manchurian Candidate
22 Terminator ( Arnold Schwarzenegger ) , The Terminator
23 Eve Harrington ( Anne Baxter ) , All About Eve
24 Gordon Gekko ( Michael Douglas ) , Wall Street
25 Jack Torrance ( Jack Nicholson ) , The Shining
26 Cody Jarrett ( James Cagney ) , White Heat
27 Martians ( ) , The War of the Worlds
28 Max Cady ( Robert Mitchum ) , Cape Fear
29 Reverend Harry Powell ( Robert Mitchum ) , The Night of the Hunter
30 Travis Bickle ( Robert De Niro ) , Taxi Driver
31 Mrs. Danvers ( Judith Anderson ) , Rebecca
32 Clyde Barrow ( Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway ) , Bonnie and Clyde
and Bonnie Parker
33 Count Dracula ( Béla Lugosi ) , Dracula
34 Dr. Christian Szell ( Laurence Olivier ) , Marathon Man
35 J.J. Hunsecker ( Burt Lancaster ) , Sweet Smell of Success
36 Frank Booth ( Dennis Hopper ) , Blue Velvet
37 Harry Lime ( Orson Welles ) , The Third Man
38 Caesar Enrico Bandello ( Edward G. Robinson ) , Little Caesar
39 Cruella de Vil ( Voiced by Betty Lou Gerson; Glenn Close ) , One Hundred and One Dalmatians; '101 Dalmatians
40 Freddy Krueger ( Robert Englund ) , A Nightmare on Elm Street
41 Joan Crawford ( Faye Dunaway ) , Mommie Dearest
42 Tom Powers ( James Cagney ) , The Public Enemy
43 Regina Giddens ( Bette Davis ) , The Little Foxes
44 Baby Jane Hudson ( Bette Davis ) , What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
45 The Joker ( Jack Nicholson ) , Batman
46 Hans Gruber ( Alan Rickman ) , Die Hard
47 Tony Camonte ( Paul Muni ) , Scarface
48 Roger "Verbal" Kint ( Kevin Spacey ) , The Usual Suspects
49 Auric Goldfinger ( Played by Gert Fröbe ) , Goldfinger
( Voiced by Michael Collins ) ,
50 Alonzo Harris ( Denzel Washington ) , Training Day

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies

AFI's 100 Years…100 Movies is a list of the 100 best American movies, as determined by the American Film Institute from a poll of more than 1,500 artists and leaders in the film industry














Movie ( Year )

1 Citizen Kane ( 1941 )
2 Casablanca ( 1942 )
3 The Godfather ( 1972 )
4 Gone with the Wind ( 1939 )
5 Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 )
6 The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 )
7 The Graduate ( 1967 )
8 On the Waterfront ( 1954 )
9 Schindler's List ( 1993 )
10 Singin' in the Rain ( 1952 )
11 It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 )
12 Sunset Blvd. ( 1950 )
13 The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 )
14 Some Like It Hot ( 1959 )
15 Star Wars ( 1977 )
16 All About Eve ( 1950 )
17 The African Queen ( 1951 )
18 Psycho ( 1960 )
19 Chinatown ( 1974 )
20 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ( 1975 )
21 The Grapes of Wrath ( 1940 )
22 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 )
23 The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 )
24 Raging Bull ( 1980 )
25 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ( 1982 )
26 Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 )
27 Bonnie and Clyde ( 1967 )
28 Apocalypse Now ( 1979 )
29 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 )
30 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( 1948 )
31 Annie Hall ( 1977 )
32 The Godfather Part II ( 1974 )
33 High Noon ( 1952 )
34 To Kill a Mockingbird ( 1962 )
35 It Happened One Night ( 1934 )
36 Midnight Cowboy ( 1969 )
37 The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 )
38 Double Indemnity ( 1944 )
39 Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 )
40 North by Northwest ( 1959 )
41 West Side Story ( 1961 )
42 Rear Window ( 1954 )
43 King Kong ( 1933 )
44 The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 )
45 A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 )
46 A Clockwork Orange ( 1971 )
47 Taxi Driver ( 1976 )
48 Jaws ( 1975 )
49 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1937 )
50 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( 1969 )
51 The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 )
52 From Here to Eternity ( 1953 )
53 Amadeus ( 1984 )
54 All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 )
55 The Sound of Music ( 1965 )
56 MASH ( 1970 )
57 The Third Man ( 1949 )
58 Fantasia ( 1940 )
59 Rebel Without a Cause ( 1955 )
60 Raiders of the Lost Ark ( 1981 )
61 Vertigo ( 1958 )
62 Tootsie ( 1982 )
63 Stagecoach ( 1939 )
64 Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 )
65 The Silence of the Lambs ( 1991 )
66 Network ( 1976 )
67 The Manchurian Candidate ( 1962 )
68 An American in Paris ( 1951 )
69 Shane ( 1953 )
70 The French Connection ( 1971 )
71 Forrest Gump ( 1994 )
72 Ben-Hur ( 1959 )
73 Wuthering Heights ( 1939 )
74 The Gold Rush ( 1925 )
75 Dances with Wolves ( 1990 )
76 City Lights ( 1931 )
77 American Graffiti ( 1973 )
78 Rocky ( 1976 )
79 The Deer Hunter ( 1978 )
80 The Wild Bunch ( 1969 )
81 Modern Times ( 1936 )
82 Giant ( 1956 )
83 Platoon ( 1986 )
84 Fargo ( 1996 )
85 Duck Soup ( 1933 )
86 Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 )
87 Frankenstein ( 1931 )
88 Easy Rider ( 1969 )
89 Patton ( 1970 )
90 The Jazz Singer ( 1927 )
91 My Fair Lady ( 1964 )
92 A Place in the Sun ( 1951 )
93 The Apartment ( 1960 )
94 Goodfellas ( 1990 )
95 Pulp Fiction ( 1994 )
96 The Searchers ( 1956 )
97 Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 )
98 Unforgiven ( 1992 )
99 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner ( 1967 )
100 Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 )

AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars

American Film Institute - AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars is a list of the top 50 greatest screen legends of American cinema, 25 male and 25 female.



Male Legends

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









Female Legends

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