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The Darkest Hour (2017)
- Credits (Film): The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Batman Begins, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
- Birthplace: New Cross, London, England, UK
- 2
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Father (2020)- Credits (Film): The Silence of the Lambs, Thor, Thor: The Dark World, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Legends of the Fall
- Birthplace: Margam, Port Talbot, Wales, UK
- 3
My Left Foot (1989)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Lincoln (2012)- Credits (Film): Gangs of New York, The Last of the Mohicans, There Will Be Blood, Lincoln, Gandhi
- Birthplace: London, England, UK
- 4
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
As Good as It Gets (1997)- Credits (Film): The Shining, Batman, The Departed, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Chinatown
- Birthplace: Neptune City, New Jersey, USA
- 5
Philadelphia (1993)
Forrest Gump (1994)- Credits (Film): Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Toy Story, Toy Story 3, Toy Story 2
- 6
Raging Bull (1980)
- Credits (Film): Goodfellas, The Godfather Part II, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Deer Hunter
- Birthplace: New York City, USA, New York, Greenwich Village
- 7
Scent of a Woman (1992)
- Credits (Film): The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Scarface, Heat, Dog Day Afternoon
- Birthplace: East Harlem, New York, USA
- 8
On the Waterfront (1954)
The Godfather (1972)- Credits (Film): The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Superman, On the Waterfront, Superman Returns
- Birthplace: Omaha, Nebraska, USA
- 9
Training Day (2001)
- Credits (Film): Remember the Titans, Glory, Training Day, Philadelphia, American Gangster
- Birthplace: Mount Vernon, New York, USA
- 10
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- Credits (Film): To Kill a Mockingbird, Cape Fear, The Omen, Roman Holiday, How the West Was Won
- Birthplace: La Jolla, California, USA
- 11
Joker (2019)
- Credits (Film): Gladiator, Signs, Hotel Rwanda, Walk the Line, Brother Bear
- Birthplace: San Juan, Puerto Rico
- 12
The Color of Money (1986)
- Credits (Film): The Sting, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cars, Cool Hand Luke, Road to Perdition
- Birthplace: Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA
- 13
The Revenant (2015)
- Credits (Film): Titanic, Inception, The Departed, Django Unchained, Gangs of New York
- Birthplace: Los Angeles, California
- 14
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Rain Man (1988)- Credits (Film): The Graduate, Being John Malkovich, Rain Man, Tootsie, Kung Fu Panda
- Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
- 15
Capote (2005)
- Credits (Film): The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1, The Big Lebowski, Almost Famous, Boogie Nights
- Birthplace: Fairport, New York, USA
- 16
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
- Credits (Film): It's a Wonderful Life, Vertigo, Rear Window, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Philadelphia Story
- Birthplace: Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
- 17
Tender Mercies (1983)
- Credits (Film): The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Apocalypse Now, To Kill a Mockingbird, MASH
- Birthplace: San Diego, California, USA
- 18
The King's Speech (2010)
- Credits (Film): The English Patient, The King's Speech, Shakespeare in Love, Love Actually, Bridget Jones's Diary
- Birthplace: Grayshott, Hampshire, England, UK
- 19
Lilies in the Field (1963)
- Credits (Film): In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Sneakers, The Greatest Story Ever Told, To Sir
- Birthplace: Miami, Florida, USA
- 20
Crazy Heart (2009)
- Credits (Film): Iron Man, The Big Lebowski, Tron, True Grit, Tron: Legacy
- Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
- 21
Gandhi (1982)
- Credits (Film): Schindler's List, Iron Man 3, Shutter Island, Hugo, A.I. Artificial Intelligence
- Birthplace: Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
- 22
Gladiator (2000)
- Credits (Film): Gladiator, Man of Steel, A Beautiful Mind, L.A. Confidential, American Gangster
- Birthplace: Wellington, North Island, New Zealand
- 23
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
- Credits (Film): Dazed and Confused, The Wolf of Wall Street, Tropic Thunder, Interstellar, A Time to Kill
- Birthplace: Texas, USA, Uvalde
- 24
The French Connection (1971)
- Credits (Film): Superman, The French Connection, Young Frankenstein, Superman II, Unforgiven
- Birthplace: San Bernardino, California, USA
- 25
The African Queen (1951)
- Credits (Film): Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen, The Big Sleep, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
- 26
The Last King of Scotland (2006)
- Credits (Film): Platoon, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Good Morning, Vietnam, Where the Wild Things Are
- Birthplace: Longview, Texas, USA
- 27
Reversal of Fortune (1990)
- Credits (Film): The Lion King, Die Hard with a Vengeance, The Time Machine, Kingdom of Heaven, Beautiful Creatures
- Birthplace: Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, UK
- 28
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- Credits (Film): Star Wars, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Birthplace: London, England, UK
- 29
It Happened One Night (1934)
- Credits (Film): Gone with the Wind, It Happened One Night, Mutiny on the Bounty, Cinema Paradiso, The Misfits
- Birthplace: Cadiz, Ohio, USA
- 30
Save the Tiger (1973)
- Credits (Film): JFK, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men
- Birthplace: Newton, Massachusetts, USA
- 31
Sergeant York (1941)
High Noon (1952)- Credits (Film): High Noon, Cinema Paradiso, The Pride of the Yankees, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Wings
- Birthplace: USA, Helena, Montana
- 32
The King and I (1956)
- Credits (Film): The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven, Westworld, The King and I, Futureworld
- Birthplace: Vladivostok, Primorsky Province, Russia
- 33
Captain Courageous (1937)
Boys Town (1938)- Credits (Film): Amélie, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
- Birthplace: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- 34
Stalag 17 (1953)
- Credits (Film): The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Wild Bunch, Sunset Boulevard, The Towering Inferno, Network
- Birthplace: USA, O'Fallon, Illinois
- 35
Mystic River (2003)
Milk (2008)- Credits (Film): Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Being John Malkovich, Mystic River, The Thin Red Line, The Game
- Birthplace: Santa Monica, California, USA
- 36
Patton (1970)
- Credits (Film): Patton, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Rescuers Down Under, The Hustler, The Changeling
- Birthplace: Wise, Virginia, USA
- 37
Hamlet (1948)
- Credits (Film): Spartacus, Clash of the Titans, Rebecca, Romeo and Juliet, A Bridge Too Far
- Birthplace: Dorking, England, UK
- 38
True Grit (1969)
- Credits (Film): The Searchers, The Longest Day, Stagecoach, True Grit, Rio Bravo
- Birthplace: Winterset, Iowa, USA
- 39
Wall Street (1987)
- Credits (Film): One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, Traffic, The War of the Roses
- Birthplace: New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
- 40
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
- Credits (Film): Mutiny on the Bounty, Yankee Doodle Dandy, White Heat, The Public Enemy, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
- Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
- 41
Cat Ballou (1965)
- Credits (Film): The Dirty Dozen, Cat Ballou, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Big Red One, The Big Heat
- Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
- 42
Shine (1996)
- Credits (Film): Finding Nemo, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, The King's Speech
- Birthplace: Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
- 43
The Goodbye Girl (1977)
- Credits (Film): Jaws, Stand by Me, The Graduate, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, American Graffiti
- Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
- 44
Marty (1955)
- Credits (Film): The Wild Bunch, Escape from New York, From Here to Eternity, The Dirty Dozen, The Poseidon Adventure
- Birthplace: Hamden, Connecticut, USA
- 45
Elmer Gantry (1960)
- Credits (Film): Field of Dreams, From Here to Eternity, Judgment at Nuremberg, Sweet Smell of Success, Airport
- Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
- 46
Ben-Hur (1959)
- Credits (Film): Hercules, Planet of the Apes, Ben-Hur, Planet of the Apes, The Ten Commandments
- Birthplace: Evanston, Illinois, USA
- 47
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
- Credits (Film): Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Raising Arizona, Kick-Ass, The Outsiders, The Rock
- Birthplace: Long Beach, California, USA
- 48
American Beauty (1999)
- Credits (Film): American Beauty, Seven, The Usual Suspects, A Bug's Life, Superman Returns
- Birthplace: South Orange, New Jersey, USA
- 49
Separate Tables (1958)
- Credits (Film): The Pink Panther, Mutiny on the Bounty, Murder by Death, Wuthering Heights, Casino Royale
- Birthplace: London, England, UK
- 50
On Golden Pond (1981)
- Credits (Film): Once Upon a Time in the West, 12 Angry Men, The Grapes of Wrath, The Longest Day, How the West Was Won
- Birthplace: Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
- 51
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
- Credits (Film): The Incredible Hulk, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Dark City, Into the Wild, A History of Violence
- Birthplace: Washington, D.C., USA
- 52
My Fair Lady (1964)
- Credits (Film): My Fair Lady, Cleopatra, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Doctor Dolittle, The Agony and the Ecstasy
- Birthplace: Huyton, Lancashire, England, UK
- 53
The Theory of Everything (2014)
- Credits (Film): Les Misérables, The Good Shepherd, My Week with Marilyn, Powder Blue, Elizabeth: The Golden Age
- Birthplace: London, England, UK
- 54
The Pianist (2002)
- Credits (Film): King Kong, Natural Born Killers, The Pianist, The Thin Red Line, The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
- 55
Ray (2004)
- Credits (Film): Django Unchained, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Ray, Any Given Sunday, Collateral
- Birthplace: Terrell, Texas
- 56
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
- Credits (Film): The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, Night at the Museum, Battleship, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
- Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
- 57
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
- Credits (Film): Mars Attacks!, On the Waterfront, In the Heat of the Night, Doctor Zhivago, The Longest Day
- Birthplace: Westhampton, New York, USA
- 58
Coming Home (1978)
- Credits (Film): Transformers, Heat, Pearl Harbor, Mission: Impossible, Tropic Thunder
- Birthplace: Yonkers, New York, USA
- 59
The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
- Credits (Film): Spartacus, The Night of the Hunter, Mutiny on the Bounty, Witness for the Prosecution, The Big Clock
- Birthplace: Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
- 60
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
- Credits (Film): Deep Impact, The Black Hole, A Bridge Too Far, Judgment at Nuremberg, Vampires
- Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
- 61
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
- Credits (Film): American Pie, Good Will Hunting, Ocean's Eleven, Chasing Amy, Interstellar
- Birthplace: Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA
- 62
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)- Credits (Film): The Best Years of Our Lives, Inherit the Wind, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Desperate Hours, Seven Days in May
- Birthplace: Racine, Wisconsin, USA
- 63
The Lost Weekend (1945)
- Credits (Film): Love Story, Dial M for Murder, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, The Lost Weekend, The Uninvited
- Birthplace: Neath, Wales, UK
- 64
Network (1976)
- Credits (Film): Network, The Flight of the Phoenix, The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men, Sunday Bloody Sunday, First Men in the Moon
- Birthplace: London, England, UK
- 65
Harry and Tonto (1974)
- Credits (Film): The Muppets Take Manhattan, Last Action Hero, Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood, Movie Movie
- Birthplace: Mount Vernon, New York, USA
- 66
Charly (1968)
- Credits (Film): Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, Three Days of the Condor, Midway
- Birthplace: La Jolla, California, USA
- 67
King Richard (2021)
- Credits (Film): Men in Black, Independence Day, Men in Black 3, I Am Legend, Bad Boys
- Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- 68
Life Is Beautiful (1998)
- Credits (Film): Life Is Beautiful, Down by Law, Night on Earth, Coffee and Cigarettes, Luna
- Birthplace: Manciano La Misericordia, Italy
- 69
A Free Soul (1931)
- Credits (Film): It's a Wonderful Life, Home Alone, Grand Hotel, Key Largo, Captains Courageous
- Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- 70
A Double Life (1947)
- Credits (Film): Around the World in 80 Days, Lost Horizon, Random Harvest, A Double Life, Bulldog Drummond
- Birthplace: Richmond, London, England, London
- 71
The Informer (1935)
- Credits (Film): The Quiet Man, Fort Apache, Around the World in 80 Days, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Rio Grande
- Birthplace: Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK
- 72
Going My Way (1944)
- Credits (Film): The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, The Greatest Show on Earth, White Christmas, Holiday Inn, Robin and the Seven Hoods
- Birthplace: Tacoma, Washington, USA
- 73
The Way of All Flesh (1927)
The Last Command (1928)- Credits (Film): The Blue Angel, Faust, The Last Laugh, The Last Command, The Way of All Flesh
- Birthplace: Rorschach, Switzerland
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