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Top Films by Actor (W)

Christopher Walken

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 15
2 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 25
3 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 85
4 True Romance 1993 Tony Scott 430
5 Batman Returns 1992 Tim Burton 1296
6 King of New York 1990 Abel Ferrara 1333
7 Heaven's Gate 1980 Michael Cimino 1410
8 Sleepy Hollow 1999 Tim Burton 1516
9 The Dead Zone 1983 David Cronenberg 1714
10 Wedding Crashers 2005 David Dobkin 1855
11 Pennies from Heaven 1981 Herbert Ross 1875
12 Antz 1998 Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson 1994

M. Emmet Walsh

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 21
2 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 142
3 Romeo + Juliet 1996 Baz Luhrmann 406
4 The Iron Giant 1999 Brad Bird 463
5 Blood Simple 1984 Joel Coen 479
6 Ordinary People 1980 Robert Redford 481
7 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel Coen 528
8 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty 588
9 Slap Shot 1977 George Roy Hill 673
10 Little Big Man 1970 Arthur Penn 742
11 The Jerk 1979 Carl Reiner 764
12 Silkwood 1983 Mike Nichols 1051
13 Serpico 1973 Sidney Lumet 1057
14 What's Up, Doc? 1972 Peter Bogdanovich 1188
15 My Best Friend's Wedding 1997 P.J. Hogan 1270
16 Fletch 1985 Michael Ritchie 1850
17 Straight Time 1978 Ulu Grosbard 2217
18 Bound for Glory 1976 Hal Ashby 2325

Eli Wallach

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 118
2 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges 318
3 The Godfather: Part III 1990 Francis Ford Coppola 432
4 Mystic River 2003 Clint Eastwood 1511
5 The Misfits 1961 John Huston 1549
6 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1625
7 Baby Doll 1956 Elia Kazan 2138

Denzel Washington

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Glory 1989 Edward Zwick 395
2 Malcolm X 1992 Spike Lee 582
3 Philadelphia 1993 Jonathan Demme 898
4 Remember the Titans 2000 Boaz Yakin 1536
5 The Hurricane 1999 Norman Jewison 1619
6 Devil in a Blue Dress 1995 Carl Franklin 1832
7 Mississippi Masala 1991 Mira Nair 1842
8 Training Day 2001 Antoine Fuqua 2144
9 A Soldier's Story 1984 Norman Jewison 2241
10 Much Ado about Nothing 1993 Kenneth Branagh 2289

John Wayne

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 28
2 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 106
3 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 234
4 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks 279
5 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 288
6 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 307
7 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 614
8 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949 John Ford 1098
9 True Grit 1969 Henry Hathaway 1187
10 Fort Apache 1948 John Ford 1341
11 They Were Expendable 1945 John Ford 1405
12 Sands of Iwo Jima 1949 Allan Dwan 1418
13 The Shootist 1976 Don Siegel 1512
14 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1625
15 Baby Face 1933 Alfred E. Green 2107
16 Rio Grande 1950 John Ford 2127
17 The Alamo 1960 John Wayne 2258
18 El Dorado 1966 Howard Hawks 2365

Sigourney Weaver

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 25
2 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 38
3 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 65
4 Ghostbusters 1984 Ivan Reitman 314
5 WALL•E 2008 Andrew Stanton 650
6 Working Girl 1988 Mike Nichols 789
7 The Ice Storm 1997 Ang Lee 1072
8 Alien: Resurrection 1997 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 1090
9 Galaxy Quest 1999 Dean Parisot 1138
10 Alien³ 1992 David Fincher 1164
11 The Year of Living Dangerously 1982 Peter Weir 1189
12 Avatar 2009 James Cameron 1376
13 Dave 1993 Ivan Reitman 1817
14 Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey 1988 Michael Apted 2364

Orson Welles

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 2
2 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 27
3 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 54
4 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 201
5 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann 482
6 F for Fake 1973 Orson Welles 799
7 The Lady from Shanghai 1947 Orson Welles 904
8 Chimes at Midnight 1965 Orson Welles 1016
9 Catch-22 1970 Mike Nichols 1109
10 Duel in the Sun 1946 King Vidor 1146
11 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991 Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper 1178
12 The Muppet Movie 1979 James Frawley 1243
13 Othello 1952 Orson Welles 1790
14 The Trial 1962 Orson Welles 1794
15 Jane Eyre 1943 Robert Stevenson 2378

Gene Wilder

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 48
2 The Producers 1968 Mel Brooks 184
3 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks 224
4 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 260
5 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971 Mel Stuart 348
6 Silver Streak 1976 Arthur Hiller 2037
7 Stir Crazy 1980 Sidney Poitier 2265

Robin Williams

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Dead Poets Society 1989 Peter Weir 384
2 Good Will Hunting 1997 Gus Van Sant 387
3 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence 2001 Steven Spielberg 584
4 Aladdin 1992 Ron Clements and John Musker 750
5 Good Morning, Vietnam 1987 Barry Levinson 1040
6 Hamlet 1996 Kenneth Branagh 1386
7 Mrs. Doubtfire 1993 Chris Columbus 1388
8 The Fisher King 1991 Terry Gilliam 1455
9 Insomnia 2002 Christopher Nolan 1892
10 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 1988 Terry Gilliam 1927
11 What Dreams May Come 1998 Vincent Ward 2154
12 Dead Again 1991 Kenneth Branagh 2220
13 Awakenings 1990 Penny Marshall 2232
14 The Birdcage 1996 Mike Nichols 2308
15 The World According to Garp 1982 George Roy Hill 2384

Bruce Willis

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 15
2 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 94
3 The Sixth Sense 1999 M. Night Shyamalan 171
4 Twelve Monkeys 1995 Terry Gilliam 341
5 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 492
6 The Fifth Element 1997 Luc Besson 549
7 Sin City 2005 Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez 575
8 Armageddon 1998 Michael Bay 733
9 The Verdict 1982 Sidney Lumet 831
10 Die Hard 2 1990 Renny Harlin 1819
11 Die Hard with a Vengeance 1995 John McTiernan 1846
12 Unbreakable 2000 M. Night Shyamalan 1920

Kate Winslet

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 63
2 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry 176
3 Sense and Sensibility 1995 Ang Lee 405
4 Heavenly Creatures 1994 Peter Jackson 710
5 Finding Neverland 2004 Marc Forster 1219
6 Hamlet 1996 Kenneth Branagh 1386
7 Little Children 2006 Todd Field 2149

Shelley Winters

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 61
2 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 234
3 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 356
4 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick 806
5 Alfie 1966 Lewis Gilbert 915
6 Winchester '73 1950 Anthony Mann 943
7 The Poseidon Adventure 1972 Ronald Neame 1038
8 The Tenant 1976 Roman Polanski 1199
9 The Diary of Anne Frank 1959 George Stevens 1427

Elijah Wood

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 60
2 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 96
3 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 123
4 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry 176
5 Sin City 2005 Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez 575
6 Back to the Future Part II 1989 Robert Zemeckis 1067
7 The Ice Storm 1997 Ang Lee 1072

Natalie Wood

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 28
2 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 88
3 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 115
4 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton 540
5 Splendor in the Grass 1961 Elia Kazan 769
6 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1307
7 Downhill Racer 1969 Michael Ritchie 1364

James Woods

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 207
2 Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg 455
3 Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese 488
4 Contact 1997 Robert Zemeckis 775
5 The Way We Were 1973 Sydney Pollack 842
6 The Virgin Suicides 1999 Sofia Coppola 1330
7 Salvador 1986 Oliver Stone 1349
8 Nixon 1995 Oliver Stone 1460
9 Night Moves 1975 Arthur Penn 1623
10 Any Given Sunday 1999 Oliver Stone 1660
11 Chaplin 1992 Richard Attenborough 2072
12 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within 2001 Hironobu Sakaguchi 2358

Fay Wray

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 47
2 The Wedding March 1928 Erich von Stroheim 1936

Robin Wright

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 93
2 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 132
3 Unbreakable 2000 M. Night Shyamalan 1920

Chow Yun-Fat

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Renée Zellweger

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Jerry Maguire 1996 Cameron Crowe 304
2 Dazed and Confused 1993 Richard Linklater 433
3 Chicago 2002 Rob Marshall 624
4 Bridget Jones's Diary 2001 Sharon Maguire 714
5 Cinderella Man 2005 Ron Howard 1624
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