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Top Films by Actor (W-Z)

Christopher Walken

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Pulp Fiction	1994	Quentin Tarantino	9
2	Annie Hall	1977	Woody Allen	20
3	The Deer Hunter	1978	Michael Cimino	110
4	Batman Returns	1992	Tim Burton	698
5	True Romance	1993	Tony Scott	768
6	Heaven's Gate	1980	Michael Cimino	910
7	Catch Me If You Can	2002	Steven Spielberg	988
8	King of New York	1990	Abel Ferrara	1255
9	Hairspray	2007	Adam Shankman	1637
10	Sleepy Hollow	1999	Tim Burton	1764
11	Man on Fire	2004	Tony Scott	1813
12	The Dead Zone	1983	David Cronenberg	1816
13	Antz	1998	Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson	2155
14	The Jungle Book	2016	Jon Favreau	2631

M. Emmet Walsh

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Blade Runner	1982	Ridley Scott	11
2	Midnight Cowboy	1969	John Schlesinger	194
3	The Iron Giant	1999	Brad Bird	296
4	Raising Arizona	1987	Joel Coen	476
5	Blood Simple	1984	Joel Coen	506
6	Little Big Man	1970	Arthur Penn	620
7	The Jerk	1979	Carl Reiner	704
8	Serpico	1973	Sidney Lumet	767
9	Slap Shot	1977	George Roy Hill	801
10	Romeo + Juliet	1996	Baz Luhrmann	901
11	Ordinary People	1980	Robert Redford	959
12	What's Up, Doc?	1972	Peter Bogdanovich	1038
13	Reds	1981	Warren Beatty	1204
14	Silkwood	1983	Mike Nichols	1924
15	My Best Friend's Wedding	1997	P.J. Hogan	2040
16	A Time to Kill	1996	Joel Schumacher	2488
17	Fletch	1985	Michael Ritchie	2795

Eli Wallach

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	1966	Sergio Leone	44
2	The Magnificent Seven	1960	John Sturges	273
3	Mystic River	2003	Clint Eastwood	759
4	The Godfather: Part III	1990	Francis Ford Coppola	774
5	The Misfits	1961	John Huston	1286
6	How the West Was Won	1962	John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall	1530
7	Baby Doll	1956	Elia Kazan	1978

Denzel Washington

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Glory	1989	Edward Zwick	625
2	Malcolm X	1992	Spike Lee	746
3	Philadelphia	1993	Jonathan Demme	828
4	Remember the Titans	2000	Boaz Yakin	1053
5	The Hurricane	1999	Norman Jewison	1646
6	He Got Game	1998	Spike Lee	1675
7	American Gangster	2007	Ridley Scott	1692
8	Man on Fire	2004	Tony Scott	1813
9	Devil in a Blue Dress	1995	Carl Franklin	1938
10	Inside Man	2006	Spike Lee	2119
11	Training Day	2001	Antoine Fuqua	2728

Naomi Watts

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Mulholland Dr.	2001	David Lynch	124
2	King Kong	2005	Peter Jackson	1027
3	The Ring	2002	Gore Verbinski	1234
4	Inland Empire	2006	David Lynch	1361
5	21 Grams	2003	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	1426
6	Eastern Promises	2007	David Cronenberg	1459
7	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	2014	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	1567

John Wayne

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	The Searchers	1956	John Ford	37
2	Stagecoach	1939	John Ford	140
3	Rio Bravo	1959	Howard Hawks	175
4	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	1962	John Ford	178
5	Red River	1948	Howard Hawks	271
6	The Quiet Man	1952	John Ford	619
7	The Longest Day	1962	Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki	923
8	Fort Apache	1948	John Ford	951
9	She Wore a Yellow Ribbon	1949	John Ford	1009
10	The Shootist	1976	Don Siegel	1110
11	True Grit	1969	Henry Hathaway	1293
12	How the West Was Won	1962	John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall	1530
13	Rio Grande	1950	John Ford	1791
14	They Were Expendable	1945	John Ford	1911
15	El Dorado	1967	Howard Hawks	2172
16	Sands of Iwo Jima	1949	Allan Dwan	2376
17	Baby Face	1933	Alfred E. Green	2551

Sigourney Weaver

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Alien	1979	Ridley Scott	16
2	Annie Hall	1977	Woody Allen	20
3	Aliens	1986	James Cameron	61
4	WALL•E	2008	Andrew Stanton	82
5	Ghostbusters	1984	Ivan Reitman	169
6	Avatar	2009	James Cameron	262
7	Galaxy Quest	1999	Dean Parisot	810
8	The Ice Storm	1997	Ang Lee	1182
9	Working Girl	1988	Mike Nichols	1515
10	The Year of Living Dangerously	1982	Peter Weir	2045
11	The Cabin in the Woods	2011	Drew Goddard	2184

Orson Welles

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Citizen Kane	1941	Orson Welles	4
2	The Third Man	1949	Carol Reed	30
3	Touch of Evil	1958	Orson Welles	55
4	The Magnificent Ambersons	1942	Orson Welles	405
5	F for Fake	1973	Orson Welles	640
6	The Muppet Movie	1979	James Frawley	723
7	A Man for All Seasons	1966	Fred Zinnemann	838
8	Chimes at Midnight	1965	Orson Welles	858
9	The Lady from Shanghai	1947	Orson Welles	865
10	The Trial	1962	Orson Welles	1244
11	Duel in the Sun	1946	King Vidor	1285
12	Catch-22	1970	Mike Nichols	1796
13	Othello	1951	Orson Welles	1917

Gene Wilder

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Bonnie and Clyde	1967	Arthur Penn	97
2	Blazing Saddles	1974	Mel Brooks	192
3	Young Frankenstein	1974	Mel Brooks	268
4	The Producers	1967	Mel Brooks	309
5	Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory	1971	Mel Stuart	416
6	Stir Crazy	1980	Sidney Poitier	2629
7	Silver Streak	1976	Arthur Hiller	2791

Robin Williams

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Dead Poets Society	1989	Peter Weir	433
2	Good Will Hunting	1997	Gus Van Sant	495
3	Aladdin	1992	Ron Clements and John Musker	535
4	A.I.: Artificial Intelligence	2001	Steven Spielberg	593
5	Mrs. Doubtfire	1993	Chris Columbus	1241
6	The Birdcage	1996	Mike Nichols	1253
7	Good Morning, Vietnam	1987	Barry Levinson	1629
8	Awakenings	1990	Penny Marshall	1902
9	The Adventures of Baron Munchausen	1988	Terry Gilliam	1937
10	Insomnia	2002	Christopher Nolan	1962
11	Happy Feet	2006	George Miller	2192
12	The World According to Garp	1982	George Roy Hill	2411
13	The Fisher King	1991	Terry Gilliam	2497
14	Hamlet	1996	Kenneth Branagh	2652
15	What Dreams May Come	1998	Vincent Ward	2690

Bruce Willis

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Pulp Fiction	1994	Quentin Tarantino	9
2	Die Hard	1988	John McTiernan	83
3	The Sixth Sense	1999	M. Night Shyamalan	187
4	Twelve Monkeys	1995	Terry Gilliam	354
5	Sin City	2005	Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez	515
6	The Player	1992	Robert Altman	551
7	The Fifth Element	1997	Luc Besson	599
8	Moonrise Kingdom	2012	Wes Anderson	963
9	The Verdict	1982	Sidney Lumet	1075
10	Die Hard with a Vengeance	1995	John McTiernan	1390
11	Looper	2012	Rian Johnson	1603
12	Unbreakable	2000	M. Night Shyamalan	1735
13	Armageddon	1998	Michael Bay	1748
14	Lucky Number Slevin	2006	Paul McGuigan	1992
15	Die Hard 2	1990	Renny Harlin	2022
16	The Last Boy Scout	1991	Tony Scott	2466
17	Live Free or Die Hard	2007	Len Wiseman	2469

Kate Winslet

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	2004	Michel Gondry	76
2	Titanic	1997	James Cameron	129
3	Sense and Sensibility	1995	Ang Lee	602
4	Heavenly Creatures	1994	Peter Jackson	831
5	Finding Neverland	2004	Marc Forster	1313
6	Little Children	2006	Todd Field	1724
7	The Reader	2008	Stephen Daldry	2056
8	Hamlet	1996	Kenneth Branagh	2652

Shelley Winters

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	The Night of the Hunter	1955	Charles Laughton	54
2	Red River	1948	Howard Hawks	271
3	Winchester '73	1950	Anthony Mann	668
4	A Place in the Sun	1951	George Stevens	786
5	Lolita	1962	Stanley Kubrick	823
6	The Tenant	1976	Roman Polanski	1034
7	Alfie	1966	Lewis Gilbert	1418
8	The Poseidon Adventure	1972	Ronald Neame	2402

Elijah Wood

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	2001	Peter Jackson	43
2	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	2003	Peter Jackson	48
3	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	2002	Peter Jackson	67
4	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	2004	Michel Gondry	76
5	Sin City	2005	Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez	515
6	Back to the Future Part II	1989	Robert Zemeckis	1095
7	The Ice Storm	1997	Ang Lee	1182
8	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	2012	Peter Jackson	1679
9	Happy Feet	2006	George Miller	2192
10	The Wind Rises	2013	Hayao Miyazaki	2422
11	Green Street Hooligans	2005	Lexi Alexander	2642

Natalie Wood

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	The Searchers	1956	John Ford	37
2	West Side Story	1961	Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise	118
3	Rebel without a Cause	1955	Nicholas Ray	171
4	Miracle on 34th Street	1947	George Seaton	544
5	Splendor in the Grass	1961	Elia Kazan	1233
6	The Ghost and Mrs. Muir	1947	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	1528
7	Downhill Racer	1969	Michael Ritchie	2105

James Woods

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Once Upon a Time in America	1984	Sergio Leone	133
2	Videodrome	1983	David Cronenberg	349
3	Casino	1995	Martin Scorsese	398
4	The Virgin Suicides	1999	Sofia Coppola	1094
5	Contact	1997	Robert Zemeckis	1222
6	Any Given Sunday	1999	Oliver Stone	1440
7	The Way We Were	1973	Sydney Pollack	1502
8	Night Moves	1975	Arthur Penn	1666
9	Salvador	1986	Oliver Stone	1820
10	Nixon	1995	Oliver Stone	1946
11	Hercules	1997	Ron Clements and John Musker	2549
12	Chaplin	1992	Richard Attenborough	2770

Robin Wright

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	The Princess Bride	1987	Rob Reiner	96
2	Forrest Gump	1994	Robert Zemeckis	107
3	Wonder Woman	2017	Patty Jenkins	1453
4	Blade Runner 2049	2017	Denis Villeneuve	1647
5	Moneyball	2011	Bennett Miller	1657
6	Unbreakable	2000	M. Night Shyamalan	1735
7	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	2011	David Fincher	1964

Chow Yun-Fat

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