AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars

AFI 100 Years... series
1998100 Movies
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2000100 Laughs
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2007100 Movies (Updated)
2008AFI's 10 Top 10

AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars is the American Film Institute's list ranking the top 25 male and 25 female greatest screen legends of American film history and is the second list of the AFI 100 Years... series.

The list was unveiled through a CBS special on June 15, 1999, hosted by Shirley Temple (who is herself honored on the female legends list), with 50 then-current actors making the presentations.[1]

AFI defines an "American screen legend" as "an actor or a team of actors with a significant screen presence in American feature-length films (films of 40 minutes or more) whose screen debut occurred in or before 1950, or whose screen debut occurred after 1950 but whose death has marked a completed body of work."[1] Jurors selected the final lists from 250 male and 250 female nominees.[2]

When the lists were unveiled, Gregory Peck, Katharine Hepburn, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley Temple, Lauren Bacall, Kirk Douglas and Sidney Poitier were alive, but have since died. As of 2026, at age 91, Sophia Loren is the sole surviving star.

The AFI's 50 greatest screen legends

No. Men Women
1 Humphrey Bogart

(December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957)

Katharine Hepburn

(May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003)

2 Cary Grant

(January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986)

Bette Davis

(April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989)

3 James Stewart

(May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997)

Audrey Hepburn

(May 4, 1929 – January 20, 1993)

4 Marlon Brando

(April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004)

Ingrid Bergman

(August 29, 1915 – August 29, 1982)

5 Fred Astaire

(May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987)

Greta Garbo

(September 18, 1905 – April 15, 1990)

6 Henry Fonda

(May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982)

Marilyn Monroe

(June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962)

7 Clark Gable

(February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960)

Elizabeth Taylor

(February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011)

8 James Cagney

(July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986)

Judy Garland

(June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969)

9 Spencer Tracy

(April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967)

Marlene Dietrich

(December 27, 1901 – May 6, 1992)

10 Charlie Chaplin

(April 16, 1889 – December 25, 1977)

Joan Crawford

(March 23, 1904-08 [Note 1] – May 10, 1977)

11 Gary Cooper

(May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961)

Barbara Stanwyck

(July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990)

12 Gregory Peck

(April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003)

Claudette Colbert

(September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996)

13 John Wayne

(May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979)

Grace Kelly

(November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982)

14 Laurence Olivier

(May 22, 1907 – July 11, 1989)

Ginger Rogers

(July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995)

15 Gene Kelly

(August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996)

Mae West

(August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980)

16 Orson Welles

(May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985)

Vivien Leigh

(November 5, 1913 – July 8, 1967)

17 Kirk Douglas

(December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020)

Lillian Gish

(October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993)

18 James Dean

(February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955)

Shirley Temple

(April 23, 1928 – February 10, 2014)

19 Burt Lancaster

(November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994)

Rita Hayworth

(October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987)

20 The Marx Brothers
  • Chico (March 22, 1887 – October 11, 1961)
  • Harpo (November 23, 1888 – September 28, 1964)
  • Groucho (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977)
  • Zeppo (February 25, 1901 – November 30, 1979)
Lauren Bacall

(September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014)

21 Buster Keaton

(October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966)

Sophia Loren

(born September 20, 1934)

22 Sidney Poitier

(February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022)

Jean Harlow

(March 3, 1911 – June 7, 1937)

23 Robert Mitchum

(August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997)

Carole Lombard

(October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942)

24 Edward G. Robinson

(December 12, 1893 – January 26, 1973)

Mary Pickford

(April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979)

25 William Holden

(April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981)

Ava Gardner

(December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990)

Nominees

The legends were chosen out of a list of 250 male and 250 female nominees. The adjoining reference gives the lists of the original selection.[3]

With the death of Sidney Poitier in January 2022, all male living legends and nominees have now died. There is one surviving female living legend, Sophia Loren (91), and 4 remaining female nominees: Ann Blyth (97), Claire Bloom (95), Rita Moreno (94) and Margaret O'Brien (89). The most recent nominee to die is Mitzi Gaynor, aged 93, in October 2024.

The 250 male nominees

The actors that are part of the complete list of nominees are:

The 250 female nominees

The actresses that are part of the complete list of nominees are:

NOTE: Those listed in bold indicate that the star is still living.

Notes

  1. ^ Either 1904, 1905, 1906, or 1908, according to various sources (see biographical entry).

References

  1. ^ a b "AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars: The 50 Greatest American Screen Legends". American Film Institute. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
  2. ^ List of the 500 nominated star legends (Archive)
  3. ^ List of the 500 nominated star legends Archive [1]

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