Introduction: Kyle Stevens and Murray Pomerance; 1: Ethel Waters in The Member of the Wedding, Anna Everett; 2: Irene Dunne in The Awful Truth, Steven Rybin; 3: Cary Grant in His Girl Friday, Adrienne L. McLean; 4: Janet Gaynor in Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Janet Bergstrom; 5: Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter, Homer B. Pettey; 6: Bette Davis in Dangerous, Lucy Fischer; 7: James Stewart in Vertigo, William Rothman; 8: Carole Lombard in To Be or Not to Be, Alex Clayton; 9: James Mason in Lolita, Rebecca Bell-Metereau; 10: Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun, George Toles; 11: Tony Curtis in Sweet Smell of Success, John Bruns; 12: Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther, Daniel Varndell; 13: Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, R. Barton Palmer; 14: Jerry Lewis in The King of Comedy, Murray Pomerance; 15: Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night, Frances Gateward; 16: Gene Hackman in The Conversation, Brenda Austin-Smith; 17: Gena Rowlands in Gloria, David Greven; 18: Jack Nicholson in The Passenger [Professione: Reporter], Rick Warner; 19: Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man, Jason Jacobs; 20: Elliott Gould in The Long Goodbye, Douglas McFarland; 21: Al Pacino in Donnie Brasco, Tim Vermeulen; 22: Whoopi Goldberg in The Color Purple, Lester D. Friedman; 23: Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine, Shonni Enelow; 24: Oscar Isaac in A Most Violent Year, Charles Ramírez Berg; 25: Kristin Stewart in Clouds of Sils Maria, Elliott Logan; The Cast; Contributors