AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars

Audrey Hepburn definitely belongs at the top of the list, for Breakfast at Tiffany's and My Fair Lady alone.

She's also probably the most beautiful actress in the entire list.

Here she is at 52 years old, in 1981.

How in the hell did she manage to stay so skinny throughout her life?

The list was published in 1999. The list was published in 1999. The list was published in 1999. The list was published in 1999. The list was published in 1999.

Yes, why not update it. The AFI doesn't say this list is valid for 2024 so no use bickering about the 1999 list.

R2 had a short circuit.

I'm happy that Bette Davis is at #2. She deserves it.

But Katherine Hepburn? Meh.

She's the Queen of Oscars, but her acting never really impressed me.

From the link in the OP: "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." In other words, the list generally honors actors recognized for their contributions to classical Hollywood cinema."

So, while it would be interesting to compile a new list of best-regarded actors from the whole history of the movies and give it a different title, this list is complete according to the definition above. Maybe the new criteria should be similar, still starting with the very first movies, but changing the "screen debut" date from 1950 to the year 2000. As for the title of the list, maybe "Twentieth Century America's Greatest Film Stars". On second thought, that's an awfully awkward title :)

P.S. I would reverse Katharine Hepburn and Bette Davis's positions and move Judy Garland up to number 3 on the original list:

1. Bette Davis 2. Katharine Hepburn 3. Judy Garland

Glad Carol Lombard is listed, but no nomination for Sigourney Weaver? GTFO.

R7, return to R2.

Lauren Bacall is near the top of the list? She made two good films. 3 if you stretch it quite a bit and include The Mirror Has Two Faces.

Well fuck me. Apparently there is time and interest in arguing about what names someone put on a list 25 years ago.

[quote]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.

I guess this list is not the "greatest screen actors."

By that definition, Marilyn Monroe should be #1 on the female side, not #6.

She was and is a bigger star/legend than any of them.

Timmy Chalamet MUST be on the new list.

He is an actor for the ages!

I would bump Barbara Stanwyck to 3 and move Audrey Hepburn to 10.

If I remember correctly, the original criteria for this list was the actor’s best work was done before a certain year. If they do another list, then it should be for actors after that criteria’s cut off year. As for updating this 1999 list for the actresses, my top five is based on how well these actors’ best work have held up over the years.

1. Bette Davis 2. Katherine Hepburn 3. Judy Garland 4. Joan Crawford 5. Barbara Stanwyck

Yes. Please let's get Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson and Seth Rogan on the new list.

Honestly if they don’t recognize them they have no business in the determination of our Hollywood business.