I hope that you will forgive me the spaminess of this post, lifted from my blog. I am interested in your opinions as to whether this is in the least bit interesting, or if it's just going to feed my OCD tapeworm. It represents between 350-400 hours of work on my part.
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Project update: A-K
To recap: this ongoing project is an attempt to determine which actors who are "currently working" have amassed the most impressive selected filmographies. The basic technique is explained in a post from nearly three years ago. You can find it if you search the blog for the term "Robert Forster".
At least one disclaimer is necesary. I am going through actors alphabetically, and in almost 4 years, I have only completed letters A-K. Actors were included for assessment if a film in which they appeared had been released within three years of the date I completed their assessment. Because of that, some actors who have actually passed are included, and will be on the list until I cycle back around to them. I have limited time to work on this project, and so I am just shrugging off this glitch in the system. So yes, I fully understand that Anne Bancroft, may her soul rest in peace, is certainly not a current actor, but I will stick to my original assessment until I roll back around to her.
I believe that the updating of established assessments will go faster than the first one, and hope to eventually be able to update on a two year cycle, where it seems it is going to take at least 6 years for me to complete these initial assessments.
Here's the current 100 "most accomplished" working movie actors, WHOSE LAST NAME STARTS WITH A LETTER BETWEEN A AND K.
1) Robert DeNiro 2) Woody Allen 3) Dustin Hoffman 4) Clint Eastwood 5) Catherine Deneuve
6) Gene Hackman 7) Robert Duvall
Harrison Ford 9) Gerard Depardieu 10) Harvey Keitel
11) Julie Christie 12) Sean Connery 13) Johnny Depp 14) Richard Dreyfuss 15) Nicolas Cage
16) Jeff Bridges 17) John Cusack 18) Tom Hanks 19) Anthony Hopkins 20) Mel Gibson
21) Diane Keaton 22) Albert Finney 23) William Hurt 24) George Clooney 25) Bruno Ganz
26) Michael Caine 27) Michael Douglas 28) Kevin Costner 29) Ben Kingsley 30) Tom Cruise
31) Isabelle Huppert 32) Nicole Kidman 33) Mia Farrow 34) Jane Fonda 35) Daniel Auteuil
36) Ellen Burstyn 37) Ralph Fiennes 38) Bob Hoskins 39) Tommy Lee Jones 40) Judy Davis
41) Dennis Hopper 42) Kevin Kline 43) Alan Bates 44) Emmanuelle Beart 45) Maggie Cheung
46) Matt Dillon 47) Richard Gere 48) Jeremy Irons 49) Faye Dunaway 50) Juliette Binoche
51) Matthew Broderick 52) Isabelle Adjani 53) Glenn Close 54) Anjelica Huston 55) Russell Crowe
56) John Hurt 57) Leonardo DiCaprio 58) Leslie Caron 59) Holly Hunter 60) Albert Brooks
61) Ethan Hawke 62) Peter Fonda 63) Jodie Foster 64) Samuel L Jackson 65) Jim Carrey
66) Jackie Chan 67) Ian Holm 68) Sandrine Bonnaire 69) Willem Dafoe 70) Antonio Banderas
71) Catherine Keener 72) Morgan Freeman 73) Gabriel Byrne 74) James Caan 75) Keith Carradine
76) Helena Bonham Carter 77) Val Kilmer 78) Julie Andrews 79) James Garner 80) Lauren Bacall
81) Kevin Bacon 82) Elliott Gould 83) Bruce Dern 84) Colin Firth 85) Anne Bancroft
86) Ed Harris 87) Michael Keaton 88) Cameron DIaz 89) Michel Bouquet 90) Kirsten Dunst
91) Hugh Grant 92) Alan Arkin 93) Jacqueline Bissett 94) Woody Harrelson 95) Anouk Aimee
96) John Goodman 97) Steve Buscemi 98) Giancarlo Giannini 99) Matt Damon 100) Angela Bassett
