In Junes 2003 AFI unveiled their 100 Years… 100 Heroes and Villains list of the 50 greatest screen heroes and 50 greatest screen villains. The likes of Indiana Jones and James Bond are unsurprisingly high up on the list of heroes and it’s hard to argue against Hannibal Lecter, Norman Bates and Darth Vader being the greatest villains.
Heroes
| 1. | Atticus Finch | Gregory Peck | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2. | Indiana Jones | Harrison Ford | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 1981 | |
| 3. | James Bond | Sean Connery | Dr. No | 1962 | |
| 4. | Rick Blaine | Humphrey Bogart | Casablanca | 1942 | |
| 5. | Will Kane | Gary Cooper | High Noon | 1952 | |
| 6. | Clarice Starling | Jodie Foster | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | |
| 7. | Rocky Balboa | Sylvester Stallone | Rocky | 1976 | |
| 8. | Ellen Ripley | Sigourney Weaver | Aliens | 1986 | |
| 9. | George Bailey | James Stewart | It’s a Wonderful Life | 1946 | |
| 10. | T. E. Lawrence | Peter O’Toole | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | |
| 11. | Jefferson Smith | James Stewart | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 1939 | |
| 12. | Tom Joad | Henry Fonda | The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | |
| 13. | Oskar Schindler | Liam Neeson | Schindler’s List | 1993 | |
| 14. | Han Solo | Harrison Ford | Star Wars | 1977 | |
| 15. | Norma Rae Webster | Sally Field | Norma Rae | 1979 | |
| 16. | Shane | Alan Ladd | Shane | 1953 | |
| 17. | Harry Callahan | Clint Eastwood | Dirty Harry | 1971 | |
| 18. | Robin Hood | Errol Flynn | The Adventures of Robin Hood | 1938 | |
| 19. | Virgil Tibbs | Sidney Poitier | In the Heat of the Night | 1967 | |
| 20. | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
Paul Newman and Robert Redford |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | |
| 21. | Mahatma Gandhi | Ben Kingsley | Gandhi | 1982 | |
| 22. | Spartacus | Kirk Douglas | Spartacus | 1960 | |
| 23. | Terry Malloy | Marlon Brando | On the Waterfront | 1954 | |
| 24. | Thelma Dickinson and Louise Sawyer | Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon | Thelma & Louise | 1991 | |
| 25. | Lou Gehrig | Gary Cooper | The Pride of the Yankees | 1942 | |
| 26. | Superman | Christopher Reeve | Superman | 1978 | |
| 27. | Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein |
Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman |
All the President’s Men | 1976 | |
| 28. | Juror #8 | Henry Fonda | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | |
| 29. | General George Patton | George C. Scott | Patton | 1970 | |
| 30. | Lucas (Luke) Jackson | Paul Newman | Cool Hand Luke | 1967 | |
| 31. | Erin Brockovich | Julia Roberts | Erin Brockovich | 2000 | |
| 32. | Philip Marlowe | Humphrey Bogart | The Big Sleep | 1946 | |
| 33. | Marge Gunderson | Frances McDormand | Fargo | 1996 | |
| 34. | Tarzan | Johnny Weissmuller | Tarzan the Ape Man | 1932 | |
| 35. | Alvin York | Gary Cooper | Sergeant York | 1941 | |
| 36. | Rooster Cogburn | John Wayne | True Grit | 1969 | |
| 37. | Obi-Wan Kenobi | Alec Guinness | Star Wars | 1977 | |
| 38. | The Tramp | Charlie Chaplin | City Lights | 1931 | |
| 39. | Lassie | Pal | Lassie Come Home | 1943 | |
| 40. | Frank Serpico | Al Pacino | Serpico | 1973 | |
| 41. | Arthur Chipping | Robert Donat | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | 1939 | |
| 42. | Father Edward | Spencer Tracy | Boys Town | 1938 | |
| 43. | Moses | Charlton Heston | The Ten Commandments | 1956 | |
| 44. | Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle | Gene Hackman | The French Connection | 1971 | |
| 45. | Zorro | Tyrone Power | The Mark of Zorro | 1940 | |
| 46. | Batman | Michael Keaton | Batman | 1989 | |
| 47. | Karen Silkwood | Meryl Streep | Silkwood | 1983 | |
| 48. | The T-800 | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | |
| 49. | Andrew Beckett | Tom Hanks | Philadelphia | 1993 | |
| 50. | General Maximus Decimus Meridius | Russell Crowe | Gladiator | 2000 |
Villains
| 1. | Dr. Hannibal Lecter | Anthony Hopkins | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2. | Norman Bates | Anthony Perkins | Psycho | 1960 | |
| 3. | Darth Vader | David Prowse (voiced by James Earl Jones) | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | |
| 4. | The Wicked Witch of the West | Margaret Hamilton | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | |
| 5. | Nurse Ratched | Louise Fletcher | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | 1975 | |
| 6. | Mr. Potter | Lionel Barrymore | It’s a Wonderful Life | 1946 | |
| 7. | Alex Forrest | Glenn Close | Fatal Attraction | 1987 | |
| 8. | Phyllis Dietrichson | Barbara Stanwyck | Double Indemnity | 1944 | |
| 9. | Regan MacNeil (as possessed by “Satan”) | Linda Blair (voiced by Mercedes McCambridge) | The Exorcist | 1973 | |
| 10. | The Evil Queen | Voice of Lucille La Verne | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | 1937 | |
| 11. | Michael Corleone | Al Pacino | The Godfather Part II | 1974 | |
| 12. | Alex DeLarge | Malcolm McDowell | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | |
| 13. | HAL 9000 | Voice of Douglas Rain | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | |
| 14. | The Alien | Bolaji Badejo | Alien | 1979 | |
| 15. | Amon Goeth | Ralph Fiennes | Schindler’s List | 1993 | |
| 16. | Noah Cross | John Huston | Chinatown | 1974 | |
| 17. | Annie Wilkes | Kathy Bates | Misery | 1990 | |
| 18. | The Shark | “Bruce”[2] | Jaws | 1975 | |
| 19. | Captain Bligh | Charles Laughton | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1935 | |
| 20. | Man | Voiced by Paul Starrs | Bambi | 1942 | |
| 21. | Mrs. Eleanor Iselin | Angela Lansbury | The Manchurian Candidate | 1962 | |
| 22. | Terminator | Arnold Schwarzenegger | The Terminator | 1984 | |
| 23. | Eve Harrington | Anne Baxter | All About Eve | 1950 | |
| 24. | Gordon Gekko | Michael Douglas | Wall Street | 1987 | |
| 25. | Jack Torrance | Jack Nicholson | The Shining | 1980 | |
| 26. | Cody Jarrett | James Cagney | White Heat | 1949 | |
| 27. | Martians | Various | The War of the Worlds | 1953 | |
| 28. | Max Cady | Robert Mitchum | Cape Fear | 1962 | |
| 29. | Reverend Harry Powell | Robert Mitchum | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | |
| 30. | Travis Bickle | Robert De Niro | Taxi Driver | 1976 | |
| 31. | Mrs. Danvers | Judith Anderson | Rebecca | 1940 | |
| 32. | Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker | Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | |
| 33. | Count Dracula | Bela Lugosi | Dracula | 1931 | |
| 34. | Dr. Szell | Laurence Olivier | Marathon Man | 1976 | |
| 35. | J.J. Hunsecker | Burt Lancaster | Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | |
| 36. | Frank Booth | Dennis Hopper | Blue Velvet | 1986 | |
| 37. | Harry Lime | Orson Welles | The Third Man | 1949 | |
| 38. | Caesar Enrico Bandello | Edward G. Robinson | Little Caesar | 1931 | |
| 39. | Cruella De Vil | Voice by Betty Lou Gerson | One Hundred and One Dalmatians | 1961 | |
| 40. | Freddy Krueger | Robert Englund | A Nightmare on Elm Street | 1984 | |
| 41. | Joan Crawford | Faye Dunaway | Mommie Dearest | 1981 | |
| 42. | Tom Powers | James Cagney | The Public Enemy | 1931 | |
| 43. | Regina Giddens | Bette Davis | The Little Foxes | 1941 | |
| 44. | Baby Jane Hudson | Bette Davis | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | 1962 | |
| 45. | The Joker | Jack Nicholson | Batman | 1989 | |
| 46. | Hans Gruber | Alan Rickman | Die Hard | 1988 | |
| 47. | Tony Camonte | Paul Muni | Scarface | 1932 | |
| 48. | Verbal Kint | Kevin Spacey | The Usual Suspects | 1995 | |
| 49. | Auric Goldfinger | Gert Fröbe (voiced by Michael Collins) | Goldfinger | 1964 | |
| 50. | Detective Alonzo Harris | Denzel Washington | Training Day | 2001 |
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