Good Guys & Bad Guys
Sir Anthony Hopkins and Gregory Peck top AFI's list of 100 Heros & Villians.
 To Kill a Mockingbird's Atticus Finch and The Silence of the Lambs' Hannibal Lecter topped the American Film Institute's list of top 100 Heros and Villians of the last 100 years.
The list was revealed last night in a three-hour TV special hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger made both lists for his role as the time-traveling cyborg in The Terminator (#22 on the villians list) and Terminator 2: Judgement Day (#48 on the heros list).
1,500 voters—actors, directors, and film historians to name a few—selected 50 good guys (plus a couple of gals and a dog) and 50 bad guys (plus some gals and a shark) from 400 candidates. The AFI didn't distinguish on the ballot whether a character was a villian or hero, leaving those in the know to decide and film junkies everywhere to debate whether Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver is really a villian.
Past AFI lists have ranked the 100 best love stories, thrillers, comedies, and the all-time 100 best American films.
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Top 50 Heros
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Top 50 Villians
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1. Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. James Bond, Dr. No
4. Rick Blaine, Casablanca
5. Will Kane, High Noon
6. Clarice Starling, The Silence of the Lambs
7. Rocky Balboa, Rocky
8. Ellen Ripley, Aliens
9. George Bailey, It's a Wonderful Life
10. T.E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia
11. Jefferson Smith, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
12. Tom Joad, The Grapes of Wrath
13. Oskar Schindler, Schindler's List
14. Han Solo, Star Wars
15. Norma Rae Webster, Norma Rae
16. Shane, Shane
17. Harry Callahan, Dirty Harry
18. Robin Hood, Adventures of Robin Hood
19. Virgil Tibbs, In the Heat of the Night
20. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
21. Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi
22. Spartacus, Spartacus
23. Terry Malloy, On the Waterfront
24. Thelma Dickerson and Louise Sawyer,
Thelma & Louise
25. Lou Gehrig, The Pride of the Yankees
26. Superman, Superman
27. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, All the President's Men
28. Juror #8, 12 Angry Men
29. General George Patton, Patton
30. Luke Jackson, Cool Hand Luke
31. Erin Brockovich, Erin Brockovich
32. Philip Marlowe, The Big Sleep
33. Marge Gunderson, Fargo
34. Tarzan, Tarzan the Ape Man
35. Alvin York, Sergeant York
36. Rooster Cogburn, True Grit
37. Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars
38. The Tramp, City Lights
39. Lassie, Lassie Come Home
40. Frank Serpico, Serpico
41. Arthur Chipping, Goodbye, Mr. Chips
42. Father Edward Flanagan, Boys Town
43. Moses, The Ten Commandments
44. Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, The French Connection
45. Zorro, The Mark of Zorro
46. Batman, Batman
47. Karen Silkwood, Silkwood
48. Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day
49. Andrew Beckett, Philadelphia
50. General Maximus Decimus Meridus, Gladiator |
1. Dr. Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs
2. Norman Bates, Psycho
3. Darth Vader, The Empire Strikes Back
4. The Wicked Witch of the West, The Wizard of Oz
5. Nurse Ratched, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
6. Mr. Potter, It's a Wonderful Life
7. Alex Forrest, Fatal Attraction
8. Phyllis Dietrichson, Double Indemnity
9. Regan MacNeil, The Exorcist
10. The Queen, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
11. Michael Corleone, The Godfather Part II
12. Alex De Large, Clockwork Orange
13. Hal 9000, 2001: A Space Odyssey
14. The Alien, Alien
15. Amon Goeth, Schindler's List
16. Noah Cross, Chinatown
17. Annie Wilkes, Misery
18. The Shark, Jaws
19. Captain Bligh, Mutiny on the Bounty
20. Man, Bambi
21. Mrs. John Iselin, The Manchurian Candidate
22. Terminator, The Terminator
23. Eve Harrington, All About Eve
24. Gordon Gekko, Wall Street
25. Jack Torrance, The Shining
26. Cody Jarrett, White Heat
27. Martians, The War of the Worlds
28. Max Cady, Cape Fear
29. Reverend Harry Powell, The Night of the Hunter
30. Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver
31. Mrs. Danvers, Rebecca
32. Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, Bonnie and Clyde
33. Count Dracula, Dracula
34. Dr. Szell, Marathon Man
35. J.J. Hunsecker, Sweet Smell of Success
36. Frank Booth, Blue Velvet
37. Harry Lime, The Third Man
38. Caesar Enrico Bandello, Little Caesar
39. Cruella De Vil, One Hundred and One Dalmatians
40. Freddy Krueger, A Nightmare on Elm Street
41. Joan Crawford, Mommie Dearest
42. Tom Powers, The Public Enemy
43. Regina Giddens, The Little Foxes
44. Baby Jane Hudson, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
45. The Joker, Batman
46. Hans Gruber, Die Hard
47. Tony Camonte, Scarface
48. Roger "Verbal" Kint, The Usual Suspects
49. Auric Goldfinger, Goldfinger
50. Alonzo Harris, Training Day
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Photo courtesy of MGM.
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