AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:AFI 100 Years... seriesAFI'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.

The list was unveiled through a CBS special on June 15, 1999, hosted by Shirley Temple (who is herself honored on the female legends list), with 50 then-current actors making the presentations.

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." Jurors selected the final lists from 250 male and 250 female nominees.

When the lists were unveiled, Gregory Peck, Katharine Hepburn, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley Temple, Lauren Bacall, Kirk Douglas and Sidney Poitier were alive, but have since died. As of 2025, at age Template:Age nts, Sophia Loren is the sole surviving star.

The AFI's 50 greatest screen legends

No.	Female legends		Male legends
1	Template:Sortname (12 May 1907 – 29 June 2003)	File:Katharine Hepburn publicity photograph.jpg	Template:Sortname (25 December 1899 – 14 January 1957)	File:Humphrey Bogart 1940.jpg
2	Template:Sortname (5 April 1908 – 6 October 1989)	File:Jezebel-1938-Bette-Davis-cropped.jpg	Template:Sortname (18 January 1904 – 29 November 1986)	File:Grant, Cary (Suspicion) 01 Crisco edit.jpg
3	Template:Sortname (4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993)	File:Audrey Hepburn 1959.jpg	Template:Sortname (20 May 1908 – 2 July 1997)	File:Annex - Stewart, James (Call Northside 777) 01.jpg
4	Template:Sortname (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982)	File:Ingrid Bergman, Gaslight 1944.jpg	Template:Sortname (3 April 1924 – 1 July 2004)	File:Marlon Brando in The Men.jpg
5	Template:Sortname (18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990)	File:Garbo in Inspiration.jpg	Template:Sortname (10 May 1899 – 22 June 1987)	File:Astaire, Fred - Never Get Rich.jpg
6	Template:Sortname (1 June 1926 – 4 August 1962)	File:Monroe 1953 publicity.jpg	Template:Sortname (16 May 1905 – 12 August 1982)	File:Henry Fonda, 1940.jpg
7	Template:Sortname (27 February 1932 – 23 March 2011)	File:Studio publicity Elizabeth Taylor.jpg	Template:Sortname (1 February 1901 – 16 November 1960)	File:Clark Gable - publicity.JPG
8	Template:Sortname (10 June 1922 – 22 June 1969)	File:Judy Garland 1943 publicity photo.jpg	Template:Sortname (17 July 1899 – 30 March 1986)	File:James cagney promo photo.jpg
9	Template:Sortname (27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992)	File:Marlene Dietrich in No Highway (1951) (Cropped).png	Template:Sortname (5 April 1900 – 10 June 1967)	File:Spencer Tracy.jpg
10	Template:Sortname (23 March 1906 Template:Refn – 10 May 1977)	File:Joan Crawford - 1936 - Hurrell.JPG	Template:Sortname (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977)	File:Charlie Chaplin portrait Getty 1739411952.jpg
11	Template:Sortname (16 July 1907 – 20 January 1990)	File:BarbaraS39.jpg	Template:Sortname (7 May 1901 – 13 May 1961)	File:Gary Cooper 1936.jpg
12	Template:Sortname (13 September 1903 – 30 July 1996)	File:Claudette Colbert 1931.jpg	Template:Sortname (5 April 1916 – 12 June 2003)	File:Gregory Peck 1948.jpg
13	Template:Sortname (12 November 1929 – 14 September 1982)	File:Grace Kelly 1955.jpg	Template:Sortname (26 May 1907 – 11 June 1979)	File:John Wayne 1940.jpg
14	Template:Sortname (16 July 1911 – 25 April 1995)	File:Ginger Rogers - Tender Comrade.jpg	Template:Sortname (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989)	File:Laurence Olivier - Rebecca.jpg
15	Template:Sortname (17 August 1893 – 22 November 1980)	File:Mae West - 1936.jpg	Template:Sortname (23 August 1912 – 2 February 1996)	File:Gene kelly.jpg
16	Template:Sortname (5 November 1913 – 8 July 1967)	File:Vivien Leigh - Anna Karenina.jpg	Template:Sortname (6 May 1915 – 10 October 1985)	File:Orson Welles 1937.jpg
17	Template:Sortname (14 October 1893 – 27 February 1993)	File:Lillian Gish-edit1.jpg	Template:Sortname (9 December 1916 – 5 February 2020)	File:Kirk douglas photo signed.JPG
18	Template:Sortname (23 April 1928 – 10 February 2014)	File:Shirley Temple 1949.jpg	Template:Sortname (8 February 1931 – 30 September 1955)	File:James Dean - publicity - early.JPG
19	Template:Sortname (17 October 1918 – 14 May 1987)	File:Rita Hayworth-publicity.JPG	Template:Sortname (2 November 1913 – 20 October 1994)	File:Burt Lancaster - publicity 1947.JPG
20	Template:Sortname (16 September 1924 – 12 August 2014)	File:Lauren Bacall 1945 (cropped).jpg	Template:Sortname Chico (22 March 1887 – 11 October 1961) Harpo (23 November 1888 – 28 September 1964) Groucho (2 October 1890 – 19 August 1977)	File:Marx Brothers 1931.jpg
21	Template:Sortname (born 20 September 1934)	File:Sophia Loren - 1959.jpg	Template:Sortname (4 October 1895 – 1 February 1966)	File:Busterkeaton edit.jpg
22	Template:Sortname (3 March 1911 – 7 June 1937)	File:Harlow-publicity.jpg	Template:Sortname (20 February 1927 – 6 January 2022)	File:Sidney Poitier 1968.jpg
23	Template:Sortname (6 October 1908 – 16 January 1942)	File:Carole Lombard - Paramount.JPG	Template:Sortname (6 August 1917 – 1 July 1997)	File:Robert Mitchum 1949 (no signature).jpg
24	Template:Sortname (8 April 1892 – 29 May 1979)	File:Mary Pickford cph.3c17995u.jpg	Template:Sortname (12 December 1893 – 26 January 1973)	File:Edward G. Robinson 1948.jpg
25	Template:Sortname (24 December 1922 – 25 January 1990)	File:Ava Gardner Show Boat 1951.jpg	Template:Sortname (17 April 1918 – 12 November 1981)	File:Holden-portrait.jpg

Nominees

The legends were chosen out of a list of 250 male and 250 female nominees. The adjoining reference gives the lists of the original selection.

With the death of Sidney Poitier in January 2022, all male living legends and nominees have now died. There is one surviving female living legend, Sophia Loren (), and 4 remaining female nominees: Ann Blyth (), Claire Bloom (), Rita Moreno () and Margaret O'Brien (). The most recent nominee to die is Mitzi Gaynor, aged 93, in October 2024.

The 250 male nominees

The actors that are part of the complete list of nominees are: Template:Columns-list

The 250 female nominees

The actresses that are part of the complete list of nominees are:

NOTE: Those listed in bold indicate that the star is still living.

External links

• AFI's lists
• List of the 500 nominated star legends (2005) (PDF) (archived 19 August 2020)
• List of the 50 winning legends (2005) (PDF)