AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars

AFI 100 Years... series

1998	100 Movies
1999	100 Stars
2000	100 Laughs
2001	100 Thrills
2002	100 Passions
2003	100 Heroes & Villains
2004	100 Songs
2005	100 Movie Quotes
2005	25 Scores
2006	100 Cheers
2006	25 Musicals
2007	100 Movies (Updated)
2008	AFI's 10 Top 10

Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars is a list of the top 50 greatest screen legends in American film history, which included 25 male and 25 female stars. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 15, 1999, in a CBS special hosted by Shirley Temple, with 50 current actors making the presentations.

The American Film Institute defined an "American screen legend" as an actor or a team of actors during the classic film era with a significant screen presence in American feature-length (40 min) films 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.

The top stars of their respective sexes are Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. They starred together in the classic adventure film The African Queen, for which Bogart won his only Oscar.

All actors and actresses are from the "Golden era of Hollywood" film production. Of the 50 stars listed, only 9 were alive at the time, namely Shirley Temple, Katharine Hepburn, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Sophia Loren, and Sidney Poitier. As of 2016, only Kirk Douglas, Sidney Poitier and Sophia Loren are still living.

List of 50 greatest screen legends: Top 25 Male and Top 25 Female stars

No	Male legends		Female legends
1	Humphrey Bogart	100px	Katharine Hepburn
2	Cary Grant		Bette Davis
3	James Stewart		Audrey Hepburn
4	Marlon Brando		Ingrid Bergman
5	Fred Astaire		Greta Garbo
6	Henry Fonda	100px	Marilyn Monroe	100px
7	Clark Gable		Elizabeth Taylor
8	James Cagney		Judy Garland	100px
9	Spencer Tracy		Marlene Dietrich
10	Charlie Chaplin		Joan Crawford	100px
11	Gary Cooper		Barbara Stanwyck
12	Gregory Peck		Claudette Colbert
13	John Wayne	100px	Grace Kelly
14	Laurence Olivier		Ginger Rogers
15	Gene Kelly	100px	Mae West
16	Orson Welles		Vivien Leigh	100px
17	Kirk Douglas		Lillian Gish
18	James Dean	100px	Shirley Temple
19	Burt Lancaster		Rita Hayworth
20	Marx Brothers		Lauren Bacall
21	Buster Keaton		Sophia Loren
22	Sidney Poitier		Jean Harlow	100px
23	Robert Mitchum		Carole Lombard
24	Edward G. Robinson		Mary Pickford	100px
25	William Holden		Ava Gardner

External links

• List of the 500 nominated star legends
• List of the 50 winning legends