what are your ten favorite leading film roles of all time?

my list would go something like:

Robert Diniro: Taxi Driver
Minsik Choi: Oldboy
Bill Murray: Lost in Translation
Orson Welles: Citizen Kane
Paul Newman: Cool Hand Luke
Al Pacino: Dog Day Afternoon
Jack Nicholson: About Shmidt
Willem Dafoe: The Last Temptation of Christ
Tom Hanks: The Road To Perdition
Kevin Spacey: American Beauty

SPAMMAH!!!


Kevin Spacey .... Lester Burnham (American Beauty)
Johnny Depp .... Edward Scissorhands (Edward Scissorhands)
Sigourney Weaver .... Ripley (Alien)
Keanu Reeves .... Neo (Matrix)
Alec Guinness .... Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars... YES I KNOW HE WASNT A LEADING ROLE!)
Jeff Cohen .... Lawrence 'Chunk' Cohen (The Goonies)
Arnold Schwarzenegger .... The Terminator (The Terminator)
Seann William Scott .... Steve Stifler (American Pie)
Nicolas Cage .... Yuri Orlov (Lord of War)

Johnny Depp .... Blow
Yun-Fat Chow .... Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Al Pacino .... Scarface
Sean Penn .... Mystic River
Julia Roberts .... Erin Brockavich (sp?)
Orson Welles .... Citizen Kane
Humphrey Bogart .... Casablanca
Audrey Hepburn .... Breakfast at Tiffany's
Malcolm McDowell .... A Clockwork Orange
Tom Hanks .... Forrest Gump

Natalie Portman...Garden State
Jim Carrey...Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Angelina Jolie...Girl, Interrupted
Ally Sheedy...The Breakfast Club
Adam Sandler...Punch-Drunk Love
Christian Bale... American Psycho
Johnny Depp .... Edward Sssorhands
Hilary Swank...Boys Don't Cry
Audrey Hepburn .... Breakfast at Tiffany's
Jon Cryer...Pretty in Pink
Anthony Perkins...Psycho

Samuel L. Jackson - Jules Winnfield, Pulp Fiction
Audrey Hepburn - Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany's
James Caviezel - Edmond Dantes, The Count of Monte Cristo
Johnny Depp - Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean
Toshiro Mifune - Sanjuro Kawabatake, Yojimbo
Kate Winslet - Clementine Kruczynski, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Jeff Bridges - Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, The Big Lebowski
Anthony Hopkins - Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs
Dustin Hoffman - "Ratso" Rizzo, Midnight Cowboy
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Truman Capote, Capote

I am having a tough-time thinking of my top-ten leading roles of all-time, so I put together my top-ten leading roles in the last ten years:

TOP TEN LEADING MALE ROLES:

10. Mel Gibson... "Tom Mullen" (Ransom)
9. Leonardo DiCaprio..."Frank Abagnale Jr." (Catch Me If You Can)
8. Nicolas Cage..."Charlie Kaufman" (Adaptation)
7. Jim Carrey..."Truman Burbank" (The Truman Show)
6. Sean Penn..."Sam Dawson" (I Am Sam)
5. Jack Nicholson..."Warren Schmidt" (About Schmidt)
4. Edward Norton..."Derek Vinyard" (American History X)
3. Billy Bob Thornton "Karl Childers" (Sling Blade)
2. Tom Hanks..."Chuck Noland" (Cast Away)
1. Kevin Spacey..."Lester Burnham" (American Beauty)


TOP TEN LEADING FEMALE ROLES:

10. Diane Keaton..."Erica Barry" (Something's Gotta Give)
9. Nicole Kidman..."Satine" (Moulin Rouge)
8. Joey Lauren Adams..."Alyssa Jones" (Chasing Amy)
7. Even Rachel Wood..."Tracy Louise Freeland" (Thirteen)
6. Reese Witherspoon..."Tracy Flick" (Election)
5. Laura Linney..."Samantha Prescott" (You Can Count On Me)
4. Charlize Theron..."Josey Aimes" (North Country)
3. Hilary Swank..."Maggie Fitzgerald" (Million Dollar Baby
2. Annette Bening..."Caroyln Burnham" (American Beauty)
1. Hilary Swank..."Brandon Teena" (Boy's Don't Cry)

Liam Neeson -- Schindler's List
Marlon Brando -- The Godfather
Jack Nicholson -- Chinatown
Humphrey Bogart -- Casablanca
Eric Bana -- Munich
Tim Robbins -- The Shawshank Redemption
Harrison Ford -- Indiana Jones
Russell Crowe -- A Beautiful Mind
George C. Scott -- Patton
Denzel Washington -- Training Day