Billboard's The 100 Best Acting Performances by Musicians in Movies

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"We wanted to take a look back at 100 of our all-time favorite musician appearances in feature films. They range from Oscar-winning starring turns in prestige classics to split-second cameos in cult favorites, from artists who have come to be as synonymous with film as with music to artists whose IMDB pages might just be a couple entries long. We only had three hard rules for eligibility:

1. The artist had to be well-known for music before they were well-known for film acting. (Apologies to Jamie Foxx, Lindsey Lohan and — most painfully — Jennifer Lopez.)

2. The artist couldn’t be starring as themselves in the performance, even in a somewhat fictionalized rendering. (Further regrets to Alice Cooper, The Spice Girls, and The Beatles.)

3. Only one performance per musician-actor.

Besides those, our list encompasses nearly a century of hitmakers-gone-Hollywood history, from the very beginning of the sound era all the way up to this year — and yes, Gaga made our list, though you’ll have to read on to see just where she ranked. Come dive in to the deep end with us."

Note: Dreamgirls appears on the list twice at #8 for Jennifer Hudson and #35 for Beyoncé.

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  1. 5 new

    The Wizard of Oz

    1939, in 37 top lists Check
  2. 36 new

    The Wiz

    1978, in 0 top lists Check
  3. 38 new

    Oh, God!

    1977, in 1 top list Check
  4. 43 new

    Cabin in the Sky

    1943, in 3 top lists Check
  5. 51 new

    Dogma

    1999, in 1 top list Check
  6. 53 new

    Like Mike

    2002, in 0 top lists Check
  7. 58 new

    Scrooged

    1988, in 0 top lists Check
  8. 74 new

    Dead Man

    1995, in 12 top lists Check
  9. 86 new

    Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

    2011, in 2 top lists Check
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Last updated on Jan 8, 2024; source