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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Moonstruck
1987, in 10 top lists Check -
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The Way We Were
1973, in 6 top lists Check -
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From Here to Eternity
1953, in 13 top lists Check -
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Grease
1978, in 12 top lists Check -
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Pillow Talk
1959, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Rose
1979, in 1 top list Check -
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A Star Is Born
1976, in 2 top lists Check -
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Carmen Jones
1954, in 7 top lists Check -
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Poetic Justice
1993, in 1 top list Check -
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Monster's Ball
2001, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Love Parade
1929, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Cider House Rules
1999, in 1 top list Check -
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Tacones lejanos
1991 — a.k.a. High Heels, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Gang's All Here
1943 — a.k.a. The Girls He Left Behind, in 3 top lists Check -
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Burlesque
2010, in 0 top lists Check -
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Pure Country
1992, in 0 top lists Check -
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding
2002, in 3 top lists Check -
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Crazy, Stupid, Love.
2011, in 0 top lists Check -
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Annie Hall
1977, in 34 top lists Check -
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Rachel Getting Married
2008, in 1 top list Check -
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La ley del monte
1976, in 0 top lists Check
Last updated on Jan 8, 2024; source