| 1. | Vito Corleone of The Godfather |
| 2. | Fred C. Dobbs of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| 3. | Scarlett O'Hara of Gone With the Wind |
| 4. | Norman Bates of Psycho |
| 5. | James Bond of Dr. No |
| 6. | Annie Hall of Annie Hall |
| 7. | Indiana Jones of Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| 8. | Ellen Ripley of Alien |
| 9. | Jeff Spicoli of Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| 10. | Gollum of Lord of the Rings |
| 11. | Margo Channing of All About Eve |
| 12. | Charles Foster Kane of Citizen Kane |
| 13. | Atticus Finch of To Kill a Mockingbird |
| 14. | Randle McMurphy of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| 15. | Hannibal Lecter of The Silence of the Lambs |
| 16. | Robin Hood of The Adventures of Robin Hood |
| 17. | Dorothy Gale of The Wizard of Oz |
| 18. | Carl Spackler of Caddyshack |
| 19. | Rick Blaine of Casablanca |
| 20. | Virgil Tibbs of In the Heat of the Night |
| 21. | Susan Vance of Bringing up Baby |
| 22. | Travis Bickle of Taxi Driver |
| 23. | Eathan Edwards of The Searchers |
| 24. | The Little Tramp of Mabel's Strange Predicament |
| 25. | Gordon Gekko of Wall Street |
| 26. | E.T. of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial |
| 27. | Marge Gunderson of Fargo |
| 28. | Captain Quint of Jaws |
| 29. | Daphne/Jerry of Some Like it Hot |
| 30. | King Kong of King Kong |
| 31. | Norma Desmond of Sunset Boulevard |
| 32. | Holly Golightly of Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| 33. | Ratso Rizzo of Midnight Cowboy |
| 34. | Bonnie Parker of Bonnie and Clyde |
| 35. | Dr. Evil of Austin Powers |
| 36. | Alex Forrest of Fatal Attraction |
| 37. | Jake Gittes of Chinatown |
| 38. | Willy Wonka of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory |
| 39. | Michael Dorsey/Dorthy Michaels of Tootsie |
| 40. | The Terminator of The Terminator |
| 41. | Jane Craig of Broadcast News |
| 42. | "Dirty" Harry Callahan of Dirty Harry |
| 43. | Forrest Gump of Forrest Gump |
| 44. | Jules Winnfield of Pulp Fiction |
| 45. | Mary Poppins of Mary Poppins |
| 46. | John McClane of Die Hard |
| 47. | Mrs. Robinson of The Graduate |
| 48. | John "Bluto" Blutarsky of Animal House |
| 49. | Chance the Gardener of Being There |
| 50. | Blondie of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly |
| 51. | Freddy Krueger of A Nightmare on Elm Street |
| 52. | Howard Beale of Network |
| 53. | Ninotchka of Ninotchka |
| 54. | Frank Booth of Blue Velvet |
| 55. | The Dude of The Big Lebowski |
| 56. | Alan Swann of My Favorite Year |
| 57. | Tom Powers of The Public Enemy |
| 58. | Phyliss Dietrichson of Double Indemnity |
| 59. | Lt. Kilgore of Apocalypse Now |
| 60. | George Bailey of It's a Wonderful Life |
| 61. | J.J. Hunsecker of Sweet Smell of Success |
| 62. | John Shaft of Shaft |
| 63. | Carrie White of Carrie |
| 64. | Rocky Balboa of Rocky |
| 65. | Edward Scissorhands of Edward Scissorhands |
| 66. | Navin Johnson of The Jerk |
| 67. | Inspector Clouseau of The Pink Panther |
| 68. | Alex DeLarge of A Clockwork Orange |
| 69. | Terry Malloy of On the Waterfront |
| 70. | Judy Benjamin of Private Benjamin |
| 71. | Rev. Harry Powell of The Night of the Hunter |
| 72. | Lloyd Dobler of Say Anything |
| 73. | Norma Rae of Norma Rae |
| 74. | Tony Montana of Scarface |
| 75. | Dr. Strangelove of Dr. Strangelove |
| 76. | Tony Manero of Saturday Night Fever |
| 77. | Annie Wilkes of Misery |
| 78. | "Mad" Max Rockatansky of Mad Max |
| 79. | Hans Beckert of M |
| 80. | Sam Spade of The Maltese Falcon |
| 81. | Aurora Greenway of Terms of Endearment |
| 82. | Jack Torrance of The Shining |
| 83. | William Cutting of Gangs of New York |
| 84. | Darth Vader of Star Wars |
| 85. | Stanley Kowalski of A Streetcar Named Desire |
| 86. | Melanie Daniels of The Birds |
| 87. | Captain Jack Sparrow of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl |
| 88. | Raymond Babbitt of Rain Man |
| 89. | Sandy Olsson of Grease |
| 90. | John Malkovich of Being John Malkovich |
| 91. | Mrs. Iselin of The Manchurian Candidate |
| 92. | Dil of The Crying Game |
| 93. | Harry Lime of The Third Man |
| 94. | Rose Sayer of The African Queen |
| 95. | Oda Mae Brown of Ghost |
| 96. | Tommy DeVito of GoodFellas |
| 97. | Ace Ventura of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective |
| 98. | Antoine Doinel of The 400 Blows |
| 99. | Kevin McCallister of Home Alone |
| 100. | Roger "Verbal" Kint of The Usual Suspects |