| Heroes | Film | Actor/Actress | ||
| 1 | Atticus Finch | To Kill a Mockingbird | Gregory Peck | |
| 2 | Indiana Jones | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Harrison Ford | |
| 3 | James Bond | Dr. No | Sean Connery | |
| 4 | Rick Blaine | Casablanca | Humphrey Bogart | |
| 5 | Will Kane | High Noon | Gary Cooper | |
| 6 | Clarice Starling | The Silence of the Lambs | Jodie Foster | |
| 7 | Rocky Balboa | Rocky | Sylvester Stallone | |
| 8 | Ellen Ripley | Aliens | Sigourney Weaver | |
| 9 | George Bailey | It's a Wonderful Life | James Stewart | |
| 10 | T. E. Lawrence | Lawrence of Arabia | Peter O'Toole | |
| 11 | Jefferson Smith | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | James Stewart | |
| 12 | Tom Joad | The Grapes of Wrath | Henry Fonda | |
| 13 | Oskar Schindler | Schindler's List | Liam Neeson | |
| 14 | Han Solo | Star Wars | Harrison Ford | |
| 15 | Norma Rae Webster | Norma Rae | Sally Field | |
| 16 | Shane | Shane | Alan Ladd | |
| 17 | Harry Callahan | Dirty Harry | Clint Eastwood | |
| 18 | Robin Hood | The Adventures of Robin Hood | Errol Flynn | |
| 19 | Virgil Tibbs | In the Heat of the Night | Sidney Poitier | |
| 20 | Butch & Sundance | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Paul Newman & Robert Redford | |
| 21 | Mohandas K. Gandhi | Gandhi | Ben Kingsley | |
| 22 | Spartacus | Spartacus | Kirk Douglas | |
| 23 | Terry Malloy | On the Waterfront | Marlon Brando | |
| 24 | Thelma Dickenson & Louise Sawyer | Thelma & Louise | Geena Davis & Susan Sarandon | |
| 25 | Lou Gehrig | The Pride of the Yankees | Gary Cooper | |
| 26 | Superman | Superman | Christopher Reeve | |
| 27 | Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein | All the President's Men | Robert Redford & Dustin Hoffman | |
| 28 | Juror #8 | 12 Angry Men | Henry Fonda | |
| 29 | General George Patton | Patton | George C. Scott | |
| 30 | Luke Jackson | Cool Hand Luke | Paul Newman | |
| 31 | Erin Brockovich | Erin Brockovich | Julia Roberts | |
| 32 | Philip Marlowe | The Big Sleep | Humphrey Bogart | |
| 33 | Marge Gunderson | Fargo | Frances McDormand | |
| 34 | Tarzan | Tarzan the Ape Man | Johnny Weissmuller | |
| 35 | Alvin York | Sergeant York | Gary Cooper | |
| 36 | Rooster Cogburn | True Grit | John Wayne | |
| 37 | Obi-Wan Kenobi | Star Wars | Alec Guiness | |
| 38 | The Tramp | City Lights | Charlie Chaplin | |
| 39 | Lassie | Lassie Come Home | Pal | |
| 40 | Frank Serpico | Serpico | Al Pacino | |
| 41 | Arthur Chipping | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Robert Donat | |
| 42 | Father Edward J. Flanagan | Boys Town | Spencer Tracy | |
| 43 | Moses | The Ten Commandments | Charlton Heston | |
| 44 | Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle | The French Connection | Gene Hackman | |
| 45 | Zorro | The Mark of Zorro | Tyrone Power | |
| 46 | Batman | Batman | Michael Keaton | |
| 47 | Karen Silkwood | Silkwood | Meryl Streep | |
| 48 | The Terminator | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | Arnold Schwarzenegger | |
| 49 | Andrew Beckett | Philadelphia | Tom Hanks | |
| 50 | Maximus Decimus Meridius | Gladiator | Russell Crowe | |
| Villains | Film | Actor/Actress | ||
| 1 | Dr. Hannibal Lecter | The Silence of the Lambs | Anthony Hopkins | |
| 2 | Norman Bates | Psycho | Anthony Perkins | |
| 3 | Darth Vader | The Empire Strikes Back | David Prowse and James Earl Jones | |
| 4 | Wicked Witch of the West | The Wizard of Oz | Margaret Hamilton | |
| 5 | Nurse Ratched | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Louise Fletcher | |
| 6 | Mister Potter | It's a Wonderful Life | Lionel Barrymore | |
| 7 | Alex Forrest | Fatal Attraction | Glenn Close | |
| 8 | Phyllis Dietrichson | Double Indemnity | Barbara Stanwyck | |
| 9 | Regan MacNeil | The Exorcist | Linda Blair | |
| 10 | The Queen | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | Lucille La Verne | |
| 11 | Michael Corleone | The Godfather Part II | Al Pacino | |
| 12 | Alex DeLarge | A Clockwork Orange | Malcolm McDowell | |
| 13 | HAL 9000 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Douglas Rain | |
| 14 | The Alien | Alien | Bolaji Badejo | |
| 15 | Amon Göth | Schindler's List | Ralph Fiennes | |
| 16 | Noah Cross | Chinatown | John Huston | |
| 17 | Annie Wilkes | Misery | Kathy Bates | |
| 18 | The Shark | Jaws | ||
| 19 | Captain Bligh | Mutiny on the Bounty | Charles Laughton | |
| 20 | Man | Bambi | ||
| 21 | Mrs. John Iselin | The Manchurian Candidate | Angela Lansbury | |
| 22 | The Terminator | The Terminator | Arnold Schwarzenegger | |
| 23 | Eve Harrington | All About Eve | Anne Baxter | |
| 24 | Gordon Gekko | Wall Street | Michael Douglas | |
| 25 | Jack Torrance | The Shining | Jack Nicholson | |
| 26 | Cody Jarrett | White Heat | James Cagney | |
| 27 | Martians | The War of the Worlds | ||
| 28 | Max Cady | Cape Fear | Robert Mitchum | |
| 29 | Reverend Harry Powell | The Night of the Hunter | Robert Mitchum | |
| 30 | Travis Bickle | Taxi Driver | Robert De Niro | |
| 31 | Mrs. Danvers | Rebecca | Judith Anderson | |
| 32 | Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow | Bonnie and Clyde | Warren Beatty & Faye Dunaway | |
| 33 | Count Dracula | Dracula | Béla Lugosi | |
| 34 | Dr. Szell | Marathon Man | Laurence Olivier | |
| 35 | J.J. Hunsecker | Sweet Smell of Success | Burt Lancaster | |
| 36 | Frank Booth | Blue Velvet | Dennis Hopper | |
| 37 | Harry Lime | The Third Man | Orson Welles | |
| 38 | Caesar Enrico Bandello | Little Caesar | Edward G. Robinson | |
| 39 | Cruella De Vil | One Hundred and One Dalmatians | Betty Lou Gerson | |
| 40 | Freddy Krueger | A Nightmare on Elm Street | Robert Englund | |
| 41 | Joan Crawford | Mommie Dearest | Faye Dunaway | |
| 42 | Tom Powers | The Public Enemy | James Cagney | |
| 43 | Regina Giddens | The Little Foxes | Bette Davis | |
| 44 | Baby Jane Hudson | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | Bette Davis | |
| 45 | The Joker | Batman | Jack Nicholson | |
| 46 | Hans Gruber | Die Hard | Alan Rickman | |
| 47 | Tony Camonte | Scarface | Paul Muni | |
| 48 | Verbal Kint | The Usual Suspects | Kevin Spacey | |
| 49 | Auric Goldfinger | Goldfinger | Gert Fröbe | |
| 50 | Alonzo Harris | Training Day | Denzel Washington | |