The Decade in Review: The Top 10 Actors of the Decade « A Journey Through Cinematic Heaven and Hell

posted on December 2, 2009

I guess it goes without saying that without actors, there would be no movies, unless it is a silent animated movie or a documentary. The overall quality of a movie can be decided by the quality of an actor’s work. Sometimes a good performance saves the movie from being average or from being a complete failure. At the same time they can also bring down a movie with great production values, a great script, and mostly good performances from the entire cast.

Today I’m going to focus on the actors that showed their excellence throughout this decade. It may have been one project that made them stand head and shoulders above others, or their entire filmography, but all these actors have done something very special that blew me away.

I have picked five men and five women and ranked them within their respective gender. However, I do point out who I think is the most outstanding of their profession for this decade.

(FYI, the picture represents their best performance of the decade)