Comedy: the year in movies

33 movie dates

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January

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1 Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) Back to the Future Part III (1990) Neil Affleck Cynthia Dale +6 more

2 Ben Hardy

3 Nicole Beharie Florence Pugh Robert Loggia Bernhard Wicki

4 George P. Cosmatos Greg Zola

5 Bradley Cooper Ronald F. Maxwell Earl Boen

6 Norman Reedus Eddie Redmayne

7 Nicolas Cage Andrew Marton

8 Leap Year (2010) Leprechaun (1993) Gaby Hoffmann

9 J.K. Simmons Joey Lauren Adams Joan Baez Melinda Dillon +1 more

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11 Kyle Richards Alfonso Arau Beulah Bondi Angela Paton +1 more

12 Keith Knight Kinji Fukasaku

13 Michael Peña Patrick Dempsey Joe Spinell

14 Alan Rickman Donna Reed Michael Gwisdek Shelley Winters +2 more

15 Eddie Cahill

16 Mark Jones John Carpenter Josh Evans

17 Mark Jones Sofia Shinas James Earl Jones Betty White +3 more

18 Alexis Chikaeze Kevin Costner Britt McKillip

19 Donnie Darko (2001) Don Austen Damien Chazelle

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21 Michael Wincott Richie Havens

22 The Boondock Saints (1999) Jane Downs John Hurt Donald Madden

23 David Patrick Kelly Hal Holbrook Ewen Bremner

24 Jerome Cowan Ernest Borgnine

25 Jorge R. Gutierrez John Hurt

26 Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) Herbert Siguenza Scott Glenn Edwin Hodge +2 more

27 Before Sunrise (1995) Donna Reed

28 Elijah Wood

29 Edward Burns John Forsythe

30 Christian Bale Gene Hackman Catherine O'Hara

31 Paul Kelman Alf Humphreys

February

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1 Brandon Lee

2 Groundhog Day (1993) Philip Seymour Hoffman Donald Pleasence Carl Weathers

3 Warwick Davis Blythe Danner

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5 Michael Mann Barbara Hershey Laura Linney Tom Wilkinson +2 more

6 Miracle (2004) John Sanderford Maria Simon Kathy Najimy +2 more

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8 Mary Steenburgen Jack Lemmon

9 Joe Pesci Ciarán Hinds

10 Valentine's Day (2010) Thibault de Montalembert Roy Scheider Christopher Abbott

11 Groundhog Day (1993) My Bloody Valentine (1981) Jennifer Aniston Kim Stanley +1 more

12 Ajay Naidu Darren Aronofsky

13 Good Bye Lenin! (2003) Carol Lynley Martin Balsam

14 Sleepless in Seattle (1993) Valentine's Day (2010) Joan O'Brien

15 The Breakfast Club (1985)

16 Mahershala Ali John Cairney Howard Da Silva

17 Lou Diamond Phillips Gene Hackman Stella Stevens Hal Holbrook +2 more

18 Molly Ringwald John Hughes Louis Calhern

19 Eric Dane Jeff Daniels Quinn Lord

20 John Voldstad

21 Alan Rickman Themo Melikidze Anthony Daniels

22 Drew Barrymore Kyle MacLachlan

23 V for Vendetta (2005) Linda Cristal David Warshofsky Emily Blunt +1 more

24 John Randolph Harold Ramis Billy Zane So Yamamura

25 Neil Jordan Bill Paxton Carl Marotte William Frawley +2 more

26 200 Cigarettes (1999) Shay Duffin Stephen Pearlman Dub Taylor

27 Kate Mara Timothy Spall Noah Emmerich

28 Rory Cochrane Charles Durning David Johansen

29 Leap Year (2010)

March

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1 The Doors (1991) Roger Daltrey Ron Howard Zach Cregger

2 John Cullum

3 Jessica Biel Tom Sizemore William Frawley

4 Garth Jennings Henry Travers Catherine O'Hara Thayer David

5 Joan Shawlee

6 Rob Reiner

7 Country Joe McDonald Larry Bagby John Heard James Broderick

8 Kendrick Sampson John Kapelos

9 Jack Smight Tobias Jelinek

10 Shin Koyamada

11 Peter Berg Thora Birch

12 Jerry Levine Aaron Eckhart

13 Emile Hirsch George MacKay Dana Delany Common +1 more

14 Jamie Bell Raymond J. Barry Michael Caine Pat Laffan +2 more

15 Stuart Rosenberg Renny Harlin Matt Clark Judd Hirsch

16 Florian Lukas

17 Leprechaun (1993) Kurt Russell José Garcia Casey Siemaszko +1 more

18 Carl Gottlieb Emily Piggford

19 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Bruce Willis

20 Jack Kruschen

21 Gary Oldman Rosie O'Donnell Matthew Broderick

22 Guillermo Díaz Joan Shawlee Reese Witherspoon

23 Michelle Monaghan Sully Boyar Ken Howard

24 The Breakfast Club (1985) Murray Hamilton Richard Widmark Jessica Chastain +1 more

25 Edgar Ramírez Bonnie Bedelia Roberts Blossom Sarah Jessica Parker +1 more

26 Woodstock (1970) James Tolkan Marita Geraghty James Caan

27 April Fool's Day (1986) Art Evans Billy Wilder Emily Ann Lloyd

28 Richard Kelly Richard Griffiths Ken Howard

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30 Richard Dysart Kenneth Welsh Warren Beatty Tawny Moyer

31 Brandon Lee Gene Lockhart Ewan McGregor Marc McClure +2 more

April

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1 Val Kilmer Jane Adams David Oyelowo Toshirō Mifune +1 more

2 Jack Kruschen Edin Hasanović Alec Guinness Anthony Bushell

3 Robert Hy Gorman Alf Humphreys Angela Featherstone Marlon Brando +4 more

4 Barry Pepper Bob Marley Bob Clark Robert Downey Jr. +2 more

5 Richard Dysart Charlton Heston Honor Blackman

6 Michael Rooker Greer Garson

7 Alan J. Pakula Russell Crowe Tim Pigott-Smith

8 Taylor Kitsch

9 All the President's Men (1976) Dennis Quaid Ward Bond Sidney Lumet

10 Barkhad Abdi Brian Setzer

11 Alexa Gerasimovich Tedde Moore

12 Jay Baker

13 Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) William Sadler Ron Perlman

14 Rod Steiger Anthony Michael Hall John Gielgud

15 Thomas F. Wilson

16 Peter Billingsley Claire Foy

17 Doris Roberts George Seaton

18 Maria Bello Kenny Ortega

19 James Franco Kate Hudson George P. Cosmatos Hayden Christensen +1 more

20 Veronica Cartwright Leslie Phillips Crispin Glover

21 Andie MacDowell

22 Bastille Day (2016) Ken Olandt Richie Havens Ken Annakin

23 Shay Duffin Ronald Neame Jaime King

24 Shirley MacLaine Michael Mantenuto Aidan Gillen Richard Donner

25 Al Pacino Talia Shire Renée Zellweger

26 Channing Tatum Peter H. Hunt

27 Anna Chancellor

28 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) United 93 (2006) Mary McDonnell Jessica Alba +4 more

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30 Mean Girls (2004) Kirsten Dunst Johnny Galecki Peter Mayhew +1 more

May

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1 Glenn Ford

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3 Beulah Bondi Amy Steel

4 David Della Rocco Paul Gleason Howard Da Silva

5 Kenneth Welsh Bernard Hill Lisa Jane Persky

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7 Alexander Ludwig Darren McGavin

8 Fred Ward Michel Gondry

9 Daniel Franzese Edmond O'Brien

10 Dallas Roberts Sally Phillips David Mackenzie

11 The Crow (1994) Aaron Hilmer Denver Pyle Susan Backlinie +2 more

12 Scott Schwartz Stephen Baldwin Rami Malek Emilio Estevez +1 more

13 Margot Kidder Michael Mantenuto Tim Pigott-Smith

14 Natasha Ryan Amber Tamblyn Joan O'Brien Robert Zemeckis +3 more

15 James Mason Joseph Cotten Tatsuya Mihashi Brigitte Bako

16 Angela Paton Henry Fonda Takahiro Tamura

17 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) Bill Paxton Corey Johnson Rochelle Aytes

18 Alexander Godunov Frank Capra Allen Leech

19 Pete Townshend Jessica Fox Nora Ephron Peter Mayhew +2 more

20 James Watkins Joe Cocker Tony Goldwyn James Stewart +3 more

21 Pearl Harbor (2001) John Gielgud

22 Ginnifer Goodwin

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24 Jim Broadbent James Cosmo

25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) Star Wars (1977) Back to the Future Part III (1990) Ethan Suplee +3 more

26 John Wayne Helena Bonham Carter Peter Cushing Margaret Colin +2 more

27 Paul Gleason

28 Dazed and Confused (1993) Jesse Bradford John Payne

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30 Renée Victor Stephen Tobolowsky Omri Katz Michael J. Pollard +1 more

31 The Purge (2013) Clint Eastwood Tom Berenger Lea Thompson +3 more

June

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1 John Randolph Powers Boothe David Rudman Morgan Freeman +1 more

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4 Julius Caesar (1953) Miracle on 34th Street (1947) Sean Gullette James Callis

5 Mark Wahlberg Barkhad Abdirahman

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7 Trading Places (1983) Pamela Susan Shoop

8 Troy Duffy Pat Laffan

9 Michael J. Fox Johnny Depp Natalie Portman

10 Jonathan Bennett

11 Gene Wilder John Wayne

12 Treat Williams Rick Ducommun Beulah Garrick

13 Ally Sheedy Sean McCann Aaron Taylor-Johnson

14 Rochelle Davis Faizon Love

15 Ice Cube Rick Rosenthal

16 Daniel Brühl Laurie Metcalf Jack Albertson Ronald Neame +3 more

17 Ralph Bellamy

18 Midway (1976) E.G. Marshall Richard Madden Ronald Allen +1 more

19 James Gandolfini Zoe Saldaña

20 Jaws (1975) John Goodman James Tolkan

21 The Apartment (1960) Juliette Lewis Meredith Baxter

22 Wolfgang Becker Billy Wilder

23 Joel Edgerton

24 Sleepless in Seattle (1993) Alexander Beyer Anand Tucker

25 John Benjamin Hickey Samia Shoaib Sidney Lumet

26 Luis Valdez Nora Ephron Leo Rossi

27 Linda Cristal John Entwistle Jack Lemmon

28 Kathy Bates

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30 Apollo 13 (1995) Lizzy Caplan Mark Waters Rupert Graves +1 more

July

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1 Public Enemies (2009) Andre Braugher Robert Mitchum Marlon Brando +1 more

2 Independence Day (1996) James Stewart Hanno Pöschl Lindsay Lohan

3 A Night to Remember (1958) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Back to the Future (1985) Die Hard 2 (1990) +5 more

4 Gloria Stuart

5 Richard Donner Claudia Wells

6 Geoffrey Rush Sylvester Stallone William Lee Scott James Caan +1 more

7 Shelley Duvall Ross Malinger

8 Lori Hallier Kevin Bacon Billy Crudup Ernest Borgnine +1 more

9 Rod Steiger Tom Hanks Jimmy Smits

10 Pi (1998) Thomas Mitchell Jerry Nelson

11 Connor Paolo Shelley Duvall Stephen Lang Faysal Ahmed +1 more

12 When Harry Met Sally... (1989) Kenneth More Jamey Sheridan

13 Harrison Ford Red Buttons

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15 Die Hard (1988) Patrick Wayne Jeffrey Kramer

16 Hocus Pocus (1993) Scott Derrickson Dave Goelz Will Ferrell

17 Jason Clarke P. J. Soles Thayer David Brenda Fricker

18 James Brolin Chill Wills Vin Diesel Kelly Reilly +2 more

19 Oppenheimer (2023) Mark Holton Garry Marshall Richard Jordan +4 more

20 Natalie Wood Dominik Castell Frank Whaley

21 Robin Williams Josh Hartnett John Heard Arija Bareikis +1 more

22 Willem Dafoe Jaime Camil Terence Stamp

23 Philip Seymour Hoffman

24 La Bamba (1987) Saving Private Ryan (1998) Chris Sarandon Anna Paquin

25 Renée Victor

26 Jean Shepherd Jason Robards Kate Beckinsale

27 The Amityville Horror (1979) Sam Shepard James Mason

28 Charles Cyphers George Seaton

29 Stephen Dorff

30 Richard Linklater William Atherton Gina Rodriguez Christopher Nolan +2 more

31 Richard Griffiths Michael Biehn

August

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1 Sam Mendes

2 Frank Faylen Edward Furlong

3 Mark Margolis Martin Sheen John Landis

4 Charles Cyphers

5 Mark Strong Tedde Moore Bob Clark Alec Guinness +2 more

6 De'voreaux White John Hughes Robert Mitchum

7 John Glover

8 Richard Anderson Michael Chernus Lee Unkrich Earl Boen +1 more

9 World Trade Center (2006) Eric Bana Sam Elliott Perry Crawford +2 more

10 Antonio Banderas Ken Annakin

11 Stuart Rosenberg Robin Williams Peter Cushing Anna Gunn +1 more

12 Casey Affleck Henry Fonda

13 Bonnie and Clyde (1967) John Slattery Paul Greengrass Kenny Baker

14 Bruno Kirby

15 Ben Affleck

16 Reginald VelJohnson Donovan Leitch James Cameron Lorraine Gary +1 more

17 Maureen O'Hara Terence Stamp Rajiv Surendra

18 Christian Slater Shelley Winters Robert Redford Glenn Plummer

19 Kyra Sedgwick Kevin Dillon

20 Kim Stanley Amy Adams

21 John Amos Albrecht Schuch

22 Keith Knight Colm Feore Honor Blackman

23 Keith Moon

24 Dave Chappelle E.G. Marshall Jerry Nelson Ava DuVernay +4 more

25 David Alan Basche Tom Hollander Sean Connery Tim Curry

26 Dylan O'Brien Macaulay Culkin Delphi Harrington Toshio Masuda +1 more

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28 Chadwick Boseman Daniel Stern Robert Shaw

29 Gene Wilder George Macready Ed Asner

30 Richard Jordan Fred MacMurray Glenn Ford

31 Richard Anderson Joshua Close James Coburn Takahiro Tamura

September

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1 Don Stroud Murray Hamilton Jack Smight Susan Backlinie

2 Back to the Future Part III (1990) Rosanna DeSoto Austin Abrams

3 Frank Capra Carol Lynley Holt McCallany

4 Domiziana Giordano Charlotte Le Bon

5 Carice van Houten Erni Mangold Bob Newhart

6 Outlaw King (2018) Idris Elba Edmund Gwenn John Cairney

7 Back to the Future Part III (1990) Sully (2016) Dean-Charles Chapman Keith Moon

8 Martin Freeman Thomas Kretschmann

9 The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) James Earl Jones Cliff Robertson Burgess Meredith +1 more

10 James Duval Ryan Phillippe Kate Burton Colin Firth +3 more

11 Taraji P. Henson

12 Paul Walker Robert John Burke Joe Pantoliano

13 Walk the Line (2005) Burghart Klaußner

14 K.C. Martel

15 Oliver Stone Tommy Lee Jones Wendie Jo Sperber

16 Resident Evil (2026) Robert Redford

17 Kyle Chandler Roddy McDowall Bryan Singer Andrea Eckert

18 Beth Grant Anna Thomson Frankie Avalon James Gandolfini +2 more

19 Felix Kammerer

20 Kenneth More Leah Pinsent

21 Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Bill Murray Joseph Mazzello

22 Michael Gwisdek

23 Alex Proyas Anthony Gonzalez Elizabeth Peña

24 Dazed and Confused (1993) Michael Wadleigh Steve Whitmire Sean McCann

25 The Longest Day (1962) Miss Juneteenth (2020) Caroline Kava Mark Hamill +2 more

26 Paul Kelman Ben Shenkman Edmund Gwenn Linda Hamilton +1 more

27 Michael Gambon Arthur Penn

28 Deepwater Horizon (2016) Janeane Garofalo Arthur Penn

29 Greer Garson

30 Stephen Pearlman Marion Cotillard John Finn Lacey Chabert +1 more

October

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1 The Book of Life (2014) Laurence Harvey Chulpan Khamatova Esai Morales +3 more

2 Jeffrey Weissman

3 Mean Girls (2004) Ériq Ebouaney Alanna Ubach Roddy McDowall +2 more

4 John Larch Charlton Heston

5 Donald Pleasence Guy Pearce Tom Hooper Kate Winslet +3 more

6 Porter Hall Jerome Cowan Elisabeth Shue Denholm Elliott

7 All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) Dylan Baker

8 Gettysburg (1993) Chevy Chase Jeremy Davies Matt Damon +3 more

9 John Entwistle Sam Spruell

10 Captain Phillips (2013) First Man (2018) Ali Suliman Bai Ling +1 more

11 Sean Patrick Flanery

12 Hiroyuki Sanada James DeMonaco Hugh Jackman Deborah Foreman

13 Strange Days (1995) Melinda Dillon Sacha Baron Cohen

14 Elizabeth Peña

15 Paul Walter Hauser

16 John Larch Gerard Parkes Jean Shepherd Deborah Kerr

17 Margot Kidder Brian Andrews

18 Henry Travers Joe Morton

19 Flags of Our Fathers (2006) Gerard Parkes Michael Gambon David Lewis +2 more

20 The Right Stuff (1983) Danny Boyle

21 Back to the Future Part II (1989) Carrie Fisher Andrew Scott Ken Watanabe +2 more

22 Derek Jacobi Christopher Lloyd Shelby Lynne Carmen Ejogo +1 more

23 The Alamo (1960) Philip Kaufman Katrin Sass Kate del Castillo

24 Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) Maureen O'Hara

25 Halloween (1978) Adam Goldberg

26 Back to the Future (1985) Anthony Rapp Cary Elwes Roger Allam

27 Coco (2017) Theodore Melfi Patrick Fugit

28 Dennis Franz Joaquin Phoenix Jane Alexander Bernhard Wicki +2 more

29 Ben Foster Richard Dreyfuss

30 Halloween II (1981) Michael Beach Clémence Poésy

31 Hocus Pocus (1993) Trick 'r Treat (2007) Stephen Rea Brian Doyle-Murray +2 more

November

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1 Helene Udy Alex Wolff Max Burkholder Mary Kate Schellhardt +2 more

2 Ray Walston Tatsuya Mihashi

3 Diane Ladd Brian Henson Tony Rohr

4 Matthew McConaughey Doris Roberts Jihmi Kennedy Martin Balsam +1 more

5 Back to the Future (1985) Sam Rockwell J.D. Evermore Sam Shepard +5 more

6 Thandiwe Newton Wiley Wiggins Ethan Hawke

7 Elf (2003) Holmes Osborne Jason London Liz Mikel +1 more

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9 Good Bye Lenin! (2003) 1776 (1972) Eric Dane Billy Howle

10 Roland Emmerich Roy Scheider Richard Burton

11 Interview with the Vampire (1994) Adam Beach Robert Ryan Leonardo DiCaprio

12 Back to the Future (1985) Back to the Future Part II (1989) 127 Hours (2010) Anne Hathaway +1 more

13 Garry Marshall

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15 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) Beverly D'Angelo Lionel Barrymore Ed Asner

16 Home Alone (1990) Maggie Gyllenhaal Burgess Meredith

17 Rachel McAdams Leslie Bibb

18 A Christmas Story (1983) James Coburn

19 Meg Ryan Kathleen Quinlan Alan J. Pakula

20 Rhys Wakefield Michael J. Pollard Estelle Parsons

21 Jena Malone Harold Ramis

22 Back to the Future Part II (1989) Scrooged (1988) Jamie Lee Curtis Mark Ruffalo

23 Franco Nero

24 Billy Connolly Gwilym Lee Shirley Henderson

25 Jerry Ferrara Laurence Harvey Matt Clark Jack Albertson +1 more

26 The King's Speech (2010) Mark Margolis Evans Evans

27 Kathryn Bigelow William Fichtner

28 Alexander Godunov Judd Nelson Ed Harris Colman Domingo +2 more

29 Chadwick Boseman Diane Ladd Tom Sizemore Natalie Wood +2 more

30 National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) Paul Walker Sasha Jenson Gael García Bernal +3 more

December

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1 The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Treat Williams Janelle Monáe Bette Midler

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3 Rocky (1976) Barbara Garrick Amanda Seyfried

4 Robert Loggia Gemma Jones

5 The Last Samurai (2003) Armando Riesco

6 John Payne Don Ameche

7 C. Thomas Howell Jennifer Carpenter

8 Frank Faylen John Cazale Richard Fleischer

9 Trick 'r Treat (2007) John Malkovich

10 Hidden Figures (2016) Kenneth Branagh

11 The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) Yasiin Bey David Lewis Andre Braugher +1 more

12 Patriots Day (2016) Bill Nighy Wolfgang Becker Kenneth Cranham +1 more

13 Jamie Foxx Perry Crawford Tony Curran

14 Patrick O'Brien Demsey Rob Reiner Sully Boyar

15 Glory (1989) Chill Wills

16 Benjamin Bratt James Mangold Ronald Allen Gretchen Palmer

17 Ernie Hudson Giovanni Ribisi Ian Petrella Thomas Mitchell +3 more

18 Titanic (1997) Les Misérables (2012) Brad Pitt Steven Spielberg +1 more

19 Zero Dark Thirty (2012) Jake Gyllenhaal Nancy Kyes Roy Ward Baker +1 more

20 Born on the Fourth of July (1989) JFK (1991) It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

21 Art Evans Danielle von Zerneck Julie Delpy John G. Avildsen +1 more

22 Héctor Elizondo Joe Cocker Ralph Fiennes

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24 Home Alone (1990) Elf (2003) National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) Scrooged (1988) +6 more

25 A Christmas Story (1983) Miracle on 34th Street (1947) Selma (2014) 1917 (2019) +4 more

26 Richard Widmark Jason Robards

27 Carrie Fisher John Amos

28 Black Hawk Down (2001) Denzel Washington André Holland

29 Jennifer Ehle Patricia Clarkson Diego Luna James McTeigue

30 Fred Ward Tom Wilkinson

31 When Harry Met Sally... (1989) The Apartment (1960) Trading Places (1983) 200 Cigarettes (1999) +2 more