AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars
AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars is the American Film Institute's list ranking the top 25 male and 25 female greatest screen legends of American film history and is the second list of the AFI 100 Years... series.

The list was unveiled through a CBS special on June 15, 1999, hosted by Shirley Temple (who is herself honored on the female legends list), with 50 then-current actors making the presentations.

AFI defines an "American screen legend" as "an actor or a team of actors with a significant screen presence in American feature-length films (films of 40 minutes or more) whose screen debut occurred in or before 1950, or whose screen debut occurred after 1950 but whose death has marked a completed body of work." In other words, the list generally honors actors recognized for their contributions to classical Hollywood cinema. Jurors selected the final lists from 250 male and 250 female nominees.

Twenty-one male stars were born in the United States; the other four are Charlie Chaplin, Cary Grant, and Laurence Olivier, who were born in the United Kingdom, and Edward G. Robinson, born in Romania.

Sixteen female stars were born in the United States; the other nine are Ingrid Bergman and Greta Garbo, who were born in Sweden; Claudette Colbert, born in France; Marlene Dietrich, Germany; Audrey Hepburn,
Belgium; Vivien Leigh, India; Sophia Loren, Italy; Mary Pickford, Canada; and Elizabeth Taylor, the United Kingdom.

When the lists were unveiled, Gregory Peck, Katharine Hepburn, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley Temple, Lauren Bacall, Kirk Douglas (the longest-lived star at 103) and Sidney Poitier were still living, but have since died. At , Sophia Loren is the sole surviving star from both lists.

The 50 Greatest Screen Legends

Nominees
The legends were chosen out of a list of 250 male and 250 female nominees. The adjoining reference gives the lists of the original selection.

With the death of Sidney Poitier in January 2022, all male living legends and nominees have now died.  There is one surviving female living legend, Sophia Loren (88), and 6 remaining female nominees: Ann Blyth (94), Claire Bloom (92), Mitzi Gaynor (91), Rita Moreno (91), Piper Laurie (91) and Margaret O'Brien (86). The most recent nominee to pass away is Gina Lollobrigida, aged 95, in January 2023.

The 250 male nominees
The Actors that are part of the complete list of nominees are:

The 250 female nominees
The Actresses that are part of the complete list of nominees are:

NOTE: Those listed in bold indicate that the star is still living.

Notes

References

External links 
 
 List of the 500 nominated star legends (Archive)
 List of the 50 winning legends

1999 works
1999 in American cinema
June 1999 events in the United States
Stars
Lists of actors
Centennial anniversaries