Billboard's The 100 Best Acting Performances by Musicians in Movies

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"We wanted to take a look back at 100 of our all-time favorite musician appearances in feature films. They range from Oscar-winning starring turns in prestige classics to split-second cameos in cult favorites, from artists who have come to be as synonymous with film as with music to artists whose IMDB pages might just be a couple entries long. We only had three hard rules for eligibility:

1. The artist had to be well-known for music before they were well-known for film acting. (Apologies to Jamie Foxx, Lindsey Lohan and — most painfully — Jennifer Lopez.)

2. The artist couldn’t be starring as themselves in the performance, even in a somewhat fictionalized rendering. (Further regrets to Alice Cooper, The Spice Girls, and The Beatles.)

3. Only one performance per musician-actor.

Besides those, our list encompasses nearly a century of hitmakers-gone-Hollywood history, from the very beginning of the sound era all the way up to this year — and yes, Gaga made our list, though you’ll have to read on to see just where she ranked. Come dive in to the deep end with us."

Note: Dreamgirls appears on the list twice at #8 for Jennifer Hudson and #35 for Beyoncé.

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  1. 99 new

    Crossroads

    2002, in 0 top lists Check
  2. 98 new

    Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny

    2006 — a.k.a. Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny, in 0 top lists Check
  3. 97 new

    La ley del monte

    1976, in 0 top lists Check
  4. 96 new

    Rachel Getting Married

    2008, in 1 top list Check
  5. 95 new

    Dunkirk

    2017, in 8 top lists Check
  6. 94 new

    Smokin' Aces

    2006, in 0 top lists Check
  7. 93 new

    Hook

    1991, in 4 top lists Check
  8. 92 new

    Ocean's Eight

    2018, in 2 top lists Check
  9. 91 new

    Annie Hall

    1977, in 34 top lists Check
  10. 90 new

    I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

    1998, in 0 top lists Check
  11. 89 new

    Two-Lane Blacktop

    1971, in 13 top lists Check
  12. 88 new

    The Italian Job

    2003, in 1 top list Check
  13. 87 new

    Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

    2007, in 0 top lists Check
  14. 86 new

    Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

    2011, in 2 top lists Check
  15. 85 new

    Quadrophenia

    1979, in 4 top lists Check
  16. 84 new

    All Is by My Side

    2013, in 0 top lists Check
  17. 83 new

    Captain Newman, M.D.

    1963, in 0 top lists Check
  18. 82 new

    Any Given Sunday

    1999, in 0 top lists Check
  19. 81 new

    El cantante

    2006, in 0 top lists Check
  20. 80 new

    Crazy, Stupid, Love.

    2011, in 0 top lists Check
  21. 79 new

    My Big Fat Greek Wedding

    2002, in 3 top lists Check
  22. 78 new

    Pure Country

    1992, in 0 top lists Check
  23. 77 new

    Burlesque

    2010, in 0 top lists Check
  24. 76 new

    The Player

    1992, in 10 top lists Check
  25. 75 new

    Belly

    1998, in 1 top list Check
  26. 74 new

    Dead Man

    1995, in 12 top lists Check
  27. 73 new

    Copycat

    1995, in 0 top lists Check
  28. 72 new

    ATL

    2006, in 0 top lists Check
  29. 71 new

    Get Rich or Die Tryin'

    2005, in 0 top lists Check
  30. 70 new

    The Hunger Games

    2012, in 2 top lists Check
  31. 69 new

    Dope

    2015, in 0 top lists Check
  32. 68 new

    Starsky & Hutch

    2004, in 0 top lists Check
  33. 67 new

    Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

    1985, in 1 top list Check
  34. 66 new

    2 Fast 2 Furious

    2003, in 3 top lists Check
  35. 65 new

    Soul Food

    1997, in 0 top lists Check
  36. 64 new

    The Gang's All Here

    1943 — a.k.a. The Girls He Left Behind, in 3 top lists Check
  37. 63 new

    Romeo Must Die

    2000, in 0 top lists Check
  38. 62 new

    Down by Law

    1986, in 9 top lists Check
  39. 61 new

    Tacones lejanos

    1991 — a.k.a. High Heels, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Cider House Rules

    1999, in 1 top list Check
  41. 59 new

    Videodrome

    1983, in 18 top lists Check
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    Scrooged

    1988, in 0 top lists Check
  43. 57 new

    Crazy Rich Asians

    2018, in 3 top lists
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  44. 56 new

    The Blues Brothers

    1980, in 11 top lists Check
  45. 55 new

    How High

    2001, in 0 top lists Check
  46. 54 new

    Solo: A Star Wars Story

    2018, in 2 top lists Check
  47. 53 new

    Like Mike

    2002, in 0 top lists Check
  48. 52 new

    UHF

    1989, in 1 top list Check
  49. 51 new

    Dogma

    1999, in 1 top list Check
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    The Love Parade

    1929, in 5 top lists Check
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