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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Boyz n the Hood
1991, in 9 top lists Check -
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Juice
1992, in 1 top list Check -
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Chicago
2002, in 7 top lists Check -
14 new
Dancer in the Dark
2000, in 9 top lists Check -
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New Jack City
1991, in 3 top lists Check -
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Spring Breakers
2012, in 5 top lists Check -
42 new
The Big Lebowski
1998, in 26 top lists Check -
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Hustle & Flow
2005, in 0 top lists Check -
56 new
The Blues Brothers
1980, in 11 top lists Check -
62 new
Down by Law
1986, in 9 top lists Check -
63 new
Romeo Must Die
2000, in 0 top lists Check -
66 new
2 Fast 2 Furious
2003, in 3 top lists Check -
68 new
Starsky & Hutch
2004, in 0 top lists Check -
71 new
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
2005, in 0 top lists Check -
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ATL
2006, in 0 top lists Check -
73 new
Copycat
1995, in 0 top lists Check -
75 new
Belly
1998, in 1 top list Check -
76 new
The Player
1992, in 10 top lists Check -
85 new
Quadrophenia
1979, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Italian Job
2003, in 1 top list Check -
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Ocean's Eight
2018, in 2 top lists Check -
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Smokin' Aces
2006, in 0 top lists Check
Last updated on Jan 8, 2024; source