AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars
The American Film Institute's AFI 100 Years... series includes AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars ranking their selections for the top 25 male and 25 female greatest screen legends of American film history. On June 15, 1999 a CBS special hosted by Shirley Temple unveiled the list with 50 current actors making the presentations.
AFI defined an "American screen legend" as an actor or a team of actors during the Classical Hollywood cinema era with a significant screen presence in American feature-length films 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, ie., actors recognized for their contributions to classical Hollywood American cinema.
The top stars of their respective gender are Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. They starred together in the classic adventure 1951 film The African Queen, for which Bogart won his only Academy Award. Sidney Poitier and Sophia Loren are the only surviving members mentioned on the list.List of 50 greatest screen legends: Top 25 Male and Top 25 Female stars
