The American Film Institute in Los Angeles, California selected the 50 greatest Film Star Legends (composed of the top 25 women and top 25 men - defined as actors or a team of actors 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 marked a completed body of work).
Fifty of today's stars paid tribute to the 50 screen legends (hence, 100 stars) during a 3-hour CBS television broadcast in June of 1999.
From a list of 500 nominees (250 in each gender category, as compiled by AFI historians, the following criteria was used in vote-casting by a jury of film artists (directors, screenwriters, actors, etc.), critics, historians, executives and other cultural leaders to select the 25 Greatest Men and 25 Greatest Women Screen Legends of all time:
Criteria for Star Legends Selection:
Greatest Film Star Legends
The 500 Screen Legend Nominees
(Winners, Identified by this Graphic Symbol star and
Ranking)
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