Florida Man's Top 100 Voice Performances of All-Time
Florida Man vs. the overlooked art of voice-acting (Part 7 of 7)
I just completed my series of 6 articles on my 25 top voice-acting performances in cinema. In this article, I want to just give the list of my full top 100 list. I give high praise to any performance on this list. For many of the pieces below #25, I heavily debated if I should put them in the top 25. As I created the list, some entered the top 25, and some exited. Ultimately, I am happy with the list that I created, but I wanted to shed light on all of these performances. In my preparation for this series, I listened to 200+ voice performances.
Before I fully delve in, here are the six previous articles from this series.
#1 ranking: Andy Serkis as Gollum in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
I also want to give my criteria for this list by giving an excerpt from my first installment:
The definition of a “voice performance” can be murky, but I am going to define it as a performance by an actor whose physical human body does not appear whenever the respective character visually appears on screen.
Many of these rankings of voice performances online often focus on how WACKY the voice is. People want to be ENTERTAINED. I do see this as a huge part of the importance of a voice role, but — for my ranking — I am largely considering how integral the voice performance is to the themes of the film. Because voice actors do not have their body to perform, they — by definition — have to put more effort into the voice. With my criteria, how the voice actor approaches the role must have some thematic consequence to the film in addition to the entertainment value and impressiveness of the intonations and range of the voice. Many of these characters also appear in multiple films in a franchise. If this is the case, I chose a single film in the series in which the voice actor performs the character in the most impactful way.
Here is the full list:
