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A Bridge too Far

James Caan
Michael Caine
Sean Connery
Elliott Gould
Gene Hackman
Anthony Hopkins
Laurence Olivier
Ryan O'Neal
Robert Redford
Maximilian Schell
Liv Ullmann

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Made for TV but Lonesome Dove has to be up there

Robert Duvall
Tommy Lee Jones
Diane Lane
Danny Glover
Ricky Schroder
Steve Buscemi
Anjelica Huston
Chris Cooper

Judgment at Nuremburg

How has nobody mentioned Saving Private Ryan

Ton Hanks
Matt Damon
Tom Sizemore
Vin Diesel
Ed Burns
Barry Pepper
Jeremy Davies
Adam Goldberg
Giovanni Ribisi
Bryan Cranston
Nathan Fillion
Ted Dansom
Paul Giamatti

plus in smaller roles
Andrew Scott - Moriarty in the Sherlock series
Ryan Hurst - Opie on sons of Anarchy
Leland Orser - crazed man in Seven, Sam Gilroy in the Taken franchise
Max Martini - 13 Hours and Pacific Rim

Dont forget

Michael Rooker from Guardians and cliffhanger and days of thunder.

Frank Stallone

Robert Mitchum as the narrator great voice

We need some sort of scoring metric to quantify these casts so a winner can be declared.

Somebody come up with something.

Kind of cheating, but is it going to be Doomsday?

Robert Downey Jr.
Chris Evans
Chris Hemsworth
Pedro Pascal
Paul Rudd
Anthony Mackie
Florence Pugh
Vanessa Kirby
Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Wyatt Russell
Channing Tatum
Simu Liu
Ian McKellen
Hayley Atwell
Tom Hiddleston
James Marsden
Patrick Stewart
Joseph Quinn
Sebastian Stan
David Harbour
Letitia Wright
Lewis Pullman
Kelsey Grammer
Kathryn Newton
Danny Ramirez
Winston Duke
Alan Cumming
Hannah John-Kamen
Rebecca Romijn
Mabel Cadena
Tenoch Huerta Meja

And likely more who haven't been announced yet, like Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Pratt, etc.

"How the West Was Won"
Directed by John Ford
Narrated by Spencer Tracy

Cast included:
John Wayne
Henry Fonda
Jimmy Stewart
Debbie Reynolds
Gregory Peck
Richard Widmark
Karl Malden
George Peppard
Lee J Cobb
Eli Wallach
Walter Brennan
Andy Devine
Raymond Massey
Harry Morgan
Agnes Moore head
Harry Dean Stanton
Lee Van Cleef

I thought it was Michael Rooker from Mallrats

Max of 40 points for an actor/actress

Best actor/actress win- 10 pts
Best actor/actress nom- 5 pts
Best supporting actor/actress win- 6 pts
Best supporting actor/actress nom- 3 pts
Lead role in a movie grossing over $500 million (inflation adjusted) or an IMDB top 250 movie- 10 pts
Lead role in a movie grossing over $200 million (inflation adjusted)- 4 points
2+ supporting roles in IMDB top 250 movies- 3 points
Have Hollywood star on walk of fame- 3 points
Simply a recognizable name gets you- 1 point

Someone plug that into Claude. Might need to remove the recognizable name to get the prompt to work.

Using those credentials, per Copilot:

1. The Godfather
2. Oppenheimer
3. The Godfather Part II
4. The Departed
5. Ocean's Eleven (2001)

Hmm see if the results change if you drop max points per actor to 20.

The real math per ChatGPT:

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I'm going to make the scoring rules a little more operational so the result is consistent: Academy Awards only, inflation-adjusted domestic grosses, and "lead role" means a clear lead/co-lead rather than simply being famous and present. I'll also cap each performer at 40 exactly as you specified.

One wrinkle in your formula is already showing up: it heavily rewards huge ensembles, so movies like Avengers: Endgame and old-school war epics are going to beat films with a smaller but absurdly elite cast. I'm treating that as a feature of your scoring system rather than trying to "correct" it.

I've got a clean way to avoid cameo-gaming: I'm using the film's formal "Starring" billing as the cast pool. That knocks out things like The Player winning just because 30 Oscar winners walk through as themselves, while still rewarding genuinely enormous ensembles.

I also think your scoring system is most naturally interpreted as career-achievement flags rather than points for every occurrence. So, for example, an actor who has ever won Best Actor gets 10; if they've also had a separate Best Actor nomination, they get another 5. Same idea for supporting categories. A qualifying blockbuster/IMDb role triggers that category once. Then the performer is capped at 40.
I screened the obvious giant ensembles plus films that combine unusually deep casts with award/box-office pedigree.

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The resulting provisional top 10 looks like this:

1. The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
30
~370 pts

2. The Longest Day
1962
~24
~350pts

3. Murder on the Orient Express
1974
17
~320pts

4.
A Bridge Too Far
1977
14
~310pts

5. Avengers: Infinity War
2018
19
~300 pts

6. Asteroid City
2023
21
~290pts

7. Avengers: Endgame
2019
16
~280pts

8. Oppenheimer
2023
~13
~270pts

9. Ocean's Twelve
2004
14
~250 pts

10 .Amsterdam
2022
15
~240 pts

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There are a couple of films just outside this first pass that are interesting:

The Thin Red Line has only 11 formally billed stars, but they include Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, George Clooney, Woody Harrelson, John C. Reilly, John Travolta and Nick Nolte.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood similarly has only 11, but DiCaprio + Pitt + Pacino alone are scoring monsters, with Margot Robbie, Austin Butler, Dakota Fanning, Bruce Dern and Timothy Olyphant behind them.

Valentine's Day is a hilarious dark horse because it officially bills 19 actors, including Kathy Bates, Bradley Cooper, Jamie Foxx, Anne Hathaway, Shirley MacLaine and Julia Roberts. It probably doesn't quite have enough Oscar/IMDb depth to crack the top group.

And Heat, despite probably feeling like one of the greatest casts ever, suffers from having only 11 billed stars. Pacino and De Niro are nearly maxed-out players, but there's only so much they can do.

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20 point cap:

1. Oppenheimer (2023)
2. Ocean's Eleven (2001)
3. The Departed (2006)
4. Avengers: Endgame (2019)
5. The Godfather Part II (1974)
6. Knives Out (2019)
7. The Godfather (1972)

8. JFK (1991)

9. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
10. Heat (1995)

At a 20 point limit you decrease the DeNiro effect. Interesting to see the Wes Anderson impact, which makes sense gives how he casts his films.

The Grand Budapest Hotel
Asteroid City
The Longest Day
Murder on the Orient Express
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Avengers: Infinity War
Amsterdam
A Bridge Too Far
Ocean's Twelve
Don't Look Up

And I'm pleasantly surprised with my Ocean's Twelve guess earlier

I heard that new Happy Gilmore movie had quite the cast

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20 point cap:

1. Oppenheimer (2023)
2. Ocean's Eleven (2001)
3. The Departed (2006)
4. Avengers: Endgame (2019)
5. The Godfather Part II (1974)
6. Knives Out (2019)
7. The Godfather (1972)

8. JFK (1991)

9. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
10. Heat (1995)

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That's a good list.

I am pulling strictly from memory, so cannot name all the actors, but two quirky old ones that come to mind are Dr. Strangelove, and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

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I am pulling strictly from memory, so cannot name all the actors, but two quirky old ones that come to mind are Dr. Strangelove, and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

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well Dr. Strangelove had 3 roles played by the same legendary actor - but if you count it as 3 then

Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers
George C. Scott
James Earl Jones
Slim Pickens
Sterling Hayden

How about the Thin Red Line? Not my favorite movie but the cast was impressive for the time.

Sean Penn
Jim Caviezel
Nick Nolte
Elias Koteas
Wood Harrelson
John Cusack
John C. Reilly
Adrien Brody
Clooney
Travolta
Thomas Jane
Jared Leto

Good call, that came in just outside the top 10 in one of the models I ran.

I have a funny one for you. It shouldn't be this impressive.

Spy Kids 3

Antonio Banderas
Carla Gugino
Alexa Vega
Daryl Sabara
Ricardo Montalbn
Holland Taylor
Mike Judge
Cheech Marin
Sylvester Stallone
Salma Hayek
Danny Trejo
Elijah Wood
Alan Cunning
George Clooney
Steve Buscemi
Emily Osment
Glenn Powell

Remember the titans
Armageddon

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I am pulling strictly from memory, so cannot name all the actors, but two quirky old ones that come to mind are Dr. Strangelove, and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

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well Dr. Strangelove had 3 roles played by the same legendary actor - but if you count it as 3 then

Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers
George C. Scott
James Earl Jones
Slim Pickens
Sterling Hayden

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lol, I did say I was working from memory. And, I am an old boomer.

However, if we count multiple roles for actors in one movie, Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall make a pretty legendary cast for Coming to America.

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Prettiest man I ever saw!

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Billy Zane

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He was in line in front of us when we were checking into a hotel in Chicago a while back. He was still with Kelly Brook at the time. So obviously I wasn't paying too much attention to him.

Going back a bit, one of my all time favorites....

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

• Spencer Tracy as Chief Judge Dan Haywood
• Burt Lancaster as defendant Dr. Ernst Janning
• Richard Widmark as prosecutor Col. Tad Lawson
• Maximilian Schell as defense counsel Hans Rolfe
• Marlene Dietrich as Frau Bertholt
• Montgomery Clift as Rudolph Petersen
• Judy Garland as Irene Hoffmann
• William Shatner as Captain Harrison Byers (Captain Kirk)
• Howard Caine as Hugo Wallner Irene's husband (Major Hochstetter)
• Werner Klemperer as defendant Emil Hahn (Colonel Klink)

Kelly's Heroes has a pretty good list -

• Clint Eastwood as Private Kelly
• Telly Savalas as Master Sergeant Joe "Big Joe"
• Don Rickles as Staff Sergeant "Crapgame"
• Carroll O'Connor as General Colt
• Donald Sutherland as Sergeant "Oddball"
• Gavin MacLeod as Private Moriarty
• Hal Buckley as Captain Maitland
• Stuart Margolin as Private Joe "Little Joe"
• Jeff Morris as Private First Class "Cowboy"
• Richard Davalos as Private Gutkowski
• Perry Lopez as Private Petuko
• Tom Troupe as Corporal Job
• Harry Dean Stanton as Private Willard
• Dick Balduzzi as Private Fisher
• Gene Collins as Private "Barbara" Babra
• Len Lesser as Sergeant Bellamy
• David Hurst as Colonel Dankhopf
• Fred Pearlman as Private Mitchell
• Michael Clark as Private Grace
• George Fargo as Private Penn
• Dee Pollock as Private "Jonesy" Jones
• George Savalas as First Sergeant Mulligan
• Karl Otto Alberty as German Tank Commander

Midway 1976

• U.S. Military Leadership & Personnel: Headlined by Charlton Heston as Capt. Matt Garth, Henry Fonda as Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, Glenn Ford as Rear Adm. Raymond A. Spruance, and Robert Mitchum as Vice Adm. William F. "Bull" Halsey Jr. Additional prominent cast members include Hal Holbrook, James Coburn, Cliff Robertson, Robert Wagner, Robert Webber, Monte Markham, and Dabney Coleman.
• Japanese Military Personnel: Portrayed notably by Toshiro Mifune as Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto (voiced by Paul Frees), James Shigeta as Vice Adm. Chichi Nagumo, and Pat Morita as Rear Adm. Rynosuke Kusaka.
• Supporting Cast: Includes Edward Albert as Lt. Tom Garth, Erik Estrada as Pilot "Chili Bean" Ramos, and early-career appearances by Kevin Dobson and Tom Selleck.

there can be only one answer. in the history of Hollywood no movie has had as many stars as:

THE LONGEST DAY

Eddie Albert

Paul Anka

Richard Burton

Red Buttons

Sean Connery

Ray Danton

Henry Fonda

Donald Houston

Peter Lawford

Christian Marquand

Roddy McDowall

Sal Mineo

Robert Mitchum

George Segal

Rod Steiger

Richard Todd

Robert Wagner

John Wayne

Outbreak had a great cast:

Dustin Hoffman
Rene Russo
Morgan Freeman
Kevin Spacey
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Donald Sutherland
Patrick Dempsey

A lot of great helicopter chase scenes as well. Rewatched it last weekend and had forgotten all about that.

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Clue

Tim Curry
Madeline Kahn
Lesley Ann Warren
Eileen Brennan
Christopher Lloyd
Michael McKean
Martin Mull

The chemistry of this comedic cast was absolutely incredible.

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Murder By Death beats Clue:

Eileen Brennan
Truman Capote
James Coco
Peter Falk
Alec Guinness
Elsa Lanchester
David Niven
Peter Sellers
Maggie Smith
Nancy Walker

Forrest Gump:

Tom Hanks
Sally Field
Gary Sinise
Robin Wright
Haley Joel Osment
Elvis
John Lennon
JFK
LBJ
Nixon