Online Poll

Now it's your turn: From more than 12,000 responses to our EW Online poll, we've learned a few things about your taste in cinema. You like Austin Powers. You really like The Silence of the Lambs. And your relationship with Star Wars...well, let's just say it verges on the unhealthy. For the very last word, you can continue voting at www.ew.com through Sept. 24, 1999. But here are your press-time preferences.

Best Actress/Classic

1 Katharine Hepburn 21.5%
2 Audrey Hepburn 20.6%
3 Bette Davis 8.2%
4 Marilyn Monroe 7.6%
5 Ingrid Bergman 6.7%
6 Elizabeth Taylor 5.7%
7 Grace Kelly 4.9%
8 Judy Garland 4.6%
9 Vivien Leigh 4.2%
10 Natalie Wood 3.5%

Best Actor/Classic

1 James Stewart 18.7%
2 Marlon Brando 10.4%
3 Humphrey Bogart 10.1%
4 Cary Grant 9.5%
5 Paul Newman 8.2%
6 John Wayne 6.3%
7 Jack Lemmon 4.4%
8 Clark Gable 4.2%
9 James Dean 3.9%
10 Gregory Peck 3.2%

Best Director

1 Steven Spielberg 48.5%
2 Alfred Hitchcock 17%
3 Stanley Kubrick 6.8%
4 Martin Scorsese 6%
5 Francis Ford Coppola 4%
6 Orson Welles 2.5%
7 Akira Kurosawa 2.3%
8 Frank Capra 2.1%
9 Billy Wilder 1.8%
10 John Ford 1.5%