Here at SYFY WIRE, it’s no secret that we enjoy celebrating the things that we love. Sometimes that takes the form of unranked lists. To us, that’s love.

Join us as our entire staff celebrates anything and everything in genre through our series of “25 Greatest from the last 25 years” lists. They are all unranked, because all of the people, movies, shows, comics, props (and so on) have equal standing for us.

Genre fare has exploded in the last 25 years, and the performances of the actors and actresses on the list below have been a large part of its success. Here's our take on the 25 greatest film performances of the last 25 years.