Jodie Foster

Apex — The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

24,730 feet (Camp III)

58th highest of 108

Best Picture, Best Actress, and the second of two Oscars before she was thirty. The Accused was the first.

The career, climbed — every film on the shared Everest scale; hover for detail

Film	Year	Elevation
The Silence of the Lambs ▲ apex	1991	23,433 ft
Nell	1994	22,574 ft
Panic Room	2002	22,548 ft
Flightplan	2005	22,545 ft
The Accused	1988	22,457 ft
Contact	1997	22,360 ft
Anna and the King	1999	22,337 ft
Little Man Tate	1991	22,267 ft
The Brave One	2007	22,253 ft
Freaky Friday	1976	22,249 ft
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane	1976	22,217 ft
Sommersby	1993	22,168 ft
Carnage	2011	22,141 ft
Hotel Artemis	2018	22,136 ft
Foxes	1980	22,130 ft
The Hotel New Hampshire	1984	22,105 ft
Maverick	1994	22,083 ft
Elysium	2013	22,043 ft
The Beaver	2011	22,030 ft
Five Corners	1987	22,020 ft
A Private Life	2025	22,016 ft
The Mauritanian	2021	21,996 ft
NYAD	2023	21,993 ft
Taxi Driver	1976	21,963 ft
Nim's Island	2008	21,928 ft
Napoleon and Samantha	1972	21,868 ft
Carny	1980	21,868 ft
Inside Man	2006	21,857 ft
Catchfire	1990	21,833 ft
Bugsy Malone	1976	21,811 ft
Home for the Holidays	1995	21,784 ft
Money Monster	2016	21,780 ft
Candleshoe	1977	21,765 ft
Stealing Home	1988	21,735 ft
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys	2002	21,660 ft
Tom Sawyer	1973	21,629 ft
Shadows and Fog	1991	21,591 ft
Beach House	1977	21,586 ft
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore	1974	21,581 ft
Siesta	1987	21,578 ft
A Very Long Engagement	2004	21,573 ft
One Little Indian	1973	21,571 ft
Motherhood	2009	21,569 ft