Poll Suggestion: Metacritic's Highest Average Career Score Actors

Streep or Smith

I started searching random names and found several others with a higher average than 60, so I think your source is incomplete.

Catherine Deneuve, 69
https://www.metacritic.com/person/catherine-deneuve

Mahershala Ali, 67
https://www.metacritic.com/person/mahershala-ali

Isabelle Huppert, 64
https://www.metacritic.com/person/isabelle-huppert

Danny Glover, 62
https://www.metacritic.com/person/danny-glover

The list is probably gonna exceed 35 options for a short period of time, I'm gonna check the top 5000 myself to complete the list.

I really like the idea but I'd suggest noting in the intro that the scores reflect Metacritic's scores of their movies and not their performances.

Also, if you know that the list is going to be incomplete (which makes sense that it will be if Metacritic doesn't compile an exhaustive list), I'd definitely make note of that, too. Something like "Below are some of the actors whose movies averaged a Metacritic score of above 60" would work. 

FYC:

Warren Beatty 65
Robert Redford 63
Denzel Washington 61

I'd suggest making some exclusion criteria based on the length of the careers and/or number of movies with significant roles. I love Julia Garner but there's no comparing her filmography, simply because of her age, with Jack Nicholson's, for example. Some of the ones at the bottom of the list, in particular, have relatively short careers with mostly small roles: for example, Garner, Lily James, Margot Robbie, and Karen Gillan. Actors with relatively few movies can easily have artificially high scores. 

By the way, bravo for doing the work and compiling what's a very good list. 

Oh, and I thought I'd make a note of actors who people would likely look for but who, surprisingly, don't quite make the grade: Kate Winslet, Julianne Moore, Sean Penn, Annette Bening, Viola Davis, and Diane Keaton are all very close (57-59) but, as of right now, don't qualify.

That also reminds me that I'd suggest noting the date the list was compiled because the score would be constantly changing. For example:

"Below are some of the actors whose movies, as of May 2020, averaged a Metacritic score of above 60."

I have been testing rules, to exclude younger actors with very volatile resumes
I have come to a satisfying result. :)

There it is: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls098171115/

Either Marlon Brando or Tom Hardy for me.

This is a fun research, I had no idea Metascore gave average career scores for actors.

FYC: Albert Brooks - 67 with 24 reviewed movies.
Chris Cooper - 66, with 40 movie reviews
Ricardo Darín - 73 with 10 movie reviews
Sally Hawkins - 70 with 20 movie reviews
Maggie Cheung - 74 with 10 movie reviews.

I have a few more names, but if it is supposed to be a list of the actors with the highest average ratings I think you need more systematic research. 

Frances McDormand
https://www.metacritic.com/person/frances-mcdormand

Juliette Binoche
https://www.metacritic.com/person/juliette-binoche

Julie Walters
https://www.metacritic.com/person/julie-walters

Currently: 
Added Samantha Morton

Honorable mention for Domhnall Gleeson his career began in 2001, one year too late.

I have currently checked the profiles of the 252 most popular actors.

Andy Serkis added, he has an average career score of 69.

I have finally finished checking the average score of the 500 most popular actors, I took me 8 hours on yesterday and today, but it is only 1/10 of what I want to do.

It is quite disappointing that in 8 hours I only found 2 actors missing to the list.

I'm pretty confident that the poll is ready now. I didn't find any actors to add to the list. 

However, I found a lot of younger actors whose where excluded by the career length criteria, I'm gonna post this poll suggestion on these rising stars very soon.

Check out: https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/poll-suggestion-metacritics-highest-average-career-score-young-popular-actors