(Also requiring rewatches even though I already love their performances: Deobrah Kerr in Heaven Knows Mr Allison, Sigourney Weaver in Aliens 2 and 3, Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth, and actually while we're talking about supporting Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There, Sandra Bullock in Gravity)
30. Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday
29. Felicity Huffman, Transamerica
28. Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
27. Uma Thurman, Kill Bill
26. Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone
24. Maggie Smith, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
23. Glenn Close, Dangerous Liasons
22. Charlize Theron, Monster
21. Faye Dunaway, Chinatown
20. Jessica Tandy, Driving Miss Daisy
19. Sissy Spacek, Badlands
18. Gloria Swanson, Sunset Boulevard
17. Pam Grier, Jackie Brown
16. Emmanuelle Riva, Hiroshima Mon Amour
15. Natalie Portman, Leon the Professional
14. Holly Hunter, The Piano
13. Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
12. Marion Cotillard, La Vie En Rose
10. Carey Mulligan, An Education
9. Elizabeth Hartman, A Patch of Blue
8. Rooney Mara, Carol
7. Barbara Stanwyck, Double Indemnity
6. Olivia de Havilland, The Heiress
5. Kathy Bates, Misery
4. Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive
3. Deborah Kerr, The Innocents
2. Vivien Leigh, Gone With the Wind
1. Celia Johnson, Brief Encounter
- Rooney Mara, Carol
- Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
- Emily Blunt, Sicario
- Cate Blanchett, Carol
- Carey Mulligan, Far From the Madding Crowd
- Brie Larson, Room
- Charlize Theron, Mad Max: Fury Road
- Alicia Vikander, Testament of Youth
- Carey Mulligan, Suffragette
- Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
- Daisy Ridley, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
- Bel Powley, The Diary of a Teenage Girl
- Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part II
- Mia Wasikowska, Crimson Peak
- Olivia Cooke, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
- Maggie Smith, The Lady in the Van
- Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
- Helen Mirren, Woman in Gold
- Greta Gerwig, Mistress America
- Rebecca Ferguson, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
- Lea Seydoux, Spectre
- Phyllis Smith, Inside Out
- Amy Poehler, Inside Out
- Lola Kirke, Mistress America
- Melissa McCarthy, Spy
- Dakota Johnson, Fifty Shades of Grey
- Amanda Seyfried, Ted 2
- Rebel Wilson, Pitch Perfect 2
- Lily James, Cinderella
- Emily Browning, Legend
- Hailee Steinfield, Pitch Perfect 2
- Anna Kendrick, Pitch Perfect 2
- Amy Schumer, Trainwreck
- Gwenyth Paltrow, Mortdecai
- Kate Mara, Fantastic Four
- Emilia Clarke, Terminator Genisys
- Mila Kunis, Jupiter Ascending
Why did you rank Theron if you haven't seen her (I think she was your pick for 2003)?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, very cool list, glad to see you loved Naomi in MD :D
Oooops mistake, I originally meant to put her in the 'need a re-watch' list but after thinking more about it I put her back in (in case you're wondering, Kerr and Bullock just missed the cut!)
DeleteI can't say my opinion about most of the list since they were Oscar nominated but I love that you mentioned Sissy Spacek in Badlands, Teresa Wright in Shadow of a Doubt and Deborah Kerr in The Innocents.
ReplyDeleteThese are a few female leading performances I'd give a 5 to, I'd like to know what do you think of them:
Ingrid Bergman in Notorius, Joan Fontaine in Letter from an Unknown Woman, Setsuko Hara in Late Spring, Simone Signoret in Les Diaboliques, Vanessa Redgrave in The Devils, Ruth Gordon in Harold and Maude, Liv Ullman in Autumn Sonata, Diane Keaton in Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Simone Signoret in Madame Rosa, Isabelle Adjani in Possession, Nicole Kidman in The Others and Dogville, Wei Tang in Lust Caution, Anne Dorval in Mommy, Marion Cotillard in The Immigrant, Scarlett Johannsson in Under the Skin.
Have you seen Mother (2009)? Kim Hye-ja's performance is absolutely brilliant.
DeleteI haven't yet, but I will definitely check it out!
DeleteBergman: 4.5 (I don't love Notorious and find it to be lesser Hitchcock. However I will admit Bergman gives a very good performance that does help draw me into her character's predicament quite well.)
DeleteFontaine: Haven't seen her and I really should.
Hara: Haven't seen here either.
Signoret: REALLY need to see her.
Redgrave: 5 (fantastic portrayal of unhinged madness and I must say she probably should be on the list too.)
Gordon: 5 (I love this performance, I hesitate putting it on the list though because...well actually I have no reason not to. Ugh. This is tricky)
Ullman: This is probably the one I need to see above all. Because it seems right up my street.
Keaton: 5 (I hate that Keaton doesn't have a single entry on this list but she's truly great here, the film itself I'm a bit 'meh' about but she depicts the listless lust and neuroses of her character so powerfully)
Signoret in Madame Rosa: I really need to watch more of her work.
Adjani: I really need to watch more European performances.
Kidman in The Others: 4.5 (she's really good in the role but unfortunately I always subconsciously compare her with Kerr's similar sort of performance in The Innocents which kind of affects it)
Kidman: 5 (her best performance and perfectly depicts the very, very dark journey her character goes on)
Wei Tang: need to see her.
Dorval: Xavier Dolan is one director I've seen nothing of yet, and I am utterly shameful of not doing so.
Cotillard in The Immigrant: I need a re-watch for her so hold off on thoughts for a bit.
Johnansson: I haven't seen her yet but I really want to, I will say that the more I see of Johannsson the more I think I've wrongly judged her, she's bland in most of her bigger projects but I've now seen quite a few things of her where she's quite good in smaller-scale productions.
Alex: Her performance is one I need to re-watch too. Bear with me.
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