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Every week, we’ll pose a new “five favorites” question. You just list your five favorites that fit in that category (preferably in preference order) and you’re welcome to discuss and debate the selections and see just how much you do or do not have in common with others.
More Oscar themed polls this week with your five favorite Best Actress winners.
Which are your 5 Favorite Best Actress Winners?
1. Katharine Hepburn, The Lion in Winter
2. Vivien Leigh, Gone With the Wind
3. Glenda Jackson, Women in Love
3. Shirley MacLaine, Terms of Endearment
4. Maggie Smith, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1. V Leigh — GWTW
2. I Bergman — Gaslight
3. O. de Haviland — The Heiress
4. J. Woodward — The Three Faces of Eve
5. S. Field — Norma Rae
I am very sorry for who I had to leave off.
Runners Up
V. Leigh — Streetcar
D. Keaton — Annie Hall
H. Swank — Boys Don’t Cry
C. Theron — Monster
K. Winslett — The Reader
1. Hilary Swank, Boys Don’t Cry
2. Anne Bancroft, The Miracle Worker
3. Charlize Theron, Monster
4. Sissy Spacek, Coal Miner’s Daughter
5. Jane Fonda, Klute
1. Vivien Leigh – A Streetcar Named Desire
2. Vivien Leigh – Gone with the Wind
3. Jane Fonda – Klute
4. Hillary Swank – Boys Don’t Cry
5. Sally Field – Norma Rae
I originally had Bette Davis for All About Eve as #1, then realized SHE DIDN’T WIN???
Kate Hepburn – Lion in Winter
Shirley Maclaine – Terms of Endearment
Kathy Bates – Misery
Jody Foster – Silence of the Lambs
Vivien Leigh – Streetcar
1. Katherine Hepburn – Lion in Winter
2. Jodi Foster – Silence of the Lambs
3. Kathy Bates – Misery
4. Dianne Keaton – Annie Hall
5. Vivien Leigh – Streetcar
and the top ten Best Actress losers:
1. Betty Davis – All About Eve
2. Glen Close – Dangerous Liasons
3. Cate Blanchett – Elizabeth
4. Stockard Channing – 6 Degrees
5. Susan Sarandan – Thelma & Louise
6. Annette Benning – American Beauty
7. Judi Dench – Mrs. Brown
8. Anjelica Huston – The Grifters
9. Sigourny Weaver – Aliens
10. Gabby Sidibe – Precious
Just read other posts. Swear I didn’t just copy most of your list Wesley
In chronological order:
1.Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind
2.Olivia de Havilland in To Each His Own
3. Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in winter
4. Maggie Smith in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Runners-up in chronological order:
1. Diane Keaton in Annie Hall
2. Meryl Streep in Sophi’s Choice
3. Cher in Moonstruck
4. Jodie Foster in The Accused
5. Jessica Tandy in Driving Miss Daisy
1. Meryl Streep – Sophie’s Choice
2. Vivien Leigh – Gone With the Wind
3. Marion Cotillard – La Vie en Rose
4. Elizabeth Taylor – Who’s Afraid of Virginai Woolf?
5. Maggie Smith – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
This is a hard list, s I’m gonna mention the ones that are the most personally important to me, the ones that taught me to identify what a great performance is, these are the ones I use as an example to lesser audiences who think that Kristen Stewart’s biting lips are amazing techniques:
Vivien Leigh – A Streetcar Named Desire
Meryl Streep – Sophie’s Choice
Jodie Foster – The Accused
Holly Hunter – The Piano
Marion Cotillard – La Vie en Rose
Each of this women performances bring tears to my eyes every time I watch them, just like Natalie Portman did this year, bravo.
a hard choice…..
1. Kate Winslet / “The Reader” ( I was jumping around when she finally won her long-deserved trophy. She is my favorite actress and one of the best of her generation)
2.Kathy Bates / “Misery” ( she es frightening me again and again….. I will never trust nurses in my entire life)
3. Elizabeth Taylor / “Who´s afraid of Virgina Woolf ( absolutely brillant…..nevertheless she is only part of the brillance of the couple and Richard Burton would have been a deserved winner as well)
4. Jessica Tandy / “Driving Miss Daisy (stubborn, unreasonable, bitchy…..and so wonderful)
5. Cher / “Moonstruck” ( with no doubt Cher is a talented actress, and she proved in her oscar winning role…..but for her best role in The Mask, for me a breath-taking performance, she did not even get a nomination )
1. Elizabeth Taylor – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2. Vivien Leigh – A Streetcar Named Desire
3. Kathy Bates – Misery
4. Diane Keaton – Annie Hall
5. Katharine Hepburn – The Lion in Winter
Honorable Mentions:
Claudette Colbert – It Happened One Night
Vivien Leigh – Gone WIth the Wind
Greer Garson – Mrs. Miniver
Ingrid Bergman – Gaslight
Louise Fletcher – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Marion Cotillard – La Vie en Rose
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