Favorite Lead Female Performances
By: Mike Thorn
Limit of one performance per actor.
BROOKE ADAMS, Days of Heaven (1978)
ISABELLE ADJANI, Possession (1981)
LAUREN BACALL, Written on the Wind (1956)
CARROLL BAKER, Baby Doll (1956)
KATHY BATES, Misery (1990)
JOAN BENNETT, Scarlet Street (1945)
JULIETTE BINOCHE, Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993)
BJORK, Dancer in the Dark (2000)
BRENDA BLETHYN, Secrets & Lies (1996)
ELLEN BURSTYN, Requiem for a Dream (2000)
BETTE DAVIS, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
CATHERINE DENEUVE, Repulsion (1965)
FAYE DUNAWAY, Network (1976)
KIRSTEN DUNST, Melancholia (2011)
SHELLEY DUVALL, 3 Women (1977)
MIA FARROW, Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG, Antichrist (2009)
EVA GREEN, The Dreamers (2003)
SASHA GREY, The Girlfriend Experience (2009)
AUDREY HEPBURN, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
IRENE JACOB, Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994)
SCARLETT JOHANSSON, Lost in Translation (2003)
CELIA JOHNSON, Brief Encounter (1945)
ANNA KARINA, Vivre sa vie (1962)
DIANE KEATON, Annie Hall (1977)
CATHERINE KEENER, An American Crime (2007)
NICOLE KIDMAN, Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Q’ORIANKA KILCHER, The New World (2005)
JENNIFER LAWRENCE, Winter’s Bone (2010)
VIVIEN LEIGH, Gone with the Wind
ANAMARIA MARINCA, 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days (2007)
GIULIETTA MASINA, La strada (1954)
JULIANNE MOORE, Far from Heaven (2002)
JEANNE MOREAU, La notte (1961)
CAREY MULLIGAN, An Education (2009)
ELLEN PAGE, The Tracey Fragments (2007)
NATALIE PORTMAN, Black Swan (2010)
MARIA SCHNEIDER, Last Tango in Paris (1972)
JEAN SEBERG, Breathless (1960)
SISSY SPACEK, Badlands (1973)
BARBARA STANWYCK, Double Indemnity (1944)
IMELDA STAUNTON, Vera Drake (2004)
ELIZABETH TAYLOR, A Place in the Sun (1951)
LIV ULLMAN, Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
MONICA VITTI, L’Avventura (1960)
NAOMI WATTS, 21 Grams (2003)
CHLOE WEBB, Sid & Nancy (1986)
DEBRA WINGER, The Sheltering Sky (1990)
MICHELLE WILLIAMS, Blue Valentine (2010)
KITTY WINN, The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
KATE WINSLET, Revolutionary Road (2008)
JANE WYMAN, All That Heaven Allows (1955)
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01Terrence Malick
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02Andrzej Żuławski
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03Douglas Sirk
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04Elia Kazan
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05Rob Reiner
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06Fritz Lang
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07Krzysztof Kieślowski
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08Lars von Trier
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09Mike Leigh
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10Darren Aronofsky
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11Robert Aldrich
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12Roman Polanski
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13Sidney Lumet
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14Lars von Trier
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15Robert Altman
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16Woody Allen
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17Lars von Trier
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18Bernardo Bertolucci
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19Steven Soderbergh
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20Blake Edwards
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21Krzysztof Kieślowski
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22Sofia Coppola
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23David Lean
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24Jean-Luc Godard
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25Woody Allen
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26Tommy O'Haver
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27Stanley Kubrick
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28Terrence Malick
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29Debra Granik
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30Victor Fleming
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31Cristian Mungiu
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32Federico Fellini
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33Todd Haynes
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34Michelangelo Antonioni
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35Lone Scherfig
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36Bruce McDonald
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37Darren Aronofsky
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38Bernardo Bertolucci
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39Jean-Luc Godard
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40Terrence Malick
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41Billy Wilder
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42Mike Leigh
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43George Stevens
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44Ingmar Bergman
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45Michelangelo Antonioni
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46Alejandro González Iñárritu
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47Alex Cox
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48Derek Cianfrance
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49Bernardo Bertolucci
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50Jerry Schatzberg
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51Sam Mendes
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52Douglas Sirk