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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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