greatest female performances of the 2000s

By: jsaez

alphabetically and chronologically by actress:

Gillian Anderson (The House of Mirth)
Maria Bello (A History of Violence)
Juliette Binoche (Certified Copy)
Björk (Dancer in the Dark)
Cate Blanchett (I’m Not There)
Ellen Burstyn (Requiem for a Dream)
Maggie Cheung (In the Mood for Love)
Julie Christie (Away From Her)
Abbie Cornish (Bright Star)
Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose)
Penélope Cruz (Volver)
Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
Viola Davis (Doubt)
Julie Delpy (Before Sunset)
Laura Dern (Inland Empire)
Lena Endre (Faithless)
Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichrist)
Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married)
Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky)
Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher)
Isabelle Huppert (White Material)
Hye-ja Kim (Mother)
Mélanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds)
Gong Li (Memoirs of a Geisha)
Laura Linney (You Can Count on Me)
Lesley Manville (Another Year)
Margo Martindale (Paris, je t’aime)
Carmen Maura (Volver)
Helen Mirren (The Queen)
Julianne Moore (Far From Heaven)
Jeanne Moreau (One Day You’ll Understand)
Yolanda Moreau (Séraphine)
Samantha Morton (Minority Report)
Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
Charlotte Rampling (Under the Sand)
Charlotte Rampling (Swimming Pool)
Vanessa Redgrave (Atonement)
Miranda Richardson (Spider)
Hanna Schygulla (The Edge of Heaven)
Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake)
Emma Stone (Easy A)
Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada)
Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)
Tilda Swinton (I Am Love)
Kristin Scott Thomas (I’ve Loved You So Long)
Emma Thompson (Wit)
Emma Thompson (Love Actually)
Uma Thurman (Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2)
Naomi Watts (Mulholland Drive)
Michelle Williams (Wendy and Lucy)
Kate Winslet (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
Kate Winslet (Little Children)
Jeong-hie Yun (Poetry)
Zhang Ziyi (2046)

• 01
  The House of Mirth
  Terence Davies
• 02
  A History of Violence
  David Cronenberg
• 03
  Certified Copy
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 04
  Dancer in the Dark
  Lars von Trier
• 05
  I'm Not There.
  Todd Haynes
• 06
  Requiem for a Dream
  Darren Aronofsky
• 07
  In the Mood for Love
  Wong Kar-wai
• 08
  Away from Her
  Sarah Polley
• 09
  Bright Star
  Jane Campion
• 10
  La vie en rose
  Olivier Dahan
• 11
  Volver
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 12
  Vicky Cristina Barcelona
  Woody Allen
• 13
  Doubt
  John Patrick Shanley
• 14
  Before Sunset
  Richard Linklater
• 15
  Inland Empire
  David Lynch
• 16
  Faithless
  Liv Ullmann
• 17
  Antichrist
  Lars von Trier
• 18
  Rachel Getting Married
  Jonathan Demme
• 19
  Happy-Go-Lucky
  Mike Leigh
• 20
  The Piano Teacher
  Michael Haneke
• 21
  White Material
  Claire Denis
• 22
  Mother
  Bong Joon-ho
• 23
  Inglourious Basterds
  Quentin Tarantino
• 24
  Memoirs of a Geisha
  Rob Marshall
• 25
  You Can Count on Me
  Kenneth Lonergan
• 26
  Another Year
  Mike Leigh
• 27
  Paris, je t'aime
  Olivier Assayas
• 28
  The Queen
  Stephen Frears
• 29
  Far from Heaven
  Todd Haynes
• 30
  One Day You'll Understand
  Amos Gitai
• 31
  Séraphine
  Martin Provost
• 32
  Minority Report
  Steven Spielberg
• 33
  Black Swan
  Darren Aronofsky
• 34
  Under the Sand
  François Ozon
• 35
  Swimming Pool
  François Ozon
• 36
  Atonement
  Joe Wright
• 37
  Spider
  David Cronenberg
• 38
  The Edge of Heaven
  Fatih Akin
• 39
  Vera Drake
  Mike Leigh
• 40
  Easy A
  Will Gluck
• 41
  The Devil Wears Prada
  David Frankel
• 42
  Julie & Julia
  Nora Ephron
• 43
  I Am Love
  Luca Guadagnino
• 44
  I've Loved You So Long
  Philippe Claudel
• 45
  Wit
  Mike Nichols
• 46
  Love Actually
  Richard Curtis
• 47
  Kill Bill: Vol. 1
  Quentin Tarantino
• 48
  Kill Bill: Vol. 2
  Quentin Tarantino
• 49
  Mulholland Drive
  David Lynch
• 50
  Wendy and Lucy
  Kelly Reichardt
• 51
  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  Michel Gondry
• 52
  Little Children
  Todd Field
• 53
  Poetry
  Lee Chang-dong
• 54
  2046
  Wong Kar-wai