Best performance by an actress
10 More….
Tilda Swinton in THE DEEP END
Dianne Weist in HANNAH & HER SISTERS
Mariangela Melato in SWEPT AWAY
Judy Davis in MY BRILLIANT CAREER
Emma Thompson in HOWARD’S END
Olivia DeHavilland in THE SNAKE PIT
Agnes Moorehead in THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
Geraldine Page in INTERIORS
Catherine Deneuve in TRISTANA
Delphine Seyrig in JEANNE DIELMAN…
5 More…
Shelley Winters in A PATCH OF BLUE
Joanna Pettet in THE GROUP
Louise Fletcher in …CUCKOO’S NEST
Susannah York in THEY SHOOT HORSES…
Jessica Lange in FRANCES
I recently watched A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE and i was completely blown away by Gena Rowlands performance.
Emmanuelle Riva, “Hiroshima mon amour”
Isabelle Huppert, “La pianiste”
Noomi Rapace, “The girl with dragon tattoo”
Harriet Andersson “Cries and whispers” and “Through a glass darkly”
Marion Cotillard, “La vie en rose”
Ellen Burstyn, “Requiem for a dream” and “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”
Gena Rowlands, “Opening Night” and “Woman under influence”
Helen Mirren, “The queen”
Maggie Cheung “In the mood for love”
Catherine Deneuve, “Belle de jour” and “Tristana”
And: Nicole Kidman, “To die for” and “Dogville”
Valérie Kaprisky in “La femme publique”
Lillian Gish in Broken Blossoms
“..and Hideko Takamine for Naruse’s Yearning”
Yes, yes, YES!
Hmm…
-ANY female performance in ANY Bergman film (he always seems to bring out the best in his actresses).
-Bjork “Dancer in the Dark”
-Ellen Burstyn “Requiem for a Dream”
-Gena Rowlands “A Woman Under the Influence”
-Tilda Swinton “We Need to Talk About Kevin”
There’s a ton more, but this is all that’s coming to mind right now.
Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity.
Bette Davis in All About Eve
Glenn Close in Dangerous Liaisons
Ruth Gordon in Harold and Maude
Thora Birch in Ghost World
Jane Fonda in Stanley & Iris
Paz Vega in Spanglish
Julie Delpy in Before Sunset
Eva Marie Saint in On the Waterfront / North By Northwest
Gena Rowlands in Opening Night
Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby
Renee Zellweger in Jerry Maguire / Nurse Betty
Frances McDormand in Blood Simple / Almost Famous
Catherine Keener in Being John Malkovich
Hope Davis in Next Stop Wonderland
Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny
Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham
Geena Davis in The Accidental Tourist
Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada
Sigourney Weaver in Aliens
Mary Elizabeth Winstead in The Thing
Shirley Henderson in Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
Helen Hunt in As Good As It Gets
Shirley MacLaine in Irma La Douce
Myrna Loy in Libeled Lady
Susan Hayward in I Want to Live!
Shelley Winters in A Place in the Sun
Janet Margolin in David and Lisa
Mary Stuart Masterson in Benny & Joon
Jo Van Fleet in East of Eden
Kathy Bates in Misery
Anjelica Huston in The Addams Family
Cathy Moriarty in Raging Bull
Ida Lupino in High Sierra
Mary Astor in Dodsworth
Helen Hayes in Anastasia
Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate
Lynn Redgrave in Gods and Monsters
Lillian Gish in The Scarlet Letter
Gloria Swanson in Sadie Thompson
Norma Shearer in The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
Pola Negri in Barbed Wire
Falconetti in The Passion of Joan of Arc
Musidora in Les Vampires
Evelyn Brent in The Last Command
Louise Brooks in Diary of a Lost Girl
Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight
Merle Oberon in The Divorce of Lady X
Joan Crawford in Johnny Guitar
June Allyson in Little Women
Jane Wyman in All That Heaven Allows
Annie Girardot in Rocco and His Brothers
Anne Bancroft in The Elephant Man
Angie Dickinson in Rio Bravo
Arletty in Children of Paradise
Alida Valli in The Third Man
Doris Dowling in Bitter Rice
Pina Pellicer in One-Eyed Jacks
Katy Jurado in High Noon / One-Eyed Jacks / Trapeze / Broken Lance
Donna Reed in It’s a Wonderful Life
Donna Reed in From Here to Eternity
Deborah Kerr in The King and I
Deborah Kerr in Tea and Sympathy
Miriam Hopkins in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Miriam Hopkins in Design for Living
Miriam Hopkins in The Story of Temple Drake
Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity
Barbara Stanwyck in Meet John Doe
Katharine Hepburn in Summertime
Katharine Hepburn in The African Queen
Giulietta Masina in La Strada
Giulietta Masina in Nights of Cabiria
Jean Arthur in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Jean Arthur in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Jean Arthur in The Talk of the Town
Irene Dunne in Penny Serenade
Irene Dunne in My Favorite Wife
Celia Johnson in Brief Encounter
Eleanor Parker in Caged
Patricia Neal in The Fountainhead
Patricia Neal in The Day the Earth Stood Still
Marlene Dietrich in Witness for the Prosecution
Marlene Dietrich in Judgment in Nuremberg
Greta Garbo in Flesh and the Devil
Greta Garbo in Camille
Greta Garbo in Queen Christina
Janet Gaynor in 7th Heaven
Janet Gaynor in Street Angel
Janet Gaynor in Lucky Star
Janet Gaynor in Sunrise
Mention:
Jennifer Connelly in Once Upon a Time in America
Yasmin Paige in Submarine
Madeline Carroll in Flipped
Evan Rachel Wood in The Wrestler
Natalie Portman in Léon / Beautiful Girls
Hayley Mills in The Parent Trap / The Chalk Garden
Deneuve in Madame De…
Jennifer Connelly in Once Upon a Time in America
Marcia Gay Harden in Miller’s Crossing
Sharon Stone in Casino
Eva Mendes in The Place Beyond the Pines
Danielle Darrieux plays Madame De, not Deneuve.
sorry, I meant that :)
Eva Mendes bug:)
haha, a joke pick. Chose it to see if anyone would catch me out, although it is a very good performance.
She’s in my hateful actresses list:) I didn’t chose any Laura Linney, Debra Winger, Sienna Miller, Amy Adams, Sophie Marceau, Leonor Watling, Mia Sara, Nastassia Kinski, Holly Hunter, Vera Miles, Olivia De Havilland, Jean Simmons or Claudia Cardinale films but I’m mentioning them in this way. Besides, “Winona Forever”:)
Jaspar Lamar Crabb
GREAT call on E Burstyn in REQUIEM FOR A DREAM!