OSCAR'S BEST ACTRESS LINE-UPS
2000-2007 ~ ranked
commentary by Nathaniel R
1990-1999 (coming in the fall)* PART 2 * READERS CHOICE
& NATHANIEL'S RANKINGSBest For Each Year That Was Unfortunately Snubbed By Oscar
* should have won the Oscar -didn't even get nominated
2000 Bjork -Dancer in the Dark
* 2001 Naomi Watts -Mulholland Drive
2002 Isabelle Huppert -The Piano Teacher
* 2003 Uma Thurman -Kill Bill, Vol. 1
2004 Nicole Kidman -Birth
* 2005 Joan Allen -The Upside of Anger
2006 Laura Dern -INLAND EMPIRE
2007 Tang Wei -Lust, CautionBest Actress Winners (2000-2007) ~ Nathaniel's Rank
(subject to change)wheeeeee
1. Julia Robert -Erin Brockovich
not quite but you didn't embarass yourself!
2 [i'm a bit equal on all of these performances. Very good if not BEST] Nicole Kidman -The Hours, Charlize Theron -Monster, Reese Witherspoon -Walk the Line
5. Helen Mirren -The Queen
6. Halle Berry -Monster's Ball
er, no thanks
7. Hilary Swank -Million Dollar Baby
8. Marion Cotillard -La Vie En RoseBest Actress Winners ~ READERS CHOICE
Unfortunately I believe there was tampering with the results somehow on the last day so take it for what it's worth. Suddenly on the last day Halle Berry rose from nearly last place to second by a large margin. Given that that's a statistical improbability... I'd say the voting was compromised. Up until the last day it was something like 1. Kidman 2. Theron 3. Roberts 4. Cotillard (top four by good margin) 5. Mirren 6. Witherspoon 7. Berry 8. Swank... suddenly the order was 1. Theron (landslide) 2. Berry (top two by large margin) 3. Kidman 4. Roberts & Mirren (tie) 6. Cotillard. 7. Witherspoon and 8. Swank. So nearly reversed. Weird. And clearly not very representative of what Film Experience readers actually think given that everyone has told me I'm wrong about Cotillard (she would've placed higher with a pure result) and Kidman almost always does spectacularly well in TFE polling.
Best Actress Nominees (2000-2007)~ Nathaniel's Rank
(very rough order. subject to change. winners in bold)
Yes!
1. Moore Far From Heaven
2. Burstyn Requiem for a Dream
3. Staunton Vera Drake
4. Christie Away From Her
5. Linney You Can Count on Me
6. Kidman Moulin Rouge!
7. Linney The SavagesQuite!
8. Roberts Erin Brockovich
9. Winslet Eternal Sunshine
10. Bening Being Julia
11. Streep The Devil Wears
12. Dench Notes on a Scandal
13. Cruz Volver
Good Choice, Oscar. Well Done.
14. Zellweger Bridget Jones
15. Lane Unfaithful
16. Spacek In the Bedroom
17. Kidman The Hours
18. Theron Monster
19. Witherspoon Walk Line
Respectable Fondness.
20. Knightley Pride & Prejudice
21. Keaton Something’s Gotta Give
22. Page Juno
23. Allen The Contender
24. Winslet Little Children
If You Must...
25. Mirren The Queen
26. Sandino Moreno Maria Full
27. Berry Monster’s Ball
28. Zellweger Chicago
29. Morton In AmericaYou're Really Testing My Patience. "Best of Year"? Come on!
30. Dench Iris
31. Swank Million $ Baby
32. Dench Mrs Henderson
33. Theron North Country
What the f***, Oscar?
Seriously, you suck.
34. Castle Hughes Whale Rider
35. Binoche -Chocolat
36. Cotillard La Vie En Rose
37. Blanchett Golden Age
38. Watts 21 Grams
39. Hayek Frida
40. Huffman Transamerica
Best Actress Nominees ~ READERS CHOICE
Sadly these results were compromised in an even sillier way with Felicity Huffman's Transamerica emerging as the runaway winner from all 40 nominees. Hilarious. Clearly a disgruntled fan is having a spot of fun revolting against my own list (in which she places last) but it's not indicative of the actual reader response given that Winslet and Kidman (my #9 and #6 performance respectively) were landslide winners from the readers with Huffman in the bottom with Salma Hayek (Frida) and Morton (In America) and a few others up until the final hours when all votes went to the desperate housewive, raising her from shunned to mass adoration. Hee
The most interesting thing I learned from doing the reader polling is how absolutely devoted to Clementine and ETERNAL SUNSHINE readers are... the movie was my favorite of 2004 but it's even more of a reader favorite than a TFE favorite apparently. The other notable poll trend was that divisive performances tend to score pretty well. The bottom dwellers in performance polling seem to be the many people enjoy, that are generally thought of as good work, but that they don't obsess over... like Joan Allen in The Contender, Samantha Morton in In America, or Judi Dench in Iris --that sort of nomination. Respectable honors but nothing Oscar fans can't live without it.
