Best Actress Winner in the History of Cinema

[VRCMember Joined: Jan 27th, 2016 Topics: 1 Posts: 26 View Predictions]

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According to critics these are the six Best Actress Oscar winners of all time. Which one you think gives the best performance in cinematic history? 

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[seabelParticipant Joined: Nov 21st, 2012 Topics: 66 Posts: 2211 View Predictions]

#216771

According to what critics?

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[seabelParticipant Joined: Nov 21st, 2012 Topics: 66 Posts: 2211 View Predictions]

#216772

01. Meryl Streep, Sophie’s Choice
02. Vivien Leigh, A streetcar named desire
03. Elizabeth Taylor, Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?
04. Sofia Loren, Two Women
05. Marion Cotillard, La vie en rose
06. Anna Magnani, The Rose Tattoo
07. Holly Hunter, The Piano
08. Katharine Hepburn, The Lion in Winter
09. Charlize Theron, Monster
10. Faye Dunaway, Network

I’m surprised I haven’t included Bette, but she would be 1 if she had won for All about Eve.

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[Anonymous Joined: Jan 1st, 1970 Topics: 26 Posts: 2391 View Predictions]

#216773

By “critics,” do you mean you?

Cuz I doubt many critics would consider most of the best ever winners being from 2000+, and all of them after 1980…

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[ziggyParticipant Joined: Nov 29th, 2013 Topics: 0 Posts: 573 View Predictions]

#216774

Vivien Leigh pretty much gives everyone a run for their money. (No, not in A Streetcar Named Desire, silly thing!)

I do like your list though. You have cherry-picked some amazing recent winners there. From that list, I have to go with Swank, but the choice was not easy.

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[Anonymous Joined: Jan 1st, 1970 Topics: 116 Posts: 4767 View Predictions]

#216776

I cannot take this poll seriously without Vivien Leigh’s two performances and many other worthy mentions like Jodie Foster, Kathy Bates or Elizabeth Taylor. Sorry.

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[Joe BurnsParticipant Joined: Jan 26th, 2014 Topics: 82 Posts: 708 View Predictions]

#216777

Without Leigh, this list is inadequate. Blanchett is great, but not one of THE greats here. Nor do I think Foster and especially Bates belong here. 

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[MontyParticipant Joined: Jan 21st, 2015 Topics: 1 Posts: 246 View Predictions]

#216778

The greatest female performance is Vivien Leigh in Gone With The Wind IMHO

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[Baby ClydeParticipant Joined: Nov 8th, 2010 Topics: 3 Posts: 1396 View Predictions]

#216779

The history of cinema started in 1982???

Renee Falconetti will be surprised.

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[Anonymous Joined: Jan 1st, 1970 Topics: 116 Posts: 4767 View Predictions]

#216780

Here is the thread I did a while ago. 

http://www.goldderby.com/forum/topics/view/12471/page:6

Bette Davis in “All About Eve” is also a huge snub from this poll.

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[kazziaParticipant Joined: Feb 19th, 2015 Topics: 0 Posts: 178 View Predictions]

#216781

Bette Davis in All about Eve is probably the best female performance ever.

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[Baby ClydeParticipant Joined: Nov 8th, 2010 Topics: 3 Posts: 1396 View Predictions]

#216782

But Bette Davis in All About Eve didn’t win so flawed as this poll is she doesn’t qualify.

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[kazziaParticipant Joined: Feb 19th, 2015 Topics: 0 Posts: 178 View Predictions]

#216783

Oh  , okay . Only  oscar winning performances.

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[JakeParticipant Joined: Jul 2nd, 2011 Topics: 69 Posts: 2725 View Predictions]

#216784

It’s too hard to compare them all.

1930s: Vivien Leigh, “Gone with the Wind”
1940s: Olivia de Havilland, “The Heiress”
1950s: Vivien Leigh, “A Streetcar Named Desire”
1960s: Elizabeth Taylor, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
1970s: Jane Fonda, “Klute”
1980s: Meryl Streep, “Sophie’s Choice”
1990s: Jodie Foster, “Silence of the Lambs”
2000s: Charlize Theron, “Monster”
2010s: Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”

I guess I’d go with 1. Streep, 2. Leigh (1st), 3. Blanchett, 4. Taylor, 5. Theron, if I absolutely had to. 

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[Mad Max GuitaristParticipant Joined: Jan 24th, 2016 Topics: 4 Posts: 162 View Predictions]

#216785

Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard

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