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My Top 10 Worst Winners:

1: Jennifer Hudson – “Dreamgirls” (2006)
She CANNOT act. Like at all. I’m really dreading whatever buzz she’s going to get for “Respect”. And may not be able to live through another season if she starts sweeping awards next year.
2: Geena Davis – “The Accidental Tourist” (1988)
I LOVE Geena Davis. And I’m happy she has an Oscar. But the competition this year was just way too strong to justify her winning for this role. Sigourney Weaver and Joan Cusack in “Working Girl” are both operating at career bests IMO. And this would’ve been an easy and justifiable win for Michelle Pfeifer in “Dangerous Liasons”. And even though Frances McDormand would go on to add two additional Oscars to her mantle (possible third for Best Picture coming soon), I would not have snubbed my nose if they chose to give it to her for “Mississippi Burning”. Davis was the weakest in the category.
3: Ingrid Bergman – “Murder on the Orient Express” (1974)
I mean, it’s not like the Academy owed her a third Oscar. She already had two at this point. So this win really baffles me. I guess they really liked the movie, and wanted to give a major win somewhere. 1974 was filled with baffling acting choices. Art Carney. Ellen Burstyn. And this.
4: Renee Zellweger – “Cold Mountain” (2003)
This is an OBVIOUS make-up Oscar orchestrated by Weinstein. She came SO close to winning for “Chicago” the year before. This was the industry’s way of saying “we’re sorry we couldn’t give it to you for the performance you actually earned it for. But here’s a bone. Just like last year’s win was “sorry we made fun of your face.”
5: Mira Sorvino – “Mighty Aphrodite” (1995)
Not against this competition! Joan Allen in “Nixon”. Mare Winningham in “Georgia”. Kate FUCKING Winslet in “Sense and Sensibility”. Even Kathleen Quinlan was better in “Apollo 13” (watch that scene where they say goodbye from across the road, she’s magnificent!). The Sorvino win is just baffling on all levels. But she had the Weinstein machine on her side that year. And was the daughter of a well-liked character actor. But god does this win not age well at all.
6: Kim Basinger – “LA Confidential” (1997)
It’s really a nothing role. My only theory for this win is that the critics really loved “LA Confidential” and pushed it hard as the arthouse alternative to the big bad juggernaut, “Titanic”. The Academy wanted to give it a few awards to save face and Screenplay wasn’t enough. Thus…Basinger.
7: Anne Hathaway – “Les Miserables” (2012)
Sally Field blew it out of the water in “Lincoln”. Helen Hunt made a remarkable comeback in “The Sessions”. Amy Adams gave an understated but no less effecting performance in “The Master”. Hell, I would’ve even been ok if they gave Jackie Weaver a make-up award for not giving it to her for “Animal Kingdom”. But this shit was just so bland and vanilla. She’s been better.
8: Patty Duke – “The Miracle Worker” (1962)
Ok, before you jump all over me, I will admit that this is not a bad performance. It’s just that she beat Angela Lansbury in “The Manchurian Candidate” and I just cannot get over that.
9: Whoopi Goldberg – “Ghost” (1990)
I love me some Whoopi. But when you have Annette Benning in “The Grifters” going up against Lorraine Bracco in “Goodfellas” its hard to choose Whoopi Goldberg in “Ghost”. Breaks my heart. But those other two performances are just OUT OF THIS WORLD.
10: Alicia Vikander – “The Danish Girl” (2015)
She should’ve been nominated for “Ex Machina”. But even then, everyone in this line-up (save for Rachel McAdams) was giving a much better performance. My personal pick would’ve been Kate Winslet in “Steve Jobs”. But both Mara and Leigh would’ve been worthy winners.

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1: “Network” (1976) dir. Sidney Lumet
2: “Hannah and Her Sisters” (1986) dir. Woody Allen
3: “Children of Men” (2006) dir. Alfonso Cuaron
4: “Sideways” (2004) dir. Alexander Payne
5: “Before Sunrise” (1995) / “Before Sunset” (2004) / “Before Midnight” (2013) dir. Richard Linklater
6: “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962) dir. John Frankenheimer
7: “Dolores Claiborne” (1995) dir. Taylor Hackford
8: “Apocalypse Now” (1979) dir. Francis Ford Coppola
9: “All About Eve” (1950) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
10: “Goodfellas” (1990) dir. Martin Scorsese
11: “Boogie Nights” (1997) dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
12: “Sunset Boulevard” (1950) dir. Billy Wilder
13: “West Side Story” (1961) dir. Billy Wise and Jerome Robbins
14: “Working Girl” (1988) dir. Mike Nichols
15: “Her” (2013) dir. Spike Jonze
16: “The Piano” (1993) dir. Jane Campion
17: “All That Jazz” (1979) dir. Bob Fosse
18: “Reds” (1981) dir. Warren Beatty
19: “The Godfather” (1972) / “The Godfather Part II” (1974) dir. Francis Ford Coppola
20: “Manhattan” (1979) dir. Woody Allen
21: “The Aviator” (2004) dir. Martin Scorsese
22: “It Happened One Night” (1934) dir. Frank Capra
23: “Gaslight” (1944) dir. George Cukor
24: “Margin Call” (2011) dir. J.C. Chandor
25: “In the Bedroom” (2001) dir. Todd Field

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2019 – Scarlett Johansson “Marriage Story”
2018 – Melissa McCarthy “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
2017 – Frances McDormand “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
2016 – Isabelle Huppert “Elle”
2015 – Charlotte Rampling “45 Years”
2014 – Rosamund Pike “Gone Girl”
2013 – Cate Blanchett “Blue Jasmine”
2012 – Emmanuelle Riva “Amour”
2011 – Rooney Mara “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
2010 – Annette Benning “The Kids Are Alright”
2009 – Meryl Streep “Julie & Julia”
2008 – Melissa Leo “Frozen River”
2007 – Julie Christie “Away From Her”
2006 – Helen Mirren “The Queen”
2005 – Felicity Huffman “Transamerica”
2004 – Imelda Staunton “Vera Drake”
2003 – Diane Keaton “Something’s Gotta Give”
2002 – Julianne Moore “Far From Heaven”
2001 – Sissy Spacek “In The Bedroom”
2000 – Ellen Burstyn “Requiem for a Dream”
1999 – Annette Benning “American Beauty”
1998 – Meryl Streep “One True Thing”
1997 – Judi Dench “Mrs. Brown”
1996 – Brenda Blethyn “Secrets & Lies”
1995 – Meryl Streep “The Bridges of Madison County”
1994 – Winona Ryder “Little Women”
1993 – Holly Hunter “The Piano”
1992 – Susan Sarandon “Lorenzo’s Oil”
1991 – Jodie Foster “The Silence of the Lambs”
1990 – Kathy Bates “Misery”
1989 – Michelle Pfeiffer “The Fabulous Baker Boys”
1988 – Melanie Griffith “Working Girl”
1987 – Glenn Close “Fatal Attraction”
1986 – Jane Fonda “The Morning After”
1985 – Whoopi Goldberg “The Color Purple”
1984 – Judy Davis “A Passage to India”
1983 – Meryl Streep “Silkwood”
1982 – Jessica Lange “Frances”
1981 – Diane Keaton “Reds”
1980 – Mary Tyler Moore “Ordinary People”
1979 – Bette Midler “The Rose”
1978 – Geraldine Page “Interiors”
1977 – Diane Keaton “Annie Hall”
1976 – Faye Dunaway “Network”
1975 – Glenda Jackson “Hedda”
1974 – Gena Rowlands “A Woman Under the Influence”
1973 – Ellen Burstyn “The Exorcist”
1972 – Liza Minelli “Cabaret”
1971 – Glenda Jackson “Sunday Bloody Sunday”
1970 – Jane Alexander “The Great White Hope”
1969 – Jane Fonda “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”
1968 – Barbara Streisand “Funny Girl”
1967 – Anne Bancroft “The Graduate”
1966 – Elizabeth Taylor “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
1965 – Julie Andrews “The Sound of Music”
1964 – Debbie Reynolds “The Unsinkable Molly Brown”
1963 – Shirley MacLaine “Irma la Douce”
1962 – Bette Davis “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?”
1961 – Audrey Hepburn “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”
1960 – Shirley MacLaine “The Apartment”
1959 – Katharine Hepburn “Suddenly, Last Summer”
1958 – Elizabeth Taylor “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”
1957 – Anna Magnani “Wild is the Wind”
1956 – Deborah Kerr “The King and I”
1955 – Susan Hayward “I’ll Cry Tomorrow”
1954 – Judy Garland “A Star is Born”
1953 – Deborah Kerr “From Here to Eternity”
1952 – Shirley Booth “Come Back, Little Sheba”
1951 – Vivian Leigh “A Streetcar Named Desire”
1950 – Gloria Swanson “Sunset Boulevard”
1949 – Olivia de Havilland “The Heiress”
1948 – Jane Wyman “Johnny Belinda”
1947 – Rosalind Russell “Mourning Becomes Electra”
1946 – Celia Johnson “Brief Encounter”
1945 – Joan Crawford “Mildred Pierce”
1944 – Ingrid Bergman “Gaslight”
1943 – Ingrid Bergman “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
1942 – Bette Davis “Now, Voyager”
1941 – Joan Fontaine “Suspicion”
1940 – Katharine Hepburn “The Philadelphia Story”
1939 – Vivien Leigh “Gone with the Wind”
1938 – Wendy Hiller “Pygmalion”
1937 – Greta Garbo “Camille”
1936 – Luise Rainer “The Great Ziegfeld”
1935 – Merle Oberon “The Dark Angel”
1934 – Bette Davis “Of Human Bondage”
1932/33 – Katharine Hepburn “Morning Glory”
1931/32 – Lynn Fontanne “The Guardsman”
1930/31 – Marie Dressler “Min and Bill”
1929/30 – Norma Shearer “The Divorcee”
1928/29 – Bessie Love “The Broadway Melody”
1927/28 – Janet Gaynor “Sunrise”

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1: Kathy Bates in “Dolores Claiborne” (1995)
2: Ethan Hawke & Julie Delpy in “The Before Trilogy” (1995, 2004, 2013)
3: Angela Lansbury in “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962)
4: Bette Davis in “All About Eve” (1950)
5: Montgomery Clift in “From Here to Eternity” (1953)
6: Paul Giamatti in “Sideways” (2004)
7: Al Pacino in “Dog Day Afternoon” (1975)
8: Cate Blanchett in “Blue Jasmine” (2013)
9: Meryl Streep in “The Hours” (2002)
10: Geraldine Page in “Interiors” (1978)

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