Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Top Ten favorite Female, Drama (lead) (1969 – present) - Mike

1. Meryl Streep – Sophie’s Choice (Under any criteria - it's the performance of a lifetime)
2. Jessica Lange – Frances (1982 - great year in movies and acting - would have won the OSCAR any other year)
3. Marion Cotillard - En Vie La Rose (Undeniable)
4. Geraldine Page – Interiors
5. Mary Taylor Moore – Ordinary People
6. Angelica HoustonGrifters
7. Faye Dunaway – Network
8. Gena Rowlands – A Woman Under the Influence
9. Shelley Duvall - 3 women
10. Jodie Foster – Silence of the Lambs
Tie. Whoopi Goldberg – The Color Purple (Film doesn't hold up but her performance does), Susan Sarandon - Thelma & Louise, Dead Man Walking. Jane Fonda – Julia ( So many great performances but Julia is my favorite) . Meryl Streep – Out of Africa.  Jessica Lange – Men Don’t Leave.. Judi Dench – Notes on a Scandal. Geraldine Page – A Trip to Bountiful. Emma Thompson - Howard's End. Kate Winslet - Little Children.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hate to be so old school about this but how can one ignore Gloria Swanson in SUNSET BLVD or Barbara Stanwyk in DOUBLE INDEMNITY or Bette in ALL ABOUT EVE or Garbo in QUEEN CHRISTIANA or CAMILLE or Lillian Gish in THE WIND. Like all your choices but want to add them to these. And of course they all bow down to Angela in MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE. Ummmmm! David Cinque