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Best Movie Performances from Modern Actresses

 

Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl

 

Amy Adams – American Hustle

 

Anne Hathaway – Les Miserables

 

Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right

 

Brie Larson – Room

 

Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine

 

Diane Keaton – Annie Hall

 

Ellen Burstyn – Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

 

Emily Blunt – A Quiet Place

 

Emma Stone – La La Land

 

Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks

 

Emma Watson – Beauty and the Beast

 

Faye Dunaway – Network

 

Frances McDormand – Three Billboards

 

Gwyneth Paltrow – Shakespeare in Love

 

Helen Mirren – The Queen

 

Hilary Swank – Boys Don’t Cry

 

Jane Fonda – Coming Home

 

Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games

 

Jessica Chastain – Molly’s Game

 

Jessica Tandy – Driving Miss Daisy

 

Jodie Foster – The Accused

 

Judi Dench – Philomena

 

Julianne Moore – Still Alice

 

Juliette Binoche – Chocolat

 

Kate Winslet – The Reader

 

Kathy Bates – Misery

 

Maggie Smith – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2

 

Margot Robbie – I, Tonya

 

Meryl Streep – Sophie’s Choice

 

Michelle Pfeiffer – Batman Returns

 

Michelle Williams – Manchester by the Sea

 

Natalie Portman – Jackie

 

Nicole Kidman – Moulin Rouge!

 

Octavia Spencer – The Help

 

Penélope Cruz – Volver

 

Rachel McAdams – Disobedience

 

Reese Witherspoon – Wild

 

Renée Zellweger – Bridget Jones’s Diary

 

Rooney Mara – Carol

 

Scarlett Johansson – Lost in Translation

 

Saiorse Ronan – Lady Bird

 

Sally Field – Hello, My Name Is Doris

 

Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water

 

Sandra Bullock – Gravity

 

Shirley MacLaine – Terms of Endearment

 

Sigourney Weaver – Aliens

 

Susan Sarandon – Thelma & Louise

 

Viola Davis – Fences

 

Whoopi Goldberg – Sister Act