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Posted: **Tue Feb 10, 2009 5:47 pm**

My picks:

1927 Janet Gaynor — Sunrise

1928 Joan Crawford --- Our Dancing Daughters

1929 Maria Falconetti --- The Passion of Joan of Arc

1930 Norma Shearer --- The Divorcee

1931 Helen Hayes --- The Sin of Madelon Claudet

1932 Joan Crawford --- Rain

1933 Greta Garbo --- Queen Christina

1934 Bette Davis --- Of Human Bondage

1935 Claudette Colbert --- Private Worlds

1936 Luise Rainer --- The Great Ziegfield

1937 Barbara Stanwyck --- Stella Dalls

1938 Bette Davis --- Jezebel

1939 Vivien Leigh --- Gone With the Wind

1940 Joan Fontaine --- Rebecca

1941 Barbara Stanwyck --- The Lady Eve

1942 Bette Davis --- Now, Voyager

1943 Jennifer Jones --- The Song Of Bernadette

1944 Barbara Stanwyck --- Double Indemnity

1945 Joan Crawford --- Mildred Pierce

1946 Bette Davis --- A Stolen Life

1947 Joan Crawford --- Possessed

1948 Barbara Stanwyck --- Sorry, Wrong Number

1949 Susan Hayward --- My Foolish Heart

1950 Bette Davis --- All About Eve

1951 Eleanor Parker --- Detective Story

1952 Bette Davis --- The Star

1953 Audrey Hepburn ---Roman Holiday

1954 Joan Crawford --- Johnny Guitar

1955 Joan Crawford --- Queen Bee

1956 Nancy Kelly --- The Bad Seed

1957 Lana Turner --- Peyton Place

1958 Susan Hayward --- I Want to Live!

1959 Katharine Hepburn --- Suddenly, Last Summer

1960 Lucille Ball --- The Facts Of Life

1961 Shirley MacLaine --- The Children's Hour

1962 Katharine Hepburn --- Long Day's Journey into Night

1963 Doris Day --- The Thrill Of It All!

1964 Debbie Reynolds --- The Unsinkable Molly Brown

1965 Samantha Eggar --- The Collector

1966 Elizabeth Taylor --- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1967 Patty Duke --- The Valley Of The Dolls

1968 Katharine Hepburn --- The Lion In Winter

1969 Liza Minnelli -- The Sterile Cuckoo

1970 Carrie Snodgress --- The Diary Of A Mad Housewife

1971 Jane Fonda --- Klute

1972 Barbra Streisand --- What's Up Doc?

1973 Barbra Streisand --- The Way We Were

1974 Goldie Hawn --- The Sugarland Express

1975 Julie Christie --- Shampoo

1976 Faye Dunaway --- Network

1977 Diane Keaton --- Looking For Mr Goodbar

1978 Faye Dunaway --- The Eyes Of Laura Mars

1979 Diane Keaton --- Manhattan

1980 Mary Tyler Moore --- Ordinary People

1981 Faye Dunaway --- Mommie Dearest

1982 Meryl Streep --- Sophie's Choice

1983 Debra Winger --- Terms Of Endearment

1984 Kathleen Turner --- Crimes Of Passion

1985 Geraldine Page --- The Trip To Bountiful

1986 Sissy Spacek --- Crimes Of The Heart

1987 Meryl Streep --- Ironweed

1988 Meryl Streep --- A Cry In The Dark

1989 Kathleen Turner --- The War Of The Roses

1990 Jennifer Jason Leigh --- Last Exit To Brooklyn

1991 Mimi Rogers --- The Rapture

1992 Emma Thompson --- Howards End

1993 Holly Hunter --- The Piano

1994 Jessica Lange --- Blue Sky

1995 Meryl Streep --- The Bridges Of Madison County

1996 Madonna --- Evita

1997 Joan Allen --- The Ice Storm

1998 Cate Blanchet --- Elizabeth

1999 Hilary Swank --- Boys Don't Cry

2000 Ellen Burstyn --- Requiem For A Dream

2001 Sissy Spacek --- In the Bedroom

2002 Julianne Moore --- Far from Heaven

2003 Charlize Theron --- Monster

2004 Annette Benning --- Being Julia

2005 Felicity Huffman --- Transamerica

2006 Helen Mirren --- The Queen

2007 Julie Christie --- Away from Her

2008 Meryl Streep --- Doubt

Posted: **Fri Jan 16, 2009 8:01 am**

Heh, I cheat. In 2000, I go for Anderson. In 2001, I go for Rampling. In 2002, I go for Huppert. I save Devos for 2005 and Kings and Queen.

I'm firmly on the McKellan side of the 1998 debate.

Posted: **Fri Jan 16, 2009 3:40 am**

--Precious Doll wrote:
--rain Bard wrote:
--dws1982 wrote:Like Uri, the Benigni/McKellen debate doesn't mean a lot to me, because I've always preferred Nolte out of that lineup.

Thirded.

Well I make it a quartet with Nick Nolte.

Of the nominated actresses in 2000 I'd go with Laura Linney in an instant though my favorite female performance of the year was Charlotte Rampling in Under the Sand.

Those folks at the Ceasars that year had to choose between Ramplig, Isabelle Huppert in La Pianiste and Emmanuelle Devos in Read My Lips. But after a long and painful contemplating, I'd go with Rampling too.

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Posted: **Fri Jan 16, 2009 2:30 am**

--rain Bard wrote:
--dws1982 wrote:Like Uri, the Benigni/McKellen debate doesn't mean a lot to me, because I've always preferred Nolte out of that lineup.

Thirded.

Well I make it a quartet with Nick Nolte.

Of the nominated actresses in 2000 I'd go with Laura Linney in an instant though my favorite female performance of the year was Charlotte Rampling in Under the Sand.

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Posted: **Fri Jan 16, 2009 2:09 am**

Mister Tee wrote:Am I the only one who thinks Burstyn in that movie is ten pounds of grade-A ham?

Oh my god, we would have SO fought that year.

Posted: **Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:19 pm**

dws1982 wrote:Like Uri, the Benigni/McKellen debate doesn't mean a lot to me, because I've always preferred Nolte out of that lineup.

Thirded.

Posted: **Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:30 pm**

Like Uri, the Benigni/McKellen debate doesn't mean a lot to me, because I've always preferred Nolte out of that lineup.

For Best Actress 2000, I'd probably go for Roberts out of the lineup, but Linney and maybe even Allen (who is very good in a ridiculous movie/role) over Burstyn. Juliette Binoche was my best of the year, but for Alice and Martin, rather than Chocolat.

Posted: **Thu Jan 15, 2009 4:58 pm**

--Mister Tee wrote:
--flipp525 wrote:
--Reza wrote:2000 Julia Roberts, Erin Brockovich

Really? I think Ellen Burstyn, rather obviously, gave the best leading female peformance of the year with non-nominated Björk and Gillian Anderson not far behind. And I say that as someone who also thinks that Julia's work in Erin Brokovich is some of her best.

Am I the only one who thinks Burstyn in that movie is ten pounds of grade-A ham?

I vote Gillian Anderson first on the year, but Roberts way ahead of Burstyn.

Am I the only one here who thinks it should have gone to Laura Linney? Never mind, I feel the same whenever the Benigni vs. McKellen debate is periodically heated, and I don't get it since it's so obvious Nolte, which no one seems to remember, was so much better then the two of them. In both cases, people who have issues with the actual winner go for the scenery chewing old timer (ok, I admit Burstin chewed beautifully) instead of the non flashy, subtle one.

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Posted: **Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:57 pm**

--flipp525 wrote:
--Reza wrote:2000 Julia Roberts, Erin Brockovich

Really? I think Ellen Burstyn, rather obviously, gave the best leading female peformance of the year with non-nominated Björk and Gillian Anderson not far behind. And I say that as someone who also thinks that Julia's work in Erin Brokovich is some of her best.

Am I the only one who thinks Burstyn in that movie is ten pounds of grade-A ham?

I vote Gillian Anderson first on the year, but Roberts way ahead of Burstyn.

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Posted: **Thu Jan 15, 2009 2:13 pm**

Kramer vs. Kramer...in support

Posted: **Thu Jan 15, 2009 1:44 pm**

What is Meryl's third award? I don't see her prior to Sophie's Choice or after really, unless I'm blind...Sophie's Choice & Doubt

Posted: **Thu Jan 15, 2009 12:34 pm**

--ITALIANO wrote:
--Big Magilla wrote:Updated through 2008 below.

TWO for Julie Andrews?!

Yes, and back to back, too.

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Posted: **Thu Jan 15, 2009 12:03 pm**

--Big Magilla wrote:Updated through 2008 below.

TWO for Julie Andrews?!

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Posted: **Thu Jan 15, 2009 12:01 pm**

--flipp525 wrote:
--Reza wrote:2000 Julia Roberts, Erin Brockovich

Really? I think Ellen Burstyn, rather obviously, gave the best leading female peformance of the year with Björk and Gillian Anderson not far behind. And I say that as someone who also thinks that Julia's work in Erin Brokovich is some of her best.

While Burstyn is good, I prefer Roberts as Erin.

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Posted: **Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:58 am**

--Reza wrote:2000 Julia Roberts, Erin Brockovich

Really? I think Ellen Burstyn, rather obviously, gave the best leading female peformance of the year with non-nominated Björk and Gillian Anderson not far behind. And I say that as someone who also thinks that Julia's work in Erin Brokovich is some of her best.

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