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These rankings are subject to change by a whole lot of factors including one's mood at the time of ranking, how recently one has seen a particular performance, what one's overall opinion of a particular performer is, and so on.

Overall, Zellweger's performance isn't very good but compared with other nominees that year, it was better than all of them except Aghdashloo's. Unfortunately Aghdashloo wasn't very well known at the time and Zellweger was at teh peak of her fame and popularity. If the same voters had to submit their ballots today, I think we'd see a different outcome.
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The odd thing with the ranking posts is that subjectivity is the the motorship of the whole issue. I don't know how the expression might be translated to english but in general ¨some people´s garbage is some other´s treasure¨.

I might have some praising words to some of the performances that ranked quite low in the already posted lists and a manifest dislike to some that topped them. So, we can bring discussions after discussions on (with a total lack of meaning, considering that nothing is written on stone about taste) or rigidly (and uninterestingly) post our own lists.

As a comment, it is obvious that Zellwegger won for the wrong performance. It is an even bigger shame considering the heartbreaking performance by Shoreh the same year. But I have a hard time thinking that there is a general consensus about her being one of the worst winners ever. Really? For being showy? And two final questions: Had she won the leading acting award the previous year, would have she been nominated all the same for Cold Mountain? and if Kidman would have not won the award for The Hours, wouldn´t she have been nominated for the same film?




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rudeboy wrote:Bottom Five
4. Geena Davis, The Accidental Tourist

Are you kidding? One of the five worst? I think Davis' work in The Accidental Tourist is simply wonderful. She easily telegraphs the character of Muriel Pritchett onto the screen just the way Anne Tyler had written her, yet manages to infuse such an ease, vulnerability and charm into the performance that wasn't necessarily on the page. The moment at the end of the film where Davis sees that it's William Hurt in the taxi that has stopped to pick her up is sheer magic. Easily one of my favorite winners in this category.




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Top Five

1. Cloris Leachman, The Last Picture Show
2. Vanessa Redgrave, Julia
3. Dianne Wiest, Bullets Over Broadway
4. Jo Van Fleet, East of Eden
5. Peggy Ashcroft, A Passage to India

Bottom Five

1. Helen Hayes, Airport
2. Mira Sorvino, Mighty Aphrodite
3. Kim Basinger, L.A. Confidential
4. Geena Davis, The Accidental Tourist
5. Renee Zellweger, Cold Mountain




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My Top Five:

1) Dianne Wiest - Bullets Over Broadway
2) Cloris Leachman - The Last Picture Show
3) Angelica Huston - Prizzi's Honor
4) Anne Revere - National Velvet
5) Meryl Streep - Kramer Vs. Kramer

My Bottom Five:

1) Renee Zellwegger - Cold Mountain
2) Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
3) Marisa Tomei - My Cousin Vinny
4) Catherine Zeta-Jones - Chicago
5) Helen Hayes - Airport
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My top 5:

Peggy Ashcroft, A Passage to India
Maggie Smith, California Suite
Vanessa Redgrave, Julia
Ruth Gordon, Rosemary's Baby
Anjelica Huston, Prizzi's Honor

The Bottom 5:

Jennifer Connelly, A Beautiful Mind
Gale Sondergaard, Anthony Adverse
Gloria Grahame, The Bad and the Beautiful
Renee Zellweger, Cold Mountain
Celeste Holm, Gentleman's Agreement
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My favorite category, though not all my favorite winners...

1 Jane Darwell, The Grapes of Wrath 1940
2 Ruth Gordon, Rosemary's Baby 1968
3 Peggy Ashcroft, A Passage to India 1984
4 Hattie McDaniel, Gone With the Wind 1939
5 Jo Van Fleet, East of Eden 1955
6 Brenda Ficker, My Left Foot 1989
7 Claire Trevor, Key Largo 1948
8 Linda Hunt, The Year of Living Dangerously 1983
9 Vanessa Redgrave, Julia 1977
10 Dianne Wiest, Bullets Over Broadway 1994
11 Eileen Heckart, Butterflies Are Free 1972
12 Ingrid Bergman, Murder on the Orient Express 1974
13 Ethel Barrymore, Noen But the Lonely Heart 1944
14 Olympia Dukakis, Moonstruck 1987
15 Cloris Leachman, The Last Picture Show 1971
16 Teresa Wright, Mrs. Miniver 1942
17 Maggie Smith, California Suite 1978
18 Kim Hunter, A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
19 Whoopi Goldberg, Ghost 1990
20 Anjelica Huston, Prizzi's Honor 1985
21 Margaret Rutherfrod, The V.I.P.s 1963
22 Judi Dench, Shakespeare in Love 1998
23 Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton 2007
24 Anne Baxter, The Razor's Edge 1946
25 Eva Marie Saint, On the Waterfront 1954
26 Anne Revere, National Velvet 1945
27 Shelley Winters, A Patch of Blue 1965
28 Mo'Nique, Precious 2009
29 Maureen Stapleton, Reds 1981
30 Wendy Hiller, Separate Tables 1958
31 Estelle Parsons, Bonnie and Clyde 1967
32 Shirley Jones, Elmer Gantry 1960
33 Juliette Binoche, The English Patient 1996
34 Patty Duke, The Miracle Worker 1962
35 Anna Paquin, The Piano 1993
36 Lila Kedrova, Zorba the Greek 1964
37 Mary Steenburgen, Melvin and Howard 1980
38 Alice Brady, In Old Chicago 1937
39 Fay Bainter, Jezebel 1938
40 Helen Hayes, Airport 1970
41 Shelley Winters, The Diary of Anne Frank 1959
42 Dianne Wiest, Hannah and Her Sisters 1986
43 Tatum O'Neal, Paper Moon 1973
44 Donna Reed, From Here to Eternity 1953
45 Kim Basinger, L.A. Confidential 1997
46 Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chicago 2002
47 Meryl Streep, Kramer vs. Kramer 1979
48 Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener 2005
49 Geena Davis, The Accidental Tourist 1988
50 Marisa Tomei, My Cousin Vinny 1992
51 Cate Blanchett, The Aviator 2004
52 Mercedes Ruehl, The Fisher King 1991
53 Dorothy Malone, Written on the Wind 1956
54 Mary Astor, The Great Lie 1941
55 Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls 2006
56 Rita Moreno, West Side Story 1961
57 Sandy Dennis, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966
58 Celeste Holm, Gentleman's Agreement 1947
59 Mercedes McCambridge, All the King's Men 1949
60 Beatrice Straight, Network 1976
61 Marcia Gay Harden, Pollock 2000
63 Josephine Hull, Harvey 1950
63 Miyoshi Umeki, Sayonara 1957
64 Katina Paxinou, For Whom the Bell Tolls 1943
65 Jessica Lange, Tootsie 1982
66 Lee Grant, Shampoo 1975
67 Goldie Hawn, Cactus Flower 1969
68 Mira Sorvino, Mighty Aphrodite 1995
69 Jennifer Connelly, A Beautiful Mind 2001
70 Gale Sondergaard, Anthony Adverse 1936
71 Gloria Grahame, The Bad and the Beautiful 1952
72 Renee Zellweger, Cold Mountain 2003
73 Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona 2008
74 Angelina Jolie, Girl, Interrupted 1999
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