49. Ellen DeGeneres as the voice of Dory in Finding Nemo (2003)
(If you don't call this a performance then... well, i dunno. You're wrong)
48. Jake Gyllenhaal as Jack Twist in Brokeback Mountain (2005)
47. Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
46. Tilda Swinton as Margaret Hall in The Deep End (2001)
45. Anthony LaPaglia as Det. Leon Zat in Lantana (2001)
44. Jim Broadbent as Zidler in Moulin Rouge! (2001)
43. Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuernos in Monster (2003)
42. Renée Zellweger as Bridget Jones in Bridget Jones' Diary (2001)
41. Chlöe Sevigny as Jean in American Psycho (2000)
40. Daryl Hannah as Elle Driver (aka "California Mountain Snake") in Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2 (2003 and 2004)
39. Patricia Clarkson as Eleanor Fine in Far from Heaven (2002)
38. Geoffrey Rush as the Marquis de Sade in Quills (2000)
37. Annette Bening as Julia Lambert in Being Julia (2004)
36. Bill Murray as Bob Harris in Lost in Translation (2003)
35. Rachael Blake as Jane O'May in Lantana (2001)
34. Ben Kingsley as Don Logan in Sexy Beast (2001)
33. Jim Carrey as Joel Barish in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
32. Cate Blanchett as Katherine Hepburn in The Aviator (2004)
31. Noni Hazlehurst as Janelle Heart in Little Fish (2005)
30. Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Neil in Mysterious Skin (2005)
29. Catherine Deneuve as Kathy in Dancer in the Dark (2000)
28. Ian McKellen as Gandalf the Grey in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
27. Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich (2000)
26. Catherine Zeta-Jones as Velma Kelly in Chicago (2002)
25. Imelda Staunton as Vera Drake in Vera Drake (2004)
24. Michelle Williams as Alma Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain (2005)
23. Patricia Clarkson as Olivia Harris in The Station Agent (2003)
22. Shohreh Aghdashloo as Nadi in House of Sand & Fog (2003)
21. Parker Posey as Meg Swan in Best in Show (2000)
(was this the most ignored comedy turn of the last decade?)
...to be continued...
We continue in the next installment with the next best 10 performances of the 2000's as judged my moi, followed by the TOP 10! Each entry from now on will have a small written part to go along with it. In the next batch we have sexual ladies and "ladies", two swords-people and three dancers. Hmmm. Ciao.
7 comments:
I'm loving the love for Cate Blanchett!! Also great list so far!! That said, I'm not sure what the hell Michelle Williams is doing so high ;)
I sense Ralph and Rachel coming, or rather, I'm hoping for them to come :)
Yeah, Michelle Williams is pretty darn high... I hope Weisz, Bello, and/or Adams are coming up later... I thought they were all a bit better than her.
Good stuff, Glenn. I love all these performances, except the odd ones here or there (Rush in Quills, Gyllenhaal in Darko, Witherspoon in Legally Blonde, Eastwood in M$B - good, but not particularly noteworthy). But otherwise, the majority of these would make my theoretical list.
I agree with Javier - any list that has several Blanchett performances featured is a good one.
And it's great that Zellwegger's Bridget Jones placed so high. I'd give her Best Actress that year (yes, even in the year of Naomi Watts and Lynch).
Go Jim Carrey! And Parker Posey! She was soo funny.
Zelwegger, Blanchett and Williams I am not so fond of :P
Somebody's gonna be majorly disappointed soon.
Oh and Ali, I know Rush's style isn't popular with some people but I really love his manic over-the-top Marquis de Sade. COMPLETELY what the character (and the film) required.
Oh, and Adam, Junebug ain't out in Australia yet. So no Amy Adams I'm afraid.
i love that you included Patricia Clarkson from the station agent!
--RC of strangeculture.blogspot.com
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