The Best Performances of the 2000's, 74-50

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74. Nicole Kidman as Grace Stewart in The Others (2001)

73. Cate Blanchett as Tracy Heart in Little Fish (2005)

72. Adrian Brody as Wladyslaw Szpilman in The Pianist (2002)

71. Sean Penn as Paul Rivers in 21 Grams (2003)

70. Jamie Lee Curtis as Tess Coleman in Freaky Friday (2003)



69. Albert Finney as Ed Masry in Erin Brockovich (2000)

68. Eric Bana as Mark "Chopper" Reed in Chopper (2000)

67. Renée Zellweger as Betty Sizemore in Nurse Betty (2000)

66. Gwyneth Paltrow as Margot Tenenbaum in The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

65. John Cameron Mitchell as Hedwig Robinson/Hansel in Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

64. Charlotte Rampling as Marie Drillon in Sous le Sable [Under the Sand] (2001)

63. Clive Owen as Jack Manfred in Croupier (2000)

62. Julie Delpy as Celine in Before Sunset (2004)

61. Daniel-Day Lewis as Bill "The Butcher" Cutting in Gangs of New York (2002)

60. Michelle Pfeiffer as Ingrid Magnussen in White Oleander



59. Meryl Streep as Susan Orlean in Adaptation. (2002)

58. Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote in Capote (2005)

57. Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennett in Pride & Prejudice

56. Jake Gyllenhaal as Donnie Darko in Donnie Darko (2001)

55. Reese Witherspoon as June Carter in Walk the Line (2005)

54. Thora Birch as Enid in Ghost World (2001)

53. Scarlett Johansson as Charlotte in Lost in Translation (2003)

52. Clive Owen as Larry in Closer (2004)

51. Marcia Gay Harden as Celeste Boyle in Mystic River (2003)

50. Everlyn Sampi as Molly Craig in Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)


...to be continued...

In the next installment we have a vampire, a sexual deviant, a monster, one of 2005's most talked about performances, some good ol' fashioned wizardry and... a fish. 'til then...