The ranking of the judged performances so far...

5 new performances enter the ranking of the Best Actress nominees!

Here is how I rank the 133 judged performances so far (new additions in bold):


Best of the Best

01. Emily Watson in Breaking the Waves (1996)
02. Marion Cotillard in La Môme (2007)
03. Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (1939)
04. Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice (1982)
05. Jessica Lange in Frances (1982)
06. Maggie Smith in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
07. Luise Rainer in The Good Earth (1937)
08. Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday (1950)
09. Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard (1950)
10. Meryl Streep in A Cry in the Dark (1988)
11. Geraldine Page in The Trip to Bountiful (1985)
12. Bette Davis in All about Eve (1950)
13. Glenn Close in Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
14. Joan Fontaine in Rebecca (1940)
15. Imelda Staunton in Vera Drake (2004)
16. Judy Garland in A Star is Born (1954)
17. Katharine Hepburn in Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
18. Bette Davis in Dark Victory (1939)


Really Fantastic

19. Brenda Blethyn in Secrets and Lies (1996)
20. Anne Bancroft in The Graduate (1967)
21. Frances McDormand in Fargo (1996)
22. Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth (1998)
23. Greta Garbo in Ninotchka (1939)
24. Louise Fletcher in One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
25. Isabelle Adjani in L'Histoire d'Adèle H. (1975)


Fantastic

26. Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby (2004)
27. Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
28. Sophia Loren in La Ciociara (1961)
29. Ingrid Bergman in Höstsonaten (1978)
30. Jill Clayburgh in An Unmarried Woman (1978)
31. Audrey Hepburn in The Nun's Story (1959)
32. Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass (1961)
33. Elizabeth Hartman in A Patch of Blue (1965)
34. Julie Christie in McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
35. Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
36. Whoopi Goldberg in The Color Purple (1985)
37. Annette Bening in Being Julia (2004)
38. Catalina Sandino Moreno in Maria Full of Grace (2004)
39. Glenda Jackson in Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
40. Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story (1940)
41. Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge! (2001)
42. Kate Winslet in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
43. Kristin Scott Thomas in The English Patient (1996)


Really Great

44. Edith Evans in The Whisperers (1967)
45. Simone Signoret in Room at the Top (1959)
46. Kate Winslet in The Reader (2008)
47. Renée Zellweger in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
48. Eleanor Parker in Caged (1950)
49. Sissy Spacek in In the Bedroom (2001)
50. Fernanda Montenegro in Central do Brasil (1998)
51. Sigourney Weaver in Gorillas in the Mist (1988)
52. Elizabeth Taylor in Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
53. Laura Linney in The Savages (2007)
54. Greta Garbo in Camille (1937)
55. Julie Christie in Darling (1965)
56. Jane Fonda in They shoot Horses, don't they? (1969)


Great

57. Jessica Lange in Sweet Dreams (1985)
58. Deborah Kerr in The King and I (1956)
59. Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married (2008)
60. Carroll Baker in Baby Doll (1956)
61. Grace Kelly in The Country Girl (1954)
62. Susan Hayward in Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947)
63. Jodie Foster in The Accused (1988)
64. Geraldine Page in Interiors (1978)
65. Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music (1965)
66. Rosalind Russell in Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
67. Glenda Jackson in Hedda (1975)
68. Samantha Eggar in The Collector (1965)
69. Emily Watson in Hilary and Jackie (1998)
70. Bette Davis in The Letter (1940)
71. Ginger Rogers in Kitty Foyle (1940)
72. Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love (1998)
73. Ellen Page in Juno (2007)
74. Julie Christie in Away from Her (2007)
75. Jean Simmons in The Happy Ending (1969)
76. Meryl Streep in Doubt (2008)
77. Bette Davis in Now, Voyager (1942)
78. Halle Berry in Monster's Ball (2001)
79. Meryl Streep in Out of Africa (1985)
80. Piper Laurie in The Hustler (1961)
81. Irene Dunne in The Awful Truth (1937)
82. Geneviève Bujold in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
83. Liza Minnelli in The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)
84. Geraldine Page in Summer and Smoke (1961)
85. Julie Andrews in Victor/Victoria (1982)
86. Judi Dench in Iris (2001)


Very Good

87. Greer Garson in Mrs. Miniver (1942)
88. Melissa Leo in Frozen River (2008)
89. Joan Crawford in Possessed (1947)
90. Jane Fonda in Klute (1971)
91. Doris Day in Pillow Talk (1959)
92. Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday (1953)
93. Carole Kane in Hester Street (1975)
94. Deborah Kerr in From Here to Eternity (1953)


Good

95. Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina (1954)
96. Dorothy Dandridge in Carmen Jones (1954)
97. Simone Signoret in Ship of Fools (1965)
98. Sissy Spacek in Missing (1982)
99. Meryl Streep in One True Thing (1998)
100. Vanessa Redgrave in Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
101. Maggie McNamara in The Moon is Blue (1953)
102. Diane Keaton in Marvin's Room (1996)
103. Katharine Hepburn in Woman of the Year (1942)
104. Greer Garson in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
105. Anne Baxter in All about Eve (1950)
106. Janet Gaynor in A Star is Born (1937)
107. Leslie Caron in Lili (1953)
108. Audrey Hepburn in Wait until Dark (1967)
109. Angelina Jolie in Changeling (2008)
110. May Robson in Lady for a Day (1933)
111. Irene Dunne in Love Affair (1939)
112. Teresa Wright in The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
113. Janet Suzman in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
114. Ingrid Bergman in Anastasia (1956)
115. Jane Wyman in Magnificent Obsession (1954)
116. Barbara Stanwyck in Stella Dallas (1937)


Okay

117. Ava Gardener in Mogambo (1953)
118. Debra Winger in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
119. Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
120. Anne Bancroft in Agnes of God (1985)
121. Ellen Burstyn in Same Time, Next Year (1978)
122. Nancy Kelly in The Bad Seed (1956)
123. Rosalind Russell in My Sister Eileen (1942)
124. Loretta Young in The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
125. Katharine Hepburn in Guess who's coming to dinner (1967)
126. Martha Scott in Our Town (1940)
127. Ann-Margret in Tommy (1975)
128. Katharine Hepburn in The Rainmaker (1956)


Unsatisfying

129. Dorothy McGuire in Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
130. Jane Fonda in Coming Home (1978)
131. Diana Wynyard in Cavalcade (1933)
132. Katharine Hepburn in Morning Glory (1933)


Disappointing

133. Melanie Griffith in Working Girl (1988)