My current Top 5

My current Top 5

8/28/2015

Best Actress Ranking - Update

Here is a new update. The newly added performance is highlighted in bold. 

1. Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (1939)
2. Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard (1950)
3. Olivia de Havilland in The Heiress (1949)
4. Anne Bancroft in The Graduate (1967)
5. Janet Gaynor in Seventh Heaven (1927-1928)   
6. Glenn Close in Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
7. Edith Evans in The Whisperers (1967)
8. Greta Garbo in Ninotchka (1939)
9. Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
10. Bette Davis in The Little Foxes (1941)

11. Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music (1965)
12. Glenda Jackson in Women in Love (1970)
13. Barbara Stanwyck in Ball of Fire (1941)
14. Shelley Winters in A Place in the Sun (1951)
15. Ingrid Bergman in The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)
16. Greer Garson in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
17. Doris Day in Pillow Talk (1959)
18. Meryl Streep in One True Thing (1998)
19. Katharine Hepburn in Guess who’s coming to dinner (1967)
20. Teresa Wright in The Pride of the Yankees (1942) 
21. Jennifer Jones in Love Letters (1945)

22. Ellen Burstyn in Same Time, Next Year (1978)
23. Diane Keaton in Marvin's Room (1996)
24. Loretta Young in Come to the Stable (1949)  
25. Shirley MacLaine in The Turning Point (1977)
26. Irene Dunne in Cimarron (1930-1931)
27. Diana Wynyard in Cavalcade (1932-1933)

3 comments:

GM said...

Not a very good position :( I think she's amazing.

Anonymous said...

What do you think of Pamela Franklin and Celia Johnson in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie?

Fritz said...

I actually like both of them very much (probalby prefer Franklin because she had more to do). 1969 is a pretty strong year for Supporting Actress.