Let’s Rank Our Top 10 Actresses

Seriously, OP?

1. Jessica Lange / Meryl Streep (This never changes for me.)

The rest - and no, I can’t really rank them - and this list changes periodically:

Annette Bening, Cate Blanchett, Frances McDormand, Glenn Close, Sigourney Weaver, Tuesday Weld, Kim Stanley, Bette Davis

Katharine Hepburn - Lion in Winter

Ingrid Bergman - Autumn Sonata

Jane Fonda - Klute

Meryl Streep - Sophie's Choice

Elizabeth Taylor - Who's afraid of Virginia Wolf

Vivien Leigh - A Street Car Named Desire

Julie Andrews - The Sound Of Music

Bette Davis - All About Eve

Julia Roberts - Pretty Woman

Greta Garbo - Ninotchka

Actriće

1) Ms. Winslet 2) Liv Ullmann 3) Isabelle Huppert 4) Julianne Moore 5) Laura Linney 6) Toni Collette 7) Samantha Morton 8) Elisabeth Moss 9) Maggie Gyllenhaal 10) Sarah Polley

Dammit! You just reminded me of Fonda and Leigh, whom I consider favorites. I’m too promiscuous an actressexual.

I also just remembered Burstyn.

Well, if Miss Amy Adams was in there she has shot herself in the foot, or gouged out her face as the saying might someday go, by her latest debacle of the Woman in the Window.

Remember when this site was GAY and we didn't give a damn about WOMEN?......OP doesn't....

Tour de force actríse.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Scenes from a Marriage, The Piano Teacher, Safe, You Can Count on Me, Japanese Story, In America, Her Smell, The Deuce, The Sweet Hereafter

Also, I’m throwing in MTM for her unparalleled work in ”Ordinary People” [italic]and[/italic] her iconic work on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Diana Ross deserves a mention for her searing work in “Lady Sings the Blues.”

I ain’t giving you ten, op; obviously.

Wait, they can be dead? I think it should be “greatest living actress” but OP already fucked it up, especially with that link that didn’t really go anywhere.

Oh, how could I forget: SANDY DENNIS!

You’ve lit a fuse, op.

They can be dead but that’s boring. Go ahead.

Favorite Classic Actress: Joan Crawford

Favorite Current Actress: Regina King

R13 Gah! I love those two, too!

R9 Moore was playing herself in Ordinary People. A cold bitch in real life.

R4's list was hilarious!

R15 Then she gave an Oscar-worthy performance for seven years on The MTM Show.

Nonetheless, she should’ve won for “Ordinary People.”

Uh, you don't win OSCARS for tv you lunkhead. She won four Emmy's for the MTM show, but again, nothing for 'Ordinary People', because her peers knew she wasn't acting.

R18 I said she should have won for “Ordinary People,” you muppet.

Kathy Bates - Misery

Mary Tyler Moore - Ordinary People

Charlize Theron - Monster

Angelina Jolie - Gia (I think this was really her tour de force)

Ellen Burstyn - The Exorcist & Requiem for a Dream

Monique - Precious (that was an absolutely shocking performance)

Francis McDorment (Laurel Canyon as my tour de force for her)

Renee Zelwegger (Judy)

Hillary Swank (Boys Don't Cry)

Jodie Foster (The Accused & The Silence of the Lambs)

Um hello? See how I suffer!!! I haven't even been mentioned yet. You are all just afraid of my daring sexuality.

Jessica Lange, Jessica Lange, Jessica Lange

Barbra, Jane, Glenn and Meryl

Debra Messing

Annette Bening

Give Annette Bening and Glenn Close a goddamn Oscar.

Cher

Mary Tyler Moore

Cloris Leachman

Stockard Channing - "Six Degrees of Separation"

I'm not into the whole M & G thing, but Glenn really was robbed. It took me a while to think of ultra memorable Oscar worthy performances without looking at the list of winners, but right off the top of my head, I thought Fatal Attraction and Dangerous Liaisons, which were far superior than many best actress winners over the last 30 years.

Actresses who did not deserve Oscars over the last 30 years: Gwyneth Paltrow, Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts and maybe Jennifer Lawrence (I forgive her win in place of her Oscar worthy performance in Winter's Bone)

All mine are either dead or if still living are over 70.

So people like Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Sissy Spacek, Glenda Jackson, Vanessa Redgrave, Maggie Smith, Jean Harlow, Mia Farrow, Shelley Duvall, Ingrid Bergman, Deborah Kerr, Gene Tierney, Barbra Stanwyck, Tuesday Weld, Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, etc

Meryl Streep

Jessica Lange

Sigourney Weaver

Julianne Moore

Regina King

Kate Winslet

Frances McDormand

Laura Linney

Nicole Kidman (sorry, haters)

Melissa McCarthy

R25 They only get one to share between them?

R32. Each get an Oscar!

1. Renee Zellweger

The rest: Julie Andrews, Judy Garland, Sally Field, Glenn Close, Cloris Leachman, Geena Davis, Melissa McCarthy, Jessica Lange, Mitzi Gaynor

Was Mitzi a full or half gaynor?

Renee lol

“It’s about the obliteration of legacy...” -Phylicia Rashad

Yaya Urassaya

Aum Patchrapa

Anne Thongprasom

Chompoo Araya

Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying

Stockard Channing is brilliant in everything .

Brenda Blethyn in Secrets & Lies, I can’t believe she didn’t win the Oscar.

R40 Better luck next time Brenda.

R37 😂

Jessica Lange

Sissy Spacek

Debra Winger

Ellen Burstyn

Sigourney Weaver

Maggie Smith

Audrey Hepburn

Diane Keaton

Julianne Moore

Elizabeth Taylor

Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Kate Winslet, Glenn Close, Cate Blanchett, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger, Claire Danes, Oprah Winfrey, Judi Dench

In no particular order (except #1) 1- Vanessa Redgrave (Too many to count) 2- Gong Li (raise the red lantern) 3- Isabelle Huppert (The piano teacher) 4- Glenda Jackson (Too many to count) 5- Nina Hoss (Phoenix) 6- Glenn Close (Fatal Attraction) 7- Tilda Swinton (We need to talk about Kevin) 8- Jeon Do-yeon (Secret sunshine) 9- Jane Fonda (Klute) 10- Olivia Coleman (Tyrannosaurus)

Elizabeth Berkely

From whose major works were my lifetime, in no order:

Juliette Binoche

Emily Watson

Lesley Manville

Elisabeth Moss

Zhao Tao

Tilda Swinton

Isabelle Huppert

Nicole Kidman

Catherine Keener

Laura Dern

From before my lifetime:

Rosalind Russell

Joan Crawford

Ingrid Bergman

Geraldine Page (the greatest dead actress in the English language)

Myrna Loy

Shelley Duvall

Anna Karina

Deborah Kerr

Wendy Hiller

Julie Christie

Sorry for the double spacing- I thought that was how you single-spaced lists.

Sticking with the living, it’s

Annette Bening (20th Century Women)

Ellen Burstyn (Requiem for a Dream)

Toni Collette (Hereditary)

Viola Davis (Widows)

Isabelle Huppert (Elle)

Catherine Keener (Lovely & Amazing)

Frances McDormand (Fargo)

Julianne Moore (Far From Heaven)

Meryl Streep (Silkwood)

Kate Winslet (Little Children)

Lillian Gish - The Wind

Margaret Sullavan - The Good Fairy

Barbara Stanwyck - The Bitter Tea of General Yen

Arletty - Children of Paradise

Setsuko Hara - Late Spring

Giulietta Masina --Nights of Cabiria

Cicely Tyson - The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Jessica Lange - Frances

Kate Winslet - Heavenly Creatures

Julie Christie - Afterglow

R49 Mmm, good choice Catherine keener and in lovely & amazing, too!!

R49, while I loved her in Elle, Isabelle Huppert's signature performance was hands down The Piano Teacher. Have you seen it?

I fell in love with her as a late teen when in one calendar year I saw 4 movies of hers in the theaters: Merci Pour Le Chocolate, The Piano Teacher, 8 Women and Les Destinees.

R11, are you Nathaniel Rogers?

R54 no, lol.