Best Actresses of All-Time, Official Presentation

Yeah...which place for JJL , Johnny_Hellzapoppin ? 

She was 87th 


Viced

As much as Streep at #1 is a laugh, I was happy with this list the second I saw Lillian Gish in the top 40. So, so happy to see she made it.

Your Top 50 Actresses

01 Meryl Streep
02 Ingrid Bergman
03 Isabelle Huppert
04 Bette Davis
XX Katharine Hepburn
06 Cate Blanchett
07 Liv Ullmann
08 Nicole Kidman
09 Sissy Spacek
10 Frances McDormand
11 Vivien Leigh
12 Julianne Moore
13 Faye Dunaway
14 Holly Hunter
15 Kate Winslet
16 Jane Fonda
17 Elizabeth Taylor
XX Gena Rowlands
19 Deborah Kerr
20 Audrey Hepburn
21 Juliette Binoche
22 Barbara Stanwyck
23 Isabelle Adjani
XX Michelle Pfeiffer
25 Jodie Foster
26 Judi Dench
27 Diane Keaton
28 Tilda Swinton
29 Marion Cotillard
30 Helen Mirren
31 Olivia De Havilland
XX Sigourney Weaver
33 Naomi Watts
34 Greta Garbo
35 Jessica Lange
36 Catherine Deneuve
37 Glenn Close
38 Gong Li
39 Lillian Gish
40 Natalie Wood
41 Laura Dern
42 Joan Fontaine
43 Anna Magnani
XX Setsuko Hara
45 Maggie Smith
46 Anne Bancroft
XX Susan Sarandon
48 Harriet Andersson
49 Annette Bening
50 Vanessa Redgrave

Out of interest, it was well into the mid 20s in terms of ballots received before Streep ever took the lead. It actual took her a fair while to solidify her place in the Top 3.

The early lead was held by Huppert, then Spacek for a while and then Huppert for ages. Bergman took the lead next, and Streep soon after, and they went back and forth a few times switching the lead. Streep briefly dropped to third again, but she climbed back up to the lead and started to amass a gap in the real late stages.

Good job presentation wise.

As someone who voted for Wood (and didn't vote for Kidman - but I like her too) I'd say that there's a whole set of things in a poll like this that makes Wood stand out aside from her talent.

First of all, she's insanely likable and in a way that's even outside of her considerable sex appeal too. I mean she really defines a kind of American-ness and her filmography is stacked with classics - Rebel Without A Cause, Splendor In The Grass, The Searchers, West Side Story.

But the big things she has is emerging in the late 50s as an adult - I can't stress how important her time was  -  that actually is the era of the American actress prior to that females were stars and men were actors -  I'm being general here of course - Hepburn and Davis were actors of course, but for the most part how you looked mattered first for females.

For Hollywood however Page, Woodward, Wood signaled a change in that and so did Lee Remick and Piper Laurie. That is really the era of the "first wave" of American actresses and Wood is crucially important just for that alone - I mean there was no one quite like her before her too.......maybe not a top 50 actress on talent alone.......... but off the charts for likability and quite high for importance and uniqueness too. I know the poll is "best" but I can't be the only one who voted favorites at a certain point as Johnny said in the first page. I think in Hollywood history you couldn't find an actress as appealing as her across both genders really. 

I find her quite timeless tbh.

What does being the 'face of 50's/60's' America have to do with anything?

I was voting on perceived talent/ability, not iconic status or cultural standing of her movies. I mean I didn't vote for Marilyn Monroe or Liz Taylor because they were considered faces of their era as well. I don"t think Wood is anything to write home about in Rebel Without A Cause, she's completely miscast in Westside Story (Wood as a Hollywood Latina....seriously).

Yeah she's a beautiful movie star and was in a lot of important movies. But for me, she was basically a so-so actress, and that was my central criteria. I've seen enough of her films. Just never been impressed by her talent. I feel like she's replaceable in most things she did. An actress contemporary of Wood like Jean Simmons (whom I did vote for), wipes her off the planet skill-wise, imho.

But if you are a fan, don't let my opinion worry you. We all have diverging tastes in some things.

wonderful presentation @Johnny_Hellzapoppin !!

Long live Queen Meryl

Chris Nolan doesn't get enough grief for how lazy a director of actors he can be. Obviously, this is one of the shittiest death scenes in the history of cinema, and Cotilliard is atrocious in it. But this is why you have multiple takes in film....so you don't have to use the shittiest one. It's like Nolan got that one take in the can and called it a day. And he ended up having Cotilliard look a fool.

He did the same thing with Christian Bale and that stupid Batman strep/cancer throat voice of his. Not only did he not have the sense to tell Bale to tone it down on set...When he saw the film in post, he didn't think to get Bale to get back and do ADR on it.

Great job Helzapoppin for the hard work. Great prentation, loved those quotes ''twas a nice touch. So Saoirse should be represented in the next iteration given how close she was. Although part of me feels a little silly having not seen enough of a lot of these actress's to potentially include them. Also Julianne Moore being here felt wrong, she's had as many terrible performances as great performances and most of these actresses at their worst I would consider an average performance again at their worst, but Moore has a couple of the top of my head that are awful and in great films no less (Magnolia, The Hours)