100 Greatest Female Acting Performances

 Actress - Movie Title (Year)

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  1. Meryl Streep - Sophie's Choice (1982)
  2. Gloria Swanson - Sunset Boulevard (1950)
  3. Katharine Hepburn - The African Queen (1951)
  4. Elizabeth Taylor - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
  5. Katharine Hepburn - The Lion in Winter (1968)
  6. Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight (1944)
  7. Kathy Bates - Misery (1990)
  8. Vivien Leigh - Gone With the Wind (1939)
  9. Julia Roberts - Erin Brocovich (2000)
10. Vivien Leigh - A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
11. Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
12. Frances McDormand - Fargo (1996)
13. Norma Shearer - The Divorcee (1929)
14. Olivia De Havilland - To Each His Own (1946)
15. Diane Keaton - Annie Hall (1977)
16. Holly Hunter - The Piano (1993)
17. Sophie Loren - Two Women (1961)
18. Olivia De Havilland - The Heiress (1949)
19. Shirley MacLaine - Terms of Endearment (1983)
20. Ingrid Bergman - Casablanca (1942)
21. Hillary Swank - Boys Don't Cry (2000)
22. Grace Kelly - The Country Girl (1954)
23. Sissy Spacek - Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
24. Katharine Hepburn - The Philadelphia Story (1940)
25. Emma Thompson - Howard's End (1992)
26. Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
27. Elizabeth Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf (1966)
28. Charlize Theron - Monster (2003)
29. Jennifer Jones - The Song Of Bernadette (1943)
30. Joan Fontaine - Suspicion (1941)
31. Jodie Foster - The Accused (1988)
32. Jane Fonda - Coming Home (1978)
33. Katharine Hepburn - On Golden Pond (1981)
34. Audrey Hepburn - Roman Holiday (1953)
35. Faye Dunaway - Network (1976)
36. Lana Turner - The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
37. Sally Field - Places in the Heart (1984)
38. Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night (1934)
39. Bette Davis - Jezebel (1938)
40. Audrey Hepburn - The Nun's Story (1959)
41. Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker (1962)
42. Meryl Streep - French Lieutenants Woman (1981)
43. Kathy Bates - Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
44. Halle Berry - Monster's Ball (2001)
45. Doris Day - Pillow Talk (1959)
46. Donna Reed - It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
47. Barbara Stanwyck - Double Indemnity (1944)
48. Sally Field - Norma Rae (1979)
49. Audrey Hepburn - Two For the Road (1967)
50. Glenn Close - Fatal Attraction (1987)
51. Joan Crawford - Sudden Fear (1952)
52. Jean Seberg - Breathless (1960)
53. Bette Davis - Dangerous (1935)
54. Joanne Woodward - The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
55. Katharine Hepburn - Morning Glory (1933)
56. Donna Reed - From Here To Eternity (1953)
57. Julie Andrews - The Sound Of Music (1965)
58. Louise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
59. Anna Magnini - The Rose Tattoo (1955)
60. Shirley Booth - Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
61. Ingrid Bergman - Anastasia (1956)
62. Louise Rainer - The Good Earth (1937)
63. Kathy Bates - Dolores Claiborne (1995)
64. Bette Davis - All About Eve (1950)
65. Glenda Jackson - Women in Love (1970)
66. Liza Minnelli - Cabaret (1972)
67. Ingrid Bergman - Notorious (1946)
68. Glenda Jackson - A Touch of Class (1973)
69. Ellen Burstyn - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
70. Bette Davis - Of Human Bondage (1934)
71. Julie Christie - Darling (1960)
72. Catherine Hepburn - Holiday (1938)
73. Nicole Kidman - The Hours (2002)
74. Ingrid Bergman - Spellbound (1945)
75. Barbara Stanwyck - Ball of Fire (1941)
76. Greer Garson - Mrs. Miniver (1942)
77. Joan Crawford - Mildred Pierce (1945)
78. Katherine Hepburn - Adam's Rib (1949)
79. Jane Fonda - Klute (1971)
80. Ava Gardner - The Night Of The Iguana (1964)
81. Faye Dunaway - Mommie Dearest (1981)
82. Susan Sarandon - Dead Man Walking (1995)
83. Susan Hayward - I Want to Live (1958)
84. Elizabeth Taylor - Buttlerfield 8 (1960)
85. Jane Wyman - Johnny Belinda (1948)
86. Bette Davis - Dark Victory (1939)
87. Ingrid Bergman - Autumn Sonata (1978)
88. Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady (2011)
89. Lauren Bacall - Key Largo (1948)
90. Judy Garland - A Star Is Born (1954)
91. Joan Fontaine - Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948)
92. Sissy Spacek - Carrie (1976)
93. Jessica Lange - Blue Sky (1994)
94. Joan Fontaine - Rebecca (1940)
95. Deborah Kerr - The King and I (1956)
96. Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby (2004)
97. Giulietta Masina - La Strada (1954)
98. Helen Mirren - The Queen (2006)
99. Deborah Kerr - From Here to Eternity (1953)
100. Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine (2013)

101. Natalie Portman - Black Swan (2010)
102. Kate Winslet - The Reader (2008)
103. Emily Watson - Breaking the Waves (1996)
104. Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line (2005)
105. Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side (2009)
106. Amy Adams - American Hustle (2013)
107. Audrey Hepburn - My Fair Lady (1964)
108. Julianne Moore - Still Alice (2014)
109. Kate Winslet - Hamlet (1996)
110. Marion Cotillard - La Vie en Rose (2007)
111. Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
112. Brie Larson - Room (2015)
113. Judi Dench - Philomena (2013)
114. Viola Davis - The Help (2011)
115. Emma Stone - La La Land (2016)