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ELIMINATED - Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook - 27% of all votes. Silver Linings Playbook was released in 2012. The film had one win, Best Actress for Lawrence, at the 85th Academy Awards. Lawrence was selected for Best Actress of the year in a lineup that also included Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty, Emmanuelle Riva in Amour, Quvenzhané Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild and Naomi Watts in The Impossible. Lawrence also garnered nominations at the BAFTAs and Critics' Choice Awards as well as wins at the Golden Globes and SAGs for her performance as Tiffany Maxwell.
• Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf (The Hours)
• Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos (Monster)
• Hilary Swank as Maggie Fitzgerald (Million Dollar Baby)
• Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II (The Queen)
• Marion Cotillard as Édith Piaf (La Vie en Rose)
• Natalie Portman as Nina Sayers (Black Swan)
• Cate Blanchett as Jasmine Francis (Blue Jasmine)
• Julianne Moore as Alice Howland (Still Alice)
• Brie Larson as Joy Newsome (Room)
• Emma Stone as Mia Dolan (La La Land)
• Frances McDormand as Mildred Hayes (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
• Olivia Colman as Queen Anne (The Favourite)
• Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Wang (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
• Emma Stone as Bella Baxter (Poor Things)
RANKING:
15. Jennifer Lawrence as Tiffany Maxwell (Silver Linings Playbook)
16. Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz (The Reader)
17. Halle Berry as Leticia Musgrove (Monster's Ball)
18. Jessica Chastain as Tammy Faye Bakker (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
19. Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich (Erin Brockovich)
20. Reese Witherspoon as June Carter (Walk the Line)
21. Frances McDormand as Fern (Nomadland)
22. Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher (The Iron Lady)
23. Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland (Judy)
24. Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy (The Blind Side)
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Swank
I got raked over the coals for saying Jennifer Lawrence’s win hasn’t aged very well. Yet here it is in the bottom 10 out of 23… I love her as an actress but the win itself hasn’t aged well. I’ll have to rewatch the film to re-evaluate my opinion.
I mean tbf that's actually an improvement from the last time this tournament was done lmao. Kidman outlasted JLaw when it was vice versa last time, but JLaw outlasted McDormand in Nomadland this time when it was vice versa last time. McDormand's Nomadland win has actually aged the poorest in terms of rankings over the past few years.
Hasn’t aged well? It was terrible even back then! Her character didn’t even feel like it was a lead, just supporting Bradley Cooper’s performance! All of the other nominees were much better than she was that year, especially Emmanuelle Riva.
La La Land… sashay away
McDormand
Emma Stone in La La Land (2016).
I went with Emma for La La Land.
Samesies
I personally think McDormand needs to go.
Hilary Swank
Gotta be Kidman next, right? Then it gets tough.
Nicole has one of the best performances of this century! I can’t believe Emma Stone in La La Land (2016) is still standing!
Julianne Moore.
How are people voting for both Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby (2004) and Nicole Kidman in The Hours (2002) to be eliminated before Emma Stone in La La Land (2016)? I have a feeling that people are choosing the actor and not the performance!
I'll take the bait.
Speaking of bait, both roles were definitely Oscar bait but Emma elevated hers. I like Hilary a lot in Boys Don't Cry, so she's obviously a fine enough actor. But I don't feel like she put any kind of stamp on her role here. I think several actors could have played the role with similar results.
And personally I don't care when Emma gets voted out, her performance is good but not one of my personal favorites. I think Hilary has been the weakest for a while, I've been voting for her since Julia Roberts (finally) went out.
Emma stone next both of them they are not her best performances at all
Sokka-Haiku by waymond1:
Emma stone next both
Of them they are not her best
Performances at all
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
14. Swank
13. Mirren
12. Kidman
11. Moore
10. Stone 1
09. Larson
08. McDormand
07. Yeoh
06. Cotillard
05. Colman
04. Stone 2
03. Blanchett
02. Theron
Portman
Well for the next several rounds I'm not really gonna care lol. I'll check back in once the end is near and I have to make sure Portman wins lol. The rest of these are almost the same for me, I think they're all solid (some more than others, and some very overrated), but I don't really love anyone else here sans Portman lol
Poor things to go now. Let’s not yet recency bias ruin this.