The ranking of the judged performances so far...

5 new performances enter the ranking of the Greatest Actress nominees!

Right here is how I rank the 133 judged performances so significantly (new additions in bold):


Very best of the Best

01. Emily Watson in Breaking the Waves (1996)
02. Marion Cotillard in La Môme (2007)
03. Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (1939)
04. Meryl Streep in Sophie's Selection (1982)
05. Jessica Lange in Frances (1982)
06. Maggie Smith in The Prime of Overlook Jean Brodie (1969)
07. Luise Rainer in The Great Earth (1937)
08. Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday (1950)
09. Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard (1950)
ten. Meryl Streep in A Cry in the Dark (1988)
11. Geraldine Website page in The Journey to Bountiful (1985)
twelve. Bette Davis in All about Eve (1950)
13. Glenn Close in Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
fourteen. Joan Fontaine in Rebecca (1940)
fifteen. Imelda Staunton in Vera Drake (2004)
sixteen. Judy Garland in A Star is Born (1954)
17. Katharine Hepburn in Suddenly, Very last Summer (1959)
eighteen. Bette Davis in Darkish Victory (1939)


Really Amazing

19. Brenda Blethyn in Secrets and techniques and Lies (1996)
twenty. Anne Bancroft in The Graduate (1967)
21. Frances McDormand in Fargo (1996)
22. Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth (1998)
23. Greta Garbo in Ninotchka (1939)
24. Louise Fletcher in A single flew more than the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
twenty five. Isabelle Adjani in L'Histoire d'Adèle H. (1975)


Wonderful

26. Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Infant (2004)
27. Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
28. Sophia Loren in La Ciociara (1961)
29. Ingrid Bergman in Höstsonaten (1978)
thirty. Jill Clayburgh in An Unmarried Girl (1978)
31. Audrey Hepburn in The Nun's Story (1959)
32. Natalie Wooden in Splendor in the Grass (1961)
33. Elizabeth Hartman in A Patch of Blue (1965)
34. Julie Christie in McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
35. Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
36. Whoopi Goldberg in The Colour Purple (1985)
37. Annette Bening in Getting Julia (2004)
38. Catalina Sandino Moreno in Maria Full of Grace (2004)
39. Glenda Jackson in Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
forty. Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Tale (1940)
forty one. Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge! (2001)
42. Kate Winslet in Everlasting Sunshine of the Spotless Thoughts (2004)
forty three. Kristin Scott Thomas in The English Client (1996)


Truly Wonderful

44. Edith Evans in The Whisperers (1967)
forty five. Simone Signoret in Room at the Best (1959)
46. Kate Winslet in The Reader (2008)
forty seven. Renée Zellweger in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
forty eight. Eleanor Parker in Caged (1950)
forty nine. Sissy Spacek in In the Bedroom (2001)
fifty. Fernanda Montenegro in Central do Brasil (1998)
fifty one. Sigourney Weaver in Gorillas in the Mist (1988)
52. Elizabeth Taylor in Out of the blue, Final Summer season (1959)
fifty three. Laura Linney in The Savages (2007)
54. Greta Garbo in Camille (1937)
55. Julie Christie in Darling (1965)
56. Jane Fonda in They shoot Horses, never they? (1969)


Wonderful

57. Jessica Lange in Sweet Goals (1985)
58. Deborah Kerr in The King and I (1956)
fifty nine. Anne Hathaway in Rachel Receiving Married (2008)
sixty. Carroll Baker in Infant Doll (1956)
61. Grace Kelly in The Place Girl (1954)
sixty two. Susan Hayward in Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947)
63. Jodie Foster in The Accused (1988)
64. Geraldine Web page in Interiors (1978)
sixty five. Julie Andrews in The Sound of Audio (1965)
66. Rosalind Russell in Mourning Gets to be Electra (1947)
67. Glenda Jackson in Hedda (1975)
sixty eight. Samantha Eggar in The Collector (1965)
sixty nine. Emily Watson in Hilary and Jackie (1998)
70. Bette Davis in The Letter (1940)
71. Ginger Rogers in Kitty Foyle (1940)
72. Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Enjoy (1998)
73. Ellen Website page in Juno (2007)
74. Julie Christie in Absent from Her (2007)
seventy five. Jean Simmons in The Content Ending (1969)
seventy six. Meryl Streep in Question (2008)
77. Bette Davis in Now, Voyager (1942)
78. Halle Berry in Monster's Ball (2001)
seventy nine. Meryl Streep in Out of Africa (1985)
eighty. Piper Laurie in The Hustler (1961)
eighty one. Irene Dunne in The Terrible Reality (1937)
82. Geneviève Bujold in Anne of the Thousand Times (1969)
83. Liza Minnelli in The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)
84. Geraldine Page in Summer and Smoke (1961)
eighty five. Julie Andrews in Victor/Victoria (1982)
86. Judi Dench in Iris (2001)


Really Very good

87. Greer Garson in Mrs. Miniver (1942)
88. Melissa Leo in Frozen River (2008)
89. Joan Crawford in Possessed (1947)
ninety. Jane Fonda in Klute (1971)
91. Doris Working day in Pillow Discuss (1959)
ninety two. Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday getaway (1953)
ninety three. Carole Kane in Hester Avenue (1975)
94. Deborah Kerr in From Below to Eternity (1953)


Great

ninety five. Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina (1954)
96. Dorothy Dandridge in Carmen Jones (1954)
97. Simone Signoret in Ship of Fools (1965)
ninety eight. Sissy Spacek in Missing (1982)
99. Meryl Streep in One Accurate Thing (1998)
a hundred. Vanessa Redgrave in Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
a hundred and one. Maggie McNamara in The Moon is Blue (1953)
102. Diane Keaton in Marvin's Area (1996)
103. Katharine Hepburn in Female of the Calendar year (1942)
104. Greer Garson in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
one zero five. Anne Baxter in All about Eve (1950)
106. Janet Gaynor in A Star is Born (1937)
107. Leslie Caron in Lili (1953)
108. Audrey Hepburn in Hold out until finally Dim (1967)
109. Angelina Jolie in Changeling (2008)
110. May possibly Robson in Woman for a Working day (1933)
111. Irene Dunne in Enjoy Affair (1939)
112. Teresa Wright in The Pleasure of the Yankees (1942)
113. Janet Suzman in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
114. Ingrid Bergman in Anastasia (1956)
115. Jane Wyman in Magnificent Obsession (1954)
116. Barbara Stanwyck in Stella Dallas (1937)


All right

117. Ava Gardener in Mogambo (1953)
118. Debra Winger in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
119. Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
a hundred and twenty. Anne Bancroft in Agnes of God (1985)
121. Ellen Burstyn in Very same Time, Subsequent Calendar year (1978)
122. Nancy Kelly in The Undesirable Seed (1956)
123. Rosalind Russell in My Sister Eileen (1942)
124. Loretta Youthful in The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
125. Katharine Hepburn in Guess who's coming to meal (1967)
126. Martha Scott in Our City (1940)
127. Ann-Margret in Tommy (1975)
128. Katharine Hepburn in The Rainmaker (1956)


Unsatisfying

129. Dorothy McGuire in Gentleman's Settlement (1947)
one hundred thirty. Jane Fonda in Coming Residence (1978)
131. Diana Wynyard in Cavalcade (1933)
132. Katharine Hepburn in Early morning Glory (1933)


Disappointing

133. Melanie Griffith in Operating Girl (1988)