Top 5 Favorite Actresses
1) Julianne Moore
Up until recently Kate Winslet was my favorite actress, but upon seeing Magnolia, Julianne Moore quickly rose to number 1. The main reason is that I have seen more of Julianne Moore’s movies than perhaps any other actress, and all of them are just magnificent movies. To me Julianne Moore is perhaps one of the best actresses of our time. She is currently 50 years old, but boy can she do any role. I don’t quite remember what was the first movie I ever watched from her, I’m pretty sure it was Assassins. I don’t really remember much of her role because I watched the movie about ten years ago. Others works that I have seen from her include: The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Boogie Nights, Psycho, An Ideal Husband, Magnolia, Hannibal, Evolution, Far From Heaven, The Hours, The Forgotten, Children Of Men, A Single Man, and The Kids Are All Right. I have yet to see other great films from her, but this is an actress that I have seen the most. I do say that in just four of any of the films I have seen from her you will notice an incredible range. This is a fearless actress that is not afraid to take a risk. Of her films the one’s that hold spots in my Top 100 are Magnolia, Far From Heaven, A Single Man, Children of Men, The Hours, and The Kids Are All Right. Julianne Moore has been nominated for four Academy Awards. She was first nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Amber Waves, the motherly porn star in Boogie Nights. Talk about a risky role. She made every bit of it count, and to me she was the best part of the film. Later she garnered another nomination for Best Actress In A Leading Role in the film The End Of The Affair where she plays Sarah Miles. I have yet to see this film. Then in a feat the few actresses have achieved she garnered two more nominations both in the same year. Best Actress In A Leading Role for her work in Far From Heaven, and Best Supporting Actress for the film The Hours. In Far From Heaven she plays the suburban housewife Cathy Withaker whose life goes from picture perfect to complete crumbles. In The Hours she plays a depressed housewife who eventually abandons her husband and children called Laura Brown. Her roles in Magnolia, A Single Man, and The Kids Are All Right are too deserving of Oscar nominations. We have yet to see if she picks up another nod and maybe even an Oscar for her work in The Kids Are All Right. Julianne Moore like many of my favorite actresses, but unlike most actresses is not afraid to take risks, and roles that many would think twice about. She is beautiful, and brilliant, and can not wait to see the day when she finally becomes not just an Academy Award nominated actress, but Academy Award Winning.
2) Kate Winslet
What can I say about Kate Winslet? Well perhaps that she is not only the most beautiful woman I have seen on the face of the earth, but also one of the greatest actresses that has ever lived. To me she will one day be equally matched to Meryl Streep, and this is just a matter of time. She is currently 35, and already she has starred in a wide variety of roles that one can only wonder what her next film will be. She has so much ahead of her, and I personally can’t wait to see how many more critically acclaimed roles she tackles. Kate Winslet is perhaps the most fearless actress, because not only is she too not afraid to take risks, she constantly does so. Her roles are those that no actress would want to do, and with good reason. Either way Kate Winslet as put by Marion Cotillard at the 2009 Academy Awards “she continues to push the boundary of what’s possible”. Yes, Kate Winslet does the impossible when it comes to acting. She has starred in a variety of films, of those I have seen: Sense And Sensibility, Hamlet, Titanic, Little Children, The Holiday, The Reader, and Revolutionary Road. She has also received a staggering six Academy Award nominations. Her first nomination came, for Best Supporting Actress, when she played Marianne Dashwood in the Jane Austen film adaptation of Sense And Sensibility. Two years later she picked up another nomination for Best Actress in A Leading Role for playing the rich girl who falls in love aboard the Titanic in James Cameron’s Titanic. By then she was only 22. Four years later she picked up another nominations for Best Supporting Actress in the film Iris, where she plays the young novelist Iris Murdoch. In 2004 she picked up yet another nomination for perhaps her most unconventional and charming role as Clementine Kruczinsky in Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. Even more daring was her role as the suburban housewife, Sarah Pierce, who has an affair with a stay at home dad in Little Children based on the novel of the same name by Tom Perrota. She didn’t win for any of those roles, but a terrific year, 2008 to be exact, she had two critically acclaimed roles going for her in both The Reader, and Revolutionary Road. Though she picked up two Golden Globes as Best Actress In A Drama, and Best Supporting Actress for each film, she only received an Oscar nod for her work in The Reader as Best Actress In A Leading Role. That year she finally took the Oscar home after six nominations. Most of her films just blow me away. She is timeless, beautiful, and extremely talented. If one day I become the director I want to be, I would assure you that she would get first choice on all my female roles.
3) Meryl Streep
I could not go any further without mentioning perhaps the greatest actress that ever lived, Meryl Streep. Why she is not at the top of my list is simply a matter of time, for I have yet to see many of her films. You probably know this already, but she holds a record for most Oscar nominations. The number is 16. Most actors go through their careers without a single nomination. An Oscar doesn’t make an actor though, but they are the greatest measure of talent. They are the highest accolades in the film industry. Kind of like the Nobel prize of film. Meryl Streep is more than just a great actress, she is a perfect embodiment of class. Constantly she has been described as kind, and with a great sense of humor by all her colleagues. I don’t doubt her good persona for a second, she never takes the spotlight knowingly, and is always very private about her personal life. She has been married to the same man longer than perhaps any other celebrity, which says a lot about her. She is legendary, and timeless. She is the greatest of all, Meryl Streep. Films I’m familiar with are Death Becomes Her, The River Wild, A. I. Artificial Intelligence, Adaptation, The Hours, Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events, The Devil Wears Prada, Doubt, and Julie & Julia. She picked up her first Oscar nomination at the age of 29 for her role as Linda in The Deer Hunter for Best Supporting Actress. A year later she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Joanna Kramer in the film Kramer Vs. Kramer. In interview she did for her role in that film she confessed that it wasn’t very hard to dislike Dustin Hoffman for the first time they met at a party he burped on her and touched her breast. Talk about a bad first impression. Two years later she picked up her first nomination for Best Actress In A Leading role for her role as Sarah in The French Lieutenant’s Woman. Just a year later she won another Oscar for her demanding leading role as Sophie in the holocaust movie Sophie’s Choice. The next year she picked up yet another Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her role in Silkwood. Later she received Best Actress In A Leading Role nominations in 1986 for Out Of Africa, (1988) Ironweed, (1989) A Cry In The Dark, (1991) Postcards From The Edge, (1996) The Bridges Of Madison County, (1999) One True Thing, (2000) Music Of The Heart, (2003 for Best Supporting) Adaptation, (2007) The Devil Wears Prada, (2009) Doubt, and most recently 2010 for Julie And Julia. Of all her films my favorite is Doubt in which she plays the iron fisted nun, who goes head to head with the priest at a catholic school, Sister Aloysius Beauvier. That films if filled with great performances, and a magnificent screenplay by John Patrick Shanley. Meryl Streep has yet to beat Katherine Hepburn for the most Academy Award winning actress, who holds the record for four wins. I think she will soon surpass that, and I too can not wait for her next film, or to see her past work. She is one of the persons I would most like to meet before I die.
4) Cate Blanchett
Another brilliant actress with such great elegance and class is the very talented Cate Blanchett. She is wonderful in everything she does. She is not only extremely graceful and elegant, but beautiful beyond measure. Not like an overtly sexual beauty, but just an incalculable beauty all around, inside and out. The first film I ever saw her in was The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring where she plays the mysterious Lady Galadriel. Of her films I have seen Elizabeth, An Ideal Husband, The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring, The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers, The Missing, The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King, The Aviator, Babel, Notes On A Scandal, Hot Fuzz, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull. Of her roles my favorite one is that of Queen Elizabeth in Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Every time I think of Queen Elizabeth I, I picture her, for she represents everything the Queen might have been and looked like. It was a perfect role for her, and one she portrayed with great skill. She too is an Academy Award winning actress. She won her only Oscar to dater for her role as the Academy Award winning actress Katherine Hepburn in the Scorsese film The Aviator. Her first Oscar nomination came for her portrayal as young Queen Elizabeth I, in Elizabeth. In 2005 she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in The Aviator. In 2007 she picked up another Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress in the film Notes On A Scandal, where she plays the bohemian art teacher who has an affair with a high school student, Sheba Hart. A year later she did the same thing Julianne Moore did that very few achieve which is to receive two nominations in the same year for both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. She got Best Actress for reprising her role as Queen Elizabeth I, in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and Best Supporting Actress for her role as Jude in I’m Not There. Cate Blanchett will only get better and better, and like the other actresses above mentioned she will go on to become a legend in the world of acting. Decades from now she will be remembered as one of the greatest most talented actresses in history.
5) Milla Jovovich
Milla Jovovich is perhaps the most different from any of the actresses I have so far mentioned. She has never been nominated for an Academy Award, yet makes this list without me even thinking twice about it. Oh, and did I mention she is one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen in my life, and that I would marry her in a heartbeat. Unfortunately she is already married. Milla is best known for her roles in action movies where she constantly has to train to prepare for her physically demanding roles. To me she is the daredevil actress, and the coolest one at that. She has commented that she collects weapons from the movies she does. By that I don’t mean just guns, but all sorts of knives and blades. Milla would kick mine and anybody’s ass any day of the year. I have no chance against her. She is not only my favorite actress for her beauty, and daredevil persona, but for her cool roles that have entertained me for years. Of her films I have seen: Return To The Blue Lagoon, The Fifth Element, Resident Evil, No Good Deed, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Ultraviolet, .45, Resident Evil: Extinction, A Perfect Getaway, The Fourth Kind, Resident Evil: Afterlife, and Stone. Just recently in her role as Lucetta, the fetching wife of convict Stone in the movie Stone, I saw her take on a role that was very different than anything she had done so far. In a good way she stole the movie, and gave perhaps the best performance I have ever seen from her. So much that it deserves an Oscar nomination, but have yet to see if that happens. My favorite franchise of movies is the Resident Evil franchise, and really without Milla, Resident Evil would not be good at all. The films are not critically acclaimed but I love the crazy storyline. She is a wonderful actress, and I believe she will soon be taking on roles that expand her range to the point of even winning an Academy Award. She is another one of those people that I will do anything to meet before I die. If I become a director, she too will appear in a lot of my films. Milla Jovovich is cool, and kicks ass in everything she does. We will see a lot more from her in years to come. Oh and she makes better action flicks than Angelina Jolie, I can tell you that.
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