Rockin' IMDb poll today.

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Yeah, the usual suspects are winning, but there's a reason for that. It still shocks and utterly pleases me how popular and loved The Shawshank Redemption is. And yes, like perhaps everyone else, I have not seen nor heard of most of the bottom five. Just proving there's always room to grow, movie-wise, new favorites to discover. And that, my friends, is why we love cinema.

And, why not. Best Actress 1990-2007.

Of course, subject to change.

1990
Kathy Bates - Misery
Anjelica Houston - The Grifters
* Helen Mirren - The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover *
Meryl Streep - Postcards from the Edge
Joanne Woodward - Mr. and Mrs. Bridge

1991
Juliette Binoche - Lovers on the Bridge
Geena Davis - Thelma & Louise
* Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs *
Susan Sarandon - Thelma & Louise
Reese Witherspoon - Man on the Moon

1992
Catherine Deneuve - Indochine
* Sheryl Lee - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me *
Gong Li - Raise the Red Lantern
Kyra Sedgwick - Singles
Emma Thompson - Howards End

1993
Angela Bassett - What's Love Got to Do with It
Juliette Binoche - Three Colors: Blue
* Holly Hunter - The Piano *
Diane Keaton - Manhattan Murder Mystery
Emma Thompson - The Remains of the Day

1994
Isabelle Adjani - La reine Margot
* Linda Fiorentino - The Last Seduction *
Jennifer Jason Leigh - Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Gong Li - To Live
Kate Winslet - Heavenly Creatures

1995
Toni Collette - Muriel's Wedding
Nicole Kidman - To Die For
Julianne Moore - Safe
***** ELISABETH SHUE - LEAVING LAS VEGAS *****
Meryl Streep - The Bridges of Madison County

1996
Brenda Blethyn - Secrets and Lies
Laura Dern - Citizen Ruth
Gwyneth Paltrow - Emma
* Emily Watson - Breaking the Waves *
Reese Witherspoon - Freeway
I cheat and have McDormand in Supporting...

1997
Julie Christie - Afterglow
Judi Dench - Mrs. Brown
* Jodie Foster - Contact *
Pam Grier - Jackie Brown
Victoire Thivisol - Ponette
I'm the biggest Kate Winslet fangirl ever, but anyone that says she was robbed this year is pretty insane.

1998
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth
Samantha Morton - Under the Skin
Gwyneth Paltrow - Shakespeare in Love
* Christina Ricci - Buffalo '66 *
Emily Watson - Hilary and Jackie
If TV movies count, boot Blanchett and the win goes to Angelina Jolie, amazing in Gia.

1999
Julianne Moore - The End of the Affair
Cecilia Roth - All About My Mother
* Hilary Swank - Boys Don't Cry *
Kate Winslet - Holy Smoke!
Reese Witherspoon - Election

2000
Cate Blanchett - The Gift
Ellen Burstyn - Requiem for a Dream
* Laura Linney - You Can Count on Me *
Renee Zellweger - Nurse Betty
Ziyi Zhang - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

2001
Maggie Cheung - In the Mood for Love
Nicole Kidman - Moulin Rouge! (and The Others)
Charlotte Rampling - Under the Sand
* Naomi Watts - Mulholland Dr. *
Renee Zellweger - Bridget Jones' Diary
If TV nominees are allowed, I'd boot Cheung and Rampling for Emma Thompson in Wit and Judy Davis in Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows.

2002
Maggie Gyllenhaal - Secretary
Isabelle Huppert - The Piano Teacher
Diane Lane - Unfaithful
Julianne Moore - Far from Heaven
* Samantha Morton - Morvern Callar *
If TV movies were allowed, I'd boot Huppert for Uma Thurman in Hysterical Blindness. Or maybe not. But she'd be a close sixth, since the year falls off fast after those six.

2003
Zooey Deschanel - All the Real Girls
* Scarlett Johansson - Lost in Translation *
Charlize Theron - Monster
Uma Thurman - Kill Bill, Vol. 1
Evan Rachel Wood - thirteen
This skews young, blonde, and pretty, doesn't it? Hmmm.

2004
Nicole Kidman - Dogville (and Birth)
Laura Linney - P.S...
Imelda Staunton - Vera Drake
Uma Thurman - Kill Bill, Vol. 2
* Kate Winslet - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind *

2005
Q'Orianka Kilcher - The New World
Yeong-ae Lee - Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
Gwyneth Paltrow - Proof
Sarah Polley - The Secret Life of Words
* Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener *

2006
Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal
Laura Dern - Inland Empire
Kirsten Dunst - Marie-Antoinette
* Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada *
Naomi Watts - The Painted Veil

2007
* Amy Adams - Enchanted *
Nicole Kidman - Margot at the Wedding
Laura Linney - The Savages
Sienna Miller - Interview
Tang Wei - Lust, Caution

Pardon me, I am in post-Oscar-but-pre-good-movie-hype mode. I tend to post a lot of things like this then look back in like two years and say "WHAT WAS I THINKING???!!!"

Best Actor since 1990.

There's probably a lot of awesome 90s stuff that I haven't seen.

1990
Gerard Depardieu - Cyrano de Bergerac
Danny Glover - To Sleep With Danger
* Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune *
Ray Liotta - Goodfellas
Tim Robbins - Jacob's Ladder

1991
Robert De Niro - Cape Fear
Viggo Mortensen - The Indian Runner
Bill Murray - What About Bob?
* River Phoenix - My Own Private Idaho *
Alan Rickman - Truly Madly Deeply
Anthony Hopkins is supporting in my world.

1992
Robert Downey Jr. - Chaplin
Harvey Keitel - Bad Lieutenant
Stephen Rea - The Crying Game
Tim Robbins - The Player
* Denzel Washington - Malcolm X *

1993
Daniel Day-Lewis - In the Name of the Father
Anthony Hopkins - The Remains of the Day
Bill Murray - Groundhog Day
* Liam Neeson - Schindler's List *
David Thewlis - Naked

1994
Johnny Depp - Ed Wood
Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemption
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump
* Paul Newman - Nobody's Fool *
Tim Robbins - The Shawshank Redemption
Johnny Depp is so good in Ed Wood that I recently booted Travolta off my lineup for him. That's right. I booted off John Travolta - in, you know, Pulp Fiction - for Johnny Depp. That's how awesome he is in that movie.

1995
* Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas *
Robert De Niro - Heat
Ian McKellen - Richard III
Al Pacino - Heat
Sean Penn - Dead Man Walking

1996
Ralph Fiennes - The English Patient
Philip Baker Hall - Hard Eight
William H. Macy - Fargo
Liam Neeson - Michael Collins
* Jeffrey Wright - Basquiat *

1997
Russell Crowe - L.A. Confidential
Aaron Eckhart - In the Company of Men
* Ian Holm - The Sweet Hereafter *
Clive Owen - Bent
Mark Wahlberg - Boogie Nights

1998
Javier Bardem - Live Flesh
Jeff Bridges - The Big Lebowski
George Clooney - Out of Sight
* Ian McKellen - Gods and Monsters *
Edward Norton - American History X

1999
Russell Crowe - The Insider
Matt Damon - The Talented Mr. Ripley
Richard Farnsworth - The Straight Story
Haley Joel Osment - The Sixth Sense
* Kevin Spacey - American Beauty *

2000
* Christian Bale - American Psycho *
Russell Crowe - Gladiator
Billy Crudup - Jesus' Son
Tom Hanks - Cast Away
Clive Owen - Croupier

2001
Russell Crowe - A Beautiful Mind
Ewan McGregor - Moulin Rouge!
Haley Joel Osment - AI: Artificial Intelligence
Denzel Washington - Training Day
* Tom Wilkinson - In the Bedroom *

2002
Nicolas Cage - Adaptation.
Daniel Day-Lewis - Gangs of New York
* Jack Nicholson - About Schmidt *
Edward Norton - 25th Hour
Campbell Scott - Roger Dodger

2003
Hayden Christensen - Shattered Glass
Jude Law - Cold Mountain
* Bill Murray - Lost in Translation *
Sean Penn - Mystic River
Kevin Spacey - The Life of David Gale

2004
Kevin Bacon - The Woodsman
Jeff Bridges - The Door in the Floor
Don Cheadle - Hotel Rwanda
Paul Giamatti - Sideways
* Clive Owen - Closer *
If TV movies were allowed, Geoffrey Rush in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers and Alan Rickman and Mos Def in Something the Lord Made would be in here in place of Bacon, Bridges, and Cheadle.

2005
Ralph Fiennes - The Constant Gardener
Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain
* Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain *
Viggo Mortensen - A History of Violence
David Strathairn - Good Night, and Good Luck.

2006
Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat
Matt Damon & Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed
* Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson *
Hugh Jackman - The Fountain
Forest Whitaker - Last King of Scotland
Don't ask me to separate Damon and DiCaprio.........

2007
Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Christian Bale - Rescue Dawn
* Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood *
Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises

I have the most boring top 5 of the 90s ever.

Pulp Fiction
American Beauty
Schindler's List
Magnolia
Goodfellas

zzz. I swear I am not usually this boring. For example, you should see my top 10 of the '60s, as well as of the '80s. They're deathly sexy lists. In fact... I may post them right after this.

I couldn't ask for a better trio.

Happy birthday to the queen...

The king of the '90s, who I may still forgive if he ever decides to do any good movies again...



...and of course, one of my favorite TV characters of all time, ARI GOLD!

Whaaaat???

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/spacey%20im%20finished%20with%20acting_1034158
How did I not read about this before? Like I've said before, since 1999 and (not totally coincidentally, I think) his second Oscar, his career hasn't really been the greatest, but... I don't care. His 1990s work alone deserves him a place in the pantheon. He was like Pacino or Nicholson in the 70s (I fuckin' said it, deal with it). Even now, there is the occasional hint at what he was before - The Life of David Gale, Superman Returns... I kept waiting for his big comeback. And now, I guess, it's not gonna come. I'll always support theater and people doing what they feel is necessary, but I'm gonna miss Lester Burnham, Kevin.