I do love popping in to IMDb sometimes...

...not to post, just to see what people are going on about. And I found this thread that asked me to rate contemporary actresses. So, I did, and I threw in quite a few originals of my own. Of course, this is how I feel right now...

Nicole Kidman - 9/10
Keira Knightley - 3/10
Audrey Tautou - 6/10
Anne Hathaway - 1.5/10
Rachel McAdams - 6/10
Kate Winslet - 15/10 *
Cate Blanchett - 7/10
Emily Blunt - 3/10
Ellen Page - 6/10
Angelina Jolie - 6.5/10
Laura Linney - 60/10 **
Renee Zellweger - 7/10
Ziyi Zhang - 5/10
Kirsten Dunst - 7.5/10
Jennifer Connelly - 6.5/10
Samantha Morton - 10/10
Meryl Streep - 10/10
Parker Posey - 3/10
Frances McDormand - 8/10
Catherine Zeta-Jones - 4/10
Naomi Watts - 7/10
Reese Witherspoon - 8/10
Tilda Swinton - 6/10
Gwyneth Paltrow - 8/10
Scarlett Johansson - 7/10
Uma Thurman - 6/10 (lately. Please, Uma, do another Kill Bill........)
Cameron Diaz - 7/10
Maggie Gyllenhaal - 8/10
Jodie Foster - 10/10
Julianne Moore - 8/10
Emily Watson - 8.5/10
Toni Collette - 8.5/10
Amy Adams - 7.5/10 (haven't seen Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, and I kind of expect this to go up to an 8 afterward.)
Patricia Clarkson - 7/10
Marcia Gay Harden - 7/10
Jennifer Garner - 7/10
Hilary Swank - 4/10
Natalie Portman - 5/10
Claire Danes - 3/10
Christina Ricci - 5/10

* that's not supposed to be a 1.5
** that's not supposed to be a 6

The Pulpys 2007 - Best Supporting Actresses.

yay. 6 nominees in every category except Supporting Actress - M/C because I couldn't think of another worthy performance

Best Supporting Actress :: Musical / Comedy

and the nominees are

Jenna Fischer as Darlene Madison in Walk Hard


Jennifer Garner as Vanessa Loring in Juno


Jennifer Jason Leigh as Pauline in Margot at the Wedding


Leslie Mann as Debbie in Knocked Up


Samantha Morton as Deborah Curtis in Control

and the winner is
Samantha Morton

Best Supporting Actress :: Drama
and the nominees are


Deborra-Lee Furness as Jude in Jindabyne


Romola Garai as Briony in Atonement


Sarah Michelle Gellar as Krysta Now in Southland Tales (HA! I'm CRAZY!)


Samantha Morton as Mary, Queen of Scots in Elizabeth: The Golden Age


Imelda Staunton as Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix


Tilda Swinton as Karen Crowder in Michael Clayton

and the winner is
Romola Garai

If I had to combine them into 5:
Deborra-Lee Furness
* Romola Garai *
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Samantha Morton
Tilda Swinton

With apologies to Nicole Kidman in The Golden Compass, Marisa Tomei in Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Kelly MacDonald in No Country for Old Men, and Charlotte Gainsbourg in I'm Not There, who I would have loved to include on a lineup somewhere.

personal acting finalists '07

20 in each category in alpha order, as to not give much away. I hope I've made both interesting and viable choices. The ones I haven't seen: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Talk to Me, Things We Lost in the Fire, We Own the Night, The Great Debaters, Paris je t'aime, and Black Book, most notably...

BEST ACTOR
Casey Affleck, The Assassination...
Casey Affleck, Gone Baby Gone
Christian Bale, Rescue Dawn
Josh Brolin, No Country for Old Men
Steve Buscemi, Interview
George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Chris Cooper, Breach
Russell Crowe, American Gangster
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd
Tom Hanks, Charlie Wilson's War
Emile Hirsch, Into the Wild
Jude Law, Breaking and Entering
Tommy Lee Jones, In the Valley of Elah
James MacAvoy, Atonement
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises
Ulrich Muhe, The Lives of Others
Gordon Pinsent, Away from Her
Brad Pitt, The Assassination...
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

BEST ACTRESS
Amy Adams, Enchanted (okay, I'll ruin this one for you, because it's pretty fucking obvious: she's winning Best Actress from me.)
Juliette Binoche, Breaking and Entering
Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There
Helena Bonham Carter, Sweeney Todd
Julie Christie, Away from Her
Jodie Foster, The Brave One
Katherine Heigl, Knocked Up
Ashley Judd, Bug
Nicole Kidman, Margot at the Wedding
Laura Linney, Jindabyne
Laura Linney, The Savages
Anamaria Marinca, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Rose McGowan, Planet Terror
Sienna Miller, Factory Girl
Sienna Miller, Interview
Ellen Page, Juno
Christina Ricci, Black Snake Moan
Dakota Blue Richards, The Golden Compass
Belen Rueda, The Orphanage
Tang Wei, Lust, Caution

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (kind of a weird year.......)
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
John Carroll Lynch, Zodiac
Jeff Daniels, The Lookout
Paul Dano, There Will Be Blood
Robert De Niro, Stardust
Robert Downey Jr., Zodiac
Morgan Freeman, Gone Baby Gone
Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
Tommy Lee Jones, No Country for Old Men
James Marsden, Enchanted
Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Superbad
Armin Mueller-Stahl, Eastern Promises
Jeremy Piven, Smokin' Aces
Paul Rudd, Knocked Up
Ed Sanders, Sweeney Todd
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson's War
Justin Timberlake, Alpha Dog (JUUUSTIN.)
Christopher Walken, Hairspray (anyone that would nom Travolta over him is ON CRACK.)
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton
Steve Zahn, Rescue Dawn

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Rosario Dawson, Death Proof
Jenna Fischer, Walk Hard (PAM!)
Deborra-Lee Furness, Jindabyne
Charlotte Gainsbourg, I'm Not There
Romola Garai, Atonement
Jennifer Garner, Juno
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Southland Tales
Nicole Kidman, The Golden Compass
Keira Knightley, Atonement
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Margot at the Wedding
Kelly MacDonald, No Country for Old Men
Leslie Mann, Knocked Up
Samantha Morton, Control
Samantha Morton, Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Vanessa Redgrave, Atonement
Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
Imelda Staunton, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
Marisa Tomei, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Kerry Washington, I Think I Love My Wife