It's been a while since we've done one of these. I've been posting on an oscars forum so it'll be refreshing to get a less formulaic reaction but I do dread the stranglehold people like Christina Ricci and Kate Winslet will have on this list.

My list is all old bitches so forgive me....

Top 10 Body Of Work

10. Sharon Stone
Casino, Basic Instinct, Bobby, Alpha Dog, Last Dance, The Mighty, The Muse.

9. Bette Davis
Jezebel, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?, All About Eve, The Little Foxes.

8. Jodie Foster
Taxi Driver, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, The Accused, Silence of the Lambs, The Brave One

7. Jane Fonda
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Klute, Coming Home, Agnes of God, California Suite.

6. Maggie Smith
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, California Suite, A Room With A View, Gosford Park.

5. Glenn Close
The World According To Garp, Nine Lives, Fatal Attraction, Dangerous Liaisons, The Big Chill.

4. Jamie Lee Curtis
Halloween, A Fish Called Wanda, True Lies, Queen's Logic, Trading Places.

3. Sissy Spacek
Coal Miner's Daughter, Badlands, 'night Mother, In The Bedroom, Carrie, 3 Women, Crimes of the Heart.

2. Jessica Lange
Frances, Sweet Dreams, A Thousand Acres, Blue Sky, Tootsie, Broken Flowers, Country.

1. Sigourney Weaver
Aliens, Ghostbusters, Working Girl, Gorillas in the Mist, The Ice Storm, Death and the Maiden, A Map Of The World, Imaginary Heroes, Galaxy Quest, Heartbreakers, The Year of Living Dangerously.

Top 15 Performances
15. Glenn Close, The World According To Garp
14. Linda Hunt, The Year of Living Dangerously
13. Hilary Swank, Boys Don't Cry
12. Ellen Burstyn, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
11. Sharon Stone, Casino
10. Felicity Huffman, Transamerica
9. Bette Midler, The Rose
8. Jane Fonda, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
7. Bette Davis, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
6. Maggie Smith, The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
5. Whoopi Goldberg, The Color Purple
4. Charlize Theron, Monster
3. Sissy Spacek, Coal Miner's Daughter
2. Jessica Lange, Frances
1. Sigourney Weaver, Aliens

Hell, yeah. She's really good in Requiem for a Dream, too. But more in this way: than this way: .

I am too lazy to make a list, but my favorite actress of all time is Liv Ullman, and my favorite performance is hers in Scenes From a Marriage.

I had no idea they made that into a movie.

it's a pretty good one too, though it's adapted from the play (not by spark), not the novel

Jeanne Moreau in Jules et Jim. fucking incendiary

I think this quote from The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie is probably the best line delivery of all time...

skip to the -5:30 mark.