When Tammy Faye Bakker was alive, she was often lampooned the media fixated on her heavily-made-up face and slightly zoned-out demeanor. Image Credit: Allen Schaben/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images Jessica Chastain, ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’.Winslet is predictably heartrending in the role, but ultimately it’s a forgettable part in a forgettable film. “That’s part of the story and provides something of a backdrop … But to me it was always an extraordinarily unconventional love story.” Fair enough, but its genteel tastefulness was so stuffy that it made it hard to believe that anybody would have been involved with this project except to make a play for awards. Was it coincidence? “This was never a Holocaust movie to me,” she said at the time about The Reader.
In a 2005 episode of the Ricky Gervais series Extras, Kate Winslet famously played a satirical, craven version of herself who’s starring in a Holocaust movie because “ guaranteed an Oscar.” A few years later, she ended up winning an Oscar playing a 1950s German woman who begins a relationship with a teenager (David Kross) … and, oh yeah, was also complicit in the perpetuation of the Holocaust. Related: Best Actor Oscar-Winners Since 2000, Ranked Worst to Best
Without further ado - and in honor of the 95th annual Academy Awards airing on March 12th - our breakdown of the 21st century’s Best Actress Oscar-Winners to date, from worst to best. Streep, especially after that kick-ass Golden Globes speech in 2017). (Please know that you’re first in our hearts, Ms. Put it this way: This will probably be the only actress ranking on the Web that slots Meryl dead last. We focused on the individual performance, not the actress’s body of work, which led to some strange outcomes. Not surprisingly, then, our ranking of this century’s Best Actress victors proved especially challenging. Many of these women did far better work in other films, but that’s the Oscars for you: They often honor the greatest talents for their work in movies that almost never end up being their high-water marks. That being said, it’s shocking how rarely our finest actresses have won for their finest roles, with the Academy often favoring showy over simmering, flash over finesse. On the one hand, this category has honored plenty of Hollywood’s current acting royalty, including Helen Mirren, Cate Blanchett, Olivia Colman, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard - and even a few Americans here and there. What’s both gratifying and infuriating about the Oscars is encapsulated in who’s received Best Actress statuettes over the last two decades.
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