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Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz in The ReaderRead
Revolutionary Road, her character wants to flee suburbia for Paris, in an attempt to rekindle a happier past. -
2. Viola Davis as Mrs. Muller in Doubt
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Dakota Fanning as Lily Owens in The Secret Life of Bees
Another movie about abused children and nurturing black mother figures in 1964, Gina Prince-Bythewood's version of the Sue Monk Kidd best-seller may cast its characters' miseries in a slightly too-rosy radiance. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1855948_1864351_1864355,00.html#ixzz1HR5y81gr -
Kimberly Rivers Roberts as herself in Trouble the Water
"Katrina, she's a bad chick," observes Kim Rivers, 24, an aspiring rap artist (Black Kold Madina) and unassuming real-life heroine. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1855948_1864351_1864356,00.html#ixzz1HR6dgO8e -
Angelina Jolie as Fox in Wanted
Jolie certainly has the skill and, even more, the ambition to be a serious actress, as indicated by her bereaved heroines in A Mighty Heart and Changeling. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1855948_1864351_1864357,00.html#ixzz1HR7DPrX6 -
Heath Ledger as the Joker in The Dark Knight
Ledger's death at 28, six months before his last big movie opened, stoked a morbid want-see. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1855948_1864351_1864361,00.html#ixzz1HR7dx9id -
Jean-Claude Van Damme as Jean-Claude Van Damme in JCVD
The Muscles from Brussels: a best actor? An actor, even? Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1855948_1864351_1864363,00.html#ixzz1HR8Fjkc -
Vlad Ivanov as Mr. Bebe in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
In the year's best foreign-language film, Bebe is a monster, no question, but not a screamer. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1855948_1864351_1864364,00.html#ixzz1HR8dPA00 -
Brandon Walters as Nullah in Australia
Baz Luhrmann's swoony historical romance stars Nicole Kidman, hunk de l'année Hugh Jackman and just about every actor who made Australian cinema's coming-of-age party so exciting in the '70s. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1855948_1864351_1864365,00.html#ixzz1HR912wVA -
Ben Burtt as WALL-E in WALL-E
The lonely robo-boy of Andrew Stanton's fabulous fantasy doesn't say much ("WALL-E," "Eva," "Ta-DA!"), but there's a future-world of humor and emotion in each syllable. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1855948_1864351_1864366,00.html#ixzz1HR9KbZpZ -
Mo'nique as Mary Jones in Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
In this virtually all-female saga of an illiterate, abused, grossly fat teenager who finds salvation through schooling, many actresses stand out. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1945379_1944194_1944197,00.html #ixzz1HRA6wxxL -
Carey Mulligan as Jenny in An Education
It's 1961 in pre-swinging London, and Jenny is already a local star: the smartest, most popular and self-possessed 16-year-old at her elite girls' school. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1945379,00.html #ixzz1HRAKTZ5e -
Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon in The Lovely BonesRead more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1945379,00.html #ixzz1HRAaOo00
Trying to cast the central role in his film of the Alice Sebold novel narrated by a murdered teen, and set in 1970s Pennsylvania, director Peter Jackson thought he'd find his girl in the U.S. But the young actresses he auditioned were too modern, and too schooled in the wiles of Disney Channel cuteness. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1945379,00.html #ixzz1HRAjDwJH -
0 Movie Performances4. Meryl Streep as Julia Child in Julie & Julia
In Streep's long and laureled career, this has been her parody decade. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1945379,00.html #ixzz1HRB8bAKL -
Marion Cotillard as Luisa Contini in Nine
The actresses in Nine, Rob Marshall's musical drama based on Federico Fellini's 8½, come alive when they sing. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1945379,00.html #ixzz1HRBOseCM -
Colin Firth as George in A Single Man
The 1981 English play Another Country served as a showcase for a host of gifted young actors, among them Kenneth Branagh, Rupert Everett, Daniel Day-Lewis and Colin Firth. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1945379,00.html #ixzz1HRBdVtWM -
Jeremy Renner as Staff Sergeant William James in The Hurt Locker
" Renner, who took supporting roles in North Country, 28 Weeks Later and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1945379_1944194_1944213,00.html #ixzz1HRC6uUR9 -
George Clooney as Ryan Bingham in Up in the Air
Any film fan of the last 80 years would look at George Clooney and say, "Now that's a movie star! Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1945379,00.html #ixzz1HRCRGIZE -
Christoph Waltz as Colonel Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds
uentin Tarantino's fantasy war epic was marketed as a Brad Pitt vehicle about a platoon of American Jews set loose on the Nazis. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1945379,00.html #ixzz1HRCtdXmX -
Michael Jackson as Michael Jackson in Michael Jackson's This Is It
Here's the movie wasn't intended to be a movie — the footage was shot so the star could study his work and that of his crew — showing a man nobody expected to die so soon. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1945379_1944194_1944225,00.html #ixzz1HRD9lX28 -
Colin Firth as King George VI in The King's Speech
For someone who was second in line to become monarch of Britain, the Duke of York — Bertie to his family — didn't have it easy. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2035319_2035307_2032762,00.html #ixzz1HREEA6HG -
Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Lisbeth Salander sprang from Stieg Larsson's imagination in the phenomenally popular Millennium novels. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2035319_2035307_2032758,00.html #ixzz1HRDckpNJ -
Edgar Ramírez as Ilich Ramírez Sánchez in Carlos
The press called him Carlos the Jackal, but that sobriquet isn't used in Olivier Assayas' 5½-hr. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2035319_2035307_2032759,00.html #ixzz1HREZKjIs -
Jacki Weaver as Janine (Smurf) in Animal Kingdom
The subject of David Michôd's icily assured Australian drama is a crime family — a real family, consisting of Mom and her three grown sons. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2035319_2035307_2032763,00.html #ixzz1HRErSQ9m -
Tilda Swinton as Emma Recchi in I Am Love
No modern actress has an aura approaching Tilda Swinton's. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2035319_2035307_2032765,00.html #ixzz1HRF8x0Pm -
Christian Bale as Dickie Eklund in The Fighter
Ah, the magic Christian: an award winner at 13 for his lead performance in Steven Spielberg's 1987 Empire of the Sun, he took the role of the yuppie serial killer in the scandalous American Psycho, lost 63 lb. (29 kg)( for The Machinist and dropped another ton or so to play the captive soldier in Werner Herzog's Rescue Dawn. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2035319_2035307_2032768,00.html #ixzz1HRFQCf7Y -
Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy in Kick Ass
Preteen Mindy loves her widowed father (Nicolas Cage) and indulges his little quirks, like firing a gun from a few feet away into her bulletproof-vested chest; he says if she'll agree to take just one more shot, they can go bowling. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2035319_2035307_2032769,00.html #ixzz1HRFmIstj -
Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross in True Grit
For the central role of the frontier gal setting out on her own to bring to justice the man who murdered her father, Joel and Ethan Coen could have chosen a valued name brand like Dakota Fanning or Saoirse Ronan. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2035319_2035307_2032773,00.html #ixzz1HRGC9TyX -
Emma Stone as Olive in Easy A
In the past few years, Emma Stone — the smiling Circe of the green eyes, sultry voice and fetching overbite — has been pursued by zombies (Zombieland) and Jonah Hill (Superbad). Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2035319_2035307_2032774,00.html #ixzz1HRGNSjkw -
Angela Wesselman as Abby Pierce et al. in Catfish
[SPOILER ALERT: Don't read this unless you want to know the twist behind 2010's craziest quasidocumentary that doesn't involve Joaquin Phoenix.] Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2035319_2035307_2032771,00.html #ixzz1HRGbVvFO
