Best Female Performances - 2000s

#1

as Evey Hammond in "V for Vendetta" (2006)

#109

as Alice in "Closer" (2004)

Other Noteworthy Performance:

as Sam in "Garden State" (2004)

#2

as The Bride in "Kill Bill Vol. 1" (2003)

#14

as The Bride in "Kill Bill Vol. 2" (2004)

#3

as Edie Sedgwick in "Factory Girl" (2007)

#69

as Caitlin Thomas in "The Edge of Love" (2009)

Other Noteworthy Performances:

as Francesca Bruni in "Casanova" (2005)
as Tammy in "Layer Cake" (2004)

#4

as Rachel Stein/Ellis de Vries in "Black Book" (2007)

Other Noteworthy Performance:

as Nina von Stauffenberg in "Valkyrie" (2008)

#5

as Edith Piaf in "La Vie en Rose" (2007)

#99

as Luisa Contini in "Nine" (2009)

#6

as Frida Kahlo in "Frida" (2002)

#7

as Amelie Poulain in "Amelie" (2001)

#20

as Mathilde in "A Very Long Engagement" (2004)

#42

as Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel in "Coco Before Chanel" (2009)

#86

as Sophie Neveu in "The Da Vinci Code" (2006)

Other Noteworthy Performance:

as Senay Gelik in "Dirty Pretty Things" (2003)

#8

as Hanna Schmitz in "The Reader" (2008)

#27

as Clementine Kruczynski in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (2004)

#38

as April Wheeler in "Revolutionary Road" (2008)

#52

as Sarah Pierce in "Little Children" (2006)

#82

as Maddy Le Clerc in "Quills (2000)

#94

as Tula in "Romance & Cigarettes" (2005)

#9

as Veronica Guerin in "Veronica Guerin" (2003)

#16

as Katharine Hepburn in "The Aviator" (2004)

#32

as Daisy in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (2008)

#45

as Lena Brandt in "The Good German" (2006)

#60

as Jude in "I'm Not There" (2007)

#73

as Queen Elizabeth I in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (2007)

#77

as Jane Winslett-Richardson in "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" (2004)

#106

as Shelba Hart in "Notes on a Scandal" (2006)

#10

as Queen Victoria in "The Young Victoria" (2009)

#11

as Hayley Stark in "Hard Candy" (2006)

#56

as Juno MacGuff in "Juno" (2007)

#12

as Shosanna Dreyfus in "Inglourious Basterds" (2009)

#13

as Betty Elms/Diane Selwyn in "Mulholland Drive" (2001)

#24

as Ann Darrow in "King Kong" (2005)

#51

as Cristina Peck in "21 Grams" (2003)

Other Noteworthy Performances:

as Kitty Fane in "The Painted Veil" (2006)
as Rachel in "The Ring" (2002)

#15

as Sayuri in "Memoirs of a Geisha" (2005)

#39

as Jen Yu in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (2000)

#90

as Moon in "Hero" (2004)

Other Noteworthy Performance:

as Xiao Mei in "House of Flying Daggers" (2004)
as Bai Ling in "2040" (2004)

#17

as Rachel Armstrong in "Nothing But the Truth" (2008)

#70

as Sara Thomas in "Serendipity" (2000)

#83

as Nurse Lt. Evelyn Johnson in "Pearl Harbor" (2001)

#18

as Aileen in "Monster" (2003)

#75

as Josey Aimes in "North Country" (2005)

Other Noteworthy Performance:

as Aeon Flux in "Aeon Flux" (2005)

#19

as Julia Child in "Julie & Julia" (2009)

#58

as Susan Orlean in "Adaptation." (2002)

#21

as Maggie Fitzgerald in "Million Dollar Baby" (2004)

#26

as Amelia Earhart in "Amelia" (2009)

Other Noteworthy Performance:

as Erin Gruwell in "Freedom Writers" (2007)

#22

as The Queen in "The Queen" (2006)

#23

as Connie Summer in "Unfaithful" (2002)

#25

as Christine in "The Phantom of the Opera" (2004)

#28

as Elle Woods in "Legally Blonde" (2001)

#33

as June Carter in "Walk the Line" (2005)

#29

as Lucy in "Across the Universe" (2007)

Other Noteworthy Performance:

as Tracy Freeland in "Thirteen" (2003)

#30

as Jenny in "An Education" (2009)

#31

as Bettie Page in "The Notorious Bettie Page" (2006)

#34

as Virginia Woolf in "The Hours" (2002)

#40

as Satine in "Moulin Rouge" (2001)

Other Noteworthy Performance:

as Lady Sarah in "Australia" (2008)

#35

as Vesper Lynd in "Casino Royale" (2006)

#36

as Kim in "The Last Kiss" (2006)

#37

as Summer Finn in "(500) Days of Summer" (2009)

Other Noteworthy Performance:

as Allison in "Yes Man" (2008)

#41

as Mrs. Lovett in "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (2007)

#115

as Woman in "Conversations with Other Women" (2006)

#43

as Poppy in "Happy-Go-Lucky" (2008)

#44

as Velma Kelly in "Chicago" (2002)

#46

as Vicky in "Vicky Christina Barcelona" (2008)

#47

as Stephanie in "The Wackness" (2008)

#48

as Ray Eddy in "Frozen River" (2008)

#49

as Elizabeth Bennet in "Pride & Prejudice" (2005)

#61

as Cecilia Tallis in "Atonement" (2007)

#67

as Elizabeth Swann in "Pirates of the Caribbean" (2003)

#85

as Vera Phillips in "The Edge of Love" (2009)

Other Noteworthy Performance:

as Domino Harvey in "Domino" (2005)

#50

as The Devil in "Bedazzled" (2000)

#53

as Queen Gorgo in "300" (2007)

#54

as Allie Hamilton in "The Notebook" (2004)

#72

as Claire Cleary in "Wedding Crashers" (2005)

#105

as Regina George in "Mean Girls" (2004)

#55

as Mirtha Jung in "Blow" (2000)

#64

as Raimunda in "Volver" (2006)

#57

as Mrs. Laura Henderson in "Mrs. Henderson Presents" (2005)

#59

as Danielle in "The Girl Next Door" (2004)

#62

as Vera Drake in "Vera Drake" (2004)

#63

as Penny Lane in "Almost Famous" (2000)

#65

as Madolyn in "The Departed" (2006)

Other Noteworthy Performance:

as Alex Goran in "Up in the Air" (2009)

#66

as Tessa Quayle in "The Constant Gardener" (2005)

Other Noteworthy Performances:

as Isabel/Izzi Creo in "The Fountain" (2006)
as Penelope in "The Brothers Bloom" (2009)

#68

as Gloria Cleary in "Wedding Crashers" (2005)

Other Noteworthy Performance:

as April Hoffman in "Definitely, Maybe" (2008)

#71

as Ana Morelos in "Y Tu Mama Tambien" (2002)

#74

as Sherry Swanson in "SherryBaby" (2006)

Other Noteworthy Performance:

as Jean Craddock in "Crazy Heart" (2009)

#76

as Bridget von Hammersmark in "Inglourious Basterds" (2009)

#84

as Helen in "Troy" (2004)