My Favorite Performances of 2007 (Female)

Briony Tallis - Atonement
"I want to thank you for saving my life. I'll be eternally grateful to you."

Karen Crowder - Michael Clayton
"This is a three billion dollar class action lawsuit. In the morning, I have to call my board. I have to tell them that the architect of our defense was arrested for running naked in the street. What sickness is he talking about?"

Jude - I'm Not There
"People actually think I have some kind of a fantastic imagination. It gets very lonesome."

Juno MacGuff - Juno
"I'm just gonna go ahead an nip this thing in the bud. Cuz you know, they say pregnancy often leads to, you know... an infant."

Helene McCready - Gone Baby Gone
"I know I fucked up. I just want my daughter back. I swear to God, I won't use no drugs no more. I won't even go out; I'll be fucking straight. Cross my heart."

Honorable Mentions:
Martha Hanson - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Mouna - The Visitor
"This feels like Syria."

Anna - Eastern Promises
"Sometimes birth and death go together. She came in with needle punches all over both arms. Probably a prostitute, at the age of fourteen."

Det. Emily Sanders - In the Valley of Elah
"I will arrest every soldier whose blood alcohol is 1/1000 over the legal limit. How many men do you think that will be?"

Carla Jean Moss - No Country for Old Men
"The coin don't have no say. It's just you."

Cecilia Tallis - Atonement
"I love you. I'll wait for you. Come back. Come back to me."

Zee James - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
"What have...? What have you done?"

Corazon - Sunshine
"Air's low. We need to limit our exertions."

Giselle - Enchanted
"Oh, well, I wouldn't worry about Pip. He is very brave. I remember this one time, when the poor wolf was being chased by Little Red Riding Hood around his grandmother's house, and she had an axe... oh, and if Pip hadn't been walking by to help I don't know what would've happened!"

Honorable Mentions:
Bonnie Bach - Charlie Wilson's War

Angie Gennaro - Gone Baby Gone
"They told me what happened. I'm proud of you. That man killed a child. He had no right to live."

Laurie - Trick 'r Treat
"My, my what big eyes you have."

Mama Lucas - American Gangster
"You don't shoot cops. Even I know that. Eva knows it. The only one who DOESN'T seem to know is you."

Melanie - Zodiac

Gina - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
"Do you realize that I've been having an affair? Are you gonna get angry?"

Karin - Lars and the Real Girl
"That is just not true! God! Every person in this town bends over backward to make Bianca feel at home. Why do you think she has so many places to go and so much to do? Huh? Huh? Because of you! Because - all these people - love you!"

Darlene Madison - Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
"You know I suffer the same temptations you do. Sometimes when I'm lyin' in bed, I ache for a man's touch... and by a man's touch, I mean a penis in my vagina."

Zainab - The Visitor

Mrs. Lovett - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
"We could have a life we two, maybe not like you remember. Maybe not like I imagined. But we could get by."

Margo - Lars and the Real Girl
"No, it's just a thaw - winter isn't over till Easter."

Amada Juarez - We Own the Night

Vanessa Loring - Juno
"I'm just saying that this is - this is something that's never gonna happen. You know -Your shirt is stupid. Grow up. If I have to wait for you to become Kurt Cobain, I'm never gonna be a mother."