My Favorite Performances of 2015 (Female)

Carol Aird - Carol
"I took what you gave willingly. It's not your fault, Therese."

Imperator Furiosa - Mad Max: Fury Road
"Out here, everything hurts. You wanna get through this? Do as I say."

Ava - Ex Machina
"Isn't it strange, to create something that hates you?"

Honorable Mentions:
Gaby Teller - The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Kate Macer - Sicario
"You know, we're not even scratching the surface doing what we're doing. And they are."

Ma - Room
"I'm sorry that I'm not nice anymore, but you know what? Maybe if your voice saying "be nice" hadn't been in my head, then maybe I wouldn't have helped the guy with the fucking sick dog!"

Therese Belivet - Carol
"I should have said "No" to you but I never say "No". And it's selfish because... because I just take everything and I don't know anything. And I don't know what I want. How could I when all I ever do is say "Yes" to everything?"

Sacha Pfeiffer - Spotlight
"He didn't try and hide it at all. He had this really odd rationalization for it, like it was totally normal to fool around with little boys."

Honorable Mentions:
Maureen Hope - Southpaw

Thomasin - The Witch
"Black Phillip, I conjure thee to speak to me. Speak as thou dost speak to Jonas and Mercy. Dost thou understand my English tongue? Answer me."

Short Sighted Woman - The Lobster
"One day, as he was playing golf, he thought that it is more difficult to pretend that you do have feelings when you don't than to pretend you don't have feelings when you do."

Eilis - Brooklyn
"I wish that I could stop feeling that I want to be an Irish girl in Ireland."

Daisy Domergue - The Hateful Eight
"When you get to hell, John, tell them Daisy sent ya."

Parvaneh - A Man Called Ove
"You're amazingly crap at dying."

Ilsa Faust - Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
"You have everything you need to find me."

Katherine - The Witch

Rachel - Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
"Look, I don't want you hanging out with me. I don't need your stupid pity. It's fine, you can just go."

Joanna Hoffman - Steve Jobs
"What's been wrong with me for nineteen years. I have been a witness, and I tell you I've been complicit. I love you, Steve. You know how much. I love that you don't care how much money a person makes; you care what they make. But what you make isn't supposed to be the best part of you. When you're a father... that's what's supposed to be the best part of you, and it's caused me two decades of agony. Steve... that it is for you... the worst. It's a little thing... it's a very small thing. Fix it. Fix it now or you can contact me at my new job working anywhere I want."

Amber - Green Room
"Please tell me those stupid fucking words are his last!"

Loner Leader - The Lobster
"We dance alone. That's why we only play electronic music."

Honorable Mentions:
Madeleine - Spectre

Bianca - Creed
"You didn't tell me your uncle was Rocky Balboa."

Kat - Results
"Trevor, you have no idea what's going on in your own brain."

Abby Gerhard - Carol
"You really think I've flown halfway across the country to drive you back East because I hate you and want to see you suffer?"

Diggy - Dope
"I'm George W. Bush. I don't give a fuck what the vote says."

Edith Cushing - Crimson Peak
"Ghosts are real, that much I know. I've seen them all my life..."

Jules - The Intern
"The truth is... something about you makes me feel calm, or more centered, or something. And I could use that. Obviously."

Lainey - Sleeping with Other People
"First of all, you are not the Mark Zuckerberg of vaginas."