Happy New Year!

Hello everybody! :) Did you miss me? I hope so because I'm returning (like for REAL) after a long hiatus, full of soul-searching, creative recharging of my mind, broadening my perspectives and I'm ready to make my comeback. I'm feeling better than ever, bursting with the desire to get back to all of you. :) 

Naturally, my soul-searching also meant that I re-examined some of my old decisions and rankings. I have revised most of them and eventually, I'll also correct the old reviews and doing some re-writes. That's gonna be work, but I'm ready. :) I still need to re-think 1948, 1973, 1998 and 2009 so I'm excluding them from my list below. :) And of course, I'll be still changing my rankings whenever I feel like it. :)  

However, let's look at my picks so far (you can see the changes):

1937: Irene Dunne in The Awful Truth

1939: Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind

1940: Joan Fontaine in Rebecca 

1941: Bette Davis in The Little Foxes

1943: Ingrid Bergman in For Whom The Bell Tolls 

1944: Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity

1951: Vivien Leigh in a Streetcar Named Desire

1954: Judy Garland in A Star is Born

1955: Susan Hayward in I'll Cry Tomorrow

1957: Anna Magnani in Wild is the Wind

1958: Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1959: Audrey Hepburn in The Nun's Story

1961: Sophia Loren in Two Women

1962: Katharine Hepburn in A Long Day's Journey Into Night

1963: Leslie Caron in The L-Shaped Room

1964: Anne Bancroft in The Pumpkin Eater

1966: Elizabeth Taylor in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1969: Jane Fonda in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 

1971: Jane Fonda in Klue

1972: Liza Minnelli in Cabaret

1974: Faye Dunaway in Chinatown

1975: Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

1976: Sissy Spacek in Carrie

1977: Diane Keaton in Annie Hall

1978: Ingrid Bergman in Autumn Sonata

1979: Sally Field in Norma Rae

1980: Ellen Burstyn in Resurrection

1982: Jessica Lange in Frances

1983: Meryl Streep in Silkwood

1984: Judy Davis in A Passage to India

1986: Sigourney Weaver in Aliens

1987: Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction

1988: Glenn Close in Dangerous Liaisons

1989: Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys

1990: Kathy Bates in Misery

1992: Mary McDonnell in Passion Fish

1995: Elisabeth Shue in Leaving Las Vegas

1996: Emily Watson in Breaking the Waves

1997: Helena Bonham Carter in The Wings of the Dove

2001: Halle Berry in Monsters Ball

2002: Julianne Moore in Far from Heaven

2003: Charlize Theron in Monster

2004: Kate Winslet in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2006: Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal

2007: Marion Cotillard in La vie en rose

2010: Natalie Portman in Black Swan

2011: Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady 

2012: Emmanuelle Riva in Amour 

Multiple wins: 

• 3 wins: Meryl Streep (2011, 1990, 1983) 
• 2 wins: Ingrid Bergman (1943, 1978)Glenn Close (1987, 1988), Jane Fonda (1969, 1971), Vivien Leigh (1939, 1951), Elizabeth Taylor (1958, 1966)

Records: 

Best performances reviewed:

1. Jane Fonda in Klute
2. Ingrid Bergman in Autumn Sonata
3. Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire
4. Emily Watson in Breaking the Waves
5. Glenn Close in Dangerous Liaisons

Weakest performance reviewed: 

1. Ann-Margret in Tommy
2. Gena Rowlands in Gloria
3. Diana Ross in Lady Sings the Blues
4. Ellen Page in Juno
5. Samantha Morton in In America

I'll see you soon with posts (at least on the 9th). :) I'm keeping it all surprise.

I wish all of you a successful, happy new year! :)

What do you think? Which changes surprised you the most?