Who is the best living actress of Philip Seymour Hoffman's generation?

(Same deal. Oscar acting nominees born between 1961 and 1973.)

voting dern now, before i notice someone who gives me pause

I hope someone votes for Quinn Cummings.

Voted Meryl Streep, to piss off Alfred

Dern or Blanchette probably.

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Although, Emily Watson in Hilary and Jackie is a force of nature.

more pissed than ever jennifer jason leigh never got a nod

voted binoche

more pissed than ever jennifer jason leigh never got a nod

otm. other worthies: lili taylor, parker posey, hope davis

Laura Linney for You Can Count on Me and The Squid and the Whale. Surprised Holly Hunter isn't on the list, but she missed by three years. Bad time to vote for Mariel Hemingway.

Binoche, with Helena B. Carter, Emily Watson, Naomi Watts and Toni Collette in contention.

Cate Blanchett is usually a mannered bore.

Of film actors that are on the list or have been mentioned, Foster, JJ Leigh, Binoche.

rosie perez

Lots of strong Aussies on this. Toni Colette always interesting.

Lots of good options, inclined to vote Dern.

binoche, watson, watts are contenders. I think Amy Ryan's got the chops but she needs to find better roles than stuff like supporting roles in "escape plan". I love diane lane and rachel weisz, too.

Emily Mortimer ('71) should be in there too.

diane lane's crazy underrated, she just never seems to get the good roles

kinda think watson's the best on this list but i already voted for rosie. tomei and watts would tempt me as well. i havent seen enough of viola davis but i understand she has a formidable reputation

Binoche, Linney, Watts, Dern

Dern, but would strongly consider voting JJ Leigh were she on here.

Another Binoche vote from me.

after her English Patient-Chocolat flirtation with Hollywood stardom she's given several excellent perfs.

toni collette probably. but maybe marisa tomei which at one point would have been laughable but I swear she's great in everything she's in.

otm

http://cinemafanatic.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/199_marisa_tomei_my_cousin_vinny.jpg

btw: Edie Falco (b. 1963)

I completely fail to see what people find appealing in Juliette Binoche.

Gonna go with Watts. It's between her and Colette for me. Though I love Dern and Linney as well.

man, Watts has had a terrible run of late. Hopefully the Herzog flick pans out.

I completely fail to see what people find appealing in Juliette Binoche.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Blue
Summer Hours
The Red Balloon
Certified Copy

so much better than the actor list!

Alfred, that's just a list of films. I have to admit I've only seen Blue... and I couldn't stand her in it, TBH. Regardless of the quality of the movies she's in, I find her face completely expressionless.

not the case in Certified Copy, or Haneke's Code Unknown

you're judging her on one performance, daavid?

No, no. I've seen her in other films. I meant I've only seen one of the ones you mentioned. In any case, even if I ever saw a good performance, I gotta admit I simply do not like her and couldn't really judge objectively.

is no one going to rep for jodie foster? and why not?

Because of Nell.

Another Binoche vote from me.

― Isaiah "Ice" McAdams (cajunsunday), Sunday, February 9, 2014 11:00 AM (3 hours ago)

Same here.

Throwing out some more names:

Sandrine Bonnaire
Emmanuelle Devos
Emanuelle Seigner
Emanuelle Beart
Jeanne Balibar
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Chiara Mastroianni
Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
Karin Viard
Maggie Cheung
Gong Li
Rachel Griffiths
Cameron Diaz

Because of Nell.

Oh yeah, that. Thankfully, I've never seen that movie. The trailers were bad enough.

Cameron Diaz

greatest actress of any in this -- or any other -- generation. astounding range of emotional performances.

http://blogs.lynn.edu/offtherecord/files/2011/06/charlies_angels_cameron_diaz.jpg

can't remember anything about a beautiful mind except (a) there was a plot-swerve in the movie that really stunned me at the time; and (b) jennifer connelly was astoundingly good in her role.

astounding range of emotional performances.

Heh. Yeah Diaz was the curveball. But I honestly think she has, and has shown, interesting potential (especially once she ages definitively beyond standard rom-com lead). The analogue would be McConaughey, who's bloomed into something I wouldn't have expected just a few years ago.

I really loved Binoche in Flight of the Red Balloon. She does that harassed single mother thing well.

This is so Binoche.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

"if Binoche is on there then Isabelle Huppert should be" i thought. But then I googled Huppert and she's 60, which is completely mind blowing to me.

Huppert played Romy Schneider's kid sister in a movie in 1972!

prefer Sandrine Bonnaire to Binoche

"if Binoche is on there then Isabelle Huppert should be" i thought. But then I googled Huppert and she's 60, which is completely mind blowing to me.

I had a similar experience with Miranda Richardson.

Linney with Binoche and Collette vying for second

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

yup

that is the wrong laura, it should have gone to you can count on me deserving winner laura.

poor winona

Looks like I forgot Octavia Spencer...

Seethed with annoyance throughout Mary and Max and I rly couldn't put my finger on it, because it was beautiful and funny and poignant but every now and again i wanted to stab kittens

End credits solved it

Has Toni Colette ever been anything but pure, condensed and shockingly irritaating