Best Actress 2019
by graveyardhang | created - 18 Jan 2020 | updated - 19 Feb 2023 | PublicEditing the Oscars: best performances by an actress in a leading role in a film released in the US in the year 2019.
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1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
R | 122 min | Drama, Romance
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
Director: Céline Sciamma | Stars: Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami, Valeria Golino
Votes: 109,574 | Gross: $3.76M
Adèle Haenel as defiant, unconventional muse Héloïse, bound by the repression of her time but nonetheless wise and passionate in Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”.
“When you’re observing me, who do you think I’m observing?”
2. Little Women (2019)
PG | 135 min | Drama, Romance
Jo March reflects back and forth on her life, telling the beloved story of the March sisters - four young women, each determined to live life on her own terms.
Director: Greta Gerwig | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen
Votes: 245,708 | Gross: $108.10M
Saoirse Ronan as headstrong and creative Josephine ‘Jo’ March, determined in her independence and conflicted in her loneliness in Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women”.
“I can’t say ‘yes’ truly so I won’t say it at all.”
3. Us (II) (2019)
R | 116 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Adelaide Wilson and her family are attacked by mysterious figures dressed in red. Upon closer inspection, the Wilsons realize that the intruders are exact lookalikes of them.
Director: Jordan Peele | Stars: Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker
Votes: 341,020 | Gross: $175.08M
Lupita Nyong’o as Adelaide Wilson/Red in Jordan Peele’s “Us”.
“Once upon a time, there was a girl and the girl had a shadow. The two were connected, tethered together.”
4. Midsommar (2019)
R | 148 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A couple travels to Northern Europe to visit a rural hometown's fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Director: Ari Aster | Stars: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Vilhelm Blomgren, William Jackson Harper
Votes: 402,960 | Gross: $27.33M
Florence Pugh as anxiety-ridden psych student and reluctant May Queen Dani Ardor, mourning a tragic loss, stuck in a failed relationship and tormented by increasingly bizarre commune festivities in Ari Aster’s “Midsommar”.
5. Marriage Story (2019)
R | 137 min | Drama, Romance
Noah Baumbach's incisive and compassionate look at a marriage breaking up and a family staying together.
Director: Noah Baumbach | Stars: Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Julia Greer, Azhy Robertson
Votes: 346,317 | Gross: $2.00M
Scarlett Johansson as discontent actress Nicole Barber, yearning to define herself outside her husband’s shadow in Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story”.
“I never really came alive for myself; I was only feeding his aliveness.”
6. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
R | 122 min | Drama, Romance
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
Director: Céline Sciamma | Stars: Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami, Valeria Golino
Votes: 109,574 | Gross: $3.76M
Noémie Merlant as worldly, progressive 18th Century painter Marianne, unexpectedly enlightened in Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”.
“When you asked if I had known love, I could tell the answer was yes, and that it was now.”
7. The Farewell (I) (2019)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she dies.
Director: Lulu Wang | Stars: Shuzhen Zhao, Awkwafina, X Mayo, Hong Lu
Votes: 71,127 | Gross: $16.88M
Awkwafina as Billi Wang (王比莉) in Lulu Wang’s “The Farewell”.
8. Her Smell (2018)
R | 136 min | Drama, Music
A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.
Director: Alex Ross Perry | Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Cara Delevingne, Dan Stevens, Agyness Deyn
Votes: 8,193 | Gross: $0.26M
Elisabeth Moss as cataclysmic punk rock star Becky Something (Rebecca Adamcyzk), all sense of self and control destroyed by addiction in Alex Ross Perry’s “Her Smell”.
“Promise me mama, when I die, have the coffin arrive half an hour late and on the side written in gold letters: ‘sorry for the delay’.”
9. Bombshell (I) (2019)
R | 109 min | Biography, Drama
A group of women take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.
Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, John Lithgow
Votes: 126,863
Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly in Jay Roach’s “Bombshell”.
10. The Nightingale (I) (2018)
R | 136 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy, who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.
Director: Jennifer Kent | Stars: Aisling Franciosi, Maya Christie, Baykali Ganambarr, Addison Christie
Votes: 35,629 | Gross: $0.39M
Aisling Franciosi as Clare Carroll in Jennifer Kent’s “The Nightingale”.
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