The Ten Best Academy Award "Best Actresses"

See Ed Copeland's. for his 10 best Oscar winning performances. Here are mine:

1) Vivian Leigh - Gone With the Wind - She dominates the film from start to finish. She is Scarlett O'Hara, and no one could have done a better job.

2) Audrey Hepburn - Roman Holiday - This is the movie that made the world fall in love with Audrey Hepburn. Not one wrong note, she is beguiling, charming, and always the Princess.

3) Vivian Leigh - Streetcar Named Desire "A harrowing study in human frailty and incipient madness, Leigh’s performance is, at times, almost unbearable to watch; the viewer can’t help but want to reach out and save Blanche — mostly from herself."

4) Grace Kelly - Country Girl - Grace Kelly was not only beautiful she could act. Sadly, some have never forgiven her for taking away "Judy's Oscar". Cast against type as Bing's dowdy, controlling, wife she makes it work.
5) Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - She made a middle-aged, Mussolini loving Fascist, irresistible. Now that Acting.
6) Meryl Streep - Sophie's Choice - Well, its Meryl Steep
7) Jule Andrews -Mary Poppins - Its impossible to imagine anyone else in the role.
8) Anna Magnani - The Rose tattoo - A force of nature. She takes a so-so character and brings her alive.
9) Liz Taylor - Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf - Another Beauty playing Dowdy but Liz actually not only undergoes a physical transformation, she's a hurricane. Quite different from the subdued beauty of What I Saw last Summer.
10) Susan Hayward - I Want to Live! My mothers favorite movie. It always left her "limp as a dishrag". Yes, Susan lacks a little subtlety but she drives the narrative forward and makes you root for this killer to escape the Gas Chamber.