I was thinking I would start a massive GD-wide poll for Female Performances, Male Performances and Films. It isn't Oscar season yet and the forums are slow.

I'll collect ballots for three weeks and then I'll make the list.

Ballots will be counted at midnight on the 1st of August (Eastern Time). Please send in your ballots before then.

The rules for making your ballots:

Choose your Top 20 female performances of the decade (THIS decade). Rank them from 1-20. Your #1 will get 20 points, your #20 will get 1 point, and so on. Also choose five alternates, these will get half a point each.

PERFORMANCES INCLUDED ON YOUR LIST MUST HAVE BEEN RELEASED IN AMERICA BETWEEN THE YEARS 2000 AND 2009. IF YOU LIVE IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY AND THEREFORE GOT SOME 1999 AND 1998 MOVIES LATER THAN OTHER COUNTRIES DID, PLEASE CHECK IMDB TO ASCERTAIN THE AMERICAN RELEASE DATE FOR THE FILMS IN QUESTION. I WILL REPLY TO YOUR PM TO TELL YOU WHICH PERFORMANCES ARE INELIGIBLE FOR THE LIST (FOR THIS REASON) SO YOU CAN CHANGE THEM ACCORDINGLY.

As so:

1. 20pts
2. 19pts
3. 18pts
4. 17pts
5. 16pts
6. 15pts
7. 14pts
8. 13pts
9. 12pts
10. 11pts
11. 10pts
12. 9pts
13. 8pts
14. 7pts
15. 6pts
16. 5pts
17. 4pts
18. 3pts
19. 2pts
20. 1pt

ALT. 0.5pts
ALT. 0.5pts
ALT. 0.5pts
ALT. 0.5pts
ALT. 0.5pts

Post in this thread when you have sent in your ballot. It will be bumped if it reaches the bottom of the page. Every day I will make a post showing whose ballots I have received (I won't provide any other information about the ballots).

Post FYCs in this thread for female performances you'd like other people to remember when they are organizing their ballots!

After I have finished counting the ballots, I will create a new thread for the LIVE unveiling of the LIST!!!!!!

For the entries in the list, I would love to have some small blurbs about the perfs or some info regarding them, so if you wanted to put little comments in with your ballot choices, that would be great. But this isn't compulsory.

Hopefully a lot of people do this, so that we can make this as inclusive of everyone on GD as possible. So, if you are a regular poster on these forums, don't just "forget" to send in a ballot! Take the five minutes necessary to compile your 25 favorite female perfs of the decade!

Bear in mind that "Female Performances" encompasses supporting performances as well. Don't just list lead performances!

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Ballots I've received:
puxzkkx
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AWESOME!! I can't wait to get this to you!!



One BIG FYC: Angela Bettis in "May"

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Originally posted by Troy:
AWESOME!! I can't wait to get this to you!!



One BIG FYC: Angela Bettis in "May"

I totally agree about Angela Bettis!
(psst... she's one of my ALTs!)

And maybe it is too much to ask, but a sticky would be awesome!

FYC:

JULIANNE MOORE "FAR FROM HEAVEN"
BJORK "DANCER IN THE DARK"

I love Bjork's performance in Dancer in the Dark and I second the FYC. Unfortunately she just missed the cut for my ballot!

I'll try and get to making my list soon, but for the meantime:

FYC:

Kate Winslet - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

FYC:
Naomi Watts & Laura Harring - Mulholland Drive

Miranda Richardson - Spider

Mirjana Karanovic - Grbavica

Candela Pena - Princesas

Emmanuelle Seigner & Isild Le Besco - Backstage

Cate Blanchett - Little Fish

Keira Knightley - Pride & Prejudice

Cameron Diaz & Toni Collette - In Her Shoes

Joan Allen - The Upside of Anger

Reese Witherspoon - Legally Blonde!

Maria Galiana - Solas

Isabelle Huppert - The Piano Teacher

Ruth Sheen, Sally Hawkins, Lesley Manville, Kathryn Hunter, Alison Garland and the rest of the female cast of All or Nothing

Madeline Kahn - Judy Berlin

Claudie Blakley, Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emily Watson, Kelly Macdonald, Sophie Thompson and the rest of the female cast of Gosford Park

Rosamund Pike - The Libertine

Cyndi Williams - Room

The women of Atonement

The women of Volver

Bae Du-na - Linda Linda Linda

Isabelle Huppert - Merci pour le chocolat

Severine Caneele - Humanite

Shinobu Terajima - Vibrator

Carolina Lizarazo - The First Night

Zhou Xun - Suzhou River

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi - It's Easier for a Camel

Yu Aoi - Hana & Alice

Jennifer Garner - 13 Going on 30

Yum Jung-ah - A Tale of Two Sisters

And I know the performance is tiny, but:
Lynn Redgrave - Kinsey

FYC:

Manal Afifi - The Closed Doors

Clara Khoury - Rana's Wedding

Anne-Marie Duff - The Magdalene Sisters

Sylvie Testud & Julie-Marie Parmentier - Murderous Maids

Amy Adams - Catch Me If You Can

Ronit Elkabetz - Late Marriage

puxzkkx, why do I have this feeling that this list will be more of your list than Gold Derby's list? And it's nothing against you though... (I kinda mean this in a good way...)

Why do I have this feeling that you're insulting me? Thanks for the concern, but implications of crookedness don't sit well with me.

Regardless, send in your ballots!

I'm not the kind of person to rig the votes. The entire point of this poll is to get an accurate portrait of the GD groupthink. If I wanted to make a list of my own personal favorites, I'd just do it myself on Excel!

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This thread has 80 views but I only have two ballots... and one of them is mine. thanks for the support, guys :|

What is an Alt?

an alternate candidate.

FYC:

Julie Deply, "Before Sunset"
Tilda Swinton, "In The Deep"
Melissa Leo, “Frozen River”
Keira Knightley, "Pride & Prejudice"
Renee Zellweger, "Nurse Betty"
Gwyneth Paltrow, "Sylvia"

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Originally posted by puxzkkx:
an alternate candidate.

But what does that mean? Like a runner-up?

I don't understand why my alternative would get 9 more points then my 11th choice, and so on. Why do all alternatives get 10 points? That seems quite excessive.

quote:

Originally posted by puxzkkx:
Why do I have this feeling that you're insulting me? Thanks for the concern, but implications of crookedness don't sit well with me.

Regardless, send in your ballots!

I'm not the kind of person to rig the votes. The entire point of this poll is to get an accurate portrait of the GD groupthink. If I wanted to make a list of my own personal favorites, I'd just do it myself on Excel!

Sorry, I wasn't trying to insult you. I was just wondering how you were going to come up with the lists if you get all these ballots with all of of these different names... that's all... and then I saw your huge FYC list and was wondering how it was going to work if everyone has a big list with all different names on it... But whatever! This seems exciting and I will try and get my ballot on soon. And again, I'm really sorry, I really wasn't trying to insult you!