Best Performances


1. A Love Song for Bobby Long
2. Girl with a Pearl Earring
3. Lost in Translation
4. An American Rhapsody
5. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
6. Match Point
7. Her
8. Under the Skin
9. The Other Boleyn Girl
10. We Bought a Zoo

Honorable mentions to The Horse Whisperer, Ghost World and Don Jon.

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I actually love her in everything regardless of her role. Your list is great, and I really, really love 'A Love Song for Bobby Long'. Not too many know of it. I've worn out my DVD. Time for an upgrade.

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She's very underrated, not in the typical way but I think her talent is often overlooked because of her star power and her beauty. I'm glad someone else knows of it! It's a really beautiful little movie and hardly mentioned despite her getting a Globe nomination for it.

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Definitely Lost in Translation.

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Under the Skin.

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Girl with a Pearl Earring
Lost in Translation
Scoop
Ghost World

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The Horse Whisperer (1998)

The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)- The First role that showed she had potential to be a future star
Ghost World (2001)- Thora Birch steals the film, but Scarlett delivers a strong performance herself
An American Rhapsody (2001)- She had a damn good 2001, didn't she. One of her most underrated films and performances.

Lost In Translation (2003)- I'm not the biggest fan of the film itself. But she deliver's a fine performance for a 19 year old actress. It was a star making turn.
Girl With the Pearl Earring (2003)- I think she delivers a better performance in this then in LIT. the film's not a total success.

A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)- One of her post LIT performances that has been overlooked.
A Good woman (2004) - Scarlett is pretty good in period films, wish she did more of them. not a great film but she's charming in this.

Match Point (2005)- At this point she's only 21 years old, Woody Allen comes knocking and she delivers a great performance.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)- another of her great Allen turn's, although Cruz and Bardem run away with the film.

Don Jon (2013)- Scarlett play's up to her sexy image, and deliver's one of her better performances.
Under The Skin (2013)- She delivers a very good performance in a fantastic film
Her (2013)- Damn 2013 must have been her best year for acting, brings a lot of soul and heart to a performance with just her voice.

She's a very hit and miss actress, and none of her performances for me were Oscar worthy (even her performance in LIT wasn't worth a Oscar Nomination imo). She was in films like The Prestige were you wouldn't have noticed she was in it she makes that little a impact. And she's done some work that's not been great to be fair. I like that compared to other Marvel actor's, she still makes time to do other work. She's making a lot of money for doing so little in Marvel films, so she could have just sit back and relaxed. I like the sound of Jojo Rabbit, but only time will

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