10. Maisie Williams in Game of Thrones
9. Emma Stone in The Favourite
8. Lady Gaga in A Star is Born
7. Amber Heard in London Fields
6. Alison Brie in GLOW
5. Kelli Bergland in Now Apocalypse
4. Cara Delevigne in Carnival Row
3. Margot Qualley in Donnybrook
2. Kate Mara and Ellen Page in My Days of Mercy
1. Sydney Sweeney in Euphoria
Numbers 8 and 9 were on our poll last year. Emma made the top 10, which was impressive in a very strong year in which Gaga did not even make the top 20. (We do ours on a calendar year, while Mr. Skin uses sort of an idiosyncratic period, kind of like a fiscal year ending in November, so he always misses December releases during the calendar year.)
Those are all pretty solid choices. The top two don’t surprise me, although I might have expected Berglund to take the #3 spot. There are probably many others that deserve consideration in our annual poll. Off the top of my head, scenes from Jett, Warrior, Sex Education, Midsommar, Mrs. Fletcher and Strange Angel. There were also some performances that may have technically been listed either as 2018 or 2019 films, but that we did not see before this year: Manon Pages in The Demonologist, Erin Moriarty in Driven, Jemima Kirke in Untogether, or Saskia Rosendahl and Paula Beer in Never Look Away.
I’m undoubtedly forgetting many because I haven’t done the research yet. What were some of your favorites this year? (Or feel free to post your own list, if you care to.)
Reader suggestions (so far):
- Chloe Dykstra in Diminuendo
- Mackenzie Davis in Terminator: Dark Fate
- Aimee Lou Wood from Sex Education