above, Best Actress Grace Kelly (The Country Girl) with presenter William Holden at the 27th Academy Awards
With the 83rd Annual Academy Awards just hours away, I thought I would dedicate today’s post to some of my favorite leading ladies…my picks are not necessarily Oscar winners, they are just some of my all time favorite performances from some of my all time favorite films…in trying to come up with my list, I thought about which characters had the greatest impact on me…I can still remember the first time I saw the Wizard of Oz…it was a film that taught me about love, loyalty and friendship…beyond the music and the gorgeous sets was a simple story about a girl growing up…a timeless story with a timeless message…I still cry when she says goodbye to the scarecrow…for me, that scene is cinematic perfection…I will always think of Judy Garland as Dorothy…
Wishing you a wonderful Oscar night…may we share a toast to great films and the stories they have to tell…
below, Judy Garland ~ The Wizard of Oz, 1939
below, Grace Kelly ~ Rear Window, 1954
below, Doris Day ~ Pillow Talk, 1959
below, Audrey Hepburn ~ Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 1961
below, Natalie Wood ~ West Side Story, 1961
below, Mariel Hemingway ~ Manhattan, 1979
below, Helena Bonham Carter ~ Room with a View, 1985
below, Meryl Streep ~ Out of Africa, 1985
below, Emma Thompson and Kate Beckinsale ~ Much Ado About Nothing, 1993
below, Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet ~ Sense and Sensibility, 1995
below, Scarlett Johansson ~ Lost in Translation, 2003
below, Natalie Portman ~ Closer, 2004
below, Keira Knightly ~ Pride and Prejudice, 2005
below, Kirsten Dunst ~ Marie Antoinette, 2006
below, Audrey Tautou ~ Coco Before Chanel, 2009
Pretty women!
Looking at those pictures i feel like we know them…like they are our girlfriends.