YOUR Best Actress of 1985

Here are the results of the poll: 1. Whoopi Goldberg - The Color Purple (43 votes) 2. Geraldine Page - The Trip to Bountiful (41 votes) 3. M...

Best Actress 1985 - The resolution

After having watched and reviewed all five nominated performances, it's time to pick the winner! 5. Anne Bancroft in Agnes of God Anne B...

Best Actress 1985: Whoopi Goldberg in "The Color Purple"

I guess I’m not the only one who was introduced to Whoopi Goldberg by her distinctive comedy work, sometimes slapstick, sometimes silly, som...

Best Actress 1985: Jessica Lange in "Sweet Dreams"

Surprisingly, Jessica Lange didn’t receive any other awards attention for her performance as ill-fated, legendary country singer Patsy Cline...

Best Actress 1985: Meryl Streep in "Out of Africa"

Another Best Actress line-up of the 80s, another nominated Meryl-Streep-performance, another accent. In 1985, she was nominated for her perf...

Best Actress 1985: Anne Bancroft in "Agnes of God"

Anne Bancroft received her fifth and final Oscar nomination her performance as Mother Miriam Ruth, a Mother Superior who has to deal with un...

Best Actress 1985: Geraldine Page in "The Trip to Bountiful"

In 1960, Geraldine Page was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance in Tennessee Williams’s Sweet Bird of Youth but lost the award t...

Best Actress 1985

The next year will be 1985 and the nominees were Anne Bancroft in  Agnes of God Whoopi Goldberg in  The Color Purple Jessica Lange in  Sweet...