Top 10 Leading Ladies of 2009

Girl Power
There were several awesome characters this year, and so many of them were inhabited by young women. In lieu of a ‘best of’ film list, I instead present you with a ’2009 Top 10 Unmissable Young Women in Film’ list (followed next time perhaps by my ‘Top 10 Interpretations for the man on the roof in A Serious Man'): Ready?
1. Carey Mulligan in An Education
2. Maggie Gyllenhaal in Crazy Heart
3. Anna Kendrick in Up In The Air
It goes without saying that Clooney is our George Cary Grant.  It takes quite a girl to step up to the plate and banter with a dish like Clooney.  Kendrick deserves praise, and she's always been phenomenal in every part, even in her pre-Twi days.  If you don't believe me, check out Rocket Scienceor Camp. Please cast Kendrick in absolutely everything.  Thanks.
4. Zooey Deschanel in Gigantic and (500) Days of Summer
5. Zoe Saldana in Avatar and Star Trek 
6. Melanie Laurent in Inglourious Basterds
7. Gabourey Sidibe in Precious
8. Kristen Stewart in Adventureland
If you saw her in Into The Wild a few years back, you know her talent transcends the Twi-franchise (and you believe her as the instigator of dueling Twi- ‘Teams’ and an object of supernatural vamp/wolf-man desire).  Plus, the film is definitely worth seeking out.  It shouldn’t pale in the vampire Moon.
9. Ellen Page and Allison Lohman in two movies I didn’t see (Whip It and Drag Her To Hell)
10. Kudos to the animated girlies 
Ponyo (voiced by Noah Cyrus in master Hayao Miyazaki’s film Ponyo), Coraline (voiced by uber-tween clone of herself, Dakota Fanning in the film Coraline, Tiana (voiced by Anika Noni Rose in The Princess and the Frog), and  KW (voiced by Lauren Ambrose in Where The Wild Things Are). 
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~Robstenfan