Honorable Mentions

Jamie Lee Curtis, The Last Showgirl

Margaret Qualley, The Substance

Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, The Nickel Boys & Exhibiting Forgiveness

Zendaya, Challengers

Saoirse Ronan, Blitz

Natasha Lyonne, His Three Daughters

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Felicity Jones wowed me. I usually find her a bit wooden, flat, stilted, boring... But her performance in this movie was SO lived in, layered, fierce, touching. I didn't realized she had this in her, and I'm so so impressed, proud, grateful.