The Besties Review
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The Bestie Awards
Best of the Bunch
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Best Lead Performance Gallery
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2022
Jessie Buckley — I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Viktoria Miroshnichenko — Beanpole
Anya Taylor-Joy — Emma.
Meryl Streep — Let Them All Talk
Sidney Flanigan — Never Rarely Sometimes Always
2021
Riz Ahmed — Sound of Metal
Mads Mikkelsen — Another Round
Bartosz Bielenia — Corpus Christi
Jesse Plemons — I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Chadwick Boseman — Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Florence Pugh — Midsommar
Awkwafina — The Farewell
Scarlett Johansson — Marriage Story
Noémie Merlant — Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Lupita Nyong'o — Us
2020
Leonardo DiCaprio — Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Joaquin Phoenix — Joker
Robert Pattinson — The Lighthouse
Adam Driver — Marriage Story
Adam Sandler — Uncut Gems
Olivia Colman — The Favourite
Toni Collette — Hereditary
KiKi Layne — If Beale Street Could Talk
Yalitza Aparicio — Roma
Carey Mulligan — Wildlife
2019
Ethan Hawke — First Reformed
Ben Dickey — Blaze
Yoo Ah-in — Burning
Tom Cruise — Mission: Impossible — Fallout
Joaquin Phoenix — You Were Never Really Here
Daniela Vega — A Fantastic Woman
Annette Bening — Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Margot Robbie — I, Tonya
Aubrey Plaza — Ingrid Goes West
Vicky Krieps — Phantom Thread
2018
Timothée Chalamet — Call Me by Your Name
Daniel Kaluuya — Get Out
Colin Farrell — The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Daniel Day-Lewis — Phantom Thread
Andy Serkis — War for the Planet of the Apes
Natalie Portman — Jackie
Mary Elizabeth Winstead — 10 Cloverfield Lane
Viola Davis — Fences
Taraji P. Henson — Hidden Figures
Emma Stone — La La Land
2017
Casey Affleck — Manchester by the Sea
John Goodman — 10 Cloverfield Lane
Denzel Washington — Fences
Ryan Gosling — La La Land
Andrew Garfield — Silence
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