19. Cate Blanchett in Carol (2015)

Cate Blanchett delicately plays a highly poignant and complex portrait of a woman who navigates love within all constraints in the 1950s. Her graceful yet quiet intensity captures every inner turmoil that goes on inside Carol with subtle profundity. Stealing glimpses that display longing and vulnerability over a touch or a glimpse lends layers to what a character would write for herself as she grows old. Her chemistry, and dynamic with Rooney Mara, is very palpable, raising the film to an emotional crescendo.
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Edited by Apoorva Jujjavarapu