87. ANGELA BASSETT
Waiting to Exhale (1995)

Her explosive performance in 1993's What's Love Got to Do With It showed the world she meant business. Here, as a wronged wife in an adaptation of Terry McMillan's best-seller, she's just as serious. She torches her rotten hubby's Mercedes with a screw-you rage whose force is matched only by her calm, unapologetic acknowledgment of the act in the following scene.