60. SISSY SPACEK
Badlands (1973)

Nearly a decade older than her teenage character and three years before her first nomination (for Carrie), Spacek gave filmgoers the first taste of the fine actress she'd become as Holly, a ripening strawberry blonde who — out of sheer boredom — accompanies her sociopathic boyfriend (Martin Sheen) on a killing spree across the Midwest. With her unembroidered performance, Spacek sketches a freckle-faced portrait of the American nightmare.