Cate Blanchett in 'Carol' (2015)
Decked out in dazzling '50s-era garb, Blanchett literally wooed the pants off Rooney Mara.
Guy Pearce in 'Factory Girl' (2006)
Muse Edie Sedgwick (Sienna Miller) was the film's star, but Pearce stole the show as icon Andy Warhol.
Heath Ledger in 'Brokeback Mountain' (2005)
He got a posthumous Oscar for playing The Joker, but we'll always remember Ledger as the lovelorn Gyllenhaalic.
Nicole Kidman in 'The Hours' (2002)
Kidman slapped on a prosthetic nose, and won an Oscar, when she turned Virginia Woolf's sadness into riveting drama.
Naomi Watts in 'Mulholland Dr.' (2001)
It's all acting Olympics for Watts, who bumps uglies with Laura Harring in this twisted fantasy.
*This story is part of our '99 Things We Love About Australia' feature in the August issue of Out.
