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Overview:
This was the
first time we ever had a tie. Of course I kinda
forced that. The top two see-sawed for hours, and
the balloting has no particular official closing
point, so when it was late in the action and I
noticed them tied, I shut down the poll! Hey,
there's no claim to scientific validity! I guess I
could have waited for the next vote to come in and
declared a winner, but this result seems more
fitting since neither star ever led the other by
more than a couple of votes.
The return
of star-powered nudity:
It's a pleasure to see that some of
these scenes involved big stars in films which were
released theatrically. The last few years have been
dominated by cable films, foreign films never released
in America, direct-to-vids, and miscellaneous
offerings. The few theatrical releases to creep onto
the list featured older women or actresses who were
previously unknown to us. Last year there was not a
single major star who did award-winning nudity in a
theatrical release. The highest placement by a name
star in a 2009 theatrical film was Anne Heche in
Spread, but even that is a stretch, because Anne is
not an A-list star, that was a limited release movie,
and the scene was a distant also-ran in the poll.
That all changed in 2010.
This year the co-winners (Amanda
Seyfried and Anne Hathaway) were familiar names
appearing in theatrical films from big-time directors.
And those two were not alone. Other established
Hollywood stars appeared on the list, including
Kirsten Dunst and Christina Ricci.
While theatrical nudity was making a
solid comeback, the cable shows were turning out some
of the best nudity in ages. Three new cable shows
offered spectacular frontal nudity: Spartacus, Look,
and Boardwalk Empire. There were also great nude
scenes on some old favorites like Hung, Weeds,
Entourage, True Blood and Californication.
Honorable
mention:
Here are some items of special
interest, even though the performances in question
missed the top 25. I thought there would be more
enthusiasm for these three:
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Rinko Kikuchi in Map of the Sounds
of Tokyo
(5.8 at IMDb)
You probably remember her as the
Asian girl from Babel. Hot stuff.
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Greta Gerwig in Greenberg
(6.4 at IMDb)
Greta, long known as the muse of
mumblecore, made the leap to establishment filmmaking
in 2010 with this appearance in a Noah Baumbach film
co-written by Jennifer Jason Leigh.
She made her mainstream debut with
Ben Stiller chewing on her coochie!
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Christy Carlson Romano in Mirrors
2
(4.7 at IMDb)
The former Disney girl made a bold
move to show she was fit for adult roles.
I'd say she's quite fit in general!
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The Winners
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Violante Placido in The American
(6.6 at IMDb)
I thought this scene would place
higher. Gorgeous woman in a George Clooney film ...
OK, not a good George Clooney
film, but still ...
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Serena Scott-Thomas in Brothel
(4.5 at IMDb)
I have to admit that I was surprised
by the support for this entry. It's an obscure and
unappreciated 2008 film not previously seen by us. The
star is in her late forties and is most noteworthy as
the sister of somebody famous.
Oh, well! She got the votes so, as
Dick Tuck once said, "The people have spoken, the
bastards."
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Naomi Watts in Mother and Child
(7.2 at IMDb)
You have to appreciate it any time a
star on or close to the A-list does full-frontal
nudity.
Naomi is over 40 now, but still looks
great.
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Mena Suvari in The Garden of Eden
(5.3 at IMDb)
The little American Pie cheerleader
kinda sorta faded away for a while and has not really
made it back into significant theatrical films yet,
but she has turned in some good performances and some
great nudity on the festival/arthouse circuit in
recent years.
She's still only 31, and has plenty
of time to get back to the big show. In the meantime,
she is always popular on our pages!
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Diane Kruger in Inhale
(6.9 at IMDb)
You
remember her. In Troy she was the face that
launched a thousand
ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum.
Inhale
is a very serious drama and this scene was about as
non-erotic as nudity can be, but I think we can
pause for a second to look at the still picture
which, removed from its depressing context, can
still launch a ship or two.
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Sharon
Hinnendael on Look
(season 1)
I haven't seen this show and I don't
really know who she is or much about her, other than
that she has the dubious distinction of being arguably
the most famous actress ever to come out of Green Bay,
Wisconsin.
But what I see here, I like a lot!
And this is but a tiny sampling of
the nudity she did on this show.
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Paz de la Huerta in Enter the
Void
(7.3 at IMDb)
If you're an artsy-fartsy avant-garde
filmmaker and you want a recognizable woman to be
filmed in some kinky sex or nudity, I think you'll
find that Paz will probably do the scene as long as
your check clears. Her nudity in this film was
extraordinary. If Scarlett Johansson had done this
role, the internet would have collapsed.
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Katrina Law on Spartacus: Blood
and Sand
(season 1)
Spartacus is my kind of TV series.
It's filled with stylized violence, crazy plot twists,
scheming villains, outrageous revenge schemes, men
trying to bear adversity with honor, and full frontal
female nudity.
What else is there?
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Gretchen Mol on Boardwalk Empire
(season 1)
She's a former winner and a perennial
contender in our annual lists. Given that she plays a
grandmother in this show, I'd have to say that she is
the ultimate GILF.
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Sasha Grey on Entourage
(season 7)
I'm surprised
that there were so many votes for this scene, given
that Sasha is a porn star. Let's face it, anybody
who wants to see any part of her body has seen it
already. I guess the voters evaluated her Entourage
nude scenes on their objective merit, which was
substantial, as you can see to the right.
I can relate to
that. I didn't know who she was until I looked her
up after seeing her on Entourage, so I was unbiased,
and I thought the scenes were great.
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Gemma Arterton in The
Disappearance of Alice Creed
(6.8 at IMDb)
Gemma is a real free spirit. As a
Bond girl and a co-star in big budget films, she
certainly doesn't need roles like the one in this
no-budget thriller, in which she got thrown around
while naked and bound
But she pursued this role. She read
the script and believed in the project.
We approve.
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Jessica Pare in Hot Tub Time
Machine
(6.7 at IMDb)
Jessica was the comeback girl of the
year. Almost a decade ago, her name was on the tips of
our tongues when she did the whole lesbian thing with
Piper Perabo in Lost and Delirious. That scene
finished fifth in our 2001 poll. She landed a WB
series in 2004, but it lasted only one season. After
that she wasn't seen for years. I had forgotten about
her until she popped out of the hot tub in the scene
to the right, and even then I didn't know who she was
until I perused the credits. I guess I should have
remembered that great chest.
Now, all of a sudden, she's on Mad
Men receiving a marriage proposal from America's
favorite handsome rogue, Don Draper!
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Addison Timlin on Californication
(season 4
preview)
You have to think she has a career and a
half ahead of her. She's only 19 and, as she herself
says in the episode pictured to the right, she has
great boobs.
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Anna Paquin on True Blood
(season 3)
A screen nudity virgin just three
years ago, Anna is now the Ol' Man River of TV nudity.
Her nude performances as Sookie Stackhouse have made
our annual list three years running, including a first
place and a close second. She's the only actress to
appear on the lists in all three years. (Mena Suvari
just missed, as The Mysteries of Pittsburgh was just a
hair short of the top 20 last year.)
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Tilda Swinton in I Am Love
(7.1 at IMDb)
She's 50 years old and one of the
world's most respected actresses. Since she's so
talented and experienced and marches to a different
drummer, you might say she's the female equivalent of
Daniel Day-Lewis. Yet despite her stellar reputation,
she had absolutely no problem doing close-up crotch
shots in this film.
Ya gotta love Tilda.
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Rebecca Creskoff on Hung
(season 2)
Rebecca must be a pretty damned good
actress, because she's the villainess in this show and
every time I see her, I want to slap her silly. She's
so arrogant and slimy she makes James Spader and Ron
Silver seem like the Bobbsy Twins.
In this scene, however, I might have
had some other thoughts before wanting to slap her
silly.
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Elena Anaya in Room in Rome
(shared with
Natasha Yarovenko)
(5.9 at IMDb)
The scene I vote for rarely wins
these polls. This was my choice this year, and I never
considered voting for anything else. Between these two
women, they must have provided the most total bare
female flesh in a single non-porn film since
Emmanuelle Beart in La Belle Noiseuse in 1991.
I don't even know if Elena Anaya owns
any clothing. She started doing nude scenes in 1996
and has done about one per year since. In terms of
total running time spent naked, Anaya may be the only
actress capable of approaching Beart's lifetime nudity
record.
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Christina Ricci in After.Life
(6.1 at IMDb)
This could easily have won the poll.
Christina Ricci is a two-time winner in our annual
polls, and the nudity in this film is better than in
either of her winning entries.
I think it was a matter of timing. We
first saw this in April, and it wasn't fresh in our
memories at voting time. If this had come out in
December, I believe it would have won.
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Emmy Rossum
on Shameless
(season 1
preview)
I believe that the child actress has
grown up. When she was a girl she played a young
Audrey Hepburn, but she could no longer assay that
flat-chested role.
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Kelly Brook in Piranha 3D
(assist to Riley
Steele)
(6.2 at IMDb)
Kelly Brook is absolutely gorgeous
and stacked, and in this film she just swam around
naked while the camera captured her in real time.
That's B movie making at its finest!
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Viva Bianca on Spartacus: Blood
and Sand
(season 1)
In this series, Viva played the
spoiled bad girl you love to hate. When she wasn't
seducing someone as part of a dastardly scheme, she
was getting the tables turned on her by one of the
other conniving characters. No matter which way the
tide was turning, she always seemed to end up stark
naked.
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Paz de la Huerta on Boardwalk
Empire
(season 1)
What more can you say about Paz? She
placed two entries on this year's list, after
finishing eighth last year. The woman is the current
go-to gal when filmmakers need a hot babe to provide
full frontal and rear nudity. The scene pictured here
represented only a small fraction of the nudity she
brought to season one of the Scorsese-produced
Boardwalk Empire.
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Kirsten Dunst in All Good Things
(6.4 at IMDb)
We had seen Kiki's breasts before in
paparazzi shots, but this was the first time she bared
them on screen. And they looked mah-velous!
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Mary-Louise Parker on Weeds
(season 6)
She's 46 now but, in my opinion,
Mary-Louise looks better now than she did when she was
young. Her ongoing commitment to bare flesh makes her
a nudity hall of famer in our book.
She only did one nude scene on Weeds
this year, but it was a doozy - a hot sex scene with
ol' Zack "Preppie" Morris from Saved by the Bell!
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Anne Hathaway in Love and Other
Drugs
(6.6 at IMDb)
She now joins Christina Ricci as the
only two-time winners of our annual poll. She also won
for Havoc in 2005, a year when she had two films on
the list. (Brokeback Mountain was the other.)
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Amanda Seyfried in Chloe
(assist to
Julianne Moore)
(6.5 at IMDb)
Amanda Seyfried and Julianne Moore
provided some A-list lesbotronics in the latest film
from Canadian arthouse hot-shot Atom Egoyan.
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Continuing
education:
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