5. Winona Ryder (A Scanner Darkly) As the spiky junkie Donna, a rotoscoped Noni returns from the wilderness and easily holds her own against the freaked-out ramblings of Robert Downey Jr and Woody Harrelsen.

4. Superman (Superman Returns) Okay, so it didn't make the box-office impact Warners was hoping for, but between them Brandon Routh and Bryan Singer made Superman's return as welcome as we could have hoped for.

3. Carmen Maura (Volver) Pedro Almodovar's muse-of-old, and Spain's biggest actress of the '80s was back in the frame and on form as Penelope Cruz's whimsical mother in Volver.

2. Gretchen Mol (The Notorious Bettie Page) The Next Best Thing that never-quite-was, Gretchen Mol proves what a shame it was she was once so quickly forgotten with this likeable, layered turn as the kind-hearted Southern belle who didn't quite see what the harm was with stripping naked and having her picture snapped in various S&M poses.

1. Ben Affleck (Hollywoodland) He's so good as the doomed George Reeves in this kinda-biopic of the one-time Superman, you wish the whole film had focused on him, rather than taking the murder-mystery route.