Last June 13, tMF asked viewers their thoughts and opinions of Robert Pattinson's acting career.

Rob remains a perennial favorite @tMF and we'll continue to write interesting (and  provocative) articles about his acting career. I listed down "5 essential questions" that covers a lot of grounds in so far as Rob's career is concerned. The first 100 posters qualify for a surprise gift from our anonymous donor (hey! how's Hongkong and chinese food?) and as expected, the fans really participated in the survey and the quality of the posts were quite impressive - 12 of which we're simply awesome IMO.

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Before the announcement, let me just list down the questions:

1. Is Robert Pattinson all hype and no (or little) talent?

2. Do you think Rob has improved his ways in dealing with the media frenzy from the time he was cast in Twilight until now?

3. Which of Rob's up and coming movies (choose only 1) do you think would further give him the critical acclaim he deserve?

4. Who is Rob's most important rival as Hollywood's Next Golden Boy?

5. Name the actress (aside from Kristen Stewart) who would look awesome acting alongside Rob and would generate a lot of buzz?

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Here are the 3 winners (in random order) - of course, right after the jump!

Not only are they capable of lighting up the silver screen, they are also some of today's most talented young actresses, commanding huge fees - in some cases, in the millions. Many have won multiple awards, while others have starred in some of today's biggest box office hits. In short, we're listing down the cream of the crop!

Just like our recent Top 50 hottest young actors, we've narrowed down our list from 88 to 50, and set an age limit. If you miss seeing some of your favorites, so do we - including Maggie Gyllenhaal (31 years old) and Amy Adams (34 years old). Definitely some of the names you'll see on the list are emerging talents - the ones you will see getting the big roles in the near future - and some of them already have, with awards and nominations to boot.

Here's the updated Top 40 list! You'll definitely notice the international flavor!

# 40 - Ivana Baquero - She plays the young Ofelia, from Guillermo del Toro's unforgettable Pan's Labyrinth. It was this movie that catapulted Ivana Baquero into becoming an international celebrity. She then played the strong-willed daughter of Maria Valverde in the official Sundance entry, The Anarchist's Wife.

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Ivana will soon be seen alongside Kevin Costner and Samantha Mathis in new horror-thriller The New Daughter, from Spanish filmmaker Luis Berdejo, soon to be shown in theaters this year. Comments Marcy Dermansky on her performance as the young Ofelia:

Not many major movies star bookish, little girls. Period. Guillermo del Toro earned my respect and admiration straight away for creating the character of Ofelia, in a remarkable performance by eleven-year-old Ivana Baquero. The movie starts: Ofelia is in the back seat of an expensive car with her very pregnant mother, whisked off into the countryside where Ofelia's new stepfather, a Fascist captain, wages war against a band of resistance fighters at the tail end of the Spanish Civil War. The real world is a grim and scary place; the fairy tale land where Ofelia seeks solace is not much friendlier. [ read more ]

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# 39 - Camilla Belle - She played alongside Jamie Bell and Justin Chatwin in the less well-known but absolutely awesome movie The Chumscrubber. She is also known for her lead role in the 2006 remake of When a Stranger Calls, the 2008 film 10,000 BC, and the 2000 Disney Channel film Rip Girls. She's Camilla Belle.

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Working with someone like Daniel Day-Lewis, you’re challenging your creative self and seeing how far you can push yourself. Then working opposite pieces of tape is something that pushes you in a completely different way – you can feel so silly. You just want to stand back and laugh at yourself, but you keep on going. At least all of us are in it together.

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Starring: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph
Director: Sam Mendes
Release Date: June 5, 2009 (Limited)
Running Time: 98 min
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features

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Sam Mendes is, for me, one of the most interesting directors putting out films right now.  He’s definitely had his misses.  Jarhead was uneven and overly trite in it’s portrayal of affected American soldiers in Iraq, The Road to Perdition was a solid, good film, but vastly overrated.  But he, at the very least, has a competence behind the camera that makes any of his films interesting to watch.  Away We Go, written by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, is no different.  It’s effectively charming, funny, and a little sappy, but falls just short of the mark.

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Starring: Jeremy Renner, Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Release Date: June 26, 2009 (Limited)
Running Time: 131 min
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Summit Entertainment

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A tiny robotic camera used to capture up-close images of bombs hidden in rubble and buried under ground pans across the thirsty desert terrain capturing the dirt, grittiness and hastening feet of a culture used to moving hurriedly and cautiously. These dusty streets of Baghdad act as an aversion for most directors who previously decided to take a chomp out of the war in Iraq and leaving out a vital part in the process. They treaded waters that led them to idiotic and repetitive ideological views (Lions for Lambs and In the Valley of Elah) missing the instinctive nature of war itself. Ms. Kathryn Bigelow dignifies her filmmaking by projecting an impetuous display of how war acts as a consummate drug, both fulfilling and decapitating the soul of those participating in war.
 
Once the drug is digested and the adrenaline is at full-throttle the need to accomplish something becomes the main priority of a soldier. In one’s blood-stream the will to cheat death, the courage it takes to disarm an explosive device that would blow an entire city to shreds, and the process of healing a psychological scar are all made possible given war’s demented opportunities that can serve as a vessel for both instances. The Hurt Locker portrays a trio of soldiers who exert their courage by risking their lives every time they awake in Baghdad 2004.  

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Starring: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds
Director: Anne Fletcher
Release Date: June 19, 2009
Running Time: 108 min
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Distributor: Touchstone Pictures

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I have an odd love/hate relationship with Sandra Bullock.  I think her comedic timing and humor are quite excellent.  But the projects she does are, well, it’s not that they’re just extremely low-brow, it’s that they’re mostly just insulting.  It was refreshing to see her take a small, but not self-important role in the wildly overrated Crash of 2005, but she quickly burned through any credibility that that film might have garnered her by following it up with projects like Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous, and Premonition.  Not many even took the time to see her critically-acclaimed Infamous (in her defense, it was insanely overshadowed by Capote).  After a three year break, she’s finally back on the big screen, and unfortunately, she’s up to her old tricks: shitty romantic comedies.

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Starring: Jack Black, Michael Cera, David Cross
Director: Harold Ramis
Release Date: June 19, 2009
Running Time: 97 min
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Distributor: Columbia Pictures

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There are a lot of stock catchphrases that are widely used by people to describe movies that I have grown tired of hearing.  Reading a review of a film that is described as a “rollercoaster thrill ride” or a performance is hailed as being a “tour de force” stinks of laziness and unoriginality by the critic.  Specifically there are two descriptions that apply to Year One that I am deathly sick of hearing across the board:  “Check your brain at the door” and “the actors looked like they had fun making the movie”.
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Not only are they capable of lighting up the silver screen, they are also some of today's most talented young actresses, commanding huge fees - in some cases, in the millions. Many have won multiple awards, while others have starred in some of today's biggest box office hits. In short, we're listing down the cream of the crop!

Just like our recent Top 50 hottest young actors, we've narrowed down our list from 88 to 50, and set an age limit. If you miss seeing some of your favorites, so do we - including Maggie Gyllenhaal (31 years old) and Amy Adams (34 years old). Definitely some of the names you'll see on the list are emerging talents - the ones you will see getting the big roles in the near future - and some of them already have, with awards and nominations to boot.

Here's the updated Top 50 list!

# 50 - Jo Woodcock - She plays a challenging role in the latest adaptation of Tess of the d'Urbervilles as the younger sister of Tess, Liza-Lu Durbeyfield - a role instrumental in reuniting Tess and Angel.

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Born in 1988, Jo Woodcock has made a number of television appearances, including Masterpiece's Miss Marple: Towards Zero, Waking the Dead and Torn. In 2009, she will appear in the film Dorian Gray alongside Colin Firth.

More about the actress from ScreenTerrier, which listed Woodcock as one of their Faces to Watch in 2009.

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Her cinematic work commenced with a supporting turn as Princess Arabella in Martha Coolidge's lighthearted romantic comedy The Prince & Me. After that, Bennett appeared in such projects as the big-screen fantasy comedy Nanny McPhee (2005), the disaster-themed sci-fi telemovie Supernova (2005), the family-oriented time travel fantasy From Time to Time (2009), and the Iain Softley-directed literary fantasy Inkheart (2009), for which she took on a lead role.

French actress Isild le Besco can be considered as ambitious and as talented as Natalie Portman, if not more. I guess, that's for the big-name critics to debate upon and their fans, of course. However, I'm not going to compare Portman and Le Besco to create controversy, but simply because they have made some very interesting career moves of late. Both have explored career paths outside acting - both ladies have directed movies, even wrote the script (New York, I Love You for Natalie, Charly and Demi-tarif, among others for Isild), and both have been nominated by their peers in their respective national award giving bodies (the Oscars and César Awards, respectively). Both are also definitely in the running for the top ranking in the updated tMF Top 50 Hottest Young Actresses.

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But let's concentrate more on Ms. le Besco. Reports the New York Times:

The gifted and singular actress Isild Le Besco can already claim an extensive career in French cinema. At 14, she starred in "La Puce," Emmanuelle Bercot's short film about a girl's first sexual experience. A couple of years later, she was playing the love interest in Benoît Jacquot's "Sade" and Cédric Kahn's "Robert Succo." And by 18, Ms. Le Besco, was writing and directing "Demi-Tarif," shot with a digital camera mostly in the apartment where she grew up, in a working-class Paris neighborhood. [ read more ]

And says the actress-filmmaker herself:

"...acting has always seemed more natural to me than anything else."

More of Le Besco and her two high-profile films, including You Will Be Mine, right after the jump!