Cast your PRELIMINARY votes for the nude scene of the year

I’m trying a new system this year (we used it with some of the specialty polls, but never with the “Scene of the Year” voting). I didn’t pre-screen any nominees. I accepted anyone’s nominations. As a result, we need kind of a screening process to winnow the choices down to a manageable number. So this is not the actual vote, but rather a preliminary process to determine which candidates make the run-off. I can then take a reasonable amount of them and set up the balloting with thumbnails and links.

Make your selections here.

I know there are way too many choices. The choices are listed in random order, different for every voter, so the ones you ignore will balance out. Therefore, I think the important thing is for you to order the ones you think are your personal top twenty or thirty (or less if you just don’t know enough about the choices). If you want to try to split hairs all the way down, you can, but I didn’t. I stuck with the ones that really made enough of an impression on me that I could recall them without references. I just tried to drag my top favorites into approximately the right order.

6 thoughts on “Cast your PRELIMINARY votes for the nude scene of the year

  1. I picked 25 but 10 was more than enough. Had Anya Taylor-Joy’s brief flash been more clearly a nip reveal, it would’ve made my 10.

    As for recognition, it truly ought to count for a lot. There’s a reason the interest area is most often known as Celebrity Nudity. The less celebrated the star, the less notable a nude scene is. In general the public interest & show biz internal status align. That’s why a star can “dip their toes in” showing butt at relatively low risk before finally taking the plunge. Butt nudity remains, IMO, a niche among CN fans. As do lesser known actors. They have to shine brightly to win awards & they don’t belong atop CN scenes lists. IMO.

    Personally, I had my own instances of relative unknowns becoming instant favorites. Cynthia Nixon, Carey Mulligan, Kristen Stewart in Zathura; ie in early roles. I anticipated their rise & it made their eventual nudity sweeter than usual. I had felt their rise was a win because others at the time didn’t consider them either exceptional or particularly beautiful. But in general I’ve had many more misses than these lucky hits. I keep them to myself. I seriously don’t need the brownie points of having liked Angourie Rice or Abigail Breslin, should they make it to the A list & whether or not they also do a nude scene. I’d like to take credit for anticipating Erin Moriarty but she beat me to the punch. I was pleasantly surprised. YMMV.

    Daisy Edgar-Jones IMO hit a grand slam in terms of a quality show with acting opportunity, nailing that acting, and copious sex scenes integral to the story. She’s my “exception that proves the rule” for me this year.

  2. Due to the nature of fame being a prime factor in the win, vs quality. I wonder if it might be worth doing two polls, one for the big names, and one for the good obscure nudity?

  3. That Anna Maria Sieklucka performance is a spectacular one, but nobody seems to know who the hell she is.

    I was also surprised by the poor performance of Beatrice Barichella in We Are Who We Are.

  4. You’re right at 77 choices it’s too much to review, an overload to look things over, at about the 35-odd search here on the site, I knew I made a solid Top 10 and was done, if I missed a few unknowns then so be it.

    After voting looking at the results of the poll, I noticed the trend I see every year, people voting for known quantity (name recognition) over quality (in my opinion) there were a few high quality scenes left out in the cold because people didn’t recognize the name or couldn’t be bothered to scour through 77 (realistically 50) scenes to recap the best of the best of the year.

    Even though my Top 10 is close to the top 10 of the poll it deviates a fair amount due solely to name recognition and not quality of the scenes. A few scenes I noticed lower than expected Juno Temple, Madeline Zima, Anna Brewster, Laure Calamy and Anna Maria Sieklucka from 365(!this is a shock to me!)

    So I hope you’ll go through and manually add not the ones I mentioned, but quality scenes that fell through the cracks, it’s nice to see stuff like Natasha Jascalevich’s scene which had no representation here on Othercrap, but every scene above did.

    2020 just had too much content, and needed curated to let the creme rise to the top so the lesser quality, (but named actresses) don’t get all of the top spots, if they aren’t deserving of them, right?

    1. The trends you note apply to all years, not just this one. Name recognition and international distribution always matter more than quality.

      Year after year, it’s won by somebody young and already famous who did first time nudity (or significantly upped their nudity game) in a very familiar film or TV show. English-speaking performances usually dominate.

      If Ronan and Winslet had done that scene in a much-watched TV series, they would have run the table. Even in the obscure and relentlessly depressing Ammonite, they are a favorite: two famous actresses in an relatively explicit lesbian scene, first-time nudity for Ronan – adds up pretty well.

      1. “The trends you note apply to all years, not just this one.”

        I’m quite well aware of that fact, I’ve been following these polls since their inception and this site for well over 25 years, so I’m all to aware. ; -)

        I just wished people would remember it’s for ‘nude scene of the year’, not for semi-decent nude scene by famous chick who showed her ta-tas, lol. But I digress.

        And I second Beatrice Barichella, I would have mentioned her as well, but my list was already getting a bit long and I wanted to cap it off with Ms. Sieklucka’s stellar performance that was getting overlooked. Cheers.

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