Category: Beauty
Miranda Otto in Love Serenade (1996). She was in her 20s.
Edie Falco in The Quiet (2005)
Kate Bosworth in Big Sur (2013)
This scene is from Young Adam, which contains some of the weirdest erotica of the past two decades. At one point Emily is topless and covered in condiments!
Maybe she told Ewan McGregor he needed to use a condom, and he mis-heard.
This scene was among our Top Nude Scenes of 2004
This topless photo was snapped by that legendary lecher, Terry Richardson.
Noice!
Two words: Pia Zadora! The Lonely Lady is now available in 1080hd!
UPDATED with info from the comments section.
The early 80’s were the era of Zadoramania! For a couple of years there, she was Johnny Carson’s favorite punchline.
Pia was chosen as the “worst actress of the eighties” by the Razzie voters, and that was an amazing accomplishment because she did not achieve that dishonor through a spate of consistently awful performances throughout the decade, nor did she achieve it with an eleventh hour 1989 stinker that was still fresh in the voters’ memories. She did it all with two performances from early in the decade: her jailbait/incest performance in Butterfly, and her incredible “I fucked my way to the top” speech in The Lonely Lady. She basically disappeared from view after The Lonely lady, but that speech, this performance, and this movie were all so bad that even her seven years in hiding were not sufficient time for the Razzie voters to forget her by the end of the decade.
The Lonely Lady was nominated for eleven Razzies in 1983. That represented 110% of the highest possible number, because they only had ten categories. It won six Razzies, a record at the time, including all the important ones: worst film, worst director, and worst screenplay. Two decades later it was still regarded highly (lowly) enough to be entered into the elite group nominated as the Razzie’s “worst drama of our first 25 years.” Battlefield Earth was the winner, and the other nominees were Mommie Dearest, Showgirls, and Swept Away. Impressive company, indeed.
Pia couldn’t act, but she was a pretty good singer, and had a decent musical career in the 90s and beyond. She is now 65 years old and living her life outside of showbiz. It has occasionally been a turbulent life. Wikipedia tells the story.
From the comment section:
“This isn’t exactly how I recall the phenomenon of Zadoramania. I’d say it wasn’t because of her speech, her performance, or her two terrible movies that Pia Z became a national laughingstock overnight. It was all due to her winning the 1982 Golden Globe award for “Newcomer of the Year in a Motion Picture”. Even though her no movie starring her had not even been released yet. (Yes, she’d appeared 18 years earlier as a 9-year-old in a Santa Clause film, but nothing after that). The only thing she had done that had attracted any notice at the time of the 1982 Golden Globe Awards had been appearing in Playboy (without revealing much) a few months before. And yet there she was on national television beating out Elizabeth McGovern (for Ragtime), Rachel Ward (Sharkey’s Machine), Howard Rollins (the star of Ragtime), and most incredibly Kathleen Turner in her iconic and career-defining performance in Body Heat! Beating them, as I say, for a performance in a movie that had had no commercial release yet but had only been screened in Vegas by her casino-owning producer/husband. Now this was a story. One that garnered national attention, some outrage, and became a mini-scandal. What I am saying is that this scandal gave far more attention to Pia Zadora than either of her film appearances, no matter how bad those films and her performances admittedly are.
So great was the stink of this award that the Wikipedia list of Golden Globe winners now simply says for 1982, that there was “no award”. Pia has been erased from history!”
Scoop’s response:
Yes, that is completely correct, except for the erasure from history. I’ve told the same back story elsewhere. My point this time was that people had not forgotten their outrage and general contempt eight years later, even after she had melted into the oblivion she deserved.
The thing about her being expunged from history is just Wikipedia’s usual dipshittery. Obviously some contributor disapproved of her, and the editors responsible for that page were too lazy to fact-check. The HFPA still lists her as their 1982 winner.
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As for the movie, my (far too) detailed comments appear after the jump. (If interested, click on “continue reading.”)
Christina Ricci in Prozac Nation (a 2001 film unreleased until 2003)
It now seems incredible, but this somehow won our poll as the best nude scene of 2003. Nudity was slumping for a while between the 90s and now. If you look at that 2003 list, there is nothing really memorable in the top ten. I wonder who would win if we ran a do-over.
Paz Vega in one her the more modest scenes from Sex and Lucia (2002)
This performance finished in the top ten among our Top Nude Scenes of 2002. It might have won if anyone could have figured out what was going on in that movie. Because the film was so impenetrable, its distribution was minimal, and therefore our voters were not very familiar with it, or with Paz.
After looking at the 2002 list again, I have to take it back. Paz could not have won that year, no matter how much name recognition she had achieved. Nobody was going to beat the ever-adorable Heather Graham doing kinky sex stuff. But maybe Paz could have been in the top three.
Masters fingers Johnson in Masters of Sex
The real Virginia Masters was very attractive (see below), but I have to say Lizzy was a major upgrade.
Cameron showed off her long, slender body in the Miami area in the late 90s. She and Matt Dillon were romping together during the filming of There’s Something About Mary
The Duffer is slimmer and fitter here than in recent appearances.
Pam sort of turned herself into a cartoon character, but she was once a very beautiful young woman
The ol’ Cap (Brie Larsen) when she was just Cadet Marvel in her undergraduate days at the academy where, as a cheerleader for the Mustangs, she rooted against Thanos Prep.
The Mustangs managed to win that game, despite being behind 21-0 at one point. Many experts think Thanos could have won if he hadn’t willed half of his team out of existence after the first quarter, including most of the starters.
Kelly Brook in Three (2005)
This is one of the famous Billy Zane sinking ship tetralogy. Billy sank in Titanic, Dead Calm, Three and Cleopatra.
There is a famous continuity error in Three. At one point Kelly Brook walks into the water naked, but when she walks out a bikini bottom has mysteriously appeared. (See below)
Manon Pages in The Demonologist (2018)
The second excellent nude scene of 2019. Full-frontal nudity in perfect lighting. Attractive woman.
Second UPDATE: Upgraded 4K images.
Bloom is an Australian web television series, a six-part mystery released on 1 January 2019. Phoebe Tonkin did the nudity honors.
UPDATE: here are some 1080hd captures
The final order of finish.
It was a great year, reminiscent of the mid-90s. As I wrote about 1996, the second twenty from 2018 are as good or better than the first twenty from some other years. In fact, there are probably 25 or more 2018 scenes that could have finished #1 in 2008!
There were some surprises for me.
I did not expect Sally Hawkins to win. Oh, it’s a great nude performance in a Best Picture winner, but I didn’t even expect her to do well because it was first seen in January, and I figured “out of sight, out of mind.” And after all, she’s not a busty young chickadee. By the way, there has been a bit of backlash against this film. It is rated only 7.4 at IMDb, which is low for the Oscar champion.
I thought it would be between Lachman, Lawrence, Gilpin and Pike. I was surprised that people liked Higareda’s scene slightly more than Lachman’s, but that was also a great one. Altered Carbon was absolutely the rookie of the year.
I thought Sevigny’s and Stewart’s nudity in Lizzie would attract more enthusiasm.
Emma Stone? WTF? It was one breast for one second. It was probably the weakest scene on the list. If that had been a lesser-known actress I wouldn’t even have put it among the choices. You guys must have been longing for some Emma flesh.
Lady Gaga – I expected her to do much better. She showed the works, if only for a second, and she’s a huge star.
Dakota Johnson – I found her scenes a waste of time, and not at all erotic, but Mr. Skin picked her among the top ten, so I thought she would have supporters. I was wrong. You guys, like me, were indifferent to her charms.
If you’re curious, I voted for Pike. It’s great nudity, and she is my dream woman, more or less.