10 Actors Who Gave Their Best & Worst Performance In The Same Year

4. Uma Thurman - 1994

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Cast-wise, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is brimming with talent. While it was Uma Thurman headlining as Sissy Hankshaw in Gus Van Sant's 1994 picture, the film also featured Lorraine Bracco, Angie Dickinson, Keanu Reeves, John Hurt, Pat Morita, Roseane Barr, Crispin Glover, Ed Begley Jr., Carol Kane, Sean Young, Lin Shaye, Edward James Olmos, and even William Burroughs.

Adapted from Tom Robbins' 1976 novel of the same name, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues finds Thurman playing a hitchhiker with abnormally long thumbs. Eventually finding herself on a ranch, Uma's Sissy character becomes part of a group of cowgirls who end up in a shootout to the death with a slew of government agencies over the status of a bunch of crane birds which have nested at the ranch.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues bombed hard, with Thurman coming in for particular criticism - to the point that she, like others on this list, was nominated for a Golden Razzie for this awful performance.

On the flip side of 1994, though, this was also the year that Uma shot to superstardom following her outing as Mia Wallace in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. Viewed by many to this day as Tarantino's finest hour, Pulp Fiction was a pop culture phenomenon upon its release - with Thurman front 'n' centre on the poster and marketing for the film, as she put in likely the finest performance of her career.

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