Frances McDormand’s 10 best performances – ranked! | Film
10. Wonder Boys (2000)As the pregnant married lover of Michael Douglas’s silver-fox creative writing professor, this is the kind of fairly thankless ancillary role that McDormand does so well: giving us a subtle insight into the human frailties under the surface of an otherwise tough-nut authority figure.9. Mississippi Burning (1988)McDormand impressed the Oscar voters for the first time in this impassioned study of small-town racism, inspired by the real-life murder of three civil rights workers in 1964. Giving an early…