

You could escape the blistering heat (especially with that heatwave in 1995), eat popcorn and see some of your favorite characters on screen.

If you were a '90s kid, you know that going to the movies was the best part of your summer. Tour our photo gallery above where we rank the 15 greatest Diaz performances from worst to best.From "Home Alone" (1990) to "Stuart Little" (1999), the 1990s gave us some of the best kids' films that still hold up, and some of the biggest flops that barely made it out of the theaters alive. Her last performance as Miss Hannigan, the menacing orphanage mistress in the hip hop oriented “Annie” remake, did earn her a Razzie nomination but hopefully that won’t be her final screen performance. It is a bit of a mystery why she has been absent from the silver screen for the last five years. Regardless of her lack of success with Academy Awards voters, Diaz has forged a long resume of hit films. It was particularly shocking with the latter two since she also had SAG Awards nominations. An odd part of Diaz’s career is that none of the Globe nominations (“Gangs of New York,” “There’s Something About Mary,” “Vanilla Sky” and “Being John Malkovich”) brought her Oscar bids. Those roles led to more acclaimed work earning her a total of four Golden Globe nominations, the New York Film Critics’ Best Actress Award (“There’s Something About Mary”) and three SAG Awards nominations. With no prior acting experience, she earned the lead female role in the Jim Carrey film “The Mask.” That movie led to a number of other roles, but it wasn’t until a few years later when she had a supporting role in the Julia Roberts film “My Best Friend’s Wedding” that she really became a force in films. Her last film role was in 2014 with the somewhat disastrous remake of the Broadway musical “Annie.”ĭiaz had an auspicious start to her career.

She has surprisingly disappeared from public in recent years.

Model-turned-actress Cameron Diaz gained fame and acclaim in the nineties and beyond with a number of outstanding performances.
