Faces don't get much fresher than that of this small girl with a big name and even bigger screen presence. As the star of this year's breakout indie feature Beasts of the Southern Wild, the now-9-year-old Wallis is the effortless engine that drives a strange and spellbinding allegory set in the flood-threatened bayous of Louisiana. Her future roles may be less fantastical, but we're betting they'll be just as luminous.