The busy dame played Queen Victoria for a second time, here in Stephen Frears' drama about the monarch's real-life friendship with an Indian Muslim servant following the death of her beloved husband, Prince Albert. Dench received her 12th Golden Globe nomination.
With a title that comes from the Indian proverb, "he who rides a tiger can never jump off," the British crime drama was inspired by the true exploits of real-life cat burglar Peter Scott.
Love or loathe the idea, Dame Judi Dench will be nothing less than magisterial as Old Deuteronomy in Tom Hooper's lavish adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, due out Dec. 20.