John Hawkes, «Winter's Bone» With Jennifer Lawrence's deserved Best
Actress nomination looking all but a sure thing at this point, the question remains whether voters who are only now popping in their screeners will notice the rock - solid band of character actors bolstering her work.
Not exact matches
She's earned 15 César
nominations (winning for Claude Chabrol's «La Ceremonie»), all while being fearless in her choice of roles —
look at her two Cannes Best
Actress winners, Michael Haneke's «The Piano Teacher» and Claude Chabrol's «Violette Nozière.»
• LA Times New AMPAS president John Bailey «not as boring as you think» (FYI the media has become obsessed with Laura Dern running for this position but she actually declined the
nomination) • EW First
look at Jessica Chastain in Molly's Game • Awards Daily Sasha
looks at the Best
Actress race, wonders if it's finally Annette Bening's year.
This year shouldn't have any leftover winners from last year
looking for
nominations but there is a chance that nominee Isabelle Huppert (Elle) could crash Best
Actress as her film screened just outside of last season's deadline.
The film adaptation is getting rave reviews locally in London, as Smith throws her hat in the crowded race of over 65
actresses looking for an Oscar
nomination.
Look for Allison Janney, who plays Harding's toxic mother, to get an Oscar
nomination for supporting
actress.
Honestly the Best Supporting
Actress class doesn't look that great right now and she might be the most acclaimed actress around to not get an Oscar nomi
Actress class doesn't
look that great right now and she might be the most acclaimed
actress around to not get an Oscar nomi
actress around to not get an Oscar
nomination.
Perhaps we could be
looking at a Best
Actress nomination for Kate Winslet (it'd be her first in that category since she won for The Reader).
The film
looks to be in danger of frontrunner fatigue as the critics groups announcements thus far have mostly neglected to recognize the film (though NYFCC named Steve McQueen Best Director), but Nyong» o still seems like a lock to land a Supporting
Actress nomination.
Metcalf, coming off her Tony winning role in A Doll's House Part 2, is
looking at a Supporting
Actress nomination for her brilliantly crafted work here.
However, if one (or two) of them stand out in the ensemble, they could be
looking at Supporting
Actress nomination.
If you subscribe to the idea that most movies yielding best -
actress nominations just aren't quite good enough to be nominated for best picture, your best supporting evidence is to
look at the films made by top directors — and then emphatically throw shade at how few of them star women in the first place.
But more importantly, that sequel to the Rosetta stone of the modern sci - fi / horror / action film (combining not one, not two, but three maligned genres) also earned Sigourney Weaver an Oscar
nomination for Best
Actress — a confirmation that the Academy could
look past a long - held horror bias to celebrate superb genre performances.
Actress Katie Holmes (l.) announces the Golden Globe
nominations 2011 as fellow presenters Blair Underwood and Josh Duhamel
look on in Beverly Hills, Calif., Tuesday.
Frances McDormand will also
look to double up on trophies, notching a Best
Actress nomination for Three Billboards after taking home the Golden Globe in that category.
It's no secret that Adams is
looking good for a Best Supporting
Actress nomination at the Oscars, but could this citation help Tarantino score a Best Original Screenplay nod?
The tale of a Scottish supermarket checkout girl who wakes up to find her boyfriend has committed suicide and promptly goes on holiday to Ibiza, has seven
nominations, including one for Samantha Morton in the best
actress category, and
looks set to be the star of the London ceremony.