Sentences with phrase «actress wins so»

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In 2002, Halle Berry was the first black woman ever to win the Best Actress award - and she did so wearing this Adam and Eve-esque Elie Saab gown that just barely covered the essentials.

Melissa McCarthy should win best supporting actress for carrying her part so well without being way over the top.

Obviously, since Guillermo del Toro's upcoming film The Shape of Water is going to secure Sally Hawkins with a best actress Oscar nomination, there has to be a primer film where she also plays a small disabled woman with a romantic attraction to fish so that when she wins people like me can say, «I knew she would.

Though Nashville won just a single Oscar and a single Golden Globe, each for Best Original Song (for «I'm Easy», written and performed by Carradine), it was nominated for five of the former and eleven of the latter, which even bestowed two nominations each on Tomlin and Blakley, actresses making their film debuts, while classifying the film as a drama (back when true musicals weren't so rare).

Then again, she just won Best Supporting Actress at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, so...

12 times in the past 20 years, so just a little over half of the time, a Best Actress winner was at least in a Best Picture nominee, and of those only once has a winner won for her second Oscar — Hilary Swank for Million Dollar Baby, winning just five years after her first Oscar.

So one line in particular from Kidman's speech was notable this time around, after she won for best actress in a limited series for her searing role in «Big Little Lies» as a lawyer - turned - housewife in an abusive relationship: «I want to thank all of my children, who show me so much love.&raquSo one line in particular from Kidman's speech was notable this time around, after she won for best actress in a limited series for her searing role in «Big Little Lies» as a lawyer - turned - housewife in an abusive relationship: «I want to thank all of my children, who show me so much love.&raquso much love.»

Aniston is SO written off as a serious actress that a win there might actually really bring on the water works.

So far, the actress has been winning every battle in the couple's high - profile public relations war

Jordan Phipps is making big waves this year in the genre community, with a stellar performance in this year's festival favorite Close Calls and a lead role in the upcoming Halloween horror anthology 10/31, so we were thrilled to catch up with Jordan on the Orange Carpet for quick interview following our screening of Close Calls at the 2017 Halloween International Film Festival in Kill Devil Hills, NC, where she would go on to win the Best Actress award.

She spent the next decade or so alternating between film and television before heading to Broadway, appearing in the musical «Applause,» for which she won the Tony Award as Best Actress.

Forster, whose Monster's Ball (2001) won Halle Berry a best actress Oscar, said: «I have always been drawn to different kinds of stories and I have also always been a Bond fan, so it is very exciting to take on this challenge.»

Yet everyone knew that Brie Larson could not lose Best Actress, so to get a win, Vikander had to go into supporting.

The 31 - year - old actress, who just so happens to be celebrating her birthday today, won the award for her work in the film 12 Years a Slave.

The actress has four nominations already, but all in the supporting category, and without winning, so she's one of the most overdue actresses at work right now.

Much to my delight - and evolving psychic abilities - my fellow Team Experience members agreed with me and she ended up winning our Best Supporting Actress award as well, so I thought I might share this fragment of our conversation...

Toni Erdmann swept the European Film Awards today, grabbing wins from all five of its nominations so far — Maren Ade for European Screenwriter andEuroopean Director, Peter Simonischek for European Actor and Sandra Hüller for European Actress.

Wow Speaking English, I so disagree with you about Tomei's work in «Before the Devil Knows You're Dead», I thought she was terrific and deserving of some Oscar attention — have always loved her, and have always believed she deserved that Oscar she did win for «My Cousin Vinny» as it was a terrific piece of comedic acting, incredible timing — I think the rumors that Jack Palance read the wrong name is hurtful and cruel — she is a wonderful actress and will be nominated again for «The Wrestler» and would be a most worthy winner — have had the pleasure of interviewing her and she is as beautiful in person as she is on screen... and a nice gal.

Along with her collaboration with Assayas in Clouds of Sils Maria — for which she won a César Award (France's equivalent of an Oscar) as the first American actress to do so — Stewart has taken on diverse roles in a variety of films including Peter Sattler's Camp - X, Nima Nourizadeh's American Ultra, Woody Allen's Café Society and Ang Lee's upcoming Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk for example.

Jennifer Hudson has been so focused on her thriving music career that many forget she is an Oscar - winning actress.

Kirsten has been like my favorite actress since I was about 9 or something like that, and the fact that she could get awards traction for this + was the first American actress to win the Cannes award since Holly Hunter in 93 for the Piano gets me SO excited.

It's worth noting that Julianne Moore won the Best Actress prize at Cannes for this film, so it begs the question why Focus World doesn't put it out in limited in December so they can qualify her for an Oscar nomination run.

So, it's not surprising that an impressive number of powerful women were also honored for their work both on the small screen, with Big Little Lies and The Handmaid's Tale, and on the big screen, with first - time writer - director Greta Gerwig winning Best Motion Picture, Comedy for her directorial debut, Lady Bird, along with leading lady, Saoirse Ronan winning Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy.

«So we asked him to leave Cannes — him, not his film, which stayed in competition and of course the actress [Kirsten Dunst] won best actress.

Supporting Actress gave us the most exciting win so far, Tiffany Haddish for Girls Trip from the New York Film Critics.

Best Historic Reference: Supporting actress winner Mo'Nique delivers a passionate acceptance speech in which she graciously thanks Hattie McDaniel, the first African - American performer to win an Oscar, for «enduring all that she had to so that I would not have to.»

So many cheered when Marion Cotillard won Best Actress with the New York Film Critics because they weren't expecting it.

Bates won a Best Actress Oscar for this role, and it's clear why; her multi-faceted performance is what makes the film so memorable.

Here's Alber Elbaz on the inky black dress he designed for her when she won Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars for «Michael Clayton» in 2008: «I couldn't see her in a bustier so I gave her something like a black kaftan.

So often do British Dames win nominations (this is the fifth for Dench), that it's been suggested American actresses add the title to their names, as, for example, Dame Reese Witherspoon.

Still there was something rushed and after - thoughty about its win (coming so late in the evening when the show was running so far over time and it had missed two key prizes (Screenplay and Supporting Actress) and that's really too bad because in the night of «Times up!»

Awards won so far: Best Supporting Actress Winner — BAFTA Best Supporting Actress Winner — New York Film Critics Best Supporting Actress Winner — National Society of Film Critics Best Supporting Actress Winner — Phoenix Film Critics Best Supporting Actress Winner — San Francisco Film Critics Best Supporting Actress Winner — Toronto Film Critics

The restaurant table was a little wobbly, so Holly Hunter did what every 58 - year - old Oscar - winning actress in an elegant outfit would do: she folded up a packet of papers and got down on the floor to fix it.

Audra McDonald (Madame Garderobe): McDonald is a stage actress and singer who has won five Tony Awards (so far), for both musical and dramatic roles.

Emily Blunt feels «relieved» if she doesn't win awards.The 27 - year - old British actress - who had a stammer when she was younger - hates having to speak out in public so doesn't get upset if she...

And that brings up a couple of other points: First, the Cannes jury is typically instructed not to give any of its other awards to the film that wins the Palme d'Or — so if it decides to give the best - actress award to Braga, say, that'll likely cut «Aquarius» out of the big race.

Frances McDormand was gonna damn near hyperventilate she was so thrilled to win the Best Actress Oscar this year for her role in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Deadpool 2 was rumored to have looked at a variety of actresses for the part, including Kerry Washington, Gugu Mbatha - Raw and Janelle Monae, so, when Atlanta's Zazie Beetz won the role, it was hardly a shock.

Each of the three times she was nominated a wonderful actress won the award, so I would never say she was robbed or anything like that.

Two actress so far have won major awards: Saoirse Ronan, who won at the Gothams, and Streep, who just won the National Board of Review.

It wasn't just that it became the first film with a Best Actress and Supporting Actress nominee to win Best Picture since Chicago — and before that Shakespeare in Love, the year my daughter was born and the year I first thought about starting this site — but it was that the film itself is so imaginative and unique.

It was bypassed by the main groups in New York and L.A., but it won in Boston and among the New York online critics — and so far in the best picture, best director, best actor and best supporting actress categories, it has won more awards than any other film.

A potential win in this category with precedent is Cate Blanchett's «Bob Dylan» from Todd Haynes's I'm Not There, but that precedent is Cate Blanchett's Katharine Hepburn from Martin Scorsese's The Aviator, and though pundits are right to wonder if the Academy will want to give this fussy actress a second Oscar so soon after her last one, Blanchett may lose for representing a film that comes on intellectually strong and is possibly more obnoxious than American Gangster.

Tracee Ellis Ross of ABC's «Black - ish» won the award for leading actress in a comedy series, the first black woman to do so since Debbie Allen in 1982.

If that sounds like a doozy of a premise with an excellent location and a classy Oscar - winning actress playing Sarah Winchester, then why is «Winchester» so dull and hokey?

Her performance in American Hustle currently stands as the 5th most rewarded so far this season (just behind Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lupita Nyong» o, Jared Leto and Cate Blanchett), including winning the Golden Globe for Supporting Actress last weekend.

These factors have undoubtedly helped propel Lady Bird into becoming one of the most buzzed about films of the season, so much so that many are predicting it to win Best Picture and / or Best Actress, and for Gerwig to maybe become only the fourth woman in history to crack the Best Director category.

The Globes, unlike the Emmys, combines its supporting categories so one of the most competitive categories this year will feature two reigning Emmy - winning actresses going head to head (in addition to Shailene Woodley who doesn't watch TV): Ann Dowd in The Handmaid's Tale vs Laura Dern in Big Little Lies.

It's just a shame that her fantastic performance was wasted in such a mediocre movie, because if the actress was going to finally win another Oscar after so many years, it should have been for something much more memorable than this.

So let's erase that from history; let's say Anne Hathaway does not win Best Supporting Actress for playing Fantine in Les Mis — and does not, you know, compare her personal struggles to those of a 19th - century orphan - prostitute — and life goes on with us merely regarding her as a gifted, if somewhat overbearing, theater kid who grew up.