The phrase
"best actress" refers to a woman who has been recognized as the most talented or outstanding performer in a particular role in film, television, or theater. It signifies that she is considered to be the top female actor among her peers for her acting skills and portrayal of a character.
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While many women have won
Best Actress in their 20s, it's only happened once for a man.
I can't help but wonder why she didn't
win Best Actress for her truly amazing performance, but we'll get back to that.
She's not the most likely
Best Actress nominee of the year, but in a weak field, it can't hurt to try.
Not only has it been 40 years since all five
Best Actress contenders starred in Best Picture contenders, but it gets even worse with the expanded ballot.
Surely her career will sky rocket as a result, and even more welcome is the fact that she's a
pretty good actress also.
If I had to
predict Best Actress right now I think I would order them this way, in terms of likelihood of being nominated.
We should be happy to have them:
good actresses all, who easily lead their respective films over their male counterparts.
In a pleasant development this season, the normally shallow
best actress pool is actually somewhat deep this year.
In terms of awards chances, the film is an outside contender for Best Picture and Best Director, but I
think Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay are very likely.
I don't expect the film to take home any major awards
bar Best Actress and maybe screenplay but its shaping up to be a relatively unpredictable Academy Awards.
The show received nominations in three big categories that it had never been nominated for previously: best drama, buy information
pills best actress and best actor.
If it wins Best Picture it will be the first film since 2004 to
win Best Actress and Best Picture.
The only positive about the merger is it probably means less silly awards such as Best Actor in an Action Movie or
Best Actress in a Comedy.
Best Actress nominees have come from films nominated for Best Picture 37 times in 25 years, while Best Actor nominees have crossed over with Best Picture 60 times.
More likely, four films will get in at the most, tying the record already set in 2012 when four
Best Actress contenders were featured in films nominated for Best Picture.
Best Actor remains unusually competitive... is it because no one much cared about the category this year
with Best Actress getting so much of the press?
Unlike in the best actor category,
best actress usually goes to someone on her first nomination in that category.
The Hollywood awards season hasn't quite started yet, but two women have already been deemed shoo - ins for
Best Actress Oscar nods: Jennifer Lawrence, for her role as a clinically depressed kook in Silver Linings Playbook, and Jessica Chastain, for her ultra-intense CIA agent in the upcoming Zero Dark Thirty.
The is radiant in pink and silver Chanel Haute Couture, snagging the festival's
best actress prize at the final awards ceremony.
Robert Redford doesn't resemble Dan Rather, yet he adroitly captures his distinctive gestures and vocal inflections, while Cate Blanchett deserves an Oscar
as Best Actress for her impeccably vulnerable, compelling performance.
The star of countless film classics including Three Colours: Blue, Hidden and Certified Copy; her performances have won
Best Actress Awards at Venice, Cannes, Berlin and she received the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in The English Patient.
Aliens was also a hit, receiving seven Academy Award nominations
including best actress Nomination for Sigourney Weaver, however the film only won two of the seven nominations; for Best Sound Effects Editing and Visual Effects.
Teaming with her frequent obscreen partner Walter Pidgeon (who plays her husband), Greer Garson received her second
Best Actress nod, probably due to MGM's Louis B. Mayer's campaigning for her.
Frances McDormand won her second Oscar for
best actress on Sunday night, cementing her dominance this awards season for her fiery turn as a mother out for justice for her murdered daughter in «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.»
Comparing performances from such disparate films would not be apt, and might seem reductive, were this not awards season — and had McDormand not been honored, at the Golden Globes and elsewhere, while Kruger largely has been ignored since she was
named best actress at last year's Cannes Film Festival.