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"supporting actress" refers to a female actor who plays a secondary or supporting role in a movie or play. They often assist or accompany the main actor or actress and help move the story forward.
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The Best
Supporting Actress category is a lot more wide open than Supporting Actor, but there are plenty of fine performances that are likely to be recognized.
The Best
Supporting Actress winner finished off her look with an assortment of jewels and a pair of silver sandals with clear block heels.
I actually think the field of Best
Supporting Actress nominees is one of the strongest the category ever served up — though, typically, the least of the performances won.
- The category confusion continues
with Supporting Actress but as we've heard, all the campaigns should be sticking accordingly.
And following in their footsteps is the best
supporting actress group, which includes different films from the above nominations.
Today I'm continuing on with another of the big acting categories... you guessed it, it's Best
Supporting Actress time.
With a slightly bigger arc, perhaps she could have been a player for a
Best Supporting Actress nomination, but that seems unlikely.
Fences was also one of the favorites of the night, receiving three nominations and winning an Outstanding Actor award for Denzel Washington and an Outstanding
Supporting Actress award for Viola Davis.
That movie's breakout star, Tiffany Haddish, was awarded
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture — one of two Image Awards she collected, along with her voiceover work in Comedy Central's «Legends of Chamberlain Heights.»
Currently nominated for her first Oscar
as Supporting Actress in Lady Bird, Metcalf is rehearsing for the March 29 opening of the Broadway revival of Edward Albee's Three Tall Women, opposite Glenda Jackson and Alison Pill (previews start February 27).
«Boyhood,» which tied «The Imitation Game» with five nominations, clinched three awards — one for drama film, another for director Richard Linklater and a third for
supporting actress Patricia Arquette.
Among the repeat winners were Laurie Metcalf winning her second
Supporting Actress prize for Lady Bird, Timothee Chalamet winning his second Best Actor award in a row, and Willem Dafoe winning Supporting Actor for The Florida Project, which made him three - for - three with NBR, NYFCC, and LAFCA.
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Supporting Actress Viola Davis, Fences Supporting Actor Aaron Taylor Johnson, Nocturnal Animals Director Damien Chazelle, La La Land Animated Film Zootopia Foreign Film Elle Screenplay Damien Chazelle, La La Land Score Justin Hurwitz, La La Land Song City of Stars, La La Land
Other Globe recipients who followed with Oscar wins included Heath Ledger as supporting actor for «The Dark Knight» and Kate Winslet, who won
supporting actress at the Globes for «The Reader» and best actress for that film at the Oscars.
The film, which opens Dec. 13, also won awards for
supporting actress Jennifer Lawrence and screenplay writers Russell and Eric Singer.
Alba, his co-star in the latter film, won
Worst Supporting Actress for her role in that film, as well as for her performances in «The Killer Inside Me,» «Little Fockers» and «Machete.»
23 The age
of supporting actress nominee Jennifer Lawrence («American Hustle»), the youngest actress to score three nominations.
However, it did pick up four nods, including best
supporting actress Mary J. Blige (the first time an actor from a Netflix movie received Oscars recognition) and best cinematography (making Rachel Morrison the first woman ever nominated in the category).
2018 Oscar Predictions (December Part 1): BEST PICTURE BEST DIRECTOR BEST ACTOR BEST ACTRESS SUPPORTING ACTOR
SUPPORTING ACTRESS THE SCREENPLAYS ANIMATED FEATURE FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM FILM EDITING and CINEMATOGRAPHY PRODUCTION and COSTUME DESIGN SOUND EDITING and SOUND MIXING ORIGINAL SCORE and ORIGINAL SONG
Laurie Metcalf, a favorite for her work in Lady Bird, was named best
supporting actress by both the LAFCA and NBR.
She previously won the same prize 21 years ago for her role in «Fargo» and has
received Supporting Actress nominations for her work in «North Country,» «Almost Famous,» and «Mississippi Burning.»
Margot Robbie received raves portraying former US championship determine skater Tonya Harding in «I, Tonya,» which additionally earned costar Allison Janney a highest
supporting actress Academy Award.
Other categories followed the expected pattern of the Oscars, such as
Supporting Actress going to Allison Janney for her role in I, Tonya.
More recent films include Dead Man Walking with Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon, Pearl Harbor with Ben Affleck, The Last Samurai with Tom Cruise, Monster with Charlize Theron, Sundance festival hit Junebug with academy award nominated best
supporting actress Amy Adams, and The Heartbreak Kid with Ben Stiller.
Supportive mothers have been winning
supporting actress trophies throughout history (Brenda Fricker in «My Left Foot» and more recently with Patricia Arquette in «Boyhood») and been nominated even more frequently (see two recent nomination upsets, Jacki Weaver in «Silver Linings Playbook» and Laura Dern in «Wild»).
Best
Supporting Actress Sally Hawkins — «Blue Jasmine» Jennifer Lawrence — «American Hustle» — WINNER Lupita Nyong» o — «12 Years a Slave» Julia Roberts — «August: Osage County» Oprah Winfrey — «Lee Daniels» The Butler»
It's a tour - de-force moment, the kind of scene they'd play immediately after they announced you as one of the nominees for Best
Supporting Actress on awards night.
Young's critically praised performance as the politically ambitious First Lady has earned her a Best
Supporting Actress statue from the Critics» Choice Television Awards, Entertainment Weekly's 25 Best Characters on TV, # 15 on Entertainment Weekly's 50 Best TV Scenes of the Year, NY Post's Top 10 TV Actors and she earned TV Guide Magazine's Fan Favorite Award.
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