Best
actress honors went to Brie Larson for «Room» and Jennifer Lawrence for «Joy.»
Actress honors went to Julianne Moore for her role as an Alzheimer's - afflicted patient in «Still Alice,» a widely predicted result, as was Simmons and Arquette.
The BEST
ACTRESS honors went to Frances McDormand's searing portrayal of a woman whose frustration over the unsolved rape and murder of her teenage daughter results in her putting up THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING MISSOURI.
Not exact matches
Here's the caption @nascarcasm claims
goes with this photo: Oscar winners (from left) Christian Bale (Best Actor In A Supporting Role, «The Fighter»), Natalie Portman (
Actress In A Leading Role, «Black Swan»), Melissa Leo (
Actress In A Supporting Role, «The Fighter»), Colin Firth (Actor In A Leading Role, «The King's Speech») and Kurt Busch (Best Directing, Cinematography, Costume Design and Short - Subject Documentary, «A Positive Step For Me»), celebrate backstage following the Academy Awards, which
honor achievement in filmmaking.
Instead the
honors went to 12 Years a Slave, which also picked up Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting
Actress.
We hope the word of mouth is there for it because if Oscar is
going to
honor a sports movie this year let it be this one rather than I Tonya (which has scheduled it's one - week qualifying Oscar release in NY & LA for December 8th) since this one is actually well - made across the board and beautifully acted with Emma Stone making a strong case for herself in the gorgeously overstuffed Best
Actress race.
Its stars did not
go home empty - handed, either: Elisabeth Moss won best
actress for Handmaid's Tale, while Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern, and Alexander Skarsgard were all
honored in their respective categories for their work on the HBO adaptation of Liane Moriarty's best - selling novel.
There is also a third category called Special Mentions which include such
honors as «
Actress Defying Age and Ageism,» which
went this year to French New Wave icon, Agnès Varda, who is as busy as ever at age 89.
At the Hollywood Film Awards (r) last October 22, 2012, special
honors went to Richard Gere for career achievement; Bradley Cooper for actor; Marion Cotillard for
actress; Robert De Niro for supporting actor; Amy Adams for supporting
actress; Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman and -LSB-...]
Special
honors went to
actress - director Angelina Jolie, who took the Board of Governors Award; Russell Carpenter (the Oscar - winning «Titanic») won the Lifetime Achievement Award; Alan Caso («Six Feet Under») earned the Career Achievement in Television Award; Russell Boyd (the Oscar - winning «Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World») won the International Award; Stephen Lighthill («Gim me Shelter») grabbed the Presidents Award; and Frieder Hochheim, president and founder of Kino Flo Lighting Systems, earned the Bud Stone Award of Distinction.
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We already know that Amy Adams is
going to be feted with the Hollywood Supporting
Actress Award at the 16th Hollywood Film Awards for her work in «The Master», but word has steadily been leaking out about who else the first real precursor of the season is
going to be
honoring.
In one particularly poignant scene, akin to Hattie McDaniel winning the Best Supporting
Actress award for «
Gone With the Wind» and having to sit at the back table at the ceremony, Owens, as the celebrated guest of
honor at a Manhattan banquet is forced to use the hotel's kitchen entrance in the rear.
The African American
actress Hattie McDaniel famously immortalized the type in
Gone with the Wind (1939), a role for which she was awarded an Oscar, the first ever won by an African American; the
honor must have been bittersweet.