Meanwhile, the Best
Actress nominations go to Amy Adams for Arrival, Isabelle Huppert for Elle and Natalie Portman for Jackie.
Not exact matches
Romantic musical «La La Land,» the tale of a struggling
actress and a jazz pianist in Los Angeles,
went into the Oscars with a leading 14
nominations and emerged with six, including for its score and theme song «City of Stars.»
Davis
went on to receive a Golden Globe
nomination for Best
Actress for her portrayal of baseball phenomenon Dottie Hinson in «A League of Their Own.»
It wasn't long after her 1998 graduation that the aspiring
actress made her feature debut in the 2000 drama Our Song, with
nominations for the film at the Independent Spirit Awards and the Sundance Film Festival serving to increase her exposure among cinephiles, even if the film did
go largely unseen by the masses.
«This time, its war, «was the tagline and Aliens
went on to become one of the biggest blockbuster films of 1986 and not to mention ending up being nominated for Seven Oscars including a Best
Actress nomination for Sigourney Weaver and winning two Oscars for Sound Effects Editing and Special Visual Effects.
Davis» was opposed to the casting, insisting that Buono was «grotesque,» but after filming finished the
actress went up to Buono and apologized for her earlier attitude; even more gratifying to Buono was his Oscar
nomination for Baby Jane.
Also starring Alan Rickman and Sigourney Weaver, the film netted several 2007 Genie Award
nominations, but only won one: Best Supporting
Actress, which
went to Moss.2007 also gave Moss her first taste of financial success since the Matrix films with the surprise - hit thriller Disturbia, a thinly - veiled teenage retread of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece Rear Window.
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.
Another performance that deserved great attention and a
nomination was Naomi Watts in «King Kong,» in which the
actress went far beyond what anyone expected of her, fleshing out a character that we came to care about.
And so, while Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water leads the pack with 12
nominations, it's helped by a superb Sally Hawkins, who's up for Best
Actress, and is
going up against Call Me By Your Name, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — nine
nominations and directed by our own Martin McDonagh — Winston Churchill drama Darkest Hour and Christopher Nolan's bold war film, Dunkirk.
I had always felt Gwyneth Paltrow deserved a
nomination for Best
Actress for her haunting and haunted performance in «Proof»
going far beyond what she accomplished for her win back in 1998.
Best
actress in a TV movie or limited series Jessica Biel, «The Sinner» (USA) Nicole Kidman, «Big Little Lies» (HBO) Jessica Lange, «Feud: Bette and Joan» (FX) Susan Sarandon, «Feud: Bette and Joan» (FX) Reese Witherspoon, «Big Little Lies» (HBO) IMMEDIATE REACTION: Though the Globes really loved «The Sinner» and handed Biel a much - deserved
nomination (her first), this was always
going to be a battle among the Big Four: Kidman, Witherspoon, Lange and Sarandon.
I might be getting ahead of myself but if The Dark Knight is
going to be as good as it is what about Maggie Gyllenhaal getting a Best Supporting
Actress nomination?
I like Sally Hawkins, in my opinion she was robbed of a Best
Actress nomination for «Happy
Go - Lucky».
The Crown may have led the
nominations going in to BAFTA's 2017 British Academy Television Awards, but the Netflix series ended the night empty handed, losing out on Best Drama Series to Happy Valley, which also saw Sarah Lancashire named Best Leading
Actress.
Since 2000, fourteen winners of Supporting
Actress went on to Oscar
nominations and four have won.
The others are the
actresses long considered likely for a Best
Actress Oscar nomination: «Wild» actress Reese Witherspoon, Rosamund Pike of «Gone Girl,» «Theory» actress Felicity Jones, and Julianne Moore of «Still Alice.
Actress Oscar
nomination: «Wild»
actress Reese Witherspoon, Rosamund Pike of «Gone Girl,» «Theory» actress Felicity Jones, and Julianne Moore of «Still Alice.
actress Reese Witherspoon, Rosamund Pike of «
Gone Girl,» «Theory»
actress Felicity Jones, and Julianne Moore of «Still Alice.
actress Felicity Jones, and Julianne Moore of «Still Alice.»
In the Supporting categories, Actor
went 5/5 with the Screen Actors Guild but
Actress deviated, earning Laura Dern her second Oscar
nomination of her career, for Wild.
She now has the big actor award, her film just received 14 Academy Award
nominations, and you'd have to
go back to 2002 to find the last instance of an
actress losing the Oscar after winning at the SAG Awards, when her film won Best Picture (that would be Renee Zellweger in Chicago).
She's
gone from strength to strength in the last few years, with 2012 marking three very good turns from the
actress in the shape of «Nobody Walks,» «Promised Land» and in particular «Your Sister's Sister,» which won her a Spirit Award
nomination yesterday.
Rival British boffin biopic The Theory of Everything trailed with four
nominations (including those for its leading actor, Eddie Redmayne and
actress Felicity Jones), level pegging with David Fincher's
Gone Girl, Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel and the Martin Luther King drama Selma.
Shearer was also nominated for a second Best
Actress award that same year for her performance in Their Own Desire (1929); she would
go on to receive four more
nominations, ending with her performance in the lavish production of Marie Antoinette (1938).
In the best
actress category, Rosamund Pike gave
Gone Girl one of only two
nominations, suggesting its own awards campaign might falter.
Allen has also created platforms for his actors to
go on winning Oscars ® themselves, making this film an excellent vehicle for Stone to be nominated once again, after her
nomination last year for Best Supporting
Actress in «Birdman.»
LA Times
went nuts for Blunt; Ebert called her «irresistible» and posed the question: «Why do so many
actresses get their Oscar
nominations by playing whores or queens?»
That movie
went on to win Eddie Redmayne an Oscar for best actor and
nominations for best picture, writing,
actress, and music.
Frears has a knack for directing leading
actresses who later
go on to earn Oscar
nominations.
Christoph Waltz earned the Best Actor in a Supporting Role
nomination expected to
go to his «Django Unchained» co-star, Leonardo DiCaprio, while Jacki Weaver of «Silver Linings Playbook» is the nice surprise of the Best
Actress in a Supporting role category.
The British
actress went on to leading roles in the «Pirates of the Caribbean» franchise and «Atonement,» and earned an Academy Award
nomination for «Pride & Prejudice.»
Possibly the biggest snub is no Best Picture for
Gone Girl, despite receiving
nominations for Best
Actress, Director and Screenplay (no adapted / original clarification for the Globes).
Julianne Moore (Maps to the Stars)-- The Best
Actress winner at the Cannes Film Festival, Moore is almost assuredly
going Supporting here, which means she could very well be in line for another
nomination.
The film, which
went into the ceremony with six
nominations, was the big winner of the evening with four awards in total, including Best
Actress for Saoirse Ronan and Best Supporting
Actress for Laurie Metcalf, as well as Gerwig herself for Most Promising Filmmaker.
Flights of fancy also imbued Nguyen's previous feature Rebelle, which premiered at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival, where Congolese newbie Rachel Mwanza won best
actress, before
going on to nab an Oscar
nomination for best foreign language film.
Below are the top - shelf domestic narrative
nominations: Best Picture The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost / Nixon Milk The Reader Slumdog Millionaire Best Director Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire Stephen Daldry, The Reader David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Ron Howard, Frost / Nixon Gus Van Sant, Milk Best Actor Richard Jenkins, The Visitor Frank Langella, Frost / Nixon Sean Penn, Milk Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler Best
Actress Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married Angelina Jolie, Changeling Melissa Leo, Frozen River Meryl Streep, Doubt Kate Winslet, The Reader Best Supporting Actor Josh Brolin, Milk Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road Best Supporting
Actress Amy Adams, Doubt Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona Viola Davis, Doubt Taraji P Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler Best Original Screenplay Frozen River In Bruges Happy -
Go - Lucky Milk Wall ▪ E Best Adapted Screenplay The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Doubt Frost / Nixon The Reader Slumdog Millionaire Best Animated Feature Bolt Kung Fu Panda Wall ▪ E More thoughts later, and in the coming weeks, certainly, but the Best Supporting
Actress nominations clearly offer mostly confirmatory love on the part of AMPAS voters — Cruz and Adams are recent nominees, and Tomei a past Oscar winner.
This weekend, she won Best
Actress at Cannes for her devastating performance as a woman who loses everything in a terrorist attack in Fatih Akin's Aus dem Nichts (In the Fade)-- shockingly, Kruger's first German - language production — putting her in prime position for that one Oscar nomination a year that seems to go to a non-American actress (see: Emmanuelle Riva, Charlotte Rampling, Isabelle Hu
Actress at Cannes for her devastating performance as a woman who loses everything in a terrorist attack in Fatih Akin's Aus dem Nichts (In the Fade)-- shockingly, Kruger's first German - language production — putting her in prime position for that one Oscar
nomination a year that seems to
go to a non-American
actress (see: Emmanuelle Riva, Charlotte Rampling, Isabelle Hu
actress (see: Emmanuelle Riva, Charlotte Rampling, Isabelle Huppert).
This performance won her worldwide acclaim and multiple gongs, including
nomination as Best Supporting
Actress at the 1977 Academy Awards, and she has subsequently
gone on to win two Best
Actress Oscars (for The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs), and become a true star of her generation.
Multiple
nominations also
went to «The Case Against 8,» «
Actress,» «E-Team,» «Finding Vivian Maier,» «Jodorowsky's Dune,» «Ne Me Quitte Pas,» «Particle Fever» and «Return to Homs.»
Yes it's only been five years since Chastain made her big 2011,
going from total unknown to acclaimed performances in The Tree of Life, Take Shelter, Coriolanus, The Debt, and The Help, the last of which nabbed her a Best Supporting
Actress nomination (she lost to her co-star Octavia Spencer).
BAFTA
nominations list Best film Birdman Boyhood The Grand Budapest Hotel The Imitation Game The Theory of Everything Leading Actor Benedict Cumberbatch - The Imitation Game Eddie Redmayne - The Theory of Everything Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler Michael Keaton - Birdman Ralph Fiennes - The Grand Budapest Hotel Leading
Actress Amy Adams - Big Eyes Felicity Jones - The Theory of Everything Julianne Moore - Still Alice Reese Witherspoon - Wild Rosamund Pike -
Gone Girl Supporting Actor Edward Norton - Birdman Ethan Hawke - Boyhood J.K. Simmons - Whiplash Mark Ruffalo - Foxcatcher Steve Carell - Foxcatcher Supporting
Actress Emma Stone - Birdman Imelda Staunton - Pride Keira Knightley - The Imitation Game Patricia Arquette - Boyhood Rene Russo - Nightcrawler Outstanding British Film»71 The Imitation Game Paddington Pride The Theory of Everything Under the Skin Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer Elaine Constantine (writer / director)- Northern Soul Gregory Burke (writer), Yann Demange (director)-»71 Hong Khaou (writer / director)- Lilting Paul Katis (director / producer), Andrew de Lotbiniere (producer)- Kajaki: The True Story Stephen Beresford (writer), David Livingstone (producer)- Pride Film Not in the English Language Ida Leviathan The Lunchbox Trash Two Days, One Night Documentary 20 Feet from Stardom 20,000 Days on Earth Citizenfour Finding Vivian Maier Virunga Animated Film Big Hero 6 The Boxtrolls The Lego Movie Whiplash Adapted Screenplay American Sniper
Gone Girl The Imitation Game Paddington The Theory of Everything EE Rising Star Jack O'Connell Gugu Mbatha - Raw Miles Teller Margot Robbie Shailene Woodley
Given both of Winslet's performances this year are housed in what we expect to be revealed next Thursday as failed Oscar bait that no one particularly likes, we were originally
going to bank on the Academy's resistance to allowing a questionable double bid just because Winslet's presence is considered obligatory (especially after the same hustle netted Cate Blanchett a best
actress nomination for fucking Elizabeth: The Golden Age last year).
Lead
actress in a miniseries
nominations went to Lange and Sarah Paulson for «Coven,» Helena Bonham Carter for «Burton and Taylor,» Minnie Driver in «Return to Zero,» Kristen Wiig for «The Spoils of Babylon» and Cicely Tyson for «The Trip to Bountiful.»
In my early predictions I have her getting what some would call a surprise Best
Actress nomination, but I actually see her as a potentially major contender (remember, Best
Actress nominees and winners do tend to be on the younger and prettier side... something she has
going for her in spades).
In the lead
actress in a comedy series,
nominations went to Edie Falco for «Nurse Jackie,» Tina Fey for «30 Rock,» Amy Poehler for «Parks & Recreation,» Sofia Vergara for «Modern Family» and Betty White for «Hot in Cleveland.»
There was no best
actress nomination for Sally Hawkins, whose sunny schoolteacher in Mike Leigh's Happy -
Go - Lucky had been expected to pick one up; although Mike Leigh's script did make an appearance in the best original screenplay category — a controversial inclusion, given that Leigh's films are largely the result of improvisation.
Unlike in the best actor category, best
actress usually
goes to someone on her first
nomination in that category.
From this vantage point, it seems likely that she's
going to pick up a few more nods before the year is done, including perhaps a Golden Globe
nomination for best
actress in the comedy category.
I can't imagine the Academy
going for Black Swan in such a big way as the BFCA did, but on the other hand it could surely rack up quite a few
nominations if they really love it: Picture, Director,
Actress, Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Costume Design and so on.
2010's «Winter's Bone» not only
went on to earn four Oscar
nominations, including Best Picture, it essentially launched the career of one of the biggest
actresses of the entire decade in Jennifer Lawrence.
Adams
goes into Sunday's ceremony with her seventh
nomination, for the heartbreaking sci - fi drama Arrival, which the
actress's husband, Darren Le Gallo, told us made him «cry like a baby.»
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.