Nominated for best actress were Annette Bening as a 1930s London stage diva in Being Julia; Catalina Sandino Moreno as a Colombian woman who takes on a perilous job as a drug mule in Maria Full of Grace; Imelda Staunton as a housekeeper who moonlights as an abortion practitioner in 1950s Britain in Vera Drake; Hilary Swank
as a boxer whose life turns tragic in Million Dollar Baby; and Kate Winslet as a woman who has erased memories of her ex-boyfriend in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Not exact matches
Mickey quickly insinuates himself with Ray's broken brothers: Eddie Marsan
as broken - down
boxer Terry,
whose Parkinson's tremors act
as an emotional shield
as he explores a tentative romance with a nurse (the wonderfully sympathetic Brooke Smith), and Dash Mihok
as Bunchy, a pathetic Peter Pan of an overgrown arrested adolescent who's never healed from the psychic trauma of being abused
as a child by the neighborhood priest.
This exhibition of newly commissioned and loaned work by contemporary artists,
whose use of the image of the
boxer provided an opportunity to consider the role of the male body
as a focus for debates about race, eroticism, class and masculinity.