Sentences with phrase «female performance»

Do her supporters here believe she gave the best female performance of the year in either category?

That was my favorite female performance of the year.

This has been such a great year for lead female performances.

And my rationale for it is this: the films that are going to get the least amount of number one votes are films that are heavily driven by female performances.

But as the year progressed, as the supporting actress category last week proved, there weren't too many female performances blowing me away.

It was also a banner year for excellent female performances.

This could possibly be one of the reasons why as the time of exercise becomes longer, female performance tends to become closer and closer to male performance.

And in this year, with so many incredible female performances, there's a laundry list of better options for Best Actress than her.

There was also 9 nominees for Best Female performance.

A look ahead to the next few weeks rounds things off nicely and we'll be back next week with our top five female performances of 2012.

What??? This movie and the shape of water are tied as my favourites from last year mostly because of the lead female performances.

Also in Female Performance in a Comedy Programme are Anna Maxwell Martin for Motherland and Sian Gibson for Peter Kay's Car Share, both of which were released all - at - once as BBC iPlayer box sets.

Three of the year's strongest female performances threaten convention, the one that says females are usually cast as supporting, loving, noble characters who give of themselves in the service of the male lead.

Best Female Performance Jennifer Lawrence, «The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 ″ Emma Stone, «Birdman» Shailene Woodley, «The Fault In Our Stars» Reese Witherspoon, «Wild» Scarlett Johansson, «Lucy»

Yams Collective, a group of 38 artists formally known as HowDoYouSayYaminAfrican, withdrew from the 2014 Whitney Biennial because of what it viewed as racial exploitation in the work of Joe Scanlan, another biennial artist, who for years has presented himself as Donelle Woolford, a black female performance artist.

Best Actress: This category is generally very kind to Sundance lately (or maybe Sundance has just been a very welcoming place for great female performances), with six of the last 25 best - actress nominees debuting their work at the Sundance Film Festival (Quvenzhane Wallis, Gabourey Sidibe, Carey Mulligan, Michelle Williams, Annette Bening and Jennifer Lawrence).

My favorite female performance of the year belonged to Essie Davis in Jennifer Kent's The Babadook, but that seems like the exception to the rule laid down by the two Agatas (Kulesza and Trzebuchowska) in Ida, Emily Browning in God Help the Girl, Tilda Swinton in Only Lovers Left Alive, Anne Dorval in Mommy, and the heroine in The Tale of the Princess Kaguya.

Driven by a soulful, brave performance from Laura Dern as Jennifer Fox, she has to give so much of herself here that this damn near qualifies as one of the bravest female performances ever given onscreen, who else could pull this off?

Featuring what is arguably the bravest female performance ever put on film - namely, Isabelle Adjani's Cannes - winning turn of shamanistic intensity - the film dares its viewer to enter a trance - like state, in which genres blur and mate to yield a new level of cinematic expression.

It proves that Netflix with Okja and this film really cornered the market for the most impressive female performances.

For what it's worth, 2004 garnered McAdams three MTV Movie Awards: Best On Screen Team and Best Breakthrough Female Performance for Mean Girls, and Best Kiss for The Notebook.

Here is, in no particular order, a no doubt incomplete list of 77 films (24 directed by women) featuring some of the most anticipated female performances in 2017 (and beyond).

Finally, this year, she went from intriguing newcomer to movie - star - in - the - making, first bringing an unexpected depth to the potentially stereotypical role of Amy Schumer's square married sister in Trainwreck, then transcending every other female performance of the year with her astonishing turn as the kidnapped and imprisoned young mother of Room.

Other especially memorable female performances included those of Betty Buckley, Carrie; Jodie Foster, Taxi Driver; Piper Laurie, Carrie; Viveca Lindfors, Welcome to L.A.; Kathleen Loyd, The Missouri Breaks.

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE ¬ ∑ Amanda Seyfried «Äì Dear John (Screen Gems / Sony Pictures) ¬ ∑ Emma Watson «Äì Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince (Warner Bros..

, Vicky Krieps in Phantom Thread, Garance Marillier in Raw and Kristen Stewart in Personal Shopper (not to mention the higher profile female performances sure to receive Oscar recognition), it takes a lot for a new face to make such an indelible impression.

Though the general lack of well - written female characters tends to result in a thin crop of contenders for the Best Supporting Actress category, there are no doubt a number of excellent supporting female performances to thumb through in 2013.

Sally Hawkins Given that she gave one of the most widely acclaimed female performances of the last few years — as the ever - sunny Poppy in Mike Leigh «s «Happy - Go - Lucky,» which won her a Golden Globe — it's a little puzzling that Sally Hawkins hasn't exploded since.

But with female performances (the lead actors was easier to collate, but definitely harder than both male actor lists), I really struggled with a lack of entries.

What had been touted as a weak year for female performances ended up delivering a brace of unexpected nominations, including Rosamund Pike for Gone Girl, Emily Blunt for Stephen Sondheim musical adaptation Into the Woods and Helen Mirren, who achieved her sixth nomination for the otherwise fairly forgettable gastro - romance The Hundred - Foot Journey.

As with so much inspired horror, from Rosemary's Baby to 2014's psychologically acute The Babadook, the movie gets its breath and a palpable sense of unraveling identity from a fearless female performance, this time by Toni Collette, the revered Australian actor capable of sustained fits of mania.

More crucially, and the thing that truly reminded us of her talent, was Ry Russo - Young «s «Nobody Walks,» in which Thirlby gives one of the more undervalued female performances of the year as an aspiring filmmaker staying with an L.A. family (John Krasinski and Rosemarie DeWitt) who up - ends their lives.

Three indelibly great and promising female performances had people talking.

Rooney Mara left Cannes with the festival's Best Female Performance Award, and the film received the year's Queer Palm.

I accept that none of my three standard - bearing female performances of the year (Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas and, of course, Sally Hawkins) exactly represent typical fodder for the Academy's acting branch, which likes its drama with a healthy side - serving of tears and shouting.

It is no surprise that Saoirse Ronan gives one of the most deeply felt and wonderful female performances of the year in Brooklyn.

Herewith the 17 best female performances from the year's first quarter, divvied up into three categories.

But the Dutch director is also responsible for some radically empowered female performances: Sharon Stone's vaguely amused man - eater in Basic Instinct, Carice van Houten's unscrupulous World War II survivor in Black Book and now the protagonist of his latest movie, played by the frosty, effortlessly commanding Isabelle Huppert.

Trumbo and Spotlight, two superb truth - based narratives that put mainstream media under scrutiny, feature fine female performances — by Diane Lane and Helen Mirren in Trumbo, and by Cate Blanchett in Spotlight.

Best Female Performance Anne Hathaway: Les Misérables Emma Watson: The Perks of Being a Wallflower Jennifer Lawrence: Silver Linings Playbook Mila Kunis: Ted Rebel Wilson: Pitch Perfect

LAFCA wasn't formed until several decades later, so let's use this space to bow down before the year's most indelible female performance, which was Oscar - nominated but inexplicably lost to Bergman: Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity.

And Mara is neck and neck with Saoirse Ronan for my favorite overall female performance of the year (and overall performance at all, really), so she got the nod over Stewart.

The film, opening Friday, also delivers the franchise's greatest lead female performance yet.

To its credit, Nixon offers just about the only female performances I've liked in a Stone movie — at least Joan Allen as Pat Nixon and Madeleine Kahn as Martha Mitchell have some depth.

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina Anna Kendrick, Pitch Perfect 2 Charlize Theron, Mad Max: Fury Road Daisy Ridley, Star Wars: The Force Awakens Jennifer Lawrence, Joy Morena Baccarin, Deadpool

There perhaps weren't as many female driven narratives as I would have liked but there certainly some powerhouse female performances.»

In 2016, Catherine won the Canadian Screen Award for Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, as well as the ACTRA Award ® for Outstanding Female Performance for her role as «Moira» on CBC's Schitt's Creek.