Sentences with phrase «few other actresses»
Honorable Mention: With apologies to Anna Kendrick in The Last Five Years and a few other actresses but you can't list everyone!
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After winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her wild - eyed turn as a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted, she attempted a few other serious acting roles but only seemed to find blockbuster success when she took on the lead role in the feature - film adaptation of the video game Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.
These movies and a few others show that Whoopi was a serious actress when she did «The Color Purple», and «Ghost», and we really lost her when she started playing second hand characters such as nuns («Sister Act» sequels), and playing off the radar «Star Trek» characters not to mention we totally lost her when she went from acting into the daytime talk show circuit of garbage.
A few journalists have picked up on her work in Middle of Nowhere but there aren't yet enough of them and other actresses have more buzz at the moment.
Among the other icons offering priceless pearls of wisdom are singer Mary J. Blige, environmentalist Majora Carter, prima ballerina Misty Copeland, actress Ruby Dee, comedienne Whoopi Goldberg, supermodel Iman, choreographer Judith Jamison, ex-Essence editor Susan L. Taylor, and tennis star Venus Williams, to name a few.
The films that produce Best Actress nominees tend to be films that only get Best Actress nominations and few others.
A few categories look less up in the air than others; Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama) has all GRG members who voted falling in line with the same five except for Evan.
Melissa Leo is one of the few other examples where I saw a Hollywood actress be believably blue - collar.
However, other than these few screenplay picks, there were a lot of great choices to be found, including Laurie Metcalf continuing to dominate Best Supporting Actress for her great performance in «Lady Bird» and Margot Robbie scoring a couple of wins for «I, Tonya.»
A few other Bay Area connections include ACT graduate Anika Noni Rose (best featured actress, «Raisin in the Sun»), TheatreWorks mainstay James M. Iglehart (best featured actor in a musical, «Aladdin») and Lena Hall (best featured actress in a musical, «Hedwig»), a Broadway veteran who got her start playing a bonbon in San Francisco Ballet's «Nutcracker» at age 2.
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.
The film even has a few good ideas of its own, which give the film a stronger female presence than any other iteration of the franchise on top of that — Marian (Alyssa Milano) is the head of a rad vigilante group called the Power Corps (because no one could think of a more nineties name, apparently) and the Lees are trained by Satori Imada (Julia Nickson), who acts as the orphans» badass mother figure (despite the actress being barely ten years older than the guys, but she gets a token grey streak in her hair to «establish» her wisdom).