Not exact matches
Winner: Trans
actress Daniela Vega's superb turn in «A Fantastic Woman» was
widely noticed and praised, making the Chilean
film the favorite here.
Blanchett was immediately
widely tipped for the
actress prize (although, in accordance with the arcane rules governing Cannes» award - giving, this would have precluded the
film from the Palme d'or), but, satisfyingly, the jury instead graced Rooney Mara with their favour (the young
actress winning ex aequo with Mon Roi's Emmanuelle Bercot), whose rendition of Carol's younger lover Thérèse is more subtly beguiling than Blanchett's dramatics.
That's why I initially found it hard to imagine the alluring 27 - year - old Australian
actress Margot Robbie — perhaps most
widely known for her sharp - tongued vixen turn in Martin Scorsese's 2013
film The Wolf of Wall Street — playing Harding from her harsh teenage years through her 40s, as she navigates life out of the spotlight.
Written largely without interview access to the
actress (now 70), the book has been framed out of necessity as a sort of biographical filmography, detailing her career in
film, television, and music through not only her major roles and works — some of them not
widely available to foreign audiences — but also in relation to the filmmakers with whom Kaji worked most frequently.
«Give Hathaway the Oscar now,» was one of the most
widely - heard reactions to the
film, as the
actress essentially wrapped up her win in a heartbreaking single - take rendition of «I Dreamed a Dream.»
BEST
ACTRESS Another impressive awards - season feat: How Jennifer Aniston came from nowhere in «Cake,» a tiny film that wasn't widely acclaimed, to make herself a real contender in what is admittedly a thin Best Actress
ACTRESS Another impressive awards - season feat: How Jennifer Aniston came from nowhere in «Cake,» a tiny
film that wasn't
widely acclaimed, to make herself a real contender in what is admittedly a thin Best
ActressActress field.
5:45 am (25th)-- TCM — Of Human Bondage Bette Davis won a Best
Actress Oscar in 1935 for the
film Dangerous, but it's
widely believed that it was a bit of a consolation prize for not winning for this
film the year before — one of her first prestigious leading roles, in an adaptation of a W. Somerset Maugham novel.