Johnny Depp played hopeless B - movie auteur Ed Wood Jr as a never - say - die idealist who rescued Bela Lugosi from unemployment; Meryl Streep gave life to the deluded classical singer, Florence Foster Jenkins, who was rich enough to pay people to listen to her off -
key warbling.
Across the pond, Nina Hoss mercilessly snatched ownership of «Speak Low» away from the late Kurt Weill, her
warbling rendition of the jazz standard playing a
key role in one of the greatest final scenes ever shot.