The biggest surprise would be if Isabelle Huppert (deservingly) wins
the Lead Actress award for her tremendous performance in Paul Verhoeven's «Elle.»
Now, many are wondering if Affleck will even be invited to this year's ceremony, following the traditional protocol that has the previous year's lead actor winner present
the lead actress award.
Amy Adams won a Golden Globe for the second straight year, taking the comedy / musical
lead actress award for her turn as artist Margaret Keane in «Big Eyes,» a woman who, Adams said, «had such a quiet voice and such a strong heart and such a strong artistic vision.»
She may have lost out on the Best
Leading Actress award to Frances McDormand but Saoirse Ronan could not have looked any happier at last night's Independent Spirit Awards.
A Touch of Class won Jackson her second
leading actress award but has aged poorly.
She emerged as the clear frontrunner in the category, earning other best
lead actress awards, including a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and a SAG Award.
Not exact matches
Here's the caption @nascarcasm claims goes with this photo: Oscar winners (from left) Christian Bale (Best Actor In A Supporting Role, «The Fighter»), Natalie Portman (
Actress In A
Leading Role, «Black Swan»), Melissa Leo (
Actress In A Supporting Role, «The Fighter»), Colin Firth (Actor In A
Leading Role, «The King's Speech») and Kurt Busch (Best Directing, Cinematography, Costume Design and Short - Subject Documentary, «A Positive Step For Me»), celebrate backstage following the Academy
Awards, which honor achievement in filmmaking.
After accepting the
award for best
lead actress for «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» Frances McDormand asked all women in the room to stand for their own applause.
Starring Julia Louis - Dreyfus in her recent Emmy
award - winning turn as Vice President Selina Meyer (Outstanding
Lead Actress in a Comedy Series), Veep is an up - close and politically (in) correct look at the daily successes and disappointments of being second in command.
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award - winning
actress, who is the United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) Maternal Health Ambassador for West and Central Africa said African governments must take the
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She appeared in a string of independent films throughout the 1990s, in addition to all the aforementioned Di Cillo titles; she had the
lead, opposite Anne Heche, in the acclaimed Walking and Talking (1996), written and directed by Nicole Holofcener, a role which earned her an Independent Spirit
Award nomination for Best
Actress.
The film stars British - born Academy
Award (R) nominated
actress Naomi Watts (J. EDGAR, FAIR GAME, 21 GRAMS) who assumes the
leading role of the eponymous and iconic princess.
For her performance as Carrie Mathison on HOMELAND she has won back - to - back Golden Globe ®
Awards for Best Performance by an
Actress in a Television Series — Drama, a 2013 Screen Actors Guild
Award ® for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series and the 2012 Emmy ®
Award for Outstanding
Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
Danes won the 2010 Emmy
Award for Outstanding
Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie and the film won for Outstanding Made for Television Movie.
Barkin received an Outstanding
Lead Actress in a miniseries or a movie Emmy ®
award for her performance in Oprah Winfrey's BEFORE WOMEN HAD WINGS.
Proving that Bafta is not slavishly following the US
awards circuit's
lead, Tinker's 11 nominations were accompanied by four for the Ryan Gosling thriller Drive, another near shut - out at the Globes, which included a best supporting
actress for Carey Mulligan.
Sarah Paulson shows her
award for best
lead actress in a limited series or a movie for» The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.»
Actress Claire Danes, winner Outstanding
Lead Actress In A Drama Series for «Homeland», poses backstage at the 64th Primetime Emmy
Awards at the Nokia Theatre, on Sept. 23, in Los Angeles.
First, Spratt was the recipient of the
award for Best
Leading Actress in a Feature Film from the Los Angeles Indie Fest
awards in November.
The coming of age movie has picked up Best Film
awards in New York and Canada with
lead actor Aide Spratt also taking home a Best
Actress award in LA for her work on the film.
Since 1988, there has been an equal amount of questionable winners in the
lead actress category, beginning with Jodie Foster's win for «The Accused» in a year that saw Mery Streep astound audiences in «A Cry in the Dark,» which won the New York Film Critics Circle
award.
RTE drama «Love / Hate» dominated this year's IFTA
awards, winning Best Drama, Best Script and Best
Lead Actress for Charlie Murphy.
Binoche received her ninth César nomination — the French Oscar — for her
lead role, while Stewart became the first American
actress to win the
award for her supporting turn.
On the television side, Netflix's political drama «House of Cards»
led nominations for the Screen Actors Guild
Awards, taking three nods for best actor (Kevin Spacey), best
actress (Robin Wright) and best cast performance in a drama series.
The jury decision, he revealed, came only after some old - fashioned horse - trading: Bille August's «Pelle the Conqueror» won over Chris Menges» «A World Apart» in a 6 - 4 vote, but jury president Ettore Scola only got the «World Apart» supporters to stop arguing when he offered to not only give that film the Grand Jury Prize (second prize), but also let its
lead actresses share the best -
actress award, making it the only film to win more than one prize.
The five actors nominated for the prestigious
award, which honours the future stars of cinema, include Brits Jack O'Connell, who began his career in the E4 drama Skins in 2007 and this year took the
lead role in the Angelina Jolie - directed feature Unbroken, and Gugu Mbatha - Raw, already an established name on stage and television, who was named best
actress at this year's British Independent Film
Awards for her portrayal of Dido Elizabeth Belle in the period drama Belle.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated PHILOMENA for four Academy
Awards ® including: Best Picture; Best
Actress in a
Leading Role, Judi Dench; Best Music — Original Score, Alexandre Desplat; and Best Writing — Adapted Screenplay, Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope.
Veteran French actor André Wilms, whose association with the filmmaker dates back to 1992's «The Bohemian Life» (for which he won a European Film
Award) takes the
lead here, while other Kaurismäki alumni in the cast include New Wave icon Jean - Pierre Léaud and, of course, the director's favorite
actress Kati Outinen.
The show's female
lead, Ruth Wilson, was
awarded lead drama
actress.
«Mrs. Miniver» won six Academy
Awards including Best Picture, Best Director William Wyler, Best Screenplay, Best
Lead Actress Greer Garson, Best Supporting
Actress Teresa Wright, and Best Cinematography.
Margot is nominated for Best
Actress in a
Leading Role for I, Tonya at the 90th Annual Academy
Awards on March 4
Margot is nominated for Best
Actress in a
Leading Role while her co-star Allison Janney is nominated for Best
Actress in a Supporting Role for I, Tonya at the 90th Annual Academy
Awards on March 4.
Jordan Phipps is making big waves this year in the genre community, with a stellar performance in this year's festival favorite Close Calls and a
lead role in the upcoming Halloween horror anthology 10/31, so we were thrilled to catch up with Jordan on the Orange Carpet for quick interview following our screening of Close Calls at the 2017 Halloween International Film Festival in Kill Devil Hills, NC, where she would go on to win the Best
Actress award.
The cast,
led by Academy
Award winner Nicole Kidman (The Hours,
Actress in a
Leading Role, 2002) and Golden Globe nominee Aaron Eckhart, includes two - time Oscar winner Dianne Wiest (Hannah and Her Sisters,
Actress in a Supporting Role, 1986; Bullets Over Broadway,
Actress in a Supporting Role, 1994), Tammy Blanchard, Miles Teller, Giancarlo Esposito, Jon Tenney and Sandra Oh.
In 2009, she began playing the
lead role in the television series United States of Tara, for which she won a Primetime Emmy
Award and a Golden Globe
Award for Best
Actress — Television Series Musical or Comedy in 2010.
Rose McGowan, who openly criticized the call for a red carpet black - out in the weeks
leading up to the
awards show, took to Twitter Sunday to reiterate her stance after Italian
actress Asia Argento voiced her support for McGowan.
COMMENTARY: As the
Lead Actress remains highly competitive, the Supporting
Actress race seems prime to be one of those years where the same five names pop up at every
award show.
Steven Spielberg's «Lincoln,» starring Daniel Day - Lewis as the 16th President of the United States,
leads this year's Academy
Award nominees with 12 total nominations including best picture, best director (for Spielberg), best actor (for Day - Lewis), best supporting actor (for Tommy Lee Jones), and best supporting
actress (for Sally Field).
Chicago, the last musical to win Oscar's Best Picture, took home three
awards in 2003: Ensemble,
Actress in a
Leading Role (Renee Zellweger) and
Actress in a Supporting Role (Catherine Zeta - Jones).
The concept of one of our most lauded
actresses taking the
lead in a Woody Allen film always seemed like it had
awards potential, even if no one's been nominated for a
lead in an Allen picture since Sean Penn..
The mother - daughter comedy is up for five Academy
Awards, including best director (Greta Gerwig) and
leading actress (Saoirse Ronan).
Moore may walk away with a sympathy
award for people who didn't vote for her in the
lead actress category, but it's somewhat doubtful.
But «The Sinner» was blessed with heavenly
awards news Monday, scoring two marquee Golden Globe nominations, one for best TV movie or limited series and another for Biel as the
lead actress, making the show one of the big surprises of the Golden Globe derby.
Brie Larson walks on stage to accept the
award for best
actress in a
leading role for ìRoomî at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
Eddie Redmayne, right, presents Brie Larson with the
award for best
actress in a
leading role for «Room».
Eddie Redmayne presents the
award for best
actress in a
leading role at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
Brie Larson, right, hugs Jacob Tremblay after she wins the
award for best
actress in a
leading role for ìRoomî at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
Eddie Redmayne, right, presents Brie Larson with the
award for best
actress in a
leading role for ìRoomî at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
Brie Larson accepts the
award for best
actress in a
leading role for ìRoomî at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.