The actress is favourite to win in the best
supporting actress category at the Academy Awards and fashion lovers will be glued to their screens to see what and who she will be wearing.
Shakespeare is a tough sell for The Oscars for sure, but at least I hope, really hope that when it comes to Fassbender's and Cotillard's turns, Academy members will recognize them at least through a nomination in Best Actor and Best
Supporting Actress categories respectively.
Meanwhile, the Best
Supporting Actress category features Mary J. Blige for Mudbound, Allison Janney for I, Tonya, Lesley Manville for Phantom Thread, Laurie Metcalf for Lady Bird and Octavia Spencer for The Shape of Water.
I wrote about category fraud not too long ago, and what was indeed expected did happen with Rooney Mara for Carol and Alicia Vikander for The Danish Girl finding themselves in the crowded
Supporting Actress category instead of the equally crowded Actress category.
In the best
supporting actress category there are nominations for Emily Blunt in The Devil Wears Prada, Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls and Frances De La Tour in The History Boys.
No Holly Hunter OR Tiffany Haddish in the Best
Supporting Actress Category Dying is easy, comedy is hard — but the Academy doesn't seem likely to ever recognize that fact.
The Best
Supporting Actress category here saw quite a curse recently when four winners in a row, from 2011 - 2014, all failed to earn Oscar nominations after winning here.
The battle in the supporting acting categories looks equally fierce, with singer turned actress Mary J. Blige nominated in the outstanding
female supporting actress category for her role in Dee Rees» Mudbound.
Now, its best and possibly only shots at becoming an Oscar nominee are Winfrey slipping into the not terribly
deep Supporting Actress category and maybe snagging a slot in Best Original Song.
Although the musical adaptation Les Miserables had yet to be seen by anyone, pundits were already predicting possible frontrunner status and even a win by Anne Hathaway in the Best
Supporting Actress category months before its release, based simply on the fact that the musically - inclined actress was tackling the emotionally devastating role of Fantine.
Fences» Viola Davis has tough competition in the Best
Supporting Actress category where she's up against Moonlight's Naomi Harris and Manchester by the Sea's Michelle Williams.
The 57 - year - old, who is nominated in the Best
Supporting Actress category for her portrayal of Winston Churchill's wife Clementine in Darkest Hour, was vocal in her support for the movement
Fans of The Big Sick who were disappointed by its Golden Globes snubs will feel somewhat vindicated, as Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon's real - life love story turned romantic comedy picked up two acting nods — for outstanding cast in a motion picture, and a separate nomination for Holly Hunter in the
outstanding supporting actress category.
However, her turn as the self - destructive daughter of a middle - age actor trying to make a comeback on the stage in Birdman earned her the first Oscar nomination of her career, getting a nod in the Best
Supporting Actress category.
If you saw the Golden Globes on Sunday night, you saw Allison Janney win in
the supporting actress category for playing Tonya Harding's mother in I, Tonya.
Acclaimed: Kristin will battle it out against Allison Janney, Laurie Metcalf, Lesley Manville and Octavia Spencer in the Best
Supporting Actress category (pictured with Gary Oldman in Darkest Hour)
Janney beat out Mary J. Blige (Mudbound), Lesley Manville (Phanton Thread), Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird) and Octavia Spencer (The Shape of Water) in
the supporting actress category.
The recognition of Davis, Harris and Spencer in
the Supporting Actress category is the first time multiple black nominees have been nominated in that category since Margaret Avery and Oprah Winfrey were both recognized for The Color Purple in 1985.
We'll be looking at a couple of different major categories each day over the next four days, and we're kicking things off with the Best Supporting Actor and Best
Supporting Actress categories.
Mother figures abound even more in the Best
Supporting Actress category, from Jane Darwell as Ma Joad in 1940's «Grapes of Wrath» to Viola Davis as Rose Maxson in last year's «Fences.»
Better luck may await Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer in the Best
Supporting Actress category, traditionally less closely tied to Best Picture.
Rooney (Carol) and Alicia (The Danish Girl) are nominated in the Best
Supporting Actress category, while Brie (Room) and Charlotte (45 Years) are representing the Best Actress category.
Naomi Watts ended up in
the supporting actress category for her colorful and atypically comical portrayal of a pregnant Russian stripper opposite Bill Murray in «St. Vincent.»
Meanwhile,
the Supporting Actress category features Viola Davis for Fences; Naomie Harris for Moonlight; Nicole Kidman for Lion; Octavia Spencer for Hidden Figures; and Michelle Williams for Manchester By the Sea.
In January, she received her fourth Oscar nomination — her first in
the Supporting Actress category — for her excellent performance in «Lion».
Perhaps because the winners in the Best Supporting Actor and Best
Supporting Actress categories were widely presumed to be «sure things,» the suspense came from wondering when they would get beyond the statuettes for sound.
Sally Field, who is nominated in
the Supporting Actress category for her role in the film Lincoln (AFP / Getty)
The 26 - year - old actress - who was nominated in the Best
Supporting Actress category...
Will Vikander «go lead» is the real question and if she does that frees up a space in the Best
Supporting Actress category.
Personally, I believe that Mia Wasikowska did an amazing performance as Joni, and I wouldn't be surprised if she got nominated in
the Supporting Actress category this year.
But as the year progressed, as
the supporting actress category last week proved, there weren't too many female performances blowing me away.
(Chastain was also a runner - up in
the Supporting Actress category for «The Tree of Life».)
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.
12 Years a Slave will likely be landing plenty of Oscar nominations in a number of categories next month, so don't be surprised to see Paulson pop up in the Best
Supporting Actress category.
With critics heralding her turn in «12 Years a Slave» as the movie's breakout performance, Nyong» o is already being called a lock in
the supporting actress category at the Oscars.
In this edition of Oscar Beat, we examine the current state of the Best
Supporting Actress category.