BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Jessica Chastain - Take Shelter
(I honestly don't know how the movie industry even functioned before Jessica
Chastain. A year ago I didn't even know who she was but in 2011 she burst onto
the scene with no less than 6 movies *excluding Take Shelter*: The Tree of Life, The Help, The Debt, Wilde Salome, Texas Killing Fields, and Coriolanus. In every film I've seen her in she is brilliant, and no two roles she plays are the same. Though it's for her role in The Help that the Academy awarded her a nomination, it's her work in Take Shelter that stands out as her best.)
Carey Mulligan - Shame
(Who was robbed of the win she deserved for her An Education nomination and has now been robbed of even an actual nomination for her suberb work here.)
Octavia Spencer - The Help
Shailene Woodley - The Descendants
(Who accomplishes the near-impossible task of realistically portraying a teenager while also assigning depth, nuance, and subtlety to the character that few teens actually posses. All while holding her own on the screen with acting giant George Clooney *doing his best work ever*, how could Oscar not recognize her with a nomination?)
Unlike the Best Supporting Actor race, the Best Supporting Actress competition is brimming with possible nominees: Melissa McCarthy recieved an actual nomination for utterly transforming her persona for her hysterical turn in Bridesmaids. Berenice Bejo brought loads of charisma to her role of Peppy Miller in The Artist, but in a field this stiff with competition, charisma shouldn't have been enough. And although Janet McTeer gave a fine performance just like her co-star Glenn Close (it seems the whole cast of Albert Nobbs got by on "fine"), "fine" shouldn't have been enough for an Oscar nomination.
WINNER: Carey Mulligan - Shame
(Though it can't be denied that 2011 was the year of Jessica Chastain, Carey Mulligan's subtle, sorrowful tour de force cannot be denied either.)
With the acting and musical categories complete, I'll be blogging my way through the technical categories on up to Best Picture, stay tuned!
Kiera Knightley - A Dangerous Method
Carey Mulligan - Shame
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Octavia Spencer - The Help
Shailene Woodley - The Descendants
(Who accomplishes the near-impossible task of realistically portraying a teenager while also assigning depth, nuance, and subtlety to the character that few teens actually posses. All while holding her own on the screen with acting giant George Clooney *doing his best work ever*, how could Oscar not recognize her with a nomination?)
Unlike the Best Supporting Actor race, the Best Supporting Actress competition is brimming with possible nominees: Melissa McCarthy recieved an actual nomination for utterly transforming her persona for her hysterical turn in Bridesmaids. Berenice Bejo brought loads of charisma to her role of Peppy Miller in The Artist, but in a field this stiff with competition, charisma shouldn't have been enough. And although Janet McTeer gave a fine performance just like her co-star Glenn Close (it seems the whole cast of Albert Nobbs got by on "fine"), "fine" shouldn't have been enough for an Oscar nomination.
WINNER: Carey Mulligan - Shame
(Though it can't be denied that 2011 was the year of Jessica Chastain, Carey Mulligan's subtle, sorrowful tour de force cannot be denied either.)
With the acting and musical categories complete, I'll be blogging my way through the technical categories on up to Best Picture, stay tuned!
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