Amy AdamsAge: 44Film: ViceRole: Lynne Cheney, the driven, Second Lady (Macbeth) of the George W. Bush administration who wears her bra, speaks her mind, and spurs her devoted husband Dick onto new heights neither could reach without the other. Nomination History:Previously nominated for Best Actress for American Hustle (2013). Previously …
I reviewed seventy-seven films in 2018, and I liked most of them. (I’m paying out of pocket, so I tend to avoid movies I don’t expect to enjoy.) Even attempting to rank my favorite films was a grueling exercise for me. (In general, trying to assign a value to anything …
Darkest Hour Nominated Producer(s): Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten, Douglas Urbanski Director: Joe WrightWriter: Anthony McCarten Cast: Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn, Ronald Pickup, Stephen Dillane, Nicholas Jones, Richard Lumsden, Samuel West, David Schofield, Malcolm Storry, David Strathairn and others. Plot:In May of …
Call Me By Your Name Nominated Producer(s): Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Marco, Morabito Director: Luca Guadagnino Writer: James Ivory Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, and others. Plot: Italy, 1983, seventeen-year-old Elio falls in love for the first time with Oliver, the twenty-four-year-old grad …
Willem DafoeAge: 62Film: The Florida ProjectRole: Bobby, the compassionate and reliable manager of the Magic Castle, a budget motel near Disney World where a number of impoverished Floridians live as semi-permanent guests, including six-year-old Moonee and Halley, her self-sabotaging, dysfunctional mother. Nomination History:Previously nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Platoon …
Mary J. BligeAge: 47Film: MudboundRole: Florence Jackson, devoted wife of an upwardly mobile sharecropper on the muddiest farm in Mississippi, sometime domestic employee to the desperate wife of the farm’s ignoble owner, and mother to Ronsel who survives World War II to face horrors at home he never imagined. Nomination …
Timothée ChalametAge: 22Film: Call Me By Your NameRole: Elio, the teen son of academics living on a villa in Italy in the early 1980s who is continually surprised and transformed as he falls in love for the first time with Oliver, his father’s American grad student research assistant for the …
Sally HawkinsAge: 41Film: The Shape of WaterRole: Elisa Esposito, a mute cleaning lady working at a top secret laboratory in the 1960s who lives her life by the clock until she shares a boiled egg with a test subject, falls in love with him, and helps him to escape from …
Marion Cotillard Age: 39 Film: Two Days, One Night Role: Sandra, a Belgian wife and mother of two who has recently recovered from an episode of clinical depression and plans to return to her job when she learns that her co-workers have voted to eliminate her position in exchange for a …
The Oscars are only a little over a week away, and finally I’ve had the opportunity to see all eight films nominated for Best Picture this year. (Can I find the time to see Marion Cotillard and Julianne Moore in the next week, so I can finish my Actress write-up …
