ERSPOON
HUFFMAN
KNIGHTLEY
DENCH
THERON
SON PRESENTS
PREJUDICE
fighters, from
Norma Rae to
Erin Brockovich,
are the stuff of
Oscar bait.
How can you
dislike a gal
helping "the
little guys"?
precursor
award she
hasn't won?
This is one of
the most
foregone
conclusions of
the night.
Congrats.
and
de-glamming
seem to be the
way to Oscar's
heart. Plus,
the Golden
Globe & Emmy
visibility help
immensely.
ingenue defied
the odds and
scored a
nomination for
this
well-reviewed
Jane Austen
pic. Oscar likes
the young'ns.
didn't have a
large showing
overall, critics
-- and
apparently
voters -- were
enthralled with
her witty
performance.
Huffman is
nipping at her
heels with a
turn that's
more
technically
proficient and
transformative.
We'll see.
head-to-head
match-ups with
Reese
Witherspoon,
she's lost. If
only she'd
been able to
win the SAG
award...
long career
ahead of her,
so there's no
need to reward
her the first
time in the
ring. The nod
here is the
prize.
nominations
and one win,
I'm betting
that Academy
members are
done rewarding
Dench for a
while. Just a
hunch.
2003's
"Monster" is
just too fresh
to justify a
second trophy,
regardless of
how good she
is. It's Oscar
politics.
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12.
If the internet community remembered the perf, why didn't Oscar?
ZIYI ZHANG, Memoirs of a Geisha
She really didn't deserve a nomination for this.
GWYNETH PALTROW, Proof
The reviews were excellent, but look at the competition.
NAOMI WATTS, King Kong
Her terrific genre performance wasn't able to sneak in.
Q'ORIANKA KILCHER, The New World
This debutante never really gained traction.
CLAIRE DANES, Shopgirl
She's the best thing about it, but it was been largely forgotten.
NATASHA RICHARDSON, The White Countess
No buzz despite an Oscar pedigree behind the camera.
