OSCARS 2013

BEST LEADING ACTRESS

 

 

The nominees were:

Jennifer Lawrence "Silver Linings Playbook"

Jessica Chastain "Zero Dark Thirty"

Emmanuelle Riva "Amour"

Quvenzhané Wallis "Beasts of the Southern Wild"

Naomi Watts "The Impossible"

 

What were your favourites? What was unfairly snubbed? Who shouldn't have even been here in the first place?

 

Here are some of the other nominees from major awards from the same year:

Golden Globes

Drama:

Jessica Chastain "Zero Dark Thirty"

Naomi Watts "The Impossible"

Rachel Weisz "The Deep Blue Sea"

Helen Mirren "Hitchcock"

Marion Cotillard "Rust and Bone"

 

Musical or Comedy:

Jennifer Lawrence "Silver Linings Playbook"

Emily Blunt "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen"

Judi Dench "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel"

Maggie Smith "Quartet"

Meryl Streep "Hope Springs"

 

BAFTAS

Emmanuelle Riva "Amour"

Jessica Chastain "Zero Dark Thirty"

Marion Cotillard "Rust and Bone"

Jennifer Lawrence "Silver Linings Playbook"

Helen Mirren "Hitchcock"

 

SAG Awards

Jennifer Lawrence "Silver Linings Playbook"

Jessica Chastain "Zero Dark Thirty"

Marion Cotillard "Rust and Bone"

Helen Mirren "Hitchcock"

Naomi Watts "The Impossible"

 

OSCARS REVIEWS

2016 Best Picture

2016 Best Leading Actress

2016 Best Leading Actor

2016 Best Supporting Actress

2016 Best Supporting Actor

2016 Best Director

 

2015 Best Picture

2015 Best Leading Actress

2015 Best Leading Actor

2015 Best Supporting Actress

2015 Best Supporting Actor

2015 Best Director

 

2014 Best Picture

2014 Best Leading Actress

2014 Best Leading Actor

2014 Best Supporting Actress

2014 Best Supporting Actor

2014 Best Director

 

2013 Best Picture

Not seen Amour even though I do think it looks very good so here's how I'd rank the other four:

 

1 Jennifer Lawrence "Silver Linings Playbook"

2 Jessica Chastain "Zero Dark Thirty"

3 Naomi Watts "The Impossible"

4 Quvenzhané Wallis "Beasts of the Southern Wild"

 

Definitely my favourite Jennifer Lawrence performance but I do think it's a little unfair that she got all the hype over Bradley Cooper who was equally as good, I think he suffered from being in a much tougher category this year. I preferred Chastain in The Help of her two nominated performances but she has some great scenes in ZD30, it's a shame she's been snubbed a fair few times since this. I loved how emotional Watts' performance in The Impossible is but she does kind of go missing in the second half. Also, it's a shame she was the only nomination for the film, it was WAY better than one nomination suggests. I thought Wallis was good in her film, especially for someone so young but she didn't have many scenes that didn't just involve staring into the distance and I thought she was overshadowed by Dwight Henry in the scenes with her father.

 

I thought this was quite a weak year for this category from what I've seen. Helen Mirren definitely would have been in my top five so it's a big shame she was snubbed after hitting all the precursors but that's all I can really think of to round out my top five. I'd probably swap out Wallis for Dench in TBEMH which deserved some nominations in my opinion. I imagine Cotillard is very good in Rust & Bone too but it's another one that I've not seen...

Gah, a really poor year IMO, I really HATED J-law in Silver Linings and it was a really undeserving win (and nomination)

 

Jessica and Naoimi were the stand outs for me. Not sure who I'd wan to win, leaning a bit more towards Naoimi as I fele I've seen Jessica give better performances.

 

Not seen Amor so can't comment there. Helen should have gotten the Oscar nod.

 

Emily for GG was a bit WTF in terms of nomination. She wasn't bad in SFITY but the movie as a whole was "ehhH"