Picture for Nomination: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Age: 55
From: United States
Filmography: Troop Zero (2019), Widows (2018), Fences (2016), Suicide Squad (2016), Custody (2016), Lila and Eve (2015), Blackhat (2015), Get On Up (2014), The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them (2014), Ender's Game (2013), The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her (2013), The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him (2013), Prisoners (2013), Beautiful Creatures (2013), Won't Back Down (2012), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011), The Help (2011), Trust (2010), Chico and Rita (2010), Eat Pray Love (2010), It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010), Knight and Day (2010), Law Abiding Citizen (2009), State of Play (2009), Madea Goes to Jail (2009), Doubt (2008), Nights in Rodanthe (2008), Disturbia (2007), World Trade Center (2006), The Architect (2006), Syriana (2005), Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005), Solaris (2002), Antwone Fisher (2002), Far from Heaven (2002), Kate and Leopold (2001), The Shrink Is In (2001), Traffic (2000), Miss Apprehension and Squirt (1998), Out of Sight (1998), The Substance of Fire (1996)
Academy Awards History in Acting:
2017 Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for Fences
2012 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Nomination for The Help
2009 Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Nomination for Doubt
Achievements in Acting:
2021 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
2021 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama Nomination for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
2019 BAFTA Film Awards Best Leading Actress Nomination for Widows
2017 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for Fences
2017 BAFTA Film Awards Best Supporting Actress for Fences
2017 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for Fences
2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role for The Help
2012 BAFTA Film Awards Best Leading Actress Nomination for The Help
2012 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama Nomination for The Help
2009 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Nomination for Doubt
2009 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Nomination for Doubt
Picture for Nomination: The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Age: 36
From: United States
Filmography: Marshall (2017), Cars 3 (2017)
Academy Awards History in Acting:
This is her first nomination in Acting Categories.
Achievements in Acting:
2021 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama for The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Picture for Nomination: Pieces of a Woman
Age: 32
From: England
Filmography: The World to Come (2020), Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw (2019), Mr. Jones (2019), Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018), Me Before You (2016), Kill Command (2016), Genius (2016), Everest (2015), Bone in the Throat (2015), Jupiter Ascending (2015), Queen and Country (2014), About Time (2013), Charlie Countryman (2013), Wasteland (2012), Love/Loss (2010)
Academy Awards History in Acting:
This is her first nomination in Acting Categories.
Achievements in Acting:
2021 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for Pieces of a Woman
2021 BAFTA Film Awards Best Leading Actress Nomination for Pieces of a Woman
2021 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama Nomination for Pieces of a Woman
2020 Venice Film Festival Best Actress for Pieces of a Woman
Picture for Nomination: Nomadland
Age: 63
From: United States
Filmography: Isle of Dogs (2018), Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), Hail, Caesar! (2016), The Good Dinosaur (2015), Promised Land (2012), Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), This Must Be the Place (2011), Burn After Reading (2008), Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008), Friends with Money (2006), Æon Flux (2005), North Country (2005), Something's Gotta Give (2003), City by the Sea (2002), Laurel Canyon (2002), The Man Who Wasn't There (2001), Almost Famous (2000), Wonder Boys (2000), Talk of Angels (1998), Madeline (1998), Johnny Skidmarks (1998), Paradise Road (1997), Primal Fear (1996), Lone Star (1996), Fargo (1996), Palookaville (1995), Beyond Rangoon (1995), Bleeding Hearts (1994), Short Cuts (1993), Passed Away (1992), The Butcher's Wife (1991), Barton Fink (1991), Miller's Crossing (1990), Darkman (1990), Hidden Agenda (1990), Chattahoochee (1989), Mississippi Burning (1988), Raising Arizona (1987), Crimewave (1985), Blood Simple (1984)
Academy Awards History in Acting:
2018 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
2006 Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Nomination for North Country
2001 Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nomination for Almost Famous
1997 Best Actress in a Leading Role for Fargo
1989 Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nomination for Mississippi Burning
Achievements in Acting:
2021 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for Nomadland
2021 BAFTA Film Awards Best Leading Actress for Nomadland
2021 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama Nomination for Nomadland
2018 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role for Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
2018 BAFTA Film Awards Best Leading Actress for Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
2018 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama for Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
2009 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy Nomination for Burn After Reading
2006 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Nomination for North Country
2006 BAFTA Film Awards Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Nomination for North Country
2006 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Nomination for North Country
2001 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Nomination for Almost Famous
2001 BAFTA Film Awards Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Nomination for Almost Famous
2001 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Nomination for Almost Famous
1997 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role for Fargo
1997 BAFTA Film Awards Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Nomination for Fargo
1997 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy Nomination for Fargo
Picture for Nomination: Promising Young Woman
Age: 35
From: England
Filmography: A Christmas Carol (2020), Wildlife (2018), Mudbound (2017), Suffragette (2015), Far from the Madding Crowd (2015), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), The Great Gatsby (2013), Shame (2011), Drive (2011), Never Let Me Go (2010), Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), Brothers (2009), Public Enemies (2009), An Education (2009), The Greatest (2009), And When Did You Last See Your Father? (2007), Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Academy Awards History in Acting:
2010 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Nomination for An Education
Achievements in Acting:
2021 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for Promising Young Woman
2021 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama Nomination for Promising Young Woman
2012 BAFTA Film Awards Best Supporting Actress Nomination for Drive
2010 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Nomination for An Education
2010 BAFTA Film Awards Best Leading Actress for An Education
2010 Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama Nomination for An Education
Conclusion:
16 April 2021
Who Will Win Likely: Carey Mulligan for Promising Young Woman
Who May Be Alternate: Viola Davis for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
5 April 2021
Who Will Win Likely: Carey Mulligan for Promising Young Woman
Who May Be Alternate: Frances McDormand for Nomadland
28 March 2021
Who Will Win Likely: Carey Mulligan for Promising Young Woman
Who May Be Alternate: Andra Day for The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Who Should Win: Carey Mulligan for Promising Young Woman
Who Got Snubbed: Amy Adams for Hillbilly Elegy, Rosamund Pike for I Care a Lot
Personal Favorite: Carey Mulligan for Promising Young Woman
Who Wins? Frances McDormand for Nomadland
佢呢套戲俾觀眾睇到個樣同佢真人個樣爭好遠，佢呢個樣真係好似d專業既演員咁，佢唔算好出名，不過在荷里活黑人演藝界算係有少少影響力，因為大家都會為黑人演員爭取應有既待遇，而佢都算係專業演員，所以都算係舉足輕重。呢個角色飾演Benjamin Button既養母，當然佢戲份都唔少嫁，起碼會在佢個角色度睇到，甚至感受到偉大既母愛，對於佢演技既評價有幫助。
對於一個只係演左十年戲既人來說，每一個提名都非常珍貴，佢可以算係唔好彩，因為大眾認為在2008年有剛好五位女配角比她出色，但係都無損佢在地影評協會拎獎。因為呢部戲，佢越來越受重視，佢做Kym既姐姐，一個將會結婚既幸福女人，一方面惦念自己既妹妹，另一方面又要容忍妹妹既野蠻和固執，佢精湛既演技，證明俾其他導演睇自己係識做戲既。
佢一向都被觀眾認為佢有演戲天分，在《Sense and Sensibility》之後，不斷繼續挑戰Academy Awards，憑著好多優質既演出，終於俾佢在2008年拎到影后，一洗頹氣。佢就係憑呢部戲拎影后，但係我睇完套戲，我覺得佢只係屬於女配角之列，不過佢可以話係五位較為稍稍領先既一個，唔係因為佢肯露全相，而係佢演內心戲既效果實在好好，即使與新晉演員合演、做對手戲，都難唔到佢，所以勝算高少少。
我在睇呢齡戲之前，冇睇過佢演其他戲，所以我對佢既印象都唔差，我覺得佢有一樣野好神奇，佢已經過左三十幾歲，但係我以為佢仲係廿歲出頭既青春少艾，佢星途唔錯，唔係有發揮既就係商業片，我相信佢既吸金能力都有番咁上下。佢在呢部戲既角色做一個修女，一個品性善良，但又不甘被學生欺負既修女，佢既堅決眼神、肯定表情同埋言談，真係同想像中既角色如出一轍。
佢真係有唔錯既實力，因為佢只係短短出左鏡十二分鐘，就可以足夠提名最佳女配角，我都覺得佢做得唔錯，咁都證明左即使戲份唔多，但係只要show到自己既演技，都唔會被觀眾忽略。佢都係靠呢套戲打開知名度，同時佢又係黑人演員，當然會有少少與別不同，佢呢個母親角色都算冇搵錯人來演。
幾經艱辛，終於睇完呢齣《Doubt》，其實呢部戲曾經俾我覺得好悶，所以冇乜抽時間睇，點知原來好既演員做套感覺上好悶既戲都會十分好睇，雖然劇情係時光倒流式，任何角色都唔係話太突出，不過就因為個劇本係講一d平時少拍既topic，眾演員只要做出感情戲便已經恰到好處，冇需要靠其他特別修飾，所以呢套戲係舊年Academy Awards入面囊括最多演技獎提名。
各個演出既單位，無論係荷里活有名巨星，抑或係一d綠葉既，整體湊合起來好夠feel，完全冇話邊個搶戲。Philip Seymour Hoffman所飾演既仁慈牧師，內心戲交得超正，即使自己被懷疑而被定罪，都做到自己好似奸咁，唯一煩惱既係佢主配分得唔清楚，唔知俾佢入男主角定男配角好。Meryl Streep既多疑修女角色，在去年為她贏得多個影評學會及演員工會既女主角獎，演技無庸置疑，佢既表情同性格都幾配合個角色。
仲有其他好既角色，都不能盡錄，不過不得不提既係Viola Davis既演技，即使只係出鏡好少時間，佢仍然好專業地做好本份，適當發揮自己，因而為佢拿下演技生涯下第一個Academy既Nomination(最佳女配角)，我諗佢應該係在Penélope Cruz之後。值得一提既係，d小朋友既演出都幾好，唔知佢地大個左之後會唔會在呢行搵食呢？