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The best supporting actress is perhaps the most unpredictable and therefore exciting! — races in four acting categories at this year’s Oscars. Each of the other three has at least two or three contenders that appear to be locks. But later Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon) went from lead to lead, it doesn’t really feel like there’s a lock in the Best Supporting Actress category.
Da’Vine Joy Randolph (“The Leftovers”) is currently number one on our Oscar odds chart for that category, while Emily Blunt (“Oppenheimer”) Daniel Brooks (“The color purple”), Taraji P. Henson (“The color purple”) and Julianne Moore (“May December”) are right behind it. But Randolph doesn’t feel like a win-win at all, at least not in the sense that Gladstone was in that category. Instead, it feels like it’s as easy to ignore as it is to win in this category. Here’s why you should consider another actress as your new favorite supporting actress: Julianne Moore.
Moore collaborates again with Todd Haynes in the director’s new film “May December”. This Netflix game is set to release on November 17th. Stars of melodrama Natalie Portman as Elizabeth, an actress who visits the couple (Gracie and Moore’s performance). Charles Melton‘s Joe) to conduct research for a film based on the couple’s scandalous past. The scandal is that the couple got together when Joe was 13 and Gracie… was in her 30s. So in this movie, Moore gets a hell of a lot of scenery to chew on, and she’s equally adept at delivering dry insults as well as in full-fledged breakdowns over cakes. This is, of course, a dramatic performance, but at the same time full of intelligence and interesting solutions. So here are five reasons why you should pick Moore to win the Best Supporting Actress award.
1. She delivers a critically acclaimed performance.
David Ehrlich (Indie Wire) opined: “Moore is predictably sensational, her soft-tough performance balancing Gracie on a knife’s edge between childlike fragility and matriarchal savagery.” Teresa Lacson (Collider) noted: “When two powerhouses like Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore play against each other, it’s hard to find any faults in the performances. Moore is delightfully dramatic as Gracie, both naive and cunning. Her immediate dislike of Elizabeth is fair, and she has had experience with people who have tried to overthrow her over the years, but it is difficult to sympathize with her knowing her crimes.” AND Ali Benzekri (Awards Watch) noted: “Julianne Moore continues to prove that she is our most fearless actress today by the way she never hesitates to take on the toughest paths. As for any other actress, the current climate could be a deciding factor in accepting such a role, and while there are no scenes showing the events leading up to the public outrage, every interaction between the pair is transparent enough to take us back in time. when all this happened, especially when old wounds of insecurity were opened. Moore is impressive as she goes from hilarious moments to ear-splitting breakdowns.”
2. She’s a Hollywood veteran.
Younger actresses tend to do better in the Best Actress category. However, in this support category, it’s Hollywood veterans who get most of the love. Angela Bassett was nominated earlier this year for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Jamie Lee Curtis (“Everything everywhere and at once”) won. Judi Dench was nominated the year before for Belfast. In 2021 Glenn Close was nominated for a Hillbilly Elegy Award, and Young Yu-Jung won for “Minari”. And in 2020 Laura Dern won for “Marriage Story” and Kathy Bates was nominated for the Richard Jewell Award. Moore would be a good fit here.
3. She shines in a powerful role.
Veterans excel in this category and also put on colorful performances. Supporting actor and supporting actress are often filled with big, bold and powerful performances, and Moore is just that. Stephanie Xu and Curtis were both nominated for Everywhere at Once earlier this year (Curtis won), Close (Hillbilly Elegy) and Maria Bakalova (“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”) were nominated in 2021, and Scarlett Johansson (“Jojo Rabbit”) and winner Dern (“Marriage Story”) were nominated in 2020. It also helps that there’s a dark edge to Moore’s character – she’s definitely at least partly the villain in this play. Villainy also did well in the Best Supporting Actress category—Xu’s role in All At Once was villainous in at least one part of the film; both Rachel Weisz And Emma Stone their 2019-nominated roles in The Favorite had dark elements; And Allison Janney played a colorful character who borders on the bad guy when she won in 2018 for I, Tonya. What many of these performances have in common with each other is that they have “Oscar moments.” Xu gives a tearful speech at the very end of Everything Everywhere at Once, Dern gives a monologue about fatherhood in Marriage Story. Bassett gives a tearful speech about how much she lost in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. These are the moments that are played in clips at awards ceremonies, and it’s important to have these scenes for voters to capture. This stores the representation in their memory. Moore has such moments in her dueling scenes with Portman, as well as her hysterical breakdowns with Melton, with whom she has one effective confrontation scene.
4. She has a rich Oscar history.
This will be her sixth Oscar nomination. She was previously nominated for Best Supporting Actress in 1998 for Boogie Nights and in 2003 for The Hours. She was also nominated for Best Actress in 2000 for “The End of the Affair”, in 2003 for “Far from Heaven” and in 2015 for “Still Alice”. She won for Still Alice. So we know the academy likes her. This helps a lot. When a category like this is so up in the air and voters may not know who to vote for, it helps to have a familiar face and a good awards history. Moore will be easier to vote for than a lesser-known actress. She is a simple and obvious choice.
5. She reunites with Todd Haynes.
Haynes has proven he can direct actors in Oscar-nominated performances. He directed Moore to a Best Actress nomination in 2003 for Far From Heaven. Five years later Cate Blanchett was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in 2008 for Haynes’ I’m Not There. Blanchett was then nominated for Best Actress for Carol in 2016. Rooney Mara She also received an Oscar bid for Best Supporting Actress for Carol. It shows that Haynes has a proven track record of getting Oscar nominations for his actors, while Carol showed that he can create stellar performances and supporting performances from his actresses. He could do it again here with May December and Moore could benefit from it.
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