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90th Oscars. Oscar Contenders of 2017 - For prediction, discussion, entertainment purposes only
AND THE NOMINEES ARE...
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Sally Hawkins Role: a mute cleaning woman who falls in love with a secret government "assett" a creature of the sea Previous wins: LAFCA |
★ Frances McDormand Role: an angry grieving mother who has issues with her town and the police force |
Margot Robbie Role: Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding, forever scandalous Previous wins: Critics Choice (comedy) |
Saoirse Ronan Role: A precocious senior who keeps falling in love and fighting with her mom while planning her escape from Sacramento |
Meryl Streep Role: Katharine Graham taking her newspaper, the Washington Post public just as a major press threatening scandal erupts Previous wins: NBR |
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IN THE READERS POLL YOU CHOSE SAOIRSE!
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| HOW'D THEY GET NOMINATED? | ||||
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| 27% Role - Oscar has always loved mute characters. 24% Performance. Sally is expressive and unique onscreen 16% Lockstep precursor nominee agreement 15% Best Picture heat 7% Octavia/Richard extending her performance with dialogue 2% Maudie |
62% Role + Performance as one. Mildred is such a marriage of how severe and funny and disruptive force McDormand can be as an atypical movie star - and Oscar worships grieving moms 22% Steamrolling pre-cursor wins 11% Best Picture heat 5% Showy AF dialogue |
31% Performance - She chewed it up 29% Baity Role: deglam + biopic + poverty porn! 20% Precursor agreement + relentless campaign + Tonya at awards shows 17% Hotness. Hollywood loves an "It" girl 5% Janney = awards- magnetism 3% Her Wolf of Wall Street scenes (still) |
30% Performance. Funny, authentic, moving 24% Precursors / campaign ~ 'Greta, Laurie, Saoirse' as package deal 12% Role 10% Best Picture heat / early rush of critics prizes 9% Her amazing co-stars 7% Saoirse's prestige. Best of her generation 2% 'I voted for you to win for Brooklyn / Atonement' |
60% She's Meryl Streep 15% Performance. How about that phone call scene ?!? Wow. 12% Role: biopraphical + feminist role model 10% Lockstep precursor nominee agreement 2% First prize of season early boost (NBR) 1% Gold caftan come through! |
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TRIVIA FUN Saoirse is the 20th youngest ever nominee in this category. Meryl Streep scores her 21st nomination but her first with a Best Picture nomination alongside it since 1985's Out of Africa. That's a long stretch! Her last film which was Best Picture nominated (though Meryl wasn't) was The Hours. |
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WHO WAS LEFT OUT? OTher women who had minor buzz this year were Judi Dench (Victoria and Abdul, SAG nominee), Diane Kruger (In the Fade, Cannes win), Daniela Vega (A Fantastic Woman). And there was a minor bit of "breakthrough / someone to watch" fuss over Florence Pugh (Lady Macbeth) |
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| WHO WILL WIN? Frances McDormand has the heat right now fresh off numerous precursor wins but she does already have an Oscar. Is there room then for Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, or Sally Hawkins to challenge her? |
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