by Nathaniel R
Manville, Janney, Blige, Metcalf, and Spencer (click to embiggen)
Just last week we held a Smackdown honoring these five women and a follow up conversation on the podcast, too. Laurie Metcalf emerged as the Smackdown winner with Lesley Manville as a close runner-up. The readers poll emerged with the same winner but a different runner-up. Like so...
TRIVIA AND COMMENT-PARTY QUESTIONS AFTER THE JUMP...
Allison Janney won the Oscar but Octavia Spencer and Mary J Blige both made history: Spencer tied Viola Davis for most Oscar nominations for a woman of color (any category) and Mary J Blige is the first person ever nominated for both acting and songwriting in a single year (Barbra Streisand won Oscars in both but in different years).
A bit more on Octavia Spencer's record. Since all three of her nominations were in Supporting, she's now tantalizingly close to the top eight women in that category.
MOST NOMINATIONS OF ALL TIME FOR THE "SUPPORTING ACTRESS" CATEGORY
* means they never won a competitive Oscar
Octavia is moving on up the Oscar Charts
01. Thelma Ritter* (6 nominations)
02. [TIE] (all with 4 nominations)
Amy Adams*
Ethel Barrymore
Lee Grant
Agnes Moorehead*
Geraldine Page (she has an uncommon half & half record with her other 4 nominations in lead)
Maggie Smith
Maureen Stapleton
Meryl Streep (one of the few all time records that doesn't belong to Meryl!)
03. [TIE] (all with 3 each)
Cate Blanchett, Glenn Close*, Glady Cooper*, Celeste Holm, Diane Ladd*, Angela Lansbury*, Frances McDormand, Anne Revere, Octavia Spencer NEW, Marisa Tomei, Claire Trevor, Kate Winslet ...
AND Dianne Wiest and Shelly Winters who are the bonafide champs of the category with two wins each from their three supporting nominations!
But back to that red carpet...
My personal vote for Best Dressed among them on Oscar night goes to Lesley Manville, sporting a classic silhouette with modern assymetry and great texture. She looked gorg' so why did we barely see any footage or photos of her. This image took a bit of searching to find! Press photos of Allison Janney (in bold red... though less daring style than she's been wearing this season) and Mary J Blige (white gowns were on trend) were super easy to come by probably because they're the most famous. Perhaps the others spent significantly less time on the red carpet?
Answer me these questions three in the comments
- Who is your best dressed?
- How much did you love Janney's "I did it all by myself" quip?
- Which of these five do you think is most likely to return as a future nominee?
P.S. UPDATED: The past eight years of Best Supporting Actress & Best Actress gowns
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