Best Supporting Actress. My Ballot
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 1:20PM I'm so tardy with my own awards. I generally get all the major stuff up before Oscar nominations but no such luck this year. I'll try to throw up at least one category per day now so we can finish this month. The actress categories were TORTURE this year because there were definitely more than 5 award-worthy performances per. In fact, the performances were so good this year that it's really too bad they couldn't have been spread out over the past few years when the pickings were slimmer. I'm not finished with lead actress but Supporting Actress was easier. As is the tradition, I only list 12 women as nominees, finalists, and semi-finalists. I could've gone to 20. These are the dozen best in my estimation for the Film Bitch Awards...
Amy & Melissa, Acting Heavyweights for "The Fighter"
- Amy Adams, The Fighter
- Dale Dickey, Winter's Bone
- Anne Marie Duff, Nowhere Boy
- Kirsten Dunst, All Good Things
- Kimberly Elise, For Colored Girls
- Ann Guilbert, Please Give
- Barbara Hershey, Black Swan
- Melissa Leo, The Fighter
- Rosamund Pike, Made in Dagenham
- Mia Wasikowska, The Kids Are All Right
- Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom
- Olivia Williams, The Ghost Writer
And even then I had no room for fine work from two of my favorite actresses: Dianne Wiest (Rabbit Hole) and Kristin Scott Thomas (Nowhere Boy). Apologies! Awardage is a hair-tearing teeth-gnashing business when you love too many too much and too often.
Who made your list? Do you share the love of these performances?