Surprisingly, Tilda Swinton is the biggest nominee so far, with six nominations, and two wins, which should cement her Oscar chances for the challenging We Need to Talk About Kevin. She's followed closely by Michelle Williams in more traditional Oscar-fodder as Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn.
Not the de facto front runner one might expect, Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady is tied with Viola Davis in The Help and Elizabeth Olsen in Martha Marcy May Marlene with four nominations. Glenn Close took long to join the race with Albert Nobbs, but hit the important three with nominations from the Golden Satellites, Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild. She is tied with Charlize Theron in Young Adult, although Theron missed out on the somewhat important Screen Actors Guild nomination.
Indie darlings Felicity Jones in Like Crazy, Kirsten Dunst in Melancholia & Olivia Colman in Tyrannosaur round out the multiple nominees, with Jones winning both her bids. Rooney Mara picks up only a single Golden Globe nomination for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but her film was released late, so it could be the start of more to come.
The critics have Michelle Williams far in the lead with eleven nominations and seven wins, followed closely by Meryl Streep with ten nominations, but only three wins. They also threw their weight behind Viola Davis, with eight nominations, as well as Elizabeth Olsen & Tilda Swinton, with seven each.
Kirsten Dunst's three and Charlize Theron's two nominations edge out Glenn Close, who shares her single nomination status with Saoirse Ronan for Hanna, Felicity Jones for Like Crazy, Brit Marling for Another Earth, Anna Paquin for Margaret & Adepero Oduye for Pariah.
Rooney Mara & Yun Jung-Hee in Poetry lead the single nominees by winning their respective Critics nominations, leaving Glen Close in their wake, at least from the Critics' perspective.
a minor point. The SAG nominations are *very* important but absolutely no one thinks about the Golden Satellites beyond awards-obssessives on the internet (i.e. not hollywood ;) -- non televised / non prestigious awards aren't really important gets so that one won't help Glenn Close at all.
ReplyDeletewhat she needs to count on is that the dream project narrative takes and her friends and allies vote for her.
True, and the Satellite nominations are quite random anyway (especially the supporting categories), IMO, although they sometimes highlight some very worthy, but otherwise totally overlooked performances (especially in Best Actress, for some reason).
ReplyDeleteI agree - Close's campaign was running dry until the SAG & Globe noms, BUT the SAG nom does indicate that her peers support her & the Globe noms should put her movie a bit more in the public eye.
All in all, she's not a lock, but still in there. Currently, Rooney Mara feels like she has more buzz than Close. But maybe that's wishful thinking