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  Academy Awards Best Supporting Actress
Teresa Wright (Best Actress for The Pride of the Yankees (1942) and Best Supporting Actress for Mrs.
Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo was nominated as Best Supporting Actress for her performance in House of Sand and Fog (2003).
A win for Sofia Coppola for Best Original Screenplay for Lost in Translation (2003) made her part of the second family of three-generation Oscar winners (her father is a five-time winner and her grandfather, Carmine Coppola, won for musical score on The Godfather Part II (1974)).
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 2002 Best Supporting Actor/Actress Picks
Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress races at this years Academy Awards are just loaded with talent.
Reilly was actually in 3 of the 5 nominees for Best Picture this year, and he was fabulous in the films that I have seen him in.
One of the best performances that will have you bouncing in your seat comes from her and I am ecstatic to see her be nominated.
www.ticon.net /~bugzy/2002support.html   (1055 words)

  
 Box Office Prophets: 2003 Calvin Award for Best Supporting Actress Goes to Toni Collette
Best Supporting Actress was another hotly contested battle during most of the voting.
Not everyone thought she gave the best performance of the year but we were universal in our support of her performance.
She was also in Chicago as an actress, but a straw poll indicates it's the opening sequence of the film which won her the lion's share of her votes.
www.boxofficeprophets.com /calvins/supportingactress2002.asp   (758 words)

  
 Best supporting actress showdown - More Oscar news - MSNBC.com
If you’re a best actress nominee who played a character with the physical affliction of being less attractive than you are (Charlize Theron in “Monster,” Hilary Swank in “Boys Don’t Cry”), you should consider writing an acceptance speech.
The category of best actress in a supporting role, as it is officially known, is much harder to call.
More often than any other, best supporting actress is the category that spoils your perfect Oscar pool ballot: there is, after all, a reason that Marisa Tomei’s win for “My Cousin Vinny” is still the subject of a persistent urban legend implying that elderly presenter Jack Palance read the wrong name.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6982355   (1070 words)

  
 Best Supporting Actress Oscars of the 1960's at filmsandtv.com
1967 Best Supporting Actress Parsons, Estelle for "Bonnie And Clyde"
1963 Best Supporting Actress Rutherford, Margaret for "The V.I.P.s"
Shelley Winters won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in her role of the cruel mother, Rose-Ann D'Arcy, and Hartman was nominated for Best Actress.
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 2006 Calvin Awards: Best Supporting Actress
This year, we had a runaway winner in the Best Supporting Actress, and she just happens to be a rising star who was the very best part of a small, indie film.
Williams is developing into a fine actress and her performance in Brokeback Mountain might just be the most impressive of the bunch.
We recognize Catherine Keener first for her supporting role in The 40 Year-Old Virgin, where she played Trish, the woman who the titular character finally finds the courage to ask on a date - although as their relationship develops, he doesn't quite have the guts to inform her of his "situation".
www.boxofficeprophets.com /column/index.cfm?columnID=9424   (886 words)

  
 Oscars 2003: The 75th Academy Awards | csmonitor.com
Julianne Moore in 'The Hours.' The actress is Monitor film critic David Sterritt's pick for both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress.
For best foreign-language movie, the likely winner is "Nowhere in Africa," but I'm rooting for "The Man Without a Past," a breakthrough movie by Aki Kaurismäki, Finland's greatest filmmaker.
Just as important, insiders are happy to support a picture that revives a genre - the Broadway-based musical - that's been given up for dead in recent years.
www.csmonitor.com /specials/oscars03   (1244 words)

  
 Gold Derby by Tom o'Neil - The Envelope
Michelle Williams was best in the supporting actress category as was Jake Gyllenhall.
Best Actress well that goes for Reese W for changing her mind for sleeping with married men.
In 2001 Spacek was the frontrunner in the lead actress category for her riveting performance in "In the Bedroom," until Halle Berry took away the SAG for her performance.
goldderby.latimes.com /awards_goldderby/2006/01/oscars_predict1.html   (9699 words)

  
 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the awards given to "actresses", or female actors, working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses.
Of the four acting categories, this one is known for being the most varied, and many surprise wins have occurred in the past.
Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by release year: for example, the Oscar for "Best Supporting Actress in 1999" was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Supporting_Actress   (1218 words)

  
 Academy Awards Best Actress
The Best Actress award should actually be titled "the best performance by an actress in a leading role." The same rules that govern the Best Actor category apply to the Best Actress category.
Jodie Foster was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role as a young runaway prostitute in
Colombian-born actress Catalina Sandino Moreno was nominated for Best Actress as Maria, a pregnant 17-year-old Colombian girl who agrees to be a 'drug mule' in director Joshua Marston's Maria Full of Grace.
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 Supporting Actress - AOL Music
The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting...
The Best Supporting Actress award should actually be titled "the best...
Various other actresses have won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for their debut...
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 Nick's Flick Picks: The Blog: Supporting Actress Sundays: 1936
The boys in the Best Supporting Actress band have collected for another monthly cocktail party over at StinkyLulu's pad.
Previously, supporting performances had been just as eligible as leads for the Best Actress and Best Actor races, though of course they never had a fair shake.
Easily the best of the lot is Wyler's magnificent Dodsworth, a drama about divorce, middle-aged sexuality, and rejuvenating love that still feels incredibly contemporary.
www.nicksflickpicks.com /2006/10/supporting-actress-sundays-1936.html   (821 words)

  
 Why is Jennifer Connelly a supporting actress? - By Chris Suellentrop - Slate Magazine
If an actress gets enough votes to qualify in both the supporting and leading categories, she is nominated in the category for which she got more votes.
That may be because Connelly believed she had a better shot at winning a supporting actress nomination than a best actress nod.
Classifying what are actually lead performances into the supporting categories clears the way for best actor and best actress awards to be awarded based on sentiment to people such as Julia Roberts, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, and Paul Newman.
www.slate.com /?id=2061982   (1186 words)

  
 Reel.com: Best Supporting Actress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Dame Judi Dench is a fine actress and she does her best with a trite "old dying lady" role.
Holding your own against a volatile character like Jackson Pollock would be a difficult task for any actress, but in Ed Harris' biopic of the artist, Marcia Gay Harden gives a formidable performance as the abstract painter Lee Krasner.
Against Her: McDormand already won Best Actress for Fargo, so the Academy may prefer to give the award to someone else.
www.reel.com /reel.asp?node=features/awards/oscars/2001/supactress   (562 words)

  
 Supporting Actress Nominees 2005
Again, it's rather like a coin toss here but she makes the largest impact whilst having the least screen time and I always find that admirable in the supporting category, where other award groups invariably prefer lead roles.
She can be nominated even if her role is small and sassy (Almost Famous), even if few people are familiar with her just yet (Mississippi Burning) and she can win (Fargo) even when she has a role unlike any other in the annals of Oscar history...
This year she won 5 critics awards and received BFCA and Globe nominations.
www.thefilmexperience.net /Awards/2005/suppactress.html   (980 words)

  
 Best Supporting Actress of the Year (Awards Avenue)
Best Supporting Actress of the Year (Awards Avenue)
The previous post in this blog was Best Supporting Actor of the Year.
Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives.
www.awardsavenue.com /2006/03/best_supporting_actress_of_the.html   (168 words)

  
 Road to the Oscars 2006 - Best Supporting Actress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Something interesting has been quietly happening in the Best Supporting Actress category over the past months, as it's gone from a two-woman to a three-woman race -- and now, we think, a one-woman show.
Frances McDormand is a great actress, and she melted the manipulative residue off her disease-stricken character in North Country, but we don't think she stands a chance.
Only two actresses have won more than one Best Supporting Actress Oscar: Shelley Winters (The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue) and Dianne Wiest (Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway).
imdb.com /features/rto/2006/category/best_supporting_actress   (404 words)

  
 2003 Best Supporting Actor/Actress Picks
Despite the fact that Sand and Fog is an incredibly depressing film, the acting performance of Aghdashloo shines as an emotionally strong woman in the face of a difficult situation.
The other three actresses are amazingly talented, yet only one other has a chance to win, that being Marcia Gay Harden in Mystic River.
Gay Harden’s role is that of a strong support figure who is tormented by her husband’s (the favorite to win Supporting Actor Robbins) mysterious behavior.
www.ticon.net /~bugzy/2003support.html   (634 words)

  
 Best Supporting Actress
She needs a Golden Globe to stay in the race (as the film got mixed comments from the critics).
Her costars are taking much of the film's buzz but she is well supported by some top critics.
The best way to honor the WTC tragedy would be nominating the best performance out of the two 9/11-related films this year.
www.theoscarigloo.com /SupportingActress.html   (205 words)

  
 Best Supporting Actress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Although her nude scenes were left on the cutting-room floor, the compelling role has Hollywood buzzing about Portman's emergence as a more mature, more sexually evolved actress.
And having just won the Best Supporting Actress honor at the Golden Globes, the young beauty has stacked the cards in her favor at the Oscars.
The must-see film tells the horrific real-life story of Paul Rusesabagina and his courageous efforts against the devastation of the Rwandan genocide 10 years ago.
www.tribute.ca /tribute/0205/best_supporting_actress.htm   (518 words)

  
 Entertainment Weekly - Oscar Predictions: Best Supporting Actress -- 01-30-01   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Seventeen years after receiving a Best Actress nomination for her first film, ''Educating Rita,'' JULIE WALTERS should earn a supporting nod as ''Billy Elliot's'' ballet teacher.
Two-time nominee FRANCES MCDORMAND (a Best Actress winner for ''Fargo'') is also a front-runner for her portrayal of an overprotective mom in ''Almost Famous,'' though she'll likely have to compete with costar KATE HUDSON, who won a Golden Globe for her performance.
And JUDI DENCH, who won for 1998's ''Shakespeare in Love,'' is poised to follow up with her turn as the town pariah in ''Chocolat'' (which could also have a long shot in past nominee LENA OLIN).
www.ew.com /ew/oscar2001/racebegins/bestsupactress.html   (419 words)

  
 westword.com - News - Best supporting actress
For the past several seasons, Mercedes Perez has deftly portrayed supporting parts while maintaining each role's proper place in a play's grand scheme, showing her ability to be an artful team player in a business that increasingly
She lit up the stage as Anita in the Arvada Center's exuberant production of West Side Story and was a divine presence as a thrice-appearing choric figure that replaced the stodgy role of Father Time in the Denver Center's lavish Winter's Tale.
Although she's since relocated to Aspen (where her husband is the new artistic director of Theatre-in-the-Park), Perez will, we hope, migrate periodically from the land of pointy-headed stars to play an even more supportive role in Denver's burgeoning professional scene.
www.westword.com /issues/2000-06-29/artsent137.html   (131 words)

  
 Best Supporting Actress - John's Oscar Space 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Best Supporting Actress - John's Oscar Space 2006
Pregnant Weisz wins both the Globes and SAG so she is the frontrunner.
Just being invited is enough considering that she appeared in the lackluster North Country.
www.people.cornell.edu /pages/jzs3/Oscar/sactress.htm   (110 words)

  
 CinePad Oscar Handicap -- Best Supporting Actress
Everybody in the Academy would like to be working when they're her age (nowhere near 101, by the way) -- just look at those late-in-life Oscars for Jessica Tandy and Don Ameche.
Maybe, but the person who won was Juliette Binoche, the supporting actress nominee for a best picture winner in which the lead actors were not seen as the most important or impressive aspects of the production -- just like Titanic.
Bacon factor: Computed with the invaluable assistance of the Oracle of Bacon at Virginia, the "Bacon factor" has never been shown to have statistical significance in choosing the Oscars.
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 HSX Prediction Market: Options : Judi Dench as Best Supporting Actress for Chocolat
Dench plays a feisty and lonely widow who regains her humor with the help of chocolate.
Dench gained a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Shakespeare in Love and earned a Best Actress nod for Mrs.
The mayor views chocolate as a sin and begins to see his power threatened by the success of the chocolate shop.
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 Best Supporting Actress
For me, the one big snub of the morning.
She's was campaigned "supporting" but won some "lead" awards.
Absolutely no precursor love means no Oscar nod.
www.awardspeculation.com /supportingactress2006.html   (55 words)

  
 Road to the Oscars 2006 - Best Actress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
BEST ACTOR BEST ACTRESS BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS BEST DIRECTOR BEST PICTURE
Her fantastic performance as June Carter Cash in Walk the Line has nabbed her a majority of critics' awards, as well as a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award.
Greer Garson received five back-to-back Best Actress nominations, from 1941-1945; she won for 1942's Mrs.
imdb.com /features/rto/2006/category/best_actress   (411 words)

  
 Best Supporting Actress.(Special Report: Golden Globes Preview) - TelevisionWeek - HighBeam Research
Best Supporting Actress.(Special Report: Golden Globes Preview) - TelevisionWeek - HighBeam Research
In the 2005 Golden Globes supporting actress category, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has recognized both longstanding favorites and first-time nominees.
Eight-time nominee Anjelica Huston is widely considered a frontrunner in the category for her role as suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt in the HBO film "Iron Jawed Angels,'' while newcomer Nicolette Sheridan is part of the "Desperate Housewives'' ensemble, a show that has helped revive the once-moribund ABC.
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 CNN - Best Supporting Actress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Mira Sorvino won the Oscar for best actress in a supporting role Monday for her performance in Woody Allen's "Mighty Aphrodite."
All of the nominees in the category for best actress in a supporting role were first-time Oscar nominees.
Winslet plays passion-driven Marianne Dashwood in "Sense and Sensibility," Jane Austen's story of sisters in search of love and security adapted for the screen by best actress nominee Emma Thompson.
www.cnn.com /EVENTS/1996/oscar/supp_actress/index.html   (154 words)

  
 Reel.com: Best Actress Nominees
Leaving her British accent in the dust, McTeer assiduously avoided mawkishness and sentimentality as a sexy single mother moving to California from the South.
Moore's tragic, passionate, and soulful turn as a woman who makes a shattering promise confirms her place as one of the most interesting actresses currently working.
As a music teacher trying to make a difference in East Harlem, perennial Oscar nominee Streep inspires with a performance brimming with passion and pathos.
www.reel.com /reel.asp?node=oscars2000/nominees/actress   (218 words)

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