Blunt, Mirren Or Winslet? Who Will Win Best Actress Oscar 2015?
The biggest night in the film award circuit is still seven months away. But everyone knows the Oscars never stay silent for long and the films that look likely to be in contention for one of those coveted gold statues are starting to make their mark. Britain has a good few contenders in amongst the Best Actress pack including Emily Blunt, Kate Winslet and Helen Mirren.
Emily Blunt stars in Into the Woods, a musical fantasy adapted from the highly-acclaimed Tony-award winning Broadway musical by Steven Sondheim and James Lapine. Produced by Walt Disney Pictures, it marks Disney’s first theatrical adaptation of a Broadway musical.
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Set in an alternate world of various Grimm Tales, Blunt plays the baker’s wife, who learns she has been cursed childless by a witch and must delve deep into the woods to break the spell.
Helen Mirren plays Madame Mallory in The Hundred-Foot Journey
Helen Mirren is obviously a home-grown favourite and is in with the top-tier contenders for the 2015 Oscar list for her turn in The Hundred-Foot Journey. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name written by Richard C. Morais, Mirren plays Madame Mallory, an uptight chef in a French restaurant who struggles to adapt her cooking and her tastes to meet those of a traditional Indian family that move to her village.
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Just as Ricky Gervais so cannily suggested in the episode of Extras she starred in, Kate Winslet won her only Academy Award for Best Actress after playing Hanna Schmitz in World War II romantic drama, The Reader. And it looks like her name is in the frame once more for A Little Chaos.
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Directed by Alan Rickman, A Little Chaos is a British period drama that charts the assignment of Kate Winslet’s character, Sabine De Barra, to construct the grand gardens at the Palace of Versailles.
Of course, there are still more competitors waiting in the wings to snatch the prize including Jennifer Lawrence for her role in Serena. With two academy award wins for two nominations (Best Actress for Silver Linings Playbook and Best Supporting Actress for American Hustle), she’s not a candidate that will go away quietly.
The biggest contenders at this stage appear to be Amy Adams for Big Eyes, Jessica Chastain for The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby and Michelle Williams for Suite Francaise.
Marion Cotillard is also a big player, starring in two films full of Oscar promise, MacBeth and Two Days, One Night.
At the end of the night, film is likely to be the big winner because they’re so many impressive ones out there. But it would also be nice if in one of those winning films was an impressive British offering too._