Fri. Mar 29th, 2024

4 thoughts on “2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST ACTRESS (June)

  1. Racist list much? Lupita has been a front runner with every other Oscar prediction… Except this one. In fact, all of your top contenders are more white than a marshmallow Factory. You managed to get one Asian in there, which is at least a breath of fresh air, but I would like to think with compelling performances from Alfre Woodard and Lupita Nyong’o, those two would at least make the top 10.

    1. Let’s get one thing out of the way: if you ever call me or anything I write on my site racist again it will be deleted and you will be banned from commenting. Period. It shows you either have never read anything I’ve written or championed on my site over the last six years or are choosing to ignore it. Moving forward, Nyong’o was on my initial Best Actress top 10 in April but I don’t believe she will have the lasting power to make it the rest of the year. She’s on lists because it’s a great performance and people who make them only have only seen a handful of contenders. I don’t only predict things I’ve seen. If she lands on lots of critics lists then she’ll absolutely be back in the conversation. For Alfre Woodard, whom I mention in the write-up, her film recently got slated for a December 27th release and in a condensed awards season, where Oscar nomination voting begins January 2nd, this makes it very difficult for her to gain traction unless Neon gets the film at every fall festival and she lands other nominations. You missed Jodie Turner-Smith for Queen & Slim in my top 10, btw. So, if you would like to continue commenting here please do so in a way that is constructive and not accusatory.

  2. The inclusion of Kristen Stewart is confusing. They held a test screening and it was not good. AAE was slow and boring, with an abrupt ending that left the audience confused. They did some editing and had a second screening and the results were not drastically different. You don’t get a best actress nom out of a movie like that, especially not with the competition this year.

    So I’d really like to know the basis for her inclusion in this list. Unless you were at one of the screenings and think it was better than the test audience did, I don’t understand why a film you haven’t seen would lead you to believe she has any chance at all, given she has no record of Oscar noms or even a Golden Globe nomination. I often see her name on lists like this for films that end up with no nominations and wonder why?

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