AwardsWatch - best actress

Did SAG just create the most open Best Actress race in years?

Erik Anderson April 5, 2021

Last night, the Screen Actors Guild threw an exciting wrench into the Best Actress race in the best way possible. Viola Davis won Outstanding Performance... Read More

jorge-molina-just-to-be-nominated-interview

Interview: Jorge Molina, creator of your newest podcast obsession – ‘Just To Be Nominated’

Erik Anderson March 22, 2021

If you’re here on AwardsWatch then it’s probably safe to say that you’re obsessed with the Oscars and have been for a very long time... Read More

andra-day-vanessa-kirby-2021-oscar-best-actress

2021 Oscars: How Andra Day (‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’) or Vanessa Kirby (‘Pieces of a Woman’) could be the 13th Best Actress winner to be the lone nominee from her film

Andrew Carden March 18, 2021

Over the course of Oscar history, 12 leading ladies have scored the Best Actress trophy as the only nomination from their film. This year, not... Read More

FINAL 2021 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST ACTRESS

Erik Anderson March 11, 2021

What’s usually one of the most competitive and difficult categories to predict, Best Actress feels…closed up? Am I crazy or is it locked with Carey... Read More

HILLBILLY ELEGY: Amy Adams ("Bev"). Photo Cr. Lacey Terrell/NETFLIX © 2020

2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTRESS (February)

Erik Anderson February 18, 2021

The Best Actress race is getting decidedly more competitive, with Carey Mulligan continuing to scoop up critics’ wins as her film, Promising Young Woman, is... Read More

Best Actress JULIA ROBERTS at the 73rd Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles. 25MAR2001. Paul Smith/Featureflash

Julia Roberts: When ‘America’s Sweetheart’ wins an Oscar

Retrospective

Julia Roberts: When ‘America’s Sweetheart’ wins an Oscar

Myles McHale February 17, 2021

When Julia Roberts won the Oscar, we all won the Oscar. It’s hard to find a metaphor that works properly, so let me go full... Read More

oscars-glenn-close-amy-adams-vanessa-kirby-ellen-burstyn

2021 Oscars: Glenn Close & Amy Adams (‘Hillbilly Elegy’) and Ellen Burstyn & Vanessa Kirby (‘Pieces of a Woman’) could be latest Oscar-nominated mother-daughter duos

Andrew Carden February 10, 2021

n 1987, Olympia Dukakis and Cher (Moonstruck) made history as the first actresses to score Oscar wins for portraying a mother and daughter in the... Read More

2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTRESS (January)

Erik Anderson January 28, 2021

Are we giving Nicole Beharie (Miss Juneteenth) a fair shake in Best Actress? She’s a Gotham winner, upsetting Frances McDormand. She’s a Spirit Award nominee... Read More

1579041188_foc_nrs_unit-0190521_sidney-flanigan

2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTRESS (December)

Erik Anderson December 24, 2020

The toughest race of the season just got much tougher. Although I’m starting to feel Viola Davis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) is a softer frontrunner... Read More