The Best Actress competition for the upcoming Awards Season is already taking shape, with The Weinstein Company getting the campaigning off to an early start, pushing Helen Mirren for her performance in the Spring release “Woman in Gold”. Going for her 20th career Oscar nomination, fellow Hollywood royalty member Meryl Streep is receiving some buzz for her work in “Ricki and the Flash”, as is Lily Tomlin, who plays the title character in the 79-minute comedy “Grandma”, which opens this Friday in limited release. And there are a lot more female favorites on the way:
9/18 – Emily Blunt (“Sicario”)
10/2 – Julianne Moore (“Freeheld”)
10/16 – Brie Larson (“Room”), Cate Blanchett (“Truth”)
10/23 – Carey Mulligan (“Suffragette”)
10/30 – Sandra Bullock (“Our Brand Is Crisis”)
11/6 – Saorise Ronan (“Brooklyn”)
11/13 – Angelina Jolie Pitt (“By the Sea”)
11/20 – Cate Blanchett and/or Rooney Mara (“Carol”), Julia Roberts (“Secret in Their Eyes”)
11/27 – Alicia Vikander (“The Danish Girl”)
12/11 – Maggie Smith (“Lady in the Van”)
12/25 – Jennifer Lawrence (“Joy”)
Practically every woman in this lineup has either been previously nominated for or won an Academy Award. It’s a powerhouse group to say the least and will make the slots even more competitive to grab.
Lights Camera Jackson (a.k.a. Jackson Murphy) began his career as a film critic in 2006 at the age of 7. To date, Jackson has written nearly 1,000 reviews of new releases and, in total, has seen more than 1,500 films. In 2010, Jackson became the youngest person to win a NY Emmy Award, for his on-air movie reviews on Time Warner TV station, Capital News 9. And in 2011, Jackson was inducted into the Broadcast Film Critics Association as their youngest member. The BFCA’s annual Critics Choice Awards is one of the industry’s most recognized and prestigious awards shows. Jackson is also a member of SAG-AFTRA and votes annually for the Screen Actors Guild Awards.