Golden Globe: Best Supporting Actress - Amy Adams

Amy Adams

Age:

34

Role:

Sister James in Doubt

Character:

It’s 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn (Academy Award® winner Philip Seymour Hoffman), is trying to upend the schools’ strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Academy Award® winner Meryl Streep), the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline.

The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James (Academy Award® nominee Amy Adams), a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school.

Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequence.

Previous Golden Globe Wins:

Amy Adams has no previous Golden Globe wins

Previous Golden Globe Nominations

But one other nomination for best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for Enchanted.

Awards for Role:

For her role she has been nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role at the Screen Actors Guild Awards and was part of the Best Ensemble win at the national Board of Review.

Critics:

'Amy Adams is well-cast as the sweet-natured Sister James, whose suspicions mount at the prodding of Sister Aloysius' (USA Today)

'Hoffman and Adams are also impressive in their high-wire balance of devotion and humanity.' (The Toronto Star)

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