Sneak Peak: Best Actress - page 2

18-11-2008This Month 18th Nov 11:34

Based on the actual incident that rocked California's legal system Jolie stars as Christine Collins who's son vanishes in 1928. Months later a nine year old boy is returned to her.

Dazed by the swirl of cops, reporters and her conflicted emotions, Christine allows him to stay overnight. But in her heart, she knows he is not Walter. Slandered as delusional and unfit, Christine finds an ally in activist Reverend Briegleb (Malkovich), who helps her fight the city to look for her missing boy.

The filmed was screened at Cannes in May to critical acclaim and many expect Angelina Jolie to be a very strong contender come February after she was overlooked for her role as Marianne Pearl in A Mighty Heart.

There's a double chance for Kate Winslet, who already has five Oscar nominations under her belt but failed to take home an award, as she reunites with Leonardo DiCaprio in Revolutionary Road as well as starring in The Reader.

Based on the award winning novel The Reader is a story of love and secrets in post war Germany. When he falls ill on his way home from school, 15 year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna (Kate Winslet), a woman twice his age.

The two begin an unexpected and passionate affair only for Hanna to suddenly and inexplicably disappear. Eight years later, Michael, now a young law student observing Nazi war trials, meets his former lover again, under very different circumstances.

Directed by her real-life husband Revolutionary Road is set in 1955 and focuses on the hopes and aspirations of Frank and April Wheeler, self-assured Connecticut suburbanites who see themselves as very different from their neighbours in the Revolutionary Hill Estates.

April is an aspiring actress who yearns to move to Paris, while Frank copes with toiling away at a corporate job he despises by drinking too heavily and engaging in an affair with a co-worker. The couple's marriage slowly dissolves into an endless cycle of bitter arguments and jealous recriminations.

With fourteen Oscar nominations in her illustrious career no one can count out Meryl Streep who, after a summer of Mamma Mia, is back with her new movie Doubt.

She stars as Sister Aloysius Beauvier, a nun who confronts a priest after suspecting him of sexually abusing a new black student, charges that he denies.

But with Meryl Streep and Angelina Jolie both having won Oscars in the past, yes I know Angelina's was for best Supporting Actress, surely the Academy cannot overlook Kate Winslet again?

FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw