Oscars' lead actress nominees: two vets, two rookies and a dark horse
2/03/2010 01:57:00 PM
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Sidibe and Mulligan are in the race with Streep, Mirren -- and dark horse Bullock.
In what's certain to be one of this year's most closely watched and vigorously debated Oscar battles, the lead actress category is shaping up as a fight between gossamer youth and hard-won Hollywood experience.
Representing the establishment: Meryl Streep and Helen Mirren. "Julie & Julia's" Streep -- who portrays celeb chef Julia Child in the film -- is a 16-time Academy Award nominee (with two wins to her credit). And Mirren, the 64-year old costar of the Tolstoy biopic "The Last Station," is no less than a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire who claimed a lead actress Oscar for portraying her country's monarch in 2006's "The Queen."
Then there are newcomers: Carey Mulligan and Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe. Mulligan, 24, is a British ingénue most American audiences couldn't have picked out of a police lineup before she appeared as a '60s-era schoolgirl swept off her feet by a dashing older man in "An Education" last year. And portraying an illiterate Harlem teenager with two children sired by her own father, Sidibe, 26, became the unlikely breakout star of "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," landing an Oscar nod for her debut acting role.
"I don't come from a place of film," Sidibe said Tuesday. "I never paid attention to what kind of roles get nominated for Oscars. I don't have another experience to judge it from."
Of her maiden film experience, the actress exclaimed: "I was just trying to get through the day!"
Then there's the outlier: the dark horse who now stands a solid chance at late-inning Oscar redemption after racking up Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award wins. That is first-time Academy Award nominee Sandra Bullock, long one of the A-list's most populist actresses. She plays an iron-willed evangelical Christian mom who takes an African American football player into her family in the surprise box-office smash "The Blind Side."
On Tuesday morning, Bullock was delighted to be on the Oscar ballot but denied ever having harbored award season ambitions. "If you look at my choices, I would have made drastically different choices [in my career], if that's what I was going for," she said. "I never aspired to this path."
For her part, Mulligan registered her nomination Tuesday with unmitigated shock -- as well as some awe at being classed with Streep and Mirren.
"It feels like there should be separate categories for those people and they should get a double Oscar or something," Mulligan gushed. "It's so mad, because they're light-years away -- honestly, they're people I've looked up to forever and ever, true idols of mine. I go bright red in the face and mumble every time I see them."
In what's certain to be one of this year's most closely watched and vigorously debated Oscar battles, the lead actress category is shaping up as a fight between gossamer youth and hard-won Hollywood experience.
Representing the establishment: Meryl Streep and Helen Mirren. "Julie & Julia's" Streep -- who portrays celeb chef Julia Child in the film -- is a 16-time Academy Award nominee (with two wins to her credit). And Mirren, the 64-year old costar of the Tolstoy biopic "The Last Station," is no less than a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire who claimed a lead actress Oscar for portraying her country's monarch in 2006's "The Queen."
Then there are newcomers: Carey Mulligan and Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe. Mulligan, 24, is a British ingénue most American audiences couldn't have picked out of a police lineup before she appeared as a '60s-era schoolgirl swept off her feet by a dashing older man in "An Education" last year. And portraying an illiterate Harlem teenager with two children sired by her own father, Sidibe, 26, became the unlikely breakout star of "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," landing an Oscar nod for her debut acting role.
"I don't come from a place of film," Sidibe said Tuesday. "I never paid attention to what kind of roles get nominated for Oscars. I don't have another experience to judge it from."
Of her maiden film experience, the actress exclaimed: "I was just trying to get through the day!"
Then there's the outlier: the dark horse who now stands a solid chance at late-inning Oscar redemption after racking up Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award wins. That is first-time Academy Award nominee Sandra Bullock, long one of the A-list's most populist actresses. She plays an iron-willed evangelical Christian mom who takes an African American football player into her family in the surprise box-office smash "The Blind Side."
On Tuesday morning, Bullock was delighted to be on the Oscar ballot but denied ever having harbored award season ambitions. "If you look at my choices, I would have made drastically different choices [in my career], if that's what I was going for," she said. "I never aspired to this path."
For her part, Mulligan registered her nomination Tuesday with unmitigated shock -- as well as some awe at being classed with Streep and Mirren.
"It feels like there should be separate categories for those people and they should get a double Oscar or something," Mulligan gushed. "It's so mad, because they're light-years away -- honestly, they're people I've looked up to forever and ever, true idols of mine. I go bright red in the face and mumble every time I see them."
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