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.
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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."
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