Jessie Buckley could also land a nom for her work in Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial debut.
, who plays the same woman roughly 20 years earlier when she was raising her two daughters — for their work in the dark drama about the struggles of some women to hold on to their own identity, and sometimes even sanity, after having children.‘s 2006 novel of the same name, this unconventionally dark depiction of motherhood is surely not for everyone — indeed, it would have been the worst nightmare ofand the other moguls of Hollywood’s Golden Age, to whom mothers were almost uniformly saints.
But members of today’s Academy’s acting branch, as much as anyone, are likely to respect the highwire act performed by the pair of Brits who portray the protagonist. The character is not particularly “likable,” and her motives are not always clear . But because of the skill of the performers, one still empathizes with her and is engaged every step of the way.
For Colman, who will surely be campaigned in the lead actress category, this could mean a third Oscar nom in four years — a remarkable and rarely-equaled run. And it could mean the first nom for Buckley, who would most likely be pushed as a supporting actress.
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