Best Actress
This is a strong year for actresses in both lead (and supporting) roles. The women in each category are enlisted alphabetically.
Frontrunners
Yalitza Aparicio (“Roma”)
Emily Blunt (“Mary Poppins Returns”)–Unseen yet
Olivia Colman (“The Favourite”)
Lady Gaga (“A Star is Born”)
Melissa McCarthy (“Can You Ever Forgive Me?”)
Analysis
If my reading is valid, this year’s category of Best Actress will consist of at least two or three fresh faces, namely actresses who have not been nominated before.
Contenders
Glenn Close (“The Wife”)
Viola Davis (“Widows”)
Claire Foy (“First Man”)
Nicole Kidman (“Destroyer”)
Kiki Layne (“If Beale Street Could Talk”)
Rosamund Pike (“A Private War”)
Saiorse Ronan (“Mary, Queen of Scots”)
Long Shots
Toni Collette (“Hereditary”)
Kathryn Hahn (“Private Life”)
Felicity Jones (“On the Basis of Sex”)
Keira Knightley (“Colette”)
Carey Mulligan (“Wildlife”)
Charlize Theron (“Tully”)
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