Best Supporting Actress:
Amy Adams - "The Fighter"
Melissa Leo - "The Fighter"
Jackie "Animal Kingdom"
Hailee Stanfield "True Grit"
Helena Bonham-Carter "The King's Speech"
Likely Winner: With two lots in the draw, so to speak, The Fighter would seem a lock but, as Anna Paquin(The Piano) and Keisha Castle Hughes can attest, the Academy has a soft spot for teens and tweens in dramatic roles. Nonetheless Melissa Leo remains the front-runner with True Grit's Hailee Steinfeld a dark horse.
Best Supporting Actress nominee Jackie Weaver in a scene from "Animal Kingdom"
My Pick: The DVD for "Animal Kingdom" should now be available. Get it. You'll not likely see a performance as complete and as engrossing as Jackie Weaver as the sly, manipulative matriarch of a suburban crime outfit in Australia. In a perfect world, there'd be no discussion.
Bets Supporting Actor
Geoffrey Rush "The King's Speech"
Mark Ruffalo "The Kids Are All Right"
Christian Bale "The Fighter"
Jeremy Renner "The Town"
John Hawkes "Winter's Bone"
Likely winner: Though there's a lot of buzz surrounding Christina Bale, this is in fact the most open of the "personnel" categories (recognizing individual rather than team accomplishments). Winter's Bone was hardly seen, but both its nominees (Hawkes here for supporting actor, and Jennifer Lawrence for lead actress) gave noteworthy turns
My Pick: For my money, Jeremy Renner was absolutely magnetic as the "hothead" among a group of career bank robbers in Ben Affleck's "The Town" and notwithstanding Colin Firth's command performance, Geoffrey Rush was superlative in The King's Speech".
Next week: Best Actress and Actor
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