The final season of the Supporting Actress Smackdown approaches this summer. With the schedule announcement arriving this month, I wanted to do a larger buildup for the last-ever season, getting a wider sample of potential supporting actress contenders from the selected years before the ceremony starts in earnest. And here we are, with me slightly…
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1986 Supporting Actress Smackdown
Friends, I have had an absolutely wonderful time touring through 1986. The films nominated for Supporting Actress? Almost uniformly great, with one glaring exception that’s fully balanced out by the sheer perfection of the lineup’s best entry. The other films I’ve watched this month? Pretty fucking great, with outstanding work across a fantastically wide sample…
1998 Supporting Actress Smackdown
Generally speaking, it’d be hard to bounce off of the 1946 Supporting Actress lineup and not land with a better vintage. 1998’s group benefited from choosing five movies with a pretty significant range in tone and genre. Good or bad, the variety alone automatically makes it harder for a uniform experience. The fact that Primary…
1946 Supporting Actress Smackdown
I, for one, have had a very nice time getting to write more companion pieces for the Supporting Actress Smackdown. And I’ve greatly enjoyed reading what this month’s panelists had to say about the five nominated actresses, all hailing from fairly dubious projects. Still, I thought it’d be fun to throw in my own opinions…
Supporting Actress Smackdown 2020 Companion Masterpost
Well, we made it. This season of the Supporting Actress Smackdown at The Film Experience is over. I’m ending this extended run with twenty-six articles under my belt, which, holy shit, that’s half a year’s worth of supporting actressing. I am, to say the least, very proud of what I wrote, both because this was…
1947 Supporting Actress Smackdown
The Nominees Ethel Barrymore, The Paradine Case – Yes, it’s weird Barrymore is the only nominee of this very amazing film. Hitchcock’s visual ideas are probably as much to do with her impact as her own acting choices, and I wish she had a scene with Ann Todd at some point during the trial given…
1981 Supporting Actress Smackdown
I’ve always loved playing alongside the Smackdown. I’m incredibly excited for the busy schedule that’s been announced for this summer, shooting for six films of the next few months. I’m even happier that Film Experience helmer Nathaniel Rogers has allowed me to write a weekly companion piece for every year of the month, focusing on…
1960 Supporting Actress Smackdown
Hi! Unlike last month, where I ended up being a little bit early in posting my thoughts on the 2001 Supporting Actress race, now I’m a little bit behind on the party! Blame my ongoing plans to move to Chicago, where the fiancé and I had to leave our current apartment and stay with friends…
2001 Supporting Actress Smackdown
Hi all! How’ve you been? Due to not having a job for the first two thirds of May, I managed to watch a lot more films than usual for this month’s (last month’s?) Supporting Actress Smackdown. The 2001 vintage features a quintet of performances I mostly like but can’t help feeling a little unimaginatively selected…
Supporting Actress Smackdown 2018
Amy Adams, Vice: Hard to love, since I didn’t buy her first big scene and cuz McKay never gives her a scene that big ever after. One wonders why no one went full Nixon and let Lynne be just as scheming and stiffed as her husband. Still, she’s compelling with Bale, interesting to watch, and…
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