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 Best Supporting Actress |
Ty Burr says ...
Penélope Cruz’s fierce, funny performance is a personal triumph, and voters do love giving this award to Woody Allen actresses. Marisa Tomei’s stripper is the most heartbreakingly nuanced performance in the movie, while Rosemarie DeWitt was criminally overlooked as the exhausted “normal” sister of “Rachel.”
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Will win
Penélope Cruz,
Vicky Cristina Barcelona -
Should win
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
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Shouldn't be here
Amy Adams, Doubt -
Was robbed
Rosemarie DeWitt,
Rachel Getting Married
Wesley Morris says ...
I could have gone with Marisa Tomei for her shrewd body language, Viola Davis for her gravity while facing down Meryl Streep’s impersonation of the Joker, Taraji P. Henson for her enlivened sidestepping of an archetype, or even Amy Adams for her latest variation on vestal purity. But I picked Penélope Cruz not because she did anything new (she squawked and bleated in “Blow,” too) but because her performance gave drama and soul to an increasingly shallow comedy.
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Will win
Penélope Cruz,
Vicky Cristina Barcelona -
Should win
Penélope Cruz,
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
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Shouldn't be here
Amy Adams, Doubt -
Was robbed
Hiam Abbass, The Visitor
Amy Adams
Doubt
Penélope Cruz
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis
Doubt
Taraji P. Henson
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei
The Wrestler
