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Big Magilla wrote:With Bening, Dench, Hawkins, McDormand and Ronan already in Oscar's sights and Winslet breathing down their necks, is this the year voters will finally have had enough with reserving a spot for Meryl Streep?

I guess Bening isn't happening. So you have the other four plus Streep

With Bening, Dench, Hawkins, McDormand and Ronan already in Oscar's sights and Winslet breathing down their necks, is this the year voters will finally have had enough with reserving a spot for Meryl Streep?

So, the story is, a few days ago, this Screen Daily review was accidentally posted early, then hastily withdrawn:

https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/thr ... 35.article

Someone at Awards Watch caught and posted it prior to the deletion. Its mixed/leaning negative tone persuaded all the fair-weather fans there to drop the film like a rock. Frances who?

But it turns out that reaction was hopelessly unrepresentative. This is getting mostly very enthusiastic response, especially for McDormand and long-long-overdue Sam Rockwell.

For example:

https://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/fil ... 26201.html

Add in Variety:

http://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/re ... 202546444/

Sabin is right, that best actress looks off-the-charts competitive (especially assuming the Winslet buzz is legit), but the reactions to Harrelson and Rockwell here, combined with those for Shannon/Jenkins in The Shape of Water, suggest supporting actor will be lively, as well.

Best Actress looks to be competitive this year.

A good one from THR:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review ... 17-1034931