What a year of female performing, oh my. If in the already analyzed category of best supporting actress we found five exemplary works, here enthusiasm and admiration are repeated in the same dimensions. Or more. The 2023 Oscar for Best Actress seems like a thing for two giants, yes, but it turns out It is a real pleasure to recover this set of capitalized interpretations to underline the very high level of this edition.
Oscars 2023: Analysis of the best actress
1 Cate Blanchett – ‘Tár’
Big words. If ‘Tár’ works powerfully and unwaveringly, it’s thanks, in large part, to Cate Blanchett’s titanic performance., one of the best actresses of the last decades, if not the best. Carrying almost the full weight of a story full of complexity, ecstasy, terror, sensuality, density, intrigue and deep pain, the Australian interpreter offers one of those performances that overwhelms you without any possibility of reply. A job with which she ruthlessly swept the entire award race … until the final stretch came and the SAG surrendered at the feet of Michelle Yeoh, thus presenting a “rival” of real weight. We’ll see who ends up with the statuette at home, emotion until the end, but one thing is certain: Blanchett’s thing in ‘Tár’ will go down in history.
Cate Blanchett of eCartelera
2 Michelle Yeoh – ‘All at once everywhere’
Well, at the last moment an immense rival for Cate Blanchett appeared on her way to the Oscar for best actress. Her name is Michelle Yeoh, she has spent her whole life demonstrating her enormous talent in different genres, and she has more than serious options to get the statuette thanks to her unforgettable lead role for the no less excellent “All at once everywhere” . Let’s say, Throughout the magnificent proposal of Los Daniels, Yeoh faces a thousand challenges, characters, registers and nuances, resulting as hypnotic as convincing in each of them.. A memorable recital which, if finally awarded an Oscar, would accept no debate.
Michelle Yeoh of eCartelera
3 Michelle Williams – ‘The Fabelmans’
Let’s start with the evidence: Michelle Williams should be in the Best Supporting Actress category for ‘The Fabelmans’. Having said that, let’s go for another certainty: Michelle Williams more than deserved to be nominated for an Oscar for her interpretation in Steven Spielberg’s dazzling film. Starring some of the best scenes in a film filled with moments of wonder, Williams is a mesmerizing presence you can’t take your eyes off when she’s on screen, as mysterious as she is radiant. She is one of those candy colored characters that only great actresses know how to enhance. And here we have an example of that.
Michelle Williams in eCartelera
4 Andrea Riseborough – ‘To Leslie’
Beyond the noisy controversies that have surrounded her nomination, none related to the value of her work, Andrea Riseborough’s presence in the quintet that is vying for the Best Actress Oscar makes all of its sense watching ‘To Leslie.’ An indie drama of addictions and irreparable losses that we’ve seen a thousand times before, yes, but few with such an impressive lead performance. From the opening bars to a truly devastating final stretch, Riseborough delivers work that takes the film to another level, that enhances and magnifies it, that humanizes and completes it, that holds it together and transforms it into a memorable experience . A capital interpretation whose nomination enters the field of (poetic) justice.
Andrea Riseborough of eCartelera
5 Ana de Armas – ‘Blonde’
Even those who deeply hated ‘Blonde’, and there were not a few, enthusiastically applauded Ana de Armas’ interpretation. And it’s the most normal thing in the world. More than a performance, what the Cuban-Spanish actress offers here is an authentic tour de force where the flesh, the scream, the tear and the brightest light come together to build a small great miracle. The camera never leaves her for almost 170 minutes of extreme, risky, challenging and moving cinema that rests on the shoulders of an overwhelming talent. In this case, as well as an award in itself, the nomination is a well-deserved recognition of an actress who continues to grow step by step.
Ana de Armas at eCartelera
The inexhaustible and imposing greatness of Cate Blanchett. Michelle Yeoh’s recital in every way. The incalculable dedication of Ana de Armas. The contagious passion of Michelle Williams. The Infinite Tear by Andrea Riseborough. Definitely, ‘Tár’, ‘All at once everywhere’, ‘Blonde’, ‘Los Fabelman’ and ‘To Leslie’ they wouldn’t be the same, not to mention practically nothing, without them.
Given these fabulous interpretations, bar none, there is no other choice, fortunately, than to return to them to analyze the real possibilities of each one when it comes to ending up taking home the statuette. Another year in which the Best Actress category raises the bar to infinity. Another year where five actresses have given us some of the most memorable cinematic moments of the last decade.
Source: E Cartelera
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