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2021 Oscar: Best Actress nominees looking to set records Matthew Stewart
Viola Davis (“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”),
Andra Day (“The United States vs. Billie Holiday”),
Vanessa Kirby (“Pieces of a Woman”),
Frances McDormand (“Nomadland”), and
Carey Mulligan (“Promising Young Woman”). Our current odds indicate that Mulligan (69/20) will take the prize, followed in order by Davis (4/1), Day (4/1), McDormand (4/1), and Kirby (9/2).
McDormand is already one of 14 actresses to score multiple lead wins, having bagged a pair of trophies for “Fargo” (1997) and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” (2018). This year, she could follow
Katharine Hepburn,
Ingrid Bergman, and
Meryl Streep into the record books as the fourth woman to win three or more Oscars for acting. McDormand has three supporting bids to her name for “Mississippi Burning” (1989), “Almost Famous” (2001), and “North Country” (2006).
Why Is It So Hard to Show Black Womenâs Musical Genius Onscreen?
Oscar-nominated performances this season put the emphasis on the trauma, not the artistry, of Billie Holiday and Ma Rainey. The most insightful movie might just be âSoul.â
Viola Davis as Ma Rainey. The Oscar-nominated movie focuses on her anxieties rather than her artistic contributions.Credit.David Lee/Netflix, via Associated Press
April 20, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
Oscar history has been made, again. For just the second time, two Black women â Viola Davis (âMa Raineyâs Black Bottomâ) and Andra Day (âThe United States vs. Billie Holidayâ) â are nominated for best actress in the same year. This last happened in 1973 when Cicely Tyson (âSounderâ) and Diana Ross (âLady Sings the Bluesâ) were up for the Academy Award, only to lose out to Liza Minnelli for her starring role in âCabaret.â While we do not know who will take home the gold statue on S