Supporting Actress - The Film Experience

84th Oscars. Oscar Race for the Films of 2011
AND THE NOMINEES ARE...

Will Win: Octavia Spencer
Should Win: I'm torn between McCarthy (such an original) and Chastain (such a year) and McTeer (who almost saved Albert Nobbs) who are all but tied in my mind if i were to rank the field. But really, it's quite a good field even if none of my three favorites got nominated.

Reader Ranking (Polling Closed): 1. CHASTAIN (35%) 2. SPENCER (29%) 3. MCCARTHY (18%) 4. BEJO (10%) and MCTEER (5%)

Fun Oscar Factoid: The Help makes this the fourth consecutive year that two nominees have come from the same film following Doubt, Up in the Air, and The Fighter. The takeaway: Team up ladies! There's strength in numbers


Bérénice Bejo 35 yrs old \| 18 films *1st nomination!* THE ARTIST wins: St Louis	Jessica Chastain 30 yrs old \| 9 films *1st nomination!* THE HELP INTERVIEW wins: the critical trifecta LA & NYFCC & NYFCC plus several other critics prizes	Melissa McCarthy 41 yrs old \| 16 films lots of TV *1st nomination!* BRIDESMAIDS prizes: various critics prizes	Janet McTeer 50 yrs old \| 15ish films 2 nominations ALBERT NOBBS wins: --	Octavia Spencer 39 yrs old \| 40ish films *1st nomination!* THE HELP wins: Globes, BFCA, and critics prizes
How'd she get nominated?
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Who got snubbed?
According to most of the precursors and several regional critics organizations who went abso-bonkers for The Descendants, Shailene Woodley is the one that's missing from that list above for playing George Clooney's sorta rebellions sorta not daughter. Earlier in the year it looked like electrifying work by Vanessa Redgrave in Coriolanus and Carey Mulligan in Shame might win traction but that didn't come to pass.
Who will win?
You can take Octavia Spencer to the bank barring a really really strange flood of anomalous support for her friend Melissa McCarthy (the nomination is usually the reward for comedy) or The Artist's tux having hugely sweeping coattails for Bejo.