Performance Profile: Julie Walters in "Billy Elliot" (2000)

The next entry in the 2000 race comes from the work given by a respected British actress, and one who has found occasional success in American films and has been appreciated by audiences and critics alike. I, personally, have only previously seen her as the loving mother in the Harry Potter films, but I now offer you the acclamied, accomplished work of.... ...Julie Walters in Billy Elliot (2000).Julie Walters plays Mrs.Wilkinson, a hardworking,...

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Performance Reviews: Catherine Keener and Cameron Diaz in "Being John Malkovich" (1999)

1999 stands as one the all time greatest year in cinema, hell, it could be THE greatest year. All aspects of filmmaking during this year were at such a high peak that this decade could simply not follow up. In what could be the best of film of 1999, there are two superb examples of Supporting Actressness of the highest order (and you know how much I looooove them) and they come in the forms of.... ....Catherine Keener and Cameron Diaz in Being John...

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Performance Profile: Kate Hudson in "Almost Famous" (2000)

In recent years there seems to a trend in MovieLand/HollywoodPhonyLand where we see more and more hot new faces popping up in films they have no business being in and being critically acclaimed for no good reason. Although it can be vice-versa, where actual actors degrade themselves by starring in glossy crap, its usually much more upsetting the other way around. Some of these starlets have been around for amount of time, and while with talent, its...

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Performance Profile: Marcia Gay Harden in "Pollock" (2000)

In the past decade of films and Supporting Actressness, there has been a (majorly) noticeable drop in quality and deservingness that has become so unfortunate for Oscar junkies/cinephiles such as yours truly. With such winners as -- the overwrought suffering wife, the hollow Jazz Baby, the mannered impersonation, the talented singer who couldn't act her way out of a plastic bag, and the bilingual spifire wacko -- it's nice to see a performance/winner...

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