Why does Andrea Riseborough deserve her Oscar nomination? |
You can easily understand why Andrea Riseborough's fellow actors have been so awestruck by her performance as the alcoholic mum in Michael Morris's unsung, low-budget movie To Leslie and why so many of them voted for her to receive an Oscar nomination. What is harder to fathom is why Riseborough has subsequently been pilloried in the media for her Oscar campaign and threatened with having her nomination revoked. No one treats Meryl Streep with this level of disrespect – and Riseborough is arguably as close as UK cinema comes to a film actor with Streep's daring and versatility. The real mystery here isn't how she gatecrashed this year's Oscar race but that she isn't more appreciated and better known. It was confirmed today that the Oscar nomination still stands, in spite of the controversy which has threatened to engulf the movie in recent days. In To Leslie, Riseborough goes all-in. Her character is a Texan alcoholic single mum who has fallen on very hard times. A few years before, she won the lottery, but she drank all the money away. Nic Cage's Oscar-winning turn as the alcoholic anti-hero, drinking himself to death in Leaving Las Vegas (1995), seems half-hearted by comparison. |
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