As you all no doubt are aware of by now, an annual tradition for me here at The Awards Circuit is to make an early grouping of the awards hopefuls for all the major categories, organizing them by their assumed chances at a nomination. I freely admit that my success rate has been rather mediocre over the years with these articles, but that kind of comes with the territory of Oscar prognostication. I manage to usually highlight the right films and people, but not always in the right order. Alas… This time around I’m going to be tackling the Best Actress field. For many, they think this is already a sewn up category, but I say “not so fast” to that. Lots can change between now and the nominations, but this is where I think things stand at this moment, and it’s a much more fluid standing than most believe it to be. At the very least, it’ll be quite interesting to see how this list matches up to the eventual slate of nominees. I expect to do well, but how well? Enough chatter though, let’s get on with it and move to the newest list!
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