21 years on from Halle Berry’s emotional victory, Michelle Yeoh could be on the cusp of making history.
Detractors would say that Blanchett’s is the stronger performance – the acting veteran is, indisputably, incredible as the prolific conductor Lydia Tár – but it should be noted that she already has two Oscars (for Best Supporting Actress for, are we still in need of yet more confirmation? Meanwhile, for Yeoh, an Oscar would be life-changing: her name would forever be preceded by the phrase “Academy Award winner”, and it should result in her getting meatier parts, after a decade of being...
It’s also important to remember that acting Oscars are very rarely, if ever, won based on a performance alone. It always has more to do with the narrative: the campaign the actor has run; the story they’ve told about themselves in the interviews they’ve given; whether or not they’re considered to be overdue; and how their film has captured the zeitgeist better than its competitors.
Yeoh already deserves all the plaudits for coming closer to claiming the Best Actress statuette than any other woman of colour in the past 21 years, but here’s hoping she reaches the podium on 12 March – and that, this time around, her win triggers
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