3. Winslet Loses Out On Best Supporting Actress, Whilst Vikander Clinches It
This one was a double whammy. First, everybody assumed Kate Winslet was a lock after cleaning up at the BAFTAs and the Golden Globes, but this was not the case. Luckily the Academy realised that her role in Steve Jobs basically amounted to an accent and a perpetuating sense of frustration. Yet all of that doesn't necessarily mean that Alicia Vikander should have bagged it for The Danish Girl - Rooney Mara does much more with her supporting role in Carol, and Jennifer Jason Leigh is ten times as lively and unrecognisable in The Hateful Eight - but bag it she did. It's perhaps a nod to Vikander's skill as an actress in general, rather than that particular role - but that doesn't make it any less surprising.
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