20 Best & Worst Movies From 2018 Oscar Nominees

13. Allison Janney

Best: I, Tonya (2017)

As with Frances McDormand mopping up all the pre-Oscars awards and becoming the Academy favourite, the fact that Allison Janney has already won the Golden Globe, BAFTA, and SAG awards suggest she's got this one sewn up too.

And it wouldn't be at all unjustified, really. She's been around for a while now playing interesting character roles, but she's never been this memorable nor this fiery. Her spiky, bilious performance is far from her most famous role as CJ Cregg, but that's precisely why it sticks out so much.

Incidentally, she's also in Finding Nemo, but her Peach isn't exactly a stand-out the same way she is here.

Worst: Days And Nights (2014)

Though you can appreciate the creative drive behind Christian Camargo's Chekhov-inspired ensemble, the execution is limp and tiresome, while simultaneously insisting on an intellect it patently can't deliver on. It also wastes a great cast - which Janney is part of - and never quite manages to get any of its component parts to fit together even remotely comfortably.