Possible Nominations: Best Picture, Best Actress (Carey Mulligan), Best Actress (Meryl Streep), Best Supporting Actress (Helena Bonham Carter), Best Original Screenplay (Abi Morgan), Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling Anyone familiar with Oscar history can tell you Meryl Streep is a beast when it comes to the Academy Awards. Nominated for a record-holding 18 acting nominations, Streep has managed to receive kudos from the Academy even when the merits of her performances have been questionable. For Oscar pundits this means any film Streep appears in should be considered for possible Oscar nominations (particularly for herself), and considering the Oscar-nominated trifecta of Meryl Streep, Carey Mulligan, and Helena Bonham Carter that head up the ensemble of Suffragette, it becomes hard to justify not considering the film as a major awards season participant. Suffragette details the earliest days of the feminist movement and their battle to secure one of the most basic rights: the right to vote. The film is written by Abi Morgan and directed by relative unknown Sarah Gavron. As with True Story, much of the hesitation over Suffragette's awards prospects lies in the fact that its director is a newcomer, as Ms. Gavron has scant a credit to her name (her one previous feature film is the little-seen Brick Lane). Despite this potential drawback, the name to focus on is Streep, not Gavron, as Streep's is the name which will demand the Academy's attention. Particularly when you consider the film's the subject matter, genre, supporting cast, it's hard not to think Suffragette will be a contender in some capacity.
A film fanatic at a very young age, starting with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movies and gradually moving up to more sophisticated fare, at around the age of ten he became inexplicably obsessed with all things Oscar. With the incredibly trivial power of being able to chronologically name every Best Picture winner from memory, his lifelong goal is to see every Oscar nominated film, in every major category, in the history of the Academy Awards.
