Oscars 2017: 20 Predicted Best Film Nominees Ranked Worst To Best

It's far more likely that Jackie will be remembered at the end of the Oscar ceremony this year as either the winner of Best Actress or one of the close contenders. Such is the magnitude of Natalie Portman's performance as Jackie Kennedy in this intimate, despairing portrait of the aftermath of JFK's assassination.

It's a real shame that the film bothers with the framing device that forces the story into a flash-back, because there would have been an authenticity to the events and the raw emotion Jackie struggles with (both the weight of her husband's death and the expectations to conform to the right way to act) that is otherwise needlessly robbed. It's a curiously bad decision by a director who otherwise ably guides the difficult narrative along.

There are questions of fetishism, but that's almost also what makes the candid look at Jackie's reactions work so well, so it's semi-understandable, even if the grotesqueness of the assassination itself verges on vulgarity. Still, watch it for Portman's performance at least.