Oscars 2021: Ranking The Nominated Performances From Worst To Best

Her second career nomination at the Oscars more than 10 years after her first is a monumental leap in quality from everything Carey Mulligan has done previously. Not to say her previous work was poor, but Promising Young Woman is a cut above for the actor and she is simply extraordinary.

After a terrible event that happened in her past, Cassie becomes a vengeful figure looking to terrorise predatory men on a weekly basis. To say much more would over-spoil but Mulligan shows Cassie's struggle between her own human desires and her determined goals with great believability.

Mulligan keeps you guessing as to just how unhinged her character is and how far she is willing to go throughout the film and it is thoroughly enjoyable to watch. It is unclear with such a chaotic Best Actress race, if a performance as dark and different as this will manage to take her to the win. She is probably still the odds on favourite (with Viola Davis and Andra Day biting at her heels) and if she does succeed in winning, she would be more than a justified victor.