Oscars 2021: Ranking The Nominated Performances From Worst To Best

The legendary Glenn Close is looking to score her first win after eight nominations with the critically savaged Hillbilly Elegy. The film did not have a favourable response at all but in actuality it is a serviceable and cliché drama with above average performances from Amy Adams and Glenn Close who manage to make the film more than watchable.

Close is always great, she's incapable of being bad, but this is still far removed from her recent nominated performances in The Wife and Albert Nobbs which proved to be some of her career best work. If her status as an icon and the fact that she's never won an Oscar allows her to capitalise on a weak Supporting Actress category (not impossible but unlikely) then her win will be bittersweet.

Like Al Pacino for Scent of a Woman, everyone will know that they are awarding the individual rather than the performance. She is capable of better but she still manages to hold the divisive film together. Perhaps it is time to award Close for her phenomenal contributions throughout the years.