Here are 5 predictions for the winner of the Best Actress Oscar 2024. Margot Robbie is a very potential candidate to win.
This year, movie lovers can enjoy a variety of interesting films that hit theaters and film festivals. In addition to presenting quality stories, these films also feature extraordinary acting from the actors. And of course, there are also actresses who are the main actors.
Therefore, it is no surprise that many famous media outlets are competing to predict which actresses will get nominated at next year’s Academy Awards.
Although the 2024 Oscar nominations will only take place on January 23, movie lovers are already guessing whether their favorite actresses will be nominated or not.
Here are five Hollywood actresses who have the most chance of being fiercely competitive in the Best Actress category at the 2024 Oscars. Two of them played the most popular “Barbie” characters this year!
Best Actress Oscar 2024 Predictions
5. Lily Gladstone
The lack of participation of indigenous actors in major projects in the Hollywood film industry is often a complaint. However, Hollywood actually has many talented Native American actors. One of them is Lily Gladstone, who drew attention as Mollie Burkhart in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).
Mollie is portrayed as a victim of the greed and ambition of her husband, Ernest Burkhart. Despite her physical and mental suffering, Mollie exudes love, patience, and resilience. Critics consider that Gladstone succeeded in representing the dignity of the Indians through her body movements, facial expressions, and gaze full of sadness and anger.
With such subtle acting performances, will Gladstone be the first native actress to win Best Actress at the Oscars in 2024? Let’s wait and see together.
4. Carey Mulligan
Along with an almost twenty-year acting career, Carey Hannah Mulligan has received two Best Actress Oscar nominations. First, through her role as Jenny Mellor, a schoolgirl who falls for an older man, in the movie An Education (2009).
Second, through her role as Cassandra “Cassie” Thomas, a vigilante with a problem, in the movie Promising Young Woman (2020). Unfortunately, both nominations did not manage to bring Mulligan home a trophy.
However, despite this, the wife of Marcus Mumford, who is also the leader of folk band Mumford & Sons, did not give up. This year, Mulligan showed her acting skills again through Bradley Cooper’s biopic Maestro (2023).
Many believe that the role of Felicia Montealegre, the wife and collaborator of music mogul Leonard Bernstein (Cooper), is a third chance for Mulligan to win the award she deserved before. Let’s hope she succeeds!
3. Sandra Hüller
In addition to biopics and historical films, the 2024 Oscars will also feature a murder mystery titled Anatomy of a Fall (2023). The movie is directed by French director Justine Triet, who previously had success with the films Age of Panic and Sibyl.
The film stole the show when it was screened at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and won the Palme d’Or, the highest award at Cannes, beating Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest (2023) which was widely favored.
Aside from its intriguing story, Anatomy of a Fall also features one of the most complex acting performances of the year from Sandra Hüller. In her role as a woman accused of murdering her husband, the German actress manages to make the audience feel a range of emotions throughout the 152-minute movie. Very immersive!
2. Emma Stone
There’s no denying that after winning the Best Actress Oscar with La La Land (2016), Emma Stone has become more careful in choosing roles. However, the decision proved to be important and successful.
The films she starred in such as Battle of the Sexes (2017), The Favorite (2018), and Cruella (2021) earned her three Golden Globes nominations and one Academy Awards. Meanwhile, The Zombieland: Double Tap (2019) and Croods: A New Age (2020) made nostalgia for fans of the movie.
Her reliability was proven once again this year when she became the lead in Poor Things (2023) by eccentric filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth, The Killing of a Sacred Deer). She took on the challenging role of Bella Baxter, a woman brought back from the dead by a scientist.
The challenges here are not just limited to the roles she plays. When Poor Things screened at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, Emma Stone also received an 8-minute standing ovation for her bravery in acting in a sex and nudity scene.
1. Margot Robbie
If Emma Stone as Bella Baxter in Poor Things is called the “dark Barbie”, then Margot Robbie plays the original Barbie character in director Greta Gerwig’s (Lady Bird, Little Women) Barbie (2023).
But aside from her uncanny resemblance to the Mattel doll, who would have guessed that the twice Oscar-nominated actress would also deliver one of the most contemplative acting performances of the year?
Interestingly enough, underneath the nostalgia, Barbie is actually a movie that raises the issue of women empowerment. In this movie, we can see from the perspective of this iconic doll, how all the anxieties that women experience can be explored and eventually lead them to a comforting conclusion.
Not only that, this movie also dares to raise the issue of patriarchal culture and the importance of gender equality.
Robbie, as Barbie, showed an amazing transformation. From being just an emotionless doll, she transformed into a human being who fully loves life. Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that she has secured a Best Actress Oscar 2024 nomination position.
The 2024 Oscars will only be held on March 10. However, with their incredible dedication to their roles, these five actresses have convinced critics that they have a great chance of winning the award. From Lily Gladstone to Margot Robbie, who do you think deserves to win the Best Actress Oscar 2024?
