Lead or Supporting No. 21: Alicia Vikander in The Danish Girl

[Sab227 Joined: Dec 29th, 2012 Topics: 54 Posts: 367 View Predictions]

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Last round it was Rooney Mara for Carol so I thought it would only be fair to take Vikander and her placement to task as well considering she won the Oscar over Mara for what in my opinion was a leading performance. What do you all think was she lead or supporting and was he deserving of her win?

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[Riley Chow Joined: Oct 11th, 2010 Topics: 21 Posts: 2216 View Predictions]

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Let you be the first and last poll voter to think so.

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[Sab227 Joined: Dec 29th, 2012 Topics: 54 Posts: 367 View Predictions]

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Riley Chow wrote:

Let you be the first and last poll voter to think so.

Agreed!

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[DrewN92 Joined: Jan 4th, 2018 Topics: 0 Posts: 293 View Predictions]

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She’s co-lead. For a supporting actress Oscar winner, she has the 3rd longest screentime in Oscar history (59:37). While Redmayne has approximately 20 more minutes screentime than Vikander which could maybe be the only argument someone could make for her being supporting, the movie is essentially the two of them together and her role in the plot and screentime feels much more co-lead than simply a supporting character.

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[Bassett Joined: Dec 21st, 2016 Topics: 1 Posts: 2645 View Predictions]

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Co-lead

FYC

AOTY - Renaissance

Angela Bassett, Michelle Yeoh, Brian Tyree Henry.

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[estrelas Joined: Jul 25th, 2018 Topics: 1 Posts: 6858 View Predictions]

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She’s definitely Lead.

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[DrewN92 Joined: Jan 4th, 2018 Topics: 0 Posts: 293 View Predictions]

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The film is about Eddie’s transition and Alicia’s storyline changes depending on Eddie’s character. She doesn’t have her own thing on the film to be considered a lead. Having 20 less minutes is not the only argument that could be made about her placement.

To me the story is not solely Eddie’s transition but their love story. –

“The remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener.”

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[jez89 Joined: Aug 14th, 2018 Topics: 0 Posts: 323 View Predictions]

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Co-lead in the same way Felicity Jones was a co-lead in Redmayne’s previous film, The Theory of Everything.

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[L.B. Joined: Mar 20th, 2019 Topics: 0 Posts: 724 View Predictions]

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Definitely a co-lead. She should have won for Ex Machina.

Four-time Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan!

Give Sarah Snook her rightful Emmy win right NOW.

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[FilmRoyalty Joined: Oct 5th, 2011 Topics: 71 Posts: 3063 View Predictions]

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It ft like I saw her on screen more than I saw Eddie.

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[awardsdontmatter Joined: Jan 12th, 2014 Topics: 0 Posts: 34 View Predictions]

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She was a co-lead, and IMO there was nothing borderline supporting about her role.

The Danish Girl is just as much about Lili’s transition, as it is about Gerde’s experience, and their marriage overall. Sure, the movie’s title references Lili and her transition propels the plot, but Gerde was just as much of a fully realized character with a full emotional journey arc, and she had bountiful screen time on top of that.

Her supporting campaign was a completely strategic and consciously fraudulent move to boost her winning chances, because Lead Actress was Larson’s to lose that year.

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