I think she’s our frontrunner at the moment and not Frances (although I’m not bold enough to put her ahead of Frances and Viola yet in the nominations stage). I mean like I said if Cate Blanchett says it was THE performance they had to award it too and that this is going to be a career-defining performance for Kirby with more to come then I ‘d argue she’s even a lock for the nomination. I mean I am (although Frances and Viola are threats) predicting her for the Globe and BAFTA win. Did you get to see The World to Come as well?
Yes!
I didn’t really know Kirby before seeing these two films, I don’t watch The Crown… But I’m definitely sold now. In The World to Come she has a character almost completely different from Martha in Pieces of a Woman. She’s tender, elusive, delicate. You can’t help falling in love with her. The very next day I saw Pieces of a Woman and I was impressed by the fact that she was the same actress!
I think that she was the Venice queen for many. Most of my colleagues and friends burst into applause when Kirby was announced as the Coppa Volpi winner.
McDormand is very, very good, as she always is, but she isn’t surprising. Kirby is, sometimes during the movie watching her you just can’t breathe… I don’t think Frances has a chance to win – she’ll be nominated, for sure, but my feeling is that the Best Actress Oscar, for how the things are now, is Kirby vs Davis.
2021 Oscar FYC: Glenn Close, Jeremy Strong, Vanessa Kirby, Delroy Lindo, Daniel Kaluuya
Academy Award winner Vanessa Kirby has a nice ring to it.
