The Oscar Nerd

Hello everybody! :) Did you miss me? I hope so because I'm returning (like for REAL) after a long hiatus, full of soul-searching, c...

Faye Dunaway received her second Oscar nomination for playing her signature role of Evelyn Cross Mulwray, a mysterious femme fatale in Ro...

Janet McTeer had her Oscar breakthrough with Tumbleweeds, a movie in which she played Mary Jo Walker, a woman who runs from town to town wi...

Sorry for my repeated breaks, I really can't help it, I have had way too many things on my shoulders and I didn't have time to writ...

Well, the time has come. It was a long and quite tedious season all around (probably because of the long time between the nominations and t...

2012 So the much anticipated ranking is: 5 . Quvenzhané Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild This may not be a brilliant perfor...

Quvenzhané Wallis became the youngest actress ever to be nominated for Best Actress thanks to her performance as Hushpuppy, a little girl...

Jessica Chastain received her second Oscar nomination for playing Maya, the CIA agent who was able to track down Osama Bin Laden in Kathryn...

Naomi Watts received her second Oscar nomination for playing Maria, a mother who's trying to survive the horrible tsunami of 2004 wit...

Emmanuelle Riva received her first Oscar nomination for playing Anne, a slowly dying elderly lady whose sufferings are portrayed in Micha...