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Nicole Kidman’s 17 Career Golden Globe Nominations, Ranked
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association may have snubbed Eyes Wide Shut and Paddington, but at least it gave these performances their due.
Something to consider, of course, is that Cold Mountain — like Sofia Coppola’s remake of The Beguiled, in which Kidman would star some years later — chooses to sidestep some of the very real racist motivations that drove the Civil War, instead focusing on the experiences of one woman attempting to protect herself and her home in the chaos of a collapsing country. Kidman’s work is so detailed: her tight grip on the pen as Virginia writes her suicide note; the heaving of her chest as she rejects her husband’s attempted guilt trip at the train station; the little tilt of her head and huskiness in her voice as she explains her authorial choices (“Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more”). The finale in filmmaker Baz Luhrmann’s Red Curtain Trilogy after Strictly Ballroom and Romeo + Juliet was his most financially successful effort, and the musical’s cultural impact was so strong that it spawned an array of genre imitators, its own stage adaptation, and countless Halloween costumes.
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