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Who Will Escape the Best Actress Cage Match?
It’s perennially the most competitive Oscar category, but it’s hard to think of a year more stocked with contenders than 2025.
While her career hasn’t had the same ups and downs as Moore’s, there’s still a tiny whiff of a comeback to her candidacy: After becoming the queen of expensive, forgettable limited series, Babygirl sees her return to the kind of challenging work she did back in the Aughts. Working against her: Though The Last Showgirl may be the most acclaimed film made by a Coppola last year, it’s also a feather-light thing — as Amy Nicholson says, “less a story than a vibe.” And while it’s hard not to root for Anderson’s second-act revival, will it hurt that she is essentially running the same campaign as Demi Moore? The Last Showgirl lets her go very big as an alcoholic cocktail waitress, and Coppola even gives her a showcase dance scene set to “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” As we saw on The Bear, awards voters love JLC in this mode, and after winning the Oscar two years ago, she could be in for a classic halo nomination.
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