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...BEST ACTRESS Judi Dench, Mrs. Henderson Presents Felicity Huffman, TransAmerica Keira Knightley, Pride and Prejudice Charlize Theron, North Country Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line...
...company in late 2005 and two of them, Mrs. Henderson Presents and TransAmerica, picked up Best Actress nominations. Dench, taking her fifth acting nomination in nine years, can get nods even for walk-through performances, displays of the Dench hauteur, which is what her role here is. Huffman has a distinct shot: beloved in three strong acting communities (Chicago, New York and L.A.), blending mainstream work (in TV's Desperate Housewives) with indie stuff (TransAmerica), plus she plays a sympathetic, slightly freakish outsider, in a role requiring lots of makeup. Oscar loves that: see recent awards for Nicole Kidman...
...night. From cowboy drama Brokeback Mountain?s four awards to Philip Seymour Hoffman?s win for biopic Capote to Felicity Huffman?s trophy for Transamerica, films with gay and transgender characters swept the show. The King Kong/Naomi Watts inter-species love affair, however, still proved too edgy, even for those live-and-let-live Hollywood Foreign Press voters...
...FELICITY HUFFMAN seems in line to snare an Oscar nomination for her role as a male-to-female transsexual who discovers she fathered a son in Transamerica. Plus Desperate Housewives' plain-Jane mom finally got to smear on the rouge...
...actors play gay, transvestite or transgender characters.” Think about it—Philip Seymour Hoffman is the mincing Truman in “Capote,” Cillian Murphy is a pretty cross-dresser in “Breakfast on Pluto,” and Felicity Huffman is a midlife-crisis pre-op in “Transamerica.” And all that’s in addition to the Jake Gyllenhaal/Heath Ledger vehicle, “Brokeback Mountain,” which is almost universally known as “the gay cowboy movie...