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...over America last week, the people who won their office Academy Awards pool were those who made the unlikely pick of Anna Paquin for Best Supporting Actress. Everyone guessed the obvious winners -- Schindler's List for Best Picture, Tom Hanks for Best Actor -- so a daring bet on Paquin, who played Holly Hunter's charming, willful child in The Piano, made all the difference. And whoever gambled that an 11-year-old New Zealander with no previous acting experience would beat out Emma Thompson, Holly Hunter, Winona Ryder and Rosie Perez deserved to collect...
...seemed more surprised at the outcome than the saucer-eyed Paquin herself. When she reached the podium to receive her Oscar she was literally speechless, gasping for air for half a minute before rattling off a list of people she wished to thank. Faced with an assault of reporters' questions backstage, she giggled and answered, "I wouldn't have a clue...
...Piano" begins, Ada McGrath (Holly Hunter) has become the mail-order bride of Alistair Stewart (Sam Neill), a farmer in the remote bush of nineteenth century New Zealand whom she has never met. Together with her nine-year-old daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) and her piano, Ada makes the long voyage by sea from Scotland to New Zealand. When Stewart arrives to meet her, he refuses to transport her piano to their house, leaving it on the beach...
...utter a word during the movie, Hunter manages to provide a full-bodied portrait of Ada, so that the audience knows what she is thinking and feeling without her having to articulate it. Ada marks Hunter's best work on screen thus far. Keeping up with Hunter is Anna Paquin as Ada's daughter Flora. Paquin brings an intensity and credibility to her role that is astounding in someone her age. She is absolutely terrifying in her innocence. It may be safely said without exaggeration that Paquin has turned in one of the best performances by a child actor ever...
...trying to crush her, Stewart decides. Ada has only two loves in this bleak world: her nine-year-old daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) and her piano. After Stewart cavalierly sells the instrument to his neighbor Baines (Keitel), Ada strikes a bargain with Baines. Under the guise of giving him lessons, she will buy the piano back from him, one black key at a time, by allowing certain sexual favors. One key is hers if she raises her skirt; two keys to let him touch her bare arm; five; 10 . . . Ada can win what she needs by meting out what...