Travesties Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
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" Play revival: "Jitney" Leading actor, play: Kevin Kline, "Present Laughter" Leading actress, play: Laurie Metcalf, "A Doll's House, Part 2" Leading actor, musical: Ben Platt, "Dear Evan Hansen" Leading actress, musical: Bette Midler, "Hello, Dolly!
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Torch Song Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
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He produced the film and reportedly harassed leading actress Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Co-star Alicia Vikander will compete in the leading actress category.
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Santino Fontana, Tootsie Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
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She won best leading actress in a play for The Waverly Gallery.
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Santino Fontana, Tootsie Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
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For this rafting adventure gone south, she earned a leading actress nomination.
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Six Degrees of Separation Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
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First Man If Beale Street Could Talk A Star Is Born Leading Actress
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Last year's winner, Room, scored Brie Larson a Best Leading Actress Oscar win.
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Comer also won a BAFTA Award for best leading actress for the role.
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The Favourite won seven awards, including Outstanding British Film, Leading Actress, and Supporting Actress.
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Ben Platt, Dear Evan Hansen Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
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Ethan Slater, SpongeBob SquarePants, the Musical Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
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She's also only the second Asian woman to win the Best Leading Actress in a Drama.
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Rising star Alicia Vikander pulled off a coup with nominations for both leading actress and supporting actress.
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Among the film's other nominations are Sally Hawkins for leading actress and Octavia Spencer for supporting actress.
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"A Star Is Born" was nominated for eight Oscars, including best picture, leading actor, and leading actress.
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Since then, she has been the leading actress in a slew of good, great, and just-okay movies.
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Other Leading Actress nominees include Maggie Smith for The Lady in the Van and Saoirse Ronan for Brooklyn.
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"Hello, Dolly!" which received 10, will very likely win Best Musical Revival and Leading Actress for Bette Midler.
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Completing the leading actress nominations were Brie Larson for "Room" and Maggie Smith for "The Lady in the Van".
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Oh made history as the first woman of Asian descent ever nominated for best leading actress in a drama series.
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Irish immigrant story "Brooklyn" got six nominations, including outstanding British film, adapted screenplay and Saoirse Ronan up for leading actress.
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Mr. Solondz's extracurricular use of his leading actress offers bright hope for his prospects as a man of the theater.
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" Best revival of a play: "August Wilson's Jitney" Best performance by a leading actress in a musical: Bette Midler, "Hello, Dolly!
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Finally, Viola Davis has been recognized for her stellar performance as Veronica, and is nominated for the BAFTA for Leading Actress.
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"Shallow" beat out the competition to nab the award for best original song and Gaga was nominated for best leading actress.
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In another example, Longoria recalls being the only leading actress not to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 2005.
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Colman, who portrays the monarch as frail and tempestuous, won the Leading Actress category, a victory that had been expected by many.
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Actors Natalie Dormer and Letitia Wright announced nine of the 25 categories, including best film, best director, leading actor and leading actress.
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Killing Eve creator Waller-Bridge took home the Emmy for Leading Actress in a Comedy Series for her other nominated show, Fleabag.
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Leading actress Salazar, however, disagrees and told Playboy she thinks Alita's bodily transformation was appropriate given that she goes from teenager to adult.
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"Carol" star Cate Blanchett, who like Vikander lost in the leading actress category to Brie Larson, also wore a richly- embellished Alexander McQueen dress.
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Blunt made the cut in both the supporting and leading actress categories for her performances in A Quiet Place and Mary Poppins Returns, respectively.
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Five actresses are up for the "Leading Actress" award, including Brie Larson for "Room", which has been tipped by many as an Oscar contender.
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" It was also a big night for "Hello, Dolly!" which earned "Best Musical Revival" and Bette Midler won "Best Leading Actress in a Musical.
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Blunt made the cut in both the supporting and leading actress categories for her performances in A Quiet Place and Mary Poppins Returns, respectively.
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ISHERWOOD Yes, leading actress in a musical is a really tough one, with Laura Benanti, Carmen Cusack, Cynthia Erivo, Jessie Mueller and Phillipa Soo.
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The Danish Girl also did well in the nominations, with five, including a Leading Actor nod for Eddie Redmayne and Leading Actress for Alicia Vikander.
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Blunt, 35, made the cut in both the supporting and leading actress categories for her performances in A Quiet Place and Mary Poppins Returns, respectively.
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Most people I've talked with agree with you that Cynthia Erivo is the leading contender to win best leading actress in a musical, for example.
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Emilia Clarke lost out on outstanding leading actress in a drama series at the 2019 Emmys Sunday night at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
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The show and its leading actress are at their best in their quietest moments, which remind us of Ms. Sarandon's gift for subtly layered performances.
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Jessie Buckley, Charlize Theron, Scarlett Johansson, Saoirse Ronan, and Renée Zellweger -- who took home a Golden Globe on Sunday -- all received nods for leading actress.
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Leading ladies "La La Land's" leading lady Emma Stone is up for Leading Actress but she'll have a fight on her hands to land the award.
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First ManIf Beale Street Could TalkA Star Is Born Leading Actress Glenn Close -- The WifeLady Gaga -- A Star Is BornMelissa McCarthy -- Can You Ever Forgive Me?
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In "Three Tall Women," only Glenda Jackson will contend for leading actress; Laurie Metcalf and Alison Pill will be considered eligible in the featured actress category.
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READ: 'La La Land' breaks record Damien Chazelle is nominated for both Director and Original Screenplay and Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone for Leading Actor and Leading Actress.
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The 71-year-old actress took home the statue for outstanding performance by a leading actress at Sunday night's Screen Actors Guild Awards for her role in The Wife.
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They are doing away with the notion that a leading actress is only worthy in her youth by staking out their own production companies and directing their own films.
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Goldsberry starred as the eldest sister of the trio, the smart and spirited Angelica — and won a Tony Award last summer for leading actress in a musical for her work.
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It is nominated for best film and outstanding British film, while Frances McDormand is nominated for leading actress, and Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson are both nominated for supporting actor.
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Joining Goldsberry, Diggs, and Odom was Cynthia Erivo, who won the Tony for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for her heart-wrenching performance as Celie in The Color Purple.
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And Stephanie J. Block, who is playing the eldest of three versions of "Cher" in "The Cher Show," is way ahead in the race for best leading actress in a musical.
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She earned a Tony Award for best leading actress in a musical for 1949's Love Life, which boasted the impressive talents of Elia Kazan as director and Michael Kidd as choreographer.
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Olivia Colman picked up yet another leading actress nomination after winning the Golden Globe on Sunday, while her "bitches" Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz were both named in the supporting actress category.
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I'm particularly glad that Carmen Cusack, of "Bright Star," got a leading actress nomination, and that the show did as well as it did, winning a best musical nomination and four others.
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Britain's Olivia Colman is tipped to win Leading Actress for her portrayal of the 18th century queen as frail, childish and tempestuous in a role that has won her several awards already.
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Leading actress Constance Wu was only the fourth woman of Asian descent to be nominated for best performance by an actress in a musical or comedy motion picture for the Golden Globes.
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This year, Hulu's dystopian "The Handmaid's Tale" took home Emmys for leading actress Elizabeth Moss and director Reed Morano in addition to being the winning drama series — firsts for the streaming company.
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The most nominated film of the event, The Favourite, was predictably the night's big winner, netting seven wins including leading actress for Olivia Colman, supporting actress for Rachel Weisz and outstanding British film.
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It can win only one in each category, so that means 13 possible wins, and it looks like it's not going to win best leading actress, so that means a maximum of 12.
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Back then, when she was nominated for best leading actress for her role in "Grey Gardens," the experience consisted of a 12-foot step and repeat, and fashion mattered little, if at all.
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Continuing a winning streak for the portrayal of a young mother held captive with her son in "Room", Brie Larson prevailed in the leading actress category and is also favoured to win the Oscar.
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Its BAFTA nods include leading actress for Blanchett, supporting actress for Mara, best film, adapted screenplay, cinematography, costume design, make up and hair, production design as well as honours for director for Todd Haynes.
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Ms. Ferrera, 633, rose to fame playing the leading role in the television series "Ugly Betty," for which she was the first Latina to win an Emmy for best leading actress in a comedy.
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According to statistics from Women and Hollywood, of the top 100 grossing films of 2017, only four movies were driven by a woman of color, with only one leading actress over the age of 45.
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Probably the surest shot in the whole Tonys derby is Glenda Jackson, who at 81 and after two decades in British Parliament, has returned to the stage and is up for leading actress in a play.
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" Kevin Kline won the award for Best Leading Actor in a Play for "Present Laughter" and Laurie Metcalf won her first ever Tony Award for "Best Leading Actress in a Play," for "A Doll's House, Part 21812.
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Ms. Midler got the last laugh: She won the Tony for best leading actress in a musical and managed to quiet the orchestra as it tried to play her off during her delightfully long-winded acceptance speech.
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OK, so congrats to HBO and all, but let's be real: If you thought the battle for the Iron Throne was tough, please check out the competition in the category of Outstanding Leading Actress in a Comedy Series.
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Oh is a six-time Emmy nominee, but this year's nomination marks her first time in the leading actress category for her title role Eve Polanski in the BBC America drama Killing Eve, created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
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The movie, about a grieving mother who rents three billboards to call attention to her daughter's unsolved murder, also won the awards for outstanding British film, leading actress (Frances McDormand), supporting actor (Sam Rockwell), and original screenplay (McDonagh).
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"Roma," Netflix's first best picture nominee, is also in the running for best leading actress (Yalitza Aparcio), original screenplay (by Cuarón), cinematography, production design, foreign language film, sound editing, sound mixing, and best supporting actress (Marina De Tavira).
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And the last thing I want to do is ruin that for someone who is, you know, nominated for, you know, best leading actress or best supporting or best director or cinematographer or whatever, by making it unpleasant.
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The 49-year-old is the director of the 2017 drama "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," which was nominated for seven Oscars and won two: best leading actress for Frances McDormand and best supporting actor for Sam Rockwell.
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The good news kept pouring in early today, when it was announced that the film picked up 11 nominations at the BAFTA Awards, including Best Film, Best Director for Chazelle, Leading Actress for Stone, and Leading Actor for Gosling.
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In her dual roles, Ms Nyong'o gives two such technically superb and magnetic performances that she deserves to be the first person ever to win Oscars for Best Leading Actress and for Best Supporting Actress in the same film.
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But this year, the talent made history by becoming the New York Film Critics Circle's first black leading actress champion for her role in the comedy Support the Girls, where she played a general manager of a sports bar.
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"Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri," helmed by British director Martin McDonagh, was nominated in the best film category, and star Frances McDormand was nominated for best leading actress, though McDonagh was not nominated for directing the critically acclaimed film.
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Last year, I watched Jamie Lee Curtis thrill me to my core in "Halloween" and then take to Twitter to celebrate that the movie had the biggest box office opening with a leading actress over the age of 55.
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Olivia Colman, who will star as Queen Elizabeth in The Crown's third and fourth seasons, picked up yet another leading actress nomination after winning the Golden Globe, while Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz were both named in the supporting actress category.
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The actress, 60, who claimed the best drama actress award at the Golden Globes Sunday for her role in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, was a shoe-in for a leading actress nomination at Britain's BAFTA awards, taking place at Royal Albert Hall.
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" Among the night's other winners: The 2768-year-old comedian, writer and director Elaine May earned her first Tony, as leading actress in a play, for movingly portraying a woman losing her memory in a revival of Kenneth Lonergan's "The Waverly Gallery.
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And to the surprise (and delight) of Killing Eve fans and the actress herself, Comer took home the award for Leading Actress in a Drama Series, and was so convinced she wouldn't win, she didn't even invite her parents to the ceremony.
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Critic's Pick Backstage at the Comédie-Française in the Paris of 1730, the title character of Francesco Cilea's "Adriana Lecouvreur," a leading actress with the company, demurs when hailed by a prince and an abbé as a muse, a goddess, a siren.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 97%Synopsis: Four years before "Little Women," the actress got her first leading actress Oscar nomination for "Brooklyn," in which she portrayed a young Irish woman caught between her native home and the 1950s Brooklyn to which she has recently immigrated.
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The race for Leading Actress in a Play is stacked with screen stars, with Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Ehle, Sally Field, Laura Linney, and Laurie Metcalf competing; across the male categories, notable nominees include Kevin Kline, Chris Cooper, Danny DeVito, Josh Groban, and Andrew Rannells.
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They don't walk red carpets together, even when they both have to be at the same event for separate reasons, like this year's BAFTAs where Ronan was nominated for Leading Actress for Little Women and Lowden was up for the EE Rising Star Award.
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" Superfan @darlingeve felt similarly, and said over DM: "It's hard to hear a leading actress say something that seems to contradict the text and marketing of the show," adding, "It seems like we are watching an entirely different show than the cast and team being interviewed.
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The show, with a full title of "Shuffle Along, or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed," was apparently facing a sharp drop-off in ticket sales this summer, after its leading actress, Audra McDonald, is scheduled to begin a maternity leave.
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Nominees for leading actress featured Scarlett Johansson for "Marriage Story", Saoirse Ronan for "Little Women", Charlize Theron for "Bombshell", Jessie Buckley for "Wild Rose" and Renee Zellweger for "Judy", in which she plays actress Judy Garland, a role which won her a Golden Globe on Sunday.
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A self-described theater geek from Long Island, New York, the turn on the Great White Way didn't just fulfill a bucket list moment for Schumer — it also gave the I Feel Pretty star, 36, her first-ever Tony nomination, for best performance by a leading actress in a play.
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Yet another day of sun for Damien Chazelle's La La Land: the breakout musical, fresh off sweeping the Golden Globes on Sunday night, picked up 11 nominations at the BAFTA Awards on Tuesday, including Best Film, Best Director for Chazelle, Leading Actress for Emma Stone, and Leading Actor for Ryan Gosling.
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It cleaned up over in America last month, winning Golden Globes and Critics Choice awards for lead actress Olivia Colman, and so it's no surprise at all to learn that the wild royal romp has won the BAFTA for Outstanding British Film or that Colman took home yet another Leading Actress trophy.
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" Best Revival of a Play: "The Boys in the Band" Best Book of a Musical: "Tootsie," Robert Horn Best Original Score: "Hadestown," music and lyrics: Anaïs Mitchell Best Direction of a Play: Sam Mendes, "The Ferryman" Best Direction of a Musical: Rachel Chavkin, "Hadestown" Best Leading Actor in a Play: Bryan Cranston, "Network" Best Leading Actress in a Play: Elaine May, "The Waverly Gallery" Best Leading Actor in a Musical: Santino Fontana, "Tootsie" Best Leading Actress in a Musical: Stephanie J. Block, "The Cher Show" Best Featured Actor in a Play: Bertie Carvel, "Ink" Best Featured Actress in a Play: Celia Keenan-Bolger, "To Kill a Mockingbird" Best Featured Actor in a Musical: André De Shields, "Hadestown" Best Featured Actress in a Musical: Ali Stroker, "Oklahoma!
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Best Film BlacKkKlansmanThe FavouriteGreen BookRomaA Star Is Born Outstanding British Film BeastBohemian RhapsodyThe FavouriteMcQueenStan & OllieYou Were Never Really Here Leading Actor Bradley Cooper - A Star Is BornChristian Bale - ViceRami Malek - Bohemian RhapsodySteve Coogan - Stan & OllieViggo Mortensen - Green Book Leading Actress Glenn Close - The WifeLady Gaga - A Star Is BornMelissa McCarthy - Can You Ever Forgive Me?
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Throughout the revival, audiences watch the Dragonfly Inn owner face numerous trials — the loss of her father, therapy with her mother, Sookie's departure, Michel contemplating leaving his position at the Inn, arguments with both Luke and Rory — all while reading the book Wild, which was brought to the screen with Reese Witherspoon as its leading actress in 2014.
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Having spent the last month mulling over the ups and downs of the BAFTA nominations list (Bohemian Rhapsody and First Man were nominated for a surprisingly high number of awards while Widows only got the one mention with a nod to Viola Davis in the Leading Actress category) it's safe to say we're relieved to finally have our winners.
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Best Film BlacKkKlansmanThe FavouriteGreen BookRomaA Star Is Born Outstanding British Film BeastBohemian RhapsodyThe Favourite - WinnerMcQueenStan & OllieYou Were Never Really Here Leading Actor Bradley Cooper - A Star Is BornChristian Bale - ViceRami Malek - Bohemian Rhapsody - WinnerSteve Coogan - Stan & OllieViggo Mortensen - Green Book Leading Actress Glenn Close - The WifeLady Gaga - A Star Is BornMelissa McCarthy - Can You Ever Forgive Me?
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She also demonstrates a deep understanding of the power of the media and the optics of racial inequality and solidarity—with a cameo in Beyoncé's "Lemonade" and her performance as the leading actress in The Hate U Give, a film adaptation of Angie Thomas's YA novel about police shootings and the way our police state demonizes black bodies.
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The musical's cast and crew earned a whopping 12 Tony Award nominations, including: best musical, best book of a musical, best original score, best leading actress in a musical (Taylor Louderman), best featured actor in a musical (Grey Henson), best featured actress in a musical (Ashley Park) and best direction and best choreography of a musical (Casey Nicholaw).
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A revival of "The Color Purple," a musical adaptation of the Pulitzer-winning novel by Alice Walker, had a good night, winning awards for best musical revival, and for best leading actress for its 29-year-old star, Cynthia Erivo, who is the second actress in 10 years to win a Tony Award for playing the book's central character, Celie.
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Foy's performance in The Crown has garnered her a BAFTA nomination for the Best Leading Actress on Television, two Golden Globe nominations (and one win) for Best Actress — Television Drama series, an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, and four Screen Actors Guild nominations, with two wins as the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series.
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" Best performance by a leading actor in a musical: Ben Platt, "Dear Evan Hansen" Best performance by a leading actress in a play: Laurie Metcalf, "A Doll's House, Part 2" Best performance by a leading actor in a play: Kevin Kline, "Present Laughter" Best performance by a featured actor in a play: Michael Aronov, "Oslo" Best performance by a featured actress in a play: Cynthia Nixon, "Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes" Best performance by a featured actor in a musical Gavin Creel, "Hello Dolly!
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Her most celebrated season culminated with two Tony nominations in 22016: for best performance by a leading actress in a play, a revival of George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's "The Royal Family," in which she played Broadway's reigning goddess and daughter of an acting family's matriarch, played by Rosemary Harris; and for best performance by a featured actress in a play, a revival of Ken Ludwig's "Lend Me a Tenor," in which she played the jealous wife of an opera star, played by Anthony LaPaglia.
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" Des McAnuff, "Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations" Casey Nicholaw, "The Prom" Best Leading Actor in a Play Bryan Cranston, "Network" Paddy Considine, "The Ferryman" Jeff Daniels, "To Kill a Mockingbird" Adam Driver, "Burn This" Jeremy Pope, "Choir Boy" Best Leading Actress in a Play Annette Bening, "All My Sons" Laura Donnelly, "The Ferryman" Elaine May, "The Waverly Gallery" Janet McTeer, "Bernhardt/Hamlet" Laurie Metcalf, "Hillary and Clinton" Heidi Schreck, "What the Constitution Means to Me" Best Leading Actor in a Musical Brooks Ashmanskas, "The Prom" Derrick Baskin, "Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations" Alex Brightman, "Beetlejuice" Damon Daunno, "Oklahoma!
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" Santino Fontana, "Tootsie" Best Leading Actress in a Musical Stephanie J. Block, "The Cher Show" Caitlin Kinnunen, "The Prom" Beth Leavel, "The Prom" Eva Noblezada, "Hadestown" Kelli O'Hara, "Kiss Me, Kate" Best Featured Actor in a Play Bertie Carvel, "Ink" Robin de Jesús, "The Boys in the Band" Gideon Glick, "To Kill a Mockingbird" Brandon Uranowitz, "Burn This" Benjamin Walker, "All My Sons" Best Featured Actress in a Play Fionnula Flanagan, "The Ferryman" Celia Keenan-Bolger, "To Kill a Mockingbird" Kristine Nielsen, "Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus" Julie White, "Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus" Ruth Wilson, "King Lear" Best Featured Actor in a Musical André De Shields, "Hadestown" Andy Grotelueschen, "Tootsie" Patrick Page, "Hadestown" Jeremy Pope, "Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations" Ephraim Sykes, "Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations" Best Featured Actress in a Musical Lilli Cooper, "Tootsie" Amber Gray, "Hadestown" Sarah Stiles, "Tootsie" Ali Stroker, "Oklahoma!
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