The nominees for Oscar for Best Actress is a battle between two newcomers, two previous Oscar winners and a woman receiving her fifth nomination.
Front-runner Julianne Moore has already picked up several major awards for her role in ‘Still Alice’, where she plays a college professor suffering from early onset Alzheimers.
This is the 54-year-old’s fifth Oscar nomination, having received previous nods for lead actress for ‘The Hours’ and ‘Boogie Nights’ among others.
Playing the first wife of physicist Stephen Hawking in the biopic ‘The Theory of Everything’ has helped Felicity Jones to her first Oscar nomination.
Although the Briton has been acting since the mid-1990s, critics say ‘The Theory of Everything’ really put her on the map.
The demanding role of Jane Hawkin showed how she cared for her genius husband after he was left paralysed by motor neuron disease.
Reese Witherspoon earns her second Best Actress nomination for her role in ‘Wild’ as author Cheryl Strayed, who ch