Ever since she slinked her way onto the screen as a con woman who befuddles her targets with her luminous sex appeal in 1990’s “The Grifters,” Annette Bening has rarely been less than memorable on the big screen no matter the quality of the movie. She was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for that early career-making breakout performance, but lost to Whoopi Goldberg in “Ghost.”
She has since collected a trio of Academy Award bids as a lead, starting with 1999’s “American Beauty”as a nagging suburban housewife who belittles and cheats on her husband (Kevin Spacey) as he suffers through a midlife crisis.
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Bening next was lauded for her scenery-chewing work in 2004’s “Julia” as a middle-age stage diva in 1938 London who isn’t getting the juicy roles and male attention that she desperately desires. On...
She has since collected a trio of Academy Award bids as a lead, starting with 1999’s “American Beauty”as a nagging suburban housewife who belittles and cheats on her husband (Kevin Spacey) as he suffers through a midlife crisis.
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Bening next was lauded for her scenery-chewing work in 2004’s “Julia” as a middle-age stage diva in 1938 London who isn’t getting the juicy roles and male attention that she desperately desires. On...
- 10/30/2019
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
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