Saoirse’s already tipped for another Oscar nod
‘Pairing is what Oscar dreams are made of’
SAOIRSE Ronan is already being tipped for a fifth Oscar nomination for her role in her upcoming movie about a lesbian romance.
Variety magazine is predicting that the Carlow actress will be in the running for an Academy nomination next year for her role opposite Kate Winslet in the period movie Ammonite.
The film tells the story of Mary Anning, a fossil hunter who develops an intense relationship with a young woman after being sent to convalesce by the sea.
‘Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan in a period piece are what Oscar dreams are made of,’ Variety said. ‘The Titanic star portrays Mary Anning, the 20th century
British palaeontologist who becomes romantically involved with another woman (played by Ms Ronan).’
But Variety added the film has been hit by controversy after some members of Anning’s family have publicly protested because they insist her sexuality was never confirmed.
The Brooklyn star is the second youngest performer, male or female, to amass four nominations with the record held by Jennifer Lawrence.
Lawrence was 25 when she received her fourth nomination, for Best Actress for the film Joy in 2015 – and was just four months younger than Ms Ronan when she got her fourth nod. The Irish actress was just 12 when she first walked the red carpet as an Academy Award nominee in 2007 for best actress in a supporting role for her performance as Briony Tallis in Atonement.
Eight years later she was nominated in the best actress category for Brooklyn and she was back in the same category two years later in 2017 for her leading role in Lady Bird.
Ms Ronan took a hiatus from acting last year after more than a decade of movie roles. But before her acting break, she had wrapped production on The French Dispatch which will see her starring opposite actor Timothée Chalamet for the third time in as many years.
The film was helmed by Wes Anderson, who also directed Ms Ronan in The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Set in the 1950s, it centres around a group of journalists at an American newspaper bureau in Paris.