DRAMA QUEEN
Actress Olivia Colman is in line to be crowned best actress at the US Golden Globe awards next month for her performance as Queen Anne in the film ‘The Favourite’. Also shortlisted for an award are fellow Britons Emily Blunt, Hugh Grant and Claire Foy.
SHE WILL shortly be seen as the Queen in the third series of The Crown, the epic Netflix dramatisation of the Royal family from the 1940s to the present.
But it is for her portrayal of an earlier monarch that Olivia Colman found herself on the shortlist for a Golden Globe yesterday. The Hollywood awards encompass film and TV and are seen as a first indicator of next year’s likely Oscars.
Ms Colman was nominated as best actress for her performance as Queen Anne in the 18th century comedy-drama, The
Favourite, in which two cousins jockey for the Queen’s attention.
Another British actress, Emily Blunt, is nominated for taking the title role in the sequel to the 1964 Disney classic, Mary Poppins Returns.
Claire Foy, the Leeds-educated actress who starred in the first two series of The Crown ,hasa supporting actress nomination
The awards encompass film and TV and are seen as a first indicator of next year’s likely Oscars.
for playing Janet Armstrong, wife of the astronaut Neil Armstrong, opposite Ryan Gosling, in the film, First Man. The film section is dominated by the remake of A Star Is Born, with nominations for best picture and for its stars, Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga. Cooper is also nominated as best director and his co-star for best song. In the television section, Hugh Grant and Benedict Cumberbatch are both in the running for a best actor statuette – Grant for impersonating the disgraced former Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe in the BBC’s A Very British Scandal, which was also shown to acclaim in the US, and Cumberbatch for the Sky Atlantic series, Patrick Melrose. Meanwhile, Grant’s costar Ben Whishaw, who played Thorpe’s former lover Norman Scott, is nominated in the supporting actor category.