Below, a closer look at this year’s actress races, both of which are unusually wide open. Billie Holiday”? And what if Glenn Close, an eight-time nominee and zero-time recipient (who knows from bunnies), had won two years ago, for “The Wife,” as was widely predicted, instead of Olivia Colman, for “The Favourite”? Would the calculus change now that both women are in the Best Supporting Actress category? The alternate universes multiply like rabbits. Had Frances McDormand not won Best Actress for the forgettable “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” in 2018, would she now be a lock for “Nomadland”? If Diana Ross had won for playing Billie Holiday, in 1973, in “Lady Sings the Blues,” would Andra Day have gained such momentum for playing the same role, in “The United States vs. The what-ifs are dizzying to contemplate, even considering just this year’s nominated actresses. Now she should get it next year when someone else may deserve it.”ĭavis’s Bunny Theory has held firm: sometimes people win for the wrong movie, or lose for the right one, causing chain reactions that can last for decades. These mistakes compound each other like the original lie that breeds like a bunny. “It was true that even if the honor had been earned, it had been earned last year,” she wrote in her book “ The Lonely Life.” “There was no doubt that Hepburn’s performance deserved the award. When Davis won anyway, she knew in her heart that it was a consolation prize. Now she was up against Katharine Hepburn, for “Alice Adams,” who even Davis believed had given the best performance of the year.
Like many in Hollywood, she felt that she should have won for “Of Human Bondage,” the previous year, when her lack of a nomination was so shocking that there was a write-in campaign. Back in 1936, Bette Davis was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for “Dangerous,” a movie she found “maudlin” and beneath her talents.
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