AFT Awards: Best Actress in a Supporting Role

This is the fourth category of the 2nd Annual AFT Film Awards to be announced. The AFT Awards are my own personal choices for the best in film of each year and the best in television of each season. The AFT Film Awards include the traditional Oscar categories and a number of additional specific honors. Nominees are pictured in the order I’ve ranked them.

Runners-up:
ALEXIS ZEGERMAN, HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
REBEKKA KARIJORD, REPRISE
RACHEL MCADAMS, THE LUCKY ONES
SAMANTHA MORTON, SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK
MILA KUNIS, FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL

The winner:
Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire) broke out in a major way with a completely wonderful and romantic performance as a long lost love.

Other nominees:
Rosemarie DeWitt (Rachel Getting Married) was a perfect complement to Anne Hathaway’s more ferocious sister and also broke through in a big way. Angelica Huston (Choke) created an entirely mystical character whose true motivations and thoughts are unknown, due in part to her deteriorating memory. Elsa Zylberstein (I’ve Loved You So Long) gave Kristin Scott Thomas a run for her money as a chipper younger sister quietly desperate for her older sibling’s approval. Natalie Portman (My Bluebbery Nights) was impossibly enchanting, and her character’s zaniness matched her outrageous hair color.