AFT Awards: Best Actress in a Supporting Role

This is the fourth category of the 3rd 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 and drawn from a pool of approximately 92 films. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order):
Kristen Bell (Serious Moonlight), Leonie Benesch (The White Ribbon), Abigail Breslin (Zombieland), Penelope Cruz (Nine), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Away We Go),Kate Hudson (Nine), Alia Shawkat (Whip It), Imelda Staunton (Taking Woodstock),Emma Stone (Zombieland)

Runners-up:
BIANCA PORTILLO (Broken Embraces)
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL (Away We Go)
MIA WASIKOWSKA (That Evening Sun)
SAMANTHA MORTON (The Messenger)
ALICE KRIGE (Skin)

The winner:
Mélanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds) was brave, rude, cunning, and seductive as the lone surviving member of her family who conveyed so much of her history with just a flicker of her eyes.

Other nominees:
Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air) was insistent, whiny, and altogether brilliantly entertaining as a young upstart determined to change George Clooney’s way of thinking. Julianne Moore (A Single Man) was gloriously British, beautiful, and over the top as a washed-up 60s socialite. Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air) was the perfect match for George Clooney’s wandering traveler, and went shot for shot with him in each one of their remarkable fast-paced conversations. Kerry Condon (The Last Station) stole the show in a film full of more experienced actors and managed to both intimidate and win the heart of James McAvoy with her very impressive ability to chop wood.