Una buena y una mala noticia para Melissa Leo

Scottfeinberg.com: "Mis conversaciones con expertos de la industria y miembros de la Academia me llevan a creer que Melissa Leo ("The fighter") sigue siendo la favorita para ganar el Oscar la mejor actriz de reparto a pesar de la polémica suscitada por sus auto-promociones. Sin embargo, la historia le da una buena y una mala noticia.

Motivo de preocupación: Desconexión BAFTA / AMPAS
Los votantes británicos conforman una parte importante de la Academia, y los ganadores del Premio BAFTA en categorías de interpretación suelen corresponder con los ganadores del Oscar. Por lo tanto, es importante la ausiencia de Melissa Leo en los BAFTA este año y la presencia en la categoría de protagonista de Hailee Steinfeld. Pero si uno observa más detalladamente, se da cuenta que muchos ganadores del Oscar no fueron reconocidos por el BAFTA, sobre todo cuando se tratan de actores norteamericanos con películas muy apegadas a la cultura y a la historia norteamericana (como puede ser el caso de "The fighter")
Sin embargo, en los últimos cinco años sólo una interpretación ha merecido la estatuilla sin haber estado nominada al BAFTA, como fue el caso de Sandra Bullock por su papel en "The blind side"
Aquí están las otras 114 ocasiones desde 1948.

    * Laurence Olivier for “Hamlet” (1948), best actor
    * Jane Wyman for “Johnny Belinda” (1948), best actress
    * Walter Huston for “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (1948), best supporting actor
    * Claire Trevor for “Key Largo” (1948), best supporting actress
    * Broderick Crawford for “All the King’s Men” (1949), best actor
    * Olivia de Havilland for “The Heiress” (1949), best actress
    * Dean Jagger for “Twelve O’Clock High” (1949), best supporting actor
    * Mercedes McCambridge for “All the King’s Men” (1949), best supporting actress
    * Jose Ferrer for “Cyrano de Bergerac” (1950), best actor
    * George Sanders for “All About Eve” (1950), best supporting actor
    * Josephine Hull for “Harvey” (1950), best supporting actress
    * Karl Malden for “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1951), best supporting actor
    * Kim Hunter for “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1951), best supporting actress
    * Gary Cooper for “High Noon” (1952), best actor
    * Anthony Quinn for “Viva Zapata!” (1952), best supporting actor
    * Gloria Grahame for “The Bad and the Beautiful” (1952), best supporting actress
    * William Holden for “Stalag 17″ (1953), best actor
    * Frank Sinatra for “From Here to Eternity” (1953), best supporting actor
    * Donna Reed for “From Here to Eternity” (1953), best supporting actress
    * Edmond O’Brien for “The Barefoot Contessa” (1954), best supporting actor
    * Eva Marie Saint for “On the Waterfront” (1954), best supporting actress
    * Jack Lemmon for “Mister Roberts” (1955), best supporting actor
    * Jo Van Fleet for “East of Eden” (1955), best supporting actress
    * Yul Brynner for “The King and I” (1956), best actor
    * Ingrid Bergman for “Anastasia” (1956), best actress
    * Anthony Quinn for “Lust for Life” (1956), best supporting actor
    * Dorothy Malone for “Written on the Wind” (1956), best supporting actress
    * Red Buttons for “Sayonara” (1957), best supporting actor
    * Miyoshi Umeki for “Sayonara” (1957), best supporting actress
    * David Niven for “Separate Tables” (1958), best actor
    * Burl Ives for “The Big Country” (1958), best supporting actor
    * Wendy Hiller for “Separate Tables” (1958), best supporting actress
    * Charlton Heston for “Ben-Hur” (1959), best actor
    * Hugh Griffith for “Ben-Hur” (1959), best supporting actor
    * Shelley Winters for “The Diary of Anne Frank” (1959), best supporting actress
    * Peter Ustinov for Spartacus” (1960), best supporting actor
    * Shirley Jones for “Elmer Gantry” (1960), best supporting actress   
* Elizabeth Taylor for “Butterfield 8″ (1960), best actress
    * George Chakiris for “West Side Story” (1961), best supporting actor
    * Rita Moreno for “West Side Story” (1961), best supporting actress
    * Ed Begley for “Sweet Bird of Youth” (1962), best supporting actor   
* Patty Duke for “The Miracle Worker” (1962), best supporting actress
    * Melvyn Douglas for “Hud” (1963), best supporting actor
    * Margaret Rutherford for “The V.I.P.’s” (1963), best supporting actress
    * Peter Ustinov for “Topkapi” (1964), best supporting actor
    * Martin Balsam for “A Thousands Clowns” (1965), best supporting actor
    * Shelley Winters for “A Patch of Blue” (1965), best supporting actress
    * Walter Matthau for “The Fortune Cookie” (1966), best supporting actor
    * Sandy Dennis for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (1966), best supporting actress
    * George Kennedy for “Cool Hand Luke” (1967), best supporting actor
    * Estelle Parsons for “Bonnie and Clyde” (1967), best supporting actress
    * Cliff Robertson for “Charly” (1968), best actor
    * Jack Albertson for “The Subject Was Roses” (1968), best supporting actor
    * Ruth Gordon for “Rosemary’s Baby” (1968), best supporting actress
    * John Wayne for “True Grit” (1969), best actor
    * Helen Hayes for “Airport” (1970), best supporting actress
    * Joel Grey for “Cabaret” (1972), best supporting actor
    * Eileen Heckart for “Butterflies Are Free” (1972), best supporting actress
    * Jack Lemmon for “Save the Tiger” (1973), best actor
    * John Houseman for “The Paper Chase” (1973), best supporting actor
    * Tatum O’Neal for “Paper Moon” (1973), best supporting actress
    * Art Carney for “Harry and Tonto” (1974), best actor
    * Robert De Niro for “The Godfather, Part II” (1974), best supporting actor
    * George Burns for “The Sunshine Boys” (1975), best supporting actor
    * Lee Grant for “Shampoo” (1975), best supporting actress
    * Beatrice Straight for “Network” (1976), best supporting actress
    * Vanessa Redgrave for “Julia” (1977), best supporting actress
    * Jon Voight for “Coming Home” (1978), best actor
    * Jane Fonda for “Coming Home” (1978), best actress
    * Maggie Smith for “California Suite” (1978), best supporting actress
    * Sally Field for “Norma Rae” (1979), best actress
    * Melvyn Douglas for “Being There” (1979), best supporting actor
    * Timothy Hutton for “Ordinary People” (1980), best supporting actor
    * Mary Steenburgen for “Melvin & Howard” (1980), best supporting actress
    * Louis Gossett, Jr. for “An Officer and a Gentleman” (1982), best supporting actor
    * Robert Duvall for “Tender Mercies” (1983), best actor
    * Jack Nicholson for “Terms of Endearment” (1983), best supporting actor
    * Linda Hunt for “The Year of Living Dangerously” (1983), best supporting actress
    * Geraldine Page for “The Trip to Bountiful” (1985), best actress
    * Don Ameche for “Cocoon” (1985), best supporting actor
    * Paul Newman for “The Color of Money” (1986), best actor
    * Mary Matlin for “Children of a Lesser God” (1986), best actress
    * Dianne Wiest for “Hannah and Her Sisters” (1986), best supporting actress
    * Michael Douglas for “Wall Street” (1987), best actor
    * Geena Davis for “The Accidental Tourist” (1988), best supporting actress
    * Jessica Tandy for “Driving Miss Daisy” (1989), best actress
    * Denzel Washington for “Glory” (1989), best supporting actor
    * Brenda Fricker for “My Left Foot” (1989), best supporting actress
    * Jeremy Irons for “Reversal of Fortune” (1990), best actor
    * Kathy Bates for “Misery” (1990), best actress
    * Joe Pesci for “GoodFellas” (1990), best supporting actor
    * Jack Palance for “City Slickers” (1991), best supporting actor
    * Mercedes Ruehl for “The Fisher King” (1991), best supporting actress
    * Al Pacino for “Scent of a Woman” (1992), best actor
    * Marisa Tomei for “My Cousin Vinny” (1992), best actor
    * Tom Hanks for “Philadelphia” (1993), best actor
    * Anna Paquin for “The Piano” (1993), best supporting actress
    * Jessica Lange for “Blue Sky” (1994), best actress
    * Dianne Wiest for “Bullets Over Broadway” (1994), best supporting actress
    * Susan Sarandon for “Dead Man Walking” (1995), best actress
    * Kevin Spacey for “The Usual Suspects” (1995), best supporting actor
    * Cuba Gooding, Jr. for “Jerry Maguire” (1996), best supporting actor
    * Jack Nicholson for “As Good As It Gets” (1997), best actor
    * Helen Hunt for “As Good As It Gets” (1997), best actress
    * Robin Williams for “Good Will Hunting” (1997), best supporting actor
    * James Coburn for “Affliction” (1998), best supporting actor
    * Hilary Swank for “Boys Don’t Cry” (1999), best actress
    * Angelina Jolie for “Girl, Interrupted” (1999), best supporting actress
    * Marcia Gay Harden for “Pollock” (2000), best supporting actress
    * Denzel Washington for “Training Day” (2001), best actor
    * Hilary Swank for “Million Dollar Baby” (2004), best actress
    * Morgan Freeman for “Million Dollar Baby” (2004), best supporting actor
    * Sandra Bullock for “The Blind Side” (2009), best actress

Motivo de esperanza: Conexion BFCA - HFPA - SAG - AMPAS
Esta temporada de premios, Leo ha ganado el premio a mejor actriz secundaria en los tres premios más importantes de la industria: los Critics' Choice, el SAG y el Globo de Oro. En los 14 años que han coincidido los tres premios, sólo tres actores se han quedado sin Oscar a pesar de haber ganado en los tres anteriores

    * Mira Sorvino for “Mighty Aphrodite” (1995), best supporting actress
    * Geoffrey Rush for “Shine” (1996), best actor
    * Jack Nicholson for “As Good As It Gets” (1997), best actor
    * Angelina Jolie for “Girl, Interrupted” (1999), best supporting actress
    * Julia Roberts for “Erin Brokovich” (2000), best actress
    * Russell Crowe for “A Beautiful Mind” (2001), best actor PERDIÓ
   * Charlize Theron for “Monster” (2003), best actress
    * Tim Robbins for “Mystic River” (2003), best supporting actor
    * Renee Zellweger for “Cold Mountain” (2003), best supporting actress
    * Jamie Foxx for “Ray” (2004), best actor
    * Hilary Swank for “Million Dollar Baby” (2004), best actress
    * Philip Seymour Hoffman for “Capote” (2005), best actor
    * Reese Witherspoon for “Walk the Line” (2005), best actress
    * Forest Whitaker for “The Last King of Scotland” (2006), best actor
    * Helen Mirren for “The Queen” (2006), best actress
    * Eddie Murphy for “Dreamgirls” (2006), best supporting actor PERDIÓ
   * Jennifer Hudson for “Dreamgirls” (2006), best supporting actress
    * Daniel Day-Lewis for “There Will Be Blood” (2007), best actor
    * Julie Christie for “Away from Her” (2007), best actress PERDIÓ
   * Javier Bardem for “No Country for Old Men” (2007), best supporting actor
    * Heath Ledger for “The Dark Knight” (2008), best supporting actor
    * Kate Winslet for “The Reader” (2008), best supporting actress (GANÓ EN PROTAGONISTA)   
    * Jeff Bridges for “Crazy Heart” (2009), best actor
    * Sandra Bullock for “The Blind Side” (2009), best actress
    * Christoph Waltz for “Inglourious Basterds” (2009), best supporting actor
    * Mo’Nique for “Precious” (2009), best supporting actress