Now much will heralded performances and costly ad campaigns mean when Oscar nominations roll around on Feb. 19? Probably not much. What counts more are the intangibles — the hidden factors that, for example, will enhance the chances of the leading Best Actress contenders:
Jodie Foster
Magazine profiles, including Time and Premierecovers.
Eight TV talk-show appearances, but not the Today show,
which she walked off when Bryant Gumbel wouldn't muzzle John Hinckley
questions.
Golden Globe, New York Film Critics Circle, and Women in
Film awards. — Considered a Renaissance woman after directing Little
Man Tate.
Enormous grosses for Silence of the Lambs.
Annette Bening
Magazine profiles, including Cosmopolitan and
Premiere.
Talk-show appearances.
Glowing references in all of
Warren Beatty's interviews.
Sympathy vote for having to give up
Catwoman role in Batman Returns because of pregnancy.
Bette Midler
Six big magazine profiles, including Vanity Fair's
cover.
Promotional blitz hawking For the Boys, including appearances
with Johnny Carson, Arsenio Hall, Oprah Winfrey, and Barbara Walters.
Golden Globe winner.
Sympathy vote because of Geraldo boast and
because her dream project is a bomb.
Susan Sarandon
Magazine profiles, including Time's cover with
Thelma & Louise costar Geena Davis.
Shared National Board of Review
award with costar Davis.
Leading liberal in industry gets support
from simpatico Academy members.
Now available on video, her movie
taps spirit of female outrage over Clarence Thomas and Willie Smith.
Guilt factor: She wasn't even nominated for Bull Durham.
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