FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: BEST ACTRESS

It takes guts to play someone as unlikable as NICOLE KIDMAN's character in Margot at the Wedding: a controlling, self-absorbed writer who wrecks her sister's nuptials and plays mind games with her teenage son. But Kidman digs so deeply into Margot's neuroses, turning even tree climbing into a psychological sport, that she makes inner ugliness, if not exactly beautiful, fascinating.

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