24. Oscars 2024: Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

"We need to be quiet for awhile. Storm... it's powerful, so we need to be quiet for awhile."

For our final week on the 96th Academy Awards Best Actress nominees, we are talking about the breakout star of the group: Lily Gladstone in Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). The film is described as an American American epic, wester crime drama and centres around the Osage Nation–at one point, the richest community per capita on earth. That is, until white people got involved and Osage members began mysteriously being killed.

Lily Gladstone plays Mollie, a strong Osage woman whose family's fortune becomes the target of Robert De Niro's William King Hale, the deputy sheriff, and his naive nephew, Ernest Burkhart, played by Leonardo DiCaprio. Gladstone presents one of the more understated and intentional performances of this year's Oscar nominees; however, her performance is as powerful in what is unsaid as in what is said.

Listen to the end to hear our final predictions and rankings for who will snatch the trophy, and tune into the Oscars this Sunday to see how wrong we probably are!

Next Week's Film: Grand Hotel (1932)

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