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  • Kill the Best Actress Category

    Posted Saturday, February 21, 2009 3:56 PM | By Hanna Rosin

    The Washington Post's Monica Hesse makes a good case here for killing the best actress and best supporting actress categories, because, after all, an actor is an actor:

    Yes, it might seem screwy to compare Angelina Jolie's emotional "Changeling" performance to Richard Jenkins's in "The Visitor." But is it any more sensical to judge Jenkins's minimalist turn as a college professor against Brad Pitt's wide-eyed romp through "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"? Or really, to compare anything about the low-budget "Visitor" with the star-powered, animatronic "Benjamin"? Film is a vast and disparate medium; true apples-to-apples comparisons are almost impossible in any category.

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