Best Actress

I was Adam's thoughts on Best Actress (as in "And the Oscar goes to) and in the comments there were was something that I wanted to address.

"Though she does have that whole "won the Emmy for a queen, and then an oscar for a different queen" hook... but I'd like to think people won't vote for her on that basis alone."

Oscar voters may not vote for her on that, but you know who might? THE HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS. So, she will most certainly be nominated in Best Actress in a Mini-series or Made for TV Movie (or whatever their category is called) for Elizabeth I and also in Best Actress in a Drama for The Queen (in which, as we all know, portrays Queen Elizabeth II).

So it's one thing for Mirren to win the Emmy for Elizabeth I (my emmy comments here) and an Oscar for The Queen but imagine winning Golden Globes for both roles (aka, on the same night, possibly mere minutes apart). Is that a gimmick too juicy for the HFPA to jump on? Sure, Helen Mirren isn't exactly Reese Witherspoon or something, but they love their Brit's don't they? It get's the mind running...

And if Mirren wins the Globe, she will be in a similar position to another vet from a few years back... Sissy Spacek. Of coarse she ended up losing the Oscar to a deglammer. But as has already been noted at various sites, there doesn't really seem to be a strong deglammer in the running, unless a studio like The Weinstein Company pull a Felicity Huffman out their arse and give everyone in Oscar-land a big ol' fright...