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Wednesday, March 16, 1994
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Two actresses up for double play at Oscars
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By Bob Thomas The Associated Press
LOSANGLEES—Can Holly Hunter or Emma Thompson score a double Oscar in the same year? No performer has ever done it, but anything is possible in the Academy Awards.
The contention for best supporting actress of 1993 is complicated by the fact that both Hunter and Thompson also were nominated for starring roles. That has happened six times in the 58 years since the supporting category was instituted.
Double nominees Fay Bainter (1938), Teresa Wright (1942), Barry Fitzgerald (1944) and Jessica Lange (1982) ended up winning for supporting roles. Last year, Al Pacino became the only double nominee to collect the prize for lead actor. Sigourney Weaver (1988) did not win in either category.
This year's supporting actress nominees present an array of youth. None is older than 40, and one is 11. Here's a look:
- Also nominated for her leading role in "The Piano," Georgia-born Holly Hunter was a surprise entry as the gum-chewing secretary in "The Firm," the Tom Cruise vehicle that was a commercial but not a critical success.
From the beginning of her starring career in "Raising Ari-
zona," which was made before but released after her Oscar-nominated "Broadcast News," Hunter has specialized in quirky, idiosyncratic roles.
Her failure to follow up on her "Broadcast News" sensation puzzled Hollywood. She explained in a "Newsweek" interview: "A lot of the stuff I got after that was for upwardly mobile executive types under heavy pressure." She chose to concentrate on stage work until more diverse roles came along.
- Eleven-year-old Anna Paquin of "The Piano" is the youngest acting nominee since Justin Henry was cited for "Kramer vs. Kramer" at 8. She was a schoolgirl in Wellington, New Zealand, when she heard that director-writer Jane Campion was holding auditions for the role of Hunter's daughter in "The Piano." Paquin was chosen from 5,000 girls.
"I didn't know anything about making movies before," she said. "It's not as glamorous as it seems, especially when you have to do something many, many times.
To prepare for the role, Paquin had to learn a Scottish accent as well as sign language to communicate with her mute mother, Hunter. No big deal, she told a Los Angeles Times interviewer. During her visit to Hollywood, she refused to be overwhelmed by her new-found fame.
"My favorite scene, playing football with a cabbage in the mud, never got in. For that matter, neither did my least
favorite one — sitting in a cold, freezing stream. And it's difficult to judge the film based on what I've been allowed to see of it." ("The Piano" contains ample sex and frontal nudity.)
- Brooklyn-born with 10 brothers and sisters, Rosie Perez of "Fearless" attended college in Los Angeles and began performing as a dancer on TV's "Soul Train." She moved into the music business, choreographing rock bands, stage shows and music videos. She was two nominated for Emmys for her choreography of "In Living Color."
- Perez began an acting career with Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing." She grabbed the attention of critics, audiences and directors as Woody Harrelson's "Jeopardy"-obsessed girlfriend in "White Men Can't Jump."
- Onscreen, Nancy Ryder of "The Age of Innocence" stands out like "a polar bear on black velvet," Timothy Leary once proclaimed. He was a friend of the actress' parents, onetime hippies who raised her in Haight-Ashbury and on a commune before settling in Petaluma, north of San Francisco.
But her strongest role came in "Fearless" as the guilt-ridden woman who survives a plane crash in which her baby is killed.
Ryder, named for her birthplace in Minnesota, trained at San Francisco's prestigious American Conservatory Theater and made her film debut at 15 in "Lucas."
Her other movies include "Beetlejuice," "Great Balls of Fire," "Heathers," "Edward Scissorhands," "Mermaids" and "Bram Stoker's Dracula."
Then Martin Scorsese cast her as Daniel Day-Lewis' thwarted fancier in "The Age of Innocence."
Her onetime boyfriend, Johnny Depp, once said: "Winona could be the Lillian Gish of the next century. I see her in 2040 still doing movies. She's got that much time and energy left."
- Although Emma Thompson began her career in comedies and musicals, she has won her greatest honors as a serious actress. Last year's Oscar for "Howards End" could be followed by two more. Besides her nomination for lead actress in "The Remains of the Day," she turns up in the supporting category for "In the Name of the Father."
Thompson is cast as Gareth Peirce, an attorney who believes that the Irish drifter Gerry Conlon had been railroaded to prison for an IRA bombing by overzealous police.
In an interview on the set, the actress commented about her character: "She knows immediately that (Conlon) is innocent, and then her reaction is what she can do to get them out. I think she's deeply involved, not only in their case but in the whole issue of civil rights."
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