The 90th Academy Awards will air this Sunday, March 4, and Film Club is counting down the days leading up to the ceremony with an examination of this year’s major categories. Each day, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky is breaking down a category and giving us their picks for who should win, and who will win. Today they’re looking at the nominees for Best Actress. They are:
- Sally Hawkins as Elisa Esposito in The Shape Of Water
- Frances McDormand as Mildred Hayes in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Margot Robbie as Tonya Harding in I, Tonya
- Saoirse Ronan as Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson in Lady Bird
- Meryl Streep as Katharine Graham in The Post
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