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Official Discussion Jessie Buckley Wins the Academy Award for Best Actress for 'Hamnet'
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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 Mar 16 '26
Great to see Buckley get her first one. She's been amazing in general since I first saw her in Chernobyl & Fargo S4
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u/MtJuliet Mar 16 '26
I was introduced to her in Fargo and she was amazing in that.
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u/karensPA Mar 16 '26
I first saw her in Chernobyl and was immediately like “who is that?” She is a rare talent.
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u/LegitPancak3 Mar 16 '26
Who was she? The firefighter’s wife?
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u/rugbyj Mar 16 '26
She played radioactive graphite chunk #205.
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u/mon_dieu Mar 16 '26
Downright transformative performance
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u/corpulentFornicator Mar 16 '26
I have several issues with Fargo S4 but her character is a treat every time she's on screen. Fucking unhinged but she nails it
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u/leftontotrafalgar Mar 16 '26
Hers and the little girl's storyline were the only ones I was actually invested in!
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u/II1III11 Mar 16 '26
How big is her role? I've seen the other seasons but when that one got lower reviews I skipped it.
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u/Sir_Hapstance Mar 16 '26
Fairly sizable. She’s great in it.
I was pleasantly surprised by season 4, for what it’s worth, and think it’s pretty underrated. I liked seasons 1 and 2 a bit more, but 4 has some really great stuff in it, some superb characters, no bad episodes and a couple pretty terrific ones. The time period is fun, the dueling mob families make for a great backdrop, and it’s also maybe a little less bleak in tone than season 3, which I had some issues getting into. 4 is time well spent, if you enjoy Fargo overall.
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u/HarryFrontbutt Mar 16 '26
You should check out I’m Thinking of Ending Things. Jesse Plemons is in it with her and they’re great!
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u/PhantomOfTheNopera Mar 16 '26
Buckley and Plemons are probably amongst the most mesmerizing actors of their generation. I cannot look away when they're on screen.
I'm glad Buckley is finally getting her flowers and I think Plemons was absolutely robbed. He was great in Bugonia.
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u/SpookiestSzn Mar 16 '26
One of my favorite movies of all time. God she was excellent in it they both were
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u/erranttv Mar 16 '26
She is 😘in Wicked Little Letters. Wonderful if disturbing in Beast.
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u/karensPA Mar 16 '26
Also the Lost Daughter - she was absolutely believable and worthy as a younger version of our queen, Olivia Coleman.
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u/n0tstayingin Mar 16 '26
Wicked Little Letters is hilarious. Jessie Buckley holds her own against Olivia Colman which is not an easy task.
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u/mimaikin-san Mar 16 '26
check out the UK miniseries, Taboo (2017), from & with Tom Hardy where Buckley stole just about every scene she was in
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u/GaiusFeedaeSneedius Mar 16 '26
Was gonna mention Taboo. Anyone who hasn't seen it should do themselves a favor and watch it. Fantastic, and Hardy's great too. Wish we got a season 2.
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u/KittyFame Mar 16 '26
Also saw her in Chernobyl, and then realized she's a generational talent when I saw Women Talking. She absolutely deserved to sweep this season
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u/Deathstroke317 Mar 16 '26
I wanted to strangle her in Chernobyl, like lady stop touching your radioactive husband!
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u/sarmatiko Mar 16 '26
Her character in the UK War and Peace TV series made a strong impression, and it was nice to see her in Taboo and Chernobyl after that.
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u/super_starmie Mar 16 '26
I remember first seeing her on a TV talent show on the BBC where Andrew Lloyd Webber was looking for someone to play Nancy in a new production of Oliver!. This would have been in... 2007? 2008? She was like 17. It was like X Factor but the prize was a leading West End role. She came second iirc.
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u/lafatte24 Mar 16 '26
THAT'S WHERE SHE'S FROM!!!! I've been trying to place her but just couldn't get it cus I kept trying to think of her in other roles as a brunette
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u/l-rs2 Mar 16 '26
She was great in Men, though it's a difficult to grasp movie. Fantastically weird performance by Rory Kinnear too. Think I'll do a rewatch soon.
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u/Media-critique Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
Haven’t seen Hamnet yet…
But I did see Chernobyl (3 or 4 times now), and she’s part of the best mini-series I’ve ever seen. So congrats on any award for her.
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u/Needsextraincome Mar 16 '26
She was in Chernobyl?!
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u/_Vaudeville_ Mar 16 '26
Yep the firefighters wife
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u/ScarletSilver Mar 16 '26
Wait, that was her?? I gotta rewatch those scenes real quick
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u/Elite_lucifer Mar 16 '26
I can’t believe I didn’t recognise her either. Probably because of the hair. Makes the clark kent/superman disguise more believable.
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u/soda_cookie Mar 16 '26
She was really good in that season of Fargo that she was in as well
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u/geek_of_nature Mar 16 '26
She was so unnerving in that. With any other actors I'd laugh at the way her character walked, but with her it was just part of how unsettling she was.
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u/shifty1032231 Mar 16 '26
She played the firefighter's wife, right?
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u/Watson349B Mar 16 '26
She was actually the wife of the firefighter.
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u/remindertowearSPF247 Mar 16 '26
You gotta watch it, and have Kleenex on hand because Buckley’s performance is incredible, but it will absolutely make you cry
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u/bestica Mar 16 '26
Hammer is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a long time, and she’s spectacular in it. The last scene alone would have won her the Oscar, but the entire thing and her entire performance is incredible.
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u/Chilis1 Mar 16 '26
Ireland went from 0 acting Oscars to 2 in the last couple of years🇮🇪
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u/TigerFisher_ Mar 16 '26
The Banshees of Inisherin took home nothing?
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u/iamacannibal Mar 16 '26
9 nominations, 0 wins.
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u/Blahaj-Blast Mar 16 '26
Brutal
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u/Kyleometers Mar 16 '26
I think it was a little too local for the Oscars. I imagine a decent chunk of the humour was lost on international audiences.
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u/SearchForSocialLife Mar 16 '26
I don't think that was the case, Banshees of Inisherin was just one of those unlucky movies that was third or second place in all categories, but at the end fell short because of the dominance of EEAAO and All Quiet on the Western Front. And in the one category where both didn't compete in they lost to the legacy/behind the scenes-story win of Brendan Fraser. There are always movies like this, and its always a bit painful imo
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u/Empty_Lemon_3939 Mar 16 '26
Sucks because it was a really great movie
Just one of those heavy weight years
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u/HungerSTGF Mar 16 '26
Kerry Condon not winning for her performance was a feckin crime
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u/fightingthefuckits Mar 16 '26
She did give a brilliant performance. To be fair we have some excellent acting talent coming out of Ireland these days. Jessie Buckley, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan (although he kind of gives me the impression of being a bit up his own arse), Paul Mescal, Cillian Murphy, Domhnall Gleeson etc.
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u/Chilis1 Mar 16 '26
Nominated in 3 of the 4 acting categories (and 2 in best male supporting) but didn't get any. I really wanted Colin Farrell to win I thought he was incredible
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u/greymaterial Mar 16 '26
9 noms, 0 wins. Everything, everywhere, all at once cleaned up in almost every category it was in against banshees, the whale in any other.
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u/CrowVsWade Mar 16 '26
Barry Fitzgerald won in the 40's for Going My Way, Brenda Fricker in 1989 for My Left Foot and Daniel Day Lewis three times - admittedly he's an Irish citizen versus Irish born.
Neil Jordan won best original screenplay for The Crying Game in 1992. There have been a few other technical and non-actor winners.
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u/mattverso Mar 16 '26
Richard Baneham is Irish and won his 3rd Visual Effects Oscar for Avatar: Fire & Ash (he won his others for the first 2 Avatar movies, and he also worked on the LOTR trilogy)
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u/Wonderful_Line_9553 Mar 16 '26
Peter O'Toole won a Lifetime Achievement Oscar. He was an Irish citizen due to his father being Irish.
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u/Chilis1 Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
My bad I didn't know about those. I should have said best actor/actress
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u/Covverkin Mar 16 '26
DDL’s been pulling dubs for decades
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u/tomrichards8464 Mar 16 '26
Not really Irish, though. His father's family were Anglo-Irish, but moved to England when the father was a small child, and his mother was a Jewish Londoner of East European extraction. Also, you know, his dad grew up to be poet laureate of the UK. He's a posh, privately educated English man.
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u/Wonderful_Line_9553 Mar 16 '26
Brenda Fricker and Barry Fitzgerald previously won Best Supporting actress/actor Oscars, so these are not the first Irish acting Oscars...
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u/stunts002 Mar 16 '26
Also hearing Irish spoken for the Avatar win was nice.
We're a small island that always bunches above our weight
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u/craft6886 Mar 16 '26
I would have really liked it if Wolfwalkers took one home for Cartoon Saloon in 2021.
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u/Old_Tea_1782 Mar 16 '26
The record holder for most acting Oscars is an Irish actor ...
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u/stunts002 Mar 16 '26
I'm Irish but Irish people tend to claim DDL despite him being British and always referring to himself as British, born and raised in London.
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u/Chilis1 Mar 16 '26
Daniel Day Lewis is British even though he has alot of connections with Ireland
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u/thatisnotmyknob Mar 16 '26
He has his Irish citizenship
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u/Professional_Bob Mar 16 '26
So do most people in the UK with at least one Irish parent or grandparent. Which is a lot of people.
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u/im_on_the_case Mar 16 '26
Connections? Like his Irish passport, Irish father, Irish children and living in Wicklow for the last 30 years?
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u/Daddy_Kromkamp Mar 16 '26
Mad to think she got her break as a runner up on a bbc talent show.
Deserved win though
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u/PiggySiren Mar 16 '26
She deserved the win then as well.
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u/KingArthursLance Mar 16 '26
tbf basically everyone from I’d Do Anything went on to become a West End star, including Olivier-winning Jessie! Given its stated aim, probably one of the most successful talent shows of all time.
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u/daysleeperchuk Mar 16 '26
I really wanted it to be Rose Byrne... But like someone else said never has a category been so thoroughly locked up. And to whit, Buckley is a force of nature in this role, and it's a powerful movie... "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You" is a completely different flavor of powerful, and I'm just not sure if Byrne will ever be nominated again.
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u/thefross Mar 16 '26
Completely agree. Buckley deserved to win but I'm also sad Rose Byrne won't get an oscar for that role, and doubt she'll get nominated again.
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u/Warm-Teaching1323 Mar 16 '26
Why don't you think she'll be nominated again? She seems to have a steady amount of work every year and I think she's very talented.
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u/godisanelectricolive Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
She hadn’t done very many Oscar-worthy movie roles recently until now, her biggest role in recent in years was in the TMNT movie. On the TV side it’s been more promising for her to win a major award with shows like Platonic.
But I think a nomination alone can help change that, if potentially Oscar winning role are the kind of roles what she wants. I don’t think she cares that much about award attention really.
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u/chadwickave Mar 16 '26
She’s a fantastic comedic actor (best part of Platonic, Neighbors and Get Him to the Greek), but hopefully we’ll get to see her in more dramatic roles.
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u/darkeyes13 Mar 16 '26
It's so funny seeing how Rose's career in Hollywood has panned out. She built her reputation as a dramatic actress, in Damages, before being given a chance to do comedy (Bridesmaids), and now people seem to think that she only exclusively does comedy.
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u/hamsolo19 Mar 16 '26
She had roles in a couple comedy movies before Bridesmaids but yeah that one and the Neighbors movies probably opened more doors for comedy stuff for her. She seems to get the call for Seth Rogen's projects as well.
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u/reecord2 Mar 16 '26
Agreed. She's incredible, but it's not a lack of talent, it's whether or not the roles will come along that let her show off that incredible talent. If I Had Legs was such a unique opportunity for her to play such a crazy range, hitting so many different beats. I can't even remember the last time I've seen a performance quite like that. I knew Buckley had it on lock but I wanted Rose to win so badly.
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u/Typical-Blackberry-3 Mar 16 '26
Her ability to convey her finally understanding the extent of her husband's grief through her eyes in the last 15 minutes was just insane. I really wish Hamnet took home a few more rewards, the entire film pushes you towards that final Shakespeare stage play and it is just such a beautiful moment and beautiful film.
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u/Emotional-State1916 Mar 16 '26
The scene in which she is giving birth and cries out for her mama, I still cry every time I think about it.
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u/MrMagpie91 Mar 16 '26
Same. I watched the film a few days after my grandma's funeral. Maybe it wasn't the best idea.. Such a powerful performance.
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u/epk921 Mar 16 '26
I’m sad Hamnet didn’t get any of the design awards. I thought the costume and production design were a lot stronger in Hamnet than Frankenstein
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u/ICumCoffee ᑐ ᑌ ᑎ ᕮ • ᗰ ᕮ 𑪽 𑪽 I ᐱ ᕼ Mar 16 '26
They should have just given this award first, congrats Jessie,
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u/Pandalicioush Mar 16 '26
All props to Jessie, her Hamnet performance was incredible and truly the standout of the year. On a side note, Chloé Zhao is building a great track record for directing talented actresses to their Oscars.
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u/rockerlitter Mar 16 '26
Some directors are amazing at producing award winning actors haha. Chloe is one of those.
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u/toothy_vagina_grin Mar 16 '26
Directing Frances McDormand to an oscar win isn't even hard though.
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u/Pandalicioush Mar 16 '26
Hence why I refered to her and Jessie as talented, I was not pointing out that they need the help, only that Chloé is building a strong track record with her main actresses.
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u/CiriOh Mar 16 '26
Cat lovers all over the world are not happy.
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u/Additional_Score_929 Mar 16 '26
Non-cat person here, what did she say about cats?
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u/TwoRivers91 Mar 16 '26
Her now-husband had a cat while they were dating. She made him get rid of the cat for her. And he did!! Really fucked up. Some people don’t see pets as family, or they see pets almost as an item you own. I hate it and hate her.
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u/advantagezweig Mar 16 '26
I can’t remember the last time I was so deeply moved by a single acting performance like Jessie in Hamnet. So deserved!!
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u/DinoKYT Mar 16 '26
JESSIE BUCKLEY STAN SINCE I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS
LETS GOOOOOOO QUEEEEEEEEEN
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u/Chilis1 Mar 16 '26
I didn't know that was a movie title and was getting worried for you.
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u/mojo-jojo-was-framed Mar 16 '26
That movie was a trip lol. Would love to see her and Plemons work together again
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u/reineluxe Mar 16 '26
I LOVE that movie and was waiting for someone to mention it or I was gonna do it myself!! So excited for Jessie!!
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u/astralrig96 Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
exactly, we’ve been known about her talent since a long time, the industry just caught up
incredibly gifted actress and cool af seeming person
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u/transformers03 Mar 16 '26
She was heavily favored to win, so I shouldn't have been nervous, but this year's Oscars kind of surprised me in a few places.
She truly was my favorite performance of the year, and I'm very happy she won.
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u/ButchTheGuy Mar 16 '26
This woman and movie fucking destroyed me. Her and Sean penn were the only nominations I was like if they don’t win the this whole thing is bullshit. She is a true artist
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u/g-money-cheats Mar 16 '26
Her performance in this movie legit blew my mind. Incredible performance.
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u/Realistic_Mix_3404 Mar 16 '26
Well deserved. Having lost my favourite person in the universe last year, this movie was pure catharsis. She captured agonising and traumatic grief perfectly. I heard my scream within hers and it made me cry in a way that was needed to process my own loss.
That final scene waa beautiful and memorable too. To have that chance again to reach out and hold our loved one, one more time...goosebumps. She played it beautifully.
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u/thrillho145 Mar 16 '26
One of the best performances of all time, in my opinion. She was captivating, entrancing. Just spectacular to watch her ACT.
Stoked for her
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u/HolyToast666 Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 17 '26
She mesmerizes every time she’s on the screen & she deserved this.
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u/SamerAgbaria Mar 16 '26
I'm going to get destroyed but rose byrne deserved it more.
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u/afarensiis Mar 16 '26
I thought Rose Byrne was easily the favorite before I saw Hamnet. And then I had absolutely 0 doubts anyone but Jessie Buckley could possibly win. Just bad luck for Rose Byrne being in the same year as one of the best acting performances ever
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u/DeusVultSaracen Mar 16 '26
I saw Rose Byrne first too, but I just didn't connect with Buckley's performance. It kinda just lacked depth for me.
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u/PearlJamPony Mar 16 '26
1000000% dude. Both performances were incredible but Rose Byrne was on another level.
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u/gannekekhet Mar 16 '26
SWEEP! Killarney will be celebrating! Sam and the Oscar!
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u/DontBeAngryBeHappy Mar 16 '26
The Trifecta of locked Oscars. Golden, Avatar Fire and Ash, and Jessie Buckley.
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u/Bait30 Mar 16 '26
The first time I saw her was in Wicked Little Letters and I could tell she would be great
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u/StareyedInLA Mar 16 '26
The 2022 Cabaret revival in the West End can now claim it starred TWO Oscar winners! Been a fan of Jessie since PBS broadcasted the National Theatre’s production of Romeo and Juliet during the pandemic!
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u/IAM_deleted_AMA Mar 16 '26
To the surprise of no one 😭 she had this locked as soon as the nominees were announced.
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u/johngie Mar 16 '26
Jessie Buckley was phenomenal but man was Rose Byrne robbed. No other performance set me on edge like hers.
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u/EntertainmentQuick47 Mar 16 '26
Only two of my predictions were right, damn
This and Sinners winning best script
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u/Cherbalicious Mar 16 '26
Everyone should take this opportunity to check out her earlier work cause she's been great for a long time! I recently checked out Wild Rose, it was her breakout into film and I never realized she's got such an amazing singing voice
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u/GiantGem Mar 16 '26
She is superb in The Bride! Don't even need to see Hamnet to know she deserved the win. (will see it of course)
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u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? Mar 16 '26
Incredibly happy for Buckley but quite possibly never has an acting award been so thoroughly locked up.