Cinema: Top Performers

We like these films. But what we really love is what these actors do in them. Each is worth keeping your eye on--now, at Oscar time and beyond

LAURA LINNEY YOU CAN COUNT ON ME

Laura Linney has been down this road before. It was 1998, and The Truman Show was being heaped with critical praise. By the time Oscar season rolled around, however, the film had lost much of its heat. Truman received a handful of nominations, but Linney was denied a nod for her creepy, hilarious turn as Jim Carrey's wife, an overly cheerful actress who periodically turns to hidden cameras in their home to plug household products, and the film itself was absent from the Best Picture category. "You call something the movie of the decade...

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