The Guardian pokes some fun at the predictable season by begging voters to go for Melissa Leo and some other less known nominees:
The Globes are over and the Baftas been and gone. We have, almost imperceptibly, swung into the final stretch of this year’s awards season ‚Äì rattling towards the crowning Academy Awards a week on Sunday. The trophies have been polished; the seating plans finalised. Only Melissa Leo can save us now.
And speaking of Leo, she talks to Little Gold Men and pronounces a shocking revelation: she isn’t a movie watcher and has never seen Thelma and Louise. [Meet the Nominees]