Kristin Scott Thomas for the Oscar!
Surely she has a good shot with the raves she's picking up:
"Kristin Scott Thomas' performance in "I've Loved You So Long" is one of a small handful of highlights by which people will remember this year in movies. This is acting at its most exalted. This is film being used for its supreme purpose and function, to show us, moment by moment, the grand movements of a soul. If we're lucky, we get one or two gifts like this a year.
Of course, it says something that Thomas, a 48-year-old English actress who has worked steadily in film for 20 years, should finally land the role of a lifetime not in Hollywood or Britain, but in France. That's a discussion for another day. Suffice it to say that Thomas, previously typed as arch and intellectual, goes to places inside that come as a surprise, probably even to herself." - Mick La Salle, San Francisco Chronicle
"When you're doing a film like this, you want the best acting you can get, and writer and first-time director Philippe Claudel chose brilliantly when he picked Kristin Scott Thomas to star as the shattered Juliette. The bilingual Thomas is best known to domestic audiences for her Oscar-nominated performance in "The English Patient." Her roles, whether in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" or "Gosford Park" or the recent French-language "Tell No One," have always exuded a kind of imperturbable confidence. But her Juliette is nothing like that, nothing like that at all." - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"Some actors grow more skilled seemingly under the radar. Hence the notion that major performances are "a revelation" or a happy surprise. Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient) has never disappointed in any role, but she has remained low-key, seemingly uninterested in international stardom. In the French language film I've Loved You So Long, she is given the opportunity to shine with a fierceness that is rare in Hollywood films." - Claudia Puig, USA Today
"Kristin Scott Thomas is tremendously moving in "I've Loved You So Long" - Lou Lumenick, New York Post
"Most screen actors are competent, but few are great. So most are at the mercy of their material, capable of rising to the challenge of a good script, yet doomed to fall to the level of a bad one. Yes, a skilled actor can sometimes enliven a dud picture - that's fairly common. But only rarely, very rarely, does a performance not only dominate our attention but actually elevate a film beyond its intrinsic merit. Without Kristin Scott Thomas, I've Loved You So Long would be a watchable but hardly a memorable movie. With her, it's both - she so fully inhabits the character that everyone and everything around her are simply enhanced." - Rick Groen, Toronto Globe and Mail
"a deep, subtle and altogether stunning performance" - A.O. Scott, New York Times
"Kristin Scott Thomas deserves an award for her stupendous turn as a woman released from prison trying to rebuild her relationship with her estranged sister, and regain her place in society." - Maggie Lee, The Hollywood Reporter
"The impolitic-to-the-end Robert Altman complained that while Maggie Smith won the raves and the Oscar nomination for Gosford Park, Kristin Scott Thomas gave the richer, deeper performance. I wouldn't want to choose between those marvelous actors, but it's true that Dame Maggie was all (exquisite) sniffles and bleats, while Scott Thomas gave her crisp aristocrat layer upon layer of subtext. There's no chance that Scott Thomas will be overlooked these days, with her grand yet pathetic Arkadina in The Seagull on Broadway, and now her tour-de-force star turn (in French!) in the melancholy drama I've Loved You So Long... Scott Thomas's face, even immobile, keeps you watching, searching for hints of her character's past, unable to blink for fear of missing something vital." - David Edelstein, New York Magazine
GO KRISTIN!