Jessica
Chastain,
Zero Dark Thirty
NOMINATED ROLE
Jessica Chastain plays Maya, a CIA agent who undertakes a decade-long search
for Osama bin Laden.
Jennifer
Lawrence
Silver Linings Playbook
NOMINATED ROLE
Jennifer Lawrence plays Tiffany, a troubled young widow who begins a complex
relationship with a man recently released from a psychiatric facility.
Emmanuelle
Riva
Amour
NOMINATED ROLE
Emmanuelle Riva plays Anne, an elderly woman being cared for by her husband
following two debilitating strokes.
Quvenzhané
Wallis
Beasts of the Southern Wild
NOMINATED ROLE
Quvenzhané Wallis plays Hushpuppy, an imaginative young girl living with her
father in an isolated Louisiana swampland.
Naomi Watts
The Impossible
NOMINATED ROLE
As Maria, Naomi Watts portrays a wife and mother struggling to survive in
the aftermath of a terrifying tsunami.
