"Judy" 2020 Oscars
February 9, 2020
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"JUDY"
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role / Renee Zellweger, "Judy"
It bears noting that actresses who play Judy Garland have a habit of winning all the awards; BOTH actresses who played her in the 2001 miniseries starring Judy Davis won Emmys for the different phases of Garland’s life, and last night Renee Zellweger won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her portrayal of Garland in the 2019 motion picture "Judy", released fifty years after Garland's death in the year Ms. Zellweger was born. And she gave one of the classiest Oscar speeches we have seen in a long time. It was simple and ungussied, just about the right length, and reverent. Her posture alone, one YouTuber commented, deserved the Oscar. And it's true: she was regal.
In a time of me too, Judy Garland is THE tragic Hollywood story: The legendary meteoric talent consumed by the industry that created her...
