Whether Lily Gladstone decides to campaign for lead actress or supporting actress (and there'♔s a case for either), a spot w🐭ill be reserved for her in a lineup.
That's because her powerfully complex role in Apple Original Films' 'Killers of the Flower Moon', which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival on a rainy Saturday night, is too good to ignore, reports Var𝓰iety.
Gladstone delivers an uncompromising portrayal as Mollie, an Inꦅdigenous woman whose family and tribal community are being murdere♒d at the hands of a sinister group of white men, driven by their thirst for greed and power. She's a magnificent force.
As per Variety, it became clear almost 10 minutes into Martin Scorsese's epic adaptation of David🍌 Grann's 2017 non-fiction book 'Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI' that the audience of attendees were witnessing the birth of a star.
The film tells the tragic true story of members⛄ of the Osage tribe, who are murdered under mysterious circumstances during the 1920s.🤡 The events spark a major investigation that gives birth to the FBI under the direction of J. Edgar Hoover.
At the centre is Gladstone's Mollie, along with her husband🍌 Ernest (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) and his Uncle 'King' (played by Robe𒉰rt DeNiro).
Variety further states that when it comes to Gladstone, 36, the truth is she's already 𓄧demonstrated a remarkable range with an impressive bo♚dy of work. Some of those include 2013's 'Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of Plain Indians' and 2020's 'First Cow'.
In fact, I believe s﷽he should have already been the recipient of an Oscar statuette for supporting actress for her remarkable turn in Kelly Reichardt's multi-narrative 2016 drama 'Certain Women'.
Indigenous 🎐representation in the Academy (and Hollywood) has been virtually non-existent in the history of cinema. Assuming supporting actress is in the cards for her (that's where pundits including Variety have been tracking her), she would be only the second Indigenous actress ever nominated in the category after Jocelyne LaGarde for 1966's 'Hawaii'. It's well overdue.
