The fifth one is a charm for veteran actress Hollywood actress Julianne Moore as she finally nailed an Oscars on her fifth nomination as the Academy Awards’ Best Actress for 2015.
The 55-year-old American actress won Best Actress for her gripping performance in the film “Still Alice,” where she took on the role of a person suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
The win no longer came as a surprise since Moore has already swept the Best Actress acting awards this year including the Golden Globe for Best Actress – Drama, the Screen Actor’s Guild Award, the BAFTA, the Critics’ Choice Award, among others, details the Huffington Post.
Prior to finally winning an Oscars, Moore was previously nominated four times in the Academy Awards. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for “Boogie Nights” in 1998; Best Actress for the film “The End of the Affair” in 2000; and a Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress nominations in 2003 for “Far from Heaven” and “The Hours respectively.
She is in fact, one of the only 11 actors in history who got nominated for two Oscars in the same year.
No Best Actress
In accepting her first ever Oscars, Julianne Moore said that there is no such thing as Best Actress because all the nominees were very great.
She was referring to the competitive field of talented actresses that she bested for the Best Actress award including Felicity Jones for “The Theory of Everything;” Marion Cotillard for “Two Days, One Night;” Reese Witherspoon for the “Wild;” and Rosamund Pike for “Gone Girl.”
The actress also said that she is grateful to be given the opportunity to be a part of the movie “Still Alice” because it helped highlight the Alzheimer’s disease. She mentioned that people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease deserve to be seen by others and the public so that governments and medical people can work on finding a cure for the disorder.
A true story
“Still Alice” is actually derived from a same-titled novel written by Liza Genova in 2007 which tells about the true story of Alice Howland, a Columbia University linguistics professor who was found to be suffering from the early onset of the Alzheimer’s disease.
In an interview in January, Julianne Moore said that the film has given her a new perspective and a deeper appreciation for everything in her own life.
She said that the movie helps people think about the things and the people they care about and also about what they want in life.
It also teaches them not to take anything for granted because once a disease like Alzheimer’s sets in, everything else changes and people would have wished they could have done these or that. By then, they can no longer turn back the hands of time and make amends and they will just feel guilty about it.