Let me say that again.
She has one scene in Doubt. And that scene is with Meryl Streep. She blows Steep off the screen. Davis is up for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress this year and if she wins my Oscar Night is made.
For goodness sake somebody keep hiring this woman – for real roles in real shows, not just Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and remakes of beloved Robert Wise classics.
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Click here for our review of Doubt and below to see Viola Davis interviewed by Farai Chideya on the now canceled News and Notes, (worth watching if for no other reason than to hear the ‘one woman show on a basketball court with dog’ story):
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(Photo at top adapted from ‘The Architect’ press material)
[...] fully expect to be dashing off pithy comments about the Award Winners and dishing gossip about the Award Losers whenever possible as well as Twittering and taking photos [...]
[...] I think he’s spot on, except for the Best Supporting Actress Award. I just can’t believe that the Academy is going to award that little man to Penelope Cruz instead of the magnificent Viola Davis. [...]