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nominees for best supporting actress


diamond binoche Juliette Binoche
"The English Patient"

Binoche plays Canadian nurse Hana, who takes care of the mysterious, horribly disfigured English patient at an abandoned Italian monastery.

  • CNN - 'English Patient' hits the big screen
  • The English Patient
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    Joan Allen
    "The Crucible"

    Allen plays Daniel Day-Lewis' wife in the screen adaptation of Arthur Miller's award-winning play about the 17th century Salem witch trials.

  • CNN - Miller rides 'The Crucible' again
  • The Crucible

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    Lauren Bacall
    "The Mirror Has Two Faces"

    Screen legend Lauren Bacall plays Rose's domineering and self absorbed mother Hannah in this romantic comedy.

  • CNN - Streisand finds love in latest movie
  • The Mirror Has Two faces

  • diamond hershey Barbara Hershey
    "The Portrait of a Lady"

    In this screen adaptation of Henry James' classic novel, Barbara Hershey stars as the conniving Madame Merle, who dupes Isabel into an unhappy marriage.

  • Portrait of a Lady

  • diamond baptiste Marianne Jean-Baptiste
    "Secrets and Lies"

    Jean-Baptiste plays Hortense, an articulate young black optometrist, who, after the death of her remaining adoptive parent, does research and discovers her white biological mother.

  • CNN - 'Secrets and Lies' takes top honor in Cannes
  • Secrets and Lies


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