‘Salturn’ scene stealer Rosamund Pike: Golden Globes nomination #4?
Best Supporting Actress is set to be one of the most intriguing acting races across this entire awards season no matter what awards group we’re looking at. From the Critics Choice Awards to the Academy Awards, this is going to be an interesting category. And the Golden Globes are no different.
Currently, our predicted nominees for Best Supporting Actress, according to our Golden Globe odds chart for this category, are Da’Vine Joy Randolph (“The Holdovers”), Emily Blunt (“Oppenheimer”), Danielle Brooks (“The Color Purple”), Jodie Foster (“Nyad”), and Taraji P. Henson (“The Color Purple”). However, “Saltburn” star Rosamund Pike is by no means out of this race.
Pike stars in Emerald Fennell‘s latest flick, “Saltburn,” which follows Barry Keoghan as Oliver Quick, an Oxford student who becomes obsessed with his rich classmate, Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi). Oliver goes and stays with Felix’s family at their manor house, Saltburn. It’s here where Pike pierces the picture with one of the best comedy performances of the year. Pike plays Felix’s mother, Elsbeth, who is pretentious, flighty, fickle, incredibly vain, rather dim, and very, very funny. Pike is clearly having a great time playing the wealthy matriarch of the family and she delivers each biting line with joy. Pike has always been a great actress, but she has never been funnier here, and her performance is a wonder to behold in what critics agree is a fresh, vibrant, memorable performance.
Kristy Puchko (Mashable) observed: “Rosamund Pike, who deserved an Oscar for ‘Gone Girl,’ gives her funniest performance yet as mother Elspeth, who chatters away with her concern about others — in between some of the most cutting barbs ever committed to film. (Her withering delivery of ‘She’ll do anything for attention’ may be the best punchline of the year.) With a wide smile and breezy tone, Pike welcomes audiences into Saltburn, then swiftly stings with a series of increasingly outrageous confessions, to which Oliver — and us — are eager audiences. She is electrifying in her blithe cruelty, delivering the kind of lines that drag queens would call ‘reads’ but with the British brightness that makes their sharp edge all the more jolting.”
Maureen Lee Lenker (EW) noted: “Rosamund Pike is ‘Saltburn’’s secret weapon — her razor-sharp wit transforms chilly family matriarch Elspeth into a terrifyingly delicious satire of the idle rich. She cuts through her scenes with the precision of an ice pick, once again proving her tremendous skill and deceptively clever approach to her work.”
Gregory Ellwood (The Playlist) added: “In a surprise to no one, Pike delivers a comedic masterclass while somehow bringing genuine depth to a character that is anything but grounded.”
What is most notable here is how fun and colorful this performance is. Colorful performances such as this one tend to do well in this category, with recent examples including 2023’s Jamie Lee Curtis in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” 2023’s Dolly de Leon in “Triangle of Sadness,” 2021’s Glenn Close in “Hillbilly Elegy,” 2020’s Jennifer Lopez in “Hustlers,” and 2020’s Laura Dern (who won) in “Marriage Story.” Plus, to put it rather bluntly, characters who are mothers are often found in the lists of Best Supporting Actress nominees, including Angela Bassett (in 2023 for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”), Aunjanue Ellis (in 2022 for “King Richard”), Caitríona Balfe (in 2022 for “Belfast”), and Kathy Bates (in 2020 for “Richard Jewell”).
We also know that the HFPA likes Fennell very much. Her debut feature as a director, “Promising Young Woman,” garnered four Golden Globes nominations: Best Drama Picture, Best Director for Fennell, Best Screenplay, and Best Drama Actress for Carey Mulligan. If voters like “Saltburn” just as much, Pike could get taken along for the ride in the same way past nominees in this category have such as Ellis (“King Richard”), Kirsten Dunst (“The Power of the Dog”), and Balfe (“Belfast”).
The biggest factor supporting Pike’s potential nomination, however, is just how unpredictable this category is. Our predicted five nominees by no means feel firm. This one feels like we could have at least one or two surprise nominations, like we’ve had in this category in previous years. De Leon picked up a surprise bid earlier this year for “Triangle of Sadness,” as did Mulligan for “She Said.” Helena Zengel was nominated in 2021 for “News of the World” and Annette Bening reaped a nomination in 2020 for “The Report.”
It’s almost a given that we will get a surprise bid or two in this category this year, considering how open this race feels, and why not Pike? Golden Globe voters clearly like her as she has three nominations to her name. She first landed a bid in 2015 for Best Drama Actress for “Gone Girl” before picking up another nomination in the same category in 2019 for “A Private War.” She then won Best Comedy Actress in 2020 for “I Care a Lot.” It’s time Pike’s talents — and hilarious performance — were recognized yet again.
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