Number 22: Marcia Gay Harden as Lee Krassner in "Pollock" (Best Supporting Actress Ranking)

To this day, Marcia Homosexual Harden is nevertheless the only individual to have won an Oscar without having been nominated by the Display Actors Guild – but it is straightforward to see how the upset took place taking into consideration that she gave a correct tour-de-drive overall performance as Lee Krassner, a painter and the suffering spouse of alcoholic artist Jackson Pollock.

Just like Marlon Brando and Kim Hunter in A Streetcar named Want, Ed Harris and Marcia Gay Harden have a great and potent chemistry that combines lust and enthusiasm with hate and self-destruction. Marcia Gay Harden has a powerful and uncompromising display screen presence which she utilizes to give her character several shades and edges – Lee is tough and bitter, taking care of Jackson like a mom but constantly loving and sensual. Right at the commencing of their romantic relationship she starts to get care of Jackson’s life (making an attempt to calm him down at evening meal, producing him breakfast and most importantly, acquiring people to see his perform). Despite the reality that her own life usually has to stand back again, she in no way gets to be a minor residence-wife or everything – Lee often keeps her dignity, telling Jackson that she wants to get married or it is in excess of and she constantly stays her possess person. Jackson Pollock may possibly handle her existence, but he doesn’t control her character. Marcia Gay Harden shows Lee as a sturdy female who doesn’t give up and who retains up with Jackson and his troubles.

Basically, Lee Krassner is the normal ‘suffering wife’ the Academy loves to honor but by emphasizing the toughness and dedication of Lee, Marcia Gay Harden gave the portion a significantly far more exciting and captivating angle than, say, Jennifer Connelly 1 yr later in A Stunning Mind.

Marcia Homosexual Harden also has one of the most intriguing ‘Oscar scenes’ ever and she hits that scene out of the park: ‘We are painters, Jackson! We really do not have any income, we don’t get by, we battle. But you are a great artist. I imagine in Jackson Pollock. There is you and there’s your portray and you, you need, you require, you need to have, YOU Need to have!’  

Marcia Homosexual Harden crafts Lee Krassner as a girl who enjoys Jackson the painter almost certainly far more than Jackson the male. She can forgive his ingesting, maybe even his affairs but she can not forgive it when he’s not functioning. She yells at him ‘Whatever trash you get residence, I could not treatment significantly less!’ but she would like him to paint.

Each Ed Harris and Marcia Gay Harden show a relationship damaged appropriate from the starting, but the passion and the require for each and every other hold them collectively. It is a very intensive and gripping portrayal which works splendidly with the dark tone encompassing it.