Movie Essentials: Best Actress Nominees 2010

In past years, the Academy was hard-pressed to find five leading actress roles worthy of a nomination.  That's not a knock against women or the actresses themselves, it just means that Hollywood regularly neglects films with strong, interesting women at the center.  Thankfully, that's not the case this year.  All five nominees were given a chance to shine front and center, in movies practically built around them.  At this point, it seems that the nominees can be divided into two groups: Natalie Portman, and, well, everybody else.  I've been working my way through the Portman filmography over the past few weeks in honor of her work in Black Swan, and it's been fun re-discovering her talent as an actress.  Here are her (and the other nominees') Essentials:

Source: http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/hammervision/2011/02/movie-essentials-best-actress-nominees-2010.html

Tina Fey Keanu Reeves Megan Fox Warren Beatty