2 Oscar nominations:Mark Coulier-Best Makeup(Winner)
Meryll Streep-Best Actress(Winner)
It's not often that movies win in every category that they are nominated for. But indeed for The Iron Lady it was exactly that. While Streep was the clear choice in the Best Actress category, Mark Coulier surprised even the makeup artists of Harry Potter to bag the award. So it was a good Oscar Night for them indeed.But why would a movie with such acting prowess not even be nominated for Best Film and many such categories..Well Read on.
The Iron Lady, for those who are unaware, is a biopic on the life of UK's First Female Prime minister-Margaret Thatcher. She was known as a lady who had a very controversial term at office and also an equally controversial personal life. Now, the movie is basically based in the present where she is an aged old lady living alone and suffering from Alzheimers. She is constantly imagining and speaking to her dead husband, but those are the scenes that probably have the deepest effect on the viewers. The rest of her story-the younger life are all in flashbacks and althogh it is extremely interesting and a delight to watch with Streep at her best, it does not give you an insightful look into her life like a biopic should. Nevertheless, it definitelytells you a bit about how life was for a female prime minister who had to even compromise to the extent of letting her husband go for what shw wanted to achieve. She is ambitious and ruthless and NEVER takes no for an answer. It's definitely a character that will etch in your mind.
Now both the Oscars won are so well deserving and complement each other so much as well. How??..>Well The make up is brilliant. Streep is practically Thatcher herself.The look is so damn realistic. And beneath all that make up the real Streep manages to express herself in so many ways with not only her prosthetic makeup but also her body language. it's my favorite performance of hers since The Devil wears Prada.
Overall it's a movie that is surely worth watching, but only for the brilliant brilliant acting of Streep.
I'm going with 3 out of 5 for The Iron Lady.
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