Our new woman in Hollywood: With her role in the legal thriller “Anatomy of a Case,” Sandra Hülser is in the running for the Oscar for Best Actress. And stays pretty calm about it.
It may be that in the end there is little left of the hype. Much ado about nothing, as Shakespeare, the greatest of all playwrights, would put it. That in the end there is no main prize for Sandra Hülser, currently the greatest of all drama actresses. Neither for her leading role in “Anatomy of a Case” nor for her supporting role in “The Zone of Interest”.
Since the world premiere of both films in Cannes in early summer, she has attracted Hollywood’s attention like only Diane Krüger or Marlene Dietrich used to. She was featured on covers and the “Hollywood Reporter” immediately named her “Actress of the Year”, although there were still question marks. She glittered, glamorized and pulled long trains on red carpets and showed off a lot of cleavage. For a photo shoot in “Vanity Fair” she was allowed to lounge by swimming pools in a Prada dress and Louboutin shoes as if she were Greta Garbo. Who she actually bears a little resemblance to.
Nevertheless, Hülser, born in the spring of 1978 and raised in the Thuringian province, could come away empty-handed at the end of her triumphal procession and despite a cornucopia of nominations, at least for the most important awards such as the Golden Globe, Bafta and Oscar. Her two current works have just been nominated for a total of ten Oscars, including Best Films; she is competing in the Best Actress category against greats like Carey Mulligan and Annette Bening, Emma Stone and the current favorite Lily Gladstone from “Killers of the Flower Moon” .
How would this cold shoulder be received by her?