Lemon of the Week: Critics who choose Ryan over Blanchett for Best Supp. Actress

Over the course of past two or three weeks or so, actress Amy Ryan has been getting a ton of praise for her performance in Gone Baby Gone – so much so that she has topped several lists for Best Supporting Actress in the same year that Cate Blanchett did more than just impersonate an iconic folk legend.

Our Lemon of the Week goes to not the talents of the actress herself, or the role she played, but to the critic associations, circles, and groups (see the list below) who have somehow deemed Ryan's performance to be more original, weighty, significant, bold, measured, ballsy or in more generic terms 'outstanding', 'impressive' and 'awesome' than Blanchett's.

The National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Circle, Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Boston Society of Film Critics, San Francisco Film Critics Circle, Satellite Awards, San Diego, Phoenix, Southeastern Film Critics, and finally for good measure, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists Association have all come to the same conclusion – my question is how many of those folks saw I'm Not There and how could so many people have gotten it wrong? And come Oscar time will The Weinsteins actually lose out to their former indie house Miramax films?

Is it just me or have we all witnessed more believable interpretations of white trash stay at home or stay in bars types of mother before? I've got Nathalie Press's small it in Andrea Arnold's short film Wasp in mind – and that mother is distress covers all the angles. 

On the other hand, Cate Blanchett is la raison d'etre for Todd Haynes' bio experiment. For further explaining feast your eyes on the clip below.