Among the performances vying for shiny gongs at Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, there are a special few who have somehow escaped all the bright lights and hoopla. A handful of female stars have quietly made a spectacular job of playing unconventional roles in unusual films that have not hit the headlines, nor even drawn great crowds to the cinema.
Kristen Stewart is nominated for playing Diana, Princess of Wales in the little-discussed, daring Spencer, while a favourite to beat her is Jessica Chastain, cast as the extravagant American television evangelist in The Eyes of Tammy Faye.
