Best Actress Is Already Over. Jessie Buckley Made Silence and Grief Feel Like Action.

Jessie Buckley swept Golden Globes, Critics Choice, BAFTAs, and SAG for Hamnet. No Best Actress contender this cycle has come close to that run. Chloé Zhao directed a film that lives in silence and grief, and Buckley made both feel like action.

If she wins, she becomes the first Irish-born Best Actress winner in Oscar history. The performance doesn't need the record. But the record needs the performance.