Natalie Portman photo by Sacraphea

The Academy Awards are tonight, arguably the biggest event of the year in the film calendar, most would say there is no argument. The Best Actor Award we think will more than likely go to Colin Firth and the Best Supporting Actress to Helena Bonham Carter who both starred in the film “The Kings Speech” but as always things are not cast in stone when it comes to these things. Those actors/actresses are not our concern, our concern though is Natalie Portman and her nomination for the Best Actress Award and whether she will win it or not and it’s personally something I have some strong views on!

In the run up to this mammoth event that is called “The Academy Awards”, Portman has been getting the nod and mopping up those gongs across the board  and these are well deserved wins. So why the concern as to whether she will win the Academy Award for Best actress, surely it’s a cert? Sometimes winning masses of awards at all the award ceremonies and dominating the headlines leading up to the Oscars is not such a good thing as the Academy Awards are renowned for “snubs” and not following the herd when it comes to giving out there prestigious golden statue. Granted they do watch the build up and who wins at say The Golden Globes, BAFTA’s and SAG’s amongst others but they do not allow those wins to influence their decision. They may annoyingly just pick somebody else just to illustrate that fact that their award is an elite one to win and what happens prior to this event has no bearing on who will win at the Academy Awards itself.