Supporting Actress Blogathon - Class of 2009

Here at StinkyLulu, we observe an annual tradition wherein we extol the many supporting actresses who captured our imaginations, our hearts, and our fancies in the cinematic year of 2009. Some are already serious contenders for this year's trophy; all deserve another look.

WELCOME
to
StinkyLulu's Tribute to
Actressing at the Edges in 2009

The 4th Annual
Supporting Actress Blogathon!
Scroll down for appreciations of all kinds of actressing.
36 performances honored in 37 posts from 28 blogs!
click back throughout the day for updates as entries arrive

...the Supporting Actresses
of 2009 are...
(click blog name for link to post)

Kristin Chenoweth in Into Temptation (Encore Entertainment)
Patricia Clarkson in Whatever Works (Encore Entertainment)
Jennifer Cody in The Princess and the Frog (What Happened Today)
Marion Cotillard in Nine (My Territorial Bubble)
Marion Cotillard in Public Enemies (Alex in Movieland,
Monsieur Cinema)
Penelope Cruz in Nine (My Territorial Bubble)
Roxane Duran in White Ribbon (Alex in Movieland)
Anna Faris in Observe and Report (Reese Review)
Vera Farmiga in Up in the Air (Ben's Talking Pictures, Crumb by Crumb)
Heather Graham in The Hangover (Sasha Stone@Awards Daily)
Ginnifer Goodwin in He's Just Not That Into You (Ultimate Addict)
Carla Gugino in Watchmen (ShoNuff Lives)
Marcia Gay Hardin in Whip It (For Your Speculation)
Amber Heard in The Informers (Reese Review)
Mailes Kanapi in My Fake American Accent and Mangatyanan (RacsO Ledger)
Anna Kendrick in Up in the Air (Awkward Is What We Aim For,
oscarfan, And All That Film)
Rinko Kikuchi in The Brothers Bloom (Drilling Holes in the Wall)
Diane Kruger in Inglorious Basterds (Monsieur Cinema)
Mélanie Laurent in Inglorious Basterds (My Life Through Movies)
Carmen Machi in Los Abrazos Rotos/Broken Embraces
(Cine Latino en Nueva York)
Leslie Mann in 17 Again and Funny People (Victim of the Time)
Izabella Miko in Dark Streets (The Jaded Armchair Review)
Mo'Nique in Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
(Stale Popcorn)
Julianne Moore in A Single Man (Popcorn and Cigarettes)
Brittany Murphy in Across the Hall (Reese Review)
Bijou Phillips in Dark Streets (The Jaded Armchair Review)
Rosamund Pike in An Education (Encore Entertainment,
Strange Culture)
Meryl Streep in The Fantastic Mr. Fox (The Cargo Cult)
Kristin Scott Thomas in Easy Virtue (The Silver Screening Room)
Olivia Williams in An Education (And Your Little Blog Too,
Rants of a Diva)
The Women in In the Loop (Sasha Stone@Awards Daily)
The Women in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (Encore Education)

Be sure to check back throughout the day for updates as they arrive.
And if you notice that someone's been left out of this tribute to The Class of 2009,
just whip up a profile on your own blog and send it on in!

The Class of 2008
The Class of 2007
The Class of 2006

Introducing "The Class of 2009" - The 4th Annual Supporting Actress Blogathon - January 17, 2010

StinkyLulu's pleased to invite all aficionados of actressing at the edges to the 4th Annual Supporting Actress Blogathon, this time celebrating the "Class of 2009."

The Class of 2009
Supporting Actress Blogathon
Sunday, January 17, 2010
(the Sunday before the Oscar nomination ballots are due)

All bloggers -- no matter the usual focus of their blog -- are invited to contribute to this collaborative compendium documenting 2009's hardworking crew of Supporting Actresses. All you have to do is develop a post detailing your thoughts on any single Supporting Actress performance from 2009. Please limit yourself to one performance, performer, &/or film per blogathon post. (BUT do feel free to spread your love & develop multiple entries.) There's no need to "sign up" or "claim" a given performer/performance for the blogathon. (We'll just see how things stack up.). Finally, in addition to obvious "contender" performances, commentaries on obscure, ineligible, no-chance-in-hell &/or idiosyncratic performances are especially welcome. Like the blogathons for The Class of 2006, The Class of 2007, and The Class of 2008 this year's blogathon aims to accomplish a complex, diverse and fully-rounded portrait of the Supporting Actress Class of 2009.

Just email StinkyLulu with your plans to participate as soon as possible. Promote the blogathon on your own blog if you wish, linking to this post and using these graphics (poster, button, panel). Then, no later than the crack of dawn on the morning of January 17th, send along the link to your blog entry/ies. StinkyLulu will post links to all participating blogs throughout the day.