Sony Pictures Classics' co-chief Michael Barker said the actress 'has never been better than she is in this film'.
- October 4, 2014
AceShowbiz -
Away from her "Twilight" days, Kristen Stewart has been taking more serious roles that took her to the next level. Her latest film "Still Alice" reportedly has earned her a spotlight that could be enough to get her an Oscar nomination as supporting actress.
Per THR, Sony Pictures Classics is planning an all-out campaign to push Stewart and several others working on the film into the Oscar race. "The picture is just a major achievement," Michael Barker, co-chief of Sony Pictures Classics, told THR. "It's a drama that embraces life and that captures the complexities of life. We see that very rarely in movies, although we at Sony Classics saw that not so long ago with Amour."
In "Still Alice", Julianne Moore plays a happily married woman with three grown children (one of them played by Stewart) and a renowned linguistics professor. Starting to forget words, she receives a diagnosis of Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease. Moore is also being campaigned as best actress for the awards season.
"In addition to the depth of its screenplay and direction, it features several major performances," Barker continued. "There's no question that Julianne Moore gives the greatest performance of her career to date - it's a performance of such amazing depth and subtlety - but one of the reasons it comes off so spectacularly well is that the actors around her are so strong. Kristen Stewart has never been better than she is in this film."
Barker actually had had his eyes on Stewart for a long time. "Kristen Stewart is someone we have seen in many movies over the last several years - four in 2014, with three coming up in 2015 so far - and she has shown great range in such a wide variety of genres," he said. "But there is something about this performance that has new depths that she hasn't shown before. She's really terrific in the film."
The studio will start sending DVDs and launch ads as well as screenings that highlight the categories for attention. Stewart reportedly is also up for the campaign and has full support of the movie.
