Her performance was deepened and enriched through her outstanding screen relationship with Ralph Fiennes, sadly not nominated.
Producers would argue that audiences are simply more ready to accept an older man in a romantic screen relationship with a younger woman.
These two, whose famously deep but platonic screen relationship is important to viewers, seem, in reality, to exist on different planets.
Diaz, like Cruise, appears semi-unclothed in order to demonstrate that she's still got it, but there is something curious in her character's screen relationship with Cruise.
In-screen: the screening tool, role of clinician, how to test, learning the test, who to conduct the screen, relationship to doctor and awareness of the disease.
Did it make off-screen relationships harder, being in all these on-screen fairytales?
ClubMom executives see plenty of demand for on-screen relationships as well.
In her later years, Ms. Thaxter told her daughter that some of her off-screen relationships with leading men had gone beyond flirtation.
Actors' off-screen relationships seem to resonate in a film that "is wonderful at showing how trivial incidents can unlock reserves of festering resentment in a high-strung household," Stephen Holden wrote in The Times.
He may prove to be formidable, but I suspect that to become so, he'll need to work in a wider range of movies, perhaps a smaller scale movies that allow him to cultivate on-screen relationships with a variety of actors, including ones his own age, and away from his father's spotlight and counsel.
