The 2010 RyMickey Awards - Best Supporting Actress

2010's Supporting Actresses didn't quite match the caliber of last year's rather winning Top 5 (and Top 10, for that matter), but there still were some very good performances here.  [Note: You may notice the rather conspicuous absence of True Grit's Hailee Steinfeld who was nominated in this category for the Oscars.  Rest assured, she'll be showing up later.]  Numbers three to six below are really interchangeable, but my top two are kind of set.

Best Supporting Actress

Also in the running...

#10 - Amanda Peet - Please Give

#9 - Rebecca Hall - The Town

Runners-up

#8 - Kristin Scott Thomas- Nowhere Boy

"Kristin Scott Thomas takes what could have been a stereotypical curmudgeonly role and turns it into something rather endearing."

#7 - Anika Noni Rose - For Colored Girls

"Kudos to Anika Noni Rose whose character goes through quite a change with shocking believability.  She's also helped by the fact that the scene that "transforms" her is also one of the few moments in which Tyler Perry shows a vague hint that he knows how to utilize a camera to tell a story."

#6 - Jacki Weaver - Animal Kingdom

"Jacki Weaver displays an exuberance coupled with an underlying sheer nastiness underneath the pleasant façade."

And the Top Five...

#5 - Mila Kunis - Black Swan

Yes, Kunis is playing a sexy stereotype, but she embraces the role and plays it with much gusto.  Natalie Portman shines the most in her scenes with Kunis and that's moreso a credit to the supporting actress than the undeserved Oscar winner.

#4 - Anne-Marie Duff - Nowhere Boy

A new face to me, but Anne-Marie Duff was simply wonderful in Nowhere Boy.  As an adult who longs to relive her childhood days, beneath the twinkle in her eye is a painful sorrow that she is being forced to grow up and abandon her past.

#3 - Helena Bonham Carter - The King's Speech

Ms. Bonham Carter is simply lovely here.  Sure, the role isn't nearly as developed as her two male counterparts, but she imbues her character with both wry British humor and genuine care for her husband, the King.

#2 - Amy Adams - The Fighter

Initially, I thought Amy Adams was going to take this prize (and in my initial review of the film, I said as much), but looking back on the film she misses the top spot by just a smidgen.  That said, this is a character unlike we've seen from Adams, complete with a gruff, gritty exterior.  

#1 - Melissa Leo - The Fighter

This role so easily could have slipped into caricature, but Melissa Leo somehow manages to make her thick-accented sassy broad absolutely work.  This was a part that was ripe for overacting, but it's to Leo's credit that she reels it in and creates a perfectly believable New England mom.