‘Babygirl’ star Nicole Kidman could heat up the Oscar race

Nicole Kidman could be contending for her second lead actress Oscar for her performance as a tech CEO who has an affair with a young intern (Harris Dickinson) in “Babygirl,” a film that explores desire and the power dynamics within a consensual relationship.

2003

Kidman received an Academy Award for her role as writer Virginia Woolf in “The Hours.”

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Years between lead Oscars, if Kidman wins. A blink of an eye compared with …

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… the gaps between Katharine Hepburn’s and Meryl Streep’s first and second lead Oscars, respectively.

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A “Babygirl” Oscar nomination would be Kidman’s sixth.

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People in history have received six or more Oscar nominations, including …

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… Kidman’s fellow “Hours” and “Big Little Lies” star Streep, of course, but not including …

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Julianne Moore, the other awards-perennial “Hours” star. Moore is one nomination shy of joining her co-stars.

2017

Kidman’s most recent big award was an Emmy for playing a wealthy domestic violence survivor on “Big Little Lies.”

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Kidman won a Golden Globe and received a BAFTA nomination for her exquisite performance as an ambitious TV weather person …

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… who plots her husband’s death and sexually and emotionally manipulates a teen (Joaquin Phoenix) in the dark comedy “To Die For,” which …

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… “Babygirl” echoes thematically in a few ways. A nomination for her “Babygirl” performance could be a fun-house-mirror …

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… redo of Kidman’s famous Oscar nomination snub for the 1995 film.