It's Shaping Out to be a Very Crowded 2018 Oscar Best Actress Race

The 2018 Oscars is still a few months away but the race for the Best Actress award has been one of the most competitive in recent memory.

I mean, how can a no-name actress possibly get a nomination this year when the perennial nominees, the heavyweights and today's current A-listers have released movies with amazing stories and great performances.

In this list alone, all these women have either won, or have been nominated before.

Emma Stone won the award earlier this year and she continues the buzz with a great role as tennis legend, Billie Jean King.

Judi Dench, who has won as Queen Elizabeth, and has been nominated as Queen Victoria, may finally win as Queen Victoria, this time around!

Frances McDormand already won for Fargo and may win again for a kick-ass performance as a mother whose daughter is murdered.

Annette Benning plays a Hollywood movie star who transplants herself to Liverpool.

And my bet, is Sally Hawkins, already a nominee herself, as the mute lover in The Shape of Water.

And Jessica Chastain, Saoirse Ronan, Michelle Williams, and even Margot Robbie are in the mix as well. And of course, the queen of them all, Meryl Streep, is coming out in a Steven Spielberg movie later this year.

Spielberg's movies are a perennial Oscar nominee so let's see if Meryl gets in the list.

Grabe, it's so freaking crowded I wonder how all the award-giving bodies are going to vote!

Isabelle Huppert for Oscar Best Actress 2017

The Oscars are going to be handed out Monday morning next week (Phil. time) and I won't be able to watch it live since I have work, but anyhow, there are some people that I hope would win that night.

I am especially excited for French actress, Isabelle Huppert, one of my favorite actresses. I remember dragging my brother and our friend Charina to some of her movies since the art cinemas in Hong Kong had a festival of all of her films - and I remember we went out of The Piano Teacher wondering what the hell was that all about!

If you were not into sadomasochism or sexual self-mutilation, you'd be like, nganga, watching the film. And she won the Cannes Best Actress award for it.

Elle, which got her this Oscar nomination, is a sexual drama as well, and the reviews on her work are amazing! I still have to see the movie but knowing what Isabelle is capable of, I'm sure this one is a showstopper!

Emma Stone was sweet and wonderful in La La Land, but she's only ten years old, compared to the monumental achievement in acting that Isabelle has shown throughout her career.

Elle is probably her only performance that could reach a wide American and worldwide audience, especially if she wins.

She should win.