The Best Supporting Actress winner for 2001 was Jennifer Connelly in A Beautiful Mind. I didn't like that movie at the time and suspect I would like it even less now. Two of the other nominees in that category were Dame Maggie Smith and Dame Helen Mirren for Godford Park, a movie that gets better every time I see it!
Dame Maggie is a dowager countess: frosty, grand, quick with a quip. Dame Helen is the head housekeeper: efficient, resourceful, closed off to any sort of human emotion.
Diva: Smith
Mensch: Mirren
SPOILER ALERT! Don't watch the Mirren clip unless you've seen the movie.
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