Watch scenes from the performances nominated for the Oscar for best supporting actress, as well as interviews with the nominees below.The 98th Academy Awards will be presented Sunday, March 15. Elle Fanning, "Sentimental Value"Elle Fanning began her professional career as a toddler in the Sean Penn film "I Am Sam," playing a younger version of the character played by her sister, actress Dakota Fanning.
Growing up on screen, Elle has appeared in more than 80 film and TV roles, from "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "Super 8," to "The Neon Demon," "The Beguiled," and "A Complete Unknown." She received an Emmy nomination for "The Girl From Plainville." In "Sentimental Value," she plays Rachel Kemp, a Hollywood actress who is wooed by Danish filmmaker Gustav (best supporting actor Oscar nominee Stellan Skarsgård) to star in his latest project – only after his own actress-daughter, Nora, has rejected him.The script is a deeply personal one, and Kemp finds herself struggling with the emotional depths of the role – a character based on Gustav's suicidal mother.
At 27, Fanning received her first Oscar nomination for "Sentimental Value."Referring to Rachel Kemp, Fanning told The Hollywood Reporter, "We're at different phases, but there was a little feeling while playing her that maybe I was looking back at a younger version of myself in this world."Fanning had just completed filming the Bob Dylan biopic "A Complete Unknown," and was preparing for a film in New Zealand, when her agent called.She told the Los Angeles Times podcast The Envelope, "[He] said, 'Joachim Trier has a new film and there's a part for an American actress in a role, even though the film is predominantly in Norwegian.
It's going to film in Oslo.' And from that moment, I was like, 'Oh, I have to do this.' I'm a really instinctual person.And I get feelings.
I feel like I'm a little psychic."She said she wanted to avoid Rachel coming off as a silly character."I saw the pitfalls that I coul...