amid a ceremony in Spain with Tilda Swinton being bathed in red dye amidst a crowd, the house splattered in red paint, and Kevin?s T-shirt to the blood that covers him at the climax, while Tilda is seen throughout trying to remove the red paint from the house and her own body as though trying to rid herself of shame. Tilda Swinton was nominated for a host of year end Best Actress awards for her role as the mother. It is a fine part, although one where Tilda Swinton is required to only register varying degrees along the continuum of shocked and numbed and not a whole lot else. Her acclaim has tended to overshadow the contributions from the two boys ? Jasper Newell as the younger Kevin and Ezra Miller who plays Kevin in his teens. The two of them give wonderful malicious performances, Ezra Miller in particular adding a superbly bored and mocking laconicism.