Dame Helen's Oscar Finally!

Rating: 10/10 (15 September 2006)

Dame Helen Mirren is one of the world's foremost talented actresses that she has won countless awards. Her casting of Queen Elizabeth II is quite stunning considering that she already played her namesake and won an Emmy for it. She really becomes the Queen that we all know and love because she blends into the role so well that it's nearly impossible to think of her as the same person who played Jane Tennison, a Titanic Survivor in the S.O.S. Titanic. I admired Sylvia Syms and think she should become a Dame herself. James Cromwell is great as Prince Phillip and should get a Best Supporting Actor nomination as well. I can't forget Sylvia and think she deserves a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination as well. Stephen Frears really deserves nominations for recreating a week that was well unforgettable because it was so painful. I always knew that the Royals were real decent people with flaws and problems of their own. It's hard to imagine them as anything other than the caricatures that the British tabloid press make them out to be. The Royals have lived in a fishbowl their entire lives and will do so. It's not easy being Royal, I'm sure the Queen has her days as well.