Hello everyone and welcome to part eight of the NBP Film Awards.

I am your host, Matt Neglia, part of the Next Best Picture podcast, here to bring you the categories of acting.

This week we are recapping Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actress, Best Actor, and the Best Ensemble of

2016. It is a full house today. We've got everybody on board to discuss this week before we head

over to our worst and best of lists of 2016 next week. So stay tuned for that, but let's get everybody

in here right now. We have joining us, Mike for Matt. Hey, how's it going, everybody? Kristen Lopez.

Hello, everybody. Michael Schwartz. Hello, everyone. And Will Mavity. Hey, guys. So, let's get this out of the gate here.

We have quite a lot of categories to talk about.

I'm sure it is definitely going to be some crossover.

Let's start off with Best Supporting Actress.

And we will begin, ladies first, Kristen Lopez.

Okay, so my number five is Felicity Jones for a monster calls.

Yay.

Yay.

I think this performance just devastated me.

It's easy to play the dying mom with cancer and just naturally be sympathetic.

But I think Felicity Jones looking so young and

having just seen her in something like Rogue One and seeing her so full of life, especially

in flashbacks the movie provides, it's definitely a change of pace. And every time you see her, you know, it's just a

character trying her damnedest to present some type of normality for her child. And you can

definitely understand, again, why you don't want this character to die, because she's a good

person. She's, you know, a young woman but i think felicity

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