Alicia Vikander May Be the Real Winner From ‘The Danish Girl’

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Venice — Even before Eddie Redmayne scooped a best actor Oscar for his studious, fully immersed inhabitation of Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything,” there had been talk that he could take the gold for “The Danish Girl.” To what might be the eternal aggrievement of Michael Keaton fans, the talk wasn’t quite loud enough to give the Academy pause and decide to wait a year.

“The Danish Girl” boasts many of the advantages that carried “The Theory of Everything” as an awards vehicle, beginning with its production pedigree. Both are Working Title projects from heavyweight producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner — who have shepherded four previous best picture nominees together — with Focus Features as their U.S. distributor. Both are prestige biopics, ever a beloved genre of the Academy, with tony credentials, including an Oscar-winning filmmaker at the helm. In this case, that would be the television-schooled Brit Tom Hooper, »

- Guy Lodge

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