
Now that it is getting colder, it is definitely starting to feel like movie time! Forget cavorting about in the outdoors, snuggling up at the cinema is infinitely more appealing. And today I have some double passes to a new movie to give away to aid you in that endeavour! Little White Lies is a French comedy and stars Academy Award winning actress Marion Cottilard. Here is a brief synopsis of it:
“A group gathering is hosted every year by a couple at their beautiful beach house where they kick-off their summer vacation by celebrating the birthday of one of the gang. Fun, fine wine and seafood mix with sun and sand as they all leave their city stresses and inhibitions behind.

But this year is different. One of them is badly injured in a serious motorcycle accident just as they are about to leave Paris for their seaside reunion. His friends flock to his bedside, where their unconscious pal is still alive but in intensive care. What to do? Stay in Paris to be by his side, or leave for their vacation having been assured that there is nothing they can do? By the time they return he should be conscious and up for visitors. After some intense discussion, they decide to head off for enjoyment and relaxation. Over the course of the next week, all the tensions within this group erupt into full daylight…”
And thanks to Hopscotch films, five lucky Not Quite Nigella readers will win an in season double pass to see this movie! The passes are valid from Thursday the 16th of June until season’s of the film’s theatrical season and excludes public holidays, discount days and after 5pm on Saturdays . Tickets can be used in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and ACT and are valid even with a “No Free Tickets” listing. For a chance to win this all you have to do is tell me who your favourite Oscar winning actress is! Simply add your answer as a comment to the story. The competition ends at midnight AEST 11th of June, 2011. You can enter this competition once daily and it is open to anyone in Australia.
**The winners are:
Julieanne Mc. of NSW
Jennifer A. of Qld
Joanne F. of SA
Alexandra M. of SA
Xaviere W. of Vic**
Best of luck!
Lots of love,
Lorraine
xxx

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Well, I skip the pass (being in NZ) and say good luck to all the other readers
happy week end
Alessandra
I LOVE your posts!!! Wish I could enter but I’m in France.
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My fav actress would have to be Gwyneth Paltrow, she can own Shakespeare and do a mean Fleetwood Mac cover, win!
I love Natalie Portman.She has a presence on screen.Her doll like looks and cute eyes.
She is a talent and has a long successful career ahead.
Helen Mirren! Who else could play the queen in one movie and then be running around shooting a machine gun in the next?!
Kate Winslet – not only beautiful but incredibly talented and brings class to every role.
I love Julia Roberts, every film she has starred in has been a great hit. Her last one *Eat, Pray, Love* was magnificent, I saw it with my daughter and it certainly transended generations well
Well, being a rural gal does not help with this one! Oscar winning actresses: so many faves thru’ the years starting with Katherine Hepburn!:D! Yes, well! Of the recent ladies to win, have to agree with Lulu – Helen Mirren, to me, is at the moment la grande dame of the British cinema which I greatly prefer over the US counterpart!
! Have a nice weekend, Mr & Mrs NQN!
Natalie Portman,she was in “Black Swan,” in which she plays a mentally plagued ballet dancer striving for perfection.
She trained for over a year for the role, losing extreme weight, cracking a rib and pushing her body to the limit.
My fav oscar winning actress is Drew Barrymore. She has overcome tremendous obstacles to turn into a beautiful and elegant actress with a HUGE heart!!
Julia Roberts, the lady is a natural beauty, has class and each performance is brilliant. I fell in love with her in Pretty Woman – simply FABULOUS
I really enjoy films with Sandra Bullock. She manages to seem like a ‘real’ person, and doesn’t take herself too seriously.
Helen Mirren – because she’s a saucy old minx!
Would love to see this movie to practice my French which I speak after having lived in France. Marian Cotillard was great as Edith Piaf.
Marion Cotillard is a fabulous actress. Her oscar-winning performance, with her portrayal of Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose was a tour de force.
She was also terrific in Inception, the big, block-buster hit of 2010! I nominate her as my favourite actress and would love to see her in ‘Little White Lies’.
My favourite Oscar winning actress is Helen Mirren. She can really act!
Grace Kelly. Her style and elegance is timeless as has been shown again by the design of Kate Middleton’s wedding dress. Thanks for this competition! Xo
I love Meryl Streep. She always seems to find that perfect balance of how to find the appropriate emotion of a scene, never bombastically overacting or underacting. Her versatility, subtlety and depth in ‘The Bridges of Madison County’, ‘Sophie’s Choice’ and ‘Julie and Julia’ are simply breathtaking. Her funny moments in ‘She-Devil’ and ‘Mamma Mia!’ are too infectious. Her Miranda Priestly in ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ is my guilty pleasure, simply unforgettable! I enjoy sitting in a darkened theatre and be mesmerized by her beautiful performances, like savoring a glass of fine wine, enjoying every moment. Here’s hoping Meryl Streep can finally win her third Oscar for her role as Margaret Thatcher in ‘The Iron Lady’ after a record 16 Oscar nominations. Bravo lady!
Kate Winslet raw real actress she is believe in every role she plays
Interesting dilemma this movie does present, TRUE!
I KNOW what I would do!
With Dame Judy Dench, I do relate!
She is eccentric, quirky,
U-N-U-S-U-A-L, and approaches her professional life and personal NOTHING short of GREAT!
WHOO HOO!
Oops – totally forgot Marion Cotillard playing my great favourite Edith Piaf! Fully agree!
I love Reese Witherspoon
Helen Mirren as she is one classy lady with a sense of humour and a ton of talent
Gwyneth Paltrow really owns the characters she portrays and i know a movie she’s in will be a good one
Our own Nicole Kidman is my choice. So very versatile and such a great ambassador for Australia.
Cate Blanchet of course.
I love Sandra Bullock! She is down to earth but gorgeous and believeable. Great dignity when she has needed it lately.
Kate Winslet – a natural beauty who can really act.
Absolutely no question: Meryl Streep. Her rapturous performance eating the sole meunière in the opening scene of Julie & Julia is one of my all time screen highlights!
I’m not eligible. Dang, for living in the States.
But my favorite Oscar-winning actress might just have to be Meryl Streep. She can do no wrong, play anything from comedy to drama, and gets only better with age.
Drew Barrymore’s role in my sister’s keeper was so different to what you normally see, shows much much effort and love mother’s give to their kids.
Sandra Bullock. I think she’s beautiful and funny AND smart. And was very dignified when her rat of a husband cheated on her.
Meryl Streep is my all time favourite actress. She is a natural beauty and very,very funny.I can watch her films over and over again. Love her!
I really enjoy Dianne Keaton movies, she’s quite comical in her conservative characters! The movie sounds gorgeous Lorraine xx
Cate Blanchett, maybe I’m biased, but what a wonderful Australian idol she is!
My first choice is Sophia Loren for her ‘siren’ role in Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow although she earned her first Oscar in Two Women. Secondly,Penelope Cruz for her role in Vicky, Christina, Barcelona!
The lovely cate blanchet. Plus her and husbands work with the Sydney theatre company is wonderful. I also hear she is a whizz in the kitchen
Hilary Swank. Such a versatile actress!
Grace Kelly…fo sho!
I love Helen Mirren. Not only is she super talented but she’s got the best body for a granny!
Audrey Hepburn, she acted with the most amazing people & had a passion for animals. She acted with many different people and many different roles, she was very realistic in all of them and pulled through it all! She’s simply amazing.
This sounds like a really good movie! I’m heading to Aussie for a month – do I qualify ;p I like a number of Oscar winning actresses, but my absolute fave gotta be Marion Cotillard – she seems ethereal!
I know her name hasn’t made the Oscar list much, but I think Goldie Hawn is always a fabulous character and I enjoy all her movies.
I would have to say Halle Berry is one of my favourite Oscar Winners!! She is a beautiful woman and all class and a wonderful actress to boot!! And she was a Bond Girl!!!
I don’t even care what this show is about. I LOVE Marion Cotilard.. she’s so unique and classy.. reminds me a lot of Audrey Hepburn
She is one of the best actresses in “Hollywood” – none other than our own, Cate Blanchett. Her role in The Aviator, was outstanding playing the immortal Katharine Hepburn. She is my top pick.
Audrey Hepburn, no question
Sally Field! Totally have loved her acting in the past and currently too
My favourite actress is by far Vanessa Redgrave. she has starred in over 80 films, one of my fav’s was *Letters to Juliet*. She has starred on broadway and is the only English actress to have won the Oscar,Emmy,Tony,Cannes,Golden Globe and the Screen Actors Guild Award. Plus even now she is still simply stunning !
Meryl Streep there’s nothing she cant do, so authentic and real.
I absolutely love Helen Mirren – she is such a great method actor and is a role model for women of her age.
Hmmm…perhaps Gwyneth Paltrow, as she is a food lover like us, and pushes the enjoyment of food whenever possible.
My favorite actress is definitely Katharine Hepburn… I love all her movie and she was so classy!!!
My favourite is Nicole Kidman in The Hours, as she owns every part she plays and she is Australian too.
My favourite actress is Ingrid Bergman. She was so elegant, beautiful and I loved her accent and her voice. She was wonderful in “For whom the Bell Tolls”. Also my mother had a face like hers!
My favourite Oscar winning actress would have to be Kate Winslet – she’s talented, versatile, smart and beautiful. I also love Cate Blanchett for all the same reasons, plus she’s Australian!
Helen Mirren is my fave too. Talented, beautiful & dignified & she’s managed to break through the age barrier that seems to stop women having a movie career past 45.
There’s a reason Katherine Hepburn won four oscars! She had true star quality.. fiesty, intelligent, beautiful and elegant.
All the actresses mentioned are fantastic. A few years ago I saw Halle Berry in Monsters Ball. Her gutsy performance was outstanding. Her short locks are pretty special too.
Helen Mirren, she is ageing beautifully, and seems down to earth despite her fame and length of time in the industry. Mostly I think that I like her because she isn’t stuck in the past, which is something I am terrified of becoming.
I would love to see this movie, I’m a big fan of French cinema. My favourite oscar winning actress is Nicole Kidman. Again recently she was stunning in ‘Rabbit Hole’.
Julie Andrews is pretty special
Natalie Portman, she is young, talented and beautiful.
Susan Sarandon – not so much for the role, but for the best Oscar-acceptance dress ever (rust-coloured satin – gorgeous.)
Great giveaway, Lorraine! Sounds like a good movie!
OMG, So so many.
I pull for the underdog…for example, I loved when Cher got it for Moonstruck.
Oh, and I loooooooooooove Susan Saradon. love love love her in Dead Men Walking.
xxx Kisses
I’m going a little bit old school, with Vivien Leigh, for Gone With the Wind, because she was a little bit epic, and a little bit family history, in that it was the movie my parents saw on their first date.
Coming up with a favorite is difficult so here are my favorites…… Hilary Swank, Jodie Foster, Kathy Bates, Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Kate Winslet, Meryl Streep ,Geena Davis, Cate Blanchett,
Tilda Swinton ,Marisa Tomei,
Picking one is like picking the most beautiful woman at beauty contest it’s not really possible now is it.
Meryl Streep is very talented and I have enjoyed every movie she has starred in
Meryl Streep – absolute brilliance on screen. Action, drama, comedy, animation – she is a treat to watch
Helen Mirren – “Mirren, Mirren on the Wall who is the best actress of them all”
Miss Winslett – By Dickens, she exceeds even my ‘Kate’ Expectations!
In Million Dollar Baby, Hilary Swank
at the top of my list she really does rank!
Helen Mirren very versatile
I would have to go for Reese Witherspoon. She was amazing in ‘Walk the Line’ and her performance was stunning in ‘Water for Elephants’. One of my favorite movies of all time is ‘Legally Blonde’ and she manages to add her own flavour to the role.
I first saw ateenage Julie Roberts in ‘Mystic Pizza’ and as was the pizza ‘hinted’ at containing something ‘Mystic’ in the movie, Julie Roberts certainly contains something Mystic in her acting
I love Katherine Heigl…she’s been in some really good movies like Life as we Know It and 27 Dresses!
Kate Winslet is my choice. I still get a shiver up my spine when I think of her in “The Reader.”
Helen Mirren, she’s so classy, and a beautiful Dame
I love Hillary Swank – every movie she is in is a credit to the art of film. Also, she is amazing to see on the red carpet! What a full Package!
How could i choose just one, there are so many greats. but i guess i would have to choose Julia Roberts. She is such a “pretty woman”
Nicole Kidman, aussie girl power!
Natalie Portman because she’s synonymous with elegance, class and style/Her stunning acting ability makes me smile
Well a young Richard Gere certainly saw her measure in ‘Pretty Woman’ and we the public fell in love with a prostitute! yes Julie Roberts made this unusual couple work
I love Marion Cottilard. hope i win
My absolute favourite actress is Meryl Streep or as I affectionately call her, “Mezza”. She is a woman of substance – Completely fearless and just captivating to watch. I’m amazed by her natural ability to change accents and styles.
Cate Blanchett – so elegant and talented! A close second would be the stunning Penelope Cruz
Julie Roberts showed us once again in ‘My Best Friends’ Wedding’ what talent she possesses. She doesn’t churn out a movie a year, she intelligently chooses a script she believes is a winner
Grace Kelly: Not only was she a picture of perfection, she was such a talented actressed with a dignified persona. I never tire of her films.
I would have to go with Cate Blanchett – an aussie with style.
My favourite actor, (at the time)Hugh Grant and my always favourite actress, Julie Roberts starring together in ‘Notting Hill’ with the wonderful English humour thrown in certainly had me and multitudes of others in a movie frenzy
My vote definately goes to the incredible Katharine Hepburn. Starring beside John Wayne, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, Laurence Olivier and Henry Fonda, she was beautiful. With Spencer Tracy in “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner” she was unbeatable and still a favourite today after all these years.
My fav Oscar winning actress is Sophia Loren, as she is just oozes international style and beauty. She is a true icon, beautiful and intelligent. I would love to win tickets as I am dying to see this movie! thanks Lorraine, ps I love the blog, very inspirational xx
Toni Collette – Academy Award nominated Australian actress. I remeber her from Muriel’s Wedding (1994) moving on to Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Lynn Sear in The Sixth Sense (1999)…we havn’t see the last of her yet.
In Americas’ Sweethearts Julie Roberts shone as always, she has natural talent oozing from her every pore
Elizabeth Taylor- from National Velvet to Cleopatra she has always been the hottest cat on any roof
Penelope Cruz, she’s a brilliant actress!
Diane Keaton because her funny movies always make me laugh!
I love Geena Davies, she has such a wonderful sense of humour.
Her quirky movies are amongst my favorites.
Cate Blanchett is MY fave actress of ALL TIME!I really admire not only for her breathtaking and believable performances but also for the strength of her personality and her stand on environmental issues. She is refreshingly down to earth and deserves to win a second Oscar in the future.
Cate Blanchett is MY fave actress of ALL TIME! I really admire her, not only for her breathtaking and believable performances but also for the strength of her personality and her stand on environmental issues. She is refreshingly down to earth and deserves to win a second Oscar in the future.
I love Sally Field as she is a legend of her time and also love watching her play the mother in Brothers in Sisters.
Julia Roberts has always been so choosy of which movies she appears in,and each one has beeb a hit, even *Full Frontal* which is not a favourite of mine, but Julia Roberts certainly knows her job
Cate Blanchett
Julia Roberts,Who can forget Pretty Woman.Love every film she has been in never disappoints her fans
You have to love Halle Berrys glow, grace and elegance. What I wouldn’t give to have that bond body!
Cate Blanchett is pretty cool. Elegant, stylish and a real family woman. I bet she’s nice in real life, too.
The original one and only Elizabeth Taylor
Jessica Lange. Can’t believe nobody has mention her in over 100 comments! She has never lost her classiness.
My favourite oscar winning actress would have to be Julie Andrews. I’m a massive musical fan so she is right up there with my all time favourite women!
I enjoyed Helen Mirren playing Dobson in the the remake of Arthur. Being my favourite actress right now, I particularly like the fact that she is one of a very few Oscar winners who doesn’t feel the need for plastic surgery and can still win these awards.
My favourite Oscar winning actress is Julie Robert’s. Since her role in Pretty Woman, I have followed her career. She has true screen presence, and fully embraces every character she takes on.
Audrey Hepburn is my all time greatest oscar winner! Glamorous and not to scared to show her true personality! Which won every persons all over the world up most respect and she is now a classic part of history!
Funnily enough,Marion Cotillard is one of my favourite oscar winning actresses – she is just spectacular not to mention utterly gorgeous in my all time fave flick, ‘A Good Year’ which I never tire of watching, can’t wait to see her in this latest movie!
Hopefully this doesn’t sound like a cliché
Beautiful actress, Juliette Binoche
Perfect companion at banquet or buffet
She’s the one I’d invite to any soiree!
Hilary Swank in Boys Don’t Cry….Very thought provoking film and an unforgettable performance by Swank.
One of my favourite Oscar winning actresses is Natalie Portman. She has amazmed with her acting skills ever since the Star Wars prequel trilogy, and in V for Vendetta. I can’t wait to see her in The Black Swan (the film for which she won her Oscar in 2010).
Sandr Bullock …
Jessica Tandy for her performance as a self-absorbed woman who discovers a precious friendship.
I just love Angelina Jolie, she is so beautiful and one of the best actressess ever. Plus she’s got the hottest man ever, who could ask for more.
Gweneth Paltrow…..doesn’t she have a cookbook out now?
wow! What a lot of achievements!
Looking through the list of women who have won the best actress award, I am amazed at the range of talents there. I have to say though I keep coming back to Shirley Maclaine, I love her in any role, she brings such warmth to each character, even when they are prickly personalities!
Nicole Kidman has to be one of the most versatile actors and she is our favourite Australian
Vivien Leigh. I love Gone with the Wind and I couldn’t imagine anyone being able to play ‘Scarlet’ as well as Vivien Leigh could.
There are many wonderful actresses to choose from, some who we claim as ours (Australians) Cate Blanchet is a truly amazing talent. I am still going to stick to Julia Roberts however, her movies are always remembered, she will be toppled I am quite sure of that as there are many very talented emerging in this new generation, including the young cast of ‘Packed to the Rafters’ past and present
Marion Cotillard! She was simply amazing, so smoothly taking Edith Piaf through her tumultuous life.
Meryl Streep for The Bridges of Madison County – so incredibly romantic
Julia Roberts for the classic “Pretty Woman” and outstanding portrayal of “Erin Brokovich”
Hillary Swank. She just shines in everything but her performance in Million Dollar Baby is just superb.
The Awesome Meryl Streep
Yey! Just won a double pass to see Little White Lies. Thanks to Not Quite Nigella!
My favourite would be Merly Streep. It’s a guaranteed winner if she’s in it. Her talent is amazing and diverse
My favourite would be Meryl Streep. It’s a guaranteed winner if she’s in it. Her talent is amazing and diverse.
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