Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role 2004
Charlize Theron Monster 2004
SEX WORKER ROLE
Wins Oscar For Playing A Prostitute
Charlize Theron in Monster 2004
Charlize portrays Aileen Wuornos, the most notorious female serial killer in the history of the United States of America. She was responsible for the deaths of seven men while working as a prostitute for a year. According to Aileen, all of these guys engaged in an attempt to rape her, and she ended up killing them in self-defense. In spite of the heroic efforts of her attorneys, she was found guilty of six of the murders and sentenced to death for each of them. In the year 2002, Aileen was executed via lethal injection.
Entertainment Weekly wrote of Charlize’s performance:
“This isn’t just a performance, it’s an act of obsession — an actress parading demons we might never have guessed she had — and it lends “Monster” a heightened aura of excitement, even if it isn’t, in the end, a very good movie.”
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