Starring: Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant
Director: Beeban Kidron
Category: IIB
Mike Lancaster, co-founder of the anti-film awards the Stinkers, memorably likened Renee Zellweger's performance in Cold Mountain to looking like she was portraying Granny from The Beverly Hillbillies. 'In some scenes, she was so out there it was ridiculous,' he said.
But Zellweger was duly awarded the Oscar for best supporting actress and rode off across the Atlantic to revive her role as Bridget Jones - the wonderfully real character created by Helen Fielding and successfully adapted from her books for the big screen in 2001 with Bridget Jones's Diary.
Zellweger famously put on a heap of weight and gave a sterling performance as the British angst-ridden single woman, who smokes, drinks, swears and gets under your skin.
It was a formulaic Jane Austen-inspired romantic tale of class division in which girl gets her upper-class man, but it worked because we fell in love with Bridget who was, like most of us, an imperfect creature who muddled her way though life, rebounding from setbacks and searching for contentment.