It’s been a gradual climb for Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Gold Derby’s Oscar odds for Best Actress, but it has paid off. The star of Mike Leigh‘s latest film, “Hard Truths,” now ranks ...

Previously announced honorees include Nicolas Cage, Joan Chen, Colman Domingo, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Sheryl Lee Ralph, George MacKay, Diane Warren and June Squibb.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s lead role in “Hard Truths,” directed by Mike Leigh, is her most substantial onscreen role since “Secrets and Lies” earned them Academy Award nominations in 1997.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s performance is too reel and too real. M aybe it’s because this is Black History Month that the complete Oscar lock-out of Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths seems so wrong.

No one last year gave a performance that comes close to what Marianne Jean-Baptiste does in Hard Truths.

Logline: Secrets & Lies star Marianne Jean-Baptiste reteams with Mike Leigh for his first contemporary film since Another Year in 2010. She plays Pansy, an increasingly unmoored London housewife ...