The nominees for Oscar for Best Actress is a battle between two newcomers, two previous Oscar winners and a woman receiving her fifth nomination.<br /><br /> Front-runner Julianne Moore has already picked up several major awards for her role in ‘Still Alice’, where she plays a college professor suffering from early onset Alzheimers.<br /><br /> This is the 54-year-old’s fifth Oscar nomination, having received previous nods for lead actress for ‘The Hours’ and ‘Boogie Nights’ among others.<br /><br /> Playing the first wife of physicist Stephen Hawking in the biopic ‘The Theory of Everything’ has helped Felicity Jones to her first Oscar nomination.<br /><br /> Although the Briton has been acting since the mid-1990s, critics say ‘The Theory of Everything’ really put her on the map.<br /><br /> The demanding role of Jane Hawkin showed how she cared for her genius husband after he was left paralysed by motor neuron disease.<br /><br /> Reese Witherspoon earns her second Best Actress nomination for her role in ‘Wild’ as author Cheryl Strayed, who ch
