Saoirse Ronan is having an excellent 2024 with awards buzz for her roles in The Outrun and Blitz, which comes to Apple TV+ next week.
If she gets an Oscar nomination for either role, it would mark Ronan's fifth nomination (and potentially sixth if both). She hasn't yet won, but her breakthrough role in Atonement showed she was always going to be a star.
Ronan was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for the war romance, in which she played the 13-year-old version of Briony, alongside the likes of Keira Knightley, James McAvoy and Vanessa Redgrave.
If you haven't seen it, or fancy a rewatch, Atonement is now available to watch on BBC iPlayer for the next 29 days, following its airing last night (November 16) on BBC One.
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As we wait to see whether Saoirse Ronan can land her first-ever Oscar for The Outrun or Blitz, she has already recorded a career-first this year by producing a movie for the first time.
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She produced The Outrun alongside her husband and fellow actor Jack Lowden, and she told Digital Spy that it was "exactly what I needed".
"It was a really excellent way to get out of your own head and think about the bigger picture, and also for me to be able to put my energy actively into the people that I was working with," Ronan explained.
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"To know that I could help them if hair and makeup aren't being listened to enough, or a cast member needs a little bit more of something, whether it's on set or off.
"And because I'm so used to being in that position myself, I have an empathy and an understanding of anyone else who is in that role."
Atonement is available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
Movies Editor, Digital Spy Ian has more than 10 years of movies journalism experience as a writer and editor. Starting out as an intern at trade bible Screen International, he was promoted to report and analyse UK box-office results, as well as carving his own niche with horror movies, attending genre festivals around the world. After moving to Digital Spy, initially as a TV writer, he was nominated for New Digital Talent of the Year at the PPA Digital Awards. He became Movies Editor in 2019, in which role he has interviewed 100s of stars, including Chris Hemsworth, Florence Pugh, Keanu Reeves, Idris Elba and Olivia Colman, become a human encyclopedia for Marvel and appeared as an expert guest on BBC News and on-stage at MCM Comic-Con. Where he can, he continues to push his horror agenda – whether his editor likes it or not.
