AMY MADIGAN My Wild Ride to the Oscars

THE SEASONED STAR’S FIERCE TURN IN WEAPONS TOOK THE WORLD BY STORM—AND EARNED HER A SECOND ACADEMY AWARD NOD

- ERIC ANDERSSON,MICHAEL SCHWARTZ

Amy Madigan wants to clear something up. Yes, Weapons was an enormous horror hit, and yes, her performance as the ghoulish Aunt Gladys has earned her a number of accolades, including an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress. (She’s already won a Critics Choice Award and a New York Film Critics Circle Award, among others.) But the veteran character actress says she hasn’t exactly been flooded with offers since the movie thrust her into the spotlight after it premiered last August. “I’ve been asked a lot: ‘Your inbox must be just filled with scripts?’ No, that is not true. There have been some, of course,” she says. “I think the really nice thing about this attention is that I’m much, much, much more in people’s conversations.”

She has certainly dominated the cultural conversation. After decades in show business—and 40 years after her previous Academy Award nomination, for 1985’s family drama