Scarlett Johansson

The Independent Spirit records open and close on Scarlett Johansson in almost the same place. In 1997 they put her up for lead female with Manny and Lo, the earliest of her films in our records, and twenty-three years later they gave the Robert Altman award to the company of Marriage Story, a citation covering the film and eleven people at once, her among them. Between the two, in 2014, came a place on the honorary list of the French academy. Four British Film Institute reviews take up the playing itself: Rebecca in Ghost World, Angier's assistant Olivia in The Prestige, a complicated innocence built out of sheer screen presence in Girl with a Pearl Earring, and in Match Point a performance whose exit leaves the second half thinner than the first.