Photos: Take a look at Best Actress nominees in Oscars 2014

[caption id="attachment_1413433" align="alignleft" width="940"] Amy Adams as Sydney Prosser in American Hustle delivers a performance that's like heady cocktail — smooth and sensuous. Adams has already bagged a Golden Globe for her performance and is a nominee in the Best Actress category in Oscars 2014.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1413435" align="alignleft" width="940"] Cate Blanchett plays the flawed Jasmine in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine, an upper-crust Manhattan socialite whose life goes seriously wrong. Jasmine's life as the pampered wife of high-flying investment broker Hal falls apart after she learns that he is having an affair. Jasmine leaves her husband and travels back to move in with her sister Ginger and start over again. Blanchett too has bagged a Golden Globe in Best Actress in a Drama category and has been nominated for this year's Best Actress Award in Oscars.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1413437" align="alignleft" width="940"] Judy Dench's Philomena is sweet and very proper with a touch of innocence. Philomena sets out on a journey to look for her son who was snatched from her when she was a teenager.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1413439" align="alignleft" width="940"] Meryl Streep's Violet is foul-mouthed, mean, self-centred and pathetic. She tears into her daughters when the family is gathered for her husband's funeral dinner, viciously exposing them and their wounds. Yet, even as she makes you hate her for lashing out, Streep doesn't let you forget that Violet has been fashioned into the horrible creature she is now by her past.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1413441" align="alignleft" width="940"] Sandra Bullocks who is mostly known for her roles in rom-coms delivers the best performance of her career as Ryan Stone in Gravity.[/caption]