Chancellor's Bafta nomination is for her role as war correspondent Lix Storm in Abi Morgan's drama The Hour about the launch of the BBC's first topical news programme in 1956.
It would be hard, no doubt, for any team of British filmmakers to deal with a figure as masterful, virulent, and divisive as Thatcher, but this bio-pic, written by AbiMorgan and directed by Phyllida Lloyd, is an oddly unsettled compound of glorification and malice.