Oscars love strong women, so can we have some more please?

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This year's Best Actress Oscar will see intense competition, with even a shoo-in for Best Actor nominee, Eddie Redmayne, playing a man in the process of becoming a woman in The Danish Girl.

I am spoilt for choice in the series of powerful women who are walking across screens in this year's Oscar-worthy movies.

Charlotte Rampling in 45 Years

The woman who is known for The Look, is outstanding as the retired teacher who is forced to examine her 45-year-old marriage and discover the choices she made were not so much her own as those forced on her.

Her last scene, and spoiler alert!, when she realises this and disengages her hand from her delightedly drunk spouse is rivetting. As is she.

Brie Larson in Room

She almost stole Trainwreck from Amy Schumer and she is astonishing as the young mother who fights for her son in captivity.

Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett in Carol

Should we look at Mara or Blanchett. Viewers are spoilt for choice as Blanchett seeks out Mara in this romance set in the 1950s.

The great fashion on display is a bonus.

Saoirse Ronan in Brooklyn

If you hated her in The Atonement you will adore her as a young Irsh working woman in Brooklyn. There is such a thing as being luminous and it doesn't come only in bulbs.

Jennifer Lawrence in Joy

David O'Russell, Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper. Can anything go wrong?

It doesn't as Jennifer Lawrence stars as the woman who invented the miracle mop and sold it on QVC.