In The Danish Girl, physical transformer Eddie Redmayne plays Lili Elbe, one of the first transgender women to successfully undergo sex-reassignment surgery. After winning a Best Actor Oscar earlier this year for his performance as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, Redmayne could make it two in a row — a neat trick last pulled off by Tom Hanks in ‘90s, when he won for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. The Academy loves a transformation!
