After more than 50 years in the biz, Jane Fonda is looking, and feeling more youthful than ever. So it seems entirely appropriate that Italian director Paolo Sorrentino's perfectly titled "Youth" should bring her roaring back into the Oscar conversation. It's been almost three decades since Fonda's last nomination in 1986 for "The Morning After", in which she played an actress—just as she is in "Youth".

Fonda's Brenda Morel, a ball-buster who nearly steals the show in just eight-a-half-minutes of screen time, blew everyone away when the film was first screened in Cannes. Fonda won two Oscars in the 1970's (Klute and Coming Home) and has been nominated seven times. "Youth" could bring an eighth nomination, but Fonda doesn't like to talk about that prospect, just the role itself.