That's the question everyone's asking after the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. gave her the best actress award for her haunting performance in the drug-addiction drama "Down To the Bone."
It's a legitimate question since "Down To the Bone" played for only two weeks in Los Angeles after opening Thanksgiving weekend.

It's a question I doubt too many people will be asking a year from now since Farmiga has the lead actress role in Martin Scorsese's next movie, "The Departed" and will also be prominently featured in Anthony Minghella's heist drama "Breaking and Entering."

For "Down to the Bone," Farmiga won a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004 (that's how long it has taken this stark, truthful film to find distribution). She was also nominated for a lead actress Independent Spirit Award in 2005.
Those accolades stick in your mind. So when "Down To the Bone" finally made it to L.A., almost two years after its Sundance triumphs, members of LAFCA made sure to clear some time and give it a look.

If you want to do the same, "Down To the Bone" will more than likely reopen in Los Angeles on Friday at the Laemmle Monica in Santa Monica. (The uncertainty is over whether a print can be struck in time ... no one from the distributor counted on Farmiga's win. Now they see a way to rightfully capitalize on the attention.)

The movie also opens Friday in San Fransico and will play in the nation's top 20 markets early next year. And it is continuing to do good business in New York, where it has now played for four weeks.