In an exclusive new clip from David O. Russell’s “American Hustle” Amy Adams gets raw and real, proving why she earned her Best Actress nomination alongside the film’s nine other Oscar nods, TheWrap said.

In the scene, Adams’ character Sydney Prosser, is in distress, trying to figure out how she and lover Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale) can escape the clutches of the FBI, which has just busted their massive con operation.

Adams slips effortlessly between plain-Jane Sydney and elegant English alter ego “Lady Edith Greensley” while she lets Bale have it.