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Originally Posted by The Bus
Guess what... you are!
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Originally Posted by MoviePage
From an article that came out a couple of weeks before this year's Oscars:
Anyway, the Academy seems to have finally decided that Depp is one of their favorite actors, so they'll probably nominate him for everything from now on, and he'll win soon enough. If he can get nominated for his completely unremarkable work in Finding Neverland over far more deserving contenders (Paul Giamatti in particular), then it shouldn't be a problem. |
Originally Posted by island007
I did. He gave an average performance in an average movie.
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Depp deserved an oscar for Fear and Loathing, Gilbert Grape, Edward Scissorhands, and perhaps even Ed Wood.
He was wonderful in Pirates of the Caribbean, but it probably wasn't award winning. |
Originally Posted by ReservoirDog45
I'll take a stab and say you thought Depp deserved an Oscar for "Pirates"
The two times Depp were nominated were NOT his best performances; however, he is STILL a better actor with a farther range than the two individuals (Penn and Fox) that won the Oscar for the respective years. At least you appear to have agreed that Fox gave an average perfomance in an average movie. |
Originally Posted by DVD-ho78(DTS)
..and the Oscar goes to:
Johnny Depp: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Johnny Depp portrays Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, save his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind. I'm positive. K |
I think Depp's chances of winning a Best Actor Oscar really depends on how well he does in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which will come out this summer. If Director Tim Burton can bring out the best in Depp, he will be a leading candidate for winning that Oscar late next February.
After all, Johnny Depp almost single-handedly turned Pirates of the Caribbean into a surprisingly good movie, and his role in Finding Neverland was very good, too. :up: |
Originally Posted by movielib
As much as I like Depp I'd rather first give Oscars to Peter O'Toole and Albert Finney.
Though neither were Edward G. Robinson or Donald Sutherland, so what does it all mean? |
Proof that neither Johnny Depp, nor Martin Scorsese, or anybody else needs an Oscar to be remembered and admired. A few lists...
Actors who never won an acting Oscar: Fred Astaire Kirk Douglas Albert Finney Cary Grant Peter O'Toole Peter Sellers Orson Welles Alan Arkin Warren Beatty Clint Eastwood James Dean Harrison Ford Buster Keaton John Cassavetes Charlie Chaplain Tom Cruise W.C. Fields Errol Flynn Peter Fonda Elliott Gould Richard Harris James Earl Jones Bruce Willis Max Von Sydow John Travolta Arnold Schwarzenegger Mickey Rooney Burt Reynolds Robert Redford Claude Rains Nick Nolte Steve McQueen Dean Martin Actresses who never won an acting Oscar: Glenn Close Greta Garbo Lauren Bacall Lucille Ball Rita Hayworth Doris Day Mimi Rogers Judy Garland Liv Ullmann Ava Gardner Maureen O'Hara Mia Farrow Natalie Wood Marilyn Monroe Bette Midler Marlene Dietrich Lana Turner Shirley Temple Barbara Stanwyck Directors who never won a directorial Oscar: Robert Altman Charlie Chaplin Cecil B. DeMille Howard Hawks Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick Akira Kurosawa Fritz Lang Spike Lee George Lucas Sidney Lumet John Cassavetes Sam Peckinpah Martin Scorsese David Lynch Orson Welles Ingmar Bergman Michelangelo Antonioni Michael Mann Brian De Palma Tim Burton Ang Lee James Ivory Federico Fellini Arthur Penn Ridley Scott Francois Truffaut King Vidor Clarence Brown Jane Campion Films that didn't win a single Oscar: Angels With Dirty Faces The Birds Blade Runner Blow-Up Blue Velvet Das Boot Boyz N the Hood Brazil Charade A Clockwork Orange The Color Purple The Conversation Deliverance Do the Right Thing Dr. Strangelove Double Indemnity Easy Rider The Elephant Man The Four Feathers Full Metal Jacket Gangs of New York The Godfather III Grand Illusion The Great Dictator The Great Escape A Hard Day's Night It's a Wonderful Life The Lady Eve Last Tango in Paris The Magnificant Seven Magnolia Malcolm X The Maltese Falcon The Manchurian Candidate The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance McCabe and Mrs. Miller Memento Mulholland Drive My Man Godfrey North by Northwest Notorious Peyton Place Planet of the Apes Psycho Ragtime Rear Window Rebel Without a Cause Sands of Iwo Jima Serpico The Seven Samurai The Shawshank Redemption Short Cuts Singin' in the Rain Strangers on a Train The Sweet Hereafter Taxi Driver Trainspotting 12 Angry Men Vertigo Films that weren't even nominated for a single Oscar: The Big Sleep Blood Simple Bringing up Baby City Lights The Day the Earth Stood Still Destry Rides Again Dirty Harry Dracula Drugstore Cowboy Duck Soup A Face in the Crowd Gilda Hard Boiled Heat His Girl Friday The Killing King Kong The Lady Vanishes MacBeth Mean Streets Metropolis Miller's Crossing The Misfits Monty Python and the Holy Grail Once Upon a Time in America Once Upon a Time in the West Paths of Glory Reservoir Dogs Rio Bravo The Shining Sid and Nancy The 39 Steps Three Women Touch of Evil Trouble in Paradise Walkabout The Wild One Winchester 73 The Wrong Man Deserving movies not nominated for "Best Picture": 1928 - Metropolis 1931 - City Lights, Frankenstein 1932 - Scarface 1933 - King Kong, Duck Soup 1935 - The 39 Steps, A Night at the Opera 1936 - Modern Times 1938 - The Lady Vanishes 1939 - Destry Rides Again 1940 - His Girl Friday 1944 - Laura 1946 - The Big Sleep 1947 - Black Narcissus 1948 - Oliver Twist 1950 - The Third Man 1953 - Stalag 17 1954 - Rear Window 1955 - East of Eden 1956 - The Seven Samurai 1957 - Paths of Glory 1958 - Vertigo 1959 - North by Northwest, Some Like it Hot 1960 - Psycho, Spartacus 1961 - Breakfast at Tiffany's 1962 - The Manchurian Candidate 1963 - The Birds 1968 - 2001: A Space Odyssey, Rosemary's Baby 1969 - Once Upon a Time in the West 1977 - 3 Women 1980 - Stardust Memories 1982 - Blade Runner 1985 - Brazil, Ran 1987 - Full Metal Jacket 1990 - Miller's Crossing 1995 - The Usual Suspects 1996 - Sling Blade, Trainspotting 1997 - The Sweet Hereafter 2001 - Amelie, Memento 2002 - Adaptation, About Schmidt 2004 - Eternal Sunshine Like I said in the second post of this thread: fuck the Academy. -JP |
Originally Posted by NatrlBornThrllr
A few lists...
Like I said in the second post of this thread: fuck the Academy. while there are plenty of deserving entries, i'm not sure what arnold schwarzenneger is doing there. or mimi rogers. |
Re: Can we get Johnny Depp an Oscar, please?
His career lately has taken a nosedive with a string of flops
Could "Black Mass" and his portrayal of Whitey Bulger return the luster to his career and maybe get him a Oscar nom or will it be another turd? http://i6.cdnds.net/14/26/450x450/jo...ld-handbag.jpg |
Re: Can we get Johnny Depp an Oscar, please?
Depp alone has never been a big draw at the box office, but yeah he definitely hasn't put his best foot forward.
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Re: Can we get Johnny Depp an Oscar, please?
Black Mass got some strong reaction at CinemaCon. It's got a strong cast.
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Re: Can we get Johnny Depp an Oscar, please?
Depp has exactly as many Oscars as he deserves.
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Re: Can we get Johnny Depp an Oscar, please?
Any awards he may win in the future should be rendered null and void for the abomination that was Alice In Wonderland.
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Re: Can we get Johnny Depp an Oscar, please?
Depp's best performance was in Ed Wood. He was actually pretty great in the 90s, but has been starring in one awful movie after another since the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
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Re: Can we get Johnny Depp an Oscar, please?
Originally Posted by JeffTheAlpaca
(Post 12460169)
His career lately has taken a nosedive with a string of flops
Could "Black Mass" and his portrayal of Whitey Bulger return the luster to his career and maybe get him a Oscar nom or will it be another turd? BTW, Martin Scorsese and Ang Lee are the only people on NatrlBornThrllr's lists to have now won (Lee with 2 Oscars, of course). As for Depp, he still has a shot if he takes real acting roles instead of the big makeup jobs for would-be blockbusters. I have wondered if he's self-conscious about getting older (he seems very shy in interviews) and likes to be behind a mask of some sort. |
Re: Can we get Johnny Depp an Oscar, please?
Originally Posted by Drexl
(Post 12460215)
Did you mean to bump this thread 10 years to the day or was that a coincidence?
And, yes, 10 years ago I would've been in total agreement that Johnny Depp deserved an Oscar. (Heck, his movie career over the last few years has been virtually like the post-win slump of someone who actually won an acting Oscar.) |
Re: Can we get Johnny Depp an Oscar, please?
Originally Posted by Numanoid
(Post 12460179)
Depp has exactly as many Oscars as he deserves.
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Re: Can we get Johnny Depp an Oscar, please?
Originally Posted by Numanoid
(Post 12460179)
Depp has exactly as many Oscars as he deserves.
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Re: Can we get Johnny Depp an Oscar, please?
Originally Posted by Numanoid
(Post 12460179)
Depp has exactly as many Oscars as he deserves.
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Re: Can we get Johnny Depp an Oscar, please?
Seems like all he does is play weird characters wearing weird hats. I don't think he's ever had a role where he's been laid out emotionally bare. Donnie Brasco may be the closest he's come to emotional honesty, and one of the few roles where he's not playing some tripped out caricature.
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Re: Can we get Johnny Depp an Oscar, please?
Originally Posted by slop101
(Post 12462180)
Seems like all he does is play weird characters wearing weird hats..
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Re: Can we get Johnny Depp an Oscar, please?
I would be in favor of giving him an honorary Oscar, if he promises to go away.
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Re: Can we get Johnny Depp an Oscar, please?
Originally Posted by Count Dooku
(Post 12462622)
I would be in favor of giving him an honorary Oscar, if he promises to go away.
:lol: |
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