Actor/actress you thought should have gotten an Oscar (and the movie they were in)?
12-28-06, 05:39 PM
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Another vote for Cate Blanchette for "Elizabeth". She was robbed by Gweneth Paltrow. How can anyone say that Paltrow's performance was anywhere near Blanchette's??!!!???
I also though Mimi Rogers should have gotten tons of awards for "The Rapture." Very powerful movie.
I also though Mimi Rogers should have gotten tons of awards for "The Rapture." Very powerful movie.
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02-17-07, 07:19 PM
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The Poseiden Adventure (1972): Gene Hackman and Ernest Borgnine (both of which, including the picture itself, were never even nominated).
This film was a merging with old school actors with new school - Borgnine representing the "old school" (formerly winning the Best Actor Oscar in 1955 for Marty - if you watched Quiz Show, you'd know that and never forget it), and Hackman representing the "new school" (his first Best Actor Oscar-nomination occurred only five years prior).
The film displayed these two fine actors, and they both acted their asses off, and while the film went on to be one of the better disaster films, it was still an insult to not be recognized by the Academy (the film received only one - ONE - acting nomination: for Shelley Winters in the supporting category. She deserved it, just like the whole ensemble deserved it, Red Buttons and Jack Albertson included).
O well. Goes to show that not all the great films in our lives have Oscars hanging all over them.
This film was a merging with old school actors with new school - Borgnine representing the "old school" (formerly winning the Best Actor Oscar in 1955 for Marty - if you watched Quiz Show, you'd know that and never forget it), and Hackman representing the "new school" (his first Best Actor Oscar-nomination occurred only five years prior).
The film displayed these two fine actors, and they both acted their asses off, and while the film went on to be one of the better disaster films, it was still an insult to not be recognized by the Academy (the film received only one - ONE - acting nomination: for Shelley Winters in the supporting category. She deserved it, just like the whole ensemble deserved it, Red Buttons and Jack Albertson included).
O well. Goes to show that not all the great films in our lives have Oscars hanging all over them.
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02-17-07, 08:07 PM
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I always thought Sally Field should have won an Oscar for Steel Magnolias.
Edward Norton for American History X or Primal Fear.
Leonardo Dicaprio for What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Basketball Diaries, The Aviator, The Departed.
Johnny Depp for Finding Neverland.
Gerard Butler for Dear Frankie.
Billy Elliot should have won Best Picture.
If A Beautiful Mind wins for best picture and the movie is pretty much Russell Crowe's performance, I don't understand how Denzel Washington won instead? I have yet to see Malcolm X, so maybe Denzel has done a performance that I would consider good.
This year the guy nominated for supporting actor in Blood Diamond should win.
Nicole Kidman for The Hours was wrong, and Cuba Gooding Jr. should have never even been nominated, his post Oscar career proves that.
Joaquin Phoenix must win someday for something, he should have won for Gladiator.
Edward Norton for American History X or Primal Fear.
Leonardo Dicaprio for What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Basketball Diaries, The Aviator, The Departed.
Johnny Depp for Finding Neverland.
Gerard Butler for Dear Frankie.
Billy Elliot should have won Best Picture.
If A Beautiful Mind wins for best picture and the movie is pretty much Russell Crowe's performance, I don't understand how Denzel Washington won instead? I have yet to see Malcolm X, so maybe Denzel has done a performance that I would consider good.
This year the guy nominated for supporting actor in Blood Diamond should win.
Nicole Kidman for The Hours was wrong, and Cuba Gooding Jr. should have never even been nominated, his post Oscar career proves that.
Joaquin Phoenix must win someday for something, he should have won for Gladiator.
02-17-07, 10:58 PM
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Edward Arnold and Lee J. Cobb are fantastic actors, and steal the scenes they're in, but neither have won an Oscar, and have passed from this world without being honored. (For the fresh daisies on this forum, Edward Arnold and Lee J. Cobb were popular actors from the 1930's, 40's, and 50's.)
