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Sun Feb-27-05 05:10 PM
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Actors that should have won Oscars but didn't |
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Morgan Freeman - Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Lost to Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump :puke:
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:12 PM
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1. Robin Williams - Bicentenial Man (1999) |
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:54 PM
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29. I thought he did better |
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in Mrs. Doubtfire. That was a great acting job, but it's obvious the Acasdemy looks down on comedic roles.
Atleast he won for supporting actor in Good Will Hunting.
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:12 PM
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2. As said in the other thread Ralph Fiennes for "Schindler's List" |
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Lost to Tommy Lee Jones for "The Fugitive."
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:13 PM
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3. Cate Blanchette--Elizabeth |
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Edited on Sun Feb-27-05 05:13 PM by NV Whino
On Edit: spelling... again
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:14 PM
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6. I second that-she was brilliant in that movie |
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:17 PM
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14. To quote a film critic I'm rather fond of... |
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"Cate Blanchett is a goddess. So beautiful that you just want to fall at her feet and weep, sure, but the talent. My god, the talent. This is her bestest, stunningest, most remarkably surefooted performance ever, but I think I've said that about each of her previous roles, I'll probably say that about the next one, too, and the one after that, and the one after that.
I want to have her babies."
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:15 PM
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Also: no E at the end of Blanchett.
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:46 PM
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25. Thanks. I did go back and put the "h" in, though |
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I can't believe she lost to "bare boob" Paltrow that year. Cate can do anything. If you've never seen her in Pushing Tin, try to find it. One of those films that fell through the cracks.
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Sun Feb-27-05 07:38 PM
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I have a friend who became an air traffic controller and he said that they really do act like they did in the control room.
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:13 PM
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4. Gloria Swanson - Sunset Boulevard |
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Lost to Judy Holliday in "Born Yesterday," which is not a bad film, but geez, Norma Desmond is a classic role.
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:15 PM
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10. Oh God yes! Her loss shows why the Oscars are so dumb...Judy |
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Holiday was good, but Gloria Swanson's Nora Desmond was pure genius--it has held up over the years...you can't really judge how good something is until a bit of time has passed.
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:14 PM
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The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).
Or, rather, I should say Gandalf. For anyone who sees Fellowship understands that Ian McKellan does not actually exist; rather, Gandalf somehow found his way into our world many years ago and has been masquerading as a gay British actor of excellent ability ever since.
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:16 PM
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12. Ian McKellan in "Gods and Monsters" |
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Edited on Sun Feb-27-05 05:18 PM by Kathy in Cambridge
they gave the Best Actor Oscar to Roberto Benigni. Notice we haven't heard anything from him since.
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:28 PM
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19. Winning Best Actor can be a mixed blessing...look at F. Murray Abraham... |
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won Best Actor for "Amadeus"...and he more or less vanished from films afterward.
Benigni made a movie in Italy a couple of years back: "Pinoccio", which was...dreadful. Imported to the States...and was a critical and box office bomb. I think Benigni's film career here is gone...whereas someone like Ian McKellan's film career is thriving...good roles in big films. :-)
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:17 PM
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13. He is brilliant! I also thought he was wonderful in |
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Richard III (contemporary version).
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:30 PM
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21. Wasn't that a terrific film? |
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Interesting idea about transplanting the story to a Nazi Germany type totaltarian country. Yet remaining true to the dialogue. Excellent casting as well.
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:15 PM
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7. I forgot about that travesty |
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I have watched Shawshank Redemption at least a dozen times. I watched Forrest Gump once. :puke: is right for Gump.
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:15 PM
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9. Willem Dafoe - Shadow of the Vampire 1999 |
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Edited on Sun Feb-27-05 05:15 PM by hippiechick
Supporting Actor in a dead-on (excuse the pun) portrayal of Max Shreck, the original 'Nosferatu'. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v739/Indylisa/dafoeshreck.bmp
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:16 PM
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11. Sir Ian McKellan - "Gods and Monsters" - lost to Roberto Beningni(sp) |
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Actually, there were two others that should of won over that idiot Beninigni(sp)...Edward Norton (outstanding in American History X) and Nick Nolte
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:19 PM
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15. Edward Norton is perhaps the best actor of his generation. |
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No diggity.
...I apologize. I will never do that again.
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:19 PM
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16. That was a sentimental award |
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you're spot on about the other three performances.
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:22 PM
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No offense is intended, but perhaps there is something to the babblings of the "Jew-run media", as the Academy has a large number of Jewish voters, and Holocaust movies always have a leg up on other contenders at the Oscars.
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:26 PM
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18. In Music, I thought Enya and deserved an Oscar for |
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May It Be... from Fellowship of the Lord of the Rings, whereas someone else got it that year. Then Annie Lennox won it for singing the theme song for Return of the King three years later when ROTK took many of the oscars, given, no doubt in my mind, to honor all the trilogy. I thought Howard Shores' music from the first movie was superior than that of the second and third.
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:29 PM
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20. Robert Downey Jr. for 'Chaplin' |
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The movie was so-so, but the performance was amazing.
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:51 PM
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27. last time I saw Robert on TV he had cleaned up and was looking good |
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I hope he keeps control of his demons because he is an amazing talent and a good person
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:40 PM
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22. Dustin Hoffman - Midnight Cowboy (1969) |
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Lost to John Wayne (True Grit) :puke:
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:42 PM
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23. I'll go along with that. Or Peter O'Toole. |
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Both Hoffman and O'Toole (The Lion in Winter) should have won over the same performance John Wayne has given in his entire career.
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Sun Feb-27-05 07:39 PM
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32. that was a case of they all knew John Wayne was not long |
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for this world, and this might be his last chance. Hoffman has since gotten two oscars, OToole still has not but does have a lifetime achievement oscar
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:46 PM
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24. Edward Norton for American History X. |
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Also agree with Sir Ian for Gods & Monsters. Brilliant.
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:49 PM
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26. Edward Norton in Fear |
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I think he lost to Cuba Gooding Jr who is a terrible actor
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Sun Feb-27-05 05:53 PM
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28. Tom Cruise For Born On the Forth of July |
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I don't generally like Tom Cruise but this was a great performance.
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Sun Feb-27-05 07:35 PM
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30. Paul Newman for Cool Hand Luke, for starters and about |
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20 other things before he finally got one for "Color of Money"
Robert Redford for any movie for which he was nominated and did not win
Richard Burton for Becket, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe, and others
Peter OToole for Lawrence, Becket, Lion in Winter
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Sun Feb-27-05 07:45 PM
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33. Ben Kingsley - House of Sand and Fog |
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Lost to Sean Penn for Mystic River
I thought Penn's performance was great but still think Kingsley's was better.
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