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Post by HELENA MARIA on Feb 10, 2020 19:44:54 GMT
Absolutely lame and cartoonish performances😑
I know I'm probably in the minority here, but I think she should have won for Bridget Jones' Diary. It's still her best performance to date.
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Post by stephen on Feb 10, 2020 19:45:55 GMT
I will always defend her Cold Mountain performance and win (even if I preferred Aghdashloo from that field), and while I have no qualms with her work in Judy, it does baffle me that she swept so thoroughly for that. I get it, the role is awards catnip... but still.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2020 19:48:00 GMT
Well, I think she's fine in Judy, but yes, the stench of her performance in Cold Mountain still lingers... I'd rank her Oscar-nominated performances like so:  1. Bridget Jones's Diary  2. Chicago  3. Judy  4. Cold Mountain |
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Post by notacrook on Feb 10, 2020 19:53:27 GMT
She's a bit much in Cold Mountain, though I still really enjoyed her energy and presence.
However, her performance in Judy was tremendous and absolutely deserving of that win. Sure, winning for a biopic always feels a little boring and obvious, but that shouldn't be held against the performance itself. Zellweger opted for capturing the heart and essence of Garland rather than a strained imitation, and the result was easily the best performance of her career to date.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Feb 10, 2020 20:07:36 GMT
I definitely prefer Bridget Jones and Chicago too, but I don't hate her Judy performance. That whole lineup was pretty boring tbh and if I couldn't have Johnasson, I might as well have Zellweger (Theron was fine too but she was never going to win, and IMO she'd receive just as much backlash if she had). Wasn't crazy about it, and yeah it was kinda boring, and Judy itself was a totally stale biopic but on the spectrum of love/hate I'm closer to love than hate.
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Post by flasuss on Feb 10, 2020 20:49:04 GMT
Haven't seen Judy, but her Cold Mountain win is the worst in the history of the category, possibly the worst acting win of all time.
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Post by TerryMontana on Feb 10, 2020 21:30:26 GMT
Haven'y seen Judy and I have no big problem with Cold Mountain (ok, not Oscar worthy performance but a mediocre one), but for Chicago I think she could have won! She was my #2 behind Kidman.
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Post by speeders on Feb 10, 2020 22:07:14 GMT
Yeah, absolute disgraces. She was good in both Bridget Jones and Chicago though so it's a shame.
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Post by stabcaesar on Feb 11, 2020 2:08:31 GMT
Of her noms I only like Bridget Jones. The rest are either pedestrian af or flat-out terrible.
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Post by avnermoriarti on Feb 11, 2020 8:58:48 GMT
I have no problems at all with her Cold Mountain performance and winning every single award for it, she was getting momentum for quite a few years now, she really worked for it.
Agree on Bridget, she should've won for that.
The Judy thing is just baffling to me, even though I should've known better, I saw it in a theatre with basically 5 old people and they were crying by the end, but still I don't think is enough to become the default choice, basic movie ( with a couple of nice try moments ), it wasn't a hit like Bohemian, in interviews she basically had to explain who was Judy Garland, she's already an Oscar winner, is an insular movie that doesn't generate any kind of conversation and the speeches were just weird, should've kill the momentum, I bet she improvised the second half of the speech when she starts talking about heroes because Phoenix mention cows. An oscar moment was wasted.
One positive thing: when she wins again in 2036, we'll see her in another white dress now covering both shoulders.
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