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Post by evilbliss on Feb 15, 2020 20:40:48 GMT
Remember when Jake won the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor, beating two-time nominee George Clooney (Syriana, Good Night and Good Luck), Matt Dillon (Crash) and Don Cheadle (Crash)?
Thoughts?
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Post by thomasjerome on Feb 15, 2020 20:56:21 GMT
BAFTA loves him as he even got nominated for "Nocturnal Animals" recently. That was an unusually competitive race that I miss to see these days with Jake winning BAFTA, Clooney taking Globe, Giamatti's SAG win, and Dillon getting his second Indie Spirit.
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Post by TerryMontana on Feb 15, 2020 21:17:19 GMT
George Clooney, Matt Dillon, Don Cheadle and Clooney again. I prefer all of these performances instead of Jake's.
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Post by mattfincher on Feb 15, 2020 22:12:01 GMT
BAFTA loves him as he even got nominated for "Nocturnal Animals" recently. That was an unusually competitive race that I miss to see these days with Jake winning BAFTA, Clooney taking Globe, Giamatti's SAG win, and Dillon getting his second Indie Spirit. Yeah, these types of races just don’t happen anymore. 4 of the 5 nominees had a genuine shot. Gyllenhaal/Dillon were in the top 2 films. Giamatti had SAG/Critics Choice and leftover goodwill from Sideways. Clooney winning wasn’t really a shock, but it’s definitely a case of someone’s year/narrative benefiting them. Winning with just a Globe and no critics wins almost never happens, even back then where precursors were more splintered. This is one of those races where I would have loved to see the vote totals. It’s also interesting to contemplate what would have happened had Clooney lost with his subsequent noms. I don’t think there’s any chance he would have beat DDL. But would he won for Up in the Air or especially The Descendants? It’s possible. |
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Post by stephen on Feb 15, 2020 22:23:13 GMT
BAFTA loves him as he even got nominated for "Nocturnal Animals" recently. That was an unusually competitive race that I miss to see these days with Jake winning BAFTA, Clooney taking Globe, Giamatti's SAG win, and Dillon getting his second Indie Spirit. Yeah, these types of races just don’t happen anymore. 4 of the 5 nominees had a genuine shot. Gyllenhaal/Dillon were in the top 2 films. Giamatti had SAG/Critics Choice and leftover goodwill from Sideways. Clooney winning wasn’t really a shock, but it’s definitely a case of someone’s year/narrative benefiting them. Winning with just a Globe and no critics wins almost never happens, even back then where precursors were more splintered. This is one of those races where I would have loved to see the vote totals. It’s also interesting to contemplate what would have happened had Clooney lost with his subsequent noms. I don’t think there’s any chance he would have beat DDL. But would he won for Up in the Air or especially The Descendants? It’s possible. I think Clooney's best shot was in 2009. Dujardin was able to beat both him and Pitt (who was starting to get an overdue narrative building around him) in the Best Picture frontrunner, whereas Bridges (while still having enough muscle to get Gyllenhaal along with him) still had the weakest overall film in terms of Oscar love the category has seen this century bar Whitaker. Clooney might have been able to pip Bridges to the post, which might've seen Bridges win the following year or in 2016. |
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Post by mattfincher on Feb 15, 2020 22:34:25 GMT
That’s true. I do think Clooney/Pitt split the matinee idol/populist vote that year. Had just one of them been in the race, I suspect they would have put up more of a fight against Dujardin. The early media narrative that year got completely caught up between them that it became easy for industry members, who clearly loved The Artist, to just stick their vote on Dujardin.
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