Post by pupdurcs on Nov 25, 2020 9:06:11 GMT
She was a prestige actress at one point. Meaning if you attached her to a project, there was a strong likelyhood that she'd be in the running or nominated for major awards. She's a two-time Oscar nominee for 21 Grams and The Impossible.
But the failure of Diana in hindsight may have been a massive turning point in her career. She recieved a Worst Actress Razzie nomination (along with Movie 43). I mean, prestige actors have been nominated for Razzies before and made full recoveries, but it feels like the esteem the industry once had for her nosedived after that film and she never got it back.
She got a bit of minor and ensemble based recognition for being in a Best Picture nominee Birdman the following year, but that was pretty much it. Since then, she's pretty much been major awards poison, which has in effect diminished her worth in the industry as a "prestige actress". There is an argument to be made that most of her films or performances since then aren't good or acclaimed enough to merit awards consideration. But she was in one of the most acclaimed TV shows of 2017, David Lynch's Twin Peaks, was nominated for Emmys and saw Kyle Mclaclan nominated for a Golden Globe. But Watts almost seemed invisible when the show got feted. The Loudest Voice, another prestige TV project with Watts in a major role, won a Golden Globe for Russell Crowe and saw him nominated for major awards like SAG. But yet again, no major awards went near her. At one point just being in those projects would have guranteed her nominations at least.
Interesting how one role or performance can seemingly completely derail how you become percieved in the industry.
But the failure of Diana in hindsight may have been a massive turning point in her career. She recieved a Worst Actress Razzie nomination (along with Movie 43). I mean, prestige actors have been nominated for Razzies before and made full recoveries, but it feels like the esteem the industry once had for her nosedived after that film and she never got it back.
She got a bit of minor and ensemble based recognition for being in a Best Picture nominee Birdman the following year, but that was pretty much it. Since then, she's pretty much been major awards poison, which has in effect diminished her worth in the industry as a "prestige actress". There is an argument to be made that most of her films or performances since then aren't good or acclaimed enough to merit awards consideration. But she was in one of the most acclaimed TV shows of 2017, David Lynch's Twin Peaks, was nominated for Emmys and saw Kyle Mclaclan nominated for a Golden Globe. But Watts almost seemed invisible when the show got feted. The Loudest Voice, another prestige TV project with Watts in a major role, won a Golden Globe for Russell Crowe and saw him nominated for major awards like SAG. But yet again, no major awards went near her. At one point just being in those projects would have guranteed her nominations at least.
Interesting how one role or performance can seemingly completely derail how you become percieved in the industry.
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