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Post by MoonShadow on Apr 28, 2017 7:05:34 GMT
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Apr 28, 2017 13:31:28 GMT
Well , since she won the GG, SAG and was the only American of her category , I'd say YES.
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Post by sirjeremy on Apr 28, 2017 16:42:58 GMT
She was the front-runner, but Judi Dench (who also won a Globe that year) was thought to have an almost as great a chance of winning.
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Post by iheartamyadams on Apr 28, 2017 17:32:12 GMT
She was the front-runner, but Judi Dench (who also won a Globe that year) was thought to have an almost as great a chance of winning. I'd be very surprised if this were actually true. Helen Hunt had the film (five above the line nominations + huge box office hit), the popularity (Emmy win the same year + a huge hit in Twister the year before) and I agree that being the only American among the nominees helped.
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Post by sirjeremy on Apr 28, 2017 21:05:43 GMT
Dench had the critical acclaim, BAFTA support and Miramax behind her. Granted she wasn't quite as popular as Hunt, but she was considered a threat to win.
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Apr 28, 2017 21:13:55 GMT
She was the front-runner, but Judi Dench (who also won a Globe that year) was thought to have an almost as great a chance of winning. Hunt's movie was more "popular".Dench's one ? Not so much.
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Post by iheartamyadams on Apr 28, 2017 22:13:44 GMT
Dench had the critical acclaim, BAFTA support and Miramax behind her. Granted she wasn't quite as popular as Hunt, but she was considered a threat to win. BAFTA took place after the Oscars back then and she wasn't even the critic favourite. Her film came out in the summer and was much too small to contend.
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Post by MoonShadow on Apr 28, 2017 22:46:08 GMT
She was the front-runner, but Judi Dench (who also won a Globe that year) was thought to have an almost as great a chance of winning. Interesting but what about Kate Winslet?
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Post by alexanderblanchett on Apr 29, 2017 8:16:00 GMT
Yes she flat out was. The only challenge was Judi Dench .
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Post by morton on Apr 29, 2017 15:36:31 GMT
She was the front-runner, but Judi Dench (who also won a Globe that year) was thought to have an almost as great a chance of winning. Interesting but what about Kate Winslet? She didn't have any chance at all despite the massive success of Titanic. The nomination was seen as her reward.
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Post by marvelass on Apr 29, 2017 22:00:06 GMT
Yeah, I recall Hunt easily being the frontrunner. She had too much goodwill. As iheartamyadams pointed out, Hunt was very popular during this time -- with peers and audiences. She won several Emmys in quick succession (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999) for her hit sitcom (7 seasons), was the female lead in the #2 movie of the previous year (Twister) and the female lead in the #6 film of 1997. As Good as It Gets also was a Best Picture nominee with multiple nominations; Winslet was the only other BA nominee in a BP nominee and box office smash (HBC, Dench, Christie were in small, art house films that no one saw), but she was probably last in that lineup.
So, with Mad About You a ratings/awards hit, and with back-to-back smash hits (Twister, AGAIG), by early 1998, Hunt was a movie star as well as a TV star. No one else really had a chance. That's not accounting for her performance, which I thought was very good. I don't begrudge her her win, like so many people. I think it's harder to play an ordinary, diner waitress and give a standout performance; the others had 'flashier' roles, and Dench in particular had the advantage of portraying someone who was historic, iconic, and larger than life, and of whom so much has been written about.
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Post by scorpio68 on Apr 30, 2017 8:16:58 GMT
She was the front runner in 97', very popular at the time, with her TV Emmy success and "Twister" the year before - Dench was the only serious competition, though I loved Christie's nominated performance that year
Interesting that she's only been in sporadic movies since 2000, though she did garner a well deserved Supporting nomination for "The Sessions" in 2012
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Post by marvelass on Apr 30, 2017 18:26:12 GMT
You also have to remember that Helen Hunt was perhaps the most famous of the Best Actress nominees. At least here in America. She had achieved what so few actors do, especially women, and that is to be both simultaneously a TV star and movie star. She wasn't just an actress who appeared in motion pictures; she actually starred/headlined some of them. So, she was a true movie star in that regard.
Kate Winslet was relatively unknown (in the US and the world over) until Titanic, so even though she had been Oscar-nominated the previous year (Sense & Sensibility) and had recently attained world fame via Titanic, that movie was pretty much 'Leomania.'
Julie Christie had once been a famous star in the US ('60s, '70s), but she was pretty much obscure by the late '90s.
Helena Bonham Carter... need I say more?
Even Judi Dench was a nobody. In fact, Mrs. Brown was her first Oscar nomination, at the age of 63. That exposure, plus her loss (almost immediately, people started saying she was 'robbed'), and her 'redemption' a year later for Shakespeare in Love, helped to make her a household name in the US.
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