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Post by notacrook on Jul 20, 2017 18:23:15 GMT
I haven't seen some of the supposed worsts in each category, but this is what I got:
Actor
Best: F. Murray Abraham, Amadeus
Worst: Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything
Actress
Best: Jodie Foster, The Silence of the Lambs
Worst: Helen Hunt, As Good as it Gets
Supporting Actor:
Best: Gene Hackman, Unforgiven
Worst: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
Supporting Actress:
Best: Mo'Nique, Precious
Worst: Kim Basinger, L.A. Confidential
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Post by stephen on Jul 20, 2017 18:38:52 GMT
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Best Actress: Kathy Bates, Misery
Best Supporting Actor: Peter Ustinov, Spartacus
Best Supporting Actress: Cloris Leachman, The Last Picture Show
Worst Actor: Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady
Worst Actress: Mary Pickford, Coquette
Worst Supporting Actor: Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby
Worst Supporting Actress: Sandy Dennis, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Post by FrancescoAbides on Jul 20, 2017 19:04:15 GMT
Best Winners
Lead Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Lead Actress: Kathy Bates, Misery
Supporting Actress: Cloris Leachman, The Last Picture Show
Worst Winners:
Lead Actor: Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything
Supporting Actor: Michael Caine, The Cider House Rules (he is not bad...but why him?)
Lead Actress: Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
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Post by stephen on Jul 20, 2017 19:05:32 GMT
Best Winners
Lead Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be BloodSupporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight Lead Actress: Kathy Bates, MiserySupporting Actress: Cloris Leachman, The Last Picture ShowWorst Winners:
Lead Actor: Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of EverythingSupporting Actor: Michael Caine, The Cider House Rules (he is not bad...but why him?) Lead Actress: Sandra Bullock, The Blind SideSupporting Actress: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood Can't agree with the Bullock hate, and Caine is absolutely horrid, but other than that, I like the cut of this list's jib. |
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Post by FrancescoAbides on Jul 20, 2017 19:18:09 GMT
Best Winners
Lead Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be BloodSupporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight Lead Actress: Kathy Bates, MiserySupporting Actress: Cloris Leachman, The Last Picture ShowWorst Winners:
Lead Actor: Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of EverythingSupporting Actor: Michael Caine, The Cider House Rules (he is not bad...but why him?) Lead Actress: Sandra Bullock, The Blind SideSupporting Actress: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood Can't agree with the Bullock hate, and Caine is absolutely horrid, but other than that, I like the cut of this list's jib. Regarding Bullock, there are certainly worst winners than her, and I do not usually (strongly) disagree with the winners of this category. Maybe I'm imposing the film's poor quality on Bullock´s performance - It´s a movie that I need to rewatch just for her work, thanks for the indirect recommendation |
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Post by taranofprydain on Jul 20, 2017 19:23:33 GMT
Personally, I don't think that many Oscar winning performances are lousy, and I loved most of the ones listed as worst so far. But push comes to shove so here goes best and worst.
Best
Paul Scofield/A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Vivien Leigh/Gone with the Wind (1939)
Timothy Hutton/Ordinary People (1980)
Linda Hunt/The Year of Living Dangerously (1983)
Worst
Actor: Matthew McConaughey/Dallas Buyers Club (2013; Flat. Complain all you will about American Hustle, but that woefully underappreciated film had more life in its smallest detail than Dallas Buyers Club.)
Actress:Glenda Jackson/A Touch of Class (1973; the saving grace of her film, but in this, in my favorite acting category, the otherwise limp film drags her down)
Supporting Actor: tossup beyween George Chakeris/West Side Story (1961;had extremely little to work with.) And Jared Leto/Dallas Buyers Club (2013;Instantly Forgettable)
Supporting Actress: It pains me greatly to say it, since I generally love her, but Gloria Grahame/The Bd and the Beautiful (1952; small part,not enough impact)
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Post by stephen on Jul 20, 2017 19:34:22 GMT
Can't agree with the Bullock hate, and Caine is absolutely horrid, but other than that, I like the cut of this list's jib. Regarding Bullock, there are certainly worst winners than her, and I do not usually (strongly) disagree with the winners of this category. Maybe I'm imposing the film's poor quality on Bullock´s performance - It´s a movie that I need to rewatch just for her work, thanks for the indirect recommendation The film is pretty awful, but Bullock actually takes a part that would come off as a dimensionless stereotype and actually imbues her with humanity. It's a surprisingly textured performance that manages to keep from being hamstrung by godawful writing and less-than-impressive costars. I wouldn't give her a win for anything for it, but she's better than the other nominees that year save for Sidibe, and I'd easily take her over the performances that won Best Actress directly before and after her. |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jul 20, 2017 21:41:45 GMT
keep in mind, there's A LOT I haven't seen...
BEST
Lead Actress: Vivien Leigh, Gone with the Wind
Lead Actor: Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront
Supporting Actress: Cloris Leachman, The Last Picture Show (H/M: Linda Hunt, The Year of Living Dangerously)
Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
WORST
Lead Actress: Jane Fonda, Coming Home (nothing terrible about the performance, it's just very forgettable and it beat much better contenders)
Lead Actor: Jack Nicholson, As Good as It Gets (by 1997, it was about damn time for the Academy to stop honoring Jack Nicholson for being Jack Nicholson)
Supporting Actress: Ingrid Bergman, Murder on the Orient Express (not bad, just very very forgettable to the point of confounding)
Supporting Actor: Jack Nicholson, Terms of Endearment (H/M: Mark Rylance)
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Post by countjohn on Jul 20, 2017 21:57:23 GMT
Actor
Best- Daniel Day Lewis- There Will Be Blood
Worst- John Wayne in True Grit or Sean Penn in Mystic River
Actress
Best- Vivien Leigh- Gone With the Wind
Worst- Greer Garson in Mrs. Miniver or Emma Stone in La La Land
Supporting Actor
Best- Heath Ledger- The Dark Knight
Worst- Maybe George Kennedy in Cool Hand Luke? All the winners I've seen for this one are at least solid so it was hard to pick
Supporting Actress-
Best- Can't decide between Eva Marie Saint in On the Waterfront or Juliette Binoche in The English Patient
Worst Bergman in Orient Express. Not bad but just really strange since she's barely in the movie. You sort of wonder if some of the voters hadn't seen it and just voted for her by default.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jul 21, 2017 4:43:21 GMT
keep in mind, there's A LOT I haven't seen... BESTLead Actress: Vivien Leigh, Gone with the WindLead Actor: Marlon Brando, On the WaterfrontSupporting Actress: Cloris Leachman, The Last Picture Show (H/M: Linda Hunt, The Year of Living Dangerously) Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark KnightWORSTLead Actress: Jane Fonda, Coming Home (nothing terrible about the performance, it's just very forgettable and it beat much better contenders) Lead Actor: Jack Nicholson, As Good as It Gets (by 1997, it was about damn time for the Academy to stop honoring Jack Nicholson for being Jack Nicholson) Supporting Actress: Ingrid Bergman, Murder on the Orient Express (not bad, just very very forgettable to the point of confounding) Supporting Actor: Jack Nicholson, Terms of Endearment (H/M: Mark Rylance) NICHOLSON WORST??? FUCK YOURSELF! I like Jack, but those two performances are obnoxious as hell, especially TOE. |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jul 21, 2017 4:44:58 GMT
Supporting Actress- Worst Bergman in Orient Express. Not bad but just really strange since she's barely in the movie. You sort of wonder if some of the voters hadn't seen it and just voted for her by default. I felt exactly the same. Her win is really bizarre because she only has like two scenes, and neither of them are particularly memorable. In a very full ensemble cast, she kind of disappears into the crowd. Lauren Bacall would have made much more sense. |
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Post by getclutch on Jul 21, 2017 19:58:06 GMT
Actor
Best: George C. Scott - Patton
Worst: Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman
Actress
Best: Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs
Worst: Elizabeth Taylor - Butterfield8
Supporting Actor
Best: George Sanders - All About Eve
Worst: Tommy Lee Jones - The Fugitive
Supporting Actress
Best: Eva Marie Saint - On the Waterfront
Worst: Marcia Gay Harden - Pollock
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Post by ingmarhepburn on Jul 22, 2017 9:18:32 GMT
Actor
Best: Anthony Hopkins, The Silence of the Lambs
(HM: Jack Nicholson, One Flew ober the Cuckoo's Nest)
Worst: Geoffrey Rush, Shine
(HM: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant)
Actress
Best: Elizabeth Taylor, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
(HM: Nicole Kidman, The Hours)
Worst: Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
(HM: Kate Winslet, The Reader)
Supporting Actor:
Best: George Sanders, All About Eve
(HM: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight)
Worst: George Chakiris, West Side Story
(HM: Hugh Griffith, Ben-Hur)
Supporting Actress:
Best: Angelina Jolie, Girl, Interrupted
(HM: Beatrice Straight, Network)
Worst: Kim Basinger, L.A. Confidential
(HM: Estelle Parsons, Bonnie and Clyde)
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Post by Kirk-Picard on Jul 22, 2017 10:57:27 GMT
Actor:
Best - Leonardo DiCaprio,The Revenant
Worst - Denzel Washington,Training Day
Actress:
Best - Kathy Bates,Misery
Worst - Jessica Tandy,Driving Miss Daisy
Supporting Actor:
Best - Heath Ledger,The Dark Knight
Worst - Christian Bale,The Fighter
Supporting Actress:
Best - Angelina Jolie,Girl,Interrupted
Worst - Beatrice Straight,Network
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Post by notacrook on Jul 22, 2017 13:05:52 GMT
Actor: Best - Leonardo DiCaprio,The Revenant Worst - Denzel Washington,Training Day Actress: Best - Kathy Bates,Misery Worst - Jessica Tandy,Driving Miss Daisy Supporting Actor: Best - Heath Ledger,The Dark Knight Worst - Christian Bale,The Fighter Supporting Actress: Best - Angelina Jolie,Girl,Interrupted Worst - Beatrice Straight,NetworkYeah, I still just don't get that. I knew going in she was only in it for one scene, and was expecting it to be an absolute powerhouse to get her that oscar, but it was totally underwhelming. I actually can't even remember her scene much at all. |
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Post by jimmalone on Jul 22, 2017 20:34:35 GMT
Best:
Leading Actor: Robert De Niro - Raging Bull
Leading Actress: Meryl Streep - Sophies Choice
Supporting Actor: Sean Connery - The Untouchables
Supporting Actress: Eve Marie Saint - On the Waterfront
Worst:
Leading Actor: John Wayne - True Grit
Leading Actress: Jessica Lange - Blue Sky
Supporting Actor: George Chakiris - West Side Story
Supporting Actress: Catherine Zeta-Jones - Chicago
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Post by ChairfaceC on Jul 22, 2017 21:45:46 GMT
Best:
Gregory Peck, To Kill a Mockingbird
Maggie Smith, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Haing S. Ngor, The Killing Fields
Cloris Leachman, The Last Picture Show
Worst:
John Wayne, True Grit
Jessica Lange, Blue Sky
Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby (I think?)
Sandy Dennis, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Post by stephen on Jul 22, 2017 21:50:30 GMT
Best:Gregory Peck, To Kill a MockingbirdMaggie Smith, The Prime of Miss Jean BrodieHaing S. Ngor, The Killing FieldsCloris Leachman, The Last Picture ShowWorst:John Wayne, True GritJessica Lange, Blue SkyMorgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby (I think?) Sandy Dennis, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? I know we don't always see eye to eye, but I love you for your best choices (Smith and Ngor are my #2 picks) and most of your worsts. I have a soft spot for Wayne, but even I think they shoulda given it to him in '56. |
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Post by ChairfaceC on Jul 22, 2017 21:58:42 GMT
Best:Gregory Peck, To Kill a MockingbirdMaggie Smith, The Prime of Miss Jean BrodieHaing S. Ngor, The Killing FieldsCloris Leachman, The Last Picture ShowWorst:John Wayne, True GritJessica Lange, Blue SkyMorgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby (I think?) Sandy Dennis, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? I know we don't always see eye to eye, but I love you for your best choices (Smith and Ngor are my #2 picks) and most of your worsts. I have a soft spot for Wayne, but even I think they shoulda given it to him in '56. Wayne's the one I'm least set on. I think he's not at all good, but scanning the list really quick none stood out to me as especially terrible in the way, like, Lange and Dennis are. |
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Post by stephen on Jul 22, 2017 22:03:04 GMT
I know we don't always see eye to eye, but I love you for your best choices (Smith and Ngor are my #2 picks) and most of your worsts. I have a soft spot for Wayne, but even I think they shoulda given it to him in '56. Wayne's the one I'm least set on. I think he's not at all good, but scanning the list really quick none stood out to me as especially terrible in the way, like, Lange and Dennis are. My biggest issue with Wayne's win is that it feels more like a veteran's win than most. It's a performance fully within his wheelhouse, and he's not bad in the part (although Bridges schools his performance something fierce in the 2010 version), but I much prefer Wayne in his "deconstructionist" Westerns ( The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Shootist). |
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Post by jimmalone on Jul 22, 2017 22:21:07 GMT
I know we don't always see eye to eye, but I love you for your best choices (Smith and Ngor are my #2 picks) and most of your worsts. I have a soft spot for Wayne, but even I think they shoulda given it to him in '56. Wayne's the one I'm least set on. I think he's not at all good, but scanning the list really quick none stood out to me as especially terrible in the way, like, Lange and Dennis are. Wayne was also my toughest choice to pick for "worst". He's pretty good in True Grit. But from all the leading actor wins I had seen I felt his performance was probably the weakest. Love your picks for Peck and Ngor by the way. Though I disagree on Dennis being bad. |
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