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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2018 17:06:30 GMT
This thread isn't meant to be a critique of performances.
Samantha Morton for me. Again, not because I don't like her nominated performances (I do!), but because of the kind of actor she is. She doesn't seem at all interested in awards or celebrity - she certainly wouldn't be interested in campaigning - the films she stars in aren't necessarily bait-y, though she often works with well-established auteurs - and she's long had a reputation for being "difficult" (a rumor I'm now convinced was circulated by Weinstein after The Brothers Grimm episode).
How about you?
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Post by sirjeremy on Apr 28, 2018 18:41:06 GMT
Goldie Hawn is the first to come to my mind. She always has a nice presence in films, but she's never been Oscar level and her second nomination is pretty strange.
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Apr 28, 2018 19:07:16 GMT
Jonah Hill
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Post by FrancescoAbides on Apr 28, 2018 20:00:47 GMT
Hilary Swank. Heck, I'm surprised she has two Oscars, considering her career.
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Post by wallsofjericho on Apr 28, 2018 22:46:19 GMT
I'm surprised the great Robert Shaw only received one nomination.
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Post by Christ_Ian_Bale on Apr 29, 2018 8:15:39 GMT
To sort of piggy back on your answer, Djimon Hounsou. Not that he's not great, but his filmography is so all over the damn place.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2018 14:02:34 GMT
Some other choices -
Melissa Leo Octavia Spencer Jacki Weaver
Who honestly thought that any of these women would return? Kudos especially to Spencer, who has carved a kind of Thelma Ritter-like niche for herself.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Apr 29, 2018 14:56:22 GMT
Three-time Oscar Nominee Bradley Cooper I still cant believe he has any.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2018 17:35:08 GMT
Anna Magnani and Simone Signoret -- two very talented foreign actresses who didn't necessarily fit Hollywood's definition of glamour.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2018 21:14:38 GMT
Emily Watson - for reasons similar to Samantha Morton.
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Post by stephen on May 5, 2018 21:44:56 GMT
How the hell did Marsha Mason get four Oscar nominations?
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Post by urbanpatrician on May 5, 2018 21:55:53 GMT
Hathaway. 2 too many for her level of talent. Her work looks even more ridiculous now after 5-10 years.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2018 22:07:13 GMT
How the hell did Marsha Mason get four Oscar nominations? When Oscar falls, he falls hard. See also: Jennifer Jones, Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence. I'm not surprised that they have more than one nomination each (same with Mason, who I think has talent), but some of them are just, shall we say, rather generous.
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Post by jakesully on May 5, 2018 22:57:58 GMT
I'll add JLaw . 4 noms and she's not even 30 years old yet.
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Post by HELENA MARIA on May 6, 2018 2:02:12 GMT
I'll add JLaw . 4 noms and she's not even 30 years old yet. Thank you , uncle Harvey
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Post by bob-coppola on May 7, 2018 1:14:13 GMT
I'll add JLaw . 4 noms and she's not even 30 years old yet. Thank you , uncle Harvey Her only Weinstein-backed nod was Silver Linings Playbook.
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Post by taranofprydain on May 7, 2018 4:42:16 GMT
Christine Lahti, because one of her nominations (a win no less) was in a short film category.
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Post by joephoenix on May 7, 2018 5:42:08 GMT
Three-time Oscar Nominee Bradley Cooper Technically he has four, he produced American Sniper as well.
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Post by stabcaesar on May 7, 2018 6:51:43 GMT
I'm surprised that Laura Dern only had one prior to Wild. You'd think that she's an Oscar regular. I'm also surprised that Josh Brolin only has one.
I thought of someone who surprisingly has more than one last night but I don't remember who that is now. Must be someone utterly forgettable.
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Post by tastytomatoes on May 13, 2018 2:33:43 GMT
His Moneyball was well deserved but there is absolutely nothing special about his performance in The Wolf of Wall Street.
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Post by ingmarhepburn on May 13, 2018 13:50:14 GMT
Hathaway. 2 too many for her level of talent. Her work looks even more ridiculous now after 5-10 years. I'll never understand why the critics went all gaga over her performance in Rachel Getting Married. She couldn't even cry convincingly in that film... If anyone should have gotten in, it was Rosemarie DeWitt.
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Post by urbanpatrician on May 13, 2018 14:21:33 GMT
Hathaway. 2 too many for her level of talent. Her work looks even more ridiculous now after 5-10 years. I'll never understand why the critics went all gaga over her performance in Rachel Getting Married. She couldn't even cry convincingly in that film... If anyone should have gotten in, it was Rosemarie DeWitt. I think it was the fact that Rachel Getting Married is critics' bait. "oooh look at me, I can do a Dogme, I can do a Von Trier" and that gave critics the impression that it's the critics choice of the year. Most of all the other acclaimed films of the year (The Dark Knight, Wall-E, In Bruges, Slumdog Millionaire) aren't what I'd consider critics bait on first impression. Maybe The Wrestler counts, but I still think Rachel Getting Married is what the critics really sold to us that year. Where they simply responded well to The Wrestler, I think they really tried to sell us Rachel Getting Married. It's a small, independent film with relationship-drama aspects with dysfunctional characters. There was.....Winslet in Revolutionary Road and The Reader, Streep in Doubt, and Jolie in Changeling. The other choices weren't strong, but critics are obviously gonna have another set of lens viewing those films as opposed to Rachel Getting Married. I also think in 2008, they were desperate to make Hathaway the new star. You can kinda tell they were heading that way in '05 and '06: Brokeback Mountain, The Devil Wears Prada..... big hits with her in the middle. A similar, though not exactly the kind of situation Winslet had in '97 with Titanic. She naturally evolved into a great actress though, even though they were really trying to make her a star after Titanic. Hathaway was the latter but she evolved into the limited, minimal talent we should've all expected.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on May 13, 2018 15:10:43 GMT
Three-time Oscar Nominee Bradley Cooper I still cant believe he has any. One of them was very deserved.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on May 21, 2018 12:17:15 GMT
It always surprises me that Woody Harrelson has managed to rack up 3 nominations, and not because I don't think he's a good actor, because I think he's a very good actor. I just get such an unhollywood vibe from him, he's like the antithesis of someone like Bradley Cooper, who also has three.
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Post by wonky on Jun 4, 2018 2:13:10 GMT
Skimming through the lists, I had sorta forgotten Cher, Penelope Cruz, and Marcia Gay Harden had other nominations besides their wins.
I still think it's amusing Helen Hunt and Sandra Bullock got another one when they were always dismissed as never-agains with their wins.
I didn't remember that Joan Cusack, Richard Farnsworth, and Billy Bob Thornton had more than one. I always kinda forget Billy Bob won for writing.
Richard Jenkins is a pretty surprising two-timer.
I still think it's pretty cool that Sally Hawkins has two now after her Happy-Go-Lucky snub.
Rooney Mara is kind of a weird one. It feels like that happened really fast for her but at the same time there was 4 years between, and yet she still seems kind of under-the-radar?
And Sylvester Stallone's a pretty funny one, even considering it is Rocky.
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