Jack Nevada Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 What performance didn't deserve the accolade one bit? Mine: Roberto Benigni in Life is Beautiful Jack Palance in City Slickers Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love Judi Dench in Shakespeare in Love Beatrice Straight in Network Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efialtes76 Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 Marisa Tomei:My Cousin VinnyNicolas Cage:Leaving Las VegasCuba Gooding Jr:Jerry Maguire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 What performance didn't deserve the accolade one bit? Mine: Roberto Benigni in Life is Beautiful Jack Palance in City Slickers Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love Judi Dench in Shakespeare in Love Beatrice Straight in Network Marisa Tomei:My Cousin Vinny Nicolas Cage:Leaving Las Vegas Cuba Gooding Jr:Jerry Maguire Except for Paltrow, I don't agree with any of these. I also haven't seen Network, but if he won for best supporting, then yes, that is bullshit. Burgess Meredith should have won for Rocky. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolioD1 Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 Except for Paltrow, I don't agree with any of these. I also haven't seen Network, but if he won for best supporting, then yes, that is bullshit. Burgess Meredith should have won for Rocky.Beatrice Straight is a woman. A few people don't like the fact she won because she's only in Network for about four minutes, but I thought she was fantastic. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 Jason Robards won that year for All the President's Men, and he deserved that win hell of a lot more than Meredith, good as Meredith was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Nevada Posted August 27, 2012 Author Share Posted August 27, 2012 Beatrice Straight is a woman. A few people don't like the fact she won because she's only in Network for about four minutes, but I thought she was fantastic. She left absolutely no effect on me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webslinger Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 While I wouldn't call it a bad performance, Judi Dench winning for Shakespeare in Love has always been a head-scratcher for me. I'm not against giving Oscars for brief performances, but she didn't do anything special with the roughly eight minutes of screen time she had in the film.Beatrice Straight, on the other hand, is a textbook example of knocking very brief screen time out of the park en route to an Oscar win. She only has one scene in Network, but it's damn memorable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmnerdjamie Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich. Renee Zellwegger in Cold Mountain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Nevada Posted August 27, 2012 Author Share Posted August 27, 2012 Am I seriously the only one who hated Roberto Benigni in Life is Beautiful? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolioD1 Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 Am I seriously the only one who hated Roberto Benigni in Life is Beautiful?I didn't like the film, but I was OK with him winning, he was good and it's pretty rare to see the Oscars reward a foreign language or a comedic performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acsc1312 Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 I can definitely say Paltrow didn't deserve hers. Not necessarily a bad performance, but Winslet didn't deserve hers. Streep was a beast in Doubt. More later. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 As good as Pacino was in Scent of a Woman, Washington should have won for Malcolm X that year.Roberts winning for Brockovich is deserving imo. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Nevada Posted August 27, 2012 Author Share Posted August 27, 2012 Roberts winning for Brockovich is deserving imo. She was really great in that movie, but a lot of people think that Ellen Burstyn should have won for Requiem for a Dream. I havent seen that film yet so I cant judge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 She was really great in that movie, but a lot of people think that Ellen Burstyn should have won for Requiem for a Dream. I havent seen that film yet so I cant judgeThat's because RFAD is a meatier role, not necessarily a better one imo. When you are in a role that shows you deteriorating because of drugs, it's more flashy than a mother of 2 or 3 taking on big business. But Roberts did beautifully and I'm glad she won for that performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acsc1312 Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 I think Brokovich deserved it. Burstyn's performance is overrated, IMO. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Nevada Posted August 27, 2012 Author Share Posted August 27, 2012 That's because RFAD is a meatier role, not necessarily a better one imo. When you are in a role that shows you deteriorating because of drugs, it's more flashy than a mother of 2 or 3 taking on big business. But Roberts did beautifully and I'm glad she won for that performance. What do you think of Roberto Benigni's Life is Beautiful? I think he depicts a horribly sugarcoated version of the holocaust, and does exactly what Moulin Rouge! tried to do and failed miserably too: mixing farce and silliness with horrible tragedy. You need a master filmmaker to pull that off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Gittes Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 Tommy Lee Jones in The FugitiveAlan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine Julia Roberts in Eryn BrockovichAnd, while I admittedly haven't seen Art Carney's Oscar-winning performance in Harry & Tonto, I just can't imagine it to be a performance great enough to deserve an Oscar over Pacino in Godfather II, Nicholson in Chinatown, Hoffman in Lenny and Finney in The Murder on the Orient Express. Seriously, each of those four performances was absolutely brilliant, yet neither of them won. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acsc1312 Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 Oh yeah, Michael Caine in cider house rules. Cruise should've won for magnolia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhorse Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 Gweneth Paltrow Shakespeare in Love. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 What do you think of Roberto Benigni's Life is Beautiful? I think he depicts a horribly sugarcoated version of the holocaust, and does exactly what Moulin Rouge! tried to do and failed miserably too: mixing farce and silliness with horrible tragedy. You need a master filmmaker to pull that offHis performance brought me to tears. I loved him in it and it was one of the few things the academy has done that I truly applaud.Tommy Lee Jones in The FugitiveAlan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine Julia Roberts in Eryn BrockovichAnd, while I admittedly haven't seen Art Carney's Oscar-winning performance in Harry & Tonto, I just can't imagine it to be a performance great enough to deserve an Oscar over Pacino in Godfather II, Nicholson in Chinatown, Hoffman in Lenny and Finney in The Murder on the Orient Express. Seriously, each of those four performances was absolutely brilliant, yet neither of them won.Tommy Lee Jones? Really? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
