Best Performance That Was Snubbed By The Oscars?

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 11:13pm

The biggest reason why I don't agree with the Oscars or any other award for art:

John Goodman in both Barton Fink and The Big Lebowski

Posted: 3/1/06 at 11:16pm

Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream

Worse than her losing, was who she lost to! Julia!!!!!!

Even Joan Allen in The Contender would have been better.
Updated On: 3/1/06 at 11:16 PM

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 11:20pm

Bjork in DANCER IN THE DARK

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 11:21pm

Ugh I second Ellen Burstyn. That was a terrible terrible terrible slight.

In fact, the Oscars pretty much completely ignored Requiem for a Dream. Which only furthers my point: The Oscars have no point.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 11:22pm

I also hear Eric Roberts gave one of the best performances in cinema history in STAR 80, a film unseen by me as if this date but will not remain so for very much longer...

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 11:23pm

I agree with Burstyn as well.

REQUIEM isn't an oscar film...it certainly could have picked up a few more nominations (Supporting Actress, Direction) but in the most important category, it was remembered. She just didn't win, which was infuriating.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 11:25pm

I must admit that my Eric Roberts history is completely limited to his brief cameo in SPUN, which, alas, is a film I barely remember aside from it's hilarious final shot....

Posted: 3/1/06 at 11:27pm

ooohh The Pope Of Greenwich Village has a scene with Geraldine Page that is a stand out. She was glorious!


edit: and when Ms Page won for Trip To Bountiful how the great Anne Bancroft was just a little shocked when F Murray Abraham announced the winner with "the greatest actress in the english language..." before saying Ms Page's name.
Updated On: 3/1/06 at 11:27 PM

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 11:33pm

Mickey Rourke's performance in Sin City was eeeeeeeexceleeeeeeent...

Posted: 3/1/06 at 11:35pm

It's too bad Mickey is so horribly deformed.

Posted: 3/1/06 at 11:42pm

In 1985, did Whoopi even think she had a chance?

Anne Bancroft -- Agnes of God {"Sister Miriam Ruth"}
Whoopi Goldberg -- The Color Purple {"Celie"}
Jessica Lange -- Sweet Dreams {"Patsy Cline"}
* Geraldine Page -- The Trip to Bountiful {"Mrs. Watts"}
Meryl Streep -- Out of Africa {"Karen"}

Updated On: 3/1/06 at 11:42 PM

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 11:45pm

yeah, whopee was kinda screwed that year, any other year and that award is hers

any way.


Joan Allen for Upside of Anger and Mr. Fiennes for Constant Gardener.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 11:47pm

Steve Buscemi in Fargo, Ghost World, and Reservoir Dogs.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 11:49pm

Steve Buscemi has NOT given an Oscar Worthy performance, you've got to be kidding. He's always just the weird, creepy guy trying to be funny...

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 11:56pm

I beg to differ. Have you seen Ghost World? He was orgasmically good.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 3/2/06 at 9:26am

Paul Giamatti in American Splendor and Sideways. He was snubbed, while Bill Murray's sleepwalk through Lost In Translation and Clint Eastwood's gruff nonsense in Million Dollar Baby were nominated. Idiotic.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 3/2/06 at 10:40am

Maria Bello this year. Shameful. She's the emotional center of VIOLENCE to me.

Giamatti, let's face it, deserved it for SIDEWAYS, and not for CINDERELLA MAN. If he wins, it's for last year, and that only perpetuates the problem of rewarding previous work, as it robs the guys this year, all of whom from Dillon to Gylenhaal, did far more compelling work.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 3/2/06 at 10:41am

"In 1985, did Whoopi even think she had a chance?"

She did win the GG over Page, and everyone else...

Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream gets my top vote...

Meryl Streep should've won for Ironweeds over Cher...

Jennifer Connelly should've been nominated at least for RfaD.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 3/2/06 at 12:20pm

Dennis Hopper and Isabella Rosselini in BLUE VELVET
Jeanne Moreau in JULES AND JIM
Scarlett Johansson in LOST IN TRANSLATION and MATCH POINT

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 3/2/06 at 12:26pm

Kenneth Branagh in Hamlet. He was genius and he wasn't even nominated. F--kers.

[broadway86]

Posted: 3/2/06 at 1:58pm

Steve Buscemi has NOT given an Oscar Worthy performance, you've got to be kidding.

Ever seen Ghost World?

The worst snub of 2005...

JOAN ALLEN!!!! In one of the most moronic moves I've EVER seen, the Academy failed to recognize, arguably, the best female performance of the year. Shame on them.

Others...

Best Actor
Jeff Daniels, The Squid and the Whale
Cillian Murphy, Breakfast on Pluto
Ralph Fiennes, The Constant Gardener
Viggo Mortensen, A History of Violence
* Considering that this year's Best Actor lineup is the strongest in almost a decade, I can't complain.

Best Actress
Claire Danes, Shopgirl
Julianne Moore, The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
Gwyneth Paltrow, Proof
Radha Mitchell, Melinda and Melinda

Best Supporting Actor
Mickey Rourke, Sin City (say what you want about the movie/genre/cast, he was phenomenal)
Donald Sutherland, Pride & Prejudice (masterful work. He's fantastic in this)

Best Spporting Actress
Maria Bello, A History of Violence (what the hell were they thinking?)
Thandie Newton, Crash
Robin Wright Penn, Nine Lives
Laura Linney, The Squid and the Whale
Shirley MacLaine, In Her Shoes

PS - I also think that Burstyn should have won for Requiem for a Dream. Updated On: 3/2/06 at 01:58 PM

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 3/2/06 at 2:04pm

Apparantly no one else agrees with me on Bjork?

[broadway86]

Posted: 3/2/06 at 2:10pm

I do, munk.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 3/2/06 at 2:15pm

Yay!

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 3/2/06 at 2:15pm

As do I, but my vote for snubbed performance is Leonardo DiCaprio in What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Yeah, he was nommed, but he lost to Tommy Lee Jones of all people.