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[jv92]

Least Favorite Oscar Nominated Performances#25

Posted: 12/10/12 at 4:14pm

AMERICAN BEAUTY is my favorite move of all time, so anyone who says Benning and Spacey were undeserving of nods is a crazy person IMHO. But hey, we're all entitled to our opinion.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Least Favorite Oscar Nominated Performances#26

Posted: 12/10/12 at 4:18pm

Kevin Spacey is just unwatchable in anything to me, so it's all subjective. The man is a ham.

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[strummergirl]

Least Favorite Oscar Nominated Performances#27

Posted: 12/10/12 at 4:23pm

I was too young to see American Beauty the time it came out. By the time I did, the hype and also criticism was all over the place for me to grab onto. I'm just not a Kevin Spacey fan in general and I like Annette in other stuff but in this performance, I kept on thinking Judy Davis in The Ref. I still have no explanation on that.

Anne Baxter is a nod that is also mildly annoying when you consider she may have taken some votes away from Bette. But for the record, I loved Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday.

I am mystified by Helen Hunt getting an Oscar. Was Mad About You that big of a deal when it was on? **looks up ratings on Wikipedia to find it never once being in the Top 10** Was the Academy just enraptured with James L. Brooks? I thought that was what Terms of Endearment was for? She wasn't playing against type.

Updated On: 12/10/12 at 04:23 PM

[tazber]

Least Favorite Oscar Nominated Performances#28

Posted: 12/10/12 at 4:29pm

Pacino - Scent of a Woman and Dick Tracy

Dennis Hopper - Hoosiers

Joan Cusack - Working Girl

Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves

James Cromwell - Babe

Juliette Binoche - The English Patient

Roberto Benigni - Life is Beautiful

....but the world goes 'round

[SonofRobbieJ]

Least Favorite Oscar Nominated Performances#29

Posted: 12/10/12 at 4:45pm

Taz, I am going to slap that dick right out of your mouth for bringing Joan Cusack into this thread. NO ONE wears gold and teal eyeshadow the way she did.

I don't necessarily believe Davis would have won if Baxter hadn't been nommed...I just think Baxter's performance in the movie was mannered to the point of insane. I mean...I love it in its own way...but when Thelma Ritter is the subtle one of the two...

[ChanceEncounter]

Least Favorite Oscar Nominated Performances#30

Posted: 12/10/12 at 4:45pm

Oh God, the English Patient. What a turgid bore.

[Bettyboy72]

Least Favorite Oscar Nominated Performances#31

Posted: 12/10/12 at 4:52pm

I cant even bear to sit through the film of WSS-just awful.

Meryl was so mechanical in The Iron Lady she was grotesque. I could see the wheels turning.Hated it-the script was awful too.

Many of the performances that win are utter bores or completely political moves. The best, most primal performances by actors and actresses are usually excluded (Fassbender-Shame, Bales-American Psycho)

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[Jordan Catalano]

Least Favorite Oscar Nominated Performances#32

Posted: 12/10/12 at 5:35pm

I thought she was very good, but I don't think Reese Witherspoon deserve an Oscar for WALK THE LINE.

[GlindatheGood22]

Least Favorite Oscar Nominated Performances#33

Posted: 12/10/12 at 5:42pm

I loved Meryl Streep in Doubt. Wonderful performance, wonderful film.

On the Louise Fletcher front, I thought she was very good. But I really, really don't like the film in general.

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[blueroses]

Least Favorite Oscar Nominated Performances#34

Posted: 12/10/12 at 6:06pm

"Six thousand dollahs and it's not even leathah?!"

I WORSHIP Joan Cusack!

I think my least favorite may have been Anna Paquin in The Piano.

[henrikegerman]

Least Favorite Oscar Nominated Performances#35

Posted: 12/10/12 at 7:13pm

"Sometimes I sing and dance around the house in my underwear. Doesn't make me Madonna."

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Least Favorite Oscar Nominated Performances#36

Posted: 12/10/12 at 8:56pm

blueroses, I was going to say Holly Hunter in The Piano.

Also, Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls.

[blueroses]

Least Favorite Oscar Nominated Performances#37

Posted: 12/10/12 at 9:19pm

I hated every second of The Piano!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Least Favorite Oscar Nominated Performances#38

Posted: 12/10/12 at 9:21pm

"I stopped talking when I was whatever age. No one knew why. I don't know why, either."

THEN WHY SHOULD I CARE

[rosscoe(au)]

Least Favorite Oscar Nominated Performances#39

Posted: 12/10/12 at 10:20pm

Joan Cusack was perfect in Working Girl

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[beautywickedlover]

Least Favorite Oscar Nominated Performances#40

Posted: 12/10/12 at 11:08pm

Nicole Kidman in 'Moulin Rouge!' I have always found everything about that film to be overrated. I was never blown away by Helen Hunt's performance in 'As Good as It Gets'. It was good but NOT AMAZING.

"Also, Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls."

I felt she deserved to win.


"Meryl Streep, Doubt.

She was not even in the same film as her co-stars. I recently watched the film again, and aside from not translating well enough from stage to screen, Streep was outrageously bad. The role could have been so much more with the likes of a Judi Dench or even a Jessica Lange. In my opinion, the usually wonderful, for better or worse, Meryl totally missed the mark and the heart of that character. If she would have had a strong director, she could have been terrific. But it was clear she had the upper hand in that artistic arragement, and she chose to run amok with no director to reign her in."

I disagree. I really enjoyed her in that film.

Updated On: 12/10/12 at 11:08 PM

[AC126748]

Least Favorite Oscar Nominated Performances#41

Posted: 12/11/12 at 3:00am

Michelle Williams, MY WEEK WITH MARILYN

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[henrikegerman]

Least Favorite Oscar Nominated Performances#42

Posted: 12/11/12 at 8:54am

^AC! NO! You didn't just say that.

Tazber, Binoche's performance in The English Patient is the only great thing in that bloated, ridiculous movie (although I hardly think of it as a supporting performance, especially when Scott Thomas was nominated as lead).
Updated On: 12/11/12 at 08:54 AM

[broadway86]

Least Favorite Oscar Nominated Performances#43

Posted: 12/11/12 at 12:02pm

There are many nominated or awarded performances that I didn't think were particularly amazing, but Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls is one of the very few that was legitimately awful in certain scenes.

[StageManager2]

Least Favorite Oscar Nominated Performances#44

Posted: 12/11/12 at 12:06pm

Someone please sh!t in AC126748's mouth!

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[ChanceEncounter]

Least Favorite Oscar Nominated Performances#45

Posted: 12/11/12 at 12:40pm

I will defend Halle Berry's oscar for Monster's Ball til the day I die.

I will also defend her Razzie for Catwoman til the day I die.

[AC126748]

Least Favorite Oscar Nominated Performances#46

Posted: 12/11/12 at 12:51pm

I suppose I hit a nerve.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[Unknown User]

Least Favorite Oscar Nominated Performances#47

Posted: 12/11/12 at 1:25pm

Taz, I love Joan Cusack for a million reasons. She cannot be spoken ill of, ever.

But as much as I love Joan, I love Babe even more. You will take back your insane criticism of Farmer Hoggett at once.

[henrikegerman]

Least Favorite Oscar Nominated Performances#48

Posted: 12/11/12 at 4:09pm

I don't get Kidman's nod for Moulin Rouge either. She was fine but did not deserve an oscar nomination, particular as she gave her most memorable and surprising performance ever that year in The Others.

[Roscoe]

Least Favorite Oscar Nominated Performances#49

Posted: 12/11/12 at 4:16pm

Brad Pitt in 12 MONKEYS -- appalling scenery chewing, damn near makes the film unwatchable.

Brad Pitt in BENJAMIN BUTTON -- appalling attempt at under-acting, damn near makes the film unwatchable.

Kevin Spacey -- the most monotonous actor alive. See him once and you've seen him a thousand times. His two Oscars are probably the least deserved of them all.

Judi Dench for basically everything since her deservedly winning work in SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE. Her work since then has been depressingly average, strictly by the numbers and for the paycheck.

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