Least Favorite Oscar Nominated Performances- Page 3

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 12/11/12 at 6:27pm

I will never understand how Natalie Portman was nominated for Black Swan- her entire performance consisted of wide eyes and heavy breathing. Would have much preferred that Annette Bening won for The Kids are All Right.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 12/11/12 at 6:31pm

Agreed. The fact that Black Swan gets/got so many accolades still mystifies me and I think Natalie Portman is a really really mediocre (at best) actress.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 12/11/12 at 6:50pm

And the colored girls go doo doo-doo doo-doo doo doo-doo doo!

[justagirl2]

Posted: 12/11/12 at 7:31pm

I completely agree with:

- Natalie Portman for Black Swan
- Nicole Kidman for Moulin Rouge (I LOVE Nicole and love that movie, but she was so miscast that it's cringeworthy at times.)
- Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (I will NEVER get over this. Terrible, overrated performance.)

And I'll also throw in:

- George Clooney for the Descendents
- Tim Robbins for Mystic River (making up for a lack of a nom for Shawshank?)

[IAMWHATIAM]

Posted: 12/12/12 at 10:08am

I agree with many already said, and must add Diane Keaton for Something's Gotta Give (although I admit that I may be confusing an awful character in an awful film with a cringe-worthy performance).

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 12/12/12 at 10:16am

I thought Portman was really quite wonderful in BLACK SWAN and had no problem with her win. I had problems with the movie...many, many, many problems...but she wasn't one of them. As much as I loved Bening in THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, I thought Moore was just as terrific and should have been nominated.

Clooney's performance in The Descendents was a really beautiful delineation of a very complicated grieving process. And I thought he nailed it perfectly.

I think Gloria Stuart's Oscar nom was a lovely honor to a nice old lady. But COME ON!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 12/12/12 at 2:19pm

I think Clooney gave a decent performance in a boring as hell movie. I will never understand all the praise that movie got.

Portman's performance in The Diary of Anne Frank on Broadway reminded me of the old apocryphal "She's in the attic!" story.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 12/12/12 at 2:24pm

Clooney's work in that DESCENDANTS thing was entirely adequate and entirely forgettable, much like the film itself.

My first experience with Portman was with her abominable performance as Amidala in those inane STAR WARS films. She's gone up in my estimation since then. She's quite good in BS, which is interesting -- she managed to transcend Aronofsky's bullsh*t but was totally sunk by Lucas' bullsh*t.

[HorseTears]

Posted: 12/15/12 at 8:01am

Jamie Foxx in 'Ray'. It was an incredible act of mimicry. No doubt that Foxx is a gifted mimic. I just don't think he's much of an actor.

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 12/16/12 at 3:36pm

"Meryl was so mechanical in The Iron Lady she was grotesque. I could see the wheels turning."

I thought she gave an excellent performance and she really did have to carry the film by herself even thought there were some supporting characters in it. And this is coming from someone who LOVED the job that Viola Davis did in 'The Help'.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 12/16/12 at 5:20pm

The Iron Lady is grotesque in general in regards to Thatcher. Anybody who had a general grasp on the history of the Thatcher era, whether you agreed with her policies or not, could not have taken the film, in its attempted feminism, seriously. Streep came off no better than the likeness in the 'Land of Confusion' Genesis video. Maybe if it were a Mike Nichols HBO mini-series, stretched into multiple episodes there could have been something better going on. Instead it just came off like a lesser version, of an already mediocre film, Oliver Stone's W.

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 12/17/12 at 1:03pm

Tom Cruise in "Born on the Fourth of July." It encapsulates my biggest problem with him. With roles outside of his action-hero speciality, you see every cog turning, every gear shifting. He's trying too hard. I've never considered him much of a dramatic actor and elsewhere, except perhaps in the very early days of his career, he coasts on personality.

Agree about Annette Bening. She should have won for the discovery scene alone.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 12/17/12 at 1:16pm

I thought THE DESCENDANTS was the best film of that year.

[AC126748]

Posted: 12/17/12 at 1:42pm

It was in my top ten

[Roscoe]

Posted: 12/17/12 at 1:48pm

Lots of folks loved THE DESCENDANTS, and more power to them, but it bored me senseless. I just didn't give the most basic goddamn about any one of the people onscreen.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 12/17/12 at 1:51pm

I don't think I've ever disagreed with a statement more than that one.

[madbrian]

Posted: 12/17/12 at 1:52pm

Susan Sarandon got a nom for her completely adequate performance in the completely adequate The Client. That same year, she was brilliant in her supporting role in the remake of Little Women, but was overlooked.

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 12:56pm

Add me to the list of those loving "The Descendants." I don't see nearly as many as I used to, but among those I saw in 2011, that was at the top of the list.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 5:08pm

I agree with DAME that Tomei is great in My Cousin Vinnie and that the backlash against her winning is mainly due to a lack of respect for comedy especially in movies that are considered pulp. That and that she then a relative unknown won against high power posh talent all around. All of them Brits or Australian.