Who do you think is going to win "Best Supporting Actress" at the Academy Awards this year?
Who do you think is going to win "Best Supporting Actress" at the Academy Awards this year?
Who do you think is going to win "Best Supporting Actress" at the Academy Awards this year?#1
Posted: 2/12/08 at 4:22pm
Who do you think is going to win "Best Supporting Actress" at the Academy Awards this year?
IMO, I think this is the one acting category where I think there could be some suprises. So who do you think will take home the prize:
ACTRESS -- SUPPORTING
Cate Blanchett - I’M NOT THERE
Ruby Dee - AMERICAN GANGSTER
Saoirse Ronan - ATONEMENT
Amy Ryan - GONE BABY GONE
Tilda Swinton - MICHAEL CLAYTON
Blanchett won the Golden Globe, Dee won the SAG and Swinton won the BAFTA. I think the only one you can count out is Ronan.
Anyways, Who do you think will win (and you want to win?)?
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re: Who do you think is going to win 'Best Supporting Actress' at the Academy Awards this year?#2
Posted: 2/12/08 at 4:32pm
I think it will be Ruby Dee.
If I were Amy Ryan I would hope to lose. Actresses of that age who win seem to have trouble building on the hype and continuing with a good career. Yes, they work, but few parlay it into A-list roles. Sorvino, Basinger, Tomei,Connelly, Hardin,Weisz, Zeta-Jones...what have they done that is substantial since winning? (Let's not even talk about Cuba Gooding on the men's side.)
re: Who do you think is going to win 'Best Supporting Actress' at the Academy Awards this year?#2
Posted: 2/12/08 at 4:33pmI wouldn't count out anyone in this wacky category--that being said, my money is on RUBY DEE.
re: Who do you think is going to win 'Best Supporting Actress' at the Academy Awards this year?#3
Posted: 2/12/08 at 4:35pmI'm going along with everyone else and calling Ruby.
re: Who do you think is going to win 'Best Supporting Actress' at the Academy Awards this year?#4
Posted: 2/12/08 at 4:35pmYeah, Ruby Dee seems to be the sentimental favorite.
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re: Who do you think is going to win 'Best Supporting Actress' at the Acade#5
Posted: 2/12/08 at 4:36pmand she's old.
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
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re: Who do you think is going to win 'Best Supporting Actress' at the Acade#6
Posted: 2/12/08 at 4:40pmSo what? That didn't guarantee Gloria Stuart the Oscar.
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re: Who do you think is going to win 'Best Supporting Actress' at the Acade#7
Posted: 2/12/08 at 4:40pm
And she's a social and artistic legend...and she's never been nommed before.
I think Ryan could have won, but the momentum has not been hers
Blanchett would win had she not just won for playing another real person
Swinton does have a shot in the Gay Harden mold
The little girl has a shot too--but I think Ruby's got it
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re: Who do you think is going to win 'Best Supporting Actress' at the Acade#8
Posted: 2/12/08 at 4:41pmIn general the award goes to a nominated veteran.
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
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re: Who do you think is going to win 'Best Supporting Actress' at the Acade#9
Posted: 2/12/08 at 4:41pm
"and she's old."
"So what? That didn't guarantee Gloria Stuart the Oscar."
Hell, that didn't even get Marc Shaiman a nomination!
(I KID! 
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re: Who do you think is going to win 'Best Supporting Actress' at the Acade#10
Posted: 2/12/08 at 4:42pmlol
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
re: Who do you think is going to win 'Best Supporting Actress' at the Acade#11
Posted: 2/12/08 at 4:43pmTrue, SM2, but Gloria Stuart doesn't have the same name recognition as Ruby--and Ruby has been steadily working since the 60s--she's part of Spike Lee's resident troupe, which like him or not, puts her in a special category of actors.
re: Who do you think is going to win 'Best Supporting Actress' at the Acade#12
Posted: 2/12/08 at 4:44pmI'm thinking if they give best actress to Christie, they won't give supporting to Dee. Too much age in the room. I'm going with the little girl from "Atonement", just as the nod to its one and only acting nomination.
re: Who do you think is going to win 'Best Supporting Actress' at the Acade#13
Posted: 2/12/08 at 4:44pmCall me crazy, but I would take an Oscar and have a career that doesn't follow the hype, than the opposite of that.
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re: Who do you think is going to win 'Best Supporting Actress' at the Acade#14
Posted: 2/12/08 at 4:46pm
Okay, you are crazy.
re: Who do you think is going to win 'Best Supporting Actress' at the Acade#15
Posted: 2/12/08 at 4:47pmBut my Obituary will list me as "Academy Award Winner" :)
re: Who do you think is going to win 'Best Supporting Actress' at the Acade#16
Posted: 2/12/08 at 4:49pm"This may just be a personal thing, but for ME, dropping dead would be the greater disappointment."
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re: Who do you think is going to win 'Best Supporting Actress' at the Acade#17
Posted: 2/12/08 at 4:53pm
"But my Obituary will list me as "Academy Award Winner" :)"
"...whose career sank into oblivion within a year after winning the SUPPORTING actor award, like so many forgotten stars before him..."
re: Who do you think is going to win 'Best Supporting Actress' at the Acade#18
Posted: 2/12/08 at 4:54pm
The only ones I've seen are Cate Blanchett and Ssaoirse, neither for me was an oscar worthy performance, especially Blanchett's.
I hope Ruby Dee gets it, she has some body of work.
re: Who do you think is going to win 'Best Supporting Actress' at the Acade#19
Posted: 2/12/08 at 4:58pmYou can't really go by any of the usual rules. The Old Codger Rule doesn't really apply in the Supporting Actress category, as Lauren Bacall and Gloria Stuart and Vanessa Redgrave found out. I don't know who is going to win, and I'm just not really all that interested, the nominated performances I've seen made no impression on me at all.
re: Who do you think is going to win 'Best Supporting Actress' at the Acade#20
Posted: 2/12/08 at 5:02pm
It's really up for grabs, unfortunately, it seems like Ryan's moment has passed which is a shame because she has been doing consistently good work for a long time and did beautiful work in GONE BABY GONE.
I'm so over Blanchett after all the pretentious bad movies she did this year, but the Academy isn't, so I wouldn't count her out.
Ruby Dee may end up taking this one home, especially if Marion Cotillard surprises with a win--extremely unlikely but we'll see.
I thought Ronan was great and Oscars do love recognizing their little girls in this category.
Swinton could end up be the biggest surprise in a rather dull Oscar race (what with the three other acting categories set in stone already).
Oh, and Marissa Tomei may not have gone on to become a B.O star but she has done awesome work after her Oscar-winning role. She should have won the Oscar for her haunting performance in IN THE BEDROOM (for which she was nominated), and should have been nominated for last year's BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD.
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re: Who do you think is going to win 'Best Supporting Actress' at the Acade#21
Posted: 2/12/08 at 5:09pmI highly doubt each voter thinks, "Gee, I could vote for Julie, but then I had better vote for a younger person in the other categories." It is not a group decision to vote for one older vet and a newcomer. I would not be suprised to see both Christy and Dee win.
re: Who do you think is going to win 'Best Supporting Actress' at the Acade#22
Posted: 2/12/08 at 5:12pm
Agreed.
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re: Who do you think is going to win 'Best Supporting Actress' at the Acade#23
Posted: 2/12/08 at 5:26pm
"Ruby Dee has some body of work."
Which contains very little of value. Most of it is tv with such "impressive" credits as The Guiding Light and Touched by an Angel.
Edit: And one of the worst performances I've ever seen, her Mary Tyrone in Long Day's Journery Into Night. Just awful.
Updated On: 2/12/08 at 05:26 PM
re: Who do you think is going to win 'Best Supporting Actress' at the Acade#24
Posted: 2/12/08 at 5:59pm
"I'm thinking if they give best actress to Christie, they won't give supporting to Dee. Too much age in the room"
I never understand arguments like this. I really doubt most Academy voters think like that, saying, "Well, I already voted for an old person in that category, so I've got to average out the age with this category."
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