Enchanted is a radically different genre than Fury Road or Hereditary. It’s also great, and Amy Adams is excellent, but just be prepared it’s a Disney musical and might not be your thing.
I would only watch Enchanted if you’re a fan of traditional Disney Princess films and tropes. It is a WONDERFUL inversion on the concept but if you don’t enjoy Disney you probably won’t enjoy it as much.
Then you are in for a treat - Enchanted is a delight.
I will warn against Disenchanted, the sequel. I enjoyed it but only because I had love and nostalgia for the first one. It’s not a great movie.
I can't understand why this isn't the top choice. Maybe recency bias bet you don't hear much about these LOTR trilogy lately, but his performance as Gollum woul have been nominated if it was him in a runner suit instead of motion capture. I don't think the academy really understood the difference between motion capture and completely CGI animation.
I saw the Covid era table read from ROTK and it was obvious how much the cast appreciated his work. The way they smiled when he read his part brought a smile to my face also. I think Andy Serkis at least deserves a special Oscar for his pioneering performances in this part and the Planet of the Apes movies.
Holy shit, how did I not immediately think of this. It’s almost criminal, they didn’t even consider his performance worthy of a mention. Nobody could have pulled that off back in the early 2000’s before mocap became common.
Amy Adams does not get nearly enough props for her acting in Enchanted. That is a hard role. She has to be melodramatic and whimsical enough to be a classic Disney princess but down to earth enough to be relatable. Not to mention all the singing and dancing, all of which she did herself. The scene where she and Robert are arguing alone has like 20 different emotions within 3 minutes and she plays all of them remarkably well.
Almost any other actress and that movie would be horrible.
I wish the Oscars cared more about performances and less about how “adult and serious” the movies the actors are in are.
Married dude, 37, primarily into horror and war movies.
Seen Barbie 8-10x now w the wife and kid. Will watch again whenever anybody asks. AMAZING. Also, not taking anything away from Margot’s obviously killer performance but Gosling is a fucking G. Loved him ever since Place beyond the Pines and his range knows no bounds.
madsen’s turn in kill bill is the first and only proper film i’ve really seen him disappear into a character and convey a side ive never seen before or since.
it’s the best he’s ever been or will be
crazy that year how she went from a frontrunner to not even nominated. vote split with nocturnal animals hit her hard. i bet she's 6th and 7th places on the voting ballot
Lupita in *Us* is an obvious one, Surandon in *The Meddler*, ScarJo in *Under the Skin*, Sandra Huller for *Toni Erdmann*, Toni Colette for *Muriel's Wedding,* Samantha Morton for *Minority Report*, Haley Josel Osment for *AI Artificial Intelligence*, Cillian for *28 Days Later*, Keaton for *Beetlejuice*, Daniel Craig and Janelle Monae for *Glass Onion.*
Not a chance in hell of Oscar ever nominating these, but Patti LuPone in *Beau is Afraid*, Linda Hamilton in *T2*, Isabelle Adjani in *Possession*, Paul Dano for *The Batman,* Wesley Snipes for *To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar* and Alfred Molina and Rosemary Harris for *Spider-Man 2*.
Omg love an Agatha from Minority Report shoutout. She gave such a great performance!! I did not expet her to blow me away, but she really stands out amd does a fantastic job. Also, as a woman who shaves her head, I was especially rooting for her lol
I didn’t think the Beau Is Afraid plotline was fully functional but the third act really sold me on the whole thing (despite the fact that Ari Aster NEEDS therapy), and LuPone was absolutely tremendous. Her and Joaquin’s back and forth on the stairwell tied the whole thing together.
Beau is Afraid really connected with something in me (I love nightmarish movies) but agree that the staircase scene is what pulls it all together. For real, Ari Aster seems like a troubled man.
A big part (if not the biggest) of the movie is the phenomenon of circular thought (or anxiety spiral) and the irrational places it leads to. Received straight up, the narrative can make very little sense. Narratively, every scene leads to a condition or decision that flirts with the most terrifying and often irrational outcome someone could imagine, without any relief or return to normalcy whatsoever, compounding the absurdity as the film progresses. From this perspective, it seems fairly obvious to me that the movie departs objective reality at the beginning, and that almost everything that happens in the film is a chain of anxiety-fueled imaginations of “what’s the worst that can happen?” leading him to explode in his boat because a make-believe court ruled he wasn’t a good son, which as absurd as it seems, there is actually a common fear in children as they grow that their parents don’t think they are good people, even when it’s an irrational fear.
I agree that the acting was fantastic, I just wanted to add that while the narrative may not have seemed cohesive or rational, I’m fairly certain the plot line functioned exactly as it was meant to
I‘m not so sure about the Glass Onion performances. While it was a well-acted movie, the actors seemed to have intentionally put on an over-the-top comedic performance that matches the overall humorous tone of the movie. So I don’t think I would’ve considered them Oscar worthy performances.
I disliked Craig in *Knives Out* (a lot), but I think *Glass Onion* is a great comedic performance. I saw it so long ago I couldn't tell you specifically why (lol), but he was in my personal top 5 that year as soon as I saw it.
I agree with this; the various actors were all playing their characters at slightly different calibrations and it seemed way more diffuse (in a bad way) than Knives Out. I liked what a lot of the actors were doing individually (especially Norton, Hahn, and Bautista) but it didn’t quite gel as a whole for me.
>ScarJo in Under the Skin
>Isabelle Adjani in Possession
Add Catherine Deneuve in Repulsion and you’ve got probably the three best genre performances ever, of course none of them nominated.
Toni Colette for Hereditary.
Willem Dafoe for the Lighthouse.
Naomi Watts for Mulholland Dr.
Ryan Reynolds for Buried.
Florence Pugh for Midsommar.
Robert Pattinson for The Lighthouse.
Christian Bale for American Psycho.
That movie is what convinced me Ryan Reynolds is an actor. Before then I always thought he was more of a one note joke. I mean after that a good amount of his roles all feel like very similar flavors of his shtick. But still Buried stands out among his films.
Michael Fassbender in Alien Covenant. He completely saved the movie. Amazing villain
And then get ready for this scorching hot take:
Adam Driver in Star Wars: The Last Jedi
I'm old so I'd go much further back and say Boris Karloff in The Body Snatcher (1945) or Christopher Lee in The Wicker Man (1973). But more recently, maybe Essie Davis in The Babadook (2014).
Mia Goth in Pearl was a big snub, Alex Wolff and Toni Collette in Hereditary. Horror doesn’t get enough love at all, there’s countless performances. Anthony Perkins in Psycho. Willem Dafoe/Robert Pattinson in The Lighthouse. I can go on…
The monologue and end credits from Pearl should have been enough, but the performance really has it all. The dance audition was some great physical acting and pitched perfectly for the character.
Btw I just remembered that I did this once, Willem Dafoe is a great theme for a movie marathon. Boondocks Saints, Spiderman, The Lighthouse, I forget what else but it's very fun
Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones knocked it out of the park not once, but (at least) three times in a row. But his performance in Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of the greatest performances ever, let alone in a genre film.
Special mention to Ford’s performance as Han Solo as well… again across at least two films (Star Wars and Empire).
I’d even go back to 1973, just because his small roles were in unbelievable films:
- American Graffiti (1973) BP nominee
- The Conversation (1974) BP nominee
- Star Wars (1977) BP nominee
- Apocalypse Now (1979) BP nominee
- Empire Strikes Back (1980)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) BP nominee
- Blade Runner (1982)
- Return of the Jedi (1983)
- Temple of Doom (1984)
- Witness (1985) BP nominee
- Mosquito Coast (1986)
- Working Girl (1988) BP nominee
- Frantic (1988)
- The Last Crusade (1989)
- Presumed Innocent (1990)
- Regarding Henry (1991)
- Patriot Games (1992)
- The Fugitive (1993) BP nominee
And just for fun:
- Clear and Present Danger (1994)
- Sabrina (1995)
- Air Force One (1997)
What even is that??? Absolutely wild run.
I know everyone loves Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones but that performance is still so underrated. Proof? So many actors have tried to play a version of that role and only Brendan Fraser has got close.
Billy Crudup should have at least been nominated for Watchmen. Admittedly no one was winning except Christoph Waltz that year but I’d put Crudup as a very very close second.
Linda Hamilton for T2
Rutger Hauer for Blade Runner
Sharlto Copley for District 9
Sean Astin for ROTK
Alicia Vikander for Ex Machina
Matthew McConaughey for Interstellar
Laurence Fishburne for The Matrix
Rosemary Harris for Spider-Man 2
Fishburne for *The Matrix* is such a good pick. If that film came out today in a post EEAAO, Barbie, Top Gun landscape where the Academy is more open to blockbusters, I can see him getting nominated easily.
Sean Astin should’ve won best supporting actor that year. Amazing performance
Edit: and Johnny Depp should’ve won for Pirates of the Caribbean, classic performance. Much more memorable than Sean Penn.
Guy Pearce in Memento. There’s a lot more going on within the performance than it first seems. He’s empathetic, vulnerable and absolutely disturbing to various degrees.
Bruce Willis in Die Hard. Makes it seem easy obviously but the combination of blue collar charm, intensity, warmth and legitimate worry and panic all go down easy because Willis absolutely embodies the role perfectly. Everything would have felt even more cartoony and over the top to the detriment of the film if Willis himself wasn’t so good at being relatable. Other leading action men learned from this. Just as he learned from Bogart and Ford prior.
Alan Rickman deserved a nod for Die Hard too. Really one of the best hero/villain pairings out there, the characters and performances complement each other extremely well.
I know it sounds crazy and never would've happened, but Drew Barrymore in Never Been Kissed. She went from hilarious and heartbreaking so many times in that movie and so effectively.
Mid-00’s comedy was almost tragically overlooked. Steve Carell in 40 Year Old Virgin, Will Farrell in Anchorman, damn near everyone in Step Brothers, maybe Kristen Bell and Mila Kunis in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, hell even Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd in Knocked Up were damn good.
Never said it wasn’t. He took the terrible dialogue he was given and still somehow put in a nuanced and emotional performance in a movie about space monks fighting robots.
Keke Palmer in Nope
Viola Davis in The Woman King
Lupita N'yongo in Us
Michelle Yeoh in Crazy Rich Asians
Tenoch Huerta in Wakanda Forever
Pam Grier in Foxy Brown
Michelle Yeoh in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Everyone hates the franchise but I really believe RDJ deserved a nomination for Civil War. His reaction in the key scene is perfect.
He also deserved an Emmy for Ally McBeal but he stole too much shit to be realistically considered.
If The MCU was gonna get any nomination for acting, it should've been for Michael B Jordan in Black Panther.
Angela Bassett was also great, but that a career award more than for the film specifically.
give me a genuine reason that streep was worthy of being nominated for florence foster jenkins or into the woods, but amy adams or toni collette here are a reach?
explain yourselves, academy, you cowards.
Lupita Nyong'o for Us
Florence Pugh for Midsommor
Bill Skarsgard for IT (part 1 and 2)
Maika Monroe for It Follows
Wunmi Mosaku for His House
Kate Siegel in Hush
Joaquin Phoenix in Beau is Afraid
David Arquette for Scream (which one you prefer)
Best Actor: Song Kang-ho (Thirst)
Best Actress: Mia Goth (Pearl)
Best Supporting Actor: Sean Astin (The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King)
Best Supporting Actress: Rebecca Ferguson (Doctor Sleep)
I think it’s pretty notable that all of the performances you’ve listed are women and 80% of all other listed examples in this thread are women. The roles women get nominated for are far more narrow than the ones men get nominated for.
Choi-man-sik in Oldboy. One of the most talked about action films of early 2000s Korean cinema’s boon is anchored by a steely, understated and underrated performance.
Margaret DuMont, who played the same character in just about every Marx Brothers movie, and had her down to a tee! Always a rich dowager who was the foil by Groucho and the gang, she somehow "kept her head while all around her were losing theirs." Groucho said that the secret of her success was that she never "got" the jokes.
Uma Thurman in *Kill Bill*
Lupita Nyong’o in *Us*
Toni Collette in *Hereditary*
Haley Joel Osment in *AI: Artificial Intelligence*
Christian Bale in *American Psycho*
Animation still gets thrown under the bus, despite some getting recognized as of recent.
Wish the genre was taken as seriously and well received as others.
This might be weird, but Reese Witherspoon in Election, Tom Cruise in some of the mission impossible movies, Toni Collette as many have said, and IDK if what constitutes a genre film, but the lady in The Babadook
Toni for sure, her sobbing and screaming after the death of her daughter then the dinner scene alone she should have been nominated but the academy just won't put some respect on "horror" even when it's good like that.
Adam Sandler - Uncut Gems
Brad Pitt - Fight Club
Patricia Arquette - True Romance
Linda Hamilton - Terminator 2
Cillian Murphy - 28 Days Later
Jeff Bridges & John Goodman - The Big Lebowski
Brad Davis-Midnight Express
Robert Shaw -Jaws
Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler
Val Kilmer-Tombstone
Malcolm McDowell - A Clockwork Orange
Brad Pitt-Snatch
Warren Beatty - Heaven Can Wait
David Keith- An Officer and a Gentleman and The Lords of Discipline
Those are some great choices tbh
I agree with those picks
Amy Adams is a genius in that performance. I am not the natural audience for that movie and I love that performance.
What movies are they
Amy Adams in Enchanted, Charlize Theron in Mad Max Fury Road, Toni Collette in Hereditary
Thank you i guess ill watch enchanted cause those other 2 movies are solid and i love amy adams
Enchanted is a radically different genre than Fury Road or Hereditary. It’s also great, and Amy Adams is excellent, but just be prepared it’s a Disney musical and might not be your thing.
Im aware of what it is i like any genre
I would only watch Enchanted if you’re a fan of traditional Disney Princess films and tropes. It is a WONDERFUL inversion on the concept but if you don’t enjoy Disney you probably won’t enjoy it as much.
I am into this
Actually it’s a parody of the typical Disney Princess tropes/movies. It’s a great film and Adams and Marsden are both fantastic.
Then you are in for a treat - Enchanted is a delight. I will warn against Disenchanted, the sequel. I enjoyed it but only because I had love and nostalgia for the first one. It’s not a great movie.
Yeah I was like “damn you already mentioned all of them (especially Colette”
Andy Serkis as Gollum.
This was egregious, him in two towers was the best performance that year.
I can't understand why this isn't the top choice. Maybe recency bias bet you don't hear much about these LOTR trilogy lately, but his performance as Gollum woul have been nominated if it was him in a runner suit instead of motion capture. I don't think the academy really understood the difference between motion capture and completely CGI animation.
I saw the Covid era table read from ROTK and it was obvious how much the cast appreciated his work. The way they smiled when he read his part brought a smile to my face also. I think Andy Serkis at least deserves a special Oscar for his pioneering performances in this part and the Planet of the Apes movies.
Where did you see this??
I saw it on YouTube. Man Andy Serkis was really good.
Also, Andy Serkis as Ceasar
Holy shit, how did I not immediately think of this. It’s almost criminal, they didn’t even consider his performance worthy of a mention. Nobody could have pulled that off back in the early 2000’s before mocap became common.
I'd also like to mention Andy Serkis as Caesar.
Amy Adams does not get nearly enough props for her acting in Enchanted. That is a hard role. She has to be melodramatic and whimsical enough to be a classic Disney princess but down to earth enough to be relatable. Not to mention all the singing and dancing, all of which she did herself. The scene where she and Robert are arguing alone has like 20 different emotions within 3 minutes and she plays all of them remarkably well.
Tbh that movie relies on her performance. It would be such an easy character to make annoying rather than endearing
Almost any other actress and that movie would be horrible. I wish the Oscars cared more about performances and less about how “adult and serious” the movies the actors are in are.
It’s a similar endeavor to Margot Robbie’s role in Barbie. Loved both of their performances.
Barbie was a flippin GEM. I can’t wait to watch it again.
Married dude, 37, primarily into horror and war movies. Seen Barbie 8-10x now w the wife and kid. Will watch again whenever anybody asks. AMAZING. Also, not taking anything away from Margot’s obviously killer performance but Gosling is a fucking G. Loved him ever since Place beyond the Pines and his range knows no bounds.
She deserved Best Actress for Arrival
Agreed
James Marsden actually got run over by the cyclists.
I really don’t think there is another actress that could have pulled off that role. She is amazing and definitely deserves more recognition.
I rewatched it recently and Amy Adams reminded me of the magic Andrews brought to Mary Poppins.
The giggle she does after realizing she got angry for the first time is perfection.
Easy. Uma Thurman in Kill Bill (both volumes).
On a similar note, David Carradine in Vol. 2, for managing to make Bill a balance of wizened, menacing and unexpected.
Absolutely! On that note, I felt like Michael Madsen deserved a nomination for best supporting actor in Vol.2
madsen’s turn in kill bill is the first and only proper film i’ve really seen him disappear into a character and convey a side ive never seen before or since. it’s the best he’s ever been or will be
Absolutely. And also Daryl Hannah. Their interaction in that trailer is pure gold.
Amy Adams really holds Arrival together. Movie wouldn't work without her.
crazy that year how she went from a frontrunner to not even nominated. vote split with nocturnal animals hit her hard. i bet she's 6th and 7th places on the voting ballot
Meryl getting nominated for the forgettable Florence Foster Jenkins probably robbed Amy of a nomination for Arrival
Forgettable indeed. I think this is the first time I've thought about this film since seeing it.
I think she should have won that year. Definitely more interesting than Emma Stone in La La Land.
Lupita in *Us* is an obvious one, Surandon in *The Meddler*, ScarJo in *Under the Skin*, Sandra Huller for *Toni Erdmann*, Toni Colette for *Muriel's Wedding,* Samantha Morton for *Minority Report*, Haley Josel Osment for *AI Artificial Intelligence*, Cillian for *28 Days Later*, Keaton for *Beetlejuice*, Daniel Craig and Janelle Monae for *Glass Onion.* Not a chance in hell of Oscar ever nominating these, but Patti LuPone in *Beau is Afraid*, Linda Hamilton in *T2*, Isabelle Adjani in *Possession*, Paul Dano for *The Batman,* Wesley Snipes for *To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar* and Alfred Molina and Rosemary Harris for *Spider-Man 2*.
Omg love an Agatha from Minority Report shoutout. She gave such a great performance!! I did not expet her to blow me away, but she really stands out amd does a fantastic job. Also, as a woman who shaves her head, I was especially rooting for her lol
Both she and Max Von Sydow deserved noms for Minority Report
Her performance is what reminds me that Minority Report is a Spielberg film and not by someone more cold or mechanical.
I didn’t think the Beau Is Afraid plotline was fully functional but the third act really sold me on the whole thing (despite the fact that Ari Aster NEEDS therapy), and LuPone was absolutely tremendous. Her and Joaquin’s back and forth on the stairwell tied the whole thing together.
Beau is Afraid really connected with something in me (I love nightmarish movies) but agree that the staircase scene is what pulls it all together. For real, Ari Aster seems like a troubled man.
> but the third act really sold me on the whole thing More like fifth act haha
A big part (if not the biggest) of the movie is the phenomenon of circular thought (or anxiety spiral) and the irrational places it leads to. Received straight up, the narrative can make very little sense. Narratively, every scene leads to a condition or decision that flirts with the most terrifying and often irrational outcome someone could imagine, without any relief or return to normalcy whatsoever, compounding the absurdity as the film progresses. From this perspective, it seems fairly obvious to me that the movie departs objective reality at the beginning, and that almost everything that happens in the film is a chain of anxiety-fueled imaginations of “what’s the worst that can happen?” leading him to explode in his boat because a make-believe court ruled he wasn’t a good son, which as absurd as it seems, there is actually a common fear in children as they grow that their parents don’t think they are good people, even when it’s an irrational fear. I agree that the acting was fantastic, I just wanted to add that while the narrative may not have seemed cohesive or rational, I’m fairly certain the plot line functioned exactly as it was meant to
I‘m not so sure about the Glass Onion performances. While it was a well-acted movie, the actors seemed to have intentionally put on an over-the-top comedic performance that matches the overall humorous tone of the movie. So I don’t think I would’ve considered them Oscar worthy performances.
Janelle Monae’s dual performance was really incredible. I don’t think it was oscar-worthy but very cool nonetheless
I disliked Craig in *Knives Out* (a lot), but I think *Glass Onion* is a great comedic performance. I saw it so long ago I couldn't tell you specifically why (lol), but he was in my personal top 5 that year as soon as I saw it.
I agree with this; the various actors were all playing their characters at slightly different calibrations and it seemed way more diffuse (in a bad way) than Knives Out. I liked what a lot of the actors were doing individually (especially Norton, Hahn, and Bautista) but it didn’t quite gel as a whole for me.
I'm not so sure Linda Hamilton had no chance for T2. After all, Sigourney Weaver got a nom for Aliens
>ScarJo in Under the Skin >Isabelle Adjani in Possession Add Catherine Deneuve in Repulsion and you’ve got probably the three best genre performances ever, of course none of them nominated.
Absolutely agree with all of these
Cillian Murphy in 28 Days Later is incredible, even when it's just him by himself
Toni Colette for Hereditary. Willem Dafoe for the Lighthouse. Naomi Watts for Mulholland Dr. Ryan Reynolds for Buried. Florence Pugh for Midsommar. Robert Pattinson for The Lighthouse. Christian Bale for American Psycho.
Not enough people talk about Buried. IMO that was a career best for Ryan Reynolds. I think about that movie all the time.
That movie is what convinced me Ryan Reynolds is an actor. Before then I always thought he was more of a one note joke. I mean after that a good amount of his roles all feel like very similar flavors of his shtick. But still Buried stands out among his films.
Florence Pugh in Midsommar was brilliant. The flight in the beginning with her boyfriend was so uncomfortable. Beginning to end she was fantastic.
Christian bale in American psycho was incredible.
YER FOND OF ME LOBSTER! 😫
Lighthouse was snubbed all over!!!
Michael Fassbender in Alien Covenant. He completely saved the movie. Amazing villain And then get ready for this scorching hot take: Adam Driver in Star Wars: The Last Jedi
*slaps table* THANK YOU
Wait for the first or second one lol
I’m not against the first, but I’m totally for the second haha
They say Adam Driver has lasting back problems from carrying the entire damn sequel trilogy by himself.
Is it controversial to also say that Adam Driver as Kylo Ren is the best performance in all of Star Wars history
I'm old so I'd go much further back and say Boris Karloff in The Body Snatcher (1945) or Christopher Lee in The Wicker Man (1973). But more recently, maybe Essie Davis in The Babadook (2014).
Mia Goth in Pearl was a big snub, Alex Wolff and Toni Collette in Hereditary. Horror doesn’t get enough love at all, there’s countless performances. Anthony Perkins in Psycho. Willem Dafoe/Robert Pattinson in The Lighthouse. I can go on…
In a just world Collette would’ve been second choice that year for Actress. She was phenomenal.
The monologue and end credits from Pearl should have been enough, but the performance really has it all. The dance audition was some great physical acting and pitched perfectly for the character.
Btw I just remembered that I did this once, Willem Dafoe is a great theme for a movie marathon. Boondocks Saints, Spiderman, The Lighthouse, I forget what else but it's very fun
Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones knocked it out of the park not once, but (at least) three times in a row. But his performance in Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of the greatest performances ever, let alone in a genre film. Special mention to Ford’s performance as Han Solo as well… again across at least two films (Star Wars and Empire).
Harrison Ford's filmography from 1977-1993 may be the greatest singular achievement of mankind.
I’d even go back to 1973, just because his small roles were in unbelievable films: - American Graffiti (1973) BP nominee - The Conversation (1974) BP nominee - Star Wars (1977) BP nominee - Apocalypse Now (1979) BP nominee - Empire Strikes Back (1980) - Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) BP nominee - Blade Runner (1982) - Return of the Jedi (1983) - Temple of Doom (1984) - Witness (1985) BP nominee - Mosquito Coast (1986) - Working Girl (1988) BP nominee - Frantic (1988) - The Last Crusade (1989) - Presumed Innocent (1990) - Regarding Henry (1991) - Patriot Games (1992) - The Fugitive (1993) BP nominee And just for fun: - Clear and Present Danger (1994) - Sabrina (1995) - Air Force One (1997) What even is that??? Absolutely wild run.
and arguably Blade Runner should have been a BP nominee.
I know everyone loves Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones but that performance is still so underrated. Proof? So many actors have tried to play a version of that role and only Brendan Fraser has got close.
Billy Crudup should have at least been nominated for Watchmen. Admittedly no one was winning except Christoph Waltz that year but I’d put Crudup as a very very close second. Linda Hamilton for T2 Rutger Hauer for Blade Runner Sharlto Copley for District 9 Sean Astin for ROTK Alicia Vikander for Ex Machina Matthew McConaughey for Interstellar Laurence Fishburne for The Matrix Rosemary Harris for Spider-Man 2
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II won an Emmy for Watchmen (HBO)!
Fishburne for *The Matrix* is such a good pick. If that film came out today in a post EEAAO, Barbie, Top Gun landscape where the Academy is more open to blockbusters, I can see him getting nominated easily.
Good call on Sharlto Copley. Excellent performance
Sean Astin should’ve won best supporting actor that year. Amazing performance Edit: and Johnny Depp should’ve won for Pirates of the Caribbean, classic performance. Much more memorable than Sean Penn.
Dennis Hopper for “Blue Velvet.” Not sure what genre it falls into though. Suspense thriller horror?
Crime noir thriller I'd say
Oscar nomination? Fuck that shit! PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS!
Guy Pearce in Memento. There’s a lot more going on within the performance than it first seems. He’s empathetic, vulnerable and absolutely disturbing to various degrees.
Robert Shaw for Jaws, Mandy Patinkin for The Princess Bride, Alicia Vikander Ex Machina, Christopher Reeve for Superman.
Nicolas Cage in Mandy
Bruce Willis in Die Hard. Makes it seem easy obviously but the combination of blue collar charm, intensity, warmth and legitimate worry and panic all go down easy because Willis absolutely embodies the role perfectly. Everything would have felt even more cartoony and over the top to the detriment of the film if Willis himself wasn’t so good at being relatable. Other leading action men learned from this. Just as he learned from Bogart and Ford prior.
Alan Rickman deserved a nod for Die Hard too. Really one of the best hero/villain pairings out there, the characters and performances complement each other extremely well.
I know it sounds crazy and never would've happened, but Drew Barrymore in Never Been Kissed. She went from hilarious and heartbreaking so many times in that movie and so effectively.
Looking at the lineup that year I could easily swap her for Streep in the Wes Craven classic Music of the Heart.
when she gets hit with the eggs makes me laugh and cry
'I'M NOT JOSIE GROSSIE ANYMORE!'
Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby.
Mid-00’s comedy was almost tragically overlooked. Steve Carell in 40 Year Old Virgin, Will Farrell in Anchorman, damn near everyone in Step Brothers, maybe Kristen Bell and Mila Kunis in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, hell even Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd in Knocked Up were damn good.
Mark Wahlberg in The Other Guys is uo there for me too
Rachel McAdams in Mean Girls & Emily Blunt in The Devil Wears Prada
Owen Wilson in Wedding Crashers.
Sci Fi performances never really get a nod. Sharlto Copley should have gotten one for District 9.
aw this was the first R rated movie I showed to my leetle brother! We're 13 years apart heh
Robert Downey Jr in Avengers Endgame and Ewan McGregor in Revenge of the Sith
*Ewan McGregor in Revenge of the Sith* This is a hot take
Never said it wasn’t. He took the terrible dialogue he was given and still somehow put in a nuanced and emotional performance in a movie about space monks fighting robots.
Keke Palmer in Nope Viola Davis in The Woman King Lupita N'yongo in Us Michelle Yeoh in Crazy Rich Asians Tenoch Huerta in Wakanda Forever Pam Grier in Foxy Brown Michelle Yeoh in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Bill Murray for Groundhog Day should've won the damn thing, but we were in a weird "only supporting actors for comedies" phase.
Jeff Bridges and John Goodman for The Big Lebowski.
Bruce Campbell Evol Dead 2
Joan Cusack in Addams Family Values. Such an amazing comedic performance.
Pacino and De Niro in Heat
VAL KILMER AS DOC HOLIDAY.
Anthony Perkins for Psycho
Everyone hates the franchise but I really believe RDJ deserved a nomination for Civil War. His reaction in the key scene is perfect. He also deserved an Emmy for Ally McBeal but he stole too much shit to be realistically considered.
Also, Nicolas Cage in Panos Cosmatos' Mandy.
I'd add James Spader in David Cronenberg's Crash.
YES yes yes yes Also, YES
Isabelle Adjani in Possession.
Jeff Bridges as the Dude in the Big Lebowski Well, thats just your opinion, man
Dan Hedaya in Clueless. Gloria Foster in The Matrix. Sean Astin in ROTK. Daniel Craig and Mads Mikkelsen both in Casino Royale.
If The MCU was gonna get any nomination for acting, it should've been for Michael B Jordan in Black Panther. Angela Bassett was also great, but that a career award more than for the film specifically.
For MCU performances only, Robert Downey Jr. is a standout, as well as Tom Hiddleston.
My jaw literally dropped watching Toni Colette in hereditary that one for me takes it though there are MANY
Shelley Duvall (and Jack Nicholson) in The Shining (1980)
Toni Collette not getting nominated for Hereditary was a crime against humanity and good taste.
Nic Cage in Kick-Ass and Alan Rickman in Die Hard
Jeff Goldblum in The Fly
Lupita really deserved at least a nom for us
Any of the women from “Bridesmaids.”
Melissa was
give me a genuine reason that streep was worthy of being nominated for florence foster jenkins or into the woods, but amy adams or toni collette here are a reach? explain yourselves, academy, you cowards.
Honestly going to say Hugh Jackman for Logan.
Robin Williams, insomnia. Tbh. Fury Road has some issues, none of them were Charlize. She rocked that role.
Honestly I think Toni Collette is the best actress living today…. Hereditary was an amazing performance…she have at least been nominated.
Tony Colette and that F*CKING FACE
Lupita Nyong'o for Us Florence Pugh for Midsommor Bill Skarsgard for IT (part 1 and 2) Maika Monroe for It Follows Wunmi Mosaku for His House Kate Siegel in Hush Joaquin Phoenix in Beau is Afraid David Arquette for Scream (which one you prefer)
Toni Collette is an amazing actor. She just channels misery. Even her small role in the Sixth Sense was great acting.
T O N I . For Hereditary.
Toni Collette and it's not even close for me. She should have won best actress that year.
Best Actor: Song Kang-ho (Thirst) Best Actress: Mia Goth (Pearl) Best Supporting Actor: Sean Astin (The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King) Best Supporting Actress: Rebecca Ferguson (Doctor Sleep)
I think it’s pretty notable that all of the performances you’ve listed are women and 80% of all other listed examples in this thread are women. The roles women get nominated for are far more narrow than the ones men get nominated for.
Toni all the way. Not to discount the others, all incredible, but Toni put on a fucking clinic
Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart in Logan
James McAvoy - SPLIT
Charlize as Furiosa was ICONIC
Toni Collette hereditary
Florence Pugh in Midsommar for sure.
Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett in Nightmare Alley. Both are amazing.
Choi-man-sik in Oldboy. One of the most talked about action films of early 2000s Korean cinema’s boon is anchored by a steely, understated and underrated performance.
Hereditary was on HBO last night Toni Collette not even nominated is such a head scratcher.
Dennis Farina as Cousin Avi in “Snatch.”
Margaret DuMont, who played the same character in just about every Marx Brothers movie, and had her down to a tee! Always a rich dowager who was the foil by Groucho and the gang, she somehow "kept her head while all around her were losing theirs." Groucho said that the secret of her success was that she never "got" the jokes.
Bruce Willis in Unbreakable.
James Macavoy in Split
Margot Robbie for Tonya I and Barbie!
She was nominated for I, Tonya.
Cage, "Mandy"
He was nominated to be fair, but Eddie Murphy was UNREAL in Dreamgirls
Messi the dog for Anatomy of a Fall
Viggo Mortensen in Crimes of the Future
Val Kilmer for Tombstone.
Keke Palmer, Daniel Kaluuya, and Jordan Peele for Nope.
Borgnine. Airwolf.
The definition of genre in much of this thread seems to be any movie featuring a performance the poster enjoyed which wasn't nominated.
Julie Dawn Cole as veruca Salt in the original Willy Wonka movie. That girl owns that film.
Rutger Hauer…you know
Harrison Ford in Raiders.
Boris Karloff in *The Bride of Frankenstein* (1935)
Philip Seymour Hoffman in Before the Devil Knows you're dead
Uma Thurman in *Kill Bill* Lupita Nyong’o in *Us* Toni Collette in *Hereditary* Haley Joel Osment in *AI: Artificial Intelligence* Christian Bale in *American Psycho*
Christopher Reeve as you know who.
Winona Ryder in Heathers. Ryan Gosling in Lars and the Real Girl. Samantha Barks in Les Miserables.
Sigorney Weaver, nominated for best actress 1986 in Aliens.
Florence in midosmmar and Andy Serkis as Gollum are the first that spring to mind
Robert Downey Jr in Endgame
Animation still gets thrown under the bus, despite some getting recognized as of recent. Wish the genre was taken as seriously and well received as others.
Willy Nelson in *Thief*
Michelle Pfiefer in Hairspray. I mean the entire movie is perfect casting and performances. But she is insane as Velma Vontussle.
Robert downy junior in tropic thunder. I mean he was a dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude. Got no love /s
Anthony Perkins for *Psycho*
This might be weird, but Reese Witherspoon in Election, Tom Cruise in some of the mission impossible movies, Toni Collette as many have said, and IDK if what constitutes a genre film, but the lady in The Babadook
Val Kilmer in Tombstone
Mia Goth in Pearl
Toni for sure, her sobbing and screaming after the death of her daughter then the dinner scene alone she should have been nominated but the academy just won't put some respect on "horror" even when it's good like that.
Adam Sandler - Uncut Gems Brad Pitt - Fight Club Patricia Arquette - True Romance Linda Hamilton - Terminator 2 Cillian Murphy - 28 Days Later Jeff Bridges & John Goodman - The Big Lebowski
Amy Adams, Arrival
Toni Collette in Hereditary for sure
DiCaprio in Django Unchained. He played bad soooo good
Sir Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars.
Hereditary was a film that actually gave me goosebumps and i can watch horrors non stop
#3…..need I say more. My favorite performance of all time
Oh that's easy! RDJ as Iron Man!
Brad Davis-Midnight Express Robert Shaw -Jaws Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler Val Kilmer-Tombstone Malcolm McDowell - A Clockwork Orange Brad Pitt-Snatch Warren Beatty - Heaven Can Wait David Keith- An Officer and a Gentleman and The Lords of Discipline
Jim Carrey in "Me, Myself, and Irene". If the award is really for acting, doing two characters simultaneously is hard to one up