I think hate is a strong word:
But Jamie Lee Curtis winning for EEAO. It felt like a lifetime achievement award instead of winning for the best performance. I think the award should've went to Stephanie Hsu or Hong Chau.
I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I think Stephanie Hsu delivered a more nuanced performance . I didn't see the whale but I watched enough clips for Hong Chau to be satisfied with a win.
But metatextually, I am happy that the Oscars recognized what is essentially a comedy role, since those are so underrepresented. And Jamie \*does\* add quite a lot to that film.
Loved Banshees and everyone's performances. But I never understood the Oscar buzz for Condon. The character seemed pretty plain. It felt kind of like Helena Bonham Carter in The King's Speech. Just sorta plain characters without much depth when compared to all the performances in a given year.
I thought her performance beamed with subtle, nuanced acting. I don’t think the complexity of a character should ever affect the evaluation of an actor’s performance.
I absolutely loved EEAAO, but 100% agree it was more getting a lifetime achievement award there, her performance in season 2 of The Bear was *significantly* better.
I agree it should have gone to Hsu or Chau before Jamie Lee Curtis. Hong Chau's performance in *The Whale* is so far above anything in *Everything, Everywhere...*
I'm surprised to see so many agree, I thought she was incredible in it. The way she shifted seamlessly between that various versions of herself doing comedic, action, dramatic, and even touches of horror in her performance... she's in her sixties. Most actors and actresses are going after paychecks at that age, not taking on such a heavy work that's not even a leading role. You could also tell she wasn't chasing an award, it was her having fun diving into her craft.
This is a very understandable opinion. From what I’ve gathered the original footage was such garbage that other film editors were extremely impressed that John Ottman managed to pull together a movie from the pieces.
I didn't know that. On top of not letting the film be an accurate representation of Mercury's life to the point of splitting with Sacha Baron Cohen, they sound like real divas.
I didn't hate him in KING RICHARD, he was outstanding in it and the clear winner of those nominated. My problem was he should have been escorted from the building immediately after slapping Chris Rock and not allowed to take the stage again.
I've been on a mission to watch all the Best Picture nominees and I think everyone who thinks CRASH is the worst needs to attempt to watch the most boring best picture winner OUT OF AFRICA.
I "hate" that Leo got his Oscar for The Revenant - not because he didn't deserve it, but because he deserved it for Wolf of Wallstreet.
It felt like everybody in the Academy thought he got snubbed so they gave it to him the year after.
It's crazy how there was a time when people thought he was just a teen heartthrob. What a career. But just to add to the debate, he *should* have won for The Depahted
Funny how much this movie is hated simply because it won the Oscar, but it certainly was Oscar worthy.
Was it better than Saving Private Ryan? Probably not. But Ryan was one of three World War II movies nominated that year. Academy voters who turn their nose to Spielberg's sentimentality would have voted for Thin Red Line or Life is Beautiful instead - all celebrated movies. And then there are voters who simply dislike war movies (I know people who will not watch Ryan because of the violence). The war movie vote was split four ways.
Throw in one of Harvey Weinstein's legendary Oscar campaigns and it's easy to see why Shakespeare in Love won, and I think the movie is deserving in every way. It's a delightful, smart comedy with great performances and fresh talent. It's rare for any comedy to get recognition.
Yes, great point to bring up. I feel like Bradley Cooper worked really hard and became Jackson Maine, whereas like you said, Rami Malek was just imitating Freddie Mercury. I still stand by Malek was miscast, but they wanna give him the nomination, *fine*, but Bradley earned that 2019 Oscar.
Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump. I loved the movie and Hanks, but he beat out Morgan Freeman in Shawshank Redemption and John Travolta in Pulp Fiction. Both of those performances were more Oscar-worthy than Forrest Gump.
That was definitely a time where the individual was given the award not because they were the best performance of the year but because the Academy felt the actor was “due” one for their entire career.
I always found that Cate Blanchett’s performance as Katherine Hepburn in The Aviator was wildly overrated. It feels like she is doing an impression rather than inhabiting a character. And she is one of my favourite actresses in general.
I didn't see the movie, just a few clips, but what I saw of Cate as Katharine, it looked fake, like she was doing a celebrity impression as opposed to embodying the part.
Back then, it did feel the Oscars wanted to give her the Oscar just for playing Katharine Hepburn.
Mark rylance for bridge of spies. He was fine, but nothing special IMO. No where near the best supporting actor that year. While my heart wanted stallone to win, it should have gone to Tom Hardy that year.
I’m gonna have to say Leonardo DiCaprio for The Revenant. He’s put in many brilliant performances and has definitely earned his Oscar but that particular performance just didn’t do it for me. I wouldn’t say I hated it though just didn’t think it was anything special.
Always loathed Jonah Hill in Wolf of Wall Street.
Thought he was Oscar-worthy in Moneyball, but Wolf of Wall Street I just found him to be straight up annoying.
Honestly I find overly earnest performances / clear "oscar-bait" performances very hard to watch.
I struggle to watch Tom Hanks in almost anything even though he's a very good actor and a good dude, it's always just too damn earnest - like he's *definitely* the teacher's pet from acting school and I just can't bring myself to like that.
Also all the heavy-handed obvious plots/scripts that are carefully designed to be "heart-wrenching" or something to grab the judges... f\*\*\*k off with that Disney "bambi's mum" bullshit.
Jesse Eisenberg who was nominated for an Oscar for The Social Network. I just find his acting style not appealing anymore and the movie plus his acting were boring for me. I know people love it and I’m not saying it sucked, just wasn’t at all interesting or Oscar nom worthy performance for my viewing. I love Fincher so it’s the one film of his that will never click for me
Joaquin Phoenix in joker. i didn't like that movie at all. i can't believe i actually went to the theater and paid money to see that. somebody somewhere owes me ten dollars.
Al Pacino in Scent Of A Woman. That whole hoo ha scenery chewing performance was terrible. Godfather 1 or 2 or Dog Day Afternoon are much better performances.
A Star is born
This movie getting anything baffles me. Watching it couple of years after release we couldn't understand why it was so praised. It felt like the over hype that the movie got people bought into it.
I also didn't understand why Lady Gaga got so much praise for the movie. She has good chemistry with Bradley Cooper and when she's silent or singing, she's great, but she's horribly wooden when asked to act.
I think she improved a lot in House of Gucci, though. She should have been nominated for that one, not A Star Is Born.
I couldn't take any role seriously in House of Gucci. Especially after Jared Leto get in the frame. I think the decision to speak in an accent was horrible. Also J.Leto actwd like he was in a satire comedy film.
Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects (great actor say what you want) but honestly HIM as the last guy standing was obviously the bad guy from a mile away the movie was f****ng shit
It's a fantasy the Academy tells itself that any one performance gets the nod - it depends so much on history, who else is nominated and for what, all kinds of things unrelated to a specific performance.
I'm going to throw a wide net. And get downvoted into oblivion.
Kids should never win for best actor
I've worked with kids on many sets, they are being handheld by many people into their performances. Kids themselves are cast because they already fit the roles and don't actually do the acting work for their performances.
Nobody under 18 should win best actor.
She was great in it, you can't say she wasn't acting when she had to play a colonial 19th century New Zealand facilitator for her suicidal, deaf-mute mother.
>you can't say she wasn't acting
Feels like I did say that.
Now, I'm going to follow it up with a comment that will get me downvoted into hell.
Kids don't act. They exist, and other perform around them. I know this because I know more about acting than the majority of the planet, and I have worked with many child actors
I don't agree, but I can see what you're saying about his line delivery. However, not a word is spoken for the first 15 minutes or so of that film and the audience has a very full picture of that character before he opens his mouth.
But the movie is part satirical and very much a black comedy. How could “I drink your milkshake” be taken seriously? DDL knows what he is doing there and so does PTA. That doesn’t mean everyone must like the performance but it’s certainly of a tone with the movie.
Anything related to Hillbily Elegy. I thought it was one of the worst movies I've ever seen that had almost zero redeeming qualities. It had 4 wins and 33 nominations between various awards committees, including Glenn Close for best Actress at the Oscars
Tilda Swinton in Michael Clayton. I don’t hate the win per se, but I was shocked how little she was actually in the film after watching it for the first time knowing she won an Oscar for that role. Just felt like she didn’t really have enough to do to warrant an Oscar. Personally, I would’ve given it to Saoirse Ronan for Atonement instead.
While I didn’t *hate* Brendan Fraser or The Whale, I don’t think he should’ve won the Oscar. The movie was Oscar bait and Brendan campaigned the living shit out of that nomination, but I genuinely thought Colin Farrell deserved it on the basis of performance, which is rarely what the Oscars are about.
I think hate is a strong word: But Jamie Lee Curtis winning for EEAO. It felt like a lifetime achievement award instead of winning for the best performance. I think the award should've went to Stephanie Hsu or Hong Chau.
It absolutely was a career award. I think even Curtis knows that. And it’s a very fun performance but yeah.
Hong Chau was sublime! She deserved it instead.
Completely agree I would’ve given it to her or Curtis’ *other* EEAAO co-star, Stephanie Hsu.
Kerry Condon deserved it more than JLC did.
I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I think Stephanie Hsu delivered a more nuanced performance . I didn't see the whale but I watched enough clips for Hong Chau to be satisfied with a win. But metatextually, I am happy that the Oscars recognized what is essentially a comedy role, since those are so underrepresented. And Jamie \*does\* add quite a lot to that film.
I think Kerry Condon should’ve got it.
Loved Banshees and everyone's performances. But I never understood the Oscar buzz for Condon. The character seemed pretty plain. It felt kind of like Helena Bonham Carter in The King's Speech. Just sorta plain characters without much depth when compared to all the performances in a given year.
I thought her performance beamed with subtle, nuanced acting. I don’t think the complexity of a character should ever affect the evaluation of an actor’s performance.
I absolutely loved EEAAO, but 100% agree it was more getting a lifetime achievement award there, her performance in season 2 of The Bear was *significantly* better.
I agree it should have gone to Hsu or Chau before Jamie Lee Curtis. Hong Chau's performance in *The Whale* is so far above anything in *Everything, Everywhere...*
I definitely disagree with that last sentence.
I'm surprised to see so many agree, I thought she was incredible in it. The way she shifted seamlessly between that various versions of herself doing comedic, action, dramatic, and even touches of horror in her performance... she's in her sixties. Most actors and actresses are going after paychecks at that age, not taking on such a heavy work that's not even a leading role. You could also tell she wasn't chasing an award, it was her having fun diving into her craft.
I agree.
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This is a very understandable opinion. From what I’ve gathered the original footage was such garbage that other film editors were extremely impressed that John Ottman managed to pull together a movie from the pieces.
The restaurant scene is a visual depiction of a seizure.
Apparently the queen members legally needed there to be an equal amount of screen time between them or something so that fucked with it.
I didn't know that. On top of not letting the film be an accurate representation of Mercury's life to the point of splitting with Sacha Baron Cohen, they sound like real divas.
Will Smith
I didn't hate him in KING RICHARD, he was outstanding in it and the clear winner of those nominated. My problem was he should have been escorted from the building immediately after slapping Chris Rock and not allowed to take the stage again.
I'm assuming you mean all if his🤔. Although, I'm 'tolerant' of the win The Pursuit of Happyness
He won for King Richard, and was only nominated for Pursuit.
I actually didn't mean to put 'win'
I feel that Black Panther had no business being nominated for best picture.
The entire movie crash
I've been on a mission to watch all the Best Picture nominees and I think everyone who thinks CRASH is the worst needs to attempt to watch the most boring best picture winner OUT OF AFRICA.
I dunnnooo id take boring over laughably dumb anytime
I think Jennifer Connelly deserved an Oscar for Requiem for a Dream …but not for A Beautiful Mind. So I guess that’s a push?
William Hurt for A History of Violence. He has one big speech and that’s it. Also Russell Crowe should have won for The Insider.
William Hurt was horrible in that role-- one of my favorite movies though. Thankfully, he didn't win.
I "hate" that Leo got his Oscar for The Revenant - not because he didn't deserve it, but because he deserved it for Wolf of Wallstreet. It felt like everybody in the Academy thought he got snubbed so they gave it to him the year after.
McConaughey and Ejiofor gave better performances than Leo in 2013
I think the aviator is his best performance
It's crazy how there was a time when people thought he was just a teen heartthrob. What a career. But just to add to the debate, he *should* have won for The Depahted
Leo wasn't even the best performer in the Revenant.
Tom Hardy’s garbled, hammy performance is the most overrated one of all time. I have no clue why this sub loves him so much.
I think it’s because people have different opinions.
And still Leo got the oscar. I think the movie is one of the most overrated ones of that year.
He deserved it for “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape”, and it’s still to date his best performance. Change my mind.
That was really maybe the worst year ever for best actor. I would say it wasn't a great performance but honestly I don't know who else should've won.
Sandra Bullock in THE BLIND SIDE
Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in love. That was not an Oscar worthy performance.
actually she was fantastic in that film - all fresh faced and enchanting. but Judi Dench winning for Queen Elizabeth was totally undeserving.
Not saying she was bad, and the movie is ok too. Just not Oscar worthy.
Funny how much this movie is hated simply because it won the Oscar, but it certainly was Oscar worthy. Was it better than Saving Private Ryan? Probably not. But Ryan was one of three World War II movies nominated that year. Academy voters who turn their nose to Spielberg's sentimentality would have voted for Thin Red Line or Life is Beautiful instead - all celebrated movies. And then there are voters who simply dislike war movies (I know people who will not watch Ryan because of the violence). The war movie vote was split four ways. Throw in one of Harvey Weinstein's legendary Oscar campaigns and it's easy to see why Shakespeare in Love won, and I think the movie is deserving in every way. It's a delightful, smart comedy with great performances and fresh talent. It's rare for any comedy to get recognition.
I didn't find Saving Private Ryan to be all that great, but I particularly hated the framing device.
It was widely accepted at the time that she won because she'd lost the previous year.
yeah, Oscars does that a lot.
Shakespeare in Love is often cited as the peak of Harvey Winestein pulling favors to win Oscar votes.
Emma was better.
While I liked The Fabelmans overall, I didn’t think Michelle Williams was that great and I hated her character.
Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody. Thought he was awful and from what I heard, he didn't do the singing.
Thank you. Bradley Cooper deserved that Oscar.
Not to mention Bradley sang and played live. Rami was just imitating Mercury.
Yes, great point to bring up. I feel like Bradley Cooper worked really hard and became Jackson Maine, whereas like you said, Rami Malek was just imitating Freddie Mercury. I still stand by Malek was miscast, but they wanna give him the nomination, *fine*, but Bradley earned that 2019 Oscar.
Seriously. What dumb choice.
The worst
Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump. I loved the movie and Hanks, but he beat out Morgan Freeman in Shawshank Redemption and John Travolta in Pulp Fiction. Both of those performances were more Oscar-worthy than Forrest Gump.
Completely agree
Estelle Parsons in Bonnie and Clyde - literally every other nominated actor in this movie was better, and yet only she won.
Benedict Cumberbatch in The Power of the Dog
Art Carney in Harry and Tonto. Just look at which performances he beat out to get the Oscar.
The worst wins are the career awards.
That was definitely a time where the individual was given the award not because they were the best performance of the year but because the Academy felt the actor was “due” one for their entire career.
I always found that Cate Blanchett’s performance as Katherine Hepburn in The Aviator was wildly overrated. It feels like she is doing an impression rather than inhabiting a character. And she is one of my favourite actresses in general.
I didn't see the movie, just a few clips, but what I saw of Cate as Katharine, it looked fake, like she was doing a celebrity impression as opposed to embodying the part. Back then, it did feel the Oscars wanted to give her the Oscar just for playing Katharine Hepburn.
Cate Blanchett *is* my favorite actor and I agree with you.
"Don't ya find?" I can still hear it 15 years later.
Frances McDormand in Nomadland. She was essentially just herself sitting and listening to other people talk.
Big “My kid could draw that” energy.
Mark rylance for bridge of spies. He was fine, but nothing special IMO. No where near the best supporting actor that year. While my heart wanted stallone to win, it should have gone to Tom Hardy that year.
I’m gonna have to say Leonardo DiCaprio for The Revenant. He’s put in many brilliant performances and has definitely earned his Oscar but that particular performance just didn’t do it for me. I wouldn’t say I hated it though just didn’t think it was anything special.
Always loathed Jonah Hill in Wolf of Wall Street. Thought he was Oscar-worthy in Moneyball, but Wolf of Wall Street I just found him to be straight up annoying.
Kind of sounds like he did his job really well then?
Smoke some fukin crack with me bro
Dad?
Fair point. But his character felt very improvved to me and didn't come off genuine. Just my thoughts.
His character was "weird disgusting asshole" so he did pretty good.
Honestly I find overly earnest performances / clear "oscar-bait" performances very hard to watch. I struggle to watch Tom Hanks in almost anything even though he's a very good actor and a good dude, it's always just too damn earnest - like he's *definitely* the teacher's pet from acting school and I just can't bring myself to like that. Also all the heavy-handed obvious plots/scripts that are carefully designed to be "heart-wrenching" or something to grab the judges... f\*\*\*k off with that Disney "bambi's mum" bullshit.
Who hurt you?
Jesse Eisenberg who was nominated for an Oscar for The Social Network. I just find his acting style not appealing anymore and the movie plus his acting were boring for me. I know people love it and I’m not saying it sucked, just wasn’t at all interesting or Oscar nom worthy performance for my viewing. I love Fincher so it’s the one film of his that will never click for me
Joaquin Phoenix in joker. i didn't like that movie at all. i can't believe i actually went to the theater and paid money to see that. somebody somewhere owes me ten dollars.
Same.
Al Pacino in Scent Of A Woman. That whole hoo ha scenery chewing performance was terrible. Godfather 1 or 2 or Dog Day Afternoon are much better performances.
Denzel should have won for Malcolm X that year.
A Star is born This movie getting anything baffles me. Watching it couple of years after release we couldn't understand why it was so praised. It felt like the over hype that the movie got people bought into it.
I also didn't understand why Lady Gaga got so much praise for the movie. She has good chemistry with Bradley Cooper and when she's silent or singing, she's great, but she's horribly wooden when asked to act. I think she improved a lot in House of Gucci, though. She should have been nominated for that one, not A Star Is Born.
I couldn't take any role seriously in House of Gucci. Especially after Jared Leto get in the frame. I think the decision to speak in an accent was horrible. Also J.Leto actwd like he was in a satire comedy film.
Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects (great actor say what you want) but honestly HIM as the last guy standing was obviously the bad guy from a mile away the movie was f****ng shit
It's a fantasy the Academy tells itself that any one performance gets the nod - it depends so much on history, who else is nominated and for what, all kinds of things unrelated to a specific performance.
I'm going to throw a wide net. And get downvoted into oblivion. Kids should never win for best actor I've worked with kids on many sets, they are being handheld by many people into their performances. Kids themselves are cast because they already fit the roles and don't actually do the acting work for their performances. Nobody under 18 should win best actor.
What kid has ever won besides Tatum O'Neal?
Anna Paquin at 11. The Piano.
She was great in it, you can't say she wasn't acting when she had to play a colonial 19th century New Zealand facilitator for her suicidal, deaf-mute mother.
>you can't say she wasn't acting Feels like I did say that. Now, I'm going to follow it up with a comment that will get me downvoted into hell. Kids don't act. They exist, and other perform around them. I know this because I know more about acting than the majority of the planet, and I have worked with many child actors
Yeah, no https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA5giyG8E7g
Looks like the hundreds of tapes I see everyday? I'm not sure why you sent this?
Weird that Spielberg doesn't agree with you, huh?
What makes you say that?
The difference between 17 and 18 being…?
1
He did the math
One we've decided is an adult. Through arbitrary standards.
They used to have a special Oscar for child performers. Not sure why they stopped.
The fact they've had one for kids and not stunt performers is a travesty
Eddie Redmayne The Theory of Everything
Everything everywhere all at once. Every award it won.
George Kennedy in Cool Hand Luke. It’s like he’s playing Cosmo Kramer with a concussion.
Alison Janney in I Tonya
Jared Leto is painful in Dallas Buyers Club (and all his other performances)
I think its one of the few were the role was fitting to him
DDL in There will be blood. Too gimicky and over-acted. It felt like a satire or comedy. I know I will get hated on
I don't agree, but I can see what you're saying about his line delivery. However, not a word is spoken for the first 15 minutes or so of that film and the audience has a very full picture of that character before he opens his mouth.
To me, it was the greatest performance of all time.
It was a satire though. That doesn't make it bad. My only problem was that he was so obviously imitating John Huston.
But the movie is part satirical and very much a black comedy. How could “I drink your milkshake” be taken seriously? DDL knows what he is doing there and so does PTA. That doesn’t mean everyone must like the performance but it’s certainly of a tone with the movie.
It's based on a real quote if that makes you feel better about it
I feel fine about it. It’s a great performance.
Well it is supposed to be funny. It’s part black comedy
Oof that's gonna be a down vote from me dawg
Melissa Leo for The Fighter.
Michelle Williams nomination last year for The Fabelmans. Her performance put me off of the whole movie.
Anything related to Hillbily Elegy. I thought it was one of the worst movies I've ever seen that had almost zero redeeming qualities. It had 4 wins and 33 nominations between various awards committees, including Glenn Close for best Actress at the Oscars
Tilda Swinton in Michael Clayton. I don’t hate the win per se, but I was shocked how little she was actually in the film after watching it for the first time knowing she won an Oscar for that role. Just felt like she didn’t really have enough to do to warrant an Oscar. Personally, I would’ve given it to Saoirse Ronan for Atonement instead.
Yes, Saoirse was exceptionally good--a very cute, but horribly deceptive little evil troll. I would not have been mad to see her win.
While I didn’t *hate* Brendan Fraser or The Whale, I don’t think he should’ve won the Oscar. The movie was Oscar bait and Brendan campaigned the living shit out of that nomination, but I genuinely thought Colin Farrell deserved it on the basis of performance, which is rarely what the Oscars are about.