Brokeback Mountain is such a masterpiece. It's a film to appeal to many different audiences (both queer or not) and is such a pivotal film in history...
...and it lost to Crash.
I honestly can't see much competition this year keeping him from winning again. I honestly don't think Dune is getting nominated, much less winning, and Project Hail Mary probably won't be getting much recognition, at least not compared with The Odyssey.
The only that seem to be holding him back is the fact that the score is semi-unconventional and voters may be tired of Ludwig winning.
Obviously I'd love to know if I'm missing anything
I mean, come on. This movie was nominated up the wazoo, then somehow one of the best performances is shutout.
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These were the nominees from that year:
Catherine Zeta-Jones – Chicago as Velma Kelly (WON)
Kathy Bates – About Schmidt as Roberta Hertzel
Julianne Moore – The Hours as Laura McGrath Brown
Queen Latifah – Chicago as Matron "Mama" Morton
Meryl Streep – Adaptation as Susan Orlean
Personally I think she gets in over Queen Latifah.
I'm seeing a lot of buzz on her and I wouldn't be shocked if she became the first woman to be nominated for Best Director/Best Actress. Can she win? I don't know. There are still many candidates in the game.
I don't see it for Renate Reinsve for Fjord. Those who've seen the movie have said she plays a mostly passive part and Sebastian Stan is the one with the showier role.
...And why is it Godfather Part II vs. Chinatown?
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (1955)
WINNER - JO VAN FLEET for East of Eden
NOMINEES - BETSY BLAIR for Marty, PEGGY LEE for Pete Kelly's Blues, MARISA PAVAN for The Rose Tattoo, NATALIE WOOD for Rebel without a Cause
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (1955)
WINNER - JACK LEMMON for Mister Roberts
NOMINEES - ARTHUR KENNEDY for Trial, JOE MANTELL for Marty, SAL MINEO for Rebel without a Cause, ARTHUR O'CONNELL for Picnic
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Winners for 1950: Lead Actress - Gloria Swanson for Sunset Boulevard (A.W. Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday), Lead Actor - William Holden for Sunset Boulevard (A.W. José Ferrer for Cyrano de Bergerac), Supporting Actress - Thelma Ritter for All About Eve (A.W. Josephine Hull for Harvey), Supporting Actor - George Sanders for All About Eve (A.W. George Sanders for All About Eve)
Winners for 1951: Lead Actress - Vivien Leigh for A Streetcar Named Desire (A.W. Vivien Leigh for A Streetcar Named Desire), Lead Actor - Marlon Brando for A Streetcar Named Desire (A.W. Humphrey Bogart for The African Queen), Supporting Actress - Kim Hunter for A Streetcar Named Desire (A.W. Kim Hunter for A Streetcar Named Desire), Supporting Actor - Karl Malden for A Streetcar Named Desire (A.W. Karl Malden for A Streetcar Named Desire)
Winners for 1952: Lead Actress - Shirley Booth for Come Back, Little Sheba (A.W. Shirley Booth for Come Back, Little Sheba), Lead Actor - Takashi Shimura for IKIRU (A.W. Gary Cooper for High Noon), Supporting Actress - Jean Hagen for Singin' in the Rain (A.W. Gloria Grahame for The Bad and the Beautiful), Supporting Actor - Donald O'Connor for Singin' in the Rain (A.W. Anthony Quinn for Vivia Zapata!)
Winners for 1953: Lead Actress - Aubrey Hepburn for Roman Holiday (A.W. Aubrey Hepburn for Roman Holiday), Lead Actor - Montgomery Clift for From Here to Eternity (A.W. William Holden for Stalag 17), Supporting Actress - Setsuko Hara for Tokyo Story (A.W. Donna Reed for From Here to Eternity), Supporting Actor - Frank Sinatra for From Here to Eternity (A.W. Frank Sinatra for From Here to Eternity)
Winners for 1954: Lead Actress - Judy Garland for A Star is Born (A.W. Grace Kelly for The Country Girl), Lead Actor - Marlon Brando for On the Waterfront (A.W. Marlon Brando for On the Waterfront), Supporting Actress - Eva Marie Saint for On the Waterfront (A.W. Eva Marie Saint for On the Waterfront), Supporting Actor - Toshirō Mifune for Seven Samurai (A.W. Edmond O'Brien for The Barefoot Contessa)
Winners for 1955: Lead Actress - Anna Magnani for The Rose Tattoo (A.W. Anne Magnani for The Rose Tattoo), Lead Actor - Robert Mitchum for The Night of the Hunter (A.W. Ernest Borgnine for Marty), Supporting Actress - ? (A.W. Jo Van Fleet for East of Eden), Supporting Actor - ? (A.W. Jack Lemmon for Mister Roberts)
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List of Winners: Acting Quartets
and the right movie 100% won.
la la land is still great- totally deserved director. and it would have been a great BP winner in almost any other year of the decade.
but man, did the academy get it right that year.
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AN ACTOR CAN ONLY WIN THE BEST ACTOR AWARD ONCE. I wanted to implement this rule primarily to make this more challenging and fun and at the very least more actors will be getting an Oscar. This is necessarily about awarding the actual best performance, at least not entirely, but more about trying to get those actors that truly deserve Oscars their due.
1930: Lew Ayres - All Quiet on the Western Front
1931: Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1932: Paul Muni - I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1933: Groucho Marx - Duck Soup
1934: William Powell - The Thin Man
1935: Charles Laughton - Mutiny on the Bounty
1936: Charlie Chaplin - Modern Times
1937: Spencer Tracy - Captains Courageous
1938: Leslie Howard - Pygmalion
1939: Clark Gable - Gone With the Wind
We’ve completed the nomination round, and now it’s time to choose the winners.
The five performances with the most points in each category in Round One are now the official nominees.
This round is much simpler.
Vote for ONE nominee in each of the four acting categories.
That means your ballot should contain four names in total:
There are no rankings and no points system in this round. You are simply voting for the performance you think should win each category.
Each vote counts equally, and the nominee with the most votes in each category will become our Alternate Oscar winner for 1990.
Please only vote for the nominees listed below.
Simply post your four choices in the comments, for example:
Actor: [Name]
Actress: [Name]
Supporting Actor: [Name]
Supporting Actress: [Name]
One person per category. Four votes total.
Once voting closes, the performer with the most votes in each category will be declared the winner, and we’ll move on to 1991.
Nowadays most people have some idea of how special effects in movies are made. Movies have lost some of their movie magic. NTBTSTM is the first movie in a while that made everyone go "wait. how the fuck did they do that??"
If Sean Penn announced someone else's name when he opened the Best Actress envelope at the 77th Oscars in early 2005, someone who didn't already have a better win under their belt from five years prior, would y'all be saying "Swank should've won again!" or "She already had an Oscar, so I'm glad someone else got their due."
And one more thing to make things clear: You might think I hate Hilary Swank because I've talked multiple times in the past about not being the biggest fan of this win, but I promise you I do not.
I do think this is a very good performance, I just don't think the win itself was very exciting or inspired. (Wow, the only performance in that lineup attached to a Best Picture nominee won? And it was the Best Picture winner at that? Crazy.)
But Swank herself seems pretty nice and chill, I like her. (And I think she's hotter than she gets credit for, thank you very much The Office...)
But back to the question: If someone else in that lineup took it, would you be saying she should've gone two for two, or would you be fine with her only having one win and be glad that someone else got their due that year?
Has there ever been an actor who didn't get a nomination for the any of the awards leading up to the Oscar, but somehow received an Oscar nomination? In other words, is there an actor who received an Oscar nomination as their lone nomination?
Not necessarily the actor — the character/performance that you think deserved to be recognized but somehow got overlooked.
For me, Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street.
Leonardo DiCaprio was nominated for Best Actor for the role, but Matthew McConaughey won that year for Dallas Buyers Club.
That performance was absolutely wild. 😂
Who would you pick?
Ima start with Samuel L Jackson
The five Oscar nominated performances with the most screentime
• Peter O'Toole for Lawrence of Arabia (2 hours, 13 minutes and 13 seconds)
• Cate Blanchett for Tár (2 hours, 15 minutes and 15 seconds)
• Leonardo DiCaprio for The Wolf of Wall Street (2 hours, 21 minutes and 7 seconds)
• Denzel Washington for Malcolm X (2 hours, 21 minutes and 58 seconds)
• Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind (2 hours, 23 minutes and 32 seconds)
Only Leigh went on to win the Oscar.