Jessica Chastain Should Have Won For…

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Jessica Chastain just won her long awaited Oscar this year for a Performance that doesn’t live up to her talent. I’m interested to know what you all think Chastain should have won her oscar for and whether she deserved other nominations. I for one am stunned that she only got 2 nominations before Winning on her third for Tammy Faye. She should easily be a 5 time nominee. She should have been nominated for A Most Violent Year, Miss Sloane and Molly’s Game and I would give her wins for Zero Dark Thirty and Miss Sloane. What do you all think.

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[estrelas Joined: Jul 25th, 2018 Topics: 1 Posts: 6557 View Predictions]

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She should’ve won for The Tree of Life or Take Shelter. She also deserved a nom (and be win competitive) for A Most Violent Year. Easily her best performances.

Scenes From a Marriage is also up there as one of her best, but that’s a miniseries.

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[laslo Joined: Oct 19th, 2021 Topics: 1 Posts: 1284 View Predictions]

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The Tree of Life and A Most Violent Year are her two performances that would deserve an Oscar.
While I really like A Most Violent Year, I don’t think her performance is better than Patricia Arquette in Boyhood. She would have a much better and more memorable win than Meryl Streep in 2011, and for that reason, in my opinion, her winning performance should have been for The Tree of Life.

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[Bonehead Joined: Jan 20th, 2021 Topics: 0 Posts: 1662 View Predictions]

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Emmanuelle Riva should have won in 2013, but Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty would have been a better winner than Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook.

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[silvestre Joined: Dec 9th, 2021 Topics: 0 Posts: 213 View Predictions]

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Liv Ullmann’s Miss Julie! Still delights me to think of her performance.

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[Jeffrey Kare Joined: Jan 23rd, 2013 Topics: 135 Posts: 5998 View Predictions]

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I’ve previously mentioned in a separate thread that I’m personally not a huge Jessica Chastain fan. I didn’t think she deserved either or her Best Actress nominations for Zero Dark Thirty nor The Eyes of Tammy Faye. While I wouldn’t have necessarily awarded her for The Help (Octavia Spencer gave the better performance), but it actually is the only one of Chastain’s Oscar nods I think she can keep. Which is saying a lot given that it’s a movie that I don’t particularly love.

Speaking of Zero Dark Thirty, I actually echo a lot of what Chris Stuckmann said about that movie and Chastain’s performance in his review. While she was good in it, I just didn’t feel a personal connection to her character (although that I attribute more to the writing).

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[Manav Joined: Dec 21st, 2019 Topics: 58 Posts: 6147 View Predictions]

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The Eyes Of Tammy Faye was the right performance although one can make an argument for A Most Violent Year as well.

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[sarahvsmovies Joined: Jun 14th, 2021 Topics: 0 Posts: 798 View Predictions]

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estrelas wrote:

She should’ve won for The Tree of Life or Take Shelter. She also deserved a nom (and be win competitive) for A Most Violent Year. Easily her best performances. Scenes From a Marriage is also up there as one of her best, but that’s a miniseries.

Second. Should have won for Tree of Life but her best performance, to me, was AMVY although I don’t think she could have won in that year. Should have at least been nominated.

Molly’s Game should have been a nomination. While not her fault, I just…have a lot of issues with ZDT so I can’t make any argument for that film in any capacity.

And not a movie but agreed her not even getting a nomination for SFAM, especially considering the pool, was egregious.

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[Opium Joined: Aug 4th, 2021 Topics: 0 Posts: 1328 View Predictions]

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I think the big issue of her victory is that not only she won with a very caricature performance but with a movie that nobody cared, a box office bomb that wasn’t even acclaimed or something, at least Sandra Bullock won for a mediocre movie that was a huge box office hit.

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[Sir Shaw Joined: Aug 1st, 2019 Topics: 7 Posts: 1359 View Predictions]

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Miss Sloane.

I wouldn’t have given a win from any of her actually nominations.

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[Mary Joined: Nov 8th, 2021 Topics: 1 Posts: 614 View Predictions]

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She should have been nominated for Take Shelter and Molly’s Game. Out of all her nominations, I feel like she should have won for The Help or Zero Dark Thirty. In my opinion, I personally loved her in Take Shelter, The Help, and Molly’s Game.

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[Münster Joined: Nov 2nd, 2011 Topics: 2 Posts: 309 View Predictions]

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She won for the right performance. Yes the movie was mediocre but her performance was absolutely deserving. I think a lot of people haven’t seen Tammy Faye and are just going along with Film Twitter groupthink.

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[Jacob "Oscar Boy" Boe Joined: Apr 20th, 2019 Topics: 4 Posts: 1139 View Predictions]

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Nothing… yet. She is an actress worthy of an Oscar, but she hasn’t ever been the best in a field.

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[ReginaIsKing Joined: Jul 3rd, 2020 Topics: 6 Posts: 850 View Predictions]

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Well nothing from her nominations lol. She was win-worthy for The Tree of Life and there were performances I would’ve nominated or liked to have seen nominated (Molly’s Game, Miss Sloane), but nothing from her nominated performances which I wouldn’t have given her in the first place tbh.

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[Mladen Joined: Dec 11th, 2013 Topics: 0 Posts: 485 View Predictions]

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Jacob "Oscar Boy" Boe wrote:

Nothing… yet. She is an actress worthy of an Oscar, but she hasn’t ever been the best in a field.

Basically this. She is talented actress with several great performances. She deserved her Oscar, but honestly, I can’t say that Academy “stole” an Oscar from her, as she was never, arguably even when she won, the best of 5.

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