BamaEd
Just a good church going southern boy, who always watched the Oscars as religiously as church. One of my favorite places to be is in a dark theater, getting lost in another world for a couple of hours.
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This lose was so frustrating to me. It was just a “okay let’s give Newman his Oscar” & a win for Monsters Inc. since it was losing to Shrek.
Pearl Harbour is a terrible film but it’s already an Oscar winner and There You’ll Be was a big pop hit so there no reason it should’ve lost.
This is one where I believe she was a very strong 2nd place. I think her next best chance was I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing. Stephen Schwartz had already won for Pocahontas and Aerosmith’s version was HUGE
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When you look at it, it seems that there’s a bigger chance to get one of them. But Foxx and Hunter won everything in sight for their winning performances and Pacino beat RDJ at the Globes so he was the front-runner. An interesting case is Weaver who had tied with Foster for the BA globe and won the supporting one. But she also had Cusack in the category at the Oscars which made it even worse. My theory is that the two performances (Gorillas and Working Girl) being Globe winners only made it harder for the voters to decide which one they would give her. Jessica Lange was in a similar situation (with her Tootsie co-star nominated) but she survived. Maybe because of Streep being the clear frontrunner. I don’t know.
I think you are correct. Streep was such a clear favorite for Sophie’s Choice, but Lange was so good in Frances, I think it was a case where having double nominations helped her (even though I preferred Garr). Weaver could have been too much to choose from. I don’t think she was a threat for Best Actress, but some vote splitting could have happened in BSA between Weaver and Cusack, as well as Weaver and Pfeiffer, who had a big year with Dangerous Liaisons and Married to the Mob. By the way, all 5 nominees were in Best Picture nominees. That’s pretty amazing.
Edited to add: I think Johansson’s noms are somewhere in between Moore’s & Thompson’s for how it will play out. Thompson was coattail in In the Name of the Father and was solid in Remains of the Day but well behind the overwhelming frontrunner. Moore had good support for both and won a lot more awards for Far From Heaven and Johansson did for Marriage Story.
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When was the last time a double nominee lost both of their acting categories? Since Julianne Moore in 2003?
I took a peek and the last double non-winner was Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth: The Golden Age and I’m Not There and that was 12 years ago. That was also the last double nom overall, winner or not. Only 4 performers have gone home empty handed on Oscar night: Sigourney Weaver, Emma Thompson, Julianne Moore, and Cate Blanchett. I think only Weaver was considered a real front-runner in their categories, correct? Blanchett was a presumptive front-runner for I’m Not There, but not as much as some led themselves to believe.
Edited to add: Not that Cate wasn’t a front-runner, I think that year showed it was a pretty wide open race between Blanchett in a little seen indie and Ryan as a critic’s darling in a higher profile film and Swinton in a best picture nominee
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