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January 15, 2023 at 12:50 am #1205243686
Because there wasn’t a spot for her then.with Williams going to supporting, there’s a empty space.
Williams is not going Supporting.
January 14, 2023 at 7:09 pm #1205243484I dunno. I guess what bugs me is this idea that it’s not enough to simply make a good movie and give a good performance in it. Riseborough and her career will be fine with or without an Oscar nomination – which wasn’t necessarily the case for Ann Dowd, who received an opportunity with Compliance after decades as a working character actress. Why should it be this important?
January 14, 2023 at 6:55 pm #1205243467Should I respond now or wait for your sock puppet to agree with you first?
January 14, 2023 at 6:49 pm #1205243461Whats your point? Should we begrudge Riseborough for being able to leverage her Hollywood connections and sneak into a race which has been dominated by actresses with (mainly) ferocious campaigns. I honestly wish it would happen more often to shake things up and knock out some of the stale nominees we’ve been receiving in recent years lol.
My point is that you’re acting like this is a solution to a problem that doesn’t really exist. She’s taking on other people with extensive FYC campaigns by…having her own extensive FYC campaign? All it’s really achieving is making it look like even more of a popularity contest than it already is.
January 14, 2023 at 6:40 pm #1205243430I feel like if Andrea Riseborough’s publicist was that powerful then people in this forum wouldn’t be asking things like “who even is Andrea Riseborough” lol
Listen, I don’t know exactly what happened. The point is that, for all they’re trying to position itself as a grassroots underdog kind of thing, none of this would be happening if Riseborough wasn’t very well-connected. What do you think would happen if Dale Dickey, for instance, tried to do something like this for her performance in A Love Song? Or Guslagie Malanda for Saint Omer? They’d get absolutely nowhere.
January 14, 2023 at 6:31 pm #1205243412I mean, the Academy can very easily just ignore these laments (which they probably will), but I don’t really see how this is different to the incessant campaigning which basically every competitor has been doing? The sudden love (even though it’s not <i>that</i> sudden since she already has an Indie Spirit nom) is no less organic than a bunch of actors sitting around a table earnestly talking about their movies when we all know they’re only there to increase Oscar buzz lol, but for some reason we don’t have a problem with that…
Because those round tables feel natural in a way that “dozens of different actors suddenly posting the same copy-pasted message” doesn’t. It doesn’t matter if it’s actually real or just showbiz phoniness. It feels like something the audience is privy to. With this, it just feels like someone’s publicist made a lot of phone calls.
January 14, 2023 at 12:44 pm #1205242886The only difference is that this one is happening after the precursors instead of before the race starts.
That’s a pretty big difference, though!
January 13, 2023 at 5:45 pm #1205241972The problem isn’t the PR campaign – as you said, every FYC campaign is just that. But there’s an organic way of doing it and an inorganic way, and this smells like Astroturf.
January 13, 2023 at 5:20 pm #1205241944I mean, let’s not disrespect Riseborough or her movie. I haven’t seen it, but she’s always put in excellent work.
All this is just very bizarre.
January 13, 2023 at 12:59 pm #1205241523Andrea Riseborough is an excellent actress and I have no doubt that she’ll be nominated for something someday. But she is not going to be nominated for a movie that grossed $23,000, a movie that even people who follow the movies every week may not have seen or heard of. Penelope Cruz starred in an Almodovar film, won the Volpi Cup, and had Sony Pictures Classic behind her – it’s foolish to reduce it to “well a bunch of actors said nice things about her so she’s got it in the bag”
January 11, 2023 at 11:37 am #1205237049I gotta say – I truly love Blanchett’s performance in Tar, I think it’s an absolutely towering achievement – but I’m rooting for Yeoh now. It feels right.
January 9, 2023 at 5:32 pm #1205229652The race may well be exciting, but maybe people are wising up to the fact that talking about it is like passing a kidney stone.
January 8, 2023 at 10:00 am #1205227061This is the least interesting conversation we could possibly be having right now.
January 8, 2023 at 7:48 am #1205226866I think if any year would justify a tie it would be this one. Impossible to choose between Blanchett and Yeoh.
January 8, 2023 at 7:44 am #1205226862Categories aren’t as simple as screentime, IMO.
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