Exactly. Meryl Streep has been getting nominations for merely existing, it seems, in recent years.

This thread is still alive? Omg.

Interesting.

Let’s see who wins here, Netflix vs. Spielberg.

I think actors prefer to have competitive Oscars, not honorary ones.

But what if SB is really good movie adaptation of musical? The only problem I see, though, is that, since Academy didn’t award Swanson for this role in the past, it may not want to award Close for musical version of the same role….

It means that her career is not over, like you said it was.

I think they gave it to Colman because that movie industry–for some reasons–has something against Close. And Colman herself was really great.

I think it was a combination of him playing iconic real life person and big BO of the movie.

She is starring in The Crown, which is popular in US.

Malek got Oscar mostly because BR was a huge BO hit and made lots of $$$. Had the movie underperformed, Malek wouldn’t have won. Bale, meanwhile, is better as an actor than Malek, yes, but his movie flopped at BO. Besides Bale already has an Oscar and Academy was not keen on giving him…[Read more]

Hurray! Great news! Looking forward to it! Get it Glenn!

That’s really brutal. And I mean it really shows that industry holds her to a different standard, cause this season King was able to win Oscar on her first nomination even without a SAG or BAFTA nomination!

Glenn needs some bulletproof project, a sure thing.

For me, she is very sympathetic. I always felt sorry for her. But that’s me and we are talking if it is sympathetic for men, for male members of Academy.

She kills a guy. Because he wanted to leave her.  Is that sympathetic – for men?

Academy loves when actors play famous real life people.   Besides all British actors who won BA in 2010s won for playing real life people – George VI, Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Hawking, Winston Churchill.

And Glenn was also dressed in gold.

Then Norma Desmond is not that kind of role.

In regards to situation with Close this year the aforementioned example is very, very far from Close’s run.

Close was the sole nominee of her movie, while Oldman’s movie had several Oscar nominations, including BP nomination. His movie had a much bigger BO, than Close’s movie. Oldman swept Big5 awards, while Close had to share CC with Gaga and…[Read more]

If Glenn Close can’t win Oscar because male members of Academy don’t like her male-threatening roles, I doubt this kind of role will please them.

But Norma literally kills her male lover in the plot. Before that she is basically a sugar mama to him, more wealthy and more powerful than he is. I mean if we speculate about winning votes of old white members in Academy  and Glenn’s need to have non-threatening role, I am not sure role of Norma fits the bill.

Yeah, Redmayne won in 2015. He was 33 I think. I think those people who do that (brag about it) are either ignorant and don’t know about Redmayne or they just don’t have anything else to brag about re: Malek’s win.

I guess the key difference is the attitudes  to those actors and to Close in the industry. As soon as those actors got themselves proper  Oscar vehicles they got Oscars. Glenn however had plenty of vehicles and still nothing. It seems industry has something against Close.