Agree they are all leads. To me it was always Julianne Moore who stood out the most but everyone is great in it, even the players with less screentime like Miranda Richardson.

Having rewatched Chinatown this weekend, I think Dunaway in supporting would have been really odd!

For some reason quoting crashes this thread so I wanted to address #1203393343 post regarding Babel: what should have been in its place, especially because it wasn’t such a strong top five anyway…

I’d assume Taila Shire went lead since those years were notorious for poor lead actress selections and they probably assumed it would work.

I don’t mind Courtney Love not going supporting, her character seemed to be more essential despite the screentime I guess.

He was so creepy in In America. I think he appeared in Marvel stuff fairly recently.

I think Atonement is quite disjointed and it’s “message” didn’t come across while NCFOM is not the typical Oscar bait but it still has that “important” feel the Academy loves…

At this point she is only known for AHS… I still don’t get how minimal her role was in Big Fish, she made a lot of poor choices.

Naomi Watts was pretty great in The Impossible…

Having just finally watched Gods and Monsters I have to say Roberto Benigni’s win is second only to Rami Malek’s. Oh and it also feel ridiculous they nominated McKellen three years later basically for one line compared to his magnificent performance of Whale…

I actually thought Boyhood was pretty much disliked around here.

Brie Larson among the ten best lead actress performances of the decade, seriously?

Sean Penn got corrected, Renee Zellweger somewhat…

I agree with the baity win of Life is Beautiful, I also think that movie is somewhat responsible for a lot of people not really being into the whole Oscars thing.

Plus the year before had some bad winners as well, I guess 1997-1998 is possibly the all time low for lead actor and actress winners. Not to mention Rush of Shine! isn’t one of the…[Read more]

Must be a strong comedy contender:

Got around watching it, I think the book is still better but it’s well-produced and directed nonetheless. Sean Penn is the worst actor winner of the 2000s though!

It’s really just the GG and because Meryl wasn’t even nominated there but I agree it’s completely impossible she was second over the two BP nominees!

Hoping that Ammonite will be similar to Mary, Queen of Scots…

Too bad Judi Dench is not on the list!

It can go either way, the role is slightly more supporting but somehow it would feel out of place in that category.

On the other hand, One True Thing is really a supporting role and she got in lead only because she got top billing!

Definitely. I think Crash is one of those obvious best picture picks due to its subject matter and that it was set in LA, how it could not have won, really?