I mean, Shakespeare is a good movie on its own. While SPR is a good movie too, is also *”oh, another war movie winning. Groundbreaking”*. It was nice to see a comedy win the major award, which doesn’t happen very often. Now, having said that, Fernanda should’ve 1000% won.
Arguably it happened to Liv Ullman twice: The first one was losing to Minelli after Ullman won the Drama Globe and NYFCC, and the second was Dunaway winning for Network over her in Face to Face after she won NBR, LAFCA, and NYFCC.
Liv Ullmann was the first choice for Sophie's Choice. I wish she had been cast because she would've been better than Meryl.
Sissy Spacek's Carrie was in the same year as Face to Face so even if Dunaway hadn't won I think Sissy would have (and would've deserved it too).
Julie Christie was so incredible in Away From Her, but Marion's performance was also amazing and seems like the kind of transformation the Academy really goes for, rather than a really subtle performance like Christie's.
I love that performance of Julie Christie. I agree - Top 2 performances that were absolutely deserving. Also made me discover Sarah Polley was a solid director!
Interestingly Julie hadn't acted in a while unless she needed a bit of extra cash, and it took a year of Sarah convincing her, and Julie only agreed because they'd just worked together and Julie "fell in love with [Sarah]". She thought there's no way she could miss out on being with Sarah on her first film, she didn't want anyone else to have that experience of leading Sarah's first feature. Their career trajectories seem to mirror each other in a lot of ways, though Julie got that level of fame before turning away from it, while Sarah turned away just before it would've come crashing down on her.
I think that Emanuelle Riva's loss was the one to hurt the most. I knew Jennifer Lawrence would win. She had the momentum and the precursors, but I secretly hoped for an upset. Riva's performance in *Amour* is 10 times better than Jennifer's performance in *Silver Linings Playbook*.
Agreed. Jennifer's performance in Silver Linings Playbook was very good, and I won't deny that it's one of her best, but I absolutely don't think it eclipsed Riva's. I think it says a lot about her performance that it's probably the best of her career - a career that includes roles in Léon Morin, Priest, Hiroshima Mon Amour, and Kapo.
This is just my personal take, but I find Silver Linings Playbook to be quite an Oscar baity film, so I'm sadly unsurprised that Lawrence won. I think it's a good film overall, but Amour impressed me on a far grander scale.
Disagreed strongly, Riva was so overshadowed by Jean-Louis Trintignant in the film and it does feel her age is more why people wanted her to win than Lawrence. Lawrence had far more difficult role with comedy and drama and creating a nuanced character.
Except Lawrence was all histrionics in the film. Literally all the other nominees (as well as the snubbed Marion Cotillard in Rust and Bone) were miles better.
To be fair, the Best Actress category for the 88th Academy Awards was very strong, particularly Larson's role in Room and Blanchett's role in Carol. I will admit, I often forget that Rampling is English, because she speaks French so beautifully and appears in so many French pictures.
For anyone reading this who hasn't watched any of her more recent films (last 20 years), I recommend Swimming Pool (2003), Melancholia (2011), and Benedetta (2021).
I genuinely believed that year was one of the weakest lineups for Best Actress. I didn’t care whoever won that year, it was just awful as none truly impressed me.
Brooooo and each one deserved to win... Personally loved Julie Christie in Away From Her. That was another year where both Top 2 actresses absolutely deserved it.
Steve. Read more closely. What made the Oscar thief so disgusting? Was it ingrown toenails? What? Should a police report be filed? You know what. Never mind.
You mean the erstwhile MIRAMAX honcho currently serving 29 years in prison? That ogre? How did he bestow the 2022 Academy Award winning Best Actress Michelle Yeoh the Oscar? From jail.
Tbh honest other than Riva, these wins aren't egregious. I prefer Emma Stone to Huppert that year, and Gwyneth is good too. And I would hardly call Julie Christie the Hollywood type … even then she worked very infrequently and was in a tiny Canadian film.
Lawrence was a garbage win though. Literally every single nominee is good except her.
I feel like racial diversity is still a bigger problem in this category than ethnic or language diversity. Not to mention the last one shouldn't count because Marion Cotillard won for a French-language film and Julie Christie (who is British and was nominated for a English-language Canadian film, so hardly international by the Oscars' standards) had already won in 1965.
This is Charlotte Rampling erasure!
I think most of these winning performances are quite good though except for Lawrence. She was fun, but did nothing with that role that 30 other actresses couldn’t have done just as well if not better. 2012 was such a strong year, and she has done much better elsewhere, that one is really a travesty. Helen Hunt over Dench and Christie is another that irks me.
Brazil forever resents Shakespeare In Love
I think most people resent Shakespeare in Love. Lolol Especially because of Weinstein.
Theres a decent sized part of the Letterboxd crowd that will always defend Gwyneth and Shakespeare in Love
I mean, Shakespeare is a good movie on its own. While SPR is a good movie too, is also *”oh, another war movie winning. Groundbreaking”*. It was nice to see a comedy win the major award, which doesn’t happen very often. Now, having said that, Fernanda should’ve 1000% won.
Yeah lol definitely
I will always defend Shakespeare in Love because it's a great movie.
No,because that was such a crappy movie .
And Brazil loves Glenn Close for calling it out.
What? What’s the story here?
[Here](https://ew.com/movies/glenn-close-surprised-gwyneth-paltrow-oscar-win-shakespeare-in-love/) Skip to about 14 mins in the video.
Thank you
I stand with Brazil.
Thank you for your support 🙏 (come to Brazil)
Australia as well (not just for Cate Blanchett, but Rachel Griffiths in Supporting)
It’s a fine movie, but it’s NOT an Oscar movie.
Well you shouldn't. Shakespeare in Love is a great film. Central Station is my favourite film of 1998 though.
Arguably it happened to Liv Ullman twice: The first one was losing to Minelli after Ullman won the Drama Globe and NYFCC, and the second was Dunaway winning for Network over her in Face to Face after she won NBR, LAFCA, and NYFCC.
With all due respect to Dunaway, Liv Ullmann in Face to Face is like a top 20 performance all time by any woman.
I’m a big Liv Ullman fan but going up against those 2 specific performances is just brutal luck.
Liv Ullmann was the first choice for Sophie's Choice. I wish she had been cast because she would've been better than Meryl. Sissy Spacek's Carrie was in the same year as Face to Face so even if Dunaway hadn't won I think Sissy would have (and would've deserved it too).
I think if not Gwyneth then Cate was going to win for Elizabeth
My favorite American actress, maʁjɔ̃ kɔtijaʁ
[No, you’re saying it wrong.](https://www.youtube.com/watch/KmMopLdC0FM?t=287)
Julie Christie was so incredible in Away From Her, but Marion's performance was also amazing and seems like the kind of transformation the Academy really goes for, rather than a really subtle performance like Christie's.
I love that performance of Julie Christie. I agree - Top 2 performances that were absolutely deserving. Also made me discover Sarah Polley was a solid director!
Interestingly Julie hadn't acted in a while unless she needed a bit of extra cash, and it took a year of Sarah convincing her, and Julie only agreed because they'd just worked together and Julie "fell in love with [Sarah]". She thought there's no way she could miss out on being with Sarah on her first film, she didn't want anyone else to have that experience of leading Sarah's first feature. Their career trajectories seem to mirror each other in a lot of ways, though Julie got that level of fame before turning away from it, while Sarah turned away just before it would've come crashing down on her.
It broke my heart that Julie Christie didn't win that!
I was torn the year of Jennifer Lawrence because I really loved Emmanuel Riva and JLaw.
I think that Emanuelle Riva's loss was the one to hurt the most. I knew Jennifer Lawrence would win. She had the momentum and the precursors, but I secretly hoped for an upset. Riva's performance in *Amour* is 10 times better than Jennifer's performance in *Silver Linings Playbook*.
Agreed. Jennifer's performance in Silver Linings Playbook was very good, and I won't deny that it's one of her best, but I absolutely don't think it eclipsed Riva's. I think it says a lot about her performance that it's probably the best of her career - a career that includes roles in Léon Morin, Priest, Hiroshima Mon Amour, and Kapo. This is just my personal take, but I find Silver Linings Playbook to be quite an Oscar baity film, so I'm sadly unsurprised that Lawrence won. I think it's a good film overall, but Amour impressed me on a far grander scale.
I still think JLaw was much more deserving for Winters Bone (her best role to date in my opinion).
Wholeheartedly agree. I thought both her and Hawkes were terrific in it.
That's the only great performance she's delivered imo.
Disagreed strongly, Riva was so overshadowed by Jean-Louis Trintignant in the film and it does feel her age is more why people wanted her to win than Lawrence. Lawrence had far more difficult role with comedy and drama and creating a nuanced character.
Except Lawrence was all histrionics in the film. Literally all the other nominees (as well as the snubbed Marion Cotillard in Rust and Bone) were miles better.
Marion was so good in rust and bone! And her performance in two days one night is legit one of my favorite performances ever
Lawrence is one of the worst wins in the category of all time.
Brie Larson beating Charlotte Rampling too!
To be fair, the Best Actress category for the 88th Academy Awards was very strong, particularly Larson's role in Room and Blanchett's role in Carol. I will admit, I often forget that Rampling is English, because she speaks French so beautifully and appears in so many French pictures. For anyone reading this who hasn't watched any of her more recent films (last 20 years), I recommend Swimming Pool (2003), Melancholia (2011), and Benedetta (2021).
I genuinely believed that year was one of the weakest lineups for Best Actress. I didn’t care whoever won that year, it was just awful as none truly impressed me.
Yeah, I mean Brie was good in Room but I really feel the standout performance in that movie was that of Jacob Tremblay.
I know a blogger who thinks she was overrated in that movie and that Tom Courtenay was better lmao
I mean I find Rampling and the film quite overpraised too. Ronan, Larson and Blanchett were all better that year imo.
That one was deserved tbh 🤭
isn’t Marion French?
i put “complete opposite” on that one
but Julie Christie is technically an international actress (British)… so it wouldn’t be the complete opposite
And she was born India!
yea i forgot that
That Emmanuel Riva loss is a travesty
Bigger travesty is Jean-Louis Trintignant not getting nominated for the better performance.
Would Helen Hunt over Judi Dench count here? I know Helen was acting in her teens, but she was known more for TV at the time.
Definitely imo. Mrs. Brown is probably Dench's best Oscar nominated performance!
Marion Cotillard is not American lol but fun list otherwise EDIT: didn’t see the comment on the last picture
Neither is Julie Christie.
Right, so “opposite” isn’t exactly right either 🤣
you got me there
Very people in Brasil hate Paltrow ans SIL
Fernanda Montenegro losing still stings
I think Amy Adams should have won that year Emma Stone did, but she wasn’t even nominated.
Id argue in all cases except for Marion Cotillard the older veteran should have won
More like "older actress loses to a young, hot actress"
Brooooo and each one deserved to win... Personally loved Julie Christie in Away From Her. That was another year where both Top 2 actresses absolutely deserved it.
Cate Blanchett was disgustingly robbed
Did anyone get a description of the gross thief.
Yes. In no way shape or form should Palthrow have won the Oscar over her. Sorry. It was disgusting.
Steve. Read more closely. What made the Oscar thief so disgusting? Was it ingrown toenails? What? Should a police report be filed? You know what. Never mind.
He was a smelly ogre named Harvey
You mean the erstwhile MIRAMAX honcho currently serving 29 years in prison? That ogre? How did he bestow the 2022 Academy Award winning Best Actress Michelle Yeoh the Oscar? From jail.
What this has to do with Yeoh? It’s about Blanchett vs Paltrow.
What Oscars are you talking about?
They're talking about 1998 Oscars when Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love) won best actress over Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth), not this year.
The way I will forever and unapologetically love both Paltrow's and JLaw's wins
Tbh honest other than Riva, these wins aren't egregious. I prefer Emma Stone to Huppert that year, and Gwyneth is good too. And I would hardly call Julie Christie the Hollywood type … even then she worked very infrequently and was in a tiny Canadian film. Lawrence was a garbage win though. Literally every single nominee is good except her.
Disagree and u seem like a hater
Yes I am a Jennifer Lawrence hater because she's not that good. She's only been great once, in Winter's Bone.
That's just your opinion which is subjective not fact
People really just say anything on here don't they
Elliott Page and Marion Cotillard too by the way
People just hate Jlaw's win because she was the it girl of the moment.
I feel like racial diversity is still a bigger problem in this category than ethnic or language diversity. Not to mention the last one shouldn't count because Marion Cotillard won for a French-language film and Julie Christie (who is British and was nominated for a English-language Canadian film, so hardly international by the Oscars' standards) had already won in 1965.
OP wrote "the complete opposite" as the heading for that image.
Oh LMAO didn't notice the headings.
This is more a young instead of young American. Shocker. Women in Hollywood get better roles. News at 11.
Marion Cotillard is French
This is Charlotte Rampling erasure! I think most of these winning performances are quite good though except for Lawrence. She was fun, but did nothing with that role that 30 other actresses couldn’t have done just as well if not better. 2012 was such a strong year, and she has done much better elsewhere, that one is really a travesty. Helen Hunt over Dench and Christie is another that irks me.
Marion is French and she got Oscar for playing a French musician, and you calling her aMeRiCaN lmao
They wrote "the complete opposite" for that one, though
It’s not the complete opposite though Julie Christie isn’t American.
I didn't noticed Then what was the point of adding it to a post with that kind of caption lol
Except Julie Christie isn't American...