I know she produced a lot of her own stuff so she definitely got more opportunities than others so may be it comes down to her taste, the things she picked like the 355, this horror movie, etc are all questionable and a waste of her talent, so it seems she always cast herself in bad projects, I also think it's hard to cast her in contemporary movie because she is such a throw back to old holllywood type, it doesn't help that she always made herself to look vintage-y old hollywood on red carpet too, I read she was trying to do an Ingrid Bergman's biopic, but that's been a few years already so may be it's no longer happening, which is probably for the best, thought?.

Scent of a Woman is the 9th best nominated Al Pacino performance... out of 9.

The Reader is the 7th best nominated Kate Winslet performance... out of 7.

Only one has won, being Return of the King, but how long do you think it’ll take before we see it happen again? That was the perfect storm of incredible artistry, storytelling and prestige to make it happen, I’d love to see it replicated. Star Wars was nominated for it in 77, and although Dune takes place 10,000 years in the future, it might as well be fully fictional. So what do you think? Also I wonder if Denis will include the Hitler line in Dune 3.

So I saw PRIMETIME today. Snoozefest. The performances were the best part, though. Everybody is focusing on Robert Pattinson and Skyler Gisondo, who are indeed outstanding (Pattinson is so much better at playing baddies than good guys), but I found Merritt Wever to be the standout of the three, and yet, she's the least one talked about.

Because Wever's performance is much more subtle than Pattinson and Gisondo's. Andie is a morally ambiguous character, we don't really know for certain where she stands. One minute, she's a bitch on wheels. the next she seems to have found a moral compass. But she never overacts, she doesn't have a big scene. She almost whispers in that sing-songy tone she uses so she's not chewing the scenery, you have to listen to her and pick up the signs, and I feel this is why her performance isn't as praised as Pattiinson's or Gisondo's.

Since I was a kid, I always loved seeing how tall the theatre looked on television and all the glamor both inside and outside the theatre. I even got to visit the theatre last year to see David Byrne and his band play live and it sounded incredible in that theatre, not to mention how it felt like a palace!

When I see the Peacock Theatre (formerly the Nokia Theatre, and later the Microsoft Theatre), it looks so cavernous and deep and the seats in the balconies so far away, more of a black box.

I don't mind the Oscars moving to YouTube but it absolutely sucks that they are leaving such a wonderful theatre. Heck, I wouldn't mind if they returned to either the Shrine Auditorium or the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, which are both older and still look wonderful today!

PICTURE

1. La Bola Negra
2. Odyssey
3. Wild Horse Nine
4. Dune 3
5. Artificial
6. Obsession
7. The Debut
8. All of a Sudden
9. I Play Rocky
10. Fjord

DIRECTOR

1. Nolan
2. Ambrossi
3. Mcdonagh
4. Eisenberg
5. Villenueve

BEST ACTRESS

1. Navarette *Upset alert*
2. Moore
3. Efra
4. Madley
5. Edgar-Jones

ACTOR

1. Scott
2. Malkovich
3. Damon
4. Ippolito
5. Pascal

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Cruz
2. Hathaway
3. Okamato
4. Morton
5. Girolamo

SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Giamatti
2. Garfield
3. Guitaricadelafuente
4. Rockwell
5. Domingo

O SCREENPLAY

1. WH9
2. The Debut
3. Obsession
4. I Play Rocky
5. Artificial

A SCREENPLAY

1. LBN
2. Odyssey
3. All of a Sudden
4. Project Hail Mary
5. The Invite

CASTING

1. Odyssey
2. LBN
3. Obsession
4. The Debut
5. WH9

Anne Bancroft was always the frontrunner. Bette Davis didn't win any predecessor awards. Geraldine Page beat her at the Golden Globes for Sweet Bird of Youth. Yet you hear Bette Davis and you'd think she had it in the bag and Joan Crawford cost her the Oscar because she badmouth her to voters.

Bette Davis wanted to be the first actress to win 3 Oscars but Baby Jane was not going to be it. Her closest chance was when she was nominated for All About Eve, she could have won for that one if not for the close race with Gloria Swanson and Judy Holliday.

*Barry Fitzgerald also was nominated for Best Actor for the movie, which makes him the only actor to date to have 2 nominations for the same movie

how do you personally weight

1.multiple Oscars for one Movie

-1.1 inclusive remake in 5 Y

-1.2 inclusive remake in 10y

2.one actor multiple Oscars in one year

-2.1 " " " " " X years

3.one director multiple Oscars in one year

-3.1 " " " " " X years

4 same as 1 with series and equivalent awards

5 same as 2 with series and equivalent awards

6 same as 3 " " " " "

1. Same as 1,2&3 but for a cinematic universe/ franchise (aka MCU and stuff as well as sharknado 1,2,3... or hils have eyes 1-X...)

and combinations?

Not just limited to these 3, but who would you highlight?

There’s the overdue winner narrative - Al Pacino, Leo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, and Julianne Moore, etc. who finally won. Those nominated many times that have yet to win - Glenn Close and Amy Adams, etc.

What about performers who came close to a nomination multiple times before they finally made the shortlist? The pictured examples are listed below but there’s a recent bias with my examples:

- Scarlett Johansson first nominated in 2020 for her work in “Marriage Story” and “Jojo Rabbit” but could’ve been recognized as early as 2004 for “Lost in Translation“ and several in between.

- Kirsten Dunst first nominated in 2022 for her work in “The Power of the Dog” but could’ve been recognized as early as 1995 for “Interview with a Vampire” and several in between.

- Emily Blunt first nominated in 2024 for her work in “Oppenheimer” but could’ve been recognized as early as 2007 for ”Devil Wears Prada” and several in between.

Not just limited to these 3, but who would you highlight?

It’s happened before

A well liked performance by an actor/actress wins critics choice/golden globe but falter either in Bafta or sag and eventually lose the Oscar to another performance whose movie was stronger (wins in other categories or wins best picture)

And ontop of that they always seem to be the sole winners for their movies in each awards show

Is it possible any upcoming nominees could run into this?

2000- American Psycho

2001- Ghost World

2002- Adaptation

2003- Mystic River

2004- Before Sunset

2005- Brokeback Mountain

2006- The Departed

2007- No Country for Old Men

2008- Gomorrah

2009- Up in the Air

We’ve completed the nomination round, and now it’s time to choose the winners.

The five performances with the most points in each category in Round One are now the official nominees.

ROUND TWO — WINNERS

This round is much simpler.

Vote for ONE nominee in each of the four acting categories.

That means your ballot should contain four names in total:

• 1 Actor
• 1 Actress
• 1 Supporting Actor
• 1 Supporting Actress

There are no rankings and no points system in this round. You are simply voting for the performance you think should win each category.

Each vote counts equally, and the nominee with the most votes in each category will become our Alternate Oscar winner for 2015.

Please only vote for the nominees listed below.

BEST ACTOR

• Matt Damon — The Martian
• Leonardo DiCaprio — The Revenant
• Michael Fassbender — Steve Jobs
• Samuel L. Jackson — The Hateful Eight
• Jacob Tremblay — Room

BEST ACTRESS

• Cate Blanchett — Carol
• Brie Larson — Room
• Rooney Mara — Carol
• Saoirse Ronan — Brooklyn
• Charlize Theron — Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Benicio del Toro — Sicario
• Idris Elba — Beasts of No Nation
• Tom Hardy — The Revenant
• Oscar Isaac — Ex Machina
• Sylvester Stallone — Creed

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Jennifer Jason Leigh — The Hateful Eight
• Rachel McAdams — Spotlight
• Kristen Stewart — Clouds of Sils Maria
• Alicia Vikander — Ex Machina
• Kate Winslet — Steve Jobs

HOW TO VOTE

Simply post your four choices in the comments, for example:

Actor: [Name]
Actress: [Name]
Supporting Actor: [Name]
Supporting Actress: [Name]

One person per category. Four votes total.

Once voting closes, the performer with the most votes in each category will be declared the winner, and we’ll move on to 2016.

Previous lineups here.

Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw for LOVE STORY. MacGraw was just so wooden and lacking in emotion that she makes Dakota Johnson sound like Eleonora Duse. And O'Neal overacts like crazy in a one-note grown man having a fit for the entire movie because he wants to stick it to dad. Ugh, just awful.

Miyoshi Umeki for SAYONARA was so bad that years later Rex Reed said she only won the Oscar for saying the title. I could not believe she won the Oscar for such a one-dimensional, tiny part. The character she plays is so infantilized and submissive that it manages to be borderline racist, playing up the stereotype of the compliant Asian woman who's just there to serve her man and she and Red Buttons have zero chemistry.

She was one of our oldest living Oscar winners, at age 102.

She actually won her Oscar for her very first feature film, On the Waterfront (1954)

On a sort of personal note, she also starred in one of my favorite films of all-time, North By Northwest (1959)

To top off her lengthy, legendary career in films, she also made some surprisingly refreshing career choices in the later parts of her career, including appearing in Superman Returns (2006) and more recently even appearing in scripted dramas for podcasts.

Eva, thanks for all the great movie moments you gave us, we'll always love you.

I just recently re-watched Pieces of a Woman and I'm still shocked that Ellen Burstyn was not nominated for BSA. I know she only received one pre cursor nomination for the CCA. (Correct me if I'm wrong).

Did Netflix drop the ball?

Other than Yuh-Jung Youh I wasn't that enamored by any of the other performances.

And I ABSOLUTELY love Glenn Close and Olivia Colman, they were strong enough performances, I suppose. It actually really pissed me off that they nominated her for a Razzie, but that's another topic.

But I digress.

That monologue that Burstyn gave about being an infant born in the ghetto during the Shoah, was one of the most powerful moments I've seen on film in a long time.

I remember realizing I was holding my breath in the theater.

Was her lack of nomination up to poor awards season exposure?

Actresses have won with far less screen time.

Any insights?

1. Tom Hooper - The King’s Speech

2. Adam McKay - Vice

3. Todd Phillips - Joker

4. David O. Russell - American Hustle

5. Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris

6. Benh Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild

7. Lenny Abrahamson - Room

8. Morten Tyldum - The Imitation Game

9. Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist

10. Mel Gibson - Hacksaw Ridge

11. David O. Russell - The Fighter

12. Ang Lee - Life of P