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- Sun Sep 04, 2011 5:01 am
- Forum: The 8th Decade
- Topic: Best Supporting Actress 2001
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6056
Re: Best Supporting Actress 2001
I saw all of these films a long time ago, but I'll give this a shot. 1. Helen Mirren 2. Maggie Smith 3. Kate Winslet 4. Jennifer Connelly 5. Marisa Tomei I'm not one who believes that Tomei's win was a fluke - I thought she was very funny - but here I found her attempts at dry family drama brittle, ...
- Sun Sep 04, 2011 4:54 am
- Forum: The 8th Decade
- Topic: Best Supporting Actress 2002
- Replies: 28
- Views: 7714
Re: Best Supporting Actress 2002
1. Catherine Zeta-Jones 2. Meryl Streep 3. Julianne Moore 4. Queen Latifah 5. Kathy Bates I hate Kathy Bates. There - I said it, but despite my own feelings towards her acting it baffles me that anyone could find her broad, grotesque cameo in About Schmidt worthy of Oscar consideration or that anyon...
- Sun Sep 04, 2011 4:40 am
- Forum: The 8th Decade
- Topic: Best Supporting Actress 2000
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4504
Re: Best Supporting Actress 2000
1. Kate Hudson 2. Marcia Gay Harden 3. Judi Dench 4. Frances McDormand 5. Julie Walters I don't remember Walters being anything too special. I last saw the film about five years ago, however. I recall she was funny but reeking of effort as usual. McDormand is an odd duck here, playing her comedic sc...
- Sun Sep 04, 2011 4:26 am
- Forum: The 8th Decade
- Topic: Best Supporting Actress 2003
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7874
Re: Best Supporting Actress 2003
1. Patricia Clarkson 2. Renée Zellweger 3. Shohreh Aghdashloo 4. Marcia Gay Harden 5. Holly Hunter This is a pretty solid lineup. I'm not on the Zellweger hate train here. Clarkson wins for me. Some of the tics that prejudice me against some of her performances (she's like a slightly looser, more ve...
- Sun Sep 04, 2011 4:15 am
- Forum: The 8th Decade
- Topic: Best Actress 2006
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7096
Re: Best Actress 2006
1. Judi Dench 2. Penélope Cruz 3. Helen Mirren 4. Kate Winslet 5. Meryl Streep Dench is tops for me. A camp classic after only a few years in existence, but Dench grounds her character's shenanigans in real need. It is surprising revisiting this film and seeing how deep she dug here. I'm not general...
- Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:50 pm
- Forum: The First Century
- Topic: Ten Best Films of the 1960's
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11320
Re: Ten Best Films of the 1960's
1. Persona (Bergman)
2. L'avventura (Antonioni)
3. Au hasard Balthazar (Bresson)
4. 8 1/2 (Fellini)
5. Death by Hanging (Oshima)
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
7. Pierrot le fou (Godard)
8. The Silence (Bergman)
9. Branded to Kill (Suzuki)
10. The Swimmer (Perry)
2. L'avventura (Antonioni)
3. Au hasard Balthazar (Bresson)
4. 8 1/2 (Fellini)
5. Death by Hanging (Oshima)
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
7. Pierrot le fou (Godard)
8. The Silence (Bergman)
9. Branded to Kill (Suzuki)
10. The Swimmer (Perry)
- Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:18 pm
- Forum: The 8th Decade
- Topic: Best Supporting Actress 2006
- Replies: 41
- Views: 23546
Re: Best Supporting Actress 2006
Barraza winning over Kikuchi is a travesty, and I like both performances. Of the nominees: 1. Rinko Kikuchi 2. Adriana Barraza 3. Abigail Breslin 4. Jennifer Hudson 5. Cate Blanchett Kikuchi is revelatory here. The sexual frankness of the role is its most eye-catching aspect and probably what brough...
- Sat Sep 03, 2011 10:59 pm
- Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
- Topic: Best Supporting Actress 1997
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5253
Re: Best Supporting Actress 1997
1. Minnie Driver 2. Julianne Moore 3. Gloria Stuart 4. Joan Cusack 5. Kim Basinger This is an incredibly weak lineup for me. Minnie Driver wins for an acceptable performance that glows in comparison to the other contenders. She has a fairly typical 'girlfriend' role but she brings unexpected dimensi...
- Sat Sep 03, 2011 10:46 pm
- Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
- Topic: Best Supporting Actress 1969
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6886
Re: Best Supporting Actress 1969
This is a pretty strong lineup. I'd rank them thusly: 1. Catherine Burns 2. Dyan Cannon 3. Goldie Hawn 4. Susannah York 5. Sylvia Miles Catherine Burns' nomination is one of the coolest things Oscar has done. And for such a great, piquant little film, too. Her character could have been a mess of neu...
- Sat Sep 03, 2011 10:35 pm
- Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
- Topic: Best Supporting Actress 1953
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2710
Re: Best Supporting Actress 1953
Thelma Ritter, easily. It deserves the hype, and I don't think the role is sentimental at all - or at least its scenes with the greatest potential for sap skilfully avoid it. She's very funny early on, establishing Moe's front and mechanisms for dealing with city life, but when she has her final sce...
- Sat Sep 03, 2011 10:15 am
- Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
- Topic: Best Supporting Actress 1966
- Replies: 50
- Views: 8833
Re: Best Supporting Actress 1966
I've seen all five of these performances. Sandy Dennis' performance here is powerful, almost overwhelming. She tears into the role in a way that seems uncontrolled at first but eventually reveals itself to be quite clever, honing on on the ways in which Honey plays George & Martha's 'games' and ...