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Most Undeserving Oscar Winners (Actors & Actresses)

posted 4 years ago by IrinaOma (648)
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Let's share our thoughts!

1. Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook (everyone was better than her)

2. Denzel Washington - Training Day (Russell Crowe was phenomenal in A Beautiful Mind. Denzel was nowhere near that good)

3. Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls (Rinko Kikuchi was 100x better in Babel)

4. Emma Stone - La La Land

5. Tommy Lee Jones - The Fugitive (He was great but there were some better and more memorable performances that year)

6. Cuba Gooding Jr. - Jerry Maguire (How could he win over stellar Edward Norton performance in Primal Fear?)

7. Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona

8. Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God (Sigourney Weaver was the real winner that year. She was fantastic in Aliens)

9. Jessica Lange - Blue Sky (Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon and Jodie Foster showed a way better acting in 1994)

10. Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady (Viola Davis and Glenn Close deserved the Oscar that year)

11. Alicia Vikander - The Danish Girl

12. Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote (I love this actor very much but Joaquin Phoenix was so amazing in Walk the Line)

13. Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (I'd give it to Anne Bancroft)

14. Cher - Moonstruck (It was a joke or what? Glenn Close is the real winner that year. Everyone was better than Cher)

15. Jean Dujardin - The Artist

[–] abigolcwock (517) 4 years ago

Sean Penn over Mickey Rourke

[–] samoanjoes (50972) 4 years ago

Renee Zellweger for Cold Mountain - Terrible accent and facial expressions.

Rami Malek for Bohemian Rhapsody - I mean, he looked like Freddie, but was his actual performance really breathtaking?

Michael Caine for The Cider House Rules - Shaky accent and shouldn't have won in the same year that Tom Cruise was in Magnolia.

[–] captainbucky (15252) 4 years ago

It should have been haily

[–] exithereplease (3553) 4 years ago

Michael Keaton (for NOT WINNING)- Birdman.

He owned that BEST PICTURE WINNING film and was practically in every scene.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Mark Rylance for Bridge of Spies. It should have been Sly's.

[–] kuku (3510) 4 years ago

I disagree. Mark Rylance was brilliant in Bridge of Spies.

[–] HedleyLamarr (354) 4 years ago

Gwyneth Paltrow – Shakespeare in Love
Judi Dench – Shakespeare in Love ( she was good, but the other's were better that year)

[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7402) 4 years ago

I agree about Tommy Lee Jones in the Fugitive. Frankly though I'd put Sean Connery winning for the Untouchables and Jack Palance winning for City Slickers as the worst ones. And Tommy Lee Jones should've won for JFK over Jack Palance in City Slickers. Oh, and Kim Bassinger winning for L.A Confidential over Gloria Stuart in Titanic. I didn't think she was worthy of a nomination much less a win. She just acts like a typical sexy woman in that movie.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

8. Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God (Sigourney Weaver was the real winner that year. She was fantastic in Aliens)- Had to give it to a deaf chick?A film I still haven't seen. Subject matter was probably seen as more important than space aliens too

9. Jessica Lange - Blue Sky (Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon and Jodie Foster showed a way better acting in 1994) I watched Blue Sky for the first time a couple of years ago and I cannot work out what was so amazing about Lange. The film itself was pretty ordinary too.

12. Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote (I love this actor very much but Joaquin Phoenix was so amazing in Walk the Line)- Probably one of those overdue awards that he should have got earlier, like Jethro Tull winning over Metallica at the Grammy's.

13. Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (I'd give it to Anne Bancroft) - Wasn't that a racially based film? Uh huh...

14. Cher - Moonstruck (It was a joke or what? Glenn Close is the real winner that year. Everyone was better than Cher) - I would bet there was a lot of money behind Cher winning this, they seemed intent on making her a huge star.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

13. Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (I'd give it to Anne Bancroft) - Wasn't that a racially based film? Uh huh...

Man, what is a "racially based film"? If you mean that it was a film that depicted an interracial relationship, I strongly doubt that was the reason Hepburn won the Oscar. If the Academy was wanting to make a statement it would have likely nominated the actual black star of the film, rather than snubbing him completely.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

At the time it certainly was, the title itself "Guess who's coming to dinner?" I mean who is coming to a dinner, a President, a murderer, a movie star???? Oh, it's a black man and he is dating a white woman! That was pretty racially charged and controversial for the time.

Yeah they snubbed Poitier but then he was never that good anyway. But as per the points I have made in general I don't think these awards are handed out based on talent. It is a mix of what/who they should give the award to based on the subject matter of the film, whether or not the person is a fave of theirs or not (clique mentality) and which agent has greased their palms enough.

Yes, I am rather cynical.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

I wouldn’t say it’s misplaced cynicism, my favourite performances and films are often not even nominated, so I never take the Oscars that seriously anyway.

It’s fun to watch and take punts on the winners, and thrilling when a well deserved nominee wins, but ultimately it’s just a self-congratulatory wank-fest... with pretty dresses. Not how I rate excellence in film.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

As a general rule of thumb the more hyped a film is, especially by critics the less inclined I am to enjoy it. That is a rule for me that goes back to my childhood. I didn't fully understand it much back then but I do now. The critics will praise a film for various reasons some of which have nothing to do with the film/actor themselves.

In some cases they will praise it for things which just don't matter to me as well. I am not inclined to watch a film because it wins best costumes or best score for example.

At the end of the day I am a low brow working class bloke and I just want an entertaining story. If that can do that on a $10 budget with no name actors and model aeroplanes tied to strings than great, I am there. I find awards for art pretty silly anyway. How do you compare an action film with a Victorian set costume drama? It's stupid.

I managed to find "Noise" to by the way will watch it soon.

[–] Vastuntitled (5481) 4 years ago

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