She got 2 Oscar Nominations for Best Supporting Actress in "Working Girl" & Lead Actress for "Gorillas in the Mist" and she lost both to a bland Geena Davis in "The Accidental Tourist" and for an unlikeable Jodie Foster in "The Accused", poor Sigourney, she deserved better...
shareI found Sigourney in Working Girl to be very believable as Catherine! Especially the bedroom scene with Jack while she's trying to seduce him...her face expressions and tone of voice and how she spoke to him! She really hit this Character on the head! Plus she was able to seem very arrogant and two-faced while not being a bitch, but doing it as "Business woman"!
Very deserving of an award! Shame she lost!
She's great, don't get me wrong, and...I don't know about "Gorillas.." cause I never saw it. But this was not an Oscar-worthy performance. The role itself was a one-note character with zero emotion... the nomination alone was a gift.
shareWeaver has a way of sounding monotone, as if shes trying to not over-act.
And there is nothing "amazing" because an actor does their job. Amazing is that word that quickly slips out of the mouth onto the keyboard these days.
Weaver was also quite unlikable in Gorillas, and so was Close in Dangerous, and so was Streep in Dark. Griffith probably had the most relatable and endearing character for Girl. That said, likeable or unlikeable, 88' was a strong year for female lead. Weaver wasn't screwed over for support either, I would say Michelle Pfeiffer was for Dangerous Liaisons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZBGRgDwUCI
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I preferred Cusack, who stole every scene she was in, to Weaver, but neither character was very fleshed out so a nomination was actually suprising for both. Weaver was much better in Gorillas, but that category had stronger contenders than the supporting actress. A shame she has never been nominated again because I think she's given very worthy performances in the 90s.
shareWeaver deserved the Oscar in Working Girl, but her loss can be explained- at least, to the best of my ability.
One of the reasons she might have lost was because she split votes with her nominated co-star, Joan Cusack, who while a surprise Supporting Actress nominee- probably still stole votes from her in her hilariously brief screen time.
Geena Davis was also a LEAD in The Accidental Tourist, and often more screen time is a big plus (ask Alicia Vikander's recent win for The Danish Girl; she's in EVERY frame, and won in the supporting category). Davis also had the luxury of being in the box-office hit Beetlejuice that same year, so voters were also familiar with her. And Accidental Tourist, like Working Girl, was also a Best Picture nominee. So even if it was "quieter" than Mike Nichols comic charmer, it was appreciated by voters- even winning the New York Film Critics award for Best Film of 1988. I also have to admit - Davis steals her film from everyone else. She's really the special glue that holds it together. And while Weaver was pitch perfect as Katharine Parker- she's gone for most of the movie. I wanted more of her character, but the bulk of the story revolves around Griffith and Ford closing a business deal.
If it's any consolation, Weaver was able to win 2 Golden Globes that year- for Supporting Actress here, and for Lead Actress (Drama, shared with Foster and Shirley MacLaine) for Gorillas in the Mist.
I just hear a lot of your personal opinion.
You really liked Weaver in these roles. Great, no problem with that.
That doesn't mean they were better than Davis or Foster.
You liking Weaver more doesn't make it fact Weaver was "screwed".