Don't get me wrong people,i absolutely loved her in H.E. but i still think she should have won the oscar for S+S in 1996.Actresses like Michelle Pfeiffer(LOVE FIELD) or Catherine Deneuve(INDOCHINE) were definitely better that year.Just my opinion,though.
shareI don't agree that Pfeiffer was better. No way. I'm sorry mensah I know you love Michelle but she didn't even deserve that Oscar nomination IMO, let alone a win over Thompson. Neither did Deneuve. That was just one of the weakest years for actresses which is why they even got in. Thompson deserved her Oscar out of that category that year.
And she had stronger competition in 1995. So even though you may have thought she was better in Sense and Sensibility what matters is the competition. We can say a lot of actors should have won for a performance they lost over the performance they won for but what matters is the compettiion that year.
In 1995 she had Susan Sarandon who they felt was overdue to win. Personally that year I felt Elizabeth Shue in Leaving Las Vegas gave the best female performance. Some say Sharon Stone for Casino was robbed. All I know is Emma was great in Howard's End and Sense and Sensibility and definitely deserved the Oscar for Howard's End out of that category.
Yeah,maybe.Michelle has always been unlucky at the oscars night :-(
shareI love Michelle, but I think that Emma's personna is so pervasive and persuasive giving her a natural advantage. Both HE and S&S were outstanding roles which allowed her to shine. She should have had Oscars for both.
It will be 50 years before anyone begins to think about a remake of these because of her, if ever.
Whatever will the sensibilities and aesthetics of civilization in movies be then? I mean, is she timeless?
Anyway,if it's not for LOVE FIELD,Michelle should have won the oscar for DANGEROUS LIAISONS.
sharenah I didn't see what was so special about her in Dangerous Liasons. I like Michelle in some stuff but she was my least favorite performance in the movie. I think Michelle's best performance is as Catwoman. Now she should have been nominated and won for supporting actress for that in 1993. She killed it. I also thought she was terrific in White Oleander too.
shareMichelle rocked in DANGEROUS LIAISONS.She even won the BAFTA in 1989.
shareI don't agree about Kidman "one of the most psychologically abstruse screen performances by a female actor ever". Nah. To Die For? Kidman fans love the performance but I didn't see the big deal and certainly not Oscar worthy. I do agree about Kathy Bates in Dolores Clairborne though. Now Kathy Bates can act. She wasn't even nominated? What? But I still think my favorite performance of that year is Elizabeth Shue for Leaving Las Vegas. She was playing a degrading role but to me she was the most REAL. Its' a great and underrated performance.
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we'll agree to disagree then. I found SHue much more emotionally honest than Kidman.
shareProm Queen Carrie wrote: <<we'll agree to disagree then. I found SHue much more emotionally honest than Kidman.>>
Interesting, because the fact is, Shue's character (and I have only seen Leaving Las Vegas once -- it was too gut-wrenching to see again) IS emotionally honest whereas Kidman's isn't. In fact, her character is the opposite of emotionally honest; she is a manipulative, sociopathic liar. And Kidman did a great job of portraying that.
Prom Queen Carrie wrote: <<I don't agree about Kidman "one of the most psychologically abstruse screen performances by a female actor ever". Nah. To Die For? Kidman fans love the performance but I didn't see the big deal and certainly not Oscar worthy.>>
I am not a Nicole Kidman fan. Au contraire -- she leaves me kind of cold. However, there are a few films where she really nails it and boy does she nail it in To Die For. That is one hell of a movie, a masterpiece, imho. Every single person in it is brilliant. One funny thing -- as I get older, I find I cannot watch the part where SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT her husband is killed. I don't know why, but I just can't. I first realized what brilliant actors Allison Foland and Joaquin Phoenix were in that film, too. I think it's great.
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