Does anyone know how I can see this 15 second, Emmy nominated Ellen Burstyn performance? I mean, a link to see this, because I'm more interested in this clip rather than the entire film, because it must be a hell of a 15 second performance to grab an emmy nomination. All the same, I love Ellen Burstyn.
shareyeah i'd love to see it too. what in gods name could she of done in 11 seconds that would warrant an emmy nomination??
shareWell that's the million dollar question. Sorry I don't have a link to simply that footage but I can say that having watched Mrs. Harris last night and loving many, many things about this film (IMO definitely worth checking out), but if anyone else was going to be nominated, besides Cloris Leachman who COMPLETELY deserved her nomination, I certainly wouldn't have picked Ellen Burnstyn. Not that her 14 seconds weren't great. They were, but let's face it, it was 14 seconds!!! Mary McDonnell, who has at least 4 scenes and actual dialogue was luminous with what she had to work with. Go figure.
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Probably the thing she did to score the nomination was to play Jean Harris in the 1981 TV-move "The People vs. Jean Harris". She was nominated for an Emmy for that performance, too (lost to Vanessa Redgrave, "Playing For Time"). Don't the Emmy nominees need to put themselves forward in order to be considered for the final list of nominees? I know the Emmy nomination process has at least one level of voting in order for the final five candidates to be determined. She (or her manager) probably decided to go for it, banking on the name recognition factor and her history with the Harris-Tarnower story. Actors are usually nominated for a body of work as well as their individual performances, and I'm sure that had something to do with it.
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well i just watched the entire 14 second performance and must agree that it is offensive to have such a brief cameo nominated for an award. Don't get me wrong - Ellen Burstyn is a wonderful actress but you can never gauge the quality of a performance in less than a minute - let alone less than 15 secs!
I agree with other posters who claim the academy must have just nommed her because of her name not because of the performance. Remember it is a popularity contest at the end of the day.
I think Ellen Burstyn is a great actress...very memorable roles in films like The Exorcist and Requim for a Dream for example. But a nom for a 14 second performance? After viewing the film and then hearing about this, I just couldn't believe it. Where these people even watching the film? Her character had hardly anything to do with the main plot never seen again or spoken of after her appearance around 20 minutes in. Emmy nominations should go towards actors who put the most work into their performance. The people who decide this must be going on Burstyn's name or past brilliant performances. It's not fair to people like Annette Benning and Ben Kingsley who have much more screen time, and in my opinion, did a much better job than Bursytn did in her extremely short bit. These Emmy Awards are nothing more than a popularity contest. The people behind this should be ashamed and embarassed. These awards are a joke, and don't give other actors a fair chance at winning. If Burstyn wins for this, I sure hope I will not be the only one pissed as hell. As I said before, I think Ellen Burstyn is an outstanding actress, and even she could tell you her nomination for this film is bull****.
shareInteresting... The Academy must not have liked the fact that she was nominated for only 14 seconds of screen time either.
From TVWeek.com:
Last year’s well-publicized win by Ellen Burstyn for best supporting actress in a TV film—after only appearing in it for 14 seconds—has prompted what some have already dubbed the “Burstyn Rule” wherein the nominee must appear in at least 5 percent of the film in order to be eligible for a longform supporting category nomination.
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http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=11728
Well Judi Dench won an oscar for less than 6 minutes on screen so I think we can honestly say these award shows are jokes.
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The Emyy's just checked off a famous name for the nomination
shareMost Emmy voters don't even watch the tapes/DVDs they receive so they probably saw a cast list (which, at the time, I remember was listed alphabetically) and she was listed right after Bening and Kingsley so the voters probably just saw that, assumed she would be in it and be great, and checked her off.
What really sucks is two things: There is no way voters could've actually voted for her because it was only a 14-second performance....it was all because of name value and because they, more than likely, didn't watch the movie. Also, HBO is somewhat to blame because they CAMPAIGNED for her if I remember correctly so both parties are to blame.