How does a "terrible actor" win Best Actress Academy Award? I'm a long time industry veteran. I have cast actors myself when I was at Disney. Envy and ignorance is not an attractive quality.
And you are not aware of unfair practices????
Well SKYPOWERS I thought that the whole award business was a given due to a form of lobbying and the voting system. While I am supposing many of the, to the most of us unimportant categories may well be voted on very fairly it is not much different from the methods of electing a president which you know has, nothing to do with backing funds and again lobbying all over the nation. Snigger snigger hehehhe. Back room deals. Casting couches are suggested in the hiring of people who will do the acting so why not the awards. In all probability you may never have had the best person as president except Roosevelt and even he had many faults.
We as viewers of the ceremonies are only privileged to see brief moments from the many movies which have been short listed. Sometimes these clips do give us a clue as to the power of any given performance but how can they convey the real acting over the whole story. We have seen all too often those who give a really powerful performance loses out. Often a supporting act has outshone the so called star. For egample I know that many seem not to like Renee Zelwegger [I have found her to be an absolute treat to watch and in fact to listen to] in Cold Mountain. While Nicole is a definite pice of luscious candy she had no soul in this tale. On comes the powerhouse scene chewing Renee. Why is best actor confined to the lead role? Someone on for a relatively brief period may well have stolen the whole movie.
It is down to an opinion which may have been swayed by non relevant to the job in hand freebies or suchlike.
I have never 'noticed' Halle to make a decision as to her acting prowess. I thought that her body beautiful was a distraction enough sometimes and had been used in that way. I note that she does figure highly in the celebrity actors [the MR SKIN Web site] who are willing to be portrayed on main stream as doing all the things that the male expects from a paid sex worker.
She is at present the acclaimed first Black woman to win a major Oscar. This was well mentioned and given much press. As if she had exploded in to our world. I read she is still the only one. Was it an honest award? As I said, an opinion, and perhaps some coaxing involved. It is a divergent theme but I feel that any sport which requires a score based on an opinion should be separated from other sports which require a RESULT. Ice Skating, Diving, Gymnastics. Of course that opinion is there in Boxing and similar sports when both contestants are still standing at the end of the contest.
When an attractive [person] for me a lady, is on screen I am sorry but the acting is not always obvious. Movies like X-men do not require much ability but to stand where told to and dance in a martial arts fashion for fight scenes. Her star may well have been unjustly enhanced but she is now going to be a fading one perhaps as fast as she arrived. She is very easy to look at and I do not see that changing overly much.
Americans need to realise that super good looks are not always a requirement. But ability is. Look at Maggie Smith. Helen Mirren. Not, I am sorry, Betty Davis who never seemed to change her delivery style for me.
At least [in your world] with a Disney Pixar production we can actually see the visual interpretation of emotions and wonder brought to life by skilful animators. I did actually have that emotional throat lump at scenes from UP and the earlier minutes of WALL E carrying out his perpetual yet lonely tasks. WONDERFUL. Little dialogue of course to judge for that, but In Wreck It Ralph with Sarah Sliverman voicing Vanellope combined with the animation skill for the character this was for me out of this world and reminded me of my feelings about THUMPER in Bambi. Children of course may well lose out on the feelings the creators of these wonderful excursions to another world are trying to display/convey. Stifling tears [not easy to hide] induced by the skilful on screen representation a DRAWING combined with skilful voice over work or not as the case may be makes me realise that even the body beautiful is not always a requirement. We did after all have the 'Colour Purple'. No body beautiful on that. Sorry Whoopie and Oprah or is it GOD [bow, scrap,e bow, bow, walking backwards now, leaving the room].
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