Least Deserving Oscar Winner of All Time Follow DL on Least Deserving Oscar Winner of All Time It could be an actor, actress, film, director, supporting, etc. Everyone always says Elizabeth Taylor for Butterfield 8 was a Pity Oscar. What's the one Oscar-winner where you shook your head and said, "Um, what?" by Anonymous Greatest Show on Earth, best picture 1952 (?) by Anonymous I know there's more. She's just one of the more egregious recent ones. by Anonymous Katharine Hepburn - all four wins Elizabeth Taylor - WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? by Anonymous Don't we do this thread every week? by Anonymous I saw Butterfield 8 several years ago. Liz wasn't bad in it at all! by Anonymous Definitely Crash. For Acting, Hilary Swank's second. by Anonymous Least Deserving Oscar Winner For...

Best Picture: Crash Best Director: Mel Gibson, Braveheart Best Actor: Al Pacino, Scent of a Woman Best Actress: Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby Best Supporting Actor: Christian Bale, The Fighter Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls by Anonymous 02/25/2014 Pierre Boulle, Best Adapted Screenplay for Bridge on the River Kwai: He couldn't even write or speak English: he wrote the book the movie was based on, but didn't contribute a word to the screenplay and was used as a front for blacklisted writers during the McCarthy era Hugh Griffith, Best Supporting Actor for Ben-Hur: His performance is utterly forgettable. People mock Charlton Heston's overacting, but at least you remember what he does. Or Pacino going "Hoo-ah!" in Scent of a Woman. Griffith is neither good nor bad, he doesn't do anything! He's just there. At least the scenery-chewers do something. This one is doubly perplexing as Ben-Hur already had an excellent candidate for Supporting Actor: Stephen Boyd as Messala.

by Anonymous reply 12 02/25/2014 Liz was terrible in Butterfield 8. She had no chemistry with Laurence Hervey at all. The film would have worked better if it was about a gay guy and his fag hag. Liz would have been brilliant in that role. Halle Berry might be one crazy cunt but all least she accepted her Razzie! For all her insanity she really was a good sport about everything. Julia Roberts winning was a farce.What a shitty actress she is.She's not even in the same class as her brother Eric Roberts let alone a Meryl Streep. by Anonymous reply 18 02/25/2014 "I Just Called to Say I Love You" as Best Song in 1984 (from "The Woman in Red"). Gimme a fuckin' break! In what universe is that an Oscar-worthy song???? by Anonymous reply 19 02/25/2014 Get ready for Jennifer Lawrence (x2)! It's gonna happen. And she didn't even need to campaign. Also, Argo.

Why the heck did Hollywood feel bad for Ben Affleck when he didn't get nominated? Dude has never done a significant film and this was only his third directed movie. Probably because they didn't rewatch Argo to see if it held up (it doesn't). Zero Dark Thirty was robbed...Kathryn Bigelow is the one who should've been held up by the industry amid the faux controversy. by Anonymous reply 20 02/25/2014 I'm by no means a Swank fan, but I thought she was beyond great in Million Dollar Baby. She's been amazing in exactly 2 roles and was lucky enough to win 2 Oscars as a result. I think it's a shame more potent actors don't even have one, but she was great in both of those roles. by Anonymous [quote]Titanic was another undeserving flick. Well, The Full Monty wasn't deserving either. by Anonymous reply 49 02/25/2014 gotta agree with R53. Vivien Leigh was perfection as Scarlett O'Hara. No actress of her time would've been better in the role.

by Anonymous reply 51 02/25/2014 'Triumph Of The Will' is a good film too, R57. Watching it didn't turn me into a nazi. by Anonymous reply 53 02/25/2014 Sandra Bullock for that Lifetime movie where she adopted Shrek. She lives in Texas and she couldn't even manage a Suthun accent. Her face is a botoxed mask. Sidibe deserved it. But because she was a newcomer, people thought she was some urban teen playing herself. We all know now she couldn't be more different than Precious, and it was an awesome performance. by Anonymous [quote]What's the one Oscar-winner where you shook your head and said, "Um, what?" What? I don't do "Um." by Anonymous reply 73 02/25/2014 Katharine Hepburn, On Golden Pond. I know it was sentimental for her and Henry Fonda, but it was completely unnecessary to give her a 4th Oscar when she never showed up to accept a single award.

It's hard to imagine that even happening now (a 4 time best actress winner and 12 time nominee who never showed up - not once - when they were nominated). Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl. If it was a tie, it was only because she became eligible before and could vote for herself (or do I have that wrong?). I did not mind Streep for The Iron Lady because she should have won for a number of other performances and that was a great performance. Reese in Walk The Line, or Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side, Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich, and a lot of the others that have been cited here that were paid for trophies thrown to non-actresses. by Anonymous reply 74 02/25/2014 Everyone says Hollywood felt badly for Affleck and gave ARGO Best Pic out of sympathy, but I think its win was more about propaganda. Also, Hollywood loves a film that makes it look like they were the true heroes in an international crisis. What pissed me off is that I thought the film was pretty good.

Not great, not Best Picture material, but a lot better than I expected, especially with that amazing cast of supporting players (except John Goodman, bleah, he stunk). Now I have no warm feelings toward it at all. by Anonymous reply 75 02/25/2014 Others have stated - and I agree - that Argo was nothing more than a well made action film that would have been commonplace in the 1990's. It was all the Hollywood self-referencing that made it popular enough to win a best picture Oscar? I would swap out Tom Hanks for Forest Gump and give it to him this year for Captain Phillips. Not sure why he was not even nominated since he was phenomenal in that film. by Anonymous 02/25/2014 The woman from Sayonara. I watched that recently and was shocked she was barely in it. I kept waiting for the Best Supporting Actress caliber performances and it never came. by Anonymous reply 77 02/26/2014 Bullock, Roberts and Paltrow all gave competent performances, nothing more, in roles that were not at all demanding. They were career awards.

by Anonymous Witherspoon, Portman, Lawrence R45 I agree No Country was a very boring movie! Roberts is not the worst actress out there, she is definitely better than he 3 I mentioned above. Goop gave a great performance in Shakespeare, but I think she was better in Proof or Sliding Doors, but those were small movies, which never got the attention they deserved. Had she not turned down Titanic for Sliding Doors, she might have gotten another nom. by Anonymous reply 86 02/26/2014 Kim Basinger's numbingly boring total of 15 minutes or so on screen in LA Confidential. I'm sorry, but I've never seen evidence that this blond-bimbo-zombie has any acting talent of any kind. by Anonymous The winner for Best Sound Mixing in 1961. by Anonymous 02/26/2014 r34, if you're still here, I'm curious. What's your objection to "Amadeus?" Not that you owe an explanation, but I love that film; every scene of it. I was just wondering about your reaction.

And, fwiw, I though, Jeffery Jones performance was better then F Murray Abraham's, as good as he was. by Anonymous 02/26/2014 Della-- I saw the play first and loved it. The movie unnecessarily expanded it and I'm not a Milos Forman fan (don't like the movie of Cuckoo's Nest, either, love the book, or Hair, again loved it on stage.) He's too heavy handed for the great material. The cast of Amadeus the movie is wonderful. by Anonymous [quote] Lonette McKee could act circles around Renee. was around 50 when the movie was made. Did Halle turn it down? by Anonymous reply 104 02/26/2014 R110 I doubt liz would have won if it wasnt for the pnuemonia. Liz would have agreed. She had done some fine work in the fifties and this was her 4th nomination so i have no problem with her winning for the silly butterfield 8. But if it wasnt for her illness shirley maclaine or deborah kerr would've won.

by Anonymous reply 105 02/26/2014 Ginger Rogers for Kitty Foyle; and because Rogers won over Joan Fontaine in Rebecca, the Academy gave Fontaine a Oscar for the lesser Suspicion Josephine Hull in Harvey Joanne Woodward in Three Faces of Eve by Anonymous reply 107 02/26/2014 If O. Russell beats Jonze for original screenplay, he'll deserve to be on the list. The fact that there's still a race over it infuriates me. by Anonymous AnnE is annoying as fuck, but she was great in Les Miz. Roberts never brings anything to a role other than being Julia Roberts by Anonymous reply 110 02/27/2014 R120 Funny you should mention Jo Van Fleet. Saturday I watched, for the first time, "East of Eden," which is not a movie that holds up particularly well, except for the gorgeous cinematography. I'd seen Van Fleet in other films (such as "Wild River" and "Cool Hand Luke") and looked forward to her Kate.

Needless to say, she owned the time she was on screen--I think someone (Ethan Mordden?) described her characterization as the meanest woman ever, but I saw more depth and nuance to her work. What surprised me was how little screen time she has--the opening scene in the bank, the establishing moments in the house, and the long scene with Dean (and a brief moment when he brings Aron to meet her). I wanted more of her--she was far more interesting than the various juveniles (including Julie Harris, whom I've always loved, but who seemed here mainly to acting with her long hairpiece). I suspect trying to compress the 500-pages of (albeit bloated) Steinbeck's prose meant a lot had to be left out (including the epic time progression), but I wanted more of Van Fleet. Given that Betsy Blair had almost a co-lead in "Marty," which won Best Picture, Director, Actor, and Screenplay, I'm surprised Blair didn't win for her affecting performance. I agree about Gentleman's Agreement and The Lost Weekend.

Even at the time, I suspect GA was viewed as a bit of a pill--and Celeste Holm far less interesting than either Dorothy Maguire and Anne Revere. She got to be the ideal liberal who didn't get the man and was fresh off her Broadway work as Ado Annie, so, since neither Peck nor Maguire were going to get leading awards, voters may have felt like they needed to support one of the actors, and Revere had just won two years earlier (and, for that matter, Dean Stockwell was more compelling and even Jane Wyatt brought a shot of bitters to her stock society dame). Holm might have been better served with an Oscar for All About Eve--she certainly has a much screen time as Baxter and is one of the rotating narrators and does manage some nice subtle work with what might have been a stock part (even though I grew tired, in later years, about hearing how rude Davis and Merrill had been to her--Oh, shit--manners, indeed). No way was she going to take the Oscar away from Mercedes MacCambridge for her force of nature Sadie Burke in All the King's Men.

Hull's Oscar was a sentimental one, but also a skillful piece of comic acting (which she'd been doing onstage for some time)--she actually provides some heart and life to "Harvey"--Stewart is fine as Elwood, but, since he's basically an alcoholic, passive, sweet man, someone has to provide some brio. In the year Holm won, I would have said Revere, Gloria Grahame (for the first memorable one of her sullen slatterns in "Crossfire"), even Marjorie Main in her vivid Ma Kettle might have been more deserving. Ethel Barrymore is haunting as the wounded, abused wife of Laughton in "The Paradine Case," but her performance is shorter than Van Fleet's was later (maybe rivaling Dench and Straight in its brevity, as well as the role for which Grahame eventually won--in "The Bad and the Beautiful"). If they gave an award for cameo (ten minutes or under), she would have won handily--but there are already enough categories.

by Anonymous reply 111 02/27/2014 In the immediate sense of not deserving an Oscar for the role they won for, I'd actually vote for Denzel Washington in Training Day. It's such a generic role which only requires that he squints in anger and screams. It plays like a TNT movie. I'm dumfounded that anyone would deem it Oscar worthy. That said, I'm thinking he was receiving a career achievement Oscar. If he were going to win best actor Oscar, it should have been for X or The Hurricane. But, he didn't win for those and since he had been around, was generally respected, I think he got a make-up Oscar for Training Day. Though, did he really need it? He did have a supporting actor Oscar or Glory already. by Anonymous Carol Reed winning BD over two cinematic masterpieces: Stanley Kubrick, 2001 Gillo Pontecorvo, Battle of Algiers by Anonymous reply 114 02/27/2014 Thank you, R101. I would have loved to have seen Hepburn with Streisand, but it makes sense Kate did not show up to lose.

But still it's kind of unlikely to happen now. "I am just too busy, but, oh sure, give me 4!" I still think it's fascinating Hepburn had a long career, won 4, Streep won right after her, and Streep has never stopped. Jennifer Lawrence is maybe the next overlap but who knows. by Anonymous 02/27/2014 Hepburn never showed up to the Oscars for any of her nominations. Some director (Cukor?) who accepted her Oscar in 1968 wrote in his memoirs that he put he put the Oscar in a paperbag on the top shelf of her coat closet. (she let him stay in her LA home.) Twenty years or so later he received an honorary award and she let him stay in her house again. He said he looked in the closet and the Oscar was still there in the bag, untouched. by Anonymous Streep is unlikely to beat Hepburn's record, R126 by Anonymous reply 118 02/27/2014 Everyone who won an Oscar for "The Silence of the Lambs". I've had ham sandwiches that were less hammy than the acting in this movie.

by Anonymous 02/27/2014 In my life time... Cher Whoopie Sandra Bullock. Meryl for the iron lady and I'm still not sure about Krammer vs Krammer Helen Hunt Jennifer Hudson Jack Palance Jamie Foxx a complete joke of a performance but boy did this bitch campaign for that oscar. Don Cheadle was amazing in Hotel Rwanda and should have won. Hilary horse face Swank for Million Dollar Baby. Annette's asshole should have scars from that blatant ass fuck with no ky. Reese Witherspoon Didn't even come close to June Carter. How this win happened is a real puzzle. But above all those the single most undeserving oscar winner in my life time goes to...... Halle Berry. reply 121 02/27/2014 R132 LOL At the time I thought Hopkins performance was brilliant and Foster was her usual cold dykish self. I think the performances now look "hammy" because of all the years of satire about it. The movie was engrossing also at the time. So I'm sorta on the fence if it deserved the oscar.

Now if we are talking Slumdog Millionaire which didn't deserve one damn thing then I'd agree completely. I have purposefully watched it three times to find something good in that movie and every time someone has watched it with me they say the exact same thing I'm thinking... This shit won best picture? by Anonymous I always think Foster overacts. I find her personality and her work as an actress un-watchable. by Anonymous reply 123 02/27/2014 I'm also not a fan of Foster. Her voice is annoying and she comes off cold. The only performance of hers that I can watch is NELL because it's funny as fuck to me watching her act like a moron. There's all kinds of slop going on in that mess of a movie. From the "special" Nell language to her doing a happy jig exposing her little tits. It's sorta my own personal rocky horror show where you can mock her the entire time. They actually put that in movie theaters. by Anonymous reply 125 02/27/2014 Slumdog Millionaire -- I think we have a winner of this thread! What an overrated piece of tripe.

I totally disagree with what others have said about The Lost Weekend. I saw it about two years ago and the film definitely holds up. I'm a recovering alkie myself and an the alcoholic's self-delusion felt painfully familiar. The guy's journey was genuinely harrowing. I'll even defend the final scene as representing not so much an unpersuasive "happy ending" as just another example of how he's fooling himself. That's how Billy Wilder saw it as well. One of the most interesting things about The Lost Weekend, to me, is that it was pre-AA, or at least, it was based on a novel by someone who, at the time, was unfamiliar with the AA program. Therefore, it escapes some of the cliches that we see in virtually every other movie about alcoholism, which view alcoholism and recovery from it through the AA paradigm. I'm not knocking AA at all -- I've benefited from it enormously. But unfortunately, it's led to some very tired story-telling in films about alcoholism and addiction. by Anonymous The absolute least deserving of all time? THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH's Best Picture Oscar.

It's all well and good to note how bad the choices of Norma Shearer, Mary Pickford, GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH and such are, but among films in the last 20 years, by category, I'd say: Picture: CHICAGO Director: Danny Boyle for SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (and that was close for Best Picture.) Actor: Roberto Benigni Actress: Reese Witherspoon Supporting Actor: None was least deserving. I didn't like several, but they all were good performances. Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson, CZJ and Renee Zellwegger (R64 is just peevish, and R69 is insane, of course.) by Anonymous reply 149 02/28/2014 Roberto Benigni made an impact with "Life Is Beautiful" - he may not be the greatest actor, but there was some justification for that award. by Anonymous Pickford is unbelievably godawful in "Coquette". Probably the worst "acting" ever even NOMINATED for an Oscar.

by Anonymous reply 153 03/01/2014 Any Oscar connected to "As Good As It Gets." Just a horrible, sappy movie with terrible performances all around. Helen Hunt has never been anything but a sit-com actress and that's exactly the performance she gave. Nicholson was smarmy and pompous. Also Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line. Any actress with two classes under her belt could have done what she did. by Anonymous reply 154 03/01/2014 There have been so many undeserving Oscar winners. But if I had to pick just one, it would be Roberto Benigni. He did a slapstick movie about the Holocaust and critics fell all over themselves praising the thing. I saw it; there was nothing exceptional about it at all. And it was distasteful to see Benigni capering and mugging amongst the Nazis. I didn't find it funny. He won the Oscar over Tom Hanks (Saving Private Ryan), Nick Nolte (Affliction), Ed Norton (American History X) and Ian McKellen (Gods and Monsters). ALL the other nominated actors gave better performances than Benigni.

He also won the Oscar for best foreign film for his trifling little Holocaust comedy. Thankfully, he destroyed his film career by his vanity production of "Pinocchio." It was an elaborate live action version of the children's story with the middle-aged Benigni playing the boy puppet. It was universally panned and Benigni's career never really gained momentum again after that. Good! by Anonymous reply 155 03/01/2014 I was open to Benigni - didn't know him and didn't have any biases. I loathed the movie and think he was the least deserving actor winner in the last 20 years, compared to all the other actors winning over that time. You can suggest it was a matter of style or whatever - he and his film creeped me out, period. And of course his behavior at the Oscars pretty much took care of everything else for him, sealed by that Pinocchio monstrosity. I still can see Sophia Loren's happiness in announcing her countryman's name. Poor Sophia. 03/01/2014 Why didn't Helen Hunt present Best Actor? I think it was a tip-off when Sophia Loren presented.

Just like when Streisand presented Best Director when Katharine BIgelow won. This year, they're having Sidney Poitier present Best Director or Best Picture (forget which) so I wonder who/which will win? (sarcasm). It's the 50th anniversary of his historic Best Actor win so I'm sure the Academy will make a statement, just like when they awarded Denzel and Halle the Oscar the same night that they gave Poitier an honorary award. by Anonymous reply 157 03/01/2014 Streep has already beat Hepburn's records for nominations, and I do think she will end up with 21 nominations and 5 Oscars. She may never beat Hepburn with 4 best actress wins, that is unlikely to ever happen again now because of campaigning and money spent to achieve one Oscar. by Anonymous reply 158 03/01/2014 I still can't believe GANDHI (aka 101 ways to wear a sheet) won for Costume Design, especially against the likes of LA TRAVIATA.

by Anonymous reply 160 03/01/2014 I love Roberto Benigni. Go see Jim Jarmusch's 'Night on Earth.' Benigni plays a taxi driver giving a priest a ride. It's unbelievably funny. For least deserving, I might have to pick -- but it pains me because I love her as an actor -- Judi Dench in Shakespeare in Love. I mean... there's just so little material there. by Anonymous reply 161 03/01/2014 Dench admitted that herself in her speech, R178. She should have won the year before for "Mrs. Brown". by Anonymous reply 162 03/02/2014 R161 I wasn't keen on Zellweger in Cold Mountain either but I actually though she totally deserved to beat Kidman the yeat she was up for Chicago by Anonymous reply 163 03/08/2014 Mary Astor in the best supporting actress category for the Great Lie. She said that she would have preferred to win for Maltese Falcon. I agree.

She should have won for Maltese Falcon by Anonymous reply 165 03/08/2014 Gosford Park- Best Original Screenplay over Memento, Amelie and The Royal Tenenbaums, as well as Donnie Darko not being nominated by Anonymous Mira Sorvino for Mighty Aphrodite (hell, she was better in Romy & Michele) Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine (though it was a long & distinguished career Oscar) Cuba Gooding Jr for Jerry Maguire Michael Caine for The Cider House Rules AND Hannah & Her Sisters Tommy Lee Jones for The Fugitive (how he beat Ralph Fiennes' gobsmacking performance in Schindler's List with a serviceable turn in a mainstream action thriller I'll never know) John Gielgud for Arthur (it was probably just because he was considered one of the greatest actors of the 20th century and hadn't won an Oscar before) by Anonymous reply 176 04/06/2015 R175 Caine is quite wretched in Cider House. But he is well liked in the industry.

The way he singled out every loser in his category and said something nice about them after he won. Very classy. Gooding winning for his mugging and show me the money bs. That really sucked. Bill Macy and Ed Norton losing to him. No words. by Anonymous reply 177 04/06/2015 Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight. If he hadn't died (and the fanboys hadn't raised a stink over TDK being 'snubbed' for Best Picture), he probably wouldn't have been nominated. by Anonymous reply 178 04/06/2015 R177 Michael Caine is fine in many other things, don't get me wrong (of course he's also done a lot of dross as well) but the roles he won Oscars for are so underwhelming. What was it about him in Hannah and Her Sisters that was considered better than average for a Woody Allen film? I'd say Get Carter was his best performance. Or maybe Alfie. by Anonymous Cavalcade, best picture 1933, the year of Duck Soup and King Kong.

by Anonymous reply 181 04/06/2015 R179 I think it was mostly a career Oscar for Hannah. He had been nominated three times previous and had a lot of great work under his belt by then. But it still was a bit of a surprise he won. Tom Berenger won the globe and with the popularity of Platoon most pundits were picking him to win. by Anonymous reply 182 04/06/2015 You only need to read threads like this to realize how irrelevant & politically motivated most Oscars & other awards are. All a total waste of time, since very little is based on actual achievement & excellence. Watch what you like & enjoy it. Fuck what other ppl think. by Anonymous reply 183 04/06/2015 [quote]John Gielgud for Arthur (it was probably just because he was considered one of the greatest actors of the 20th century and hadn't won an Oscar before) Well, I worked in a movie theater and stood in the back of the house and listened to the huge laughs he got. It is so rare a comedic performance wins and he deserved it.

by Anonymous reply 184 04/06/2015 ONE? Who can pick just one? Here's a list of people I thought were totally undeserving of their Oscars: Whoopi Goldberg reply 186 04/06/2015 Stephen Sondheim for that horrid song Madonna sang in Dick Tracy. If anyone else had written it, it wouldn't even have been nominated. by Anonymous reply 187 04/06/2015 Lupita. Cuba. SANDRA NO TALENT BOO HOO I LOVE LOUIS B U L L O C K. Gwyneth. HALLE NO TALENT NO TALENT NO TALENT BERRY! Charlize. Jack Nicholson fugly creep. Shirley McClain. so many more. Does Clooney have one? If yes, then add him. Renee. Mel. AND Jean du Jardin and The Artist deserved all of the awards and accolades it got! And Berenice Beijo should have won best actress for it. AND GONE WITH THE WIND is a GREAT movie, NOT racist!

MAMMY is the smartest character and best actress in the whole thing--HOW is it racist? by Anonymous R183 Well sometimes they get it right. JK Simmons this year for example. by Anonymous reply 190 04/06/2015 John Gielgud, Josephine Hull and Helen Hayes in "Airport" were all actors with distinguished careers, even if mainly in the theater, who gave much appreciated at the time, audience-pleasing performances. Jo Van Fleet had a very spotty career, and evidently was a pretty troubled individual, but she is fine in "East of Eden" and even better in "Wild River", which, had it been a hit, should have given her a second Oscar. One pretty undeserved Oscar I can think of is Shirley Jones in "Elmer Gantry". She won it because Laurie from "Oklahoma" actually played a prostitute, but any credible actress could have done the role and been just as good. by Anonymous Al Pacino for Scent of a Woman Jack Nicholson for As Good As It Gets by Anonymous reply 192 04/06/2015 Sofia Coppola.

Her "talent" is minimal, to say the least. In interviews she seems downright mentally challenged. She won an Oscar because her last name is Coppola. The Oscars suck. by Anonymous reply 193 04/06/2015 "The Last Time I Saw Paris" winning for Best Song when it should have been ineligible. It wasn't written for the film "Lady Be Goid" and had been performed and recorded by several artists before it was used in the film. The song's composer Jerome Kern was embarrassed when he won. The fact that wartime sentiment allowed it to beat out Harold Arlen's superb "Blues in the Night" is ridiculous. by Anonymous reply 194 04/06/2015 There are also several WTF wins in the original score category where the Academy seems to confuse the concept of original score with songs in a musical (Fame, Thoroughly Modern Millie, etc.). And I don't even remember there being music in "Butch Cassidy" except for the "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head" song (seriously, there's something like 10 minutes of underscore in the whole film).

by Anonymous reply 195 04/06/2015 Crash was a watered down version of the 1991 film Grand Canyon, which ironically had superior screenplay and acting, but was only nominated for best original screenplay. by Anonymous R190, ugh, no. Terrible win. Norton was robbed. by Anonymous reply 200 04/06/2015 Oh my God, how could I have forgotten Robert Benigni! His Oscar was a fucking travesty. The other nominees were Ian McKellen (Gods and Monsters), Ed Norton (American History X), Nick Nolte (Affliction) and Tom Hanks (Saving Private Ryan). Ian McKellen should have won. Or Nick Nolte. Or Ed Norton. They ALL gave vastly superior performances. Tom Hank's performance wasn't as strong as theirs but he too would have been more deserving than the idiot Benigni. His cutesy Holocaust movie also won an undeserving Oscar for Best Foreign Film.

Benigni, who after winning two Oscars no doubt thought he could do anything, followed up his cheery Holocaust comedy with a live action version of "Pinocchio" (the middle-aged Benigni played the boy puppet), which was so bad it effected ended his film career in America. I also forgot Cuba Gooding Jr. He sure as hell did not deserve an Oscar. And Charlize Theron. Formerly considered just a fine piece of Hollywood ass (she was frequently nude in her movies) she gained a few pounds, put in some fake teeth and spackled on ugly makeup and voila to play a serial killer and voila! It's Oscar time! "The Man That Got Away" losing Best Song to "Three Coins In The Fountain." by Anonymous reply 201 04/06/2015 Cuba Gooding won because the year before (like this year) there was an uproar over there not being any black nominees. So they overcompensated.

reply 208 04/07/2015 The Academy award are something like a bad high school popularity contest (if the students had unlimited money to buy votes with), with awards frequently given for solely out of guilt, sentiment, and in a vain attempt to absolve the Academy of horrendous poor decision-making in previous years. 2006 - Best Picture Crash Many critics accused the Academy of homophobia for failing to award the Oscar for Best Picture to Brokeback Mountain. Michael Jensen noted that prior to the Oscar ceremony, Brokeback Mountain became "the most honored movie in cinematic history", winning more Best Picture and Director awards than previous Oscar winners Schindler's List and Titanic combined. 2002 - Heath Ledger's performance in Monster's Ball was not nominated by the Academy. Instead the Academy gave the 2002 Best Supporting Actor Award to Chris Cooper in Adaptation (WTF). 2006 - Heath Ledger was nominated for Best Actor in Brokeback Mountain. But the Academy gave the award to Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote in a role Hoffman played (albeit brilliantly) a cliched, effeminate, self-hating gay man, who betrays everyone involved.

2009 - Heath Ledger was finally award an Academy award for his role as The Joker in The Dark Night, posthumously. A posthumous award covers a multitude of sins in an inherently corrupt awards process. by Anonymous reply 209 04/07/2015 Amazing actress but Glenda Jackson's win for "A Touch of Class" is truly a bizarre one. She almost walks through it and still feels miscast as a sex object. Love her or hate her, that should have been Streisand's second -- a movie that is still beloved today while nobody remembers "Touch of Class". by Anonymous reply 210 04/07/2015 [quote]2006 - Heath Ledger was nominated for Best Actor in Brokeback Mountain. But the Academy gave the award to Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote in a role Hoffman played (albeit brilliantly) a cliched, effeminate, self-hating gay man, who betrays everyone involved. What bugged me about Hoffman's win was it had been done before. Robert Morse did it on Broadway and it was taped for TV. I never got what was so brilliant about doing a carbon copy.

Same thing with Marion Cotillard/Jane Lapotaire and Forrest Whitaker and whoever it was who did the same role in Raid on Entebee. by Anonymous reply 211 04/07/2015 When the hell has Bullock ever given an Oscar deserving performance? I agree that the year she won was relatively weak, but it doesn't change the fact that she gave a Lifetime acting job in a movie of the week film. by Anonymous reply 212 04/07/2015 We make fun of her on DL all the time but that was truly Gaby Sidibe's award -- especially since it turns out she is nothing like that character. Bullock's award is really embarrassing now in retrospect (and I even like her). by Anonymous I lot of people thought Gravity was other worthy. by Anonymous reply 214 04/07/2015 Halle, Cuba, and Sandra seem to be leading the way in the most UNDESERVING category! Which gives us all renewed faith in the taste of the DLers--at least the ones on this thread. Three people who do not have even a shred of acting ability.

One beautiful (does that mean she should have an Oscar?), one who can be funny and seems like a nice guy, and one who is very bizarre and looks like an anteater...and appeared in Gravity--which is easily one of the absolute worst films ever made. Helen Hunt also has no acting ability whatsoever. Shirley Maclaine is a weird actress who has played herself for over 50 years--look back at Gittle in the awful Two for the Seesaw (it was on TMC last year--I had never heard of it)--her wooden bitchy performance in Steel Magnolias and her half asleep turn on Downton Abbey. She plays the same in each. She never should have been on Downton. by Anonymous reply 215 04/07/2015 I have to agree with those who have mentioned Argo. Totally forgettable flick that shouldn't have even been nominated. The industry's love affair with Ben Affleck totally baffles me. by Anonymous reply 216 04/07/2015 There's no way in hell Geoffrey Rush deserved the award for Shine.

The kid who played the younger David carried that entire movie and character and then 30 minutes to the end, Geoffrey comes in and gets placed as the Best Actor Nominee/Winner.. AND he didn't even thank the kid. by Anonymous reply 217 04/07/2015 Watch Joanne Woodward's surprised reaction when Glenda Jackson's name is announced as the Best Actress winner for "A Touch of Class". Also, note the last public appearance by Susan Hayward. Very ill with cancer, they had to shoot her up with painkillers backstage before she entered on Charlton Heston's arm. by Anonymous Both Cher AND Olympia Dukakis for that piece of celluloid shit "Moonstruck". by Anonymous reply 219 04/07/2015 I actually think Bullock's performance elevated the Blindside a bit of above the movie of the week script and story. She took what could have been a very over the top character and kept her grounded. She might not have deserved the Oscar, but her performance carried the movie. I would say it was at least worthy of a nomination (but probably not a win). There are lesser deserving Oscars out there.

by Anonymous reply 220 04/07/2015 If Bullock hadn't won, we wouldn't have that humiliating acceptance speech where she thanked her piece of shit husband profusely, days before the story broke that he'd been cheating on her. by Anonymous reply 221 04/07/2015 I think people also underestimate Bullock's performance in Gravity. Sure, people might think the movie may have sucked but at the same time, people don't think about what goes into acting by yourself, and acting in a situation when there's not actually anything in front of you and you're using your imagination because you're in front of a green screen. by Anonymous reply 225 04/07/2015 [quote]AND GONE WITH THE WIND is a GREAT movie, NOT racist! MAMMY is the smartest character and best actress in the whole thing--HOW is it racist? She is still a stereotype of the archetype Southern mammy. Heck, she is even named 'Mammy.' and she played the same role previously in the film version of SHOW BOAT.

Not to mention the other black characters are portrayed as Stepin Fetchit stereotypes (i.e. laxy, slow-talking, dimwitted, adult-chidlren). Granted, Selznick asked for the NAACP's input when adapting the book, which is even more racist and stereotypical, but by today's standards, GWTW still miles away from being a fair portrait of plantation life. My main issue is that it portrays it as an idyllic magical place, and the slaves have no complaints and are kindly treated as they happily go about their servitude. The opening is downright insulting: [quote]There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South... Here in this pretty world Gallantry took its last bow... Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave... Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered... A Civilization gone with the wind... Yeah, more like a nightmare for the many slaves. by Anonymous Hilary Swank for M$B. How hard is it to play white trash?

by Anonymous 04/07/2015 Totally agree about Ledger possibly not winning (or even nominated) had he not died. For one, the Academy had never nominated a comic book character. Well, if you want to count Pacino in DICK TRACY, but by then Pacino was a legend and already had 5 nominations (and zero wins) over an 18-year period with classics like THE GODFATHER PARTS I & II, DOG DAY AFTERNOON, and SERPICO. Ledger's filmography wasn't very impressive by comparison. In 1989, Jack Nicholson's name was tossed around for a nomination for his Joker in BATMAN, and even though he was already a 2-time Oscar-winner with 9 nominations, they overlooked him. Same with Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman. I remember there was some buzz about her performance, but in the end they gave it to her for LOVE FIELD instead, which Siskel & Ebert called the worst nomination of the Best Actress bunch that year. Anyhoo! Who knows what would've happened had Ledger lived. Maybe he'd gotten the nomination after all.

But one thing's for certain: his early death certainly helped DARK KNIGHT at the box office and cemented his win. You can't deny that played no major part in it. He's great in the role and, yes, during filming, Ledger's co-stars were saying he was doing an incredible job, but it wasn't until he died (2-3 months after filming wrapped up) that "Oscar" started being mentioned. So even though Ledger was getting raves by his co-stars (not critics, mind you, 'cause the movie wasn't even finished yet) nobody considered that he would get an Oscar nomination, much less win, until AFTER he died. So his early death (only 28), coupled with the fact that the film became a huge success, the highest-grossing film of the year and the second highest grossing of all time domestically (after TITANIC), and became a cultural phenomenon, made him the foregone winner. But had he not died, would he still have been the frontrunner? I think Robert Downey, Jr., a 20+ veteran and former nominee, would've taken it.

He was having a career resurgence that year with two big hits (TROPIC THUNDER and IRON MAN) and had the comeback narrative. If Ledger had not died, he would not have had any narrative, just a comic book movie.. He would've been praised, no doubt, but at 28 the Academy would not have felt the need to award him. Though they often award female twentyseomthings in Best Actress/Supporting Actress, they very rarely award ,male twentysomethings. For example, in the Supporting Actor category's 78 years of existence, only three other twentysomething actors have won: Cuba Gooding, Jr. (age 29) for JERRY MAGUIE (1996), Timothy Hutton (age 20) for ORDINARY PEOPLE (1980), George Chakiris (age 27) in WEST SIDE STORY (1961). That's only four actors in their twenties (Ledger included) in 78 years!

The winners are usually in their 40s or 50s (or older), with the occasional thirtysomething, Thus, Ledger's young age would've worked against him, as well as THE DARK KNIGHT's comic book genre. I mean, the Academy didn't respect it enough to nominate it for Best Picture or Best Director. I mean, it got 8 nominations (and won two), but they were all tech categories (Visual Effects, Sound Mixing, Makeup, Film Editing, Cinematography, Sound Editing, Are Direction). These are viewed as "lesser" awards. Ledger's was the only big category (Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Screenplay). by Anonymous 04/07/2015 [quote]but there was nobody else deserving the year Sandra Bullock won Bullshit! Gabourey Sibide should've taken it. She was the most deserving of the 5, but neither she nor Carey Mulligan had a chance, being newcomers and first-time nominees. I think they were #'s 3 and 4, respectively, with Helen Mirren dead last, having just won three years previously.

Unfortunately, the race came down between Bullock and Streep, which is a shame 'cause none of their performances were that great. Still, Bullock was the lesser of two evils, so to speak. I couldn't stomach Streep winning her third Oscar for JULIE & JULIA. That's a first Oscar win; second or third Oscars should be more impressive. I can't believe that hing was on its way to winning and they were just going to sit back and let it happen. It took Sandra Bullock coming out of nowhere to derail this train, and I’m glad it did. Streep’s performance is SNL-level, really; at no point was I convinced that she was Julia Child. It was a hideously obvious “performance” that sapped any sort of believability from the film. So thank you, Sandra Bullock. by Anonymous Natalie Portman earned her win... by Anonymous reply 231 04/07/2015 YOUR opinion is a piece of shit, r219, or any other of you other armchair DL critics opinions here. Just what have you accomplished that is Oscar worthy or gives you the cred to decide?

by Anonymous reply 232 04/07/2015 [quote]AND GONE WITH THE WIND is a GREAT movie, NOT racist! MAMMY is the smartest character and best actress in the whole thing--HOW is it racist? That's Best SUPPORTING actress in the whole thing and don't you forget it. by Anonymous 04/07/2015 So many ways to answer this question. Winners who didn't do much of anything to win, some of whom were being rewarded for body of work or being egregiously overlooked for specific other work. Winners who stole oscars from much more deserving competition. Winners who gave out and out bad performances. But when you think of the whole thing it's a farce. At its most honest, it's not awarded to the performance that is necessarily the most accomplished (however one defines that, always subjective) but rather for having gotten the role that's the most impressive and doing it justice. In other words, it should be presented as the award for the performer who got the plummest role and didn't disappoint.... but that's not the same as giving the most accomplished performance.

Often time great acting is making something extraordinary or memorable out of material that just isn't. by Anonymous reply 234 04/07/2015 "Sweet Lelani" (Harry Owens) from WAKIKI WEDDING winning "Best Song of 1937" over "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (Gershwins) from SHALL WE DANCE and "That Old Feeling" (Fain-Brown) from VOGUES OF 1938. by Anonymous reply 235 04/07/2015 The only person who should've been nominated from JULIE AND JULIA was Jane Lynch. She was heartbreaking. A very surprising performance that was actually smug-free. by Anonymous reply 237 04/07/2015 [quote]Instead the Academy gave the 2002 Best Supporting Actor Award to Chris Cooper in Adaptation (WTF). That was absolutely a deserving win. It was a great performance, and it was truly supporting. by Anonymous reply 238 04/07/2015 I agree with R238.

Cooper's is one of the best supporting actor wins of the 2000s. I even think that Meryl should've won that year alongside him. Loved her no-holds-barred performance in that. It was decidedly free of many of her usual tics. Also, Heath Ledger's performance in "Monster's Ball" was not even the same year as Cooper's in "Adaptation" so I really don't know what that poster's going on about. by Anonymous Helen Hunt, I can't stand that cunt. by Anonymous reply 240 04/07/2015 Does anyone here feel Linda Blair was robbed of the Best Supporting Actress win? I'm undecided since it WAS Mercedes McCambridge doing the demon voice. by Anonymous reply 241 04/07/2015 I am actually okay with Swank win #2 -- the physicality, the way she committed, the vulnerability. I loved her far more than I loved the movie (which I liked far more when I revisited it post-hype).

But I am in the minority on Win #1 and it won't make me popular here -- couldn't she have done something with her voice in "Boys Don't Cry"? It's too high and gentle and girllish unless she was playing pre-puberty. I still don't buy anyone thinking she was a male and it could've been solved very easily by using a lower tone THROUGHOUT. Go back and give that one to Bening just to get it over with and her out of the way. Swank can keep the 2004 one. by Anonymous reply 242 04/07/2015 P.S. That looping thing on Blair really was a dealbreaker. Plus she was just okay in her non-possessed scenes, final kiss on priest aside. by Anonymous reply 244 04/07/2015 Most of her performance was looped by Mercedes McCambridge plus sound FX. The actor equivalent of lip-synching. WB and the production kept this secret, by the way, so it really was impressive to think a 12 year old girl was doing that voice. Oscar time!

Then McCambridge came out of the closet wanting more blockbuster money. Goodbye, Oscar. (Not just Blair's, either). by Anonymous 04/07/2015 Linda Blair had no chance in hell against Tatum O'Neal anyway. The only person I could see beating O'Neal would've been Sylvia Sidney (SUMMER WISHES, WINTER DREAMS) perhaps as a sentimental favorite. The problem there was that nobody liked the movie she was in and she was dead in the first fifteen minutes of it. by Anonymous reply 246 04/07/2015 It wasn't McCambridge who scuttled Blair's chances as much as Eileen Dietz Delber, who - just before the voting - announced that she had been the physical stand-in for Blair, and that a lot of the footage was her. Friedkin and others denied this, but the damage was done - no one could tell how much of Blair was really on the screen (as it turns out, a lot - Dietz Delber was lying about how much she was featured). by Anonymous The Greatest Show on Earth for best picture 1952. Just a horrible BAD movie.

by Anonymous reply 248 04/07/2015 [quote]Streep’s performance is SNL-level, really; at no point was I convinced that she was Julia Child. You see what you want to see. I've watched J&J many times and am always convinced I am watching Julia Child. We've seen this thread a thousand times and every year it's the same people and I still disagree with a lot of the usual suspects. I think the least deserving of all time is Ginger Rogers, who won giving a hammy performance over Bette Davis in The Letter Joan Fontaine in Rebecca Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story and Martha Scott in Our Town by Anonymous reply 253 04/07/2015 But then, of course, they give Streep her third coveted Oscar for the godawful IRON LADY. This performance is the ultimate mixed bag for Streep. Her moments as a doddering octogenarian seeing ghosts of husband past is, without question, some of the best acting she’s EVER given. And if the film were entirely comprised of those Lear-esque moments, I’d have been perfectly fine with her winning her Oscar.

But the rest of the film (the bulk of it, sadly) is a trainwreck, and she’s a disaster. Granted, most of the blame should go to Abi Morgan (screenwriter) and Phyllida Lloyd (director), but Streep can’t save it, and the awful makeup makes her look more alien than it should (it’s like she killed the real Thatcher and wore her skin like an Edgar-suit). And to think the makeup also won the Oscar. (I can't believe THE IRON LADY is a two-time Oscar winner.) :-/ In retrospect, I would rather Streep have won for JULIE & JULIA than IRON LADY. At last the former was an enjoyable movie. by Anonymous reply 254 04/07/2015 [quote]Most of her performance was looped by Mercedes McCambridge plus sound FX. The actor equivalent of lip-synching. It was actually Blair and McCambridge's voices blended in. R247 has is correct. Ellen Burstyn in her book said one of her big regrets was not going to bat more publicly for Linda after Delber came out with that charge.

Burstyn said that both her and Blair did most of their own stunts and in one of them both were thrown so violently that both have some permanent damage because of it. by Anonymous reply 272 04/08/2015 Shirley Maclaine playing herself (and doing an awful, forced job of it) of the 1000th in Terms of Endearment. Lame. by Anonymous reply 273 04/08/2015 Whatev. Shirley MacLaine is the bomb in Terms of Endearment. I vote Helen Hunt, Gwyneth, or Reese W. I didnt find ANY special moments in those performances and I didn't go in closed minded or anything. Just bland. Even Sandy B. had a few nice moments in The Blind Side, sometimes she can bring great charisma or heart to a role. I hate Julia's win for Erin Brokovich. Ellen B. or Laura Linney were FAR more special in their respective films. Julia could have won for Pretty Woman.

by Anonymous reply 275 04/08/2015 This may be politically incorrect, but they really ought to have awarded Harold Russell only the Honorary Oscar that he received and given the Best Supporting Actor Award in 1947 that he also won to Clifton Webb for The Razor's Edge. The honorary Oscar was established because the Oscar board assumed the voters would not award Russell the competitive one and they didn't want him to be bypassed. He is the only performer to win two Oscars for one role. Russell played a man who lost both hands in the WWII and had hooks instead so very convincingly because that is exactly what happened to him. He wasn't an actor beforehand (no pun intended) and he was offered no further professional acting work until interest in him was mildly re-kindled in the 1980s. by Anonymous Judas Priest, (R107), how could you not like Kitty Foyle? by Anonymous reply 281 04/08/2015 Robert DeNiro for the Godfather part two. Nothing remotely special about that performance.

John Cazale should have gotten a best supporting nomination instead of DeNiro and Lee Strasberg. Michael Douglass in Wall Street. Russell Crowe Halle Berry. That performance was truly embarrassing. Marisa Tomei playing a character anyone from Jersey Shore could have done. Jennifer Lawrence. Saw SLP on netflix and was totally underwhelmed by her performance. Kevin Spacey for American Beauty. Its just Kevin with a smug look on his being sarcastic just like in every other movie he has made, Julia Roberts. Sandra Bullock. Renee Zellweger. Cher. I don't know what the academy sees in George Clooney. Tired of them treating him like he is some damn chairman of the board everytime he shows up. Dude can't act. Tom Hanks is probably the biggest Oscar bait actor ever along with Streep.

by Anonymous reply 282 04/08/2015 As much as I like her, but she didn't deserve her third Oscar, ab=nd that was Ingrid Bergman for "Murder On The Orient Express" by Anonymous reply 283 04/08/2015 r282, really?. It's one thing to not think that De Niro deserved his first Oscar, but to call it one of the least deserving wins of all time.... by Anonymous reply 284 04/08/2015 [quote]As much as I like her, but she didn't deserve her third Oscar, and that was Ingrid Bergman for "Murder On The Orient Express" I always wondered if that win might have cost her winning for Autumn Sonata. I have never seen it, but have heard it was some of her best work. by Anonymous reply 285 04/08/2015 I think Halle Berry is excellent in Monster's Ball. All the J. Law haters? She was fucking terrific in SLP, a performance as funny and touching as that can be done by just anyone?

No, it can't. And it's why the Oscar went to her. by Anonymous I think R269 is as big an idiot as R265. by Anonymous reply 289 04/08/2015 SHirley McClaine and Meryl Streep both SUCK big time, I don't know which one is worst and more stuck up. Terms of Endearment is probably the worst movie I have ever seen. Yawn. Horrible writing and acting. Was this a James Brooks mess? I agree with whoever said his writing SUCKS. The Big Chill is another totally idiotic movie, they should market it as a sleep aide. by Anonymous reply 290 04/08/2015 "I think Halle Berry is excellent in Monster's Ball. All the J. Law haters? She was fucking terrific in SLP, a performance as funny and touching as that can be done by just anyone? No, it can't.

And it's why the Oscar went to her." Halle Berry is dreadful in "Monster's Ball." The sex scene she does with Billy Bob Thornton is one of the most grotesque in cinema history and when she starts begging him to fuck her ("make me feeeellll ghuuuuud!") her acting is so bad that it's laughable. "J-Law" won the Oscar because she is (was?) the current Hollywood It girl. She was quite miscast in the role, but she got because she was the It girl. Anyway, Emmanuelle Riva should have won that year for "Amour." Her performance was definitely superior to Jennifer Lawrence's, but she's old and French. They went with the overrated It girl. by Anonymous reply 291 04/08/2015 [quote]Halle Berry is dreadful in "Monster's Ball." The sex scene she does with Billy Bob Thornton is one of the most grotesque in cinema history and when she starts begging him to fuck her ("make me feeeellll ghuuuuud!") her acting is so bad that it's laughable.

The scene that made me cringe was when she started hitting her fat song for hiding junk food. The acting was so amaeurish, and the way she was hitting him was so fake, like she went out of her way to not hit him for real lest she hurt the young actor. The whole scene came off phony. by Anonymous reply 292 04/08/2015 Ginger Rogers and Jimmy Stewart both won Best Actress/Actor in 1940, Rogers for her uninteresting turn in Kitty Foyle and Stewart for what was for all purposes a supporting role in. The Philadelphia Story. I cannot stand Stewart; he basically played himself in everything. by Anonymous Any Oscar that goes to a non-white person. by Anonymous reply 299 04/18/2015 Definitely Gwyneth for "Shakespeare In Love". To beat out Meryl Streep's dying mother performance in "One True Thing"? I sometimes shake my head on that one. Actually, Marisa Tomei was very funny and rather charming in "My Cousin Vinny" but not worthy of an Oscar.

Susan Sarandon should have won for "Lorenzo's Oil" but was beaten by Emma Thompson's snooze performance for "Howard's End". Instead, she wins for "Dead Man Walking" playing a nun. Then came the she should have won the year or 2 years ago Oscar. Faye Dunaway wins for "Network" (wow a bitchy female network executive)which that year (1976) should have gone to Sissy Spacek for "Carrie". Dunaway should have won for her superb performance in "Chinatown" in 1974 but was beaten by Ellen Burstyn's play it by the book performance for "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore". Burstyn should have won the previous year for her great performance as the shocked mother in "The Exorcist" instead loses to that overrated actress Glenda Jackson. The Academy never gets it right.

by Anonymous reply 300 04/18/2015 For me: Worst Best Actors Rex Harrison (Downright terrible, all other four nominees acted circles around him) Spencer Tracy (Awful in both, great in other films) David Niven (Charming actor for sure, but not one with depth) Yul Brynner (Seriously, Dean, Hudson, Douglas and Olivier deserved it more than him) George Arliss (Forgotten hammy actor gives a hammy performance (one of the bad kind)) Sean Penn (Utterly awful in both) Gary Cooper (His Sergeant York was awful, when his friend is killed by a hand grenade, he doesn't show any anger whatsoever) John Wayne (Deserved nominations for Red River, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, The Searchers, The Quiet Man and The Shootist, but not for this one) by Anonymous reply 301 01/31/2016 Sean Penn in both of his performances, that horrible Italian in that awful comic Holocaust movie, but both will be eclipsed by DiCrappio finally desperately clutching his tin award to his breast in the next few weeks. by Anonymous

Question: For the 1st time ever, a person has won both a best actor/actress Oscar and a Razzie for the worst actor/actress in the same year. Who did it this year?
Answer: Sandra Bullock