ONTD Original: When the Academy Awards the Wrong Performance from an Actor

[madamezuzu]

Don't you just hate when politics gets involved in your award shows and RUINS it all? Have you ever seen an actor give a performance so amazing, so life altering, only for them to go home empty handed come award season? Have you seen the same actor get awarded either the next year or twenty years later and the role is the epitome of "her?" Well,

Comments

[izzzzy23]

Wild that Kate Winslet won for The Reader, a film I'm pretty sure not a single person has mentioned since 2008. The only thing I can remember about it is Hugh Jackman's funny bit about it in his musical Oscars opening.

[ginainabottle]

I'll let this moment live rent free in my mind for as long as I care about Oscars.

[raffriff]

The only Oscar intro I care about - I sometimes watch the clip of Anne and Hugh doing Frost Nixon when I need a chuckle

[patchsassy]

And the part where Anne says "But Frank Langella was sitting right next to me!"

[ginainabottle]

Agreed on Nicole & Julianne. Julianne in particular, but mostly bc I was rooting so hard for Rosamund in 2015. She was absolutely flawless as Amazing Amy.

[undoit]

Rosamund in Gone Girl was a moment tbh

[winter_lace]

Amazing Amy Elliott Dunne was ICONIC

[agentsoup]

I wish they gave her a better award season push but apparently she's a complete fucking nightmare BTS.

[ponyboy]

matt dillon was nommed for crash, it should've been for drugstore cowboy

[blanchedavidian]

Nicole absolutely murdered the Hours and deserved that Oscar I haven't even gotten through the rest of this list bc I'm about to faint at reading that

[raffriff]

All the ladies in the Hours were incredible lbr. I thought Julianne Moore was the standout tho.

[blanchedavidian]

They should have all gotten awards, they were all so good. Every time I see that movie is streaming someplace, I get super excited then I remember how depressing it is and I'm like... Let's put on some comedy

[raffriff]

I get sucked in terrible rabbit holes and I find out depressing facts about Vanessa Bell’s daughter etc

[genbu_no_miko24]

Daniel Kaluuya should've won for Get Out instead of Judas and the Black Messiah. It was a longshot but I wish Dominique Fishback would've been nominated for BSA in that movie. It wasn't a lot but she was a sweet addition to the story.

[raffriff]

Daniel Kaluuya should've won for Get Out

HASHTAG FACTS

[genbu_no_miko24]

He was good in JatBM but I felt like anyone~ could've played that role.