Oscar Bait 2022 - 2023

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Mike

LTG said:
Kerry was probably the best. I couldn’t have argued against an Angela career win, especially considering the history of the Academy and the industry. But it’s not her best performance.
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I'd probably say Kerry > Angela > Stephanie > Jamie > Hong. None of them is anywhere close to bad though, and in Hong's case my perception is probably coloured by the fact that I hated the film.
 
New Flame

New Flame

The 'Best Supporting Actress' nominees were all great and probably the most solid category. I would only have given the award to Kerry, Angela or Hong, because EEAAO already won so much in other categories.
 
BTG

BTG

I also would’ve liked to see Angela rewarded this year but it is a bit weird to see the online discourse beginning to rewrite history with her Tina Turner role. A stunning performance that easily would’ve been a deserving winner but she wasn’t ‘robbed’ that year. Holly Hunter’s performance was deserving also.
 
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Alphableat

LTG said:
Kerry was probably the best. I couldn’t have argued against an Angela career win, especially considering the history of the Academy and the industry. But it’s not her best performance.
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Doesn’t need to be her best performance though. I do think she was strongest in the category, followed by Stephanie, then Kerry.

JLC was, ironically, the least good.

(Haven’t seen The Whale.)
 
torontodj

torontodj

BTG said:
I also would’ve liked to see Angela rewarded this year but it is a bit weird to see the online discourse beginning to rewrite history with her Tina Turner role. A stunning performance that easily would’ve been a deserving winner but she wasn’t ‘robbed’ that year. Holly Hunter’s performance was deserving also.
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Absolutely. Holly was unstoppable that year. She pretty much won every lead-up award to the Oscars.
 
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Mike

torontodj said:
Absolutely. Holly was unstoppable that year. She pretty much won every lead-up award to the Oscars.
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Her win was a foregone conclusion, which feels a bit of a shame because Angela, Emma Thompson and Debra Winger were all outstanding as well (I haven't seen Six Degrees of Separation). It's a shame they were all the same year, given that some of the lead actress categories in that decade were shockingly weak.
 
torontodj

torontodj

Mike said:
Her win was a foregone conclusion, which feels a bit of a shame because Angela, Emma Thompson and Debra Winger were all outstanding as well (I haven't seen Six Degrees of Separation). It's a shame they were all the same year, given that some of the lead actress categories in that decade were shockingly weak.
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I think if What's Love Got to Do With It had come out in 1994, Angela would have won.

I finally saw Blue Sky and I have to say Jessica Lange was amazing. Had Blue Sky been released three years earlier in 1991, I wonder, though, if Lange would have even been nominated considering it was a stacked year with Jodie Foster from Silence of the Lambs, Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon from Thelma and Louise.

I suppose Lange might have replaced Bette Midler in For the Boys or Laura Dern in Rambling Rose.
 
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kermit_the_frog

Mike said:
Her win was a foregone conclusion, which feels a bit of a shame because Angela, Emma Thompson and Debra Winger were all outstanding as well (I haven't seen Six Degrees of Separation). It's a shame they were all the same year, given that some of the lead actress categories in that decade were shockingly weak.
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Stockard Channing is win-worthy too… I highly recommend the film!
 
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