Who is the worst actress to have been consistently nominated for an Oscar?

streep, but more for the shit she stars in than her acting

Streep is good in Silkwood and funny in Manhattan and Postcards from the Edge

Sarandon for real. And voting Annette Bening is indeed crazy.

all these ladies are great to defensible-at-least. go ladies!

even front runners roberts, moore & zellweger have done plenty of good stuff. i guess i'd vote zellweger because she's done the least good. moore seems the most irritating to me for murky and irrational reasons but she was maude lebowski so no vote there. vagina. julia roberts also highly aggravating and deserves place in hell for 'pretty woman' but erin brokovich was all right.

Holly Hunter is so great!

moore seems the most irritating to me for murky and irrational reasons but she was maude lebowski so no vote there. vagina.

hahahahahaha

wow, the film threads really do suck.

.............Kate Winslet has 5 nominations?

Angelica Huston is wonderful, anybody who sez otherwise is stupid.

I used to like Laura Linney, but I am getting tired of her now

Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet and Sigourney Weaver are unimpeachably rad.

Young Laura Linney = FIT.

Winslet-Little Children, Eternal Sunshine..., Iris, Titanic, and Sense & Sensibility.

yeah, the movies mostly suck... but she was pretty excellent in all of them, i think.

I only wish we could get some of those screwball actresses involved here. I'd vote the shit out of them.

My first roommate in Chicago, whom I met through the classifieds, was apparently acquaintances with Laura Linney at Brown in the early 1980s. They met in a sign-language class.

if we remove the "before 1980" tag the answer would be Greer Garson or Joan Crawford.

xp: uh, at least 3 of those Winslet movies do not suck.

Eric prefers Judi Dench to Irene Dunne, which shows what listening to too much !!! will do to ya.

Alfred's fag card under suspension.

i liked both eternal sunshine and sense/sensibility.

Can I vote for Robin Williams in this poll?

only in mrs. doubtfire

or Kevin Spacey?

only in midnight in the garden of good and evil

wtf Morbs, you liked Iris?!

wow Garden of G&E that was on TV this weekend and roffled at amazingly bad stream of endless sub-Tennesse Williams southern homo-isms

xp: I liked Titanic, esp after the iceberg (see, I don't always try to pull yr chain).

(in spite of loving Jim Broadbent and Winslet, I've never seen Iris)

I was really expecting to vote Julia Roberts, but Zellweger sucks so much that now I have to consider all my options.

Ooh, Zellweger is kinda meh but compared to Julia Roberts she's wonderful. Julia could make CW actresses look fantastic.

Julia Roberts is awful. I think Diane Keaton sucks really bad. Irvin Welsh uses the name "Judi Dench" as a synonym for farting in his books which I think is appropriate.

my roommate on annette bening: "the poor man's diane keaton"

i'd go with roberts. streep in devil wears prada was a worthy nomination even tho i kind of can't stand her either

again, Bening's best perf not nominated:

Mars Attacks!

(is yr roomie calling Warren Beatty a poor man?)

You ppl are mad re Streep, her skills are slammin', only the movies suck.

the only thing i've seen her where she actively annoyed me was running with scissors

her IN

You ppl are mad re Streep, her skills are slammin', only the movies suck.

I'm with Kael -- too often she creates an excellent impersonation of a human being (exceptions: A Cry in the Dark, Madison County, Adaptation, Prada).

Julia Roberts, rack notwithstanding. Zellweger close second...and I have no idea who I would give the bronze medal of shittiness to.

Winslet, Frances McDormand, Holly Hunter and Helen Mirren are all untouchable here.

I feel Winslet's being a tad overrated here. She's got talent, but not the presense or charisma of a true great.

She was fantastic in Extras, though.

I instantly thought "Julia Roberts" before I even opened the thread.
Seeing the JR hate on display has warmed my heart.

hating Julia Roberts is so boring though. Pick a beter target -- like, say, Joan Allen.

Facts is facts.

i place julia roberts firmly in the sandra bullock/keanu reeves shitpool, but somehow i think that zellweger is worse, mostly because who wound even consider giving her an oscar in the first place.

Pick a beter target -- like, a good actress.

so can I complain about Oscar-winners Halle Berry and Alyssa Milano and Charlize Theron now?

Alyssa Milano???

That was my reaction. I can't find anything on the web about her having won an Oscar, I think it might be one of them there joke things.

Do you mean Marisa Tomei?

Maryssa Tomeilano.

lolz yeah I meant Marissa Tomei

lololololololol

Fuck a Swank. Cher? Whoopie? Mira Sorvino? Lot's of undeserving actresses win oscars. But ZELLWEGER with 3 nominations? Luckiest ever.

there is not a single role she has played that would not have been better served by Close, Huston, Bening or Michael Keaton

Anyway, I think her best work was probably made back in the early '80s, so maybe she's just the wrong age for this board.

Hey, this is a board that listed 1980 as the cut-off date.

We totally disagree – she's improved, warmed, whatever. She's insufferable in The French Lieutenant's Woman, Sophie's Choice and In the Still of the Night.

One of my friends went to college with Jodi Foster. Said she was very nice.

Diane Keaton still sucks.

people are sick of Laura Linney? ;_; I luff her.

i guess i vote Bening?

Laura Linney is massively overrated but I don't hate her. Actually I don't hate most of the actresses on this list but I hate some of the movies they were in with a fiery passion.

(For example, I love Nicole Kidman to death but MY GOD "THE HOURS" WAS A GIGANTIC PILE OF HORSESHIT)

Actually the only one I really hate is Julianne Moore.

even if Linney never made a good movie ever again, I would have to love her because of You Can Count on Me.

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The Hours is so so bad.

nah, Linney's just entering Philip Seymour Hoffman overrated land, but she's fine.

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Interesting. You know I was going to mention when this thread was still active that I was surprised no one had mentioned Michelle Pfeiffer, but there you go.