I did think Cape Fear was MS's low at the time, but I could never have imagined Shutter Island.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:00 (twelve years ago) link
adding to omissions: terence stamp in the limey, marky mark in boogie nights (maybe)
― balls, Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
saw casino again a week ago and it holds up
― balls, Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:02 (twelve years ago) link
ie still a huge disappointment
Stamp, Fonda, and Warren in The Limey def.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:02 (twelve years ago) link
hell if clooney's gonna get regular nominations i'll sure as fuck take him in out of sight over that awful awful up in the clouds movie every time.
― balls, Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:04 (twelve years ago) link
oh shit -- I forgot Stephen Rea!
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:05 (twelve years ago) link
Not that it was ever going to get him a nomination, but Keitel in Smoke would be near the top of my list (arguably a supporting role, now that I think about it).
― clemenza, Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:07 (twelve years ago) link
lol i found out the 'twist' in the crying game when the oscar nominations were announced that year. also took a girl on the first date to the crying game. lol 90s.
― balls, Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:07 (twelve years ago) link
OH FUCK - keitel in bad lieutenant, add that shit to omissions
When the audience learned The Secret, an old biddy seated in front of us turned to her companion and says triumphantly, "OH, see, THAT's the surprise!"
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
nice turn by giancarlo esposito as a young morbs in smoke
― balls, Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
hell if clooney's gonna get regular nominations i'll sure as fuck take him in out of sight over that awful awful up in the clouds movie every time
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
― hipstery nayme (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
ok ok so which ones are in you guys' top fives then?
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
is the crying game the origin of twist mania in hollywood? i was thinking it didn't really kick in until sixth sense but usual suspects, david fincher's career are before that so maybe not.
― balls, Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
Haley Joel Osment is another victim of Award Fraud (i.e. he shoulda been Best Actor).
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
I was going to add, "But thank god he wasn't nominated for Bad Lieutenant..." It's been ages, I should probably give it another chance.
― clemenza, Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
Did anyone else think that Cage's winning performance was just a lot of anguished histrionics?
― clemenza, Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
Cage's specialty up to that point was in histrionics. The film is more histrionic than Cage and Shue are. At the time I thought Penn should've won the Oscar and let Shue beat Sarandon.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
These are all quite good performances:
Woody Harrelson - The People vs. Larry FlyntRobert Duvall - The ApostlePeter Fonda - Ulee's GoldSean Penn - Sweet & LowdownNick Nolte - Affliction
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
eh top of my head in no particular order based on somewhat distant memories
irons in reversal of fortunepenn in dead man walkingpenn in sweet and lowdowntravolta in pulp fictiondenzel in malcolm x
― balls, Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
Mike Figgis may be the only person breathing who adores Sting the solo artist.
thought leaving las vegas was awful flick but cage and esp shue were great in it. i do wonder how those careers are different if he loses and she wins though.
― balls, Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
i know for a fact that marilu henner is a huge sting fan.
― balls, Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
cage would've been incredible in hamlet 2
― hipstery nayme (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
Irons' acceptance speech is class:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsXFl6IKpyI
He thanks Cronenberg for directing him in his best un-nominated performance.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
Sting might be the only person breathing who likes Mike Figgis films.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
Sarandon's finally winning the Oscar marked the moment when she jumped the shark and lost her snap.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
i think her snap runs a ping pong themed nightclub or something now.
― balls, Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
snap
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
all time fave oscar speechhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0Q_nyjuEak
― balls, Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:21 (twelve years ago) link
^^^^ oddest supporting actor lineup ever?
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
Pacino's mullet!
I liked Cage in Valley Girl, [i]Peggy Sue Got Married, and Raising Arizona, but yeah, he was pretty over the top in Wild at Heart.
― clemenza, Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
wonderfully understated imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfcvPFpXUnI
― hipstery nayme (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:27 (twelve years ago) link
i was aware that brenda fricker won an oscar for my left foot, i'm aware that the previous year's best supporting actress winner gives away the best supporting actor award and yet it still felt very weird to see brenda fricker there.
― balls, Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:30 (twelve years ago) link
i really dig these:
Denzel Washington - Malcolm XWoody Harrelson - The People vs. Larry FlyntBilly Bob Thornton - Sling BladeRobert Duvall - The ApostleSean Penn - Sweet & LowdownSean Penn - Dead Man WalkingNick Nolte - Affliction
i guess sling blade was a gimmick perf, but it was a good one!
thinkin i'll vote for woody, duvall or nolte
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
Brenda Flicker's win, although deserved, was classic coattails win.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:39 (twelve years ago) link
I finally saw Sling Blade last year; it doesn't move at all! The movie only really picks up whenever Dwight Yoakam and John Ritter enter.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
yoakam's fucken great in it! now that's a guy who never really gets his due. still a hard movie to put in context w/rest of billy bob's career (well maybe not so hard considering all the pretty horses)
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
yeah Yoakam should've gotten a supporting nod.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 September 2011 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
Irons, Duvall & Nolte (affliction) are the only ones I rate highly
― buzza, Saturday, 10 September 2011 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
awww @ Cronenberg getting a little ovation in the Irons clip. (Dead Ringers is probably my fave of his.)
― Simon H., Saturday, 10 September 2011 03:59 (twelve years ago) link
still gutted and baffled that Ray Winstone wasn't even nominated for Nil By Mouth. just about wipes the floor with this lot.
― piscesx, Saturday, 10 September 2011 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
eastwood imo
― Lamp, Saturday, 10 September 2011 07:11 (twelve years ago) link
Cage's winning film impressed hetero men who've seen too much porn.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 September 2011 13:02 (twelve years ago) link
d/ling now
― hipstery nayme (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 September 2011 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 18 September 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
Vote, you hippies.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 00:08 (twelve years ago) link
Jeremy Irons - Reversal of FortuneAnthony Hopkins - The Silence of the LambsDenzel Washington - Malcolm XDaniel Day-Lewis - In The Name of the FatherRobert Duvall - The ApostleRussell Crowe - The Insider
would be my shortlist. voted for irons in the end.
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Monday, 19 September 2011 00:17 (twelve years ago) link
he's right though that he shoulda won for dead ringers.
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Monday, 19 September 2011 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
jess and I in mindmeld shockah
I want an audio recording of all of Irons' monologues from ROF ("All Sunny ate for dinnah was a sohn-DAY").
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
Reversal of Fortune[ is one of my favorite courtroom movies, despite a sorely underused Anabella Sciorra (I guess Hollywood had room for only one Italian-American young actress after Marisa Tomei won her Oscar two years later).
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the LambsSean Penn - Dead Man WalkingEdward Norton Woody
Voted Hopkins
― ᒓᴥᒔ (ENBB), Monday, 19 September 2011 00:32 (twelve years ago) link
Joe Pesci's wasnt the shortest speech though:Hitchcock just said thank you.still waiting for the guy who would say only "thanks" - or- say nothing
― nostormo, Monday, 19 September 2011 00:34 (twelve years ago) link
Of those I've seen, Cage, Day-Lewis, Penn (DMW), Nolte, Harrelson, Washington, Hopkins (SOTL) and Hawthorne. Never saw Reversal of Fortune, but sounds like I should.
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Monday, 19 September 2011 10:41 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 19 September 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
whoa!
A pretty good top five.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
Wow--never would have guessed Farnsworth would win.
― clemenza, Monday, 19 September 2011 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't know Eastwood's perf had defenders -- he's at best not bad; prefer him in In the Line of Fire.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
Hopkins working way harder in that movie than Karloff or Rathbone. (in 20 mins' screen time)
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 September 2011 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
last time he worked hard in anything
― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Monday, 19 September 2011 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
he worked as hard as Nixon did.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
Dick a way more convincing cannibal.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 September 2011 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
Watching Reversal of Fortune again, I'm amazed Oscar went with the black comedy/farcical role.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrxenZhf78I
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 31 December 2017 02:34 (six years ago) link
Scrolling through this, I feel it necessary to clarify that my second-place Nolte vote was for Affliction, not for the one where he cried a lot.
― clemenza, Sunday, 31 December 2017 02:57 (six years ago) link
I tried settling the matter.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 February 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link