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Dec 31
2008
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Should Jodie Foster have won Best Actress in 1988?
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T.J. I am with you 100%. Foster over Close is a TRAVESTY. Glenn Close should have taken this in a walk. The single worst oversight in Oscar history. Pitiful.
Glenn Close deserved it, for sure.
I’m also in the Glenn Close camp. Funny thing is, by the time of Dangerous Liaisons she had become something of a perennial nominee, a bit like Kate Winslet is today, and I think a lot of voters just assumed she was sure to win eventually. But here it is 20 years later, and she is still Oscar-less, and at a career stage where another Best Actress nomination will almost certainly never happen.
I have to go with Jodie Foster. She definately deserved it.
Jodie Foster is a terrible actress. She looks like Michael J. Fox in drag. When she talks she grits her teeth and she acts just like Ben Affleck.
Oh come on Jodie Foster deserved to win.She was the most natural, heartbreaking and believable of all the performers in her category.Glenn Close,I don’t get the fuss about. Too theatrical.I think people are just saying she should win because of that scene at the end and she had a juicy character.She wasn’t even in the film that much it was the John Malkovich show.I completely understand why she lost.To me it was a supporting performance. Sigourney Weaver’s acting was wooden. Meryl Streep would be my second choice for A Cry in the Dark. She was great. But Jodie Foster deserved to win because she managed to completely rise above lifetime material, delivering this explosive raw performance. It amazes me how Foster could be so convincing playing this trashy party girl who she is nothing like in real life at all.Brilliant performance and the best performance to win an Oscar for a mediocre film.Jodie Foster is the best actress of her generation. Brilliant from the start as a child star
Sunny you know nothing about acting. Jodie Foster is one of the best actresses of the past 30 years. Even as a 12 year old she was way better than most actresses in their 30′s and certainly better than any young actress today. To say she is a terrible actress when she is so respected and acclaimed is a joke. Please tell me you’ve only seen her in Flightplan or something. lol.
Glenn Close losing the greatest Oscar travesty? Are you kidding me? lol. What about Judy Garland losing to Grace Kelly? THAT is an Oscar travesty. Glenn Close lost to a great performance period. And Foster had to do more for her role and carry her entire film. Glenn just had a great final scene and the benefit of juicy lines. People tend to take winning performances for granted. I bet if Foster had lost for the Accused everyone would be outraged that she lost for such a powerful dramatic performance and Close won for hamming it up in a few scenes. Foster deserved both her Oscars.
I’m voting for Foster only because the best actress that year wasn’t even nominated, Susan Sarandon for Bull Durham (see EW Oscar snubs). Also, Foster was better than her material and co-star Kelly (where is she now) Mcgillis) unconvincing as a lawyer.
Sorry Carly, but you are as wrong as wrong can be. Jodie won for playing a “victim” and for looking feminine. Talk about hammy! That fake working class accent ranks right up there with Julia Roberts in “Mary Reilly.” If you think Glenn Close was overdoing it perhaps you should take an acting class.
I had seen “The Accused” in years and just happened to catch it on late night TV last week; and even though I’m a huge Sigourney Weaver fan, and I LOVED “Dangerous Liaisons”, the Academy got it right this year. Jodie Foster’s performance is courageous as hell and unflinching. I have yet to see any actress since perform a scene as difficult and demanding as that rape scene. It’s one of the scariest moments in cinema.
P.S. As far as Sigourney Weaver goes, how about a redo of the 1986 Best Actress Oscar – let’s give Signourney the award for her brilliant work in “Aliens” over Marlee Matlin in “Children of a Lesser God”.
Glenn Close.
Jodie Foster was great. She deserved it.
Nothing to argue about this year. It wasn’t a great year for strong female performances; but Jodie’s was. It’s still powerful after 20 years.
You’ve neglected to mention the single biggest factor behind Jodie Foster’s win, EW: William Hinckley Jr. Foster was NOT coming off a career slump with “The Accused.” After forfeiting her entire childhood to stardom, she had purposefully walked away from Hollywood in 1980 to split her time between living in France, attending Yale, and acting only in films shooting outside of the U.S. In her final year of college, her quest for a private, normal life was shattered when the Foster-obsessed nutjob William Hinckley attempted to assassinate President Reagan in an effort to impress her. Much like her “Accused” character, Foster became the center of a media circus not of her making, a victim not only of Hinckley, but of the overzealous international press (who take a ‘hands off’ approach with her to this day in repentence.) Sentiment for her was overwhelming when she made her official return to Hollywood with “The Accused,” in a part voters could easily connect with the actress herself.