Kate Winslet is a front runner to win the Best Actress Academy Award on Sunday, in case you hadn’t heard. Read the full post.
Feb 19
2009
12:30 PM ET
Kate Winslet: Maybe it's better if she doesn't win an Oscar
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I think Meryl “should” win(hope it’s true), but Kate “will” win.
Award voters always take Meryl’s great performance for granted.They feel no suprise at her talent anymore.They nominate her to show their respect instead of letting her win.That’s why she’s gone home without trophy for 30 years.
Oscar likes to give awards to young girls(I don’t mean Kate will win because she’s younger,she’s great too),from 1997~2008 every best actress is under 40 when they won,except Helen Mirren,so I don’t think this year will be an exception.
i love kate, and if she was nominated for revolutionary road, i would be all about her. but for the reader? eh, give it to meryl.
Personally I thought Meryl Streep’s performance was a caricature. I saturday night live impression of a strict nun and it’s being overrated just because it’s a “Meryl Streep performance” The Devil Wears a Nun Habbit. Entertaining but not Oscar worthy. Kate Winslet acts circles around her performance in The Reader. Much more subtle, subdued and true than Streep’s practically comical bad brooklyn accented overacting in Doubt. Talk about overrated. Winslet’s performance was much more emotionally honest.
I agree with everyone who is saying that bringing Ms. Theron into this is unfair. She got another nomination two years later and has continued to do interesting work in stuff like “In the Valley of Elah” and “Battle in Seattle.” I’ve actually been impressed by how she’s handled her career after the Oscar even if the roles haven’t been in big hit movies
I will never understand the attitude that the Academy “owes” Meryl Streep a third Oscar. It’s a competition. It’s a bit like saying that the Olympic committee owes a certain country a gold medal because that country hasn’t won any in years. Streep has two competitive Oscars, which is two more than Kubrick, Altman, Hawks, Chaplin, Monroe, Grant, and Garbo combined have won. So what if she won them early in her career? It’s not as if they’ll expire if she doesn’t win another one. Besides, she’ll eventually get a lifetime achievement Oscar.
I love Kate but she does mostly one movie over and over again…she gets naked in depressing box office duds.
Using your logic, nobody gets an Oscar except for those who DESERVE it, and it’s only those who have contributed in the most movies. Therefore, using your logic, Christopher Lee (in 200+ movies) is WAY overdue.
Anonymous, nope. Wrong. You obviously have not seen all of Kate’s work and surely you do not appreciate it.
Yes you do have a point. However, I would love to see a weepy Winlset accepting speech. Yes, she already has the street cred as being the actress of our generation but I think she should finally get the damn thing.
Yes. Give. Kate. Oscar. NOW!
no, I haven’t seen it all. I haven’t seen everything by anybody.
1)Iris:nekkid/bummer/BO bomb
2) Little Children: nekkid/bummer/BO bomb
3) Holy Smoke: nekkid(so I’ve heard/bummer/BO bomb
4) Rev Road: nekkid?/bummer/BO bomb
5) The Reader: nekkid/bummer BO bomb
6) Hideous Kinky: nekkid?/bummer/ BO bomb
So many deserving actors have not won Oscars, and some have won years after they should have, so why not give it to Winslet? I compare her to Cate Blanchett, whose win didn’t affect her career in the least, she kept on giving incredible performances (Notes on a Scandal, Babel to name a few). She deserves to win, I’m letting my DVR handle it since I wake up really early for work, but I’m rooting for her 100%.
Of course Meryl would love to win again (like Jack Nicholson did back in 1998 for his third), but she will also have chances to do so, since she does interesting, complex work at her age.
you found Heavenly Creatures extremely annoying??? wow
Anonymous, give me a break. You sound like you’re 12.
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