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Post by fartyfartsalot on Jan 23, 2019 3:33:31 GMT
I actually haven't seen "Erin Brockovich."
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Post by ck100 on Jan 23, 2019 3:37:04 GMT
I doubt it. I'm sure Sandra Bullock wasn't better than her competition for the year she won her Oscar.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 23, 2019 3:39:45 GMT
It's one of her better movies. Out of the other choices, I only saw The Contender. I'd have to watch it again to judge Allen's performance. Honestly I remember Jeff Bridges and Gary Oldman better.
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Post by rudeboy on Jan 23, 2019 3:39:51 GMT
Roberts was good in the role - certainly infinitely better than Bullock in her dreadful winning vehicle - and if she had to win an Oscar, this was probably the best time to give it to her - but Burstyn and Laura Linney were much better among nominated actresses. My overall pick for the year however, who unfortunately missed the cut, would have been Gillian Anderson, simply heartbreaking in The House of Mirth.
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Post by moviemouth on Jan 23, 2019 4:02:21 GMT
It is very rare that the actual best in any category wins and it is all subjective anyway.
There have been far less deserving wins than Julia Roberts in Erin Brokovich.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Jan 23, 2019 4:04:00 GMT
F*********ck no. She wasn't better than the unnominated Bjork, either.
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Post by anthonyrocks on Jan 23, 2019 16:54:01 GMT
LOL, I still think that Val Kilmer should have Won an Academy Award for His Performance in "TOMBSTONE" but he didn't even get Nominated.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 23, 2019 16:58:46 GMT
I don't care about the Oscars at all so I don't even know how it works. Is it the nominee that gets the most votes that ultimately wins? Because that means if you have 8 nominees for BP, if only 20 percent believe movie "A" is the best, it could still win best picture.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2019 18:04:54 GMT
Julia was great, but Allen was in a class of her own that year.
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Post by bd74 on Jan 25, 2019 3:08:15 GMT
I don't care about the Oscars at all so I don't even know how it works. Is it the nominee that gets the most votes that ultimately wins? Because that means if you have 8 nominees for BP, if only 20 percent believe movie "A" is the best, it could still win best picture. For the acting categories, the one who gets the most votes wins. For Best Picture, it's a "preferential ballot", meaning that voters rank the BP nominees in order of preference from favorite to least favorite. If none of the nominated films gets 50% of the vote, the tabulation of votes then goes to a 2nd round, and so on. |
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Post by bd74 on Jan 25, 2019 3:11:33 GMT
Julia was fantastic in that role. And the film was all about her, whereas Burstyn's film was like 3 stories in one. My pick for the year would have been either Julia or the un-nominated Gillian Anderson in The House of Mirth. But Julia's performance was definitely a strong performance and worthy of the Oscar.
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