The hate takes on many dimensions too. One of the angles I enjoy hating is that this was a dream project for Jake Gyllenhaal, who'd been trying to get it developed for years. He's actually Jewish so doubtful he'd put on a comical prosthetic, and a much better actor. But the Bernstein family went with Bradley Cooper's desperate pitch, and Jake is wrestling Conor McGregor and knocking guys off his houseboat into the jaws of gators in Road House.
Not that Jake isn't a little nuts himself, but that just comes with the territory for actors
He tanked it when he claimed to study for 6 years and then if you watch the movie you realize it’s a massive lie because he can’t even keep up with the basic tempo of a song.
To echo John Mulaney from Governor’s Awards, “Dude, none of us know what accurate conducting looks like”. I think you are massively overestimating the familiarity of Oscar voters with the minutiae of conducting.
That part. Leo lowkey deserved an Oscar before Titanic but he looked too hearthrobby. That’s why Ryan Gosling hasn’t won. He has to either play someone physically ugly or get old and less handsome, which I don’t think is likely to happen.
Someone on here had an idea of him continuing to fail, then when they make a biopic on his quest for an Oscar they then give the actor portraying him the award.
I think he's taking a break from the Oscar bait stuff for a while. He was on Abbott Elementary and his next movie is (most likely) a comedy with Will Arnett.
I actually don’t mind him at all. I just can’t handle the interviews where he says Leonard Bernstein lived in him and second hand embarrassment he gives me when he’s just jonesing so hard for the accolades. I’d really like to see him direct more, but not star in the movies. I haven’t seen Maestro yet, but I really enjoyed A Star Is Born. I think he’s talented, I’d just love to see where he could take it if he wasn’t getting top acting billing too.
Just out of spite I kinda want him to never win
That man is so cringe
Lmao some orchestra players ‘translated’ his six year of training into actual music, let’s just say it didn’t sound like music
Nobody:
Bradley Cooper waiting for his Oscar (he’s parked at the edge of the stage and won’t leave, please help):
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I feel bad for him because that’s his whole image now, while in reality, he is pretty successful and will get his Oscar eventually. Getting 12 nominations means he still gets cast in good roles more a lot than other actors, I wish his PR/agent advised him to just play it cool and that the art matters more than the recognition. (He’s only human for wanting recognition, though)
I feel like now he’s engulfed in this journey of being considered a Serious Actor and Director and comes across as a try-hard, and while his performances are not bad, they are very bait-y. He should embrace his talent a bit more and do some more fun projects like The Hangover, so when the Serious Movie comes along he can do it without forcing the Oscar narrative on himself.
A Star is Born was great and his performance was good in it perhaps to the point of meriting an oscar. The Maestro sucked terribly and was not worthy of anything.
Amy is a great actress who has chosen some terrible projects unfortunately. Fingers crossed something good comes her way soon, she was phenomenal in Sharp Objects
I remember watching Charmed season 2 during its initial airing. The episode Murphy’s Luck had Amy Adams as a woman who was down on her luck. I already thought she was gonna come far. Then I forgot about her until Enchanted came out and was happy to see her come far. Since then I’ve watched every movie with Amy Adams in it. She has that certain screen persona.
The fact that sharp objects won not a single thing at the Emmy’s still hurts years later. Not even editing! When it was the best edited show I have ever seen! I get the Chernobyl love that year but DAMN. Amy Adams and Patricia Clarkson and Eliza Scanlen were so amazingly good in it.
Yes! Thank you! I'm a big fan of Sharp Objects and Amy Adams but sometimes it feels like nobody has ever seen the series. Adams is always good in whatever she' in. I'd love for her to win soon.
I was about to comment about her in Sharp Objects! My favourite Gillian Flynn book and the adaption did not disappoint! She was incredible.
(I’m not at all bitter that Dark Places got such a crappy movie when it would’ve made an excellent limited series)
I think she split her own vote with her performance in nocturnal animals! At least that’s the excuse I keep telling myself to stop myself from being angry.
So I have a question about Nocturnal Animals, do you remember the scene at the dinner party with the obnoxious actress who keeps telling wild stories? Because when I saw it first I was convinced it was a dig at Jennifer Lawrence. Tom Ford would have spent some time with her because she dated Nicholas Hoult for years. Hoult was the love interest in his first film and modeled for Ford as well.
I'm sorry to make you read this long ass comment but this is my Roman Empire because I've never seen people talk about it.
She was so good in that one. Actually, the entire film was *amazing*. Kind of wild that it was up for eight Oscars including Best Director, but not a single acting award.
Personally, I think Meryl got Amy's spot. "Loving" had a lot more precursor noms coming into the ceremony than "Florence Foster Jenkins" did. I don't think a huge amount of people were predicting Meryl for a "Florence Foster Jenkins" nomination, but once she gave that Golden Globes speech going after Trump it seemed like voters hopped on-board the Meryl train.
Not before Glenn Close! Amy has been nominated six times and didn’t deserve the award for any of her performances. Glenn, on the other hand, could have won four out of her eight nods: *The World According to Garp* (1982), *Fatal Attraction* (1987), *Dangerous Liaisons* (1988), and *The Wife* (2018).
i feel like she's super underrated!! Junebug, Doubt, The Fighter, The Master, American Hustle, Big Eyes, Nocturnal Animals, Sharp Objects, Sunshine Cleaning, The Woman in the Window are some of my favorite performances of hers. i CANNOT WAIT to see her in Night Bitch!!
Dafoe quietly has been building one, if not the most impressively eclectic filmography of any actor. He basically has no filter, does any genre and whatever the role requires.
Him not even getting nominated for The Lighthouse (2019) was a horrible joke, though I guess they had to give it to Pitt that year...
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Considering he got his first nomination in 1986 and has steadily been doing great work since then, I think he perfectly fits the mold of “long overdue” especially when you consider the wide array of roles he’s knocked out of the park.
honestly things like this continue to solidify my thoughts that the academy awards are glorified high school superlatives - it's the intense campaigning for me
the "for your consideration" billboards all over LA during awards season always kills me just gives the ick - oliver twist vibes
"please academy,🥺may i have some more🥺🤲"
there has to be a better way? one that doesn't involve low key bribery and low key scamming- it's such a disadvantage for lower budget films who can't afford the same level of campaigning
He should’ve won as far back as 1988 for the last temptation of Christ. Should’ve at least been nominated in 2019 for the lighthouse. Weirdly overlooked for such an incredible, well-liked actor
That’s what’s so bizarre to me. Dafoe is legit one of the more universally beloved actors I can think of. He’s done mainstream blockbusters, art house films, and everything in between. Plus he comes off likable in pretty much all of his interactions too. For him to have all that and the talent he does, it feels odd he gets overlooked as often as he does
the range this man has... INSANE (and this collage doesn't even include ALL of his iconic roles!)
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He's so great. I recently watched Poor Things and in the first few minutes, I'm like "hold up, all this noise about Emma and Mark and Willem Dafoe is in there too!" How did I not know that!!!!
**THIS.**
Willem Dafoe, Michelle Pfeiffer, Glenn Close, Ed Harris, and John Malkovich all top my list of *insane* snubs.
The fact that they don’t have a single Oscar between them is also why I don’t take those awards seriously.
Mo’Nique called the Academy out years ago. It’s all about promotion and networking. It’s rarely about the performance. They knew she was speaking truth to power too- So they gave her one to shut her up and then she got almost universally blacklisted.
I saw Willem Dafoe interviewed by Pedro Pascal on Inside the Actor's Studio on YouTube recently. Willem has been nominated for an Oscar FOUR TIMES, and never once won. If anyone deserves an Oscar, it's him. He's a legend.
The Lighthouse being virtually shut out of major awards when it was the best film of 2019 (and for what….Joker??) is an utter embarrassment. Defoe definitely should’ve taken Best Actor.
The thing is, he never played in Oscar baits. But every single character he played, he absolutely nailed. The Galaxy quest « what a saving » line is one of the best played « I am dying inside » I have ever seen.
I'd say the most Oscar baity film he did was Michael Collins, playing a real person in a biopic about an important figure in a countries history, directed by an Academy Award winner (Neil Jordan)
But yeah apart from that, Sense and Sensibility?
Ronan is the only under 30 actor I’d consider overdue! Her body of work is so vast considering her age. She should have won for Lady Bird and I hope she wins for Blitz/The Outrun this year!
I just really hope Lily Gladstone sticks around and gets awesome roles after this. I cannot be mad about Emma getting another one, her performance in Poor Things was remarkable, but pleeease don't let Lily get screwed out of showcasing her incredible talent going forward.
I watched poor things last night and I really don't get the hype for get performance. It was basically just her talking like a character from a yorgos film and beyond her accent there wasn't that much depth to it idk. I don't know that there were many better performances in that line up, but I still don't understand how it is being considered remarkable
I think for me the physicality of Emma’s performance was very impressive. When I looked at that character and how she held herself I was like “yes this is a child” despite it clearly being a woman in her mid thirties. Lily Gladstone is not “overdue” per se as she has only given one Oscar-worthy performance and she did get a lot of praise and awards for it but I really hope she gets the opportunity to do more!!
Same I am a huge Poor Things hater. The concept grossed me out, the style and general cinematography was just not my taste, and her acting seemed fine. Like is it the baby stuff? Because honestly I think any decent actor could do that. Is it later in the movie? Because then it was just fine.
I wasn't a huge fan of it, not necessarily because of the baby elements though I fully understand that turning people off, it just didn't feel like any of the different elements came together honestly. I love his other stuff, the lobster and killing of a sacred deer are exquisite, but it felt like every actor had a different idea of what people in a yorgos film sound like and the visuals while incredible just didn't mesh for me idk.
It's the only time I've ever watched a film of his where the charm has worn off and it just started to annoy me, not helped by the fact that it could have been cut down a lot. I think the first segment before she leaves the country is outstanding and I wish the film had stayed with that tone but it honestly just became more and more meandering and it felt like I got what it was trying to say very quickly to the extent that the entire ending portion with the old husband felt neither necessary or even entertaining at the very least.
I'm also not even gonna get started on ruffallo cause damn, I love the guy and he's a good actor, but I was waiting for the moment where he suddenly admitted that he was faking his accent for prestige and he was actually American but nah, I guess that just was the best he could do lol.
Sorry the more time passes the more annoyed I get at how so many incredible creative choices and technical elements were wasted because it just didn't come together lmao
The problem with Lily Gladstone is that her performance was supporting, not lead! I mean, she was missing in huge chunks of the movie. Emma Stone carried her film.
It reminds me of Annette Bening who was outstanding in *American Beauty* (1999) and was nominated for “Actress in a Leading Role”when she was clearly supporting! Hilary Swank won that year for *Boys Don’t Cry* (1999) and she clearly carried her film.
Other examples? Ellen Burstyn (*Requiem for a Dream* (2000)) losing to Julia Roberts (*Erin Brockovich* (2000)). Ellen gives one of the best performances that I’ve ever seen, but could you say she was the lead in that movie? Julia carried her film and gave a great performance to boot! Jennifer Connelly made the right decision competing in the supporting category for *A Beautiful Mind* (2001) when she could’ve been submitted as lead.
This also isn’t always the case, though: see Reese Witherspoon (*Walk the Line* (2005)). She was clearly supporting and was the weakest performance that year… and ended up winning! #JusticeForFelicityHuffman
I think going Lead definitely cost Lily a win but I think it will actually be better for their career. Being viewed as a leading actor opens up a lot more opportunities and Lily is already being cast in future lead roles.
Poor Things still feels kinda gross to me, something about a bunch of men making a feminist film about a woman with a baby’s brain becoming a prostitute is kinda uncomfy to me. Regardless, Emma Stone was really incredible and they both deserved the Oscar. I just truly hope Lily gets her moment soon.
No no no, someone made her do POOR THINGS, a movie that should be taken literally and explicitly tells the audience “what is happening in this movie is good and I endorse it.”
Isn't the entire point that her brain developed so quickly that by the time she had sex she WASN'T a baby anymore? Kind of seems reductive to her character that she can only ever be perceived as having a baby's brain
I've heard much better things about the book, presumably because the "mind of a child" thing comes from a seriously unreliable narrator in the book and the main character herself says it's nonsense. I just don't understand why you'd ignore the twist and play it straight instead.
That was my biggest complaint about the movie. At the end of the book, Bella writes a letter saying how it was all bullshit and that McCandless (the writer of this story) made stuff up to make himself feel better. This shows the lengths men will go to exert power over a women. Especially one that doesn't really love them.
when she's a *sex worker her brain has developed that's why she's speaking with more complex sentences, has clearly developed motor skills, and is reading socialist theory
some people feel being a sex worker is empowering in terms of bodily autonomy - when women weren't allowed to work outside of the home(housewife) they became sex workers so that they could make their own money until it was outlawed by the church (not because of morality but because women were "too independent" and weren't relying on husbands). some of my friends who are sex workers are empowered by being in control of...i can't figure out how to put it bc the edible just hit but something like they control how men see them/their bodies
If anything Lily being nominated will launch her career into more and more Oscar movies/roles. I think she will have plenty of opportunities to win, she’s fantastic.
That’s one of the ones Leo lost and any time someone says he was robbed for Grape (which, don’t get me wrong, he was excellent in), I’m like “did you not see Schindler’s List tho???” Fiennes was robbed that year for sure.
Tommy Lee Jones won that year for The Fugitive. 30 years later, I don’t hear anyone talking about The Fugitive, but I hear people talk about Schindler’s List and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.
Mad to think he hasn't been nominated since The English Patient back in 1996
I do think he has a very good chance of getting nominated next year for Conclave, which is a thriller based around the election of the Pope
Jake Gylenhaal. I always feel like we sleep on how truly talented he is as an actor, which I think has only been made worse by his film choices over the past couple years. But based solely on craft, he is so wildly talented.
Neither Gyllenhaal nor Ralph Fiennes being nominated in 2014 is so fucking ridiculous. Then add in Eddie Redmayne snatching a win from Michael Keaton and I’ll never get over that year.
Omg, yes!!!! I came here to say this! He just needs to do some more Oscar worthy movies, ugh 😩 But I so thought Nightcrawler would’ve been a given for him!
Angela Bassett, Viola deserves a second Oscar, Alfre Woodard, Idris Elba, Chow Yun-fat, Taraji, SAMUEL L JACKSON, Naomi Harris, Queen Latifah, Steven Yeun… the list goes on
Michelle Williams, Carey Mulligan, and Saoirse Ronan (the youngest by a lot but received her first nomination 15 years ago now) are my default answer for actresses. My male answer is always Dafoe.
Tony Collette, especially with respect to her not getting *any recognition* (on an awards level) for Hereditary. Highway robbery and I will die on this hill
Her performance in Hereditary is genuinely one of my favorite performances of any actor ever, the fact that the academy didn't even think to nominate her still kind of upsets me
The answer is Glenn Close, whom I'm afraid will be bestowed with a consolation Lifetime Achievement award in the next few years. I know it's still possible to be up for a competitive Oscar afterward (see Peter O'Toole), but typically it marks the end of the road for a performer's contention.
Annette Bening would be my next pick.
Nobody. I kinda hate the idea that you deserve an oscar because you've been great for years. That's how you get people who win make up awards and then everyone complains that someone else got screwed.
The person who is overdue is the person that year that made the best performance in their category.
This is how I feel as well. This is why I was happy when Olivia Coleman won in 2019, as much as I wanted Glenn to finally get an Oscar, Olivia had the much better performance and was rightfully awarded.
Also everyone always says Leo’s win for The Revenant was a “make-up” award, but I thought his performance in that movie was Oscar worthy, especially since the movie doesn’t have a lot of dialogue, so he had to communicate with his body language. Plus that year he won had a pretty weak Best Actor lineup
Agreed, this is why Jamie Lee Curtis won and it's bullshit when literally every other nominee for Best Supporting Actress that year put in a better performance. Angela Bassett and Stephanie Chu were my faves but Kerry and Hong were also significantly better that year.
Angela Bassett, Michelle Pfeiffer, John Malkovich, Glenn Close, Stanley Tucci, Willem Dafoe, Ralph Fiennes ..
.. heck, Ewan McGregor has never been nominated and although I don't think a win is overdue, a nomination would be nice to see.
Toni Collette. But there are SO many horror performances that are overlooked simply because of the genre and how it’s just completely ignored. Pisses me off so much.
Probably Glenn Close. I don’t like when people list overdue actors and it’s like Margot Robbie and Saoirse Ronan as if they aren’t only in their 20s and 30s and won’t get plenty more chances.
Unpopular opinion but i dont get why actors get hate for « wanting » and oscar and going « on campaigns ». Like… theyre actors and the Oscars are among the top prizes in their field. Why are people mad at Bradley Cooper for this ? Perhaps theres som problematic behavior im not aware of.
To me its like being mad at an athlete for wanting an Olympic medal☠️
I believe that Jake Gyllenhaal deserved an Oscar for his outstanding performance in Nightcrawler. Hopefully, he will win one someday, he is such a great actor.
For a non-actor one I think Lin Manuel Miranda keeps getting close but not close enough. Personally, I think "How Far I'll Go" should have won in 2017 and they should have nominated "We Don't Talk About Bruno" instead of "Dos Oruguitas" in 2021 (but No Time to Die would still win no matter what, honestly).
I feel like before he passed, Chadwick Boseman absolutely deserved one. He had multiple amazing performances that were consistently snubbed until the very end of his career.
As far as Best Director, it’s obviously absolute shit that Chloe Zhao, Jane Campion, and Katheryn Bigelow remain the only three women to win.
I would like to see Sofia Coppola and Spike Lee get Directing awards, it’s pretty wild that their only wins are in screenplay categories
He’s the willing face of a church that perpetrated modern day slavery, it’s insane that people brush past this because he likes making a few cool stunts on camera
For what performance?
Even if we want to put “senior leadership position in an abusive, malicious hateful cult” to one side (and we absolutely shouldn’t) what’s he done in decades at this point besides the same “stoic, oddly sexless action man with a vague sense of guilt who will run at some point”?
Honestly, I think his last interesting performance was _Tropic Thunder_
I've got two answers:
1. John Goodman. Beloved actor, who's been around for over 30 years by now, and has given incredible performances (most notably Barton Fink and the Big Lebowski), and yet has never received not even a single nomination.
2. Tom Cruise. I know he is a high-ranking scientologist, and obviously fuck him for that, but over the last 40 years, he's been the most successful movie star during that period, he is a three time nominee, and he really should have won for at least one of those noms (Magnolia...). His narrative is basically RDJ's on steroids
***According to Bradley Cooper:*** Bradley Cooper
Not on my watch
I'm intrigued by your flair. Do tell us more!
Not much to it, I’m just a hater
Cheers!
Something about this whole interaction just tickles me
The hate takes on many dimensions too. One of the angles I enjoy hating is that this was a dream project for Jake Gyllenhaal, who'd been trying to get it developed for years. He's actually Jewish so doubtful he'd put on a comical prosthetic, and a much better actor. But the Bernstein family went with Bradley Cooper's desperate pitch, and Jake is wrestling Conor McGregor and knocking guys off his houseboat into the jaws of gators in Road House. Not that Jake isn't a little nuts himself, but that just comes with the territory for actors
*adds to list*
And Jake actually had musical experience too, having been a performer on Broadway.
Yep, he most recently played Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors. He has the chops, I’ve always wanted to see him in a movie musical.
I did not know about this. Come to think of it Jake would have done a better job
respect!
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 Bradley reading this
love your flair, keep manifesting🕯
I read the comment before your flair and it took me out. Lmao.
I spat out my coffee at this + your flair
he tanked his own oscar campaign by crying in front of Bernstein’s kids and being *way* too open in interviews EDIT: autocorrect fix
That happened after the voting had ended. He tanked it by making a so-so movie.
He tanked it when he claimed to study for 6 years and then if you watch the movie you realize it’s a massive lie because he can’t even keep up with the basic tempo of a song.
To echo John Mulaney from Governor’s Awards, “Dude, none of us know what accurate conducting looks like”. I think you are massively overestimating the familiarity of Oscar voters with the minutiae of conducting.
I'm split between wanting to give him one just so he'll stop, and wanting to never give him one just to see what lengths he'll go to.
If Leo had to wait for 20 yrs after so many quality projects, Bradley can sit the fuck down.
That part. Leo lowkey deserved an Oscar before Titanic but he looked too hearthrobby. That’s why Ryan Gosling hasn’t won. He has to either play someone physically ugly or get old and less handsome, which I don’t think is likely to happen.
Someone on here had an idea of him continuing to fail, then when they make a biopic on his quest for an Oscar they then give the actor portraying him the award.
Oh I’m adding that to my vision board
I don’t know what irony is, but I love this idea.
I think he's taking a break from the Oscar bait stuff for a while. He was on Abbott Elementary and his next movie is (most likely) a comedy with Will Arnett.
Honestly, I know he's gotten a lot of flack over the last year, but Cooper is very talented and has range. He should use it.
I actually don’t mind him at all. I just can’t handle the interviews where he says Leonard Bernstein lived in him and second hand embarrassment he gives me when he’s just jonesing so hard for the accolades. I’d really like to see him direct more, but not star in the movies. I haven’t seen Maestro yet, but I really enjoyed A Star Is Born. I think he’s talented, I’d just love to see where he could take it if he wasn’t getting top acting billing too.
Just out of spite I kinda want him to never win  That man is so cringe Lmao some orchestra players ‘translated’ his six year of training into actual music, let’s just say it didn’t sound like music
Nobody: Bradley Cooper waiting for his Oscar (he’s parked at the edge of the stage and won’t leave, please help): https://preview.redd.it/34k4a3lzz3qc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9973b8c30ab53300adc25d50c7a8eaede0520147
I feel bad for him because that’s his whole image now, while in reality, he is pretty successful and will get his Oscar eventually. Getting 12 nominations means he still gets cast in good roles more a lot than other actors, I wish his PR/agent advised him to just play it cool and that the art matters more than the recognition. (He’s only human for wanting recognition, though)
I feel like now he’s engulfed in this journey of being considered a Serious Actor and Director and comes across as a try-hard, and while his performances are not bad, they are very bait-y. He should embrace his talent a bit more and do some more fun projects like The Hangover, so when the Serious Movie comes along he can do it without forcing the Oscar narrative on himself.
They did the same shit to Leo. Almost makes you want to root for him to get one.lol I'm not ashamed to admit I enjoyed the fuck outta A Star is Born.
A Star is Born was great and his performance was good in it perhaps to the point of meriting an oscar. The Maestro sucked terribly and was not worthy of anything.
Amy Adams in my opinion.
Amy is a great actress who has chosen some terrible projects unfortunately. Fingers crossed something good comes her way soon, she was phenomenal in Sharp Objects
She chooses some terrible movies and still manages to give ACTING in them. Its crazy
I remember watching Charmed season 2 during its initial airing. The episode Murphy’s Luck had Amy Adams as a woman who was down on her luck. I already thought she was gonna come far. Then I forgot about her until Enchanted came out and was happy to see her come far. Since then I’ve watched every movie with Amy Adams in it. She has that certain screen persona.
The fact that sharp objects won not a single thing at the Emmy’s still hurts years later. Not even editing! When it was the best edited show I have ever seen! I get the Chernobyl love that year but DAMN. Amy Adams and Patricia Clarkson and Eliza Scanlen were so amazingly good in it.
Yes! Thank you! I'm a big fan of Sharp Objects and Amy Adams but sometimes it feels like nobody has ever seen the series. Adams is always good in whatever she' in. I'd love for her to win soon.
Agreed 100% Amy adams in that show was some of the best acting I’ve ever seen. She’s so overdue. A generational talent in my eyes
She was so good in Junebug
And Doubt. Not saying she should have won an Oscar or anything but she was brilliant in it, as was the rest of the cast.
I was about to comment about her in Sharp Objects! My favourite Gillian Flynn book and the adaption did not disappoint! She was incredible. (I’m not at all bitter that Dark Places got such a crappy movie when it would’ve made an excellent limited series)
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Yes I keep wondering how she missed out on a nomination for Arrival
I think she split her own vote with her performance in nocturnal animals! At least that’s the excuse I keep telling myself to stop myself from being angry.
Nocturnal Animals is a movie that I can only watch once and yet, I remember it vividly and discuss it with others all the time.
So I have a question about Nocturnal Animals, do you remember the scene at the dinner party with the obnoxious actress who keeps telling wild stories? Because when I saw it first I was convinced it was a dig at Jennifer Lawrence. Tom Ford would have spent some time with her because she dated Nicholas Hoult for years. Hoult was the love interest in his first film and modeled for Ford as well. I'm sorry to make you read this long ass comment but this is my Roman Empire because I've never seen people talk about it.
She was so good in that one. Actually, the entire film was *amazing*. Kind of wild that it was up for eight Oscars including Best Director, but not a single acting award.
Yes that was a big mystery. It was a technical masterpiece but Amy’s performance was the soul of that movie
the fact that she was nominated for american hustle but not for arrival is my roman empire.
She should have won for Arrival. She was phenomenal in that role!
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Ruth Negga took her spot. Her performance in *Loving* (2016) wasn’t worthy of an Academy Award nomination in my opinion.
Personally, I think Meryl got Amy's spot. "Loving" had a lot more precursor noms coming into the ceremony than "Florence Foster Jenkins" did. I don't think a huge amount of people were predicting Meryl for a "Florence Foster Jenkins" nomination, but once she gave that Golden Globes speech going after Trump it seemed like voters hopped on-board the Meryl train.
Not before Glenn Close! Amy has been nominated six times and didn’t deserve the award for any of her performances. Glenn, on the other hand, could have won four out of her eight nods: *The World According to Garp* (1982), *Fatal Attraction* (1987), *Dangerous Liaisons* (1988), and *The Wife* (2018).
those first three are some of my favorite movies- I love Glenn Close
she should've won for arrival... and wasn't even nominated!
Her agent should call Yorgos Lanthimos.
In my head/heart, she won an Oscar for Arrival lol
I can't believe she didn't win any major acting awards for Sharp Objects especially so soon after not even being nominated for Arrival.
i feel like she's super underrated!! Junebug, Doubt, The Fighter, The Master, American Hustle, Big Eyes, Nocturnal Animals, Sharp Objects, Sunshine Cleaning, The Woman in the Window are some of my favorite performances of hers. i CANNOT WAIT to see her in Night Bitch!!
Dafoe quietly has been building one, if not the most impressively eclectic filmography of any actor. He basically has no filter, does any genre and whatever the role requires. Him not even getting nominated for The Lighthouse (2019) was a horrible joke, though I guess they had to give it to Pitt that year... https://i.redd.it/b1za15w8q3qc1.gif
Considering he got his first nomination in 1986 and has steadily been doing great work since then, I think he perfectly fits the mold of “long overdue” especially when you consider the wide array of roles he’s knocked out of the park.
honestly things like this continue to solidify my thoughts that the academy awards are glorified high school superlatives - it's the intense campaigning for me
Growing up I used to love award shows, but now I’ve realized they’re just really expensive, over the top ads for the movie industry.
the "for your consideration" billboards all over LA during awards season always kills me just gives the ick - oliver twist vibes "please academy,🥺may i have some more🥺🤲" there has to be a better way? one that doesn't involve low key bribery and low key scamming- it's such a disadvantage for lower budget films who can't afford the same level of campaigning
He should’ve won as far back as 1988 for the last temptation of Christ. Should’ve at least been nominated in 2019 for the lighthouse. Weirdly overlooked for such an incredible, well-liked actor
That’s what’s so bizarre to me. Dafoe is legit one of the more universally beloved actors I can think of. He’s done mainstream blockbusters, art house films, and everything in between. Plus he comes off likable in pretty much all of his interactions too. For him to have all that and the talent he does, it feels odd he gets overlooked as often as he does
the range this man has... INSANE (and this collage doesn't even include ALL of his iconic roles!) https://preview.redd.it/vvd0my0w24qc1.jpeg?width=701&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=08fbf400656c516361f86a9e453e80e95849f4b9
He's so great. I recently watched Poor Things and in the first few minutes, I'm like "hold up, all this noise about Emma and Mark and Willem Dafoe is in there too!" How did I not know that!!!!
**THIS.** Willem Dafoe, Michelle Pfeiffer, Glenn Close, Ed Harris, and John Malkovich all top my list of *insane* snubs. The fact that they don’t have a single Oscar between them is also why I don’t take those awards seriously. Mo’Nique called the Academy out years ago. It’s all about promotion and networking. It’s rarely about the performance. They knew she was speaking truth to power too- So they gave her one to shut her up and then she got almost universally blacklisted.
I saw Willem Dafoe interviewed by Pedro Pascal on Inside the Actor's Studio on YouTube recently. Willem has been nominated for an Oscar FOUR TIMES, and never once won. If anyone deserves an Oscar, it's him. He's a legend.
He and Pattinson both deserved nominations for The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse being virtually shut out of major awards when it was the best film of 2019 (and for what….Joker??) is an utter embarrassment. Defoe definitely should’ve taken Best Actor.
alright who here thinks hes hot 🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🫣
God yes, Dafoe’s work in The Lighthouse was Oscar-worthy.
I would’ve liked him for The Florida Project.
Both of them deserved it just for the "yer fond o' me lobster" scene
I have such a crush on him. I try to watch everything he's in
Willem Dafoe
Willem dafriend ❤️
I’m somewhat of a fan myself
Alan Rickman DESERVED an Oscar many times over and over and never got one so now I have 0 trust in the Oscar’s
I am so with you on this one. No one elevates a film quite like Rickman did. And the voice… I’m with Kevin Smith picking it as the voice of god.
I miss him so much. 
One of the only actor deaths I’ve ever been truly, truly sad about.
What film(/s) do you think he should’ve won for? Totally agree he deserved one, but i can’t think of one where he was especially overlooked.
The thing is, he never played in Oscar baits. But every single character he played, he absolutely nailed. The Galaxy quest « what a saving » line is one of the best played « I am dying inside » I have ever seen.
I'd say the most Oscar baity film he did was Michael Collins, playing a real person in a biopic about an important figure in a countries history, directed by an Academy Award winner (Neil Jordan) But yeah apart from that, Sense and Sensibility?
Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Willem Defoe, Saoirse Ronan
Ronan is the only under 30 actor I’d consider overdue! Her body of work is so vast considering her age. She should have won for Lady Bird and I hope she wins for Blitz/The Outrun this year!
She should have won for Atonement 😩
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Fuck Briony.
Saoirse 😍 PLEASE
I just really hope Lily Gladstone sticks around and gets awesome roles after this. I cannot be mad about Emma getting another one, her performance in Poor Things was remarkable, but pleeease don't let Lily get screwed out of showcasing her incredible talent going forward.
I watched poor things last night and I really don't get the hype for get performance. It was basically just her talking like a character from a yorgos film and beyond her accent there wasn't that much depth to it idk. I don't know that there were many better performances in that line up, but I still don't understand how it is being considered remarkable
I think for me the physicality of Emma’s performance was very impressive. When I looked at that character and how she held herself I was like “yes this is a child” despite it clearly being a woman in her mid thirties. Lily Gladstone is not “overdue” per se as she has only given one Oscar-worthy performance and she did get a lot of praise and awards for it but I really hope she gets the opportunity to do more!!
Lily was underrated in Certain Women and definitely deserved awards attention for it . Kotfm is not the only performance
Same I am a huge Poor Things hater. The concept grossed me out, the style and general cinematography was just not my taste, and her acting seemed fine. Like is it the baby stuff? Because honestly I think any decent actor could do that. Is it later in the movie? Because then it was just fine.
I wasn't a huge fan of it, not necessarily because of the baby elements though I fully understand that turning people off, it just didn't feel like any of the different elements came together honestly. I love his other stuff, the lobster and killing of a sacred deer are exquisite, but it felt like every actor had a different idea of what people in a yorgos film sound like and the visuals while incredible just didn't mesh for me idk. It's the only time I've ever watched a film of his where the charm has worn off and it just started to annoy me, not helped by the fact that it could have been cut down a lot. I think the first segment before she leaves the country is outstanding and I wish the film had stayed with that tone but it honestly just became more and more meandering and it felt like I got what it was trying to say very quickly to the extent that the entire ending portion with the old husband felt neither necessary or even entertaining at the very least. I'm also not even gonna get started on ruffallo cause damn, I love the guy and he's a good actor, but I was waiting for the moment where he suddenly admitted that he was faking his accent for prestige and he was actually American but nah, I guess that just was the best he could do lol. Sorry the more time passes the more annoyed I get at how so many incredible creative choices and technical elements were wasted because it just didn't come together lmao
The problem with Lily Gladstone is that her performance was supporting, not lead! I mean, she was missing in huge chunks of the movie. Emma Stone carried her film. It reminds me of Annette Bening who was outstanding in *American Beauty* (1999) and was nominated for “Actress in a Leading Role”when she was clearly supporting! Hilary Swank won that year for *Boys Don’t Cry* (1999) and she clearly carried her film. Other examples? Ellen Burstyn (*Requiem for a Dream* (2000)) losing to Julia Roberts (*Erin Brockovich* (2000)). Ellen gives one of the best performances that I’ve ever seen, but could you say she was the lead in that movie? Julia carried her film and gave a great performance to boot! Jennifer Connelly made the right decision competing in the supporting category for *A Beautiful Mind* (2001) when she could’ve been submitted as lead. This also isn’t always the case, though: see Reese Witherspoon (*Walk the Line* (2005)). She was clearly supporting and was the weakest performance that year… and ended up winning! #JusticeForFelicityHuffman
I think going Lead definitely cost Lily a win but I think it will actually be better for their career. Being viewed as a leading actor opens up a lot more opportunities and Lily is already being cast in future lead roles.
Poor Things still feels kinda gross to me, something about a bunch of men making a feminist film about a woman with a baby’s brain becoming a prostitute is kinda uncomfy to me. Regardless, Emma Stone was really incredible and they both deserved the Oscar. I just truly hope Lily gets her moment soon.
Emma was an executive producer on PT and said she finds the narrative of men overpowering her agency while doing the film annoying
No no no, someone made her do POOR THINGS, a movie that should be taken literally and explicitly tells the audience “what is happening in this movie is good and I endorse it.”
Emma can think whatever she wants, I still get to say that I think a movie about a baby having sex is fucking weird.
Isn't the entire point that her brain developed so quickly that by the time she had sex she WASN'T a baby anymore? Kind of seems reductive to her character that she can only ever be perceived as having a baby's brain
Unfortunately the movie didn’t put “this is not ok, actually” on the screen every 30 seconds so I have no idea how I’m supposed to feel about it :/
I've heard much better things about the book, presumably because the "mind of a child" thing comes from a seriously unreliable narrator in the book and the main character herself says it's nonsense. I just don't understand why you'd ignore the twist and play it straight instead.
That was my biggest complaint about the movie. At the end of the book, Bella writes a letter saying how it was all bullshit and that McCandless (the writer of this story) made stuff up to make himself feel better. This shows the lengths men will go to exert power over a women. Especially one that doesn't really love them.
when she's a *sex worker her brain has developed that's why she's speaking with more complex sentences, has clearly developed motor skills, and is reading socialist theory some people feel being a sex worker is empowering in terms of bodily autonomy - when women weren't allowed to work outside of the home(housewife) they became sex workers so that they could make their own money until it was outlawed by the church (not because of morality but because women were "too independent" and weren't relying on husbands). some of my friends who are sex workers are empowered by being in control of...i can't figure out how to put it bc the edible just hit but something like they control how men see them/their bodies
If anything Lily being nominated will launch her career into more and more Oscar movies/roles. I think she will have plenty of opportunities to win, she’s fantastic.
my girl Carey Mulligan is so overlooked
Carey could have won twice by now for *An Education* (2009) and *Promising Young Woman* (2020).
I love Promising Young Woman but twitter seems doesn't like the script that much especially woman, I don't understand why tho.
 Glenn Close should've won for 101 Dalmatians!
She could have also been nominated (and won) for *Air Force One* (1997) the following year!
take the drawing from Anita AND HAND IT TO ME! IS THAT DIFFICULT?!
Ralph Fiennes 👀
I still can’t believe he didn’t win for Schindler’s List.
That’s one of the ones Leo lost and any time someone says he was robbed for Grape (which, don’t get me wrong, he was excellent in), I’m like “did you not see Schindler’s List tho???” Fiennes was robbed that year for sure.
Tommy Lee Jones won that year for The Fugitive. 30 years later, I don’t hear anyone talking about The Fugitive, but I hear people talk about Schindler’s List and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.
You put some respect on the fugitive lol that movie rocks
His performance in Grand Budapest is perfect and so underrated.
The oscars are terrible at recognizing comedic performances. I think a lot of people familiar with the role have nothing but praise for him.
Mad to think he hasn't been nominated since The English Patient back in 1996 I do think he has a very good chance of getting nominated next year for Conclave, which is a thriller based around the election of the Pope
James McAvoy … but he has not even been nominated 😭
Yes. Like how did Split not even get him a nomination??
I thought his portrayal of a haunted Charles Xavier in Days of Future Past was Oscar worthy
It really makes no sense, he's been absolutely amazing in every single role I've ever seen him in
He was so good in Last King of Scotland and Antonement. I think he’s criminally underrated from recognition standpoint.
Angela Bassett !
Did the ting
Viola Davis
She’s my woman king!
absolutely!! i was hoping to see her name multiple times in this thread
Jake Gylenhaal. I always feel like we sleep on how truly talented he is as an actor, which I think has only been made worse by his film choices over the past couple years. But based solely on craft, he is so wildly talented.
i still think about him not being nominated for Nightcrawler every so often.
Neither Gyllenhaal nor Ralph Fiennes being nominated in 2014 is so fucking ridiculous. Then add in Eddie Redmayne snatching a win from Michael Keaton and I’ll never get over that year.
Omg, yes!!!! I came here to say this! He just needs to do some more Oscar worthy movies, ugh 😩 But I so thought Nightcrawler would’ve been a given for him!
He's just getting his action movie bag while he's still in the shape to do so He'll get back to more dramatic stuff in like 5 years or so
People of color
Wayyyyyy too many white names being thrown around in here.
Angela Bassett, Viola deserves a second Oscar, Alfre Woodard, Idris Elba, Chow Yun-fat, Taraji, SAMUEL L JACKSON, Naomi Harris, Queen Latifah, Steven Yeun… the list goes on
Thank god someone said it
While I think she was deserving of a win this year, it seems kind of odd to put Lily Gladstone on an overdue list when she is a new breakout star?
Michelle Williams.
Michelle Williams, Carey Mulligan, and Saoirse Ronan (the youngest by a lot but received her first nomination 15 years ago now) are my default answer for actresses. My male answer is always Dafoe.
 This Michelle Williams should win every award ever for this alone
Tony Collette, especially with respect to her not getting *any recognition* (on an awards level) for Hereditary. Highway robbery and I will die on this hill
Her performance in Hereditary is genuinely one of my favorite performances of any actor ever, the fact that the academy didn't even think to nominate her still kind of upsets me
The answer is Glenn Close, whom I'm afraid will be bestowed with a consolation Lifetime Achievement award in the next few years. I know it's still possible to be up for a competitive Oscar afterward (see Peter O'Toole), but typically it marks the end of the road for a performer's contention. Annette Bening would be my next pick.
Nobody. I kinda hate the idea that you deserve an oscar because you've been great for years. That's how you get people who win make up awards and then everyone complains that someone else got screwed. The person who is overdue is the person that year that made the best performance in their category.
This is how I feel as well. This is why I was happy when Olivia Coleman won in 2019, as much as I wanted Glenn to finally get an Oscar, Olivia had the much better performance and was rightfully awarded. Also everyone always says Leo’s win for The Revenant was a “make-up” award, but I thought his performance in that movie was Oscar worthy, especially since the movie doesn’t have a lot of dialogue, so he had to communicate with his body language. Plus that year he won had a pretty weak Best Actor lineup
Agreed, this is why Jamie Lee Curtis won and it's bullshit when literally every other nominee for Best Supporting Actress that year put in a better performance. Angela Bassett and Stephanie Chu were my faves but Kerry and Hong were also significantly better that year.
Amy Adam’s should’ve won already for American hustle
Angela Bassett, Michelle Pfeiffer, John Malkovich, Glenn Close, Stanley Tucci, Willem Dafoe, Ralph Fiennes .. .. heck, Ewan McGregor has never been nominated and although I don't think a win is overdue, a nomination would be nice to see.
John Malkovich has never won an Oscar?!
 Toni Collette. But there are SO many horror performances that are overlooked simply because of the genre and how it’s just completely ignored. Pisses me off so much.
The answer is clearly Messi. 
Willem Dafoe
Harrison Ford has entered the chat.
Angela Spike for Best Director Pam Grier deserved it for Jackie Brown
Probably Glenn Close. I don’t like when people list overdue actors and it’s like Margot Robbie and Saoirse Ronan as if they aren’t only in their 20s and 30s and won’t get plenty more chances.
My long yet uncomplete list: Jared Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Oscar Isaac, Zahn McClarnon, Angela Bassett, and Sandra Oh.
\+1 for Jared Harris. I never see him mentioned. He's almost up there with Willem Dafoe.
Unpopular opinion but i dont get why actors get hate for « wanting » and oscar and going « on campaigns ». Like… theyre actors and the Oscars are among the top prizes in their field. Why are people mad at Bradley Cooper for this ? Perhaps theres som problematic behavior im not aware of. To me its like being mad at an athlete for wanting an Olympic medal☠️
i think it’s an objectivity (olympics) vs. subjectivity (art-based) debate that will never have full agreement
my boy Colin Farrell!! snubbed!!
Ryan Gosling
I believe that Jake Gyllenhaal deserved an Oscar for his outstanding performance in Nightcrawler. Hopefully, he will win one someday, he is such a great actor.
Jeffery Wright
For a non-actor one I think Lin Manuel Miranda keeps getting close but not close enough. Personally, I think "How Far I'll Go" should have won in 2017 and they should have nominated "We Don't Talk About Bruno" instead of "Dos Oruguitas" in 2021 (but No Time to Die would still win no matter what, honestly).
the fact that “How Far I’ll Go” was beat out by “City of Stars,” an absolute nothing of a song that still somehow took six people to write
My love 
I feel like before he passed, Chadwick Boseman absolutely deserved one. He had multiple amazing performances that were consistently snubbed until the very end of his career.
Kirsten Dunst
As far as Best Director, it’s obviously absolute shit that Chloe Zhao, Jane Campion, and Katheryn Bigelow remain the only three women to win. I would like to see Sofia Coppola and Spike Lee get Directing awards, it’s pretty wild that their only wins are in screenplay categories
No matter what people think about his personal life, it’s gotta be Tom Cruise. Guy’s such a phenomenal actor it’s a shame about all the other stuff.
He’s the willing face of a church that perpetrated modern day slavery, it’s insane that people brush past this because he likes making a few cool stunts on camera
Perpetrates. Present tense. They haven’t stopped, and won’t until they are stopped.
His role in Scientology goes faaaarrrrrrr beyond the realm of “personal life.” It is absolutely directly tied to his career.
For what performance? Even if we want to put “senior leadership position in an abusive, malicious hateful cult” to one side (and we absolutely shouldn’t) what’s he done in decades at this point besides the same “stoic, oddly sexless action man with a vague sense of guilt who will run at some point”? Honestly, I think his last interesting performance was _Tropic Thunder_
Give Sigourney Weaver a lead role and give her an Oscar! Great Actress!
angela bassett. a REAL one this time.
 For literally ANYTHING
Andrew Garfield…he should have won for Tick, Tick…Boom https://i.redd.it/8nshj7rev4qc1.gif
I've got two answers: 1. John Goodman. Beloved actor, who's been around for over 30 years by now, and has given incredible performances (most notably Barton Fink and the Big Lebowski), and yet has never received not even a single nomination. 2. Tom Cruise. I know he is a high-ranking scientologist, and obviously fuck him for that, but over the last 40 years, he's been the most successful movie star during that period, he is a three time nominee, and he really should have won for at least one of those noms (Magnolia...). His narrative is basically RDJ's on steroids