The Best Actress Oscar Race

[rareboy]

I wish they both could have won...but in the end, Angela's role as Queen likely blew her chances. Jamie had to look like shit and be a real terror in her role to get the nod.

I loved them both and they are both winners along with the other nominees for me.

 

[Vannie]

Fell asleep.

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

Well an Asian actress never won and was snubbed for years but black actresses have won - so guess Angela needs a great role like Viola Davis does- she is one of the few performers who has won an Oscar Emmy Grammy & Tony. Amazing actress.

Yeah, I wasn't worried about Viola Davis not getting nominated this time. She's one of the finest actresses working today; she will get another Oscar for sure and will get numerous Oscar-worthy roles.

A nomination would definitely have made a difference for Danielle Deadwyler. From what I was reading, I have the feeling that there were many voters in the nominating process who were so certain that Davis and Deadwyler would get nominations that they went for only one of them and then voted for someone else they were rooting for but weren't sure would get through. And so Davis and Deadwyler ended up falling short.

I suspect that many of those voters, and many others, voted for Ana de Armas to get a nomination basically as compensation for working so hard in a film most people thought should never have been made.

 

[NotHardUp1]

The others must have looked absolutely terrible!

It's kinda pathetic to see major designers putting window draperies on a woman and calling it fashion.

It's been done to death.

 

[ShadowCat]

Am I the only homo that doesnt care?!

 

[NotHardUp1]

Hardly. The Oscars have faded a great deal over my lifetime.

Recently, movie quality has declined. There's a large reliance on the comic book heroes. Much has moved off into series in the streaming services.

The endless culture wars have always used the Oscars to pitch messages, so now it is one more thing tarnishing the gold.

And dresses used to be to impress. Now, they seem to be stuck in a rut of desperation.

 

[rareboy]

^ Well....this year was different....although over the past few years there have been some lovely surprises that have emerged.

All the major winners were indie films that told stories and stripped the actors of their physical beauty.

It is why the huge budget, popular CGI movies really walked away with very little.

And it was a gracious and uplifting awards show. I really liked that.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I love indie films, or at least a lot of them.

But, the coverage of the Oscars has been too much packaged like it might be titled "The Minority Report."

Art is art. And all segments of society should be open to access and competition for recognition. But working to ameliorate the wrongs of the past doesn't then become the dominant coverage of every year of the present. Framing who didn't get nominated cannot continue to be the by-line of the reporting. It's too much aligned with only one audience.

As long as the industry does that, it will continue to see decline. Diversity is diversity, and it speaks for itself. Trumpeting it unduly or out of proportion tarnishes the very praise it is endorsing.