Oscar feminists should have voted for Jessica Chastain

She played the kind of role women should aspire to...Jennifer Lawrence just played the girlfriend and AnnE Hathaway the victim.

• Most of the voters are old, white and male. Go figure!

• Really, if Reeva had one no one would have any backlash right now. I'm a Jessica Chastain Stan but I honestly think its time Naomi Watts wins an Oscar. She's been the biggest star of my dreams for so long

• r2=Nicole Kidman

• I haven't seen ZERO DARK THIRTY, but judging by the Oscar clip of Chastain, she was awfully hammy. Why vote for her simply because of what her character represents?

• HAVE YOU SEEN HOW HOT NAOMI WATTS LOOKED THIS AWARD SEASON????? Fuck me now

• The tiny percentage feminists on the Oscar committee probably voted to Riva.

• 77% of the voters are male. There probably are no feminist voters.

• I'm a big Chastain fan but: 1. it wasn't the best performance (Riva's was) 2. the movie's undertones and its depiction of torture didn't sit all that well with a lot of people.

• [quote]Jennifer Lawrence just played the girlfriend Not at all, to be honest.

• R8 they were def going for feel good this yeas overall because they passed over How to Survive a Plague and The Invisible War for Searching for Sugarman.

• Lawrence was a male fantasy figure so it is not surprising men voted for her. She's a horny nymphomaniac in love and pursuing a violent out of work loser. Man love that stuff. It is like all the critics who thought Sideways was brilliant because it had a fat crabby writer who had a beautiful blonde fall for him.

• As mentioned the Oscar voting panel is 77% male and like 94% white. Many are over 50 years old. This explains the massive sexism in the Oscars and Hollywood. Hollywood is a mans world. This also explains why the average age of female Oscar winners is significantly lower than the average male winner. Straight men rule(and to a lesser extent gay men)

• [quote]This also explains why the average age of female Oscar winners is significantly lower than the average male winner. plus women stop getting hired after a certain age. The gap is so huge though. I was looking at wikipedia and only 3 men have ever won an acting Oscar under 30 whereas most of the female winners seemed under 30. (anyone have an actual number or statistic)

• R13, According to the Huffington post article linked below: [quote]Women have a much narrower age interval in which they are likely to win an Oscar. Only about one-quarter of the female recipients are older than 39, about two-thirds of the male winners are 40 or older.

  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mobileweb/dr-raj-persaud/oscars-2013-bias-against-actresses_b_2757259.html%3Futm_hp_ref%3Duk

• Feminism does not equate with thinking that one's favorite performance is the one by a woman playing the most independent character.

• Of course not, [r15], but "She's a horny nymphomaniac in love and pursuing a violent out of work loser. Man love that stuff. It is like all the critics who thought Sideways was brilliant because it had a fat crabby writer who had a beautiful blonde fall for him." [r11] hit the nail on the head. Marry me!

• Perhaps people who kneejerk criticize Lawrence's win based on her character from a jaundiced lens of sexual politics might consider what criticism might have met a Chastain win from a similarly rancorous political view. That it would represent a triumph of jingoism and a projection on how we all want to torture those we see as a threat. Both views are equally dumb. Both performances were good. Riva's was better.

• Jennifer Lawerence gave a better performance, though. That's not to criticize Chastain, who I LOVE, but Lawerence just had a better written role with more moments to shine. Emmanuelle Riva gave the best performance of the year, though. But Lawerence was a close second followed by Watts.

• OP, that would be a reason for a feminist to vote for a screenplay, not a performance. Actors don't write the words they say.

  Old Feminist

• It's funny because Lawrence was WAY too young for her role. A bitter, divorced, cynical women in her 20s? She also looked much too young for Cooper.

• r20, who would you have cast instead of Lawrence? (Not trying to troll, just genuinely curious.)

• Not R20, but someone like Claire Danes would be great in that role.

• I would love to see Jessica Chastain win an Oscar. Naomi Watts, too. Mostly, what I'd love is for the Oscars to be less a coronation in most categories and more of an actual contest. But there we are.

• [quote]. A bitter, divorced, cynical women in her 20s? Have you even seen the movie? Sorry, that doesn't describe the character at all. Okay, maybe cynical. But bitter and divorced, definitely not. I thought she and Cooper had great chemistry.