2018 Oscar for Best Actress: GLENN CLOSE or LADY GAGA?

Fibro Gagz can win Best Song.

G all the way. She'll complete her Triple Crown, too.

It should go the truly deserving performance not the most pitiable.

Glenn needs to stick to the small screen. It is kinder to her features.

Close is winning this and Old man will be crowning her.

Also, Madonna, enough, R3.

I don't use a period.

Has Glenn done any campaigning?

Glenn expects the world to come to her. It's one reason for her professional unpopularity.

One reason.

Who's J? Jessica Lange?

Stop with that Lady Gaga nonsense.

The real Queen Bitch is John List! Is it too late to add him, OP? A total botch I tells ya!

^^biotch

To vote for Glenn, people would have to see the movie. Even though she will undoubtedly send out free DVDs...it looks so drab, who will pop them in?

R9 Duh!

R11, People don't have DVD players anymore you fossil. She can email them a link.

Glenn has done some campaigning but the critics are doing it for her.

I may have another stroke just reading this thread, OP! I will send my blessings from heaven if I don’t make it until next year. Please pray for me and may God bless you all.

More Academy members are guaranteed to see A Star Is Born than The Wife. That alone will help Gaga. If she hopes to win, Glenn better bet on their sympathy.

Time Magazine

Vanity Fair

Also, it opens in more cities tomorrow. I have my tix! 😎

Washington Post

Maybe she'll at last win for the movie version of SUNSET BOULEVARD...if it ever happens.

(and they don't use Meryl)

How lovely. I hope these magazines and newspapers remember me (and my six nominations) when I am gone... which will be all too soon, alas. Pray for me.

Glenn is so winning this. Prefix:

Picture: A Star is Born Director: B. Cooper Actress: G. Close Actor: B. Cooper

Best Song: Lady Gaga

Everybody wins. Appropriately.

Glenn...you need to check yourself into a Swiss clinic for a very long stay NOW if you want to win the sympathy vote! (You can get a little work done while so ensconced, so it won't be a total time waste.)

Gaga has won all the great reviews and A Star Is Born is going win many awards and rule at the box office for months. LG is multi talented and Glenn Close is a loser, pure and simple. She just does not have Gaga's charisma.

Gaga will lose much like she's losing this poll. The gays know the T.

Also, Gaga Mialga better stay in line or she won't win Best Song, either.

Now -

Let's see....

Glenn has 3 Tonys, 3 Emmys and 6 Oscar nominations...

Gagz has a meat dress.

Hmm... I wonder who the Academy will crown.

Not to mention, Stefani isn't acting. She's playing herself. Adequately. For all the praise she's gotten, the critics have been careful and clever not to write the word 'Oscar' anywhere near her name in reviews.

Nearly all of them have done so for Glenn in The Wife.

There is one Oscar winning scene where Lady G stares into a mirror and cries, mascara running. She is an emotional mess. It's not something Glen Close can come close to. Glen has always been an ice queen - or wacky masquerading as a man or a transsexual. Close is the one who goes for stunts, Gaga is raw and young and hungry and in March 2019 she will claim her Oscar and entry as Queen of Hollywood.

When the Best Actress race is between old and new, the Academy almost always go new. They like their ingenues.

R31 She will claim her Oscar...

R33. Tell that to Chalamet.

R35 Why? Neither Chalamet nor Oldman were nominated for Best Actress. When it comes to Best Actor, the Academy tends to swing the opposite way. They rarely enjoy awarding young men.

The last act of The Wife is basically Glenn having a 20-30 minute, tear stained emotional breakdown.

Let's not even get into how topical and relevant the story is in the current political and social climates.

Gaga's reward will be her nomination, IF she gets nominated. The Academy might decide to not nominate her for Best Actress since it's a crowded year and she's being thrown a bone - I mean, Oscar for Best Song.

Also, let's hope the story about 5-time rapist/producer of A Star is Born isn't circulating all season. Not a good look.

He's already expected to make millions off of this project he was "very hands on" with.

GAGA for the win. She's p.r. savvy and Glenn looks a used dish rag.

Ol' Gangsta Glenn

Close

Gaga's not winning for her first movie role playing a singer. Just because she can cry on cue doesn't make her an actress. One of the songs from Black Panther will best song. She will walk away empty handed.

Girl can't sell albums and you expect her to win for best song ?

The funniest predictions upthread: Bradley Cooper for anything.

r43 isn't paying attention.

You got a problem with that, R42?

R44, even if he's been inexplicably nominated in the past for acting, he won't get a directorial nomination on his first time out and his "acting" looks pretty rote even in the trailer.

Bradley's getting like... four Oscar nominations next year: Picture, Actor, Director, Adapted Screenplay.

[quote]There is one Oscar winning scene where Lady G stares into a mirror and cries, mascara running.

Is this film really THAT much of a cliche?

[quote]r37 Let's not even get into how topical and relevant the story is in the current political and social climates.

But no one will SEE IT. No one wants to sit through that jabberfest.

Glenn, of course.

R49 It's actually already a hit for Sony Pictures Classics, already raking in $2+ million in less than like 40 theaters or something. It's SPC's biggest indie hit since "Call Me By Your Name". It goes wider today.

I see this getting nominations for:

Best Actress (and a WIN)

Best Supporting Actor

Best Screenplay

glenn

Neither. It’ll be Viola Davis for Widows or Olivia Colman for The Favourite (if she isn’t kicked down to supporting status).

Unfortunately, AMPAS wouldn't award Davis an Oscar in Lead if she deserved it. Nevermind them awarding it to her for such a fluff role.

Glenn, obviously. She's a legend, and after receiving her seventh nomination, she will finally win.

You're all so kind.

I am hoping Glenn wins. The Wife has to be a slow-cooker.

I have doubts about The Academy making Gaga a two-time AMPAS-award winner, especially when Cooper stands a good chance of also winning at least two Oscars on Oscar night. He seems to have Actor in the bag. Producer Oscar is looking good. And director Oscar is in play. But, ASIB is going to be huge, it has WB (they're one of the best), and this can be that rare instance where Hollywood just goes all out for a film.

The landscape is changing. I wouldn't doubt Gaga. And, for my own sanity, I just as well prepare for her winning.

Her most ardent stans are obnoxious and aren't going to make this an easy pill to swallow.

I should also add that I'm assuming ASIB goes C/M at the Globes. If it inexplicably goes Drama, then, forget it, race over, WB not playing around. Gaga winning.

Gaga also has a shot at SAG, especially since the SAG/AFTRA merger. And GG + SAG is an extremely strong combo. But, it's not impenetrable, as Zellweger lost for Chicago, and Julie Christie lost in 2007.

But, I also have a hard time seeing Glenn lose if nominated. I don't think they'll bother with The Wife if Glenn isn't taking this in the end. But, her narrative seems too irresistible. And, this year doesn't seem as competitive as last year. Last year, there were four BP nominees in the Best Actress race (and a PGA-nominated near-miss). Highly unusual. In year's like this, there isn't room for a nomination for a little film that few go to see. But, this year is different. ASIB is obviously going to be huge. And Fox Searchlight has Can You Ever Forgive Me? and The Favourite. And there is Roma. They could all possibly be BP nominees. I suppose Widows and Hereditary are possibilities as well. I guess we'll see.

Gaga Is not winning an Oscar for Best Actress when she's already the frontrunner for Best Song. Some of you bitches act new at this. She MIGHT have had a chance if Best Actress would be her only nod.

The Academy is going to give everyone what they want: Bradley Cooper will win everything for his accomplishments. They will crown the veteran legend who's gone to bat 6 times already for this and they will keep Gaga fans happy and award her Best Song for both her musical and acting efforts.

[R59] Gaga has a legit shot at SAG. That makes her a threat. We don't 100% know how this will end.

But, I agree with you.

r60 I don't think she has a legit shot at SAG at all. Even there, she'll win with everyone else - the SAG Ensemble.

[R61] That's actually a good point. If Cooper and the cast wins, that diminishes Gaga's chances her Oscar chances greatly (even though you were talking about SAG).

SAG has gone four times for film cast and two individuals: American Beauty, Chicago, The Help, and Three Billboards. Yet, each of those films went on to go 2/3 out of each of those categories with Oscar. The lead actress lost three times, and then Three Billboards lost Picture.

When is GaGa scheduling her hospitalization? She has so many choices! Lupus, PTS from being molested, OR fibromyalgia.

Should be an exciting race. The developments will be interesting.

Neither really ..

But especially not Close - what an asshole ...

Give it to Caitlyn for some creepy guest spot. She's less annoying then these too dull cunts in this poll.

R65 How is she an a**hole? She matches puppies to prisoners.

The Wife looks awful. No chance it will garner many votes.

R68

The Wife has a 76 MC score with 26 reviews, and 86% RT with a 7.3 weighted rating (111 reviews).

These are Still Alice numbers.

Why would The Wife not garner many votes because you think it looks awful?

Maybe after Close loses this time her PR people will lower their expectation. (I'm assuming it's her PR people that keep these constant threads going.)

R70 Close received some of the best reviews of her career without her PR people. She's in the Oscar conversation for legitimate reasons.

If Geraldine Page can win, why can't Close?

If you think Davis's work in Widows is fluff then you haven’t seen it. If Denzel can win for Training Day, she can win for this.

Can Glenn do a Vegas act to keep her in the news, front and center?

She needs some high profile exposure to add some juice to her dry-as-dust film, which will come and go..

Maybe Gary Oldman will present the award for best actress with an effusive F. Murray Abraham lead-in: "I consider this woman the greatest actress in the English language" before giving it to ... Gaga???!!!!!

ExCUSE ME.

(((hiccup)))

Just make sure.....*swig*....that goddamned Hilary goddamned STANK isn't in your category this year!

R72 Davis isn't winning a second Oscar in two years for genre film that isn't a frontrunner for BP.

Nettie B! I love it. We've some many wonderful actresses in this thread.

Glenn Close needs to win an Oscar this year, so The Academy can move on to Nettie. The new gals need to file into the queue.

It would be a real shame if Lady Gagme suffered a Fibro Flare and was unable to attend the Oscar ceremony.

Next week I'm going to see PUZZLE, starring that Scot lass, Kelly Macdonald.

She's a good actress, but it looks rather low key (not really the preferred fire and brimstone stuff)

R80 Oh, I'll be there. Even if I have to struggle to stand.

gaga's tats are just tragic

Well, I have a DVD player and I enjoy picking out a DVD and popping in in.

Don't put a period after my M!

Darling, you haven't seen a period in at least 30 years.

The left side of my body shuts down when I get mine!

Lady ButterFace.

Glenn won’t even be nominated. lol. Dream on, DL.

Gaga has it in the bag. Next.

[quote] Also, let's hope the story about 5-time rapist/producer of A Star is Born isn't circulating all season. Not a good look.

He's already expected to make millions off of this project he was "very hands on" with.

Nice try, r37. That’s already been debunked. He has nothing to do with the project.

[quote] Also, let's hope the story about 5-time rapist/producer of A Star is Born isn't circulating all season. Not a good look.

[quote]He's already expected to make millions off of this project he was "very hands on" with.

Nice try, R37. That’s already been debunked. He has nothing to do with the project.

Don't count me out, gang! You know Oscar loves me.

Sit down, Jennifer.

Jesus, please don't let this movie win Best Picture and make shiteous director Todd Phillips an Oscar winner.

Just got back from a screening of "The Wife". It was a 9pm showing and the theater was 3/4 full.

A more apt title for the film would've been "Persuasion". Each character could be accused of a certain amount of persuasion. Glenn Close was exquisite. It was like watching a piece of fine china shatter in slow motion. I'm still haunted by her performance and really can't bring myself to write a review just yet. Also, I liked the film a lot more than I thought I would.

The third act was an amazing homerun for Close. I suspect her performance will continue to haunt me throughout the week. She deserves the Oscar.

Who in the HELL is coopting my nickname for Bening. NETTIE is mine!

Thanks for the kind notices, R96. Your words are a comfort in these trying times.

Lots of Glenn's publicists on this site.

I hope Muriel tweets this thread out so we can get some Gaga fans in our den....

R93 Chile, please, lol. You're lucky if you get a Razzie nom for that atrocity.

Maybe Gaga would win if she was nominated for supporting actress. But best actress doesn’t typically go to a newcomer (which Gaga is in terms of acting) does it?

R102 It can, but what really hurts her are two factors:

GLENN FUCKING CLOSE

Gaga is winning in Best Song and AMPAS is not handing out two golden boys to Fibro Gagz.

A Star is Born will need to be a box office hit. The Wife doesn't. It could sneak by and still win as a low viewed but since its star is overdue ...... (think Julianne Moore in Still Alice or Jessica Lange in Blue Sky.)

I want to see Glenn Close lose. [bold]AGAIN.

Too bad she's not, R105. She's winning.

[quote] (think Julianne Moore in Still Alice or Jessica Lange in Blue Sky.)

I'd rather not think of either of those shit movies with their underwhelming performances.

Anyone here who thinks Glenn isn't campaigning is totally naive. Who do you think is paying for all this coverage? Who do you think has her people running the whisper campaign? Jesus, this is almost as contrived as Joan Crawford hiring Rogers & Cowan.

I think the thing that bothers me most about Glenn Close is all this insistence that she should get the award because "shes' due." I guess this is because she's been nominated so many times not because of a bunch of amazing performances. (But I really don't care how people are justifying this.)

Her PR team (and I'm assuming Close as well) is very insistent that she get the award. Very. I'm so turned of to all the pushy PR people I sincerely hope she tanks. I haven't seen her movie and I'm sure she is good but really - who cares.

Lady Gaga for the win!

Anyone but Close

I'd prefer to see Alyssa Milano win an Oscar over Glenn Close.

R107 Lange does more in the first 15 minutes of "Blue Sky" (that breakdown, though) than your fave has in her entire career.

There is something wrong with you if you hate Glenn Close.

Scared she'll achieve the Triple Crown before your faves?

But why does that bother you, R109? For this specific instance or does any "career" award bother you? For myself, I nearly always feel that the awards should be on merit alone, but that's not the world in which we live. If you're going to award someone for a career, then you'd be hard pressed to find anyone currently more deserving than Close, who absolutely should have won on merit for Dangerous Liaisons and was definitely more deserving than the actresses who won in her categories in 1982 and 1987.

It's people like Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio and Julianne Moore (and the burgeoning push for Amy Adams) winning for career which irritates the shit out of me. Adams was a complete unknown 12 years ago. That's not a career. Julianne Moore has given a few good performances, and should have won for Boogie Nights, but not everyone can have an Oscar and it would not have been a travesty had Moore gone to her grave without an Oscar. Travesties like that are Deborah Kerr, Montgomery Clift, Gena Rowlands, Kathleen Turner, Jennifer Jason Leigh, etc.

Close has given consistently wonderful performances in film for 35 years (well, except for Albert Nobbs, in which she deserved a Razzie). Those kinds of "career achievement" awards are few and far between. The last I can think of who deserved the one he got was Paul Newman for The Color of Money and maybe Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart (which was unwatchable, but Bridges gave a lot of award worthy performances in his career).

While I have a feeling Close's performance in The Wife (as well as the movie itself) are totally overrated and not that impressive, it would be really tough to deny her the award this year.

[quote] [R107] Lange does more in the first 15 minutes of "Blue Sky" (that breakdown, though) than your fave has in her entire career.

Yes, dear, that's the problem. She chews her way through the scenery so quickly, she's already camp by the time the latecomers are seated. Horrible movie, horrible performance.

R116 Bitch, Close was subtle, tender, transformative and altogether heartbreaking in Albert Nobbs. She should've won that year.

I was looking at what Glenn Close has done, I had only really remembered her from Fatal Attraction. Which she was amazing in. I was quite surprised to see she has done mostly TV work for nearly two decades since. I don't really count the 101 Dalmation movies. I thought she had a long movie career I hadn't really seen but that is not really the case.

R117 She plays a bi-polar nymphomaniac. What did you expect, tea and biscuits? lol.

Her win for "Blue Sky" is still one of my favorites EVER. Everything pointed to her not winning until she won LA, renowned for being picky and for awarding left field choices. Then the Globes followed and she was undeniable. She beat an "overdue" veteran (Sarandon), the ingenue of the moment, a brit and Nell. It was glorious!

R119 You've never seen Dangerous Liaisons or Reversal of Fortune?

R121 yes I had heard of them, but never seen them. So she only had 3 big movie roles?

The ONLY reason she won the Oscar was there was no one else in the category to give it to. You know it, I know it, we all know it. That category was from hunger that year. Besides Lange, Sarandon, Ryder and Foster were all ridiculous performances to honor. Hell, they were even seriously considering Streep for The River Wild and MacLaine for Guarding Tess.

[quote] I was quite surprised to see she has done mostly TV work for nearly two decades since. I don't really count the 101 Dalmation movies. I thought she had a long movie career I hadn't really seen but that is not really the case.

In the 20 years since 101 Dalmatians, Glenn Close has made 24 theatrical films not counting animated movies, cameos or the sequel to Dalmatians. Plus 15 theatrical films prior to that.

R122 Er, Jagged Edge, The World According to Garp, The Natural. She was stunning in Heights and in that movie she starred with Meryl in.

Also, I can watch "In the Gloaming" on a loop. Such an underrated little gem (directed by Chris Reeves).

I'm not sitting thru A Star is Born AGAIN. He drinks. She sings. He dies. She wins an award. It has been done to death.

R123 Really? No one else? Chrissy Rock in Ladybird, Ladybird? Sigourney Weaver in Death and the Maiden? 4 time nominee Susan Sarandon in a blockbuster hit? Previous nominee and Hollywood it girl Winona Ryder?

Riiight.

They wanted to give it to Lange. You know it, I know it, everyone knows it. The fact that she won LA was so perfect. They can be soo snooty sometimes. THAT's how much they oved The Lange.

The backlash is going to be for A Star is Born. Last week I was crying over the extended trailer.

I couldn't even get past two minutes of it this week. It doesn't hold up.

G is winning the poll by a healthy margin.

[quote] You know it, I know it, we all know it.

PLEEEEEAAAASE stop with the Trumpian language!

Ugh, I guess Jabba is tired of getting beaten down on the Made for Now thread, so it's switched over to its other obsession, Ham on Rye Jessica Lange.

Close but No Cigar.

r116 = PR troll

It's not just naked ego behind this big push for Close to win. Yeah, there is certainly that too. But if Close wins her career gets a big jump-start she can charge more per movie etc. etc. So there is a lot of money riding on this for a lot of people

Of course all the PR trolls are the lowest people in the office. Actually they are probably temps. They're told to respond to every negative post and and "just say something" and that's pretty much what they are doing. They just bathering away.

But on balance the Tom Cruise PR trolls were worse. The group that showed up for his last movie were really untalented. I think they must have been paid in sandwiches ...

Probably from the same temp agency. I always think of them as kids but they may be middle aged women with cats.

I can barely breathe with my COPD flaring up, but your words of encouragement give me strength and resilience. At least until March.

Glenn Close is a fine actress, but there's no need to get [italic]overly[/italic] excited about her, either.

She should be satisfied with the success she's found on TV late in life. It's nothing to be ashamed of.

Everyone has their place.

Agreed 137 Close has has worked a lot and had lots of acclaim and I'm assuming money. She's had an amazing career. She's had a very lucky life.

Which is what makes it strange that she's being so grabby, now.

R138 I don't think it's luck if you work for it.

r138 being a good PR troll

Thank you all for your thoughtful wishes. I’ll remember you in my soon to be final breath(s).

Why are you comparing these two?

They are like cheese and chalk to me: Glenn is an established actress while Gaga is a.......performer?

Always lucky if you make it in Hollywood. Good fortune shines on you. Getting work is what is all about. Lots of talented people fall by the wayside. Close has been very lucky. She has had a fortunate life.

R143 - you are just a low paid troll. Please go away

[quote]r140 I don't think it's luck if you work for it.

Glenn Close was born with a silver spoon up her ass.

"Worked"? Not in the way the word is usually used.

r143 - it's kind of late - only a couple of people posting. Go ahead and take a break. Get some coffee and a donut.

I've always assumed the PR trolls have lots of threads they are commenting on. They just cycle around stopping here and there and try to keep the shit stirred ...

R145 Okay......A Gaga stan, I suppose

R147 I don't do coffee and hate doughnuts, but I guess that's your thing?

r150 having a little fun.

It's not work work work ..

R146 well, it's all there for everyone to see. She has credits from 1982, that lady has worked compared to lots of rich kids who just piss about and sit about looking pretty

IMO the PR trolls are probably very young. Maybe temps maybe interns. They seem childish and immature. They are proud of their jobs and share their favorite posts with friends. It's a low paying job but they are enjoying themselves.

I didn't know she'd been married four times. I guess men have a hard time with her.

Her second husband was one of the producers of her first film...so I guess we know how she got THAT part.

Oh, come on..................R154

I've read she had a lousy personality. I think this may be what's kept her from getting the award up to now. Not well-liked in the industry.

r155 - how old are you?

[quote]r155 Oh, come on..................[R154]

What's untrue about my post?

Those are the facts. Look them up.

Every single user in here is working PR for one of the actresses and I'll believe nothing else!

Yes - I'm a PR person and I'm posting for Madonna. She is a Leo and of course very demanding and I really have to kiss her ass - but she is very glamorous and I love my job.

Madonna will be nominated for something I'm sure ..

I've been offered a position with Barbra Streisand and I would get a discount at her mall ...

I'm PR for Olivia Colman and all you yanks will be eating crow come March!

What does crow taste like?

Crow tastes like chicken

Just you wait!

Lady Gaga, Glenn Close, Rosamund Pike (Private War), Julia Roberts, and who else?

Nothing's happening with Private War.

Gaga, Close, Colman, Davis, and an open fifth slot for whoever's lucky enough to get in this year.

[quote]I've read she had a lousy personality. I think this may be what's kept her from getting the award up to now. Not well-liked in the industry.

I've heard that as well. Not good with coworkers.

R158

[quote] so I guess we know how she got THAT part.

Were you actually there? How do you know?

Glenn!

Olivia!

Dr. Scott!

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R157 43

The Gaga PR temps are working overtime.

That is such an annoying gif. Makes Close look weird and ugly.

You say that like it's hard, R177.

[quote] It's not just naked ego behind this big push for Close to win. Yeah, there is certainly that too. But if Close wins her career gets a big jump-start she can charge more per movie etc. etc. So there is a lot of money riding on this for a lot of people

I would say that Close has hit the top of her salary potential and an Oscar would not help raise it. Everyone knows who Glenn Close is, she's been a star for 35 years. Attaching her would make no difference to the prestige of a project whether or not she had an Oscar. For someone like Octavia Spencer or Chris Cooper- yes. Glenn, no.

Also, the person yammering on about Glenn and her 2nd husband... She met him AFTER being hired for Garp and they married two years later. But nice try.

[quote]I'm PR for Olivia Colman and all you yanks will be eating crow come March!

Yes dear but the Oscars are in February.

It's Glenn for the win.

Next, give Annette Bening an Oscar.

Lady Gaga is way down the rung.

G.

Bump

Glenn

Lady Gaga doesn't come Close...

Close will be this year's 'the old hat who has paid her/his dues" ala Leonardo diCaprio who finally won after a gazillion nominations.

Close is getting bashed now?

I smell Erna in this thread.

Yes, this year's very old hat. Shabby too.

Glenn is winning the poll!!!!

Mamie! Clear your cookies! We got some work to do.

Everyone's face if Gaga wins.

The Wife has already stalled at the box office. It expanded to more than 500 screens this weekend and took in a paltry $2200 per screen. They'll probably do one more expansion next week where it will have an even more anemic PSA and then it will start dropping screens, maybe adding other markets, but unless Close gets a nomination and the film is re-released, this thing is on its last gasps.

Movies like this are better made for cable, now.

The whole thing would have made a wonderful Lifetime Original Movie.

How many Glenn threads are going on here? I'm just going to post in Oscar season.

Oscar season's already started! This is like... one of four I think? There are quite a few floating around, and I'm sure more posts will appear in the coming months.

I can't keep track of them all!

Just post in the ones that show up! Also, feel free to slip into any of our recurring characters if you want: Meryl (M), Glenn (G), Lady Gaga (L. Gaga), Viola Davis (V), or Annette Bening (Nettie B.)!

I think it's entirely possible Glenn won't even be nominated. And if she is, she won't win. The Academy is very aware that they have a problem being considered vital to current American culture, especially with younger people. If "A Star is Born" opens to the kind of raves it's gotten so far, it will be a hard one to beat. Meanwhile, as has been pointed out, Glenn's little effort is sinking, even with decent reviews. No one cares about "The Wife." It's a non-starter when it comes to Oscar.

"The Favourite" so far has excellent reviews, but Colman has no hope in Best Actress. If they can put her in supporting, she'll probably win.

I honestly don't understand people who suspect either Glenn or Gaga won't be nominated. They're the two frontrunners. Easy nominations.

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Yes, but being the frontrunner as early as September can backfire sometimes, r199. And nothing can set off a "backfire" situation like bombing at the box office, which "The Wife" seems to be doing.

Backfiring can definitely cost these actresses the win, but I don't think it'll affect their chances at a mere nomination. There's way too much positive buzz surrounding these performances, and they're exactly the types of performances the Academy salivates over, and oftentimes awards. I don't think a nomination is so outlandish for these two actresses.

I'll give you Colman. She doesn't have the security that Close or Gaga has. I still think she'll get nominated in one of those Carey Mulligan/Imelda Staunton spots.

G is a lock, at least for a nomination. She got in with Albert Nobbs, remember? I also think she’s the one to beat.

Gaga's PR team will go full throttle after ASIB is released. She is going to be on everything like Good Morning America to Jimmy Fallon. Glenn will not get those invites. Sad but true. Gaga is the present and future and Glenn is an old lady who looks older than she is. A few bleeding hearts may pine for Glenn....but they could die before they can cast a ballot for her.

Poor Glenn.

R204 What are you talking about? Glenn does get those invites. She was just on Jimmy Fallon last month.

Show BUSINESS. It makes sense to give show biz awards to people who create present and future profits. So give younger people a lot of the awards each season.

The oscars don't mean jack shit anymore, fucking mcbongo has an oscar of all people, lady haha getting an oscar for a sure to be overhyped awful performance would be sad, the academy wants to appear hip yet gaga hasn't been cool since 2011.

I agree R207 and this further supports what I believe about show biz awards in R206.

[quote]Also, feel free to slip into any of our recurring characters if you want:

I enjoy M and G. The rest of them don't really work. M and G are long established and tied up to their positions as first and second ladies of the screen of a certain age.

M and G work great when it's a bitchy 'Bosom Buddies' repartee between the two. I can't see Gaga working in the meme. She's can't really sign one initial. Anyone beyond M and G should take on more than just an initial.

Bening should sign Mrs Warren Beatty.

Glenn is winning and that's all that's to it.

[quote]r202 Backfiring can definitely cost these actresses the win, but I don't think it'll affect their chances at a mere nomination.

It seems cruel to nominate Granny Close when she has no chance of winning.

It's like a cat playing with a mouse. Let her die.

Erna is back, I see.

She loves trashing older women, the rancid munt!

I happen to like Erna.

Glenn.

Oscar Experts say Glenn Close will win

Doesn’t keep me up at night

Having now seen both films, I don’t think either of them deserves to win this year.

[quote]I enjoy M and G. The rest of them don't really work.

The original ones did. We had bitch fights between Barbara Bel Geddes and Kim Stanley, Michele Lee and Donna Mills (& Constance McCashin, who was always hungry), and Abby Breslin and Dakota Fanning. M & G have never quite risen to those lofty heights, although I do enjoy them, especially when Jess joins in.

Oscar can be cruel. It has a habit of anointing beloved older actors with nominations, and then denying them the final prize.

What a mean motherfucker he is.

Cher could win again this year for her star turn in Mamma Mia and beat Glenn again just as she did in Moonstruck over Fatal Attraction.

Can anyone remember what Lady Gaga looks like? I can never. She has the most featureless, undistinctive face. Not good looking. Not bad looking. Not anything.

That's funny, r222, because I heard your mom say the same thing about you!

R223 SORRY Milady Gaga. Didn't realize you were on here.

Glenn's subtle campaigning has put off several younger voters. They like Gaga's glamour and the ability to get herself SEEN. Who wants a pity campaign? Glenn is a lovely old woman who should book her spot at the Motion Picture Home - and soon.

I have PTSD!!!

I have seen both performance on the big screen. I am afraid that "The Wife" will not play very well on the small screen (no matter how large it might be). It might feel like a TV movie of the week, a good one. I think LG's performance will feel bigger even on the small screen.

I force myself to see movies on the big screen because I know that there are movies that I would never finish on the small screen. I am pretty sure that I might not have finished "The Wife." And I agree that Close's third act is perfection. But LG will win Best Song, and I do not think she will get Best Actress..or will she.

Older members will vote for Glenn. Younger will vote for Gaga.

Wouldn't be surprised if a certain segment of older voters go for Gaga. They like awarding young actresses (Lawrence, Larson, Stone).

Close winning the poll.

Bump

I've just watched The Wife. Glenn Close is good, but I don't think she's great. If she gets the Oscar it's because she's 'overdue,' not because she has given a stellar performance.

I'm even tempted to say that she's somewhat overrated. If Meryl is "click, click, click," then Glenn is at least "click."

I have three “clicks” already, one of only two actors alive to do so, while poor old Glenn has yet to garner a single one. Maybe this is her year... or, maybe not.

[quote]Wouldn't be surprised if a certain segment of older voters go for Gaga. They like awarding young actresses (Lawrence, Larson, Stone).

Those three are considered 'fuckable,' that's why. Gaga not so much.

[quote]Glenn's subtle campaigning has put off several younger voters.

And how do you know this, R225? Or are you just making unfounded assumptions? It's one thing to say "I *think* Glenn's campaign may put off younger voters." Plus this just gives you away as a Little Monster

[quote]Glenn is a lovely old woman who should book her spot at the Motion Picture Home - and soon.

ASIB - what a godawful mess. I couldn't watch the whole thing because it was unwatchable. But at least I now know that Gaga won't win the Oscar.

I anticipate a viscous attack on Gaga from Glenn Close's fanbase. Gaga hold your head high and remember your performance for months was seen as the front runner. Glenn has used her oh poor pitiful OLD me without an Oscar. What happens if 70 years from now Gaga doesn't have one? Its not fair to deny Gaga at the time she deserves it. Glenn can be happy with her Golden Globe.

I AM big! It's the monsters that got little.

Gaga just isn't pretty enough to garner "the Babe Factor," so the award will go to someone with the overdue body of work / seniority.

Glenn should definitely win. But anyone who claims she isn’t campaigning should check out her Instagram.

R239 how do you mean?

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