Oscar revote 2006

The right person won. The only other performance I would have given it to was Meryl in Prada, although I felt she was supporting

Either Cruz or Dench. They awarded cuntface Mirren for a role she could do in her sleep. The Queen was pure Miramax/Weinstein oscar bait.

Weak year.

Meryl Street is one of my favorite actresses!

"One of the most competitive races in many years"

OP - are you kidding? Helen Mirren won every single award up to the Oscars, including the Black Film Critics' Award! The press tried to make it a race between Mirren and Streep, but it was as close to a sure thing as ever was in Oscar history.

I liked her sister Della better, r5.

^r4

I hated The Queen: Mirren looked NOTHING like QEII and her performance seemed like a SNL impersonation. Streep was fun (comedy is the only genre where her hamminess isn't an issue) but her role seemed more like a supporting one. Winslet and Cruz were both good but there were supporting actors in those two movies who gave even better performances than they did.

I guess that makes Judi Dench the rightful winner of the 2006 Oscar. She totally made that movie (it would have been a hot mess with someone else in that role) and it was refreshing to see her finally drop her Grande British Dame act and play a lower middle class psycho lezzie teacher.

How could it be a competitive year when I didn't even have one feature film released?!?!

I fucking love Barbara Covett!

Judi deserved the Oscar

Streep was supporting. She would have won.