I am rewatching 'The Sixth Sense' (1999) for the first time since it came out, and Toni Collette should have won that Oscar.

I love Toni Collette in everything, and she was wonderful in this. That scene in the car was phenomenal.

This scene made me feel angry when I watched it, btw. I would have killed that cunt.

Toni Collette or Chloe Sevigny should have won. Both excellent actresses Hollywood has never quite known how to utilize properly.

Angelina Jolie’s Oscar for her histrionics in ‘Girl, Interrupted’ was such a waste.

When Tony Colette stepped out of the car after that scene with Haley Joel, she should’ve stepped onto a red carpet, and been handed an Oscar. Whew!

^^^^^

* Toni

Angelina in “Girl, Interrupted” was sort of iconic, though. Lisa was the perfect character for Jolie at that point in her career, and she pulls off a couple of quieter moments beautifully that justify her Oscar for me.

That whole category was really strong that year. Even Samantha Morton was kind of lovely as a mute laundress in a Woody Allen.

However, I also would have voted for Toni Collette. Her last scene in the car with HJO is iconic.

Amazing that after all these years, I have never seen it - AND somehow the surprise has never been spoiled for me. Nothing I have ever read reveals what the twist is.

R8, you’re not too bright, are you? I like that in a man.

That was a stacked year, any of them would have been a good choice.

Angie

Samantha Morton

Chloe Sevigny

Toni

Catherine Keener

[QUOTE] Amazing that after all these years, I have never seen it - AND somehow the surprise has never been spoiled for me. Nothing I have ever read reveals what the twist is.

That’s amazing! I actually did not know the twist when I saw it in the theater and it was very satisfying. Today is the perfect day to finally watch it!

I remember when my mom went to see the movie and we were talking about it on the phone afterward. I asked her what she thought of the ending, and she said, "It was all a dream." She didn't get it.

I had no problem with Osment getting a nomination for his role. Without his performance the film would not have worked. It probably was some of Bruce's best work.

I always felt a little bad for the Others which came out afterwards (but was filmed first). The Six Sense's twist took a way some of its surprise factor. Still a good movie and the role was perfect for Nicole.

R13 I was just thinking about The Others also. I remember people being shocked by the ending but then saying it was a ripoff of The Sixth Sense.

R13, why do we always end up talking about fucking Nicole Kidman?

She should have won for Hereditary, but she wasn’t even nominated.

I would have voted for Samantha Morton but yeah that is one fight category.

R16 Hereditary was a piece of shit. I love Toni, but that movie was sick.

The son in Hereditary was miscast. Two wasps aren’t having a son that looks like that.

R19 Agreed. The whole movie was a mess. And the ending was ridiculous. As bad as that other piece of shit by the same director, "Midsommar."

I always get Sixth Sense and 5th Element mixed up

R13 The Others was NOT filmed first. Here are the filming dates:

The Sixth Sense: 21 September 1998 - 13 November 1998

The Others: 26 June 2000 - 21 November 2000

1999 was a strong year in film.

I agree with the OP. It should have been Toni or it should have went for the truly deserving winner for Girl, Interrupted: Brittany Murphy. Jolie was all histrionics and scenery-chewing; Murphy was sympathetic and heartbreaking.

R8 I saw this in the theatrical release. I did figure it out before it was revealed, and at the time I didn't mind. It was my first Shyamalan film. I saw other Shyamalan films in their subsequent releases, but because he relied on this "twist gimmick", it became tired, and formulaic. The films that followed weren't nearly as good ("The Village").

I DO love Ann Roth's costumes, Tom Foden's scenic design, and James Newton Howard's score in "The Village", but the ending was just ridiculous. And while I like her now, I found Bryce Dallas Howard really annoying in that film.

ANYWAY...

I agree with R13 about Osment & Willis. Collette was my favorite part of this film. She absolutely deserved that Academy Award.

I saw this in the cinema when it first came out. As Bruce Willis is shot and killed in the first scene, and nobody but Osment looks at him or talks to him throughout the film - especially in that hilarious dinner scene with his wife in a restaurant where she is completely wordless - and Osment actually says, “I see dead people,” there was no twist for me at the end, other than I was sitting in a cinema with a bunch of not very bright, unobservant people who paid no attention to detail.

For me, this film has always represented the stupidity and inattentiveness of people and their willingness to just go along with absurd, illogical circumstances, presented by an incredibly lazy director and writer who was way over-praised for this.

The horror genre has thus far really misused Collette’s talents, especially in that awful Hereditary garbage, where everybody, not just the son, appears to be acting in a different film, none of them very good or credible.

R25

I'll admit to being one of those idiots, but, that said, there were a number of devices in the Sixth Sense that I thought were stupid even before the big reveal, such as the Munchhausen's victim accidentally filming her mother poisoning her and ghosts somehow being picked up on a tape recorder.

Toni was fantastic in Drag Race.........

R2 not to nitpick, but they really should have a better deign of that "Pine Sol" like cleaning bottle, sure they can't use brand names like Pine Sol or its bottle design, but that "New Pine" product bottle is a failure, can't see the name clearly and it looks more like a bottle of soda.

R28 I agree. I was obviously able to understand what was happening, but that prop design was definitely a fail.

Thanks R27 , I swore reading it was actually done before and released later, but maybe that just pre-development, getting the rights to the story etc. , or just some spin they put out there to combat people saying it copied Sixth Sense.

I made the mistake of watching the Catherine Zeta Jones version of Hill House. It was incredibly bad. Although, as much as the board makes fun about her lying about her age, she was incredibly attractive at that time. Still -- really bad movie.

The Haunting was terrible

R12, did you ever tell your mom what The Sixth Sense was really about, and if so, what did she think then? Did she end up understanding it?

Toni Collette is a wonderful actress. All her performances have heart.

R30

The Others was a best-seller suspense novel in the 70s.

Nicole should have been nominated for The Others over Moulin Rouge

R32 She really thought Bruce Willis' character in the movie had dreamed up the whole Haley Joel Osment thing after he had been shot. So I patiently explained to her that Bruce was dead and didn't know it, and that's why Osment could see him. Then I walked her through how no one in the film ever interacted with him except for Osment. She finally got it then.

I loved her in this as well-

The car scene was incredibly moving..

She really reminded me of hard working single women with children that I have known in my life-

I always thought that the movie had an early 80s look and sensibility. I didn’t understand why it was set in the present day.

I was very impressed by her performance in this and her final scene always moves me to tears. I hope that, one day, she gets a great role worthy of her talents and gets an Oscar. I thought she might get a nomination for Hereditary, but it didn't happen.

Raise your hand if you want to hang out with R25.

R33, you're thinking of The Other by Tom Tryon, published in 1971 and made into a really dull film in 1972. Not The Others, which was an original screenplay by Alejandro Amenabar.

I think people forget what a huge hit this film was.

Nobody asked you, R39!

How would a sequel work?

The car scene is flawlessly played.

Toni Collette is incredibly gifted and deserves an Oscar but unfortunately she is constantly underpraised. On the other hand dreary Miss Mopettes Michelle Williams and Amy Adams, along with refrigerator woman Nicole Kidman, get all of the critical accolades. Colette improves any film she is in. I can't think of one poor performance from her.

You’d think Colette would be a shoe in for at least a Supporting win at some point in her career. It’s sort of absurd that she’s only been nominated once.