Is Amanda Seyfried winning an Oscar?

She was always a much better actress than Heather Graham. She's more of a character actress and I think this will help her transition into better roles as she ages.

Is OP her publicist? Someone started a thread about her supposed career comeback a week or two ago.

I like her as an actress but these posts really read like someone seeding conversation to start buzz.

I never saw that thread R2.

Sorry, the Best Supporting Actress Oscar is going to Maria Bakalova from the Borat Sequel. She already got a head start and a glowing NY Times profile (even if Amanda has name recognition).

She should have been nominated for her role in sucking Justin Long's dick.

No, it's Amanda Freitag.

It’s “Mank” not “Monk.” And, yes, Amanda is a top contender for Best Supporting Actress this year. Especially since Glenn Close’s chances have fizzled since the reviews of “Hillbilly Elegy” came out.

Anyone is fine with me as long as it isn't Elisabeth Moss.

OP couldn't -- or at least, shouldn't -- be her publicist. The film is called "Mank," not "Monk."

I still get her mixed up with Chloë Grace Moretz

This year’s Oscars will have an asterisk, so who cares?

She actually stars in my favorite reaction shot of all time (in Mean Girls, after Regina says "Boo! You whore!"

[quote] She was always a much better actress than Heather Graham.

I'M TRIGGERED!!!!!

She's a decent actress, especially when compared to the always-wooden Heather Graham. She's been around since she was a teenager and has done consistent work while never pissing anybody off. She's still a piece of bosomy blonde ass. The old men in the Academy will enjoy voting for her.

There's no movies out to nominate people from. Meryl will probably win for a zoom call she taped with her daughters.

I would feel kind of bad if I won something this year, is probably going to be a weak year, it’s like a half win, like when an actor wins the Golden Globe and the Oscar but not the Bafta. Don’t you guys think?

With that being said, I never said Amanda was a bad actress, it’s just surprising to see her winning an Oscar because I thought she was one of those blondes that come and go in Hollywood. If she do wins, it’s probably going to make people think of her as a serious actress and not like we ALL though of her since she started acting.

It always happens with blonde and pretty, Margot needed to make herself a producer and produce “I, Tonya” to be considered as something more than the pretty girl.

Heather Graham is twice Seyfried's age. Why are they being compared?

I just want say that I appreciate OP’s non-defensive response at R3.

I do, too, R18.

I happen to like Seyfried, but I need to see the film. And a part of me would love it if Burstyn won, JUST so she could avenge her 2001 loss against that unworthy cunt, Roberts.

I loved the actress who played the Marion Davies (Amanda Seyfried) character in Citizen Kane. She was kind of blackballed after appearing in the film as I understand it.

Davies is actually a distant cousin of mine.

r21 - Well smell her!

Isn't next year going to be a lot worse for film/tv -- with very little production done this year? This year at least still had some projects wrapped up pre-pandemic.

They're being compared because Graham and Seyfried are similar types--blonde hair, big blue eyes, big tits. But I'd argue that Seyfried has made more interesting choices in her career. I can't see Graham doing a film like Lovelace.

A little surprised to not see Michelle Pfeiffer on there for French Exit. Some reviews called it her best ever.

Could they really give Frances McDormand a third so soon? Has anyone seen Nomadland?

She will not win because she is a monster. A MONSTER!

Next year's Oscars will be so weird. Just cancel them and fuse them together with the following year. Nobody has seen the movie anyway.

Why not, R24? Graham did Boogie Nights.

I really only remember Heather Graham as Rollergirl, and from a lot of magazines that called her the It Girl. I don't have any idea what else she did. I know I watched her in various movies, but she always seemed so generic to me and just sort of washed away into the background.

Amanda Seyfried is kind of the opposite of that. She was cast as a quasi-background character in Big Love and I remember feeling terrible for her throughout in equal measure to how much I disliked Chloe Sevigny's character. She played a template dumb blonde chick in Mean Girls but she was unforgettably funny and I can picture her goofy faces in my mind. I kind of hate Mamma Mia and yet I've seen parts of it several times, and I enjoyed watching Seyfried in it. She seems like she should be more generic than she is, but for some reason I find her very memorable.

I feel the same way as R30. She should be your average, forgettable blonde Hollywood starlet, but she's turned in enough memorable performances for me to say I like her a lot and I'm rooting for her. She seems to have one of those slow burn careers where she'll turn out good, quality work for 20 or 30 years and then surprise us with something really spectacular when she's in her 50's that might get her some Oscar buzz. It's probably the best kind of career to have because she keeps working steadily, seems well liked, and can build towards something instead of coming out of nowhere one season, starring in everything, getting Oscar noms, and annoying everyone from over saturation.

I even liked her in Les Mis and thought she was one of the better actors. She made something of a useless character and that takes talent. Her voice wasn't right for the role at all, but she acted it well.

Who are the five most likely nominees for Best Supporting Actress at this point?

There aren't five strong contenders yet.

Seyfried, Oliva Colman, the woman from Borat, and Close are the only ones I've heard chatter about.

Ellen Burstyn is getting good buzz for Pieces of a Woman, which will probably earn Vanessa Kirby a nomination in Lead.

I’m not sold on Maria Bakalova even getting a nomination. No matter how good the performance, some movies just aren’t the Academy’s thing, and comedies have a massive uphill battle. They’ll probably just throw a Jacki Weaver style nomination to whatever name actress is in a movie they really like.

2020 is just so weird that I could totally see the Maria Bakalova nomination happening. Especially if Sacha Baron Cohen is in the conversation in support for The Trial of the Chicago 7. He’ll cross-promote her.

Sounds like the movie is the one to beat. Enough people have seen Zodiac to realize David Fincher deserves an Oscar, lol. She could get pulled along in a wave.

I anticipate memes showing the 3 Mean Girls - two Oscar nominees and the owner of a failed Mykonos night club currently living in Oman.

I've never heard of her.

Poor Glennie, another newcomer coming to take the little gold man.

Well, let's just be honest: for all the talk about diversity, the Academy still loves itself a pretty young white girl, which ups her chances exponentially.

So in short, yes, she'll probably win.

Some still thing Glenn can win:

R36, I’m sure the memes will involve the line “...and none for Gretchen Weiner,” which in a just world would spur Lacey Chabert to abandon the Christmas movie circuit and give the Oscar-winning performance no one ever thought possible.

Worst Oscars Ever.

She has MAJOR mental issues- the ones she's spoken of are just the tip of the iceberg.

I think Amanda is a lot like other pretty blonde actresses in that you can't see their potential until they are older and over the hill. It's just not feasible for pretty blonde women to play any role where they're not sailing through life easily and the object of men's affections because that is what life is like for pretty blonde women. Amanda's own personal life reflects that as well.

It isn't until she's old that taking on meaty roles will make sense because she will have finally lived through adversity as an aging woman and be able to portray it on screen realistically. Or not, depending on her actual talents.

Monster!

DO tell R42!

Monster!

I'm so looking forward to seeing her in "Mink"!

That one is funny, r12. I like this one too.

Her pussy probably smells like cilantro.

The funniest thing about threads like this are the hushed tones used in talking about someone getting an Os-kah, as if it’s being awarded a Nobel Prize.

Honey, it ain’t no Nobel Prize. Remember the time this won Best Picture, and GoodFellas didn’t?

R45- Manic, bipolar, drugs, nasty to most everyone on set, cutting, hallucinations, alcohol binges for days, can't get her out of her trailer if she shows up, destroys costumes, redoes her makeup, screaming fits at random strangers, sobbing tangents...

^ She sounds like a fun time!

Holy shit R51 if that's true then yeah, it's pretty bad. Damn.

wasn't there a photo around of her blowing Justin Long.

Would Kristen Bell be extremely jealous if Amanda got an Oscar before her?

I guess she's come a long way from just being the girl whose boobs can predict the weather.

[quote] [R45]- Manic, bipolar, drugs, nasty to most everyone on set, cutting, hallucinations, alcohol binges for days, can't get her out of her trailer if she shows up, destroys costumes, redoes her makeup, screaming fits at random strangers, sobbing tangents...

She’s also a Lily James facsimile: even with Justin Long, she was having affairs with married men.

Remember when she followed her current hubby while he was married to someone else to Europe? Hubby (married then to different woman) thought it special to take his then wife on an anniversary trip to Europe whilst surreptitiously meeting with Amanda Seyfried.

[quote] SKEEVE IN REAL LIFE TOO "Theirs is known as one of the most solid show business marriages. Both of them are talented. Both of them work steadily. Both are well-respected. Both can be rather high-brow though they’ve tried at blockbusters and secretly aspire to big movie status without the big movie star lifestyle though, seeing as they do try to live under the radar. Which works for him because he steps out on her all the time. Sometimes it’s with civilians. One time it was with a young actress with mesmerising eyes and the hair of an angel. It was dirty and undercover, just like their subject matter.

[quote] So when you see him in movies, and he always plays the skeevy older creep? It’s not exactly a stretch."

[quote] I GUESS SHE'S INTO SKEEVES "Last time we blinded about her, she’d had an affair on set with a married actor with a skeevy character vibe. His marriage is still intact. Another marriage, however, has ended. And she was, again, involved. Once again it started as a working situation. Of the two of them, she’s definitely more well-known. But even if you don’t know him by name, he books steady jobs, and his face should be familiar to you. He too is good at playing assholes.

[quote] When they met, she had a boyfriend and he was about to celebrate a milestone with his wife. Stage life and real life soon blurred, they were hooking up in and out of character, and she was texting him explicitly. They couldn’t let it go after wrapping up production. Which is why he’s not married anymore. He left his wife for her. According to their inner circle, they were so into each other that she followed him while he was on anniversary holiday in Europe with his wife. He would make up excuses during that trip to slip away and spend time with her. Eventually her boyfriend busted her and they broke up. He ended up filing for divorce in August and they insist they’re just friends, that nothing shady went down, that no one knows the real story. But those who saw all of it go down say they’re totally together now but are trying to put enough distance between the end of the marriage and their coming out so that people won’t suspect how they started, if that is, they last that long."

[quote] (Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgard, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Thomas Sadoski)

I just googled "Amanda Seyfried Justin Long NSFW" out of curiosity and found a photo. She's clothed and it looks like it was taken on a boat. She's sucking a dick. I don't really care. All adults have sex.

I do wonder though what was going through her head and what goes through the minds of people like her when they do this. She has a major career in the public eye, stands to be humiliated if a picture or video gets out, and they always seem to get out. I wonder if she was debating whether she can trust him, if she told him not to do it and he did it anyway and laughed it off but secretly regretted it, if she had a feeling of doom that he now had incriminating evidence. She's not looking at him in the photo, so did he take it without her knowing it? Did he leak it? That would be patently evil. Did she trust him completely? How many times has that happened only to be regretted after a betrayal later?

I wish sex were less taboo so that people would address these things openly. I would really love to hear someone explain everything about what they were thinking during the 'photo session' or video, if they really trusted the person, were excited by the potential danger and later regretted it or not, etc.

A publicist is behind that article. This is the time of year that the publicity machines go into overdrive promoting films and or specific performances, because the academy starts nominating in January. Don't believe every headline.

In the next thread, OP tells us about the time he had sex with Amanda Seyfried.

If Seyfried's mental problems are that acute, she must have incredible representation. Lohan has similar issues and her career died years ago, Seyfriend still works steadily and now has Oscar buzz.

Yep. I'm calling bullshit on all these alleged issues. She works too much to be a Lohan level hot mess.

Same. I really don't care (DO U?!), but she has maintained a steady career since a young age and has avoided tabloid scandals. Lohan was rumored to have been an addict and she was. Britney was rumored to have lost her mind and she did. Amanda Bynes was rumored to have lost her mind and she did. All of them from young ages, from reports that emanated from sets and studios.

No rumors about Amanda Seyfried until an anonymous DL post in November of 2020...slightly suspect veracity.

He ex, Dominic Cooper, had SCANDALOUS things to say about working with her! She was..."pleasant." Sounds like a real head case!

"She's married now and has a beautiful child," Cooper told Attitude. "We knew we were going to be working together [again] on a set, going back to a part which was certainly going to remind us of 10 years earlier, but I know her family, I know her mum, who was there a lot."

"It was a pleasant atmosphere," he added. "It was really interesting to see how different our lives are after 10 years. It is a long time and it was nice to spend time [with her]."

Before you call me a frau, I am a gay guy, 42.

And with that, my question: Why are guys celebrated here for their bodies and for sucking dicks and fucking on camera, and a leaked private picture of this woman sucking a dick makes people assume she has serious mental health problems?

I really don't get it.

Good point R66. There are so many women out there who have similar pictures out there. Good for her for sucking a nice dick.

I don't think people were calling her mentally unwell because a dick sucking pic leaked lol. They were just calling her mentally unwell because they were gossiping about her.

I think our discussions of Amanda inspired a New York Times profile...

I remember warming to Heather Graham's character on "Scrubs", making fun of how people see her 'type' - I can't stand that show now, for some reason.

Horrible actress and worse singer.

Speaking of such, WEHT to Justin Long? He used to be all over the place...now, not so much

She's so mediocre. I'm actually shocked Fincher hired her. What a played-out casting.

It's interesting how when Mean Girls was released, Lindsay Lohan was a star on the rise. Now she would kill to have the opportunities Rachel MacAdams, Amanda Seyfried, and even Hallmark Queen Lacey Chabert enjoy.

Lohan could have had Emma Stone's career, but she decided she'd rather do a mountain of cocaine and fuck a bunch of people instead.

That would make for a cool Freaky Friday sequel, R75!

Lindsay Lohan's character, a drug addicted yacht girl for wealthy Arabs, switches places with Emma's character, a successful actress who lives a lowkey life.

Emma Stone has always annoyed me (I loathed La La Land). But her performance in The Favourite completely changed my view of her. I thought she was sensational and should have won the Oscar that year.

I agree. Her monologues in The Favourite are far beyond anything Lindsey Lohan ever could have done.

Lindsey was a passable child actress who became more and more mediocre the older she got, probably because she was never really trained as an actress and had no interest in improving herself. If she'd behaved better and taken good care of her looks, her career would have lasted longer. However, I still think she would have hit a career wall in her early 30s once the flush of youth went away.

Stone was also an excellent Sally Bowles in Cabaret on Broadway with stage charisma to spare. Lohan could never do that. A lot of movie stars can't pull off Broadway, but her performance was one of my favorite stage performances of the last decade. I hope she returns one day.

[QUOTE] A lot of movie stars can't pull off Broadway

Julia Roberts was reportedly awful on stage.

Roberts didn't register at all on stage. It wasn't even that she was bad. She just blended into the scenery. For someone so charismatic on film, it was a bit of a shock.

Just saw the movie, the role was made for her. She only shines when playing ditzy, dumb blondes. For me it’s an easy role. She will probably win but the characters she plays lacks of any depth, weak year, easy.

I really enjoyed her in Lovelace

Stone was a revelation in The Favorite. Really made me understand why she's famous.

I agree Seyfreid was great in Lovelace.

Justin Long's dick looks delicious, so no points for this performance.

She could have committed to it a bit more.

No actor has ever won an Oscar for a Fincher film... and it might be this ditzy, homewrecking whore. What a flop year.

It's interesting that the dick-sucking pictures haven't seemed to hurt Seyfried's career at all, while the Fappening photos were the beginning of the end for Jennifer Lawrence.

I've only ever seen Seyfried in age-appropriate roles and I've never seen a poor performance from her. I don't care and I suspect few other people care that she has sucked a dick. People keep trying to make a thing of it. Stop trying to make suck happen.

Jennifer Lawrence is a different actress with a different track record. I thought she was really good in Winter's Bone and in The Hunger Games. Then she won an Oscar for a performance that to me was entirely unconvincing and which she did not seem to have an adequate amount of life experience or emotional intelligence to play. I've dealt with my own mental illnesses and I've dealt with those of friends and family and I've dealt with mental illness professionally, and Silver Linings Playbook just felt totally artificial and lesson-y. I don't think she deserved the Oscar and like many, I wondered why she got it. Then she was cast in more roles she was too unsophisticated to pull off. And her personality became grating to a hell of a lot of people, yet she was selected as the media's It Girl of the moment and she went from being endearing-ish to overexposed and building public resentment in that typical Hollywood cycle. And then the nude photos and then the Harvey Weinstein scandal brought up questions and she appeared to go into hiding.

Lawrence and Seyfried are different actors with entirely different trajectories both professionally and personally. Lawrence's career was a meteoric It Girl one and Seyfried's has been a slow and steady character actor one.

[quote] No actor has ever won an Oscar for a Fincher film... and it might be this ditzy, homewrecking whore.

Speaks volumes for the year, no?

Seyfried plays her ditzy, homewrecking roles well....as that’s who she is.

It is one note acting, and it would be appalling if she was awarded an Oscar.

The Oscars will have sunk to irretrievable depths if that occurs.

She is the only sign of life in Fincher's two hour CGI tour of Madam Tussaud's waxworks.

R91, undeserving performances win Oscars all the time—Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook, Laura Dern for Marriage Story, and Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side to name a few in recent years.

Winning an Oscar means you were the showiest, the most popular, or the best campaigner among the nominees. It’s very important commercially, but as an award of merit it is meaningless.

Seyfried has certainly put the time in, and the Academy still loves to give awards to pretty young actresses.

I'm not trying to push the dick-sucking narrative, R90. I agree that Seyfried didn't do anything wrong by sucking a dick. I just thought it interesting how differently the public responded to both sets of pictures. Perhaps you're right that Lawrences' unearned success meant knives were already out for her in Hollywoodland, and the pictures were the tipping point.

Sucking dick in a $2,000 Rodarte blouse is itself Oscar-worthy.

i heard Candice Bergen is terrific in Let them all talk. She might just be the dark horse.

Why is Laura Dern’s win considered so undeserved? I thought she was pitch-perfect in that role. I thought her delivery of a throwaway line where she says she “got half of that song” in regards to her own divorce was one of the funniest moments in the film.

I can’t think of another nominee who necessarily should have beaten her although I would have been happy if Kathy Bates had won it in a shocker.

I also thought that Alan Alda at least deserved a nomination.

I feel like I was the only person who thought Silver Linings Playbook was terrible when it was out. This article's author is one of few dissenters I remember with whom I agreed. I thought it was just a really bad movie.

"Film-goers were fooled into buying into Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper’s heavy-duty quirk in 2012 as two maladjusted lovers. But when a film says mental illness can be cured by the power of a dance montage, you have to wonder."

Lawrence was a total phenomenon for about 5 years, and then it's like everyone woke up and said "WTF was THAT all about?"

At least Amanda Seyfried is pretty.

Seyfried is NOT pretty.

And she is certifiably crazy as another poster mentioned above.

What is it with all the PR on this thread? (Is this PR to push for an Oscar?)

Seyfried might just luck out from a weaker year mixed with the pandemic. When other possibilities for Best Supporting Actress are a “nomadic” non-actor and someone (in an admittedly great comic performance) in a Borat sequel, one’s frontrunner prospects might seem greater.

I have been a fan since her early All My Children days, and then on Big Love. I thought she was fine in Mank, but it wasn't anything groundbreaking or anything. Glad she got the role in a big "prestige" project, though.

On AMC, she was the love interest of future Sexiest Man Alive Michael B. Jordan. Someone should cast the two of them in a movie as lovers.

She was on The Talk today. She was funny, and rather personable.