Eddie Redmayne’s Oscar win is still such a joke

Should have went. Another joke.

agree, op.

100% agree OP. Redmayne is a talentless mediocrity but it was the standard British biopic that they love.

The Weinstein factor explains Cooper's nomination.

Redmayne won largely because he campaigned his ass off. As soon as the awards season started, he was out there slapping backs, kissing babies, and sucking cocks. Supposedly Keaton is very churlish in real life and that might've been a factor.

Carrell was brilliant in Foxcatcher. Even more so because the character (and the film) is a dramatic take on the role he perfected in THE OFFICE. it's all about the embarrassing awkwardness of the character but here, its realistic. its intended to make the viewer incredibly uncomfortable. Some might just reject the movie for legit reasons and others might hate it because they cant separate how the movie made them feel while watching it. i appreciated it and so did the academy.

R5 That fat queen Tom O'Neil from Gold Derby had a massive hard-on for Redmayne and was going around trashing Keaton, saying he was an asshole and basically spreading rumors about him. One of the things that turned off some people against Redmayne was that he contacted O'Neil immediately after winning Golden Globe or SAG (can't recall which) and thanked him for his support.

R4, American Sniper was a Warner Bros. movie. If anything, the Eastwood factor explains his nomination, and the massive box office success of that movie also helped.

Keaton was the best of the nominees, but Cooper, Cumberbatch and the awful Redmayne, whose win is as bad as Benigni’s, should have been booted for Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler), Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel) and Oscar Isaac (A Most Violent Year).

A Most Violent Year was shit

Loved Grand Budapest Hotel. Great movie.

Keaton was so good in Birdman. Should have been him.

His win was ridiculous. He sat in a chair and the computer did the talking for most of the film.

Redmayne is basically forgotten. Oscar is the kiss of death for actors with zero charisma and weird faces like him. Is he even working at this point? Who cares.

His campy performance in “Jupiter Ascending” was hysterical.

"should have went to"

Oh dear.

I stopped reading after “should have went.” Ugh. Isn’t DL better than this?

It's a very typical Oscar move to award the actor who's playing someone with a disability. Remember the awards aren't about rewarding the best and the brightest, it's about making Hollywood look better.

R17=Angela Lansbury

I agree with the post saying who should have been nominated. But yes Keaton should have won absolutely. I haven't seen this movie with Eddie tbh. Bit Jakes performance in Nightcrawler was incredible

But*

[quote] “The Theory of Everything” was shit.

OP, you are the antithesis of Bosley Crowther.

[quote]Is he even working at this point? Who cares.

He's currently doing "Cabaret" in London:

Any time a veteran Hollywood actor is primed for a win and loses, it means they spent most of the career treating the crew like shit. Sometimes out of disrespect, other times their own mental issues/social anxiety led to behavior interpreted as rude or condescending.

Don't forget Close but no cigar.

Exactly R22. Is he even working? No one cares about an off West End production of Cabaret that no one is seeing in the middle of Covid.

I never thought much about Eddie until I saw “The Danish Girl.” After seeing his immense talent, he deserves it all. Maybe even actor of the century, if there was such an award. He pulled off being a realistic historical tranny, and made you root for him! He is seriously the best of the best.

Oh , my.

His performance in The Danish Girl is so much better than his Oscar-winning perf.

I’d give Keaton Best Actor if Boyhood then gets Best Picture.

Yes, Boyhood for Best Picture and Ethan Hawke should’ve won Best Supporting.

Best Supporting was between Hawke and Norton for me.

The Academy awarded two very undeserving gingers for their lead roles that year.

As others have pointed out, there were other actors who deserved a nomination far more than him.

Jake Gyllenhaal for Nightcrawler, David Oyelowo for Selma, John Lithgow for Love Is Strange, Ralph Fiennes for Budapest Hotel, Ben Schnetzer for Pride, Channing Tatum for Foxcatcher and the boy from Boyhood. But not Timothy Spall for Mr Turner, which was awful.

I'm still miffed that Michael Keaton lost to that twerp. That was the beginning of the end of my interest in the Oscars.

Wasn’t there some sad moment where Keaton was seen reaching for his speech in his suit pocket and then putting it back when he realized he had no won?

Is Eddie Redmayne the guy from Simply Red?

Eddie Redmayne is mildly unattractive, the guy from Simply Red is majorly unattractive.

Felicity Jones' nomination was a real head scratcher. Who on earth would considered her generic Concerned Wife performance Oscar worthy?

It was a weak year, and since the alternative was Jennifer Aniston giving an awful performance in Cake, the Academy thought Felicity Jones giving a generic performance was the better choice. They were right.

It was a very weak year for Best Actress with Julianne Moore winning a career Oscar for a boring TV movie. Felicity Jones’s performance is probably one of the weakest ones ever nominated in this category.

Rosalind Pike should’ve won for Gone Girl.

Everyone needs to remember “The Danish Girl.” He was spectacular. He deserves all the spoils.

No hot guys on that list. They should have nominated one of the actors from 300: Rise of an Empire.

Hilary Swank should’ve been nominated for “The Homesman” instead of the boring Felicity Jones that year. Swank was excellent in that movie.

Swank is someone who never happened big time despite winning two Oscars.

Both of Swank’s Oscars were incredibly well-deserved, especially the first one which was awarded on pure talent and performance alone as she was an almost complete unknown at the time (Karate Kid 3, 90210, etc.)

R38 IMO, Aniston was good in that Cake film. Adriana Barraza also deserved some Oscar buzz in the Supporting category. Jones was just boring. I was surprised by her nomination, too.

Jones nomination was because the characters entire arc is taking care of her sick husband and the drama. The film is about both people. She was boring but they weren’t nominating him without nominating her for that. The film is both of them in almost every scene together.

Swank was amazing, and should have been nominated for “Boys Don’t Cry.”

R47, Swank was nominated and won for Boys Don’t Cry.

Me and the other gay man in my town were the only ones to see Boys Don’t Cry back when it came out. Back when no one cared about Brandon Teena, except for gays. Now everyone cares.

“Everyone” pretends to care.

I’m reality they only people who care are those “woke” people you all shit on everyday. The other side still doesn’t care.

In* reality

I’m not woke at all, R50. I don’t have a woke bone in my body.

OP is Michael Keaton

R52 are you for gay rights? That’s woke.

R49 - “Now everyone cares.”

Realistically I would say 5-10 percent of people actually “care.” The rest are feigning concern.

I don’t know anymore, R54.

R56 - Now that’s the most honest answer here I’ve heard in a while.

[quote]should have went

should have gone

Only two on the poll have presented dong, therefore only they deserve to win.

[quote]Both of Swank’s Oscars were incredibly well-deserved, especially the first one which was awarded on pure talent and performance alone as she was an almost complete unknown at the time (Karate Kid 3, 90210, etc.)

Just my opinion but it just seemed that Swank could not overcome her background in television in order to have a serious film career after those Oscar wins. Even though many A-list stars got their starts in TV (Brad, Leo, Hanks, and JLaw among them), it's like no one was willing to overlook that fact where it came to Swank. It was like, even after winning, she was still painted with the 90210 label and basically dismissed as someone who hadn't given these two great performances but just got lucky. Maybe people resented her for taking the award over Bening? Hard to say.

People forget that Swank is part of the COBRA KAI universe. She was THE NEXT KARATE KID, the fourth installment in the KARATE KID film series. Pat Morita returned once more to lend his wisdom and expertise.

Also, Swank was unceremoniously fired by Spelling midway through her only season on 90210. Less than a year later, she got BOYS DON"T CRY.

Who did Eddie fuck for his Oscar?

Redmayne and Lawrence are friends, un-ironically to me that those two would be friends.

They tried making Swank happen. They cast her in The Core and something else after her Oscar win, with her name headlining. They flopped.

Everything she is in flops. Hence her not being a movie star. Because she isn’t one.

Plus many found her looks to not be one for films as much as TV. I remember one year after an awards show all anyone spoke about was how haggard they felt she looked. This was after her two Oscar wins.

She's not pretty. I know that sounds--whatever. Movie stars are always pretty.

Hilary has NO TITS in that first Oscar dress and it was majorly highlighted that she didn’t have any. Why did she wear that thing?

Hilary has tits. She had several nude scenes in BOYS DON"T CRY that showed she had decent-sized breasts. That's just an ill-fitting dress. The following year, when she presented Best Actor to Russell Crowe, she wore this:

Agree about Rosamund Pike deserving Best Actress that year. It wasn't the best year for female performances, but she was sensational. I don't remember much about Reese Witherpoon in Wild - did she get fucked over a wheelie bin and get bleeding toes from all the walking? Was there a scene with her stroking a distressed horse? Clearly not very memorable.

To think that Judi Dench was nominated the year before for Philomena and didn't win, and Saoirse Ronan was nominated and didn't win for Brooklyn the year after. Both way more deserving than Julianne for Still Alice.

Micheal Keaton and it's not even close.

Moore's was a make-up Oscar for her genuinely great performances where she didn't win, like Boogie Nights.

I guess Julianne’s win was a make-up award since the film itself wasn’t stellar but she still did things in that movie that most actresses just can’t do.

Moore should have won for "Safe." It's a devastating performance.

No, R60. She's very talented just very difficult to cast. In the right role, she always knocks it right out of the park.

Swank was great in the almost-forgotten TV miniseries Iron-Jawed Angels.

You would have thought that she’d be perfectly cast as Amelia Earhart but that whole movie was kind of a flop.

And no one “resented” Swank for stealing Oscars from Annette Bening (neither of which Bening would have even deserved in those respective years) except for Bening herself and probably Warren.

Keep in mind OP that Oscars are voted on by members of the Academy- peers.

As long as Alan Arjun still has his Oscar I refuse to be too upset about about anybody else.

*Arkin

Actually Bening was the front runner for American Beauty. Swank’s win was seen as a victory for a small movie about a queer.

Bening was a soft frontrunner.

Swank was a dark horse, but I think she had the edge. She won GG Drama and the two major critics awards, NYFCC and LAFCA. (Janet McTeer won GG Musical/Comedy.)

Bening won SAG and BAFTA, but SAG was only in its fifth year and BAFTAs were held in the spring AFTER the Oscars, so neither had much sway back then.

Bening's major advantage was that she was in a blockbuster (AB was among the Top 10 grossers of 1999) that was also a multiple nominee, including Best Picture. Furthermore, her husband, Warren Beatty, was being feted with the Irving Thalberg Award that evening.

What has Redamayne been in lately?

Redmayne went back to his roots, theater and stage acting.

R43 winning 2 Oscars is the definition of happening. You might not care for her performances but she was more successful than about 90 percent of working actors.

[quote]Bening won SAG and BAFTA, but SAG was only in its fifth year and BAFTAs were held in the spring AFTER the Oscars, so neither had much sway back then.

Boys Don't Cry hadn't been released in the UK by the time of the BAFTAs so Swank wasn't nominated. Bening was nominated alongside Julianne Moore for The End Of The Affair, Emily Watson for Angela's Ashes and Linda Bassett for East Is East.

Swank was nominated the following year for Boys Don't Cry, but lost to Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich. Other nominees were Kate Hudson for Almost Famous, Juliette Binoche for Chocolat and Michelle Yeoh for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

The academy are weak for Classy Brits. Hence the (American) Mark Rylance’s Oscar for a very average performance.

R86 in general, Americans in the arts (many who lean left politically) have a hard-on for Brits; moderates and conservatives (especially the latter who are very patriotic) don't feel this way about the UK nor its inhabitants. There would probably not be that many British nominees/winners if moderates/conservatives were running the U.S. entertainment industry. It's only gotten worse within the past 10-15 years, when Hollywood shifted far-left. I've noticed that the more extreme a liberal is, the more anti-America but pro-UK they are. So weird. Is that their way of rebelling or something? You have never seen so many Brits starring in American shows/movies and winning awards left and right until the past decade. Many of my friends/acquaintances are getting sick of this. We want to see American actors! We think it's ridiculous to cast a foreigner as an American. 🙄