Is Amy Adams overdue for an Oscar?

No.

R1 Her fans certainly disagree with you.

There was always a slightly better performance. I'd have given it to her over Melissa Leo cause her oscar campaigning was annoyingly desperate.

She should’ve won for Junebug and The Master.

R2 I like Amy but her fans are annoying as hell.

News flash: EVERYONE'S fans are annoying as hell.

Yes, for Junebug.

R6 Yeah but no one calls out Amy’s fans for being annoying, so I feel compelled to.

She was phenomenal in Junebug and really deserved to win that year. No one even remembers Rachel Weisz in aThe Constant Gardener. I would also say The Master she was deserving - a very scary performance from her (although I was pulling for Sally Field that year).

I think that parade has past her by after Kristin Bell wiped the floor with her mocking her performance she did in her latest movie.

You know what's ruined the Oscars? The idea that people are owed an Oscar for merely being the industry for decades.

*She's* overdue for an Oscar???! GFY!!!!!!!!

R11 Not even twenty years since her first nomination also.

But this is the year that Will Smith is "overdue" as well.

Its weird when someone becomes overdue. For some the years of waiting are far shorter.

She was great in Buffy!

My biggest wish is for Will Smith to lose.

Will Smith was very good in King Richard. You just don't like Jada and all of the other non-movie related garbage surrounding him.

I thought she was great in Arrival and should’ve been nominated for that.

No. Massively overrated and boring actress except in comedic fare, which she seems to have abandoned entirely in her prestige quest. The only more morose dramatic actress the “quality” directors force on us is La Widow Ledger.

I agree she’s overdue and was robbed of a nomination and award for Arrival.

Arrival.

Junebug is one of the best performances i've ever seen. The way she gets all giddy and excited when Embeth Davidtz arrives, one leg running up the other and using curse words to try and impress the city slicker and seem more cool. It's a brilliantly childlike performance, which just makes her climactic scene in the film even more heartbreaking. She's so natural in it, you don't see any 'acting.'

I've kind of hated her in everything else lol, and i've seen most of her movies (okay she has some fun early roles like Cruel Intentions and Drop Dead Gorgeous, and was decent in Her, Sunshine Cleaning, etc.). I find her a bit unconvincing and forced, and I can't take her seriously in these 'troubled woman' roles. I remember laughing out loud in Sharp Objects when the sheriff says to her "we don't need you around here rilin' people up' and she replies "you got two dead bodies on your hands! sounds like someone else is doin' the rilin'!!!!". Very much like a little girl playing dress up as a grown up.

Amy Adams, best actress for Hillbilly Elegy!

Amy Adams, Best Actress for Enchanted!

No, but Amy Ryan does - for Gone Baby Gone. And an Emmy for the "Holly" story arc in The Office.

Amy has fans ? Must be her troll husband and brat kid

She was great as Precious!

She is completely forgettable.

She should have won for Junebug and The Master. The Master performance is deceptively brilliant. You get a hint she is actually The Master.

Liked her in a few things - The Fighter, American Hustle, Vice - but she seems kind of the same in every role. I'm often distracted by her nose.

I read she was offered a role in a Janis Joplin biopic but turned it down because there would be drug use in the movie. Imo, she missed an opportunity to show something different and maybe get her Oscar.

I must rewatch The Master.

She's too old for Janis now but she would've been great 10 years ago. And she can sing.

Wasnt Michelle Williams or was it just Adams tied to a Joplin movie?

I don't know if they were Oscar-worthy, but I liked her performances in Nocturnal Animals and Catch Me If You Can.

I don't know if she's overdue but she should've been nominated for Arrival.

I think her work in Nocturnal Animals and Arrival that year cancelled each other out b/c otherwise it was a pretty amazing year for her. And Arrival had like 8 nominations incl. Best Picture so obviously she should've been nominated. There likely just wasn't consensus between those 2 performances and it split her chances.

I don't think she deserved that nomination for American Hustle though.

She was great in Nocturnal Animals. I also loved her in American Hustle and was happy she got the surprise lead actress nod that year, her only nomination in that category to date.

I find her bland and overrated. I think she would irk me less if critics didn't constantly herald her brilliance. I remember some critic gushing about her on CT public radio saying that there was something broken about her that shines through her acting and made it interesting or some such nonsense. I always thought that same quality was an affectation. You've got to be one tough cookie to make it as far as Adams has in Hollywood. I think r19s comparison of her to Michelle Williams is apt. They both have the same " broken doll" qualities that endear them to critics but leave me bored with their performances.

She should get in line behind me.

Drop Dead Gorgeous

I think she's a good actress. She's one of those actresses that isn't the main event but I'm always excited to see she's in something I'm watching.

[quote]Is Amy Adams overdue for an Oscar?

Yes. If you've seen Junebug and you'd know that it was one of the best performances of the 2000s.

Junebug sucked.

I like that she did this.

Cate Blanchett doesn’t get tattooed with just anybody.

I remember seeing them pictured together out and about. They're apparently friends. Cate is a huge fan of Amy Adams.

Amy will need to play a disabled person in order to win an Oscar.

[quote]Wasnt Michelle Williams or was it just Adams tied to a Joplin movie?

There have been articles for the past several years saying Williams is attached and I remember rumors in the past about Amy Adams being considered. I also recall in the late 90s or early 00s, Renee Zellweger was floated around a possible pick for a Joplin biopic.

But, didn't Joplin's family threaten lawsuits if a biopic was made?

She should have won Best Actress for “Arrival”, yet she wasn’t even nominated that year. That Emma Stone (who can’t sing or dance) won that year for a musical (“La La Land”) is a complete joke.

She should’ve won for Enchanted and Arrival.

She was most recently great in Dear Evan Hansen.

Amy stole my career!

I’m hijacking this thread to say that fellow red headed actor Bryce Dallas Howard been more overlooked for an Oscar as she’s never even been nominated and that’s a travesty of Justice! Surely she deserved a nomination for the Help!

Junebug.

Bland and forgettable. Junebug was okay.

Should have been nommed and won in Nocturnal Animals

1. Amy Adams, as some here have already pointed out, is extremely bland and boring and is one of the most overrated “A-list” actors working today.

2. I fucking can’t stand her mousy voice.

3. Absolutely no one is overdue for an Oscar. No one is guaranteed a win, and there are many times when a great performance, perhaps the best of one’s career, happens in the same year as someone else’s great performance, and someone has to lose. #firstworldproblems

4. If fans insist on pushing the narrative that someone is overdue for an Oscar, the actor should be Glenn Close’s age or older. Amy Adams? Give me a fucking break.

5. I fucking can’t stand her mousy voice.

R16 That's my wish too. I'm not a huge Amy Adams fan, but Will Smith seems much more arrogant and self-important.

Amy Adams? Fuck that bitch, where the hell is MY Oscar?

R55 Couldn't agree more.

She's the child-woman with the blonde hair horny old straight men salivate over. Creepy.

She has my favorite pre-fame resume: Drop Dead Gorgeous, Psycho Beach Party, Cruel Intentions 2, Buffy, Smallville

I don’t have strong feelings about Amy Adams one way or another. But I did like her in a movie no one has mentioned yet. Too lazy to Google it but it’s the biopic of that painter of the faces with the big eyes.

R59 its literally called Big Eyes. It's a very good, non-Burton Burton film

R29 Yeah, the brilliance sure deceived me. You’re that impressed with the short handjob with no other powerful scene whatsoever? I think she’s good. Oscar worthy in Junebug. Good in The Fighter, decent in Arrival, Sunshine Cleaning.. I don’t care for a lot of her stuff, but also good in Sharp Objects.

Amy doesn’t seem like a broken doll. Williams is also a damn good actress who cam be odd but also completely transparent and emotionally nude.

[QUOTE] Williams is also a damn good actress who cam be odd but also completely transparent and emotionally nude.

This description of Williams is why she was so good in Cabaret when I saw her onstage.

OP Amy Adams will get an Oscar when she earns one. She doesn't automatically deserve one just because she's starred in a couple movies where she didn't wear make-up.

I don't think it will be for Cruel Intentions Part 3333.

She doesn't qualify for being overdue because she was never robbed.

La La Land (aka Hollywood Handjob) was a complete joke itself. It never should have been nominated for so many awards.

The whole Academy Awards business is a massive circlejerk.

Adams would be overdue if the Oscars were based on merit. Since they are based on how much money the studios are willing to shell out for certain valuable personnel, then no. Apparently, Amy has not impressed the right power players so she has been passed over.

Actresses like Amy Adams, Anne Hathaway and Michelle Williams represent an insufferably bland generation of white actresses who gave people the impression that every white woman acts like them.

R67 Dunaway reading the wrong name for best picture was the funniest Oscar moment in ages. So Lala land did give us that gift. My big problem with the film though was that it didn't really remind me of L.A.. More reminiscent of Paris.

Watching the smug LaLa Land people having to exit the stage after seeing the panicked realization that they were holding Oscars that weren’t theirs was immensely satisfying for me. I loved the whole “mix-up” and was happy that Moonlight proved to be the victor. It’s a beautiful film anchored by a very touching and unforgettable final 1/3rd.

There was one little dork who completely knew they had lost but gave his speech anyway.

[QUOTE] Her mammy teaches the piano.

“Mammy”? Really?

Sorry, wrong thread at R72.

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Amy will get her Oscar one of these days...but will she slap?

I want to like her, but her fans annoy me.

I like Amy, but her acting is overrated. If she weren't so likeable and attractive, there's no way she would 6 Oscar nominations. "Junebug" is the only she truly deserved.

I still remember her tone-deaf and defensive responses to the pay gap debate a few years ago. "don't ask me about that!" I think she even made an NBC journalist cry.

She should have won for Junebug, and then had it taken away for Hillbilly Elegy.