Michelle Yeoh posts and deletes article saying Cate Blanchett has won enough oscars

She posted it just a couple hours before the voting closed, then deleted it when she realized it violated campaigning rules. Well, her social media person did, I doubt Michelle herself did that.

Also you can read articles that aren't on the Daily Mail, OP. It's true! Try it sometime!

So Cate can give all these crazy interviews where she's complaining about not being able to play lesbians anymore, but Michelle has to be a model minority for the duration of the Oscar campaign? Fuck that, she's right and should be free to say that without remorse.

One of them has two Oscars already and the other has none. That should absolutely be taken into account.

It has nothing to do with Michelle thinking a win would send a message to girls like her, she just wants to win the damn thing. I respect people who are honest about their true motives and she is not.

R2 I couldn't agree more.

R2, are you being deliberately disingenuous? Michelle's comments bear directly on the awarding process and violated the rules. You can dislike Cate and disagree with comments she's made but all that is irrelevant to the Oscars and Michelle's impropriety here.

bullshit r2. With that mindset why dont people say Serena Williams has won enough tennis awards and should stop competing? If minority actors haven't won Oscars it's not the fault of white people, it's because minority actors are not written complex parts and usually have to play 'role models' that reflects a positive image on their community. Writers of color are not willing to write roles for them which show human beings in all their messy dimensions, they have to write them are heroic and almost saint like. That's where political discourse has gotten us.

Call up Sigourney Weaver and give it to her. Was she in anything last year?

OP posted this with a bunch of socks at the ready, I see. My favorite is the one at r3 who only likes international movie stars who are pure and true of heart.

R8, the post at R3 didn't say that he only liked virtuous movie stars - his point was that they should be open about their personal ambitions instead of hiding behind "respectable" political positions.

Gotta have Equal Opportunity at the Oscars too you know

R7 That abortion movie Call Jane.

R11 - It was stillborn at the box office.

She is officially changing her name now to Michelle Meow!

Michelle Williams is overdue for an Oscar. How come no one is rooting for her to win

Met her once professionally, just before she became VERY famous, and have to say she was absolutely lovely as a person (surprisingly unassuming and serious about acting over celebrity). I would be rooting for her if she hadn't been nominated for such a steaming pile of shit as The Fabelmans. She's got a long career ahead of her and she'll have other opportunities.

ha now I hope Cate wins.

Why isn't anyone voting for me? After the fortune I spent?! Motherfuckers!

It would appear that Ms. Yeoh (or her social media handler) has caught some of Jamie Lee Curtis’s thirst!

who?

And the Oscar for Thirstiest Ensemble Cast goes to... Everything Everywhere All at Once!

Actresses were more fun when they were on a steady diet of gin and adultery.

[quote]One of them has two Oscars already and the other has none. That should absolutely be taken into account.

You are clearly of the generation that got medals at school for attendance.

Awards are meant to be for being the best. Nobody ever said "Michael Phelps already has 50 gold medals: we should give the next few to the swimmer who comes second."

Overexposure is what is killing movie star mystique. They used to be rare birds. The tweet sounds like a 24-year-old social media manager overstepping to be a social justice warrior at her boss’s expense.

This desperation for awards is SO tacky! Grow up!!!

POC are always quick to talk about white mediocrity vs black excellence in music, but in movies, it has often been the POC who have been given mediocre stereotypical parts and white actors who have taken all the creative risks.

Oh, shut up, you ignoramus at, r25.

This thread typical DL bigots gone wild.

And the punch-line is that, for years, if not since they were created (and created not to reward excellence, but as a Hollywood marketing tool for Mary Pickford and her husband what's his name?) the Oscars has been a promoting joke.

All the circus clowns vie for attention and grovel at Oscar time.

Why single Yeoh out for being upfront about it?

I've got my issues with both Brando and George C. Scott but they were right-on for refusing to take part in the circus.

^ have been a promoting joke.

r26 I won't shut up because you're not willing to admit that. POC have been given shitty parts 90% of the time which don't merit awards notice. POC deserve the same opportunities in parts as white people and handing them awards for mediocrity is like giving an award to a kid in class who came second, simply for participating.

Yo, Yeoh! That's not cool, yo!

Should Michelle Yeoh, win because she's Asian or because she gave the best performance? Should she win just because Cate Blanchett has won 2 already? It should come down to performance. Michelle should just keep quiet.

I hope Andrea Riseborough wins just to piss EVERYONE off!

I say Michelle you say…..

Williams!

R30, so Goop had the best performance in that year ? Did Sandra Bullock , Julia Roberts or Jennifer Lawrance perform better than any other actresses in those years ? I can’t believe people still think the academy truly gives the awards to the best performance every year

I actually hope Andrea Riseborough wins because I want to see the meltdowns.

Hope they all split the votes and Ana de Armas wins!

THAT would be hilarious!

Might be a chilly moment if she and Cate Blanchett are near each other on the red carpet before the ceremony. Organizers should make sure that awkward moment doesn't happen.

I have no clue who this woman is. I’m 43, is that out-of-touch age?

Jamie Lee Curtis will NO doubt make a post defending Michelle as a warrior against the evils of Oscar campaigns white supremacy.

Chinese cunt.

Can’t wait for Oscar season to be over. Will there be mention of the slap by Kimmel Sunday

Jealousy is such an ugly thing.

Serena and Phelps are not awarded anything. They win medals by beating their opponents. Their wins are not subjective unlike Oscar wins. You are comparing apples to oranges.

Michelle has a point.

They are all a bunch of overpraised fame whores, every single one of them.

This Oscar thirst stuff is exhausting. Here today… gone tomorrow. It’s really lost all its significance in recent years.

The votes have been cast. Stay tuned Sunday.

You're being ridiculous r9 et al. when you act like Cate Blanchett is being open about what she wants but Michelle Yeoh isn't. How many times has Blanchett said she was going to retire?

Besides you're just assuming that Yeoh is lying when she says she thinks a win would be good for the Asian community. She can think that AND also just want to win a damn award. And there's nothing wrong with someone wanting to win a damn award!

I was heartbroken when Kirsten Stewart lost last year. Not really rooting for anyone this year but would love to see Yeoh win just to hear her speech

[quote]Should Michelle Yeoh, win because she's Asian or because she gave the best performance? Should she win just because Cate Blanchett has won 2 already?

On one of the other threads about the Oscars, someone mentioned that way back in the 1930s, Bette Davis won as a consolation prize for having lost for OF HUMAN BONDAGE, then someone else mentioned Mary Pickford won before that as a career win, rather than for the movie she'd starred in.

I think it's safe to say that the Oscars have NEVER been about "the best performance." They're political, they're career wins, they're popularity contests, they're trying to make up for past wrongs, they're flukes sometimes because of weird vote splitting situations, but they're not about the best performance.

Yup. Jessica Chastain’s win last year was a career win. Who even talks about her performance as Tammy Faye

[quote]The votes have been cast.

Casted.

I'd be happy to school ALL YOU BITCHES on just how unfair Oscar can be.

But I won't be at the ceremony, so we'll have to talk by Zoom.

What a tacky thing to do.

I wanted Michelle to win, but now don't care.

What thirsty ambition.

R53 the past tense of cast is "cast." There is no such conjugation as "casted," except in Ye Olde English.

They were right, and you are wrong.

The votes have been cast.

The die has been cast.

The play has been cast.

She looks like an uglier Sandra Oh.

R56, casted is a thing on DL.

The Academy also needed to take into account that Michelle is Asian when they voted on who gave the best performance.

Ugh, R58, no wonder you're all unemployed.

How embarrassing for her -- bad enough to lobby for the award, but worse to lobby against another to land it (and by an odd argument: "well, maybe her performance was good, even as good or better than mine, but she already has 2bawards and I have none, so there."

And worse still for putting the thing up and then retracting it after an afterthought or after a scold or scare re Academy rules.

She should hope for a well-intentioned but inexperienced PR intern to take aware her shame.

How about a tie

R57, Michelle Yeoh clearly isn't ugly. Also, Sandra Oh's ancestry is in a whole nother part of Asia. Trolling?

Smell, you Miss R60!

Smell you, ...

Michelle Yeoh is a straight up cunt.

I'd love to see Cate Blanchett slap her upside the head on Oscar night, Will Smith style.

R2 No, the overall quality of the performance should be taken into account.

[quote]She looks like an uglier Sandra Oh.

Racist Dataloungers who can't tell Asians apart.

R66 Siggy and G will be the only ones to deliver a slap. And this year, it will be deserved!

R57 Is it possible to be uglier than Sandra Oh?

Yeoh always comes across as so bitter. She seemed angry at the Golden Globes, and now this.

I don't think she's a good person. Maybe that's why she hasn't gotten a lot of acting work over the years and not because she's Asian.

Will the Academy have an emergency session about this or skip it because Yeoh is Asian and therefore above the rules?

Wait didn’t the Oscars already award their top prize to an Asian film— Parasite— just a couple of years ago

R73 Fuck those fucking Koreans! I'm Chinese, bitch!

[quote]And the Oscar for Thirstiest Ensemble Cast goes to... Everything Everywhere All at Once!

Vote for me or I'll committ hairy carry on stage!

[quote]Maybe that's why she hasn't gotten a lot of acting work over the years

She's got 60 entries on the IMDb with another 11 upcoming projects.

We have a small group of Dataloungers who sit on the forum all day making things up to justify calling non-white actresses cunts. It's obsessive and makes the forum look like a mental ward.

[quote]think it's safe to say that the Oscars have NEVER been about "the best performance."

I’d argue Daniel Day Lewis’s three wins are the exception to the rule. He was (arguably of course) the best in each of his years. He doesn’t really campaign and isn’t a public celebrity; he won on talent. It’s rare but it happens.

All these crazy cunts are so thirsty for these awards.

[quote]Racist Dataloungers who can't tell Asians apart.

Because I think she looks like Sandra Oh? I also think Amy Adams looks like an uglier Isla Fisher. Am I a racist for that, too?

R76 Then why does she always bitch and piss and moan and act like she can't get hired?

I love her cunty performance in Crazy Rich Asians

[quote]Nobody ever said "Michael Phelps already has 50 gold medals: we should give the next few to the swimmer who comes second."

I bet the second swimmers' mothers did.

Michael is a cunt.

Michael who?

Barbara, Please!!

Michelle Kwan.

Yeoh is correct. Enough with the overpraises bullshit. Beyoncé's has won the most Grammys? That's a prime example!

[Quote] Michael Phelps already has 50 gold medals

That is an out of control ego that can't let go and see others have a turn. They are not giving gold to him because he was in water.

I want Blanchett or Riseborough to win because I can't wait to see Jamie Lee Curtis overstep the mark and attack them for getting the award over Yeoh, even though Curtis herself has no business being nominated in Supporting. The behavior of people like Curtis and Yeoh is such a fascinating study in Hollywood narcissism.

For the first time in my career, I am genuinely grateful not to be a part of this shitshow.

This year's ceremony will be ripe for bitchslapping.

Gross.

[quote]Might be a chilly moment if she and Cate Blanchett are near each other on the red carpet before the ceremony.

Why would Cate be chilly. She has said in every acceptance speech this year that other actresses should be allowed to shine over her. She said herself that she has enough awards. Are you saying that she said that to help her Oscar chances and didn't really mean any of it?

Andrea Riseborough barely got any pushback for testing Oscar campaigning rules, yet you want her to win over Yeoh?

I wonder what it is about Yeoh that you don't like? I wonder what it could be.

Jamie Lee has a fine line to walk (as R40 and R89 have alluded to). She wants that Oscar for herself, obviously, and she's competing for it with a black woman and an Asian woman - and yet she knows that part of the momentum behind Michelle Yeoh is that Yeoh is Asian. Fortunately, Jamie Lee is totally unencumbered by self-awareness, so she will walk that line just fine.

Take your meds, paranoiac at R93.

How the fuck is this comparable to anything Blanchett has said? Yeoh is basically calling for the affirmative action awards. What a cunt!

I hope when Michelle Yeoh gets on stage Cate Blanchette is yelling from the audience: "Keep my name out of your FUCKING mouth! Keep my name out of your FUCKING mouth! "

Would love to see a catfight at this year’s Oscars

Remember when Charlotte Rampling said about seven years ago it’s wrong for Oscars to be given based on diversity quotas and everyone acted like she maimed someone? I think Spike Lee even told her to go to hell. Michelle Yeoh will face absolutely no public backlash for this.

Sunday can’t come soon enough. I don’t know why they wait til March for the Oscars

I love how Yeoh slapped that smug smirk off of Cate's face.

[quote] Michelle Williams is overdue for an Oscar. How come no one is rooting for her to win

Apparently [italic]you[/italic] are.

Cate is getting a cast of her own medicine and I'm here for it. She's not well liked by most in Hollywood because of her holier than thou attitude.

The way she attacked Matthew McConaughey was so mean-spirited.

Why did they keep giving swimming medals to that trans swimmer. Shir had all the medals and shir had a dick, too. Not fair.

Oh wait. Shir got the medals because diversity. OK.

Give all the awards to the non whites. No need even for a ceremony, really. Oh wait, that would be racist. I know. Let the non whites run the ceremony and invite their kind, even if their aren't in the business. Oh wait...

she really wants it, and she is a good actress. It is true , she is not offered a lot of parts.

Again, all of you must be twitter trolls because I have no clue how Cate making an offhand joke is comparable to Yeoh reposting something like this. Why is everything Cate says picked apart and analyzed like she’s Freud in the past few months?

[quote]Michelle Yeoh posts and deletes article saying Cate Blanchett has won enough oscars

Who put pee-pee in HER coke?

R103, do you honestly call that an "attack"? Come on.

It's bullshit to being the fact Cate has won before into the matter. Cate deservedly won for Blue Jasmine and was fine in The Aviator but neither win has anything to do with how great she is in Tar and how that is recognised on its own merits.

Michelle and her team should be ashamed of these low tactics instead of letting their work speak for itself.

r104: this should be called "Muriel's Law": the longer a DL thread is, the more inevitable it becomes that trans issues will be brought up, even though they have nothing to do with the actual topic of the thread.

The Cate Blanchett stans when Michelle Yeoh wins the Oscar.

Michelle Yeoh is already rich, thin, pretty and famous. Giving her an Oscar will benefit her and her only, it will not lift up other Asian women. If she really wanted to set some kind of example for other “girls that look like [her],” she would leverage all the buzz/press she’s getting create opportunities for others or sell off one of her many homes and create a scholarship for Asian actors or some other fund to encourage screenplays about Asian people that go beyond the treacly immigrant tales of crazy rich Asians or EEAAO. Self-aggrandizement is not political activism.

The real problem is how atrociously written and poorly conceived the “article” she reposted is. The author’s contention that Yeoh winning the Oscar “should lead to meatier parts” is absurd; ask Mira Sorvino or Marisa Tomei how that worked out.

Her related contention that Yeoh has been “criminally underused in Hollywood” doesn’t mean she should get an Oscar. People act as if “Hollywood” were a centralized employer rather than a metonym for a largely unregulated industry run by several private companies. All actors are freelancers and there are way more actors than decent parts; the notion that one “deserves” to be cast in a film every year is absurd. There are plenty of white actresses who have had success in TV or film only to find themselves out of work for years afterward.

I'd argue that Meryl was denied a win in years she was the best because The Academy had the view, oh she's won twice already and will be nominated again. I hope this kind of attitude doesn't impact Cate.

[quote]There are plenty of white actresses who have had success in TV or film only to find themselves out of work for years afterward.

How shocking!

Who will administer the on stage bitch slap this year?

What I found sad about the article Yeoh shared is that it said something to the effect of, "Blanchett arguably gives the best performance in the category, but it would mean more to Yeoh's career and send a strong message if she won."

Despite Blanchett's mountain of prizes for the inane Tár, I don't think hers is some undeniable performance that could only possibly lose due to affirmative action. Her film is often described as a character study, but the character it's following isn't very interesting, and the film itself doesn't have much to say other than that, in a hierarchical structure, people on the top tend to abuse those they perceive as beneath them (hardly an original insight). She's such a strong threat to win because she is a prestige actress in an auteur film with weighty subject matter. Isabelle Huppert gave a more interesting performance as a not dissimilar character in the The Piano Teacher, over 20 years ago.

Yeoh is in the stressful position of being in a very tight race with someone who is likely to have many more Oscar opportunities in the future than she will, due to the way the industry is structured. I don't blame her for aggressively campaigning, even if this instagram post was ill-advised. And don't let Blanchett's speeches putting down awards season fool you -- she wants to win and is campaigning just as heavily in her own way.

The Piano Teacher is not at all similar to TAR. The similarity is that they're both cold yet sexual women who play classical music. It ends there in terms of themes and plot.

I'll never forget being disappointed with The Piano Teacher for not showing the blond stud's cock

Why are any of these raging cunts so desperate for an award.

Isn't it enough they get paid fantastical sums for memorising lines and repeating a script to camera?

R119 I guess winning an Oscar means you'll always be remembered, if by no one else then trivia buffs!

"I guess winning an Oscar means you'll always be remembered,"

Except on here, where the majority of reminiscing is for the one's who didn't but 'should have' won an Oscar.

And some of us think there are too many Asian actresses from vicious, corrupt countries, Miss YOWWW.

Cry me a river, Michelle Yowsa.

A river.

Cate gave a great performance. Andrea gave a great performance. Michelle gave a good performance but it's not Oscar worthy. And I still have no idea how Jamie Lee Curtis even got nominated.

R124 Have you not been listening to me on my Oscar begging press tour?

Because of MICHELLE YEOH. MICHELLE YEOH made it possible for people to say, "Jamie Lee Curtis, Oscar nominee."

MICHELLE YEOH.

I'm surprised. I thought they were besties with all this hugging and kissing between the 2

Michelle comes off as an angry, violent and thirsty Asian woman .

I can't wait for Cate to win just to witness the envious and angry look on Michelle Yeoh's face .

Cate better watch out, Michelle might just storm the stage

Who will be presenting Best Actress since Will has been banned? Jada?

[quote] Michelle and her team should be ashamed of these low tactics instead of letting their work speak for itself.

Honey, if she let the work speak for itself, she wouldn't even be up for an award.

And JLC and Hsu are in there because of the Minnie Driver factor.

And the Oscar goes to Michelle….Williams!

Perfect year for Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty to present best actress award

Yeoh is somewhat passable, but JLC and Hsu are jaw dropping awful. Just pure unironic mugging the entire time.

And if someone could explain to me why Short Round is winning every award in sight, I'd sure like to know. It's a middling performance. He doesn't embarrass himself but he has no business getting awards for that.

An Andrea Riseborough win would be one for the ages! We’d never stop talking about it.

But she didn’t even win at Indy Spirits so unlikely.

The fact that Yeoh deleted her comments about Blanchett shows that she knows how badly she fucked up.

Too late, Michelle. We all know what a cunt you are.

I always loved Kate Hepburn for shunning awards and not giving a fuck yet still getting enough votes to win a few. On the flip side, Davis and Crawford seemed obsessed with them.

IT WASN'T ME, IT WAS JLC!

Tell that bitch keep my name out of her mouth!

Yeoh will win because she's Asian.

It will look very, very bad if a white woman who already won an Oscar wins over an Asian woman who could be the first lead actress to win it for her race.

The Academy will not want to deal with those bad optics.

Those gooks are so fucking thirsty.

[quote]That is an out of control ego that can't let go and see others have a turn. They are not giving gold to him because he was in water.

Bless your heart, R88. That's literally what they did.

WHOEVER wins should thank Viola Davis and Danielle Deadwyler who were deliberately snubbed thanks to the antics of several uppity white actresses who circled the wagons to protect one of their own.

This was not a fair race, so let's make that PERFECTLY clear.

R143 I'll give you Deadwyler but not Viola. Ana De Armas is offered in fair exchange

[quote]And if someone could explain to me why Short Round is winning every award in sight, I'd sure like to know. It's a middling performance. He doesn't embarrass himself but he has no business getting awards for that.

Because of his personal narrative, not his performance. He’s selling the whole “I was a refugee turned child actor let down by Hollywood!” even though he went on to be a successful AD and stunt coordinator.

Meanwhile Barry Keoghan was raised poor in over a dozen foster homes as a kid, but he’s letting the work speak, not his own personal hard luck story.

Don't bring Viola and Danielle into this r143, they are not in the race, have gotten enough snide comments from Dl, and they sure are not the ones who trashed Cate, MICHELLE YEOH did

Wow, Michelle Yeoh has no class.

This awards season has made me lose respect for both Michelle Y and Cate. The desperation for awards is sickening.

[quote] It will look very, very bad if a white woman who already won an Oscar wins over an Asian woman who could be the first lead actress to win it for her race.

Even though the supporting awards are going to go to an Asian man and a Black woman. It's never enough. Michelle should win it because she deserves it (she doesn't) not because she checks off a box. If this is how the Oscars are going to be from now on, just fucking cancel them. No one watches anymore anyway, and they mean nothing money-wise.

I hope Yeoh and KHQ win their categories. And since I'm not racist against whites, I hope Jamie Lee wins her category too!

The desperation for awards IS sickening. It has gotten worse after a few years where it seemed to just be fun. Gaga is the thirstiest for award validation as well as her fans. But beyonce winning over 30 Grammys is outrageously sickening.

I want the best to win more than two Oscars. Meryl was robbed of more wins due to the notion she had won two times. I’d love to see someone win 5 or more acting Oscars. Fuck it.

From Yeoh’s tweet:

[quote]“A third Oscar would perhaps confirm Blanchett’s status as an industry titan but, considering her expansive and unparalleled body of work, are we still in need of yet more confirmation? Meanwhile, for Yeoh, an Oscar would be life-changing”

What a fucking CUNT! She’s been hanging around Jamie Lee Curtis too long.

If Jamie Lee Curtis wins, I want someone dressed like Michael Myers to give her the award.

Michelle Yeoh's behavior at the Golden Globes was appalling. Shrieking at the hard-working musicians told me everything about Yeoh. I was disappointed to see her behave so rudely to fellow artists. I stopped rooting for her.

That she would post something like this is not surprising. It is consistent with her character.

And it was just as rude when Julia Roberts did it during her Oscar win.

R137 I never even showed up for any of my noms! And I didn’t make a thing about it either.

R140 even though she’s 10x the actress Yeoh will ever be. That’s such a sad commentary.

I think Michelle deserves the Oscar. So it doesn’t really matter what she posted or did not post. We can understand why it means so much to her given her age and length of participation in the industry. She was a trailblazer.

If Yeoh loses you can expect a slew of articles bemoaning the outcome as racist just like when Beyonce lost to Harry Styles at the Grammys.

The fighting over awards is so tacky. No doubt minorities werent given them in the past for racist reasons and because there weren’t good roles for them. Saying someone has had enough so give it to me is tacky and gross. JFC.

I haven’t seen her nominated performance, but Michelle Yeoh has always seemed kind of placid to me.

R158 And? It lasted a news cycle and we moved on. Its other’s right to say something is racist or not.

R159 I know isn’t it ridiculous? If someone has “had enough” it probably is because they’re THAT good, and if they’re that good they probably deserved even more. Meryl probably should have at least 2 more.

My opinion but Meryl (and possibly Cate) aside - I think the most uphill battles are for white women over a certain age - who almost always lose to the hot young thing. Just look at the past 2-3 decades for proof.

If an actress can win an Oscar by campaigning does the award really mean anything?

Michelle doesn't have a voice.

R164 So? This is that person’s OPINION. Can they not have an opinion? YOU do?

Don't be ridiculous, R161. The point of the controversy over Beyoncé and Harry Styles isn't just so that the perpetually outraged can express their displeasure at that particular decision, it's also their way of putting awards bodies on notice regarding future decisions: irrespective of merit, we do not want a white person to receive an award over a non-white person.

I hope to god that Oscar voters have the good sense to make Andrea Riseborough the winner, because it would send a message that they won't be bullied or intimidated into submission by those identity politic cunts.

R166 Really you paranoid freak? Funny, since “OscarsSoWhite” most award shows have given acting awards to..checks notes..whites. Whites are still..checks notes..overwhelmingly nominated.

Flush your talking point.

Y’all know the Academy is made up of thousands of other actors, right? It isn’t a panel of 5.

Now I think less of her as a person. Only hope it doesn't affect Short Round's chances.

"If this is how the Oscars are going to be from now on,"

LOL at "from now on"

Did you miss the twenty years when it went to whatever actress went down on Weinstein?

Visibly jockeying for Oscars has always been a greedy rat race. Only a few stars, like Ellen Burstyn, have been above it.

Is some director out there thinking "Gee, I really want Michelle for x role but will only cast her if she wins the Oscar"? Would Cate Blanchett have really faltered had she not won for Blue Jasmine? This Vogue writer and people on Twitter keep advancing the defective notion that an Oscar is a make-or-break award or one that will guarantee future success.

How is Ava DuVernay co-head of the Directors Branch of the Academy? A Wrinkle in Time was the biggest flop in 100 years.

[quote]How is Ava DuVernay co-head of the Directors Branch of the Academy? A Wrinkle in Time was the biggest flop in 100 years.

DuVernay’s background is in PR. She’s a mediocre (or worse) filmmaker, but absolutely canny when it comes to promoting herself. No different than many other Hollywood hucksters before her.

DuVernay slimed her way into the Academy and got there because you know why. She's a horrible filmmaker.

Ava is a cunt.

Many great actresses who win lead Oscars don’t immediately achieve superstar status or every script offer in town, they just keep chugging along and doing great work. Very few of the oh-so-privileged white women get huge career boosts due to winning a leading Oscar - Kathy Bates might be the only one.

Use your race card, Michelle !

I couldn't imagine attending any awards show if I wasn't specifically involved in it (nominee, presenter, performer or a film I was directly responsible for was nominated in a category). I attended the Tony Awards when I was 17 as the guest of a family friend. I had to rent a tux. I was there by myself because he gave me his ticket when he was pressed into performing. I was in the rear mezz, couldn't see a fucking thing, and was bored off my ass.

However, I would love to attend next week's Oscars so that I could visibly and vocally boo if Yeoh wins.

R143 You *have* to be fucking kidding?!

Off topic, but Oprah and David Oyelowo should have been nominated for Selma.

Oprah should have tooken home one for The Butler as well.

Oprah was nominated for Selma.

As a producer, though. I assume R181 means as an actress.

I think it's funny that she said that. More hair pulling!

For what? She did nothing in that movie. She didn't even get a nomination from bullshit awards like the Black Reels Awards. The only acting nomination she got was from the NAACP awards, and practically the entire cast got one.

I love Oprah but she was awful in Lee Daniels' The Butler.

r168 you're not getting nominations because the roles for POC are shit. How many times do you have to be told that? You don't have the range of good roles to merit an award.

[quote] I attended the Tony Awards when I was 17 ... I was there by myself .... I was in the rear mezz, couldn't see a fucking thing, and was bored off my ass.

This saddens. What a waste of a 17 year old's ass. The men's room was hopping!

I feel like this years Oscar season has been forever! It started in November and it’s mid-March and there are still dramas and controversy.

Hopefully Hollywood will take stalk of what a mess this was and try a different approach next year

It's gotten to the point where a piece of garbage like Wakanda Forever is getting Oscar nominations just so actors of color can get recognized.

[quote]She’s been hanging around Jamie Lee Curtis too long.

Everything Everywhere was such a mess it drove it's actresses crazy.

[quote]Everything Everywhere was such a mess it drove it's actresses crazy.

Poor Sophia Lillis!

She, Jamie Lee & Kate would drown a bag of Kittens to get their age-spotted hands on the golden dildo

I thought Yeoh's daughter gave a better performance than her in that movie.

I am now rooting for this Michelle Yeoh to not win.

Oh it wll be glorious to see EEAAO shut out from receiving any awards this Sunday

[quote] Hopefully Hollywood will take stalk of what a mess this was

R189 Please tell me that you don't think this is correct.

Narratives have always played the biggest part in who gets entertainment award nominations and wins. Merit only matters if enough people are in agreement about a performance so that it becomes the narrative ("This performance is UNDENIABLE! To not award it, would be A CRIME AGAINST FILM!!!").

[quote] Racist Dataloungers who can't tell Asians apart.

We can't tell the Hemsworths apart either.

ARIGATO, KONNICHIWA.

Burstyn campaigned for resurrection and requiem for a dream.

Katharine Hepburns non campaigning was her campaign, though she privately campaigned for her performance in long days journey into night as she thought it was one of her best.

I know we all go on about Glenn being robbed for Dangerous Liaisons in 1989 but for my money Meryl was fucking phenomenal as Lindy Chamberlain in "A Cry In The Dark". The clip below doesn't do her justice as you need to see the movie as a whole.

She was robbed at least 3 times because "she's been awarded enough". It should be about the performance not the history.

R93, I said that about Yeoh and Blanchett meeting up on the red carpet without knowing (until your post) that Cate said she's had enough awards. I simply meant that it might be uncomfortable for both actresses to see each other on the red carpet after Yeoh's Instagram post which included remarks (complaints) about Blanchett possibly winning yet another Oscar.

Anyway, the rest of your post shouldn't be directed at me because I'd never before mentioned Michelle Yeoh, and I haven't seen her movie and therefore haven't commented on it. I've also never before mentioned Cate Blanchett, and I have no idea who Andrea Riseborough is. But, most importantly (and the only reason I'm writing this post), I'm not racist, which is what I'm guessing your last question is insinuating. I understand your feelings, but you've got the wrong person!

R201 That bitch Burstyn campaigned for what was supposed to be MY OSCAR.

Burstyn campaigned because Universal chose to back Sissy in Coal Miner’s Daughter and Resurrection got no push although Burstyn still received a nomination.

Ellen Burstyn should have won for Requiem

After this instagram slander, will Blanchett still be huggy kissy face with Miss Yeoh on the red carpet come Sunday ?

I still wonder if there’ll be a [bold]#NoNepoBabies [/bold]protest outside, with burning effigies etc.

god I’d love that!

[quote] Ellen Burstyn should have won for Requiem

And she would have won had she only not said no to that double-dildo scene with Jennifer Connelly.

Who would have thought Ana De Armas would end up being the classy, restrained one?

Messy, but I like it.

Michelle Yeoh has been quietly living in a £1,500-a-night suite. She's currently in Los Angeles, waiting to see if her amazing career surge will be crowned with an Oscar on Sunday.

Resurrection deserved awards recognition if only for having long lingering shots of Sam Shepard in denim.

[quote] She's currently in Los Angeles, waiting to see if her amazing career surge will be crowned with an Oscar on Sunday.

She will be heavily disappointed

Interestingly, for a ceremony that’s supposed to draw customers to film, this year’s run-up to the Oscars has made me hate more movie stars than ever.

Yeoh, Curtis, Siggy for making another stupid “Avatar” movie, Judd Hirsch for still being alive = cancelled

^. Yep. For me, it just represents everything that’s going wrong within our culture.

This is so hypocritical of Michelle Yeoh

She recently sided with the Andrea Riseborough mafia style nomination and was critical of the reactions of the un nominated black actresses/ directors, who were throwing a fit for not being nominated .

However now she is all about affirmative action??

Just saw her Golden Globes cunting. Used to be indifferent but I hate her now.

I’m afraid that thanks to Will Smith, the Oscars are now going to become about public feuding, fighting, cunting, and overall drama that have nothing to do with the performances. They need ratings, don’t they? I swear everything is turning to shit.

Viola Davis was so bitter about Andrea's grassroots nomination. I've never seen a more entitled overrated actress than Viola. And she's not as good as people say she is, but again, her race plays a factor in the outlandish praise she gets. So sick of this mediocre time in culture.

I like Viola much better on stage. Her acting style is a little too big for film.

Cate deserves the award.

Angela Bassett deserves it, too.

[quote] Viola Davis was so bitter about Andrea's grassroots nomination. I've never seen a more entitled overrated actress than Viola.

Yeah! It's not like she built the fucking underground railroad!

Based on what I've watched I'm hoping for Cate, Colin, Kerry and Barry/Brendan Gleeson.

Would be happy if the love is shared and it's Cate or Andrea(!), Colin or Brendan, Ke Huy, Stephanie or Angela.

Based on their shameless campaigning and low tactics I do not want Austin, Jamie Lee or Michelle Y to be rewarded. They are not the best in their respective categories and have been far too craven.

I fear giving Brendan Fraser the award will be like when McConaughey won, recognised for a brief period when they showed talent and taste before returning to shitty projects.

Colin has been proving himself for years in lots of interesting movies.

Michelle Yeoh would be the most popular winner since Julia Roberts won.

R226 Also would be another case of a completely undeserved Oscar given based on box office and nothing else….

I am astonished not only that Elvis was nominated for Best Picture, but that lizard-like Austin Butler was nominated for Best Actor. Of course neither award will be given to that steaming pile, but still -- the sheer audacity. Anyone who thinks Austin did a great job portraying Elvis should do themselves a favor and go find the 1979 TV movie bio-pic with Kurt Russell. It was made at 1/100th the cost (adjusting inflation) and Russell acts circles around Butler. Hell, even Bruce Campbell was a better fucking Elvis in the horror-comedy Bubba Ho-Tep. Christ. Who the hell is Butler fucking in Hollywood? He's like the male Gwyneth Paltrow.

I irrationally hate Cate Blanchett with the heat of a thousand suns. I don't know why. I find her incredibly smug and pretentious. She is one of those people that I just want punch in the face. So I don't mind that Michelle posted this. In fact, I kind of like her more for doing it. Anyone who, like Cate Blanchett, who will endorse Shen Yun for free tickets, is a hypocrite and an a******.

[quote]r229 I irrationally hate Cate Blanchett with the heat of a thousand suns. I don't know why. I find her incredibly smug and pretentious. She is one of those people that I just want punch in the face.

[quote] I find her incredibly smug and pretentious.

What makes you say that?

Cate has always been gracious and showered praises on her fellow actresses. It's a shame that Michelle resorted to a catfight witht that instagram post

[quote] Viola Davis was so bitter about Andrea's grassroots nomination. I've never seen a more entitled overrated actress than Viola. And she's not as good as people say she is, but again, her race plays a factor in the outlandish praise she gets. So sick of this mediocre time in culture.

You cannot say that because it's racist. But the anonymous Oscar voter basically stated this and then some.

It's hilarious that Davis' own pandering campaign for The Woman King ended in nothing but bitterness and a sore sport mentality for her. She had millions of dollars behind her, unlike Andrea. And it still got her nowhere. And possibly the stench of Viola's horrible performance as Michelle Obama was still on the minds of Oscar voters.

I would say so, regarding the Obama performance R223.

I don’t think Viola really cares as much as a lot of people make out. She was never going to win the lead actress award this year anyway. Then in February they threw her a Grammy award to complete her EGOT, making her the first black to win in competitive categories strictly for performance. Arguably, better than a second Oscar.

Viola (compared to her peers like Octavia Spencer and Alfre Woodward) is very one note and overrated. In that sense, she IS the black Meryl.

Alfre should have had a much bigger career. So talented and versatile.

Angela has been at this acting thing longer than Viola. She has missed opportunities for Oscar wins. Never heard her publicly complain unlike entitled Viola . Hope she wins tomorrow night

R238 she’s only been nominated once before this year. Her film career with How Stella Got Her Groove Back peaked 25 years ago. Most of Angela’s prolific work has been on tv, where’s she’s been nominated for an Emmy nine times. She’s really overdue for an Emmy win, and not so much an Oscar.

Yeah, you could hardly characterize Angela Bassett as being overdue for an Oscar.

Cate Blanchett said in a recent podcast that the media " ain't gonna get a catfight " out of her against another nominee.

Hear that MY? it's called class

Here is Angela Bassett on how she felt about losing the Oscar for "What's Love Got to Do With It" 30 years ago. This woman is such a class act (and so gorgeous to boot). Go to 6:23 in the video:

It’s got to hurt Holly Hunter’s feelings that everyone is shitting on her winning that Oscar these days.

What’s crazy is she won EVERYTHING prior to the Oscar leading up to it, (Angela just won’t the GG for comedy actress) and yet now they say she was robbed.

I doubt Holly is losing any sleep over it, R243. She still has the Oscar.

I also don’t think it’s unanimously considered Holly didn’t deserve that award. Maybe to people who haven’t seen The Piano it is, but…

[quote]Alfre should have had a much bigger career. So talented and versatile.

OMG, one of my all time favorite actors. She's had tons of amazing performances and has a million awards and nominations but only one Oscar nomination. So many missed opportunities. Truly one of the most underrated actors ever.

Yeah, I don't like this discourse that Holly is/was undeserving. At the time, Angela's nomination was her win, but she was not the front-runner that year. Holly was. And it remains a great performance. She's a four-time nominee, and was nominated twice the year she won.

I couldn't agree more about Alfre Woodard, R246. She's always a joy to watch.

[quote]Yeah, I don't like this discourse that Holly is/was undeserving. At the time, Angela's nomination was her win, but she was not the front-runner that year. Holly was. And it remains a great performance. She's a four-time nominee, and was nominated twice the year she won.

I don't think there is/was any such discourse, at least on a wide-ranging basis, that Angela was robbed. I only posted the video at R242 to show what a class act she is because she's never, at least to my knowledge, said anything over the years to disparage Holly Hunter or her win. But that said, so what if there are people out there who voice that opinion? Is Holly some delicate flower who should never be subjected to such discussion like so many other winners are? Yes, she was very good in "The Piano" but so was Angela in "What's Love Got to Do With It," both giving great performances in two entirely different films playing two entirely different people, so of course some opinions may lean one way vs. the other. And I don't care how many pre-awards Holly picked up that year, that doesn't mean she received across-the-board, unanimous support from every member of the Academy -- I'd be willing to bet every nominee that year had someone filling in the little dot for them because they genuinely thought that person was better than Hunter. That's just the way it works because people are people and not everyone sees everything the same way no matter how "amazing" the performance. And if this is really only about not wanting to "hurt" Holly's feelings (as R243 suggests), then we should stop and think the next time we trash the wins of Sandra Bullock, Halle Berry, Gwyneth Paltrow, Julia Roberts, Brie Larson, Jennifer Lawrence and even Meryl Streep since they've all been accused of Oscar theft in their day, though I'm sure like Hunter they all brush it off and keep on movin'.

Angela's performance as Tina Turner was over the top and, I hate to say this, but a lot of black people constitute that as what good acting is, and subtlety less so. To them, Holly Hunter's silent movie performance deserves no praise because they can't really pick up subtle ways of expression. That's why black actors don't get offered subtle roles either, which is tragic, because it really isn't allowing them to grow as screen artists. Black artists have rightfully dominated music culture with their genius but it is white people who are superior actors by and large, with a much broader range.

R2 "One of them has two Oscars already and the other has none. That should absolutely be taken into account."

No, it shouldn't.

So according to R250, Tom Cruise is a better actor than James Earl Jones. Got it.

R252 Obviously that poster (while making a flawed argument) isn't saying that this applies to all cases, but on film, black actors usually are not rewarded for subtle or nuanced performances. Halle Berry in Monster's Ball? Really? Denzel Washington did all his best work before he was an Oscars darling.

Most truly great black actors (James Earl Jones being one) are mainly stars in theater or television or character actors. Cicely Tyson, despite her critical acclaim, was never a major star on the Angela Bassett level. Alfre Woodward is easily the best black actress of a certain age working but was only recognized once by the Academy, in 1983.

R249 - Angela bad-mouthed Holly Hunter winning on the Andy Cohen Show.

I would reverse that and say Bassett isn't a major star on Cicely Tyson's level. Tyson has played iconic roles and won a Tony in her 90s. Bassett is on a TV show and occasionally makes movies.

Tyson has not played iconic roles. In fact, her only well known film (in which she figures into the cast in an important way) is Sounder. Her getting an Honorary Oscar a few years back was a huge joke. There were several other black actors who deserved an Honorary Oscar over her.

There was a black actress on the soaps I loved in the 90s called Tonya Lee Williams who delivered beautifully subtle performances. I always hoped she'd make it to feature film but it wasn't to be. They ARE out there, but unfortunately it's the shouty theatrical types who usually get the fame.

[quote]r257 There was a black actress on the soaps I loved in the 90s called Tonya Lee Williams who delivered beautifully subtle performances.

Was she one of these actresses?

R256. What about me?????

R257- I enjoyed her as well- I especially loved that summer of 1990/1991 storyline when Drew came to town- It was just a really nice story- on a multitude of levels.

I suspect Keri Condon wins Supporting...

The tally probably went like this

Keri Angela JLC Chau and the chick from EEAAO who's name escapes me (i have not seen this film)

I think that there are some diehard Angela and JLC voters that are actually going to split the votes between those 2, and Keri is going to have enough 2's and 3's to sneak in..

There is no way in hell JLC gets this..

It will be like that Marcia Gay Harden win- the year that the chick from Almost Famous was the front runner..

Miss Jane Pittman has become a punchline, not an icon.

R261 only the best pic vote is a weighted ballot. All other categories it’s the highest vote getter. But I catch your drift.

R263- Is that true? I did not know that! I thought that they were all weighted...

Wow.

I still say that Condon takes it (same reason- split vote)

Kerry would be a very deserving winner. Maybe Cate and Michelle will split the vote and let Andrea win ....

R265 it would be great if Andrea could win, especially over Yeoh. But I don’t think enough voters outside the actors branch saw TL to make a difference. I’m still going on Blanchett to win.

The Pride of Malaysia is winning tonight.

My problem with Angela's performance in What's Love Got To Do With It is the physique she and the filmmakers chose. WTF was that? Tina Turner was not a bodybuilder. She had a strong body but those muscles were distracting. I don't understand why they chose to have Angela bulk up so much.

People talk about Angela Bassett like she's Amy Adams or Glenn Close. She was only nominated once, she's not necessary overdue.

I would love to see Stephanie Hsu and Ke Huy Quan both win Oscars, then have Michelle Yeoh lose.

If Jamie Lee Curtis wins, I will be in agony. As if her ego couldn't be big enough right now.

I want JLC to lose but if she wins I will enjoy all the meltdowns.

I think there's a good chance Jamie Lee and Angela could split Academy votes and we'll end up with a surprise win for Stephanie Hsu.

Haha. Not surprised the Yeoh and JLC haters stopped posting since they both won their Oscars. Buh bye now

Any pics of Michelle and Cate hanging out together at the post Oscars parties?

Me Chinese, me play joke!

[quote]My problem with Angela's performance in What's Love Got To Do With It is the physique she and the filmmakers chose. WTF was that? Tina Turner was not a bodybuilder. She had a strong body but those muscles were distracting. I don't understand why they chose to have Angela bulk up so much.

I remember an interview with Angela Bassett where they asked her about getting ready for the movie and she said (basically) Tina Turner's performance style was so energetic that she knew she had to get in shape if they were going to film her doing it for 10 hours and day and that, yeah, she knew she took it too far. She didn't intend to turn Tina Turner into a bodybuilder.

Ok. I was going to add something to my post at 277 and I spaced and W&W'd myself!!

I was going to add, part of it was the editing. They knew she had developed these huge biceps and triceps getting ready and they still included numerous shots where she does the sorta iconic Tina Turner move where she throws her arm up and points at the crowd. That's where it was really noticeable and they could have done something to minimize that. Fewer shots like that? Different camera angles?

R278. Sleeves might have helped.