Glenn Close wants an Oscar

She deserves one for that nappy pussy line alone

[quote] And I'm looking at all the women in my peer group — they've all got one.

Oh, really? I certainly never begged for one.

Give her the damn Oscar!

It’s absurd at this point and reflects more poorly on the Academy than her. The joke is old and she’s more than proved her merit. The fact that Reese Witherspoon, Kim Basinger, Jamie Lee Curtis and Mikey Madison have one and she doesn’t is a show business crime.

No one deserves one more than her.

Based on her performance at the hearing the other day, I think Pamjo is looking for one as well. She always sounds like she’s acting.

She’s has a nude scene in her movie about Finland this year

[Quote] It’s absurd at this point and reflects more poorly on the Academy than her.

For the times she’s been nominated, whose win would you take away and give to her?

R7 in hindsight, either Lange's win for Tootsie to Glenn's World According To Garp or Foster's win for The Accused to her Dangerous Liaisons

[quote]I think Pamjo

Who?

It really is a crime that Glenn Close doesn't have an Oscar.

That Tom Cruise is getting one next year. Unbelievable

Who did she not blow?

Bullshit R11! That simply cannot be true.

[quote]For the times she’s been nominated, whose win would you take away and give to her?

I'd take away Cher's Oscar for Moonstruck and give it to Glenn for Dangerous Liaisons.

[quote] For the times she’s been nominated, whose win would you take away and give to her?

Cher. She was great but Glenn shook the earth in “Fatal Attraction”.”

R14, two different years.

Wanna borrow my old violin, honey?!

I'd have given her the Oscar for 'The Wife' in 2018, over McDormand (who was very good, but not Oscar-good in my opinion).

Regarding the much talked-about movie version of "Sunset Boulevard') for which Glenn won the Tony (Best Actress in a Musical, 1995), it may be that Glenn could be aging out of the movie role of Norma Desmond. Even though the role calls for an aging movie actress, it does not call for an elderly movie actress. Glenn could be a shoo-in for the Oscar for playing Norma Desmond in "Sunset Boulevard,' but damn, they better make the movie soon before Glenn is too old for the role. Plus, if the mvie remake is a musical, how long will Glenn have the singing voice to carry it off?

And the final insult to injury is that it's rumored that Nicole Scherzinger could nab the movie role over Glenn.

R16, Oops!. I meant Fatal Attraction.

R18 I hate to break it to you, but that ship sailed years ago. She's the only one in Hollywood keeping the rumor afloat that the movie will get made with her as the star. Even Streisand had enough sense to pull the curtain down on 'Gypsy' by the time she was 78.

Glenn might have won if Fatal Attraction didn’t have that campy ending.

R18, that was Olivia Colman. She was tied with Lady Gaga.

Poor Glenn will always be seen as below other bigger stars who had the popularity to win. Maybe she should work on her people skills. At her age, it’s not happening.

R13 it's true. He's getting an honorary one.

I still can’t believe Olivia had the audacity to accept the award and not demand a recount immediately.

That Oscar win never made any sense and seemed very shady.

R22 I don't think it had anything to do with the film's ending. She lost to Cher who was excellent in Moonstruck.

Yes, Glenn deserves and Oscar.

But so does Annette Bening, who was famously robbed of her Best Actress Oscar for 'Amercan Beauty,' awarded to Hilary Swank for 'Boys Don't Cry' in 2000.

Although Annette has won and been nominated for other performances: Bening has received numerous accolades, including a BAFTA Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for five Academy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award, making her one of few artists nominated for the Triple Crown of Acting without winning.

Plus Glenn played an antagonist not the protagonist. Same reason Gloria Swanson lost for sunset Blvd.

Glenn Powell will win an Oscar before Glenn Close.

Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole also had multiple nominations, and never won. They were both as deserving, if not more than Glenn.

I know, not a popular opinion on DL, but she's just not all that.

After Dangerous Liaisons, she'll always be best actress for me.

Annette wasn’t robbed R28. Swank was amazing and has won almost every precursor that year.

She likely got the closest with the wife and dangerous liaisons. Holly Hunter was the likely runner up to Cher. Any of the other 4 nominees would’ve been better than Jessica Lange. They were Close for Garp, Kim Stanley for Frances, Teri Garr for tootsie, and Lesly Ann Warren for Victor/Victoria.

With a few exceptions, Oscars are primarily popularity contests.

It would appear that, for whatever reason(s), Close is simply not that popular with her peers.

Maybe she needs to host a cookout. A [italic]good [/italic]one.

She must have pissed off someone with Hollywood power. My favorite performance of hers was in Reversal of Fortune. Not even an Oscar nomination.

Fashion gays, why are all of Glenn’s clothes so huge in the photos that accompany that blowjob of a profile?

[quote]Glenn Close wants an Oscar

Well, then, earn one.

It's easy!

Ok, OK! She wants an Oscar.

Trump wants the Nobel Peace Prize.

I'd like to win LOTTO.

Next~!

[quote] I still can’t believe Olivia had the audacity to accept the award and not demand a recount immediately. That Oscar win never made any sense and seemed very shady.

Not to mention it was category fraud. That was a supporting role who appeared on screen less than the two nominated for Best Supporting Actress Emma Stone and Rachel Weiz.

Stone was plainly the lead in The Favourite.

Of the eighties ladies, she is the one for whom I have the most affection.

In my opinion, she should have had back-to-back Oscars for Fatal Attraction and Dangerous Liaisons. In 1987, Cher was funny and poignant, but she's the second weakest of the nominees (after Streep). If not Close, then it should have been Hunter. 1988 is a decent lineup but none of the other nominees even approach her performance in Liaisons. Plus, Jodie had The Silence of the Lambs coming up.

I'd additionally nominate her for The World According to Garp, The Big Chill, Reversal of Fortune, and The Wife. On a particularly unhinged day, I'll say she should have gotten a nomination for playing the vice president in Air Force One.

She's fine but nothing special in The Natural, Albert Nobbs is inert (except for Janet McTeer's lovely bosoms), and the less said about The Couchfucker Chronicles, the better.

As far as 2018 goes: I would have given Emma Stone (The Favourite) or Toni Collette (Hereditary) the Oscar that year, with Glenn Close (The Wife), Viola Davis (Widows), and Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) rounding out the category.

The Favourite was my favorite movie of 2018, but those acting campaigns were fraudulent as hell. Stone is the obvious lead. Gaga got a nom for not embarrassing herself, Aparicio was a coat-tail nomination for a movie in which the acting was nearly irrelevant to the cinematic technique, and McCarthy was genuinely fantastic (thought it's a textbook case of a non-Jew playing a character that absolutely needs to be played by a Jewish performer). Gaga and Aparicio were wasting space while poor Toni Collette got left out for one of the best modern horror performances.

What is The Couchfucker Chronicles?

This:

[quote] "In some weird way, it changes how people perceive you. And I'm looking at all the women in my peer group — they've all got one."

Ahem.

[quote] For the times she’s been nominated, whose win would you take away and give to her?

Any of Cher, Jodie Foster or Olivia Colman’s wins.

I particularly love Cher’s film and what she did to create one of the best romantic comedies of the last 50 years, but Glenn’s performance as Alex Forrest is indelible.

Frances McDormand doesn’t need 3.

Frances has three because the vote split in 2020

I trained for 8 years.

Her desperation is a turn off.

I would give her Fatal Atraction AND Dangerous Liaisons as well, but not The Wife. Olivia Colman was wonderful in it, it was truly deserved, while The Wife was very meh (and her performance far from outstanding).

I think she’s not well-liked. Her peers refuse to vote for her.

Glenn Close probably also wants to come out of the closet after all these years.

Olivia Colman was category fraud, and she squawked away like she was back in That Mitchell And Webb Look.

Oscars are industry awards. They exists only as a way to elevate a performer so others can profit from that performer. There is no such thing as a "best actress" someone made that up as a marketing tool. People vote for the people they like personally and (most often) people vote for the person who campaigns the hardest WITHOUT looking like they are campaigning at all. Before Harvey W. fell, he was the best stealth campaigner in the biz and if he was pushing your nomination, and it was the right year for you, you were going to get the fucking award, come hell or high water. They really should call these awards the favorite performER of the year rather than the "best" performance of the year.

Amy Adams and Bradley Cooper have the same likability problem - close but no cigar.

I think if the Academy knew Silence was coming they would have given Glenn the Oscar for Dangerous Liaisons over Jodie. But, that's why the Oscars are dumb and fun to discuss. That last scene alone. Bitch knows how to trash a room. I assume she's been offered and declined an honorary Oscar.

Olivia was not category fraud. She's the center of that movie. If anything Stone was fruad. She's the lead, the movie starts and ends on her and it's her best performance to date.

Glenn Close maybe isn’t well liked, r55, but talent wise she is mikes away from those hacks.

Colman played a supporting character as a sitcom level sexual hysteric, as usual.

I hadn’t thought about that, R59, but there really are some similarities between Colman’s character and Sue Ann Nivens.

How many times has she actually been nominated. People forget Award winning is relative to the year. Timing is everything. Also during the Harvey years of Hollywood a lot of women won Oscars due to whoring and or campaigns not related to Glen. It wasn’t anti Glen. A certain star was just put on. The best actress winners always skews young because a lot of time they are sleeping with the powers that be. I’m not even talking about necessarily calculated efforts or fraud. It’s simply human nature. Men look out for the women they are sleeping with.

[quote]How many times has she actually been nominated.

Eight.

1982 - The World According to Garp (Supporting) - Jessica Lange, Tootsie

1983 - The Big Chill (Supporting) - Linda Hunt, The Year of Living Dangerously

1984 - The Natural (Supporting) - Peggy Ashcroft, A Passage to India

1987 - Fatal Attraction - Cher, Moonstruck

1988 - Dangerous Liaisons - Jodie Foster, The Accused

2011 - Albert Nobbs - Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady

2018 - The Wife - Olivia Colman, The Favourite

2020 - Hillbilly Elegy (Supporting) - Youn Yuh-jung, Minari

R62 Dayum I knew it was multiple. I didn’t know it was that many. Cher should not have beat her in 1988. And I like Cher and that film very much.

The Academy just loves it when you campaign for an Oscar.

All she needs to do is find a good offbeat film littered with a minority cast and some supernatural elements. Have 7 minutes of screen time playing against type.

Worked for us, r64!

[quote]Glenn Close wants an Oscar.

And I want a sip of water.

Elusive dreams. I weep for her.

What does this mean?

"Maybe I’ll get rolled out drooling in a wheelchair for some lifetime thing.” She laughs, and we sit for a moment with that image. “Look, I’m still in the room,” she adds. “To me, that’s more important.”

It really is bad luck to have had it happen to you eight times, but she never not once had a winner’s narrative over at least the ultimate winner.

Lange had an extraordinary year with noms in both lead and supporting.

Linda Hunt was the first person to win an Oscar for portraying a character of the opposite sex.

Peggy Ashcroft was a respected thespian elder in a David Lean masterpiece.

Cultural icon and showbiz incarnate Cher getting nominated a second time was too good of an opportunity to pass on, on top of a great, fun performance.

Prodigy Foster proved she really is all that in a very challenging role.

Streep thatchered it up in a movie still much more riveting than Albert Nobbs.

Olivia Colman was at her most endearing, in category fraud that she wasn’t to blame for, in a movie much more riveting than The Wife.

The Hillbilly Elegy nom was a cruel joke. Everyone else that year was more deserving.

[quote] Olivia was not category fraud. She's the center of that movie. If anything Stone was fruad. She's the lead, the movie starts and ends on her and it's her best performance to date.

Don’t you hate it when that happens?

Barbara Stanwyck never won an Oscar, either, but should have. Sometimes the timing just doesn't work in one's favor. This seems like it should be beneath Glenn, begging for one. She should hold her head high and just carry on. If it happens, it happens.

Lange won because they were giving Best Actress to Meryl. Both should have tied for Best Actress. Teri Garr and Lesley Ann Warren gave wonderful performances and should have been the frontrunners that year.

I still maintain that if they had kept the original ending of Fatal Attraction Glenn might have won over Cher. The original ending makes Alex a tragic character and softens the blow of her cruel actions in the film. It also doesn't let Douglas off the hook for his actions as well. Critics hated the revised ending and felt it had turned into a slasher movie with Douglas being absolved of any wrongdoing.

Cher being nominated for an acting award, let alone winning, lends little credence to the Oscars as a legitimate measure of talent.

Whenever I watch a late night appearance of any actor actress and the host blathers on about their Oscar nominations or wins, I always roll my eyes. Boring and meaningless.

R70 Both Zoe and Viola Davis should have been in the best actress category for the roles in which they won.

R72 the original ending didn’t test well but you’re right.

Glenn could actually have an Oscar if she wanted one. She has declined the honorary Oscar a few times now. Angela Bassett accepted, first time up, and now publications refer to her as Academy Award winner Angela Bassett.

R73, I know Moonstruck is a beloved film here on DL, but that Loretta role could've been played by anybody. But in 1987-88, there was a lot of goodwill towards Cher because the Academy snubbed her two years prior for Mask (a "worthy" performance created in the editing room), and she proved herself worthy the year before that in her nominated performance for Silkwood.

[quote]the original ending didn’t test well

The audiences spoon fed Stallone and Schwarzenegger bait wanted action. And that's what they got. But they threw all the intrigue and character development out of the window with it. Alex Forrest wasn't a monster, she was a deeply tragic, lost woman. The Madame Butterfly subtext scattered throughout the film was a perfect lead up to what should have been the final powerful scene. It also show's some remorse on Alex's part. She didn't want to hurt Douglas or his family any further. You feel sympathy for her.

Glenn fought tooth and nail to keep that original ending and she was right.

that Loretta role could've been played by anybody.

R77 - anybody but Sally Field.

Glenn deserves an honorary Oscar for her extraordinary performances.

I can understand how Richard Burton burned bridges and lost respect. They would nominate him, but they were never going to give him the award. I also think a lot of people were turned off by Peter O’Toole’s antics (and screaming bellows only suited for stage acting.)

I do not understand why Close has not been able to pull off a win. My best guess is that many of the years she was nominated were competitive and Fatal Attraction was more controversial than we remember. She seems very likable. I don’t buy that they just don’t like her.

R81 I think the winner should always be who receives the most votes but I would love to see them implement weighted rankings and see the results.

I agree, I’ve always wanted to see the results. Even if it’s just the runner up.