1988 | Cher Wins Best Actress For Moonstruck 

Yeah, she looks straight-up crazy, like Lavender Brown in that Harry Potter movie.

Karen McGinty God forbid a woman let her desire to win something appear on her FACE 😱 Like, I get where you’re coming from, but Y I K E S.

I need to watch her film to see if she deserved it or not. Although someone I wished was nominated more would be Sally Kellerman.

same here I wanted her to have it

@@karenmcginty9614 God, you're awful

They are very good friends since silkwood

Thats how you react when you already have two oscars. I doubt she'd react like that looking for her first win!

@@joecoe4416 But they're good friends so she probably would do just that.

@@claird4307 Pla

I was just going to comment the same. Her joy is so sincere, it's contagious.

I know; tell me about it. Same with Sigourney Weaver.

oh... my god. so accurate

Lol

lol

I know right?🤔

I CAME HERE TO COMMENT THIS SO CRAZY

yes same here every time I'm thinking about how they didn't give it to Emma for her brilliant work in in the name of the father even if she appeared for a short time but her part was genius truly

omg that's CRAZY and very cool!! I'm glad she was happy about listing the awards! re: the numbers - Oh no! I'll add an annotation. Gonna have to correct The Wrap too! (www.thewrap.com/great-moments-oscar-campaigning-and-not-so-great-65786/)

How do you know so many famous people?

Sally was really good in Anna...but that year was a big competition...pity for Sally....

So let them give an award for Favorite as movie...The. Wife is an ordinary life drama...maybe boring but Glen is perfect as always...there is no better then her this year or any other year when they robbed her...only Cher was better...she gave the most difficult perfomance...playing in romantic comedy...and she won....

She was far too nervous to think she had a chance to win. The Golden Globes are garbage; the voters (who know precisely DICK about film) can be swayed, as they were when she won. Then she showed up on Roseanne and overacted like I’ve never seen. Ugh.

This is very true.

Right?? It certainly could be!!

@@bdiaz6081 hopefully Gaga won't be nominated

Fingers crossed for Glenn next year.

@@bdiaz6081 Gaga isn't a clown. You dumbfuck. And being seen moonstruck, A star is born, Fatal attraction. I can totally say Glenn deserved for Fatal attraction more than Cher at every point of time in the history of Academy award. But this year gaga was phenomenal. I hope they can tie like Barbara and Hepburn's tie for the lead actor. But it won't happen. Gaga will win original song and Glenn for best actress. Though Gaga deserve every nomination but you people call her clown and wish that she didn't get nominated. It doesn't change the fact that Gaga is phenomenal actor, singer and performer. Her vocals better than any of the trash artists of today's generation whom you people worship. Go back to your caves.

@@SyedSaifAbbasNaqvi lol don't you think "phenomenal" is a bit too much? If she was phenomenal she would've been amazing in American Horror Story, which she wasn't, she was average.

SuBhaYU BiSwaS You sad Gaga Stan’s are all alike. Everything this clown has done has been a re-tread of someone else’s creativity or original idea. She has a subpar voice, her acting is marginal & she’s ugly AF. It’s too bad she’s all you immature queens 👸🏽 have to look up to.

Absolutely! Glenn’s performance is haunting.

Totally agree

For me, Cher deserved it for Mask!

Michael O'Donnell Agree. Mask was her peak

Cher should have won for Mask even though she wasn't even nominated Glenn close should have been the runaway winner for fatal attraction

Yes it was indeed...so many good roles for women....Cher won...and it is not only some comedy...its a a warm family movie about ordinary life...taking about italians in little Italy....Cher did a great job so and the others...best suporting role fot Olimpia Dukakis and best movie...

Agree 1000% 🫤

Yes, I agree. Glenn Close really gave the performance of the year. This was basically an apology Oscar® for having snubbed Cher for _Mask._

Yup Gwyneth won for Shakespeare in love. Hardly Oscar worthy. Popularity contest for sure

​@@kennymoore2093 Yeah there was no question in my mind back then or now that Cate Blanchett should absolutely have won for _Elizabeth._

Tina Turner is nowhere near active nor relative to how she was 25 years ago, and she was slowing down then during the mid 90s. There's lots of women just as active like Cher from the 1960s and 70s from both music and film/television.

@@mrjones29 tina turner has a show about her life coming out on broadway

For over 20 years this legendary singer has remained dormant and that's all you could dig up. Not what people would call prolific like the Rolling Stones now would they? Besides you never mentioned does this show include her or is it a tribute show with someone playing her life?

Mr Jones what are you talking about? Tina Turner is inescapable, she’s everywhere

@@stealthiscoolWhat are you talking about? Everywhere! Did you see her at the Academy Awards or presenting something? Inescapable? C'mon now, stop going over the top with this. That term should mean the whole population has seen her in something, tell me what?

Cher is more like the acclaimed novel whereas Lady Gaga is the film adaptation.

@@irishmanrants89 I know right. Gaga is a decent actress and I really liked her in American Horror Story. But in this Star is Born. Meh, she was good but I wouldn't give her a nommination.

i actually see oscars as a theatre show not real so i laughed a lot when the mix up happened i like glenn to win as her eyes tell the story same as m ali 😣

@@irishmanrants89 growing up with my grandma who loved Cher, it was only natural I'd love someone like Lady Gaga

It goes Cher, Madonna and then Lady Gaga. Cher had the voice and the original concept, Madonna didn't have the voice, but upped the ante on the concept and then Lady Gaga sold her soul as an artist, taking the concept even further to become famous, at last.

To be fair that wouldn't be hard.

I love Cher and Moonstruck, but Glenn earned that Oscar!

Agree..Cher shoulda won for mask not moonstruck

I'm Italian-American too, family from NY. It's crazy how accurate that movie is.

I agree! I was surprised that Cher won, not that she wasn't great in the role, but I really thought Glenn Close would win. I also agree that it was a "consolation" prize for Cher for being totally overlooked for her far superior performance in "Mask".

WHY ? Acting like a crazy bitch is EZ..

nailed it.. cher should have won in 85, close in 87

I agree

though i loved and still love Cher!

Cher appeared in a string of critical acclaimed and commercially successful movies before Moonstruck (Silkwood, Suspect, Mask, Witches of Eastwick). The public had already accepted her as an actress. Her Oscar win was just icing on the cake...but ironically, began her downhill slide where all of a sudden she just disappeared from the movies.

@@PungiFungi Whenever Cher was 'at the top of her game', it wouldn't take long until she'd drop it again.

@@PungiFungi her Oscar win wasn't the reason for her acting career declining. She was actually offered a variety of roles including thelma and Louise but cher wanted to return back to her music career as well as feeling confused on the direction of her acting career

'mask' was better

@@Kevin-rg3yc thank god for that id Cher didn’t return to music we would’ve never had If I Could Turn Back Time, or heaven forbids, Belive

I agree, her performance in Mask was waaaaaay better

Exactly

Philip Vanguard You won’t. If she couldn’t swing it this year, she never will, even if she remakes Sunset Blvd.

Love that podcast!!!

Thanks for the suggestion!

Agree, so unfair for Glenn. Such a exceptional actress

@@zairnermuller4960 I agree. Although I have nothing against Cher, because I've been a fan of her singing for a long time. BUT, I could only even watch that movie she was in for a very short time!!! I just couldn't stand it!! SO, most definitely even if I did see it, I can't imagine her being worthy of the win over Glenn Close!!

She was robbed for Albert Noobs, too

Not Oscar caliber great! Your right about Close being robbed!

I loved loved The Favourite, but I thought The Wife showed much more emotional subtlety. I really thought that was Glenn's year. Can't be mad at Olivia for getting it thought...

Tavo Ruiz "Bad Bitch Thrillers" ?

YESS!!! I agree on both Streep & Cher.

Gish had said after the snub 'I wouldn't want to lose to Cher anyway!'

oh cher right she was in a film she acted the academy liked her performance thats life i am interested in your point of view but i love cher in the film yes she is a pop star yes she had a go at acting why not she did her parts well her dress sense is ott so her life ♥️

The 1928 film THE WIND is generally considered her very best film work and would have been eligible for the 2nd annual awards. Of course they started making terrible choices early on! She also should have been nominated for supporting actress for 1955's THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER.

As a big Lillian Gish fan I wish she had gotten nominated at least, but I'm happy she did at least get an honorary Oscar.

@@cinemaholic730 She did get one nomination for Duel In The Sun, but didn't won.

Sandy Weinhold I agree with you! Meryl has been overrated in many occasions.

Sandy Weinhold Just because someone doesn't agree with you, doesn't mean they are brain-washed by the media.. Don't act like you are the only one who can analyze rationally.. People have brains to make their own analysis and stand by Meryl's well deserved nominations.. Your so called "love" for the critical comments against Meryl (yours is the only one on the comment section of this video, at the time of my comment) wasn't this apparent until she spoke against the President of US, which in itself speaks of your irrational thinking..

it's like you're not a Meryl Streep anti but on a side note sick of her being nominated every year (aka thinks she's overrated) lol

I think she's a great actress, but most times than not her films are not great films. Her unwillingness to work with directors who would challenge her is her biggest mistake. But I can appreciate the diversity of her work, and when it works it works beautifully. I don't know why she was singled out. Many of her films have not been box office smashes, especially those she was nominated for. Many are modest hits, with a few blockbusters scattered throughout her career. I always wondered why her and not, say, Sigourney Weaver or Glenn Close from the same time Streep came into the scene, why did Streep garner so much praise and so much accolades from award groups. It's not as if she was everywhere in terms of publicity. Like Katherine Hepburn before I guess we just got use to her being around for so long that it would seem odd to shun her now. But no, her nominations for The Post, Florence Foster Jenkins, Julie and Julia, and Into the Woods were not warranted (the more recent of her nominations). She was fine in them, nothing against her work, but not worthy of a nomination.

Josh V IMO, Weaver (despite being a great actress) hasn't been as versatile and consistent as Close or Streep.. Also, I feel Meryl deserved the nomination for The Post and Julie&Julia, infact she was more favoured to win for the latter than Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side.. And I also think that an actress at her age doesn't have much opportunities to choose her directors and when she gets that opportunity with a good role, she has worked with challenging directors like Mike Nichols and Spielberg..

Agree. much like Leo DiCaprio should've won for Blood Diamond, and not what he did.

The world may never know the answer to that question.

Their shit scared of her that’s why!

Be kind rewind did a great video on Olivia Coleman winning over Glenn close back in 2019 and went in depth on Glenn’s constant lost. The conclusion was Glenn went up against winners who won based on industry politics and popularity like Cher beating had to do with moonstruck marking Cher’s official moment as a legit movie star/serious actress, Jodie foster winning over Glenn and Meryl Streep in 1989 had to do with that year being Jodie successful transition from child star to adulthood actress.

Martin Pascoe I think Usman is saying that because of her not winning for Rebecca, she was rewarded for Suspicion.

Some people feel this way about Jane Fonda winning for Klute; the year before she was nominated for "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" and feel she was given this award for Klute because she didn't win for "Horses." I feel this way about Paul Newman winning for "Color of Money," when the year before he gave a STUNNING performance for "The Verdict." Who won? Ben Kingsley for "Gandhi." Causes an argument for which is REAL acting, creating something from the ground up, or mimicry of a famous person?

@@Tazzy5 They Shoot Horses was TWO years before Klute, and she was fantastic in Klute. Her scenes with the therapist were ad-libbed.

@@bluedasher74 Correct. She was fantastic in both films.

Cher is a legend...its a joy to listen her singing or acting....long live dear....❤❤❤❤❤❤

I'm a big Gish fan, bummed she didn't get a nomination but happy she at least got an Honorary Oscar in the 70s.

It was actually, "The bitch invented [close-ups]:

Very true even Bette should have been nominated too as she was very good in it too. Pity it wasnt her last film as it would have been a fine swansong.

Bette should've been nominated imo.