***** NIcole Kidman sure has come along way after her divorce she wins an oscar and she has proven herself to be quite an actress! I am so happy for her! She was nominated for Moulin Rouge in 2001
***** I hope you're being sarcastic. "Underrated"? Let's see... She has been given an Academy Award for Best Actress--considered to be the highest honour an actress in the American film industry can receive. That alone is enough for me to prove Kidman isn't underrated, but I'll go on... In addition to the Oscar award, Kidman has received an additional two Academy Award nominations, two Golden Globe awards and a BAFTA. At her peak, Kidman was getting paid more than 17 million dollars per film (notice I said "getting paid", because it's not the same as "earning", which she doesn't). She gets publicity even when she's NOT making movies, which helps with her exposure and, by extension, negotiating-table power. She gets to be in all sorts of movies she doesn't deserve to be in. She even has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Do you know how many people more deserving than Nicole Kidman do NOT have a star on the Walk? Dustin Hoffman. Denzel Washington. David Lynch. Clint Eastwood. Wait, let me says that again: CLINT EASTWOOD! More than fifty years in films, director of two Academy Award winners for Best Picture, right up there with John Wayne as one of the most iconic actors of all time...NO STAR! Also, Kate Winslet only got her star just last year (FIVE YEARS after winning an Oscar...Nicole Kidman got her star BEFORE she even got an Oscar!) despite the fact she has long been a bigger box office draw than Kidman. Glenda Jackson, TWO TIME Oscar winner for Best Actress...no star! Jon Voight doesn't have a star, either, ditto his daughter, Angelina Jolie--and they're both Oscar winners, too. Julie Christie has no star. JULIE CHRISTIE! She won an Oscar before Kidman was born...and KIDMAN gets a star? What complete bullshit. I can only hope Julie Christie doesn't mind. Warren Beatty doesn't have one, either--geez, who did those two upset back in the day? Also, the part of Kidman's speech from 2:38 is possibly the biggest load of self-serving bullshit I've ever heard. No, the Oscars ceremony is NOT about "art". It's about a bunch of overpaid celebrities patting themselves on the back, sometimes undeservedly so. By mentioning the "turmoil" of the world, and attempting to excuse herself for attending the Academy Awards with all the "wars" going on, all she's doing is trivialising those problems, and sounding totally insulting at the same time. I wish Paddy Chayefsky had been there to cut her down to size. For fuck's sake, couldn't she just say "thank you", take the overpriced doorstop, and piss off back to her seat? You know what Clark Gable said when he won his Oscar? "Thank you"...and that was all. Weren't Oscar recipients told several years before Kidman's win to cease and desist from "political comment" when accepting an Oscar? I guess when your name is Nicole Kidman, you get a free pass. The band should've drowned her out. And no, the tradition doesn't need to go on. Marlon Brando refused his second Oscar, as did George C Scott with his only Oscar win. Woody Allen has won four Academy Awards (over the course of three ceremonies) and wasn't there to accept ANY of them. The Oscars aren't so important as many believe. Hey, great if you get one, and some Oscar gongs were VERY well-deserved, but please, don't act like you've just saved a friggin' rain forest. Films were made before the Oscars. Film would still be made even if the Oscars were to disappear. And Kidman has the audacity to consider herself an "artist"? How can she be any sort of artist in the world of acting when her face has all the suppleness of a Bakelite dish? You need to look up the word "underrated" in the dictionary. Nicole Kidman is quite possibly the most OVERRATED actress in Hollywood.
Underrated as in likability by general US moviegoers. She hasn't been getting the good roles as of late and it took more than a decade to start finally getting those roles at her peak. Underrated isn't always about what you win. Because people have won that are overrated. Denzel to name one.
***** If US audiences are staying away from her films, maybe it's because they're finally wising up to the fact she's not as great as the media would have us believe. She's been getting roles in films since day one. Cuddling up to Tom Cruise to advance her career didn't hurt. Also, the second half of your post makes no sense. "Underrated isn't always about what you win"? I never said it was. Being underrated is about what you DON'T win, and as I said, Nicole Kidman has won MANY awards. Hence, she cannot be "underrated". You also said "people have won who are overrated". Well, now you're talking about overrated, which is the opposite of underrated, so I don't see how that's relevant. Yes, OF COURSE people who are overrated win awards. That's usually how you know they are overrated. Nicole Kidman won an Oscar. Not the great actress everyone thinks she is. Even if her Oscar-winning performance was Oscar-worthy, one great performance doesn't a career make. Overrated.
'Nicole Kidman' had only 27-min to own the screen in THE HOURS and I think she made every minute into a "masterpiece". Everybody knows how excellent the station scene was. Bravo, 'Nic'!
+Sami Brady Everybody is entitled to his or her opinion. And it's everybody's right. You can argue. As I already told you under 'Holly Hunter' OSCAR® speech video, I'll always respect other people's opinion. But at the end of the day, it was 'Nicole' who won not only OSCAR®, also Golden Globes, BAFTA, Silver Berlin Bear, and many more. Btw, one piece of advice, writing your opinion under other people's comments doesn't make your opinion a fact. Good day, mate.
1. Nicole Kidman 2. Naomi Watt 3. Charlie Theron Wow wow remember on those year these 3 celebrities had so many people who had a crushed on them . Also now we had 1. Emma Watson 2. Kristen Stewart 3. Margot Robbie
Haha, that was the Adrien Brody effect, cause before Denzel announced best actress, Hallee Berry presented the Oscar to Brody, who kissed her very passionatley, which became a very famous moment later, so I guess Nicole wanted to get the same experience. And who could blame her, it's Denzeeeel. :P
She deserved to win. Her best performance up to date and one of the greatest of the century. She just turned into Virginia Woolf and playing a bipolar and depressed character like she did is not easy. She was so natural and the train station scene is just out of this world.
Lil Jay salma was miscast,as natalie portman in jackie,they don't nothing alike like characters who played,that is why they didn't win,nicole was amazing as virginia woolf that is why she won
Nicole Kidman is truly a wonderful actress. She completely embodied Virginia Woolf and made the viewers feel her discomfort. A difficult and daring role.
100%. I saw her on stage in London one. She looked like a million bucks. Tall, slender, model-like, with glowing skin. Everyone in the audience GASPED as she walked onto the stage. Never seen a more beautiful human being in my entire life (and I'm a gay man, so I'm not interested in her sexually at all). She is breahtaking.
I watched The Hours again last night, and I think the Academy got it so right with this one. Nicole melted away and Virginia Woolf came out instead. It gave me goosebumps, and tears at different moments in the story. She has a huge emotional depth, and it shows in her performance as something both raw and true to the essence of Woolf.
Well said, Timothy Cole. Her acceptance speech was quite lovely, it reminded me that despite the tawdry aspects of Hollywood, these people are artists, and she is an artist who honours and respects her craft. She was bloody good in The Hours. She gave expression to some deep and important emotional truths about what it is to be human. Of course it was deserved. All the other actors deserved it, too, that was a fine collection of films. But the jury of her peers in the craft respected her performance the best, and that says it all.
Nicole Kidman has great acting in The Hours. She is the first Australian to win the Academy Award for Best Actress. First Australian to be nominated in this category more than once, and in consecutive years, the first Australian to win Best Actress, and the first win for a female Australian in a Biography.
A classy woman who knows how to treat people...who can laugh at herself and who takes her job seriously but not to the point of being self-important. I absolutely adore her. And she is killing it on BLL
That was one of the toughest Oscar nominees to pick... the 5 of them were brilliant on their performances. But of course I was so happy that Nicole achieved it! Well deserve, Nicole!
Nicole is one of the bravest and most interesting actresses in the world. She easily could have 10 nominations but the academy for some reason hate her. 1. To die for 2. Eyes wide shut 3. Dogville 4. Birth 5. Margot at the wedding 6. Stoker 7. The paperboy +the three she scored. A true legend.
Julianne Moore was amazing in Far From Heaven, as well as in The Hours. She's so talented and beautiful. To me, she was the best and the most touching character in the Hours. She should have won for these two films.
This year was one of the strongest year of acting, Julianne may have a great chance this year--about time! Maybe everyone who has seen the Hours has a favorite, all three leading ladies were brilliant. But I do think that the Academy made the right decision, what Nicole did in The Hours was magical to me.
laura Silveria Great comments about Virginia Woolf. I've read nearly all of her published work and many biographies. Considering the suffering she went through in her life it's remarkable that she lasted as long as she did. Though she had an ethereal appearance and wasn't a physically strong person Virginia Woolf was made of iron. You might be interested in the book "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell--Cyclothymia in the Life of Virginia Woolf" by Peter Dally, 1996. I believe the author is a psychiatrist so he may be listed as Dr. Peter Dally.
Totally agree! On Hollywood you have big actors but they always play the same character with the same personality. There is no challenge, no brave in doing this... But Nicole Kidman (for example) plays everything and it's very risky and show how talented she is and that she is a real actress.
She talks about struggling with being shy in the past, which is called social anxiety. I don't think Mr. Cruise was very understanding, you could see how uncomfortable she was at times with him.
My comment, my right. But that’s not what she wants to do, nor is her “face” her largest talent. She’s a serious actor & massively talented. A lot of people struggle with social anxiety and it doesn’t matter what you look like.
SALMAS'S face is everything..... dammmm beautiful , Great year for the female performances in a leading role... Julianne, Salma, Nicole, Diane were all great and each one deserved an oscar!!!
Diane Lane is always overlooked. She should have won for Unfaithful. Far From Heaven was a beautiful film as well, and Julianne Moore gave my favorite of her performances, opposite Dennis Haysbert.
She later said the night the won, as she sat in her hotel with the golden statue, it was the loneliest she's ever felt. You can see that deep sadness, even in this speech. So glad she's doing better now
Nicole was even more amazing in some of her previous movies (TO DIE FOR, EYES WIDE SHUT, THE OTHERS and MOULIN ROUGE!), but still I was so happy when she became an Oscar winner!
@@bijaysunuwar5078 Yes! The movie left me cold, but she was great in it. And let's not forget Lion, Paddington, Rabbit Hole and Cold Mountain - all good films. I also loved her performance in Destroyer and The Paperboy, although those movies didn't quite reach their full potential.
I remember watching the film when i was 14. I was amazed by Kidman and Moore's performances. I felt the affliction of the characters, I felt so much like them... I have to thank them! Kidman deserved this Oscar so so much!
I was so happy for her. She really deserved to win. Her performance was absolutely amazing. It was not a shallow imitation (like many actors do when they play historical figures), but true acting.
+Charlie Firefly Julianne Moore finally got an oscar She was long over due and she made it and I was so happy with Kate Winslet as well when she won for Best Actress in The Reader*** They both were long overdue and good actresses
+Sami Brady Don't you ever have anything nice to say? You never think anyone who wins deserves to. You just like to bash the Oscars. This is getting to be fun, though.
If you like Kidman in The Hours, check out her other best performances: 1. Moulin Rouge! 2. To Die For 3. Big Little Lies 4. Dogville 5. The Others 6. The Paperboy 8. Eyes Wide Shut 9. Being the Ricardos 10. Destroyer Honorable mentions: Rabbit Hole, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Birth, Margot at the Wedding, Cold Mountain, The Undoing
Loved her in hours.I am a typical Indian teenager I didn't even know her before 2021, then I saw the hours and I became her biggest fan. The hours is a masterpiece. And I like to die for, moulin rouge and lion.
She also was hysterical funny in comedy Just Go with It ;) i guess because of all this tension of hers, which was just brought to the point of absurdity in that movie. i was always amazed how similar Tom and Nicole are... he's also so f tense
kacper xyx She didn’t at this point. She’d win supporting in Cold Mountain as something of a consolation prize for this loss. She’s about to win another one, this time a deserved Lead Actress win for Judy.
As a Mexican I’m happy to see mrs Salma Hayek Pinault to be nominated that’s something nobody’s gonna take it away from her resentment, to take Frida’s life history to screen it’s just amazing👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Ok, who all is here after seeing Nicole in Being the Ricardos? As of this writing, she just won the Golden Globe for Lead Actress in a Drama, and I'll go out on a limb and say Nicole is on her way to Oscar #2! I know, Kristen Stewart has been the front-runner for a while now, but I think the momentum is shifting towards Ms Kidman! We'll see... 🥰
Emily Davenport It's critics who give out these awards in the first place. And like it or not, the most important critics are the general public. They are the working class Joes who work 40 hours per week, go to the movies for entertainment, and whose meagre wages, collectively, pay for the overblown salaries of Hollywood stars, so damn right people are entitled to have their say. And as somebody who watches thousands of hours of movies per year, from all sorts of different countries and decades, genres and styles, not just what came out five seconds ago from Hollywood, I can tell you, Nicole Kidman does NOT rate as one of the finest actresses I've seen. The problem I have with comments like yours, Emily, is every single day, people complain about the train company not running a train on time, lousy service at restaurants from underpaid wait staff, bad connections from the telephone company, incompetent teachers who have to deal with horrible brats five days per week...the WORKING PERSON is fair game, and nobody defends them. But when Nicole Kidman has a few critics (justifiably) slamming her for being a lousy, overpaid "actress", people jump to her defence...like she really needs it. Imagine how much better the world would be if folks like yourself defended their fellow "common people"--the train driver, the waiters and waitresses, the telephone operator, the school teacher, et al, with the same enthusiasm you reserve for defending poor little bitty Nicole Kidman. The world would be a much happier place. But this is the world we have: we go ga-ga over a no-talent like Nicole Kidman, and waste all our criticism on the "common people". I'm not saying you're guilty of above-mentioned sins, Emily--maybe you are, maybe you aren't, but the fact is 99 percent of people ARE like this. So I say if people must be critical, LET THEM be critical of fakes and phonies such as Nicole Kidman. I'd much rather live in a world where people take out their frustrations on overprivileged, self-serving dipshits like Nicole Kidman, instead of being rude to the person on the street. I see it everyday--the mindless worship of "celebrities" who ain't worth celebrating, and the heartless contempt folks have for their fellow "common people". And if all this sounds overly deep, well, you caught me in a serious mood. And regardless of what you may think, what I've said above is truer and deeper and coming from a more honest place than that absolutely fake bullshit that Kidman dribbles from her snake-venom pumped lips and all over her grossly overpriced gown starting from 2:38 of this video. So amen to THAT, true believers.
MisterObjectivity I understand what you mean about over worshipping celebrities, but for me the world would be a far nicer place without so much negativity and cynicism towards others in general. For me, there is no difference between the person on the street, the train driver, and Nicole Kidman - they're humans and so should be treated with kindness. Nicole Kidman, privileged or not, is not responsible for every struggle of the working man. And if someone wins something, it'd be nice if people were just pleased for them rather than the overwhelming wave of hateful comments we see on RU-vid. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, it's just a shame so many possess such cruel opinions.
Emily Davenport Wonderfully stated! We ALL know the drill when we sign into Youber Tubers...too often there seems to be more negativity then ever and also it appears to me that the negativity is said with much more venom...almost as if that individual is "railing against the world" and Nicole Kidman is "Today's Special" on the BBQ Menu! I just side step the ones who seen hell bent on letting everyone else know that THEIR OPINION is the only one that matters. Cheers and Stay Strong!!
MisterObjectivity Those people that you talk about also keep employed Adam Sandler and Michael Bay. Being the average Joe Moviegoer doesn't exactly give one knowledge about acting or film in general. I don't think Kidman deserved this Oscar to be honest (not over Julianne Moore) but I can tell you she DOES rate as one of the finest actresses out there. Her filmography has been meh and disappointing lately but, well, it happens to the best...
Nicole's performance in the hours was astonishing she absolutely deserved it!! just as a side note: Renée Zellweger's performance in Chicago was amazing too! well, every performance that year was incredible actually now that I see the other nominees i have forgotten lol whole lotta great female talent! blessings
Kidman was nice and wanted to seem abreast of the world situation back then, of course she couldn't have possibly known that the world was not in as much turmoil as it was going to be in about 20 years later, especially from 2020 to 2025, with Covid19, the Myanmar civil war, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Israel-Hamas war, the many earthquakes in different countries, etc.,etc...❤
I love Nicole in the Hours, exquisite work. But I can't help thinking about Julianne's missing Oscar! She's such an amazing actress, she was incredible in The Hours as well and in Far from heaven. Give her one damn Oscar bloody academy!!
She should have won that year as Supporting as the Hours, and should have been nominated and won also for Magnolia in 1999. It's a shame that an actress like her doesn't have an Oscar already.
hermione00801 I agree with The Others stuff, her perfomance in that movie was a masterpiece of acting and it's a real shame that she didn't get a nomination. The pain, the fear and all the emotions of her characters were absolutely real, such an underrated perfomance just for being in an movie about haunting house. Anyway, I think this Oscar is 100% deserved. Kidman is by far one of the best actresses of her generation and her transformation, the way she became Woolf, the way she was able to understand and show all the emotional conflict of such a complicated woman was just brilliant. Despite my favourite perfomance of the movie (and one of my favourite perfomances EVER on the cinema) is Julianne's, Kidman was co-lead with Streep. Moore was the connection between that characters, but in my opinion, her performance was the stronger one. Flawless.
I need instructions about how Nicole Kidman's mother has raised her. Great Mother who had brought a great daughter to life. The beauty is another part of the issue . Oh Holy God.
Incredible! When I first saw the movie and saw the end credits and it said 'Nicole Kidman', I was like 'wait, what? where was she???' That never happened to me.
@@blackforest825 I was also like that only. On poster it was named Nicole but I was like "where is she? ".but I am obsessed with her since I watched her in that bird funeral scene.
