Well, she also won in the 70s for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore when it should have gone to Gina Rowlands for A Woman Under the Influence. Shit happens.
I can the Oscars is a popularity contest now and yea on 2001 she by far was the only choice to win her leading ladies did not even cone close in fact I can’t even remember who the f won on 2001 all I remember is her as sara .
Actually i disagree. I doubt Harvey would have helped her since she turned down his advances and her then boy friend Brad Pitt threatened to kick his ass.
Bc historically the Academy awards ingenue in their 20’s over seasoned actresses. It plays out so many times. ( ie Grace Kelly over Judy Garland, Emma Stone over Isabelle Huppert, JLaw over Emanuelle Riva ( although I can understand that win) and possibly Gaga over Glenn Close( although I think both are very worthy performances), and even the resulting tie between Barbra and Katherine Hepburn.
Jennifer had the Harvey Weinstein company in her corner advocating for her win. And Emma Stone had history in her favor, the academy has always favored musicals so it's actually not a surprise that she won.
Absolutely 100%. It still to this day and it will always disgust me Paltrow winning over a powerhouse performance of Blanchett's Elizabeth. Blanchett over the years proved to be a much better actress. Gwyneth was never nominated again.
@@marklesterandriecruzet255 I just mean neither of there careers are over and so more awards are possible. Blanchett is 50 and Paltrow will be 47 later this month.
Blanchett should definitely have won. I do think Paltrow deserved to be nominated (and should have been nominated again for Proof some years later) but the entire Shakespeare In Love oscars was bizarre.
@@goodbadbill You are right on both, I think Helen was riding on all those Emmy wins for M.A.Y. I went and re-watched AGAIN, and agree, some of her scenes were heart-wrenching so I can see why she won. Also the other 4 nominees were non-Americans which may have helped.
Ha! I posted twice. I just have never gotten over the fact that Burstyn lost to Roberts. Don't. Get me wrong, Julia Roberts is a perfectly fine actress but there is no way she wins over Ellen Burstyn in Requiem....
a total joke that Julia Roberts won an Oscar - she cant and didnt compare with the exceptional performance of Ellen Burstyn - what a terrible error shameful academy
Julia Roberts has been making movies since the late 80's. She has 5 hits under her belt in all that time. Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride, Notting Hill, My Best Friend's Wedding and Erin Brockovich. I can remember a few days before the debut of "My Best Friend's Wedding", film critic Gene Shallit, said this better be a hit, because she hasn't had one in 5 yrs, and if it isn't her career wouldn't be going anywhere any longer.
It was one of Julia's stronger performances but Ellen's in "Requiem for a Dream" is a mind-blower. In fact Burstyn said originally she didn't want the role because she knew it was going to be a rough ride emotionally. But Darren Aronovsky convinced her to do it and she more than rose to the challenge. Ellen Burstyn really should have won.
I watched both requiem and erin but the one tht I like to watch over and over is Erin, mybe the script and Julia performance is worth wtching. Sarcactic, funny, fearless, intelligent, motherly .. Ellen was fntastic emotionally but I personally think the character was lack of personality and variations.
Oprah Winfrey (The Color Purple) was absolutely robbed of her Oscar. It seems these academy awards are more of a beauty/popularity contest most often than not.
@@jameswalton3930 It was solid, but nobody except film buffs remembers Bancroft's performance. Davis turned Baby Jane into an iconic character, arguably the greatest ever screen performance, totally avant garde. High art, bigger than just cinema.
Ellen Burstyn actually scared me the first time I saw her tranformation. Such a great movie which I label as a horror because drugs/alcohol can do wonders when it comes to fucking up lives.
Sissy Spacek In the Bedroom was a performance only a master of their craft could do..Halle Berry won for a soft core screaming performance. Complete injustice. Spacek's performance for that movie is still taught and admired in acting classes
What really upsets me is that Judy Garland, AN ICON, was waiting in the HOSPITAL for they to call her name that night but they just didn't 🤦♂️. Her performance in A Star Is Born was incredible!
Jennifer Lawrence winning over Emmanuelle Riva still hurt's me, and sadly it would've been a beautiful recognition award for her career before she have passed. Larence have plenty time ahead to improve and proves she deserve and honestly her role wasn't even the second best that year.
As a doctor myself, I feel Jennifer Lawrence did justice to the character with her nuanced and well-articulated performance, and it deserved to be awarded...
I agree. That is her best performance of her entire career. It's a travesty overall that she has 8 Oscar nominations and ZERO wins it bugs me to this day wtf.
It’d be nice if the Academy gave awards to deep, complicated roles rather than the most buzz worthy ones. More proof that money talks even in the art world.
Meryl Streep deserved to win for "Doubt"; Judy Garland should have won for "A Star is Born"; Liz Taylor should have won for "Suddenly, Last Summer", but DID win for "Virginia Wolf" Glen Close should have won for "Fatal Attraction AND "The Wife"; It happens a lot that an actress/actor wins an Oscar for a role she/he was less great in than one they were nominated and lost for. The Judy Garland loss to Grace Kelly is still remembered and talked about today in Hollywood.
Are you implying that Ms. Taylor’s performance in “Virginia Woolf” was less great than her performance in “Suddenly, Last Summer” ??? Her performance in “Virginia Woolf” isn’t only considered to be her best ever, but also one of the best performance ever in cinema history… Also, I disagree about Garland, because Grace Kelly deserved her Oscar and in fact won all the precursor awards that season, so it wasn’t anything shocking/surprising…
Totally agree with this list. Wasted Oscar votes for Helen Hunt, Reese and Gwyneth. They have all done negligible film work since. Felicity in Transamerica and Ellen Burstyn in Requiem were astonishing. I would have favored Jessica Chastain over Jennifer Lawrence myself.
Hi I just subscribed! Nice video. I met Cate after a performance of ‘Plenty’ in May 1999 in London (Fresh off Oscar loss) and as a headstrong 23yo waiting for an autograph, I told her “she was better than Gwyneth.” And she replied with grace, “Oh no...there is no competition.” She said it as if she was cool with it all. She’s the best.
@Fly by night It absolutely sucked and made it very gratifying when Cate won her Oscar for "The Aviator." She should have gotten the Best Actress statuette though.
Glenn Close was brilliant in Fatal Attraction and Dangerous Liaisons and should have won for both but the Academy members are stupid- they won’t reward an exceptional performance if the character isn’t a loveable heroine or victim of crime. Emma Stone winning over Isabelle Huppert in Elle was just insane.
Not always. Maggie Smith deservedly won for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" playing a very a less than loveable character who brought on her own victimization.
Emma didn't deserve the win, but neither did Huppert, who had way better performances on her belt. Amy Adams should have won that year, if not her then Ruth Negga or Natalie Portman.
BIGGEST MISTAKE: 1981....Mary Tyler Moore did not get the oscar for Ordinary People....she was amazing!! Sissy Spacek did a great job....but Moore's performance was a perfect 10!!!
Well Mia farrow I think is the most underrated actress in Hollywood ,she should have won for Rosemary's baby,nominated for broadway danny rose ,and purple rose of Cairo
OMG, this list is about as accurate as it gets---my sentiments EXACTLY!! The Gwyneth Paltrow and Helen Hunt wins are so mind-boggling---Helen can't even get a small role these days!! Halle Berry's win in 2002 might seem somewhat "political" bc people in Hollywood were bitching no woman of color ever won Best Actress, so that seemed like a good time to give it. Nicole's win in 2003 was compensation for her loss the previous year for Moulin Rouge, she really deserved it more for Moulin Rouge than she did for The Hours.
Even before I clicked on the video, I was like "I bet Cher for Moonstruck is gonna be on here since everyone fights for Glenn Close" since half of the people commented how Glenn Close should have won on Cher's Oscar speech vid.
KrueMann1992 Nobody saw that movie "Anna", but anyone who did will NOT forget Sally Kirkland. I don't cry watching movies, but Sally moved me to tears! Cher had half of Hollywood pulling for her, Glenn and Sally didn't stand a chance.
luis grant I agree but I feel for Close. She has been ignored for so long by the academy and Streep gets nominated every year. If Streep sneezes she will get an Oscar nomination. Hollywood politics.
100% agreed about Felicity Huffman, Judy Garland, Glenn Close, and Ellen Burstyn. I love Cher, but she was nowhere near the utter beauty of Glenn Close!
Close is obviously a better actress than Cher, but I really enjoyed Cher in "Moonstruck." The film has a magical quality that few movies do, and that can't happen unless the star of the film also isn't a bit magical/charming in the role. She pulled it off, so it's hard for me to hate. Perhaps I'm biased since I'm Italian-American lol.
Emma Stone (lalaland) over Isabelle Hupert (Elle) Julianne Moore (Still Alice) over Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) Brie Larson (the Room ) over Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn) Geraldine Page (TheTrip To Bountiful) Over Whoopi Goldberg (Color Purpure ) Frances Mcdormand (Fargo) over Brenda Blettyn (Secret and lies ) Faye Dunaway (Network ) over Sissy Spacek ( Carrie) Jodie Foster (The Acussed) over Glenn Close (Dangerous liaisons)
oacaparov I so don't think Nicole Kidman deserved an Oscar as her performance as Satin wasn't that riveting. Sorry. But then again thsts just my opinion
The one that isn't listed is the classic one were Joan Crawford actively campaigne against "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane". Joan not only successfuly sidelined Bette's Best Actress Oscar, she also accepted for Anne Bancroft who won for The MIracle Worker.
Despite Joan's spitefulness, Anne Bancroft deserved to win that Oscar for THE MIRACLE WORKER. In fact, Anne's portrayal of Annie Sullivan goes down for me as THE BEST performance - most deserving - to win THE BEST ACTRESS OSCAR. I had to watch it come to that conclusion. See her and judge for yourself!
Chris N Joan didn’t have that kind of influence, all she did was ask the nominees who couldn’t attend to the ceremony if she could accept the award on their behalf, Anne Bancroft and Geraldine Page both agreed, Bette was the favourite, but favourites don’t always win, in many ocasiones they split votes with another one and then a third one wins, Bette was so shocked she didn’t win that she convinced herself and everyone that Joan Crawford had campaigned against her.
I actually think it would have been great if Judy Garland and Dorothy Dandridge had tied that year. Both gave stellar performances, Judy in "A Star Is Born" and Dorothy in "Carmen Jones."
Emmanuelle Riva went above and beyond in that film in that Haneke made. If that wasn't the most daring and fearless perfomance to be worth an Oscar, nothing has been worth an Oscar.
Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a day is fantastic and she is such a dear wonderful lady America can be so proud of. God bless her and give her health and joy.
I always thought that Barbara Stanwyck should have won in 1944 for 'Double' Indemnity' over Ingrid Bergman for 'Gaslight'. Even though I adore Bergman.
I agree with many of the “mistakes” on this list. Jodie Foster in “The Accused” over Glenn Close in “Dangerous Liaisons” was also a mistake IMHO, as was Marlee Marlin in “Children of a Lesser God” over Sigourney Weaver in “Aliens.” It’s all Monday morning quarterbacking, and we non-voters don’t get caught up in the politics.
@@Loulou-sr3tk You're right, just in a different film. Geraldine was given that Oscar purely because she had been nominated so many times without a win.
Most people who think Whoopi should've won have never bothered to see Page in A Trip to Bountiful. I never thought Whoopi was the best actress in her own movie. I thought that honor went to Margaret Avery. Imo
@@josephcarlisle1943 I agree. I've seen both movies, and A Trip to Bountiful just didn't move me. Which has withstood the test of time? I really think The Color Purple and Whoopi's performance were far more moving and inspiring. Geraldine Page's Oscar was like Paul Newman's for The Color of Money... overdue Oscar-syndrome
I completely agree that Judy got ripped off. I'm not sure Grace Kelly even deserved to be nominated. The famous dressing room scene alone should have won her the Oscar. She got hosed.
Unfortunately it can be a popularity contest and Judy had burned a few bridges over the years due to the drug issues I think that played into it and yes Judy was totally 💯 robbed
This is brilliant. Thank you fr sharing your opinions and thank you for calling out the Grace Kelly/Judy Garland debacle. As Groucho Marx said the nght after those Oscars: "This was the biggest robbery since Brinx!"
I really wish Glenn had won for "Dangerous Liaisons" too. I loved John Malkovich in it but Glenn's performance is the one I really remember and still notice when I watch it.
Sure, but that doesn't mean there are absolutely no criteria to evaluate levels of skill and effort. I also think I can see a tendency to shy away from "extreme" or edgy performances in favor of - to put it bluntly - vanilla performances.
Going farther back, I would have awarded the 1946 Oscar to Jennifer Jones for "Duel in the Sun." Her role was demanding and transformative compared to winner Olivia de Havilland for "To Each His Own."
Viola is amazing. She wows me every time. She had 15 minutes in "Doubt" as Mrs. Miller and she did the next-to-impossible; she stole a scene right away from Meryl Streep.
Bette Davis should've won for 'All about Eve' (maybe a tie with Gloria Swanson would've been fair) and/or ' What ever happened to Baby Jane', Judy Garland for 'A star is born' and Glenn Close for 'Fatal attraction'!
I just watched Carrie the other day. Sissy Spacek should have won the oscar. Piper Laurie as her mother was equally great. That crazy red hair also deserved a nomination. Fun to watch.
YES!!! Groucho Marx hit the nail on the head in his condolence telegram he sent to Judy stating her loss was the “greatest loss since Brink’s” (referring to the 1950 “Great Brinks Robbery”). Judy’s performance is nothing short of a tour de force!!
Eve S. Sadly we will never know what impact her winning could have had in her. I worry that the damage might have already been too far gone by that point. Such a tragic story...,she had basically ONE person on her side growing up (Mikey Rooney) and he had his own issues he couldn’t defend her like he could have...
They keep on robbing Ellen Burstyn wtf...her portrayal in Requiem was so complex only a thespian and a great actress as she is can deliver...absolutely aslo agree on Fecility Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett...and my golly give Glenn Close an Oscar will yah!..
I know a lot of it is subjective (comparing different performances in different roles), but I also do not see how Helen Hunt, Reese Witherspoon, Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock and Cher got Oscars for those performances. I don't agree about Glenda Jackson, though. That win is surprising to me only because the lead Oscar seldom goes to an actress for a comedic role. I think she was incredible (also in the dramatic moments), and she probably got the most votes because she showed how skilled she could be in a role completely different from anything else she had done. Some of the movie is a bit hokey, but she rose above that.
The Academy has biases on their own. In 1967 it says Katharine Hepburn (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner) won over Faye Dunaway. I have not seen Dunaway's movie. But I saw another nominee, Audrey Hepburn in Wait Until Dark. I can tell that Audrey's performance is 100 times better than Katharine.
I have to disagree with the Halle Berry entry. All the actresses in this category that were excellent, but Halle deserved that Oscar. Her performance was amazing and extended far beyond the few minutes of the love scene with Billy Bob Thornton. She fought for that role and put her heart and soul into that role. The scene alone when she discovered that Billy Bob's character was the guard who participated in her husband's execution ran the gamut of every emotion one could feel. JMO
Thank you I so agree she did two really great performances just about then monsters ball and introducing Dorothy Dandrige about another Oscar nominee who in her case was robbed of the Oscar
@@kellicoffman8440 actually, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge was a TV movie and Halle was nominated for and won the Emmy for lead actress. That was definitely another well deserved award as well.
Yes she had a couple of more Oscar worthy performances mask is definitely one of them and I happen to love moonstruck and her performance in in but I agree
@@keitherickson4523udy had a small part it’s true in Shakespeare in love but she truly did a stand out performance in those few minutes. I never felt it was undeserved but I also agree she was great in mrs brown
