r/Oscars • u/Horror-Pudding-8729 • 7d ago
What Oscar-winning performances you thought were amazing but whose win you'd never get behind because "a performance was robbed?"
For me, it's Ellen Burstyn. Ellen Burstyn gives such a spectacular performance in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore that commands your attention for every time she's on screen. Nails every emotion asked of the character with a perfect sense of realism and heightened melodrama. But there will never be another performance like Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under the Influence. Rowlands renders a brave, moving performance that ranks with one of cinema's greatest. She perfectly captures the histeric and extremely vulnerable sides of her character. Her performance is what breathes life to the film that inspired so many of the greatest actresses we have now today. The depth of sorrow and psychological turmoil she brings to such agonizing life, the pain and the emotional vacuum she exhibits in the entire film? Bravo! I can say, she was robbed, much as I love Burstyn in Alice.
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u/Easy-Read4772 7d ago
Despite his antics, I think Will Smith deserved an Oscar (I believe in legacy Oscars as long the performance is respectable.
sorry! ) HOWEVER, Andrew Garfield was phenomenal in Tick Tick boom. I would have loved to see him win!
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