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Most Undeserving Oscar Winners (Actors & Actresses)

posted 5 years ago by IrinaOma (648)
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Let's share our thoughts!

1. Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook (everyone was better than her)

2. Denzel Washington - Training Day (Russell Crowe was phenomenal in A Beautiful Mind. Denzel was nowhere near that good)

3. Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls (Rinko Kikuchi was 100x better in Babel)

4. Emma Stone - La La Land

5. Tommy Lee Jones - The Fugitive (He was great but there were some better and more memorable performances that year)

6. Cuba Gooding Jr. - Jerry Maguire (How could he win over stellar Edward Norton performance in Primal Fear?)

7. Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona

8. Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God (Sigourney Weaver was the real winner that year. She was fantastic in Aliens)

9. Jessica Lange - Blue Sky (Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon and Jodie Foster showed a way better acting in 1994)

10. Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady (Viola Davis and Glenn Close deserved the Oscar that year)

11. Alicia Vikander - The Danish Girl

12. Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote (I love this actor very much but Joaquin Phoenix was so amazing in Walk the Line)

13. Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (I'd give it to Anne Bancroft)

14. Cher - Moonstruck (It was a joke or what? Glenn Close is the real winner that year. Everyone was better than Cher)

15. Jean Dujardin - The Artist

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Yul Brynner - The King and I - 1956

[–] AmeriGirl26 (14411) 5 years ago

Just goes to show that the Academy not only has no taste in films, they have terrible judgement in who actually deserves the Oscars. Usually these people get such awards due to either playing someone insane, or being popular with the Academy itself. (Before his downfall, Weinstein made sucking up to the Academy an art form). Doesn't matter what actual movie-watchers think.

[–] lud (5930) 5 years ago

Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive - 1993.
BETTER PERFORMANCES: Ralph Fiennes(Schindler's List) , Leonardo DiCaprio(What's Eating Gilbert Grape) , Sean Penn(Carlito's Way) , Val Kilmer(Tombstone) , John Malkovich(In the Line On Fire)

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

5. Tommy Lee Jones - The Fugitive

Surely you jest! This was easily the most deserving performance that year, Mr. Jones was great playing Lieutenant Deputy...errr..the name escapes me right now but he was fantastic!

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Oh I respectfully disagree! Fiennes gave an iconic depiction of evil, DiCaprio was a revelation, Kilmer was career-best, even Malkovich was thoroughly enjoyable in a cartoonish-villain sort of way.

Tommy Lee was Tommy Lee. Gruff, abrupt and monotone. Nothing wrong with that, but nothing special about it either.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Lol if you look at my username here you'll see the joke I was trying to make. It really is one of my favorite movies though and I love Jones' performance.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Aaaaaah you got me... lol

[–] BillySlater (4241) 5 years ago

I love that movie too.

[–] Jones70 (6534) 5 years ago

Kilmer wasn't nominated that year.

[–] Jones70 (6534) 5 years ago

1. Jean Dujardin-The Artist
2. Henry Fonda- On Golden Pond
3. Roberto Benigni-Life is Beautiful
4. Kevin Spacey- American Beauty
5. Adrien Brody- The Pianist

[–] IrinaOma (648) 5 years ago

I think Brody was amazing in The Pianist but I agree with your top 4 choices

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 5 years ago

I agree with almost all of those.

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[–] IrinaOma (648) 5 years ago

Thank U

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 5 years ago

You're welcome.

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[–] nyctc7 (43609) 5 years ago

Beatrice Straight: "For the satirical film Network (1976), she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was on screen for five minutes and two seconds, the shortest performance to win an Academy Award for acting." - Wikipedia.

It was a good 5 minutes but not deserving of an Oscar.

[–] tcrum (31533) 5 years ago

I think the most well known flub was Marisa Tomei for my Cousin Vinny. I don't think anyone thinks that was Oscar worthy.

[–] IrinaOma (648) 5 years ago

Good acting from Marisa but not Oscar worthy