Honestly I don't think it was really a bad performance at all, and I have no problem with her win. But the Academy saw her interrogation scene, most of which was done with no cuts, and were thouroughly impressed with Bergman's work. She was also sick at the time, which helped her tally up more votes.
Do youu think she deserved her Oscar?
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It was a fine performance but I really don't think it was Oscar worthy. If anyone from this movie deserved and Oscar I think it would have to be John Gielgud. He turned in a great performance.
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I think what happened is similar to the circumstances surrounding Katherine Hepburn’s fourth win in 1982. None of the nominated ladies could muster much enthusiasm from voters and sentiment and her reputation inevitably pushed Bergman to the win. Cortese was in a foreign language film, Kahn was in a comedy, Ladd had the TV actress stigma, Shire did hardly anything, and two-time winner Bergman had very short screentime but she had advantages the other four hadn’t. If Valerie Perrine had got in here instead of in lead (she won two big supporting actress critics awards) then she would have given Bergman a run for her money, maybe even have gone on to win.
Bergman is certainly decent and does a lot in her interrogation scene but the win was undeserved.
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Absolutely. She nailed it. It was like Beatrice Straight in Network.
Miss Jean Louise? Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
Who knows why; those couple of minutes of mousy muttering under her breath sure shouldn't have earned her any awards.
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No. Actually all three of her Oscars came for mediocre work. And there was no reason other than sentimentality to value her performance in this film above those of Bacall, Redgrave, Hiller, and Roberts. And the academy seems to think playing someone "slow" is in itself a reason to give someone an Oscar.
shareWell, if they had not awarded her a 3rd Oscar for this role, I believe that she would likely have won a lead Oscar for her greatest performance in "Autumn Sonata"
No.
The nomination itself is baffling, let alone the win.
Valentina deserved it more.
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But the Academy saw her interrogation scene, most of which was done with no cuts, and were thouroughly impressed with Bergman's work.The fact that Ingrid Bergman's interrogation scene is one continuous take is not impressive on her part. She didn't have to do a lot of complicated movement or super-dramatic emoting. The scene is only about five minutes long, if even that, and is just a conversation between two people sitting at a table. Any good actor should be able to pull that off well in one take - especially one who's had stage experience, which Bergman did (in fact she was appearing in a play in London at the time this film was shooting).