The Academy loves to award stars who they feel are long overdue. Natalie Wood was one of the last stars of the Hollywood studio system. She already had 3 nominations but no awards so does anybody think the Academy would have eventually given her one?
https://www.datalounge.com/thread/30514113-would-natalie-wood-have-ever-won-an-oscar-if-she-hadn-t-died-so-early-on-
Maybe, but she'd've needed something a hell of a lot better than Meteor or Brainstorming to do it.
shareTrue, but she would have gotten the role(s). Brainstorm is a fairly interesting movie. I think it has been overshadowed by the fact that it was on this set that she met Christopher Walken and all of the rumors surrounding Walken, Wagner, and her death in Nov. 1981. But I think she was a very talented actress (from girlhood on) and she would have gotten a meaty enough role to garner an Oscar in the '80's or '90's. At the very least she would have gotten a Lifetime Achievement Oscar in her 70's or 80's had she lived (and not won an Academy Award in her 40's, 50's, or 60's. I think one problem she suffered was that she was always viewed as more of a movie star than an actress. That was not fair, and doubly unfair was the fact that she did not have the majority of her 40's and 50's to rise above that prejudice.
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