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If the Academy snubbs her...

posted 13 years ago by Louisville88
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Let me make sure I have all the facts...Glenn Close's pet project Albert Nobbs (which apparently hasn't made anything and received luke warm reviews) Has Close getting nominated left and right (for what they say isn't that great of a perfromance) and Janet McTeer (who is good, but it isn't anything too grand) is receiving the same...but the film has a lukewarm audience.

Then there's Coriolanus...Ralph Fiennes pet project which is receiving RAVE reviews and averages 92% on rottentomatoes.com in which everyone is praised but none more than Vanessa Redgrave and it's not going to get anything???

Vanessa Redgrave has been robbed of nominations for Camelot, The Devils, Wetherby, Prick Up Your Ears, Venus, Atonement and so help me if Coriolanus gets added...

The fact that she hasn't been nominated since 92 is a pure shame...yet the likes of Julia Roberts, Halle Berry, Reece Witherspoon, SANDRA BULLOCK, Jennifer Hudson (to name actresses) have not only been nominated...but WON! For lackluster perfroamnces.

I end with a review from Rollingstone: "Redgrave outdoes even her legendary self...her towering performance is a tour de force that carries the film to glory."

[–] Cindertech 13 years ago

As I am also a huge fan of Vanessa Redgrave I would like to say. Calm down! It is NO surprize to me that the Academy ,may, have 'snubbed' her. I have never seen the facination towards the academy awards. So long as Vanessa keeps bashing out work.. I am extreamly happy for her. She has proven in many films that she is just as talented as her peers and ,on occation, has been better. She already has won an Oscar. She's been there, done that. I like the fact that she only has one and that it was for Julia. It makes it more special,fought for and deserved. To be honest i get put off actors who win awards at the drop of a hat, you forget what there work was trying to say when it has been over shadowed by the Oscar.

Congratulations, when it comes, to this years winners but really!? Don't think Vanessa nor her family will be crying over it.

In relation to this topic, Lynn Redgrave?. Now DONT get me started!!!

[–] Louisville88 13 years ago

I have always fun Vanessa to be better than her peers...notelt bias, just ALWAYS fit and the Vanessa love keeps getting stronger. And now she has been snubbed...

Oh, yes, Lynn! I feel she should have won for Georgy Girl (beating Vanessa) and Gods and Monsters...when she shines, she SHINES!

Then Natasha, Asylum and The White Countess both screamed Oscar and both got nothing...

[–] Cindertech 13 years ago

I feel Elizabeth Taylor had to have won it.Vanessa and or Lynn i feel would have peaked to early if either had won.

A win for Lynn should have been for Gods and Monsters.. Judi Dench for her 8 mins in a film.. One of those actresses that IS amazing but bores me to tears! Judi just appears the same in every bloody thing. One of those moments in Academy history that proves its a racket!

Natasha.. I think there was still time for her. She had heated up but had simmered, preparing for her boil! Sadly we'll never know. No pressure Joely!

[–] Cindertech 13 years ago

By any chance, from one fan to another, Do you know where I could find a copy of Actors Studio in which Vanessa is guest!? Where I live they have shown it once. Annoyingly they dont tend to show the British actors studio's much in Britain.

Thank you Louisville88!

[–] Varla_Kicked_Ass 13 years ago

No pressure Joely!

Have you seen her in Sister My Sister? She was a revelation in that film.

Live your life. Forget your age.

[–] NoTripod 12 years ago

Could they still be holding a grudge 35 years later?

The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978)(TV)
April 3, 1978 Monday 10:00 PM

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271340/trivia

http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=academy+awards+1954&; p=2&item=T78:0414

This was the year in which the Academy Awards and Vanessa Redgrave collided over her political activism.
Over the previous year, Redgrave had been an outspoken supporter of the Palestinians and their struggle
to end their conflict with Israel. This made her a target of several Israeli militants and, on the evening of
the Academy Awards protests gathered outside the and burned the actress in effigy.
Redgrave had to be snuck in the back of an ambulance through a secret entrance to get her safely
into the theater. The fury didn't just happen outside; when Redgrave won Best Supporting Actress for Julia,
she used her acceptance speech as a promotion for her political beliefs, calling attention to "a small bunch
of Zionist hoodlums". Most people in the industry derided her for her comments and historians have cited
it as one of the lowest moments in the history of the Academy Awards. After the ceremony, Redgrave went
to dinner accompanied by her bodyguards and no one would speak to her.

notripod

...before the dark times, before the prequels.

[–] Louisville88 12 years ago

Cause they were cowards...I have this book on the Oscars and they said for her nomination in Mary, Queen of Scots she was told not to attend the ceremony because of political issues she was currently involved in. Everone was surprised when she was nominated in 85...they basically knew the race wasn't between 5 actresses but 4--there was no way in hell they were giving it to her so soon. And the insult in 92 is further proof!

[–] mit800 12 years ago

She`s no Lynn, who could play anything.

Dorothy stop that, Mr. Ha Ha`s lookin at you!!