If it wasn't for Julianne Moore

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Yes 100% per cent.

She was incredible in Gone Girl, she showed huge versatility and I really wanted her to win.

I'm happy for Julianne Moore don't get me wrong, she was amazing but to me Pike should've won.

As much as I wanted her to win, I don't think she would have been the frontrunner. Just based on Oscar history, dark roles in equally dark films that are played by women rarely win. Yes, the film had an enormous amount of critical acclaim and made a lot of money at the box office (more than any other film in the BA category.... combined) but it would have to overcome the unlikeable lead character and somewhat anti-female rhetoric that had been attached to the novel and thus the film. As a huge fan of the film (#1 of the year for me), I just don't see Pike winning. Blanchett winning for Blue Jasmine (my #1 film of 2013) is an interesting scenario in which she plays a highly unlikeable character who becomes sympathetic towards the end (the breakdown is heartbreaking) and it's a lighter/breezy comedy. Gone Girl is about as dark and bleak as they come. I compare it to one of my favorite films in recent years, Jason Reitman's Young Adult. That film (and Charlize Theron's delicious performance) did not register with the Academy at all. Why? Well, the female anti-hero does not change and a room full of old, white dudes aren't going to vote for that. Instead they vote for Glenn Close in Albert Nobbs lol.

What is your problem with her? That seems to be all you can say about her - that she's old. Get a new argument. PS she's 36 and stunning. Hardly over the hill.

I read somewhere that Oscar voters were inexplicably unimpressed with Gone Girl (which is I guess why it only received 1 nomination). I loved the movie but I'm sure it made Oscar voters uncomfortable

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I'm not sure because Marion Cotillard also gave a wonderful performance in Two Days, One Night. I don't think Rosamund would have been a lock to win, it would have been a tighter race than that IMO.

Yeah Probably.



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