Helena Bonham Carter should have got the Oscar for best actress for her role in this wonderful film about love. I love the scene when she writes to Merton and says remember I love you more. It filled with emotion.
shareI just watched the movie again and Helena still gives me shivers. While I think Helen Hunt was good that year, Helena performance is a lot stronger.
shareI haven't seen Helen Hunt in As Good as It Gets, but Helena was amazing in this movie. I was going through the nominations and she won nearly every critics award, only to lose what I consider the major four (Golden Globe, BAFTA, SAG and Oscar). Such a shame, I thought she was utterly fantastic.
I also think Alison Elliot deserved a Best Supporting Actress nomination. She too was fantastic in a heart-breaking role.
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Yes I agree about that scene. I wanted to say though that HBC won a ton of awards for this movie. Go check the awards page. She won like ten awards, haha, amazing.
shareI agree. But then, there are SO many films for which she deserved an Oscar, at the very least, they would eclipse most other actresses if awarded! Personally, I would have given her one for her role as Lucy Honeychurch in "A Room With a View", which to me, was superior to most of what she has done, and at such a young age, including "Howard's End".
She deserves her revenge, and we deserve to die.
Absolutely agree with OP! Helena should have won. Helen Hunt was good, but HBC was brilliant in "Wings of the Dove".
It was the same the next year at the oscar IMO. Cate Blanchett should have won for "Elizabeth". Gwynneth Paltrow's performance in "Shakespeare in Love" just wasn't on the same level.
Definitely! I felt so badly for her character and every time I found myself thinking something stupid like, "Well, she brought it on herself", I had to remind myself that she was totally dependent on her horrible aunt (played with delirious evil by Charlotte Rampling).
She's very much like Edith Wharton's character Lily Bart in House of Mirth, a woman at the mercy of a bitter old crone (an aunt again) and her own desires, not to mention society's conventions. I'm sure that James and Wharton (good friend) discussed this problem!
The only blemish in this film, I thought was the actress (Allison something) who played the hale and hearty, yet somehow dying and sexually rapacious Millie! She was about as appealing as a turnip. Who would ever, ever throw over Helena for her?
She deserves her revenge, and we deserve to die.
I don't know...I go back and forth between her and Julie Christie for the win that year, both truly immersive and compelling performances (and where was Pam Grier's nomination?). I do think HBC reached a career high here (she's astonishing in the scene you mention, for example). But of course, neither HBC or Christie had much hope against the only American in the category, Helen Hunt, who had long-standing industry support and generally favourable reviews, and was in a huge hit that was loved by the Academy.
shareI agree. Kate Croy was such a difficult character and she nailed it.
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