Seriously.. his performance was excellent. Pay attention to his 'bath in his blood' speech to Lucilla, or when he breaks down after knowing he wont be emperor.
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Desolation of Smaug - REVIEW!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ_pL8U0AnI
Agreed!
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"Because of my big legs and my karate, I can do the splits......Noo...Prroblemm"
I think he overdid it a bit, personally.
The year he was nominated for this...the nominees for best supporting actor were stellar. I wanted Phoenix to win but that year this category was easily the toughest because every single nominee deserved it. I basically never feel that way but that time I did.
Where he really got f v c ked over was Walk The Line. Not the best movie ever but his performance, singing, playing instruments. That's when he should've got it.
"The cover of this book is so misleading. It never snows like the cover implies that it does."
Joaquin got robbed on Walk The Line. However, the award went to another great actor that will never have another chance to win if he hadn't won back then. Phoenix will have another shot to win. He is due. So is DiCaprio.
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MICHAEL CAINE
The Cider House Rules
NOMINEES:
TOM CRUISE
Magnolia
MICHAEL CLARKE DUNCAN
The Green Mile
JUDE LAW
The Talented Mr. Ripley
HALEY JOEL OSMENT
The Sixth Sens
I think Joaquin deserved it more than Jude Law for Talented Mr. Ripley.
I have to say way better than haley Osment. I suspect being a kid helps.
Better than Duncan, too. Just my opinion I guess. It was a more varied role. Duncan pretty much did one thing throughout -- very well though.
It's definitely the best I've seen Phoenix do.
Just wanted to chime in and say I couldn't believe it when he didn't win for Walk The Line...
...then I saw Capote.
No one was beating Philip Seymour Hoffman that year. And no one should have. Ridiculously great performance.
Just bad timing, because Phoenix really had it all going on in Walk The Line.
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Benicio Del Toro's role as a beleaguered law enforcement officer fighting a zero-sum war against Mexican druglords in 'Traffic' received universal acclaim; if the Academy, having nominated him, refused to award him, they would have looked damn silly. Had they not nominated him, they'd have looked even sillier. Not to denigrate Phoenix's highly derivative and nearly one-dimensional portrayal of a cartoonishly amoral, corrupt Roman emperor (who bears closer resemblance to Christopher Plummer's portrayal of 'Commodus' than the historical figure), but the performance is simply not in the same league, neither in scope, nor in complexity. Had he not died during production, Oliver Reed might well have been nominated in Phoenix's place.
shareI had no favorites when they ran the Oscars that year. When Benecio del Toro's name came up, I thought he had an exotic sounding name, then they did the clip and he sounded exotic. "HEY, I want him to get it!" Foolish me, I remember nothing about the movie, 'Traffic', I don't recall what they showed of BdT's performance but I still remember the clip they showed of Joaquin's performance, there in the arena. "What am I going to do with you. You just won't.......die. Aren't we both fundamentally alike?"
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He lifts me clear to the sky, you know he taught me to fly.
Even Catherine Zeta Jones received accolades for her performance as the surprisingly, almost humourously, ruthless wife of a ruthless drug kingpin, in a film which was highly touted (being an american film adaptation of a critically-acclaimed british quasi-documentary), and similarly acclaimed. Del Toro had received very positive reviews for his work in 'The Usual Suspects'(1995), and 'Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas'(1998), films which received their own fair share of publicity. By 2000 he was a reasonably well-known and respected actor.
shareThese things are very political, may I remind you that Julia Roberts won an oscar?
shareYes, he should have won the Oscar.
shareHe was amazing in that movie but I give him the win for Quills (also released the same year).
http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000005/thread/231484369?p=1
Damn good movie, so underrated.
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