Natalie's Oscar/Academy Award Win

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How dare you come on here just to speak that way about someone you know nothing about. Do not start the typical IMDB opinion of an ignorant bigot, *beep* here!

I did not mean any offense or racial slur/epithet by that remark. I was merely quoting the poster, or rather repeating their own words. It is kind of widely known that "the Hollywood Machine" as it is referred to is widely run and owned by Jewish money, and corporations. That's just history.

If it causes so much offense (that warrants no need for your defensive, abusive comment) then I will amend what I wrote.

I am the furtherest thing from a bigot. Not that it's any of your business I happen to be part of an ethnic minority, and I also happen to be gay...

I do believe the academy is influenced or manipulated by money- news flash nothing in Hollywood is real. This is coming from a huge fan of American Culture, cinema and TV. Took a long time and a couple of media degrees to understand it, and accept it.

So kindly apologise or remove your post. Or I'll rather delete the entire thread.

I will try and keep it brief and to the point to avoid a debate and will just present my opinion as it is and hopefully it will be acceptable although I'm sure it won't be.

I loved Silver Linings Playbook. I loved every character, and every actor playing each character. I think Bradley Cooper was wonderful portraying the person he portrayed. The Mum was wonderful and DeNiro was great. Jennifer was also really, really good, and captivating, Tiffany was charming and beautiful and depressed. But not much else...

Jennifer Lawrence always does a great job. I just don't think that her role was significantly compelling or riveting enough to win the top Oscar for a female lead at the Academy Awards - further down the track in her career maybe yeah, just not for this role and not this early in her career.

Tiffany was a great character but she wasn't an Oscar-winning character... I don't think it was particularly hard for Jennifer Lawrence to essentially play a sadder, more whimsical version of herself in this... (thats essentially what it seemed like). Worthy of a nomination, sure if no one else did a better job that year or no other character in a movie that year was as interesting. But just not the win.

The only reason I think she has more compelling acting in Hunger Games is because - she does. Katniss as a character is destroyed every moment in those movies internally distraught, emotionally wrecked and bewildered and JLaw does it so bloody well. It's riveting and I think she knocked the Post Traumatic Katniss out of the park. The characters are so different - the acting for both are so different. I just think the acting for Katniss is so much more unsettling - and not about beauty, softness or JLaw at all.

Jennifer Lawrence is a lovely actress, she does a great job and she doesn't need such a big award for such a simplistic character to prove it.

On another note, since this is a hot topic at the moment, put into perspective in no sane world does it make sense that Jennifer Lawrence would win an Oscar before Leonardo DiCaprio. His portrayal of mental illness was so much more riveting, and he didn't embody a semblance of himself at all (Whats Eating Gilbert Grape).

Academy Awards are for one reason only at the dark ugly heart of the industry: Furthering your career, and increasing the earning potential of the star, and the pulling power of that star in a movie - so the studio makes as much money as possible off them.

Giving an Oscar to the brightest young female star in Hollywood right now ensures all of that. Thank you for your question this was difficult to write.

... this is a Maid speaking by the way.