Natalie Portman has the Oscar in the bag.
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shareI agree. The reviews for her performance are in the stratosphere and it's the kind of role the Academy likes to reward.
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MovieChat Forums > Jackie (2016) Discussion > Natalie Portman has the Oscar in the bag...
Honestly, after the big stink about last years Oscar's, I would guess the woman from Loving will win.
shareViola Davis for "Fences". I think Fences is going to sweep.
shareI wouldn't hope too high. The reviews for Fences aren't exactly stellar as of this moment. I'd say acting is probably the best shot it's got, by the looks of things. But I could be wrong...
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True. I think it is going to be one of either these two ways: either like Hilary Swank, who won her 2nd Oscar at 31 (!) (so what can stop NATALIE PORTMAN win her 2nd Oscar at 35?) or like Meryl Streep, who gave a monumental performance in "The Iron Lady" and here, well, we have a lady, as well!! The only thing that can stop Portman is that whoever 5 actresses are nominated this year, all will be incredible. And I am saying will because I have seen only Isabelle Huppert's from those who are in talk for the awards and she was very good in her role. We'll see. I would love a surprise though, like Ruth Negga!!
shareI don't think she will get an Oscar. She had her moments, but I never really felt like she was Jackie. She was too harsh. Too over the top and a bit mechanical with her voice and drinking binges. She also didn't look like Jackie much IMO. It was a very sad film as to be expected, but it was also really dark and cold with other miscasts. The only one who really looked the part was the actor who played JFK.
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As much as she would like to be, she is no Jodie Foster. She will always be overhyped Notalent Shortman.
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She deserves it. But just six years after her first and at her rather young age, the Academy won't go there. She will win a lot of the other Awards this season, no doubt.
shareShe's totally capable of winning the Oscar and, while politics run rampant in the Academy, I think a good amount of time has passed to give her a win if her performance is genuinely as perfect as people are saying. Emma Stone seems like the frontrunner, but if she's as vanilla as usual, I don't think Portman is incapable of obtaining it.
Huppert is probably behind both of them, though. Yet I think a more certain fact is that foreign lead actresses rarely win despite being given the "token" slot, where relatively young newcomers, women of nonwhite ethnicities, foreign actresses, or older actresses can get the last nom in an otherwise predictable category.
Who did the work for her this time????
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