Oscar Favorites

[blunthead]

This thread is for movie fans who enjoy actors/actresses enough to celebrate when these artists' achievements are rewarded by whom many acknowledge the most capable experts in the field.

Which actors/actresses' performances which won Oscars are your favorites?

One of mine is Dustin Hoffman in Kramer vs. Kramer.

 

[Dana Jean]

Not an actor or actress but, I was thrilled when Eric Roth won best adapted screenplay for Forrest Gump.

If you have read the book, it sucks. With a capital puke. Horrible book. Eric Roth made Forrest Gump the sweet and magical thing it became. At least I love it. The running part of the movie is where I had to suspend the most disbelief, but I just totally accepted everything else.

 

[kingricefan]

Meryl Streep for Sophie's Choice.

 

[kingricefan]

Matt Damon & Ben Affleck for screenplay for 'Good Will Hunting'.

 

[kingricefan]

Kathy Bates for Best Actress in 'Misery'. Obviously.

 

[Dana Jean]

Speaking of Forrest Gump, Gary Sinise was totally ripped off that year. He should've won for best supporting actor but they gave the sympathy oscar that year. Not that Martin Landau didn't give a good performance, but Gary really deserved it.

 

[prufrock21]

Jane Fonda, Klute

 

[Doc Creed]

Meryl Streep for Sophie's Choice
Elizabeth Taylor for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Nicole Kidman for The Hours
Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine

Geoffrey Rush for Shine
Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote

 

[kingricefan]

Leonardo DiCaprio for Best Actor in 'The Revenant'.

 

[blunthead]

Not an actor or actress but, I was thrilled when Eric Roth won best adapted screenplay for Forrest Gump.

If you have read the book, it sucks. With a capital puke. Horrible book. Eric Roth made Forrest Gump the sweet and magical thing it became. At least I love it. The running part of the movie is where I had to suspend the most disbelief, but I just totally accepted everything else.

Yes, not just actors and actresses in the thread.

 

[kingricefan]

Matthew McConaughey for 'Dallas Buyers Club'. Alright, alright, alright.....

 

[blunthead]

Matthew McConaughey for 'Dallas Buyers Club'. Alright, alright, alright.....

Oh, wow yes.

 

[GNTLGNT]

...Heath Ledger....hands down....

 

[muskrat]

Walter Huston for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre!

 

[Lepplady]

Leonardo DiCaprio for Best Actor in 'The Revenant'.

This.

 

[Lepplady]

But if we're talking about past winners as well, nothing beats Jack Nickleson for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Here, he was accepting for Chinatown, but he accepted from the set of One Flew Over. Genius.

 

[Blake]

Apparently, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford hated each other's guts in real life, so they didn't have to act. One of them were nominated in 1962.

 

[Blake]

I was looking at the Academy Awards official site database and looking at all the different categories, nominees, and winners, and I think I counted four times people involved in Stephen King movies being nominated for acting. The one that should have won was Tom Hanks in 2000. I think he should have got it instead of Crowe in Gladiator. The Green Mile is a far better movie than Gladiator. I think Piper Laurie was nominated for best supporting actress for Carrie, but I don't know who got it. I forgot, Kathy Bates won it for 1990. So that makes five. Maybe there was more?

 

[blunthead]

I was looking at the Academy Awards official site database and looking at all the different categories, nominees, and winners, and I think I counted four times people involved in Stephen King movies being nominated for acting. The one that should have won was Tom Hanks in 2000. I think he should have got it instead of Crowe in Gladiator. The Green Mile is a far better movie than Gladiator. I think Piper Laurie was nominated for best supporting actress for Carrie, but I don't know who got it. I forgot, Kathy Bates won it for 1990. So that makes five. Maybe there was more?

Sometimes I'm sure someone was nominated or won when they weren't, but I think you're correct about Piper Laurie. I'd enjoy seeing a list of Stephen King movies and performances which have received Oscar nominations, but I have no energy right now to google it. I know Shawshank received a nomination for Best Picture, and I think Robbins and Freeman both were nominated. I think The Green Mile was nominated for Best Picture. The Shining might have been nominated for Best Visual Effects and/or Best Direction. I should look these up, I guess.

 

[Blake]

Sometimes I'm sure someone was nominated or won when they weren't, but I think you're correct about Piper Laurie. I'd enjoy seeing a list of Stephen King movies and performances which have received Oscar nominations, but I have no energy right now to google it. I know Shawshank received a nomination for Best Picture, and I think Robbins and Freeman both were nominated. I think The Green Mile was nominated for Best Picture. The Shining might have been nominated for Best Visual Effects and/or Best Direction. I should look these up, I guess.

I can't remember seeing anything about The Shining for nominations for acting. I think around that time the film Ordinary People scooped everything. Freeman was nominated for best supporting actor for Shawshank. But as far as I could see Bates is the only one to have won an acting award in a King movie.