'Shindig'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
But wouldn't that work in his favour, not against him?
That is what I am saying. You put on an accent, you get an award. Unless you are Kevin Costner. There is a universal Kevin Costner exception to this rule.
Personally I think that Oldman was a lot more interesting before he refined a shtick, and thus the gentle Jim Gordon role, although in a movie I didn't like overall, represents a somewhat interesting departure.
That is what I am saying. You put on an accent, you get an award.
Then that doesn't answer the question of why he's never been nominated.
I thought the equation was "play a tragic but noble minority or injured person, get an award."
Then there was his extended period of complete crap, followed by his excellent turn as Jim Gordon in Batman Begins.
He's totally redeemed himself in my eyes with Sirius Black and Jim Gordon. But he's going to be paying for a long while for the extended period of crap (Dracula * shudder * ).
Then that doesn't answer the question of why he's never been nominated.
Having heard of several occasions where people have had to explain that, no really, he really is English and not American, I think he just does the accents too well. Well, barring anything from period of extreme crap, that is.
Also, I think you only get accent points if you're an American doing some other accent.
I think part of his problem may be that he immerses so deeply into a lot of roles that people don't realize it's the same actor from movie to movie. The characters in Romeo Is Bleeding, The Fifth Element, Dracula and True Romance don't seem like they could all be played by the same person.
When I think of accent points, I think of Meryl Streep. Who else has reaped the accent awards benefits?
ita has sussed out the fact that I cannot read. Shoot.
I thought the equation was "play a tragic but noble minority or injured person, get an award."
Well, aren't all people with accents tragic?? Also, I tend to think that Charlize Theron got nominated for playing ugly, more than for playing homicidal or lesbian. (Which is not to say she didn't do a good job, and I don't mind that she won.) Then again, am I wrong or did Russell Crowe get it for playing crazy, but it was really a belated award for playing fat and old the previous year? (A movie I thought was far superior, and in which he did a better job, whatever he looked like.)
I was just reading an Oscar bait piece -- it laid out accents, disabled (physically or mentally), or ugly. I imagine playing the Hunchback of Notre Dame would make you a shoe in.
Tom Hanks won for playing mentally disabled, and then for having AIDS.