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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.

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Nutty - Oct 20, 2005 12:49:54 pm PDT #8089 of 10002

"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

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.)

§ ita § - Oct 20, 2005 12:51:17 pm PDT #8090 of 10002

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.

Dana - Oct 20, 2005 12:52:45 pm PDT #8091 of 10002

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Tom Hanks won for playing mentally disabled, and then for having AIDS.

Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 20, 2005 1:06:16 pm PDT #8092 of 10002

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Why didn't Sellers win for playing Dr. Strangelove?

P.M. Marc - Oct 20, 2005 1:07:50 pm PDT #8093 of 10002

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

When I think of accent points, I think of Meryl Streep. Who else has reaped the accent awards benefits?

Gwynnie.

tommyrot - Oct 20, 2005 1:07:59 pm PDT #8094 of 10002

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

...animals will be bred and SLAUGHTERED!

Gris - Oct 20, 2005 1:14:10 pm PDT #8095 of 10002

Hey. New board.

I gathered accent was a good part of Renee's Cold Mountain nod. But then, I didn't see it.

Hayden - Oct 20, 2005 1:19:32 pm PDT #8096 of 10002

aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

I think Hollywood also equates "ugly" with "injured".

tommyrot - Oct 20, 2005 1:21:26 pm PDT #8097 of 10002

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

What was the '70s movie about the paralyzed skier? The Other Side of the Mountain ? Did that actress win anything?

eta: Yep, she did.

Won - Golden Globe - Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture - Female

Gandalfe - Oct 20, 2005 5:55:08 pm PDT #8098 of 10002

The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.

Maybe the accent thing only works if you're an American doing an accent? Has a Brit ever won for doing an American accent?

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