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I was thinking, if a 10-year-old can win Best Supporting, there's no reason someone of the same age couldn't be nominated for (and win) Best.
I doubt there are many Oscar-quality movies out there that give the lead role to someone that young in the first place, though.
I was thinking, if a 10-year-old can win Best Supporting, there's no reason someone of the same age couldn't be nominated for (and win) Best.
There are a lot of reasons which have nothing to do with the quality of the performance and a lot to do with the politics of Oscar voting.
Hollywood isn't about taking many risks these days.
I doubt there are many Oscar-quality movies out there that give the lead role to someone that young in the first place, though.
The Coens' reportedly looked at over 15,000 actresses to fill the part, although I doubt that was actual (live) auditions. The language was the #1 problem everyone else had with the role.
Didn't that happen in the new one?
Nope, he gets cold-cocked by Chaney but survives to pull Mattie out of the pit, and she mentions him in the epilogue, although she never saw him again.
although she never saw him again.
thank goodness! Not having read the book I was also worried they'd somehow end up together.
If I remember the original correctly, he gets shot by Chaney, manages to pull Mattie out of the pit, then dies as Cogburn is riding off to save Mattie.
(not bad for it being probably 25 years since I've seen it)
I believe that is how it is in the book, too.
In the book, Chaney bashes LaBoeuf's head with a rock. Mattie shoots Chaney and falls into the pit. Rooster returns and kills Chaney, whose body falls into the pit. Rooster comes down into the pit with a rope to get Mattie, and LaBoeuf uses Little Blackie to pull them out. Rooster and Mattie ride off to get her snake bite treated.
Mattie later learns that LaBoeuf retrieved Chaney's body from the pit and took it back to Texas.
The first line of the final paragraph is:
I heard nothing more of the Texas officer, LaBoeuf.
Oh, I misremembered.