Make Glenn Close The Last Oscars "Career" Winner

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The phenomenon of the “Career Oscar”—winning for career excellence rather than for the year’s best performance—is another wrench in the Academy’s ongoing overhaul. Along with the debate over popular films, running times and non-broadcast categories, comes a central question: Is the Oscars honoring the best of the year, or the most beloved of the moment?

If Glenn Close wins at Sunday’s Oscars for her performance in The Wife, the seven-time nominee will end her reign as the most nominated living actor without any wins.

A Best Actress win would be a justified, admirable conclusion to The Academy’s embarrassing habit of overlooking the stalwart actress. But it shouldn’t have taken this long. While Close carries the perfunctory film with deep, quiet strength, it’s certainly not her best performance, or even the year’s best. Her fellow nominee Melissa McCarthy in Can You Ever Forgive Me? as well as the non-nominated Toni Collette in Hereditary and Regina Hall in Support the Girlswould top the year’s list with singular, career-redefining performances—their version of Close’s Fatal Attraction.

If the Oscars are there to highlight the best of the year, then Brokeback Mountain would have beaten Crash in 2006 and The Social Network would wear The King’s Speech’s crown. Classics like The Big Lebowski, Daughters of the Dust, and The Shining all deserved at least one nomination in their respective years.

These perceptions of who wins and loses are a bit simplistic. Winning an Oscar largely has little to do with talent or groundswell support and instead largely rests on appearing at every industry dinner, offering quippy soundbites for news outlets and, until recently, avoiding one of Harvey Weinstein’s notorious Oscar smear campaigns. 

That’s not to say there aren’t worthwhile winners. Mo’Nique in Precious, Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose and any one of Daniel Day-Lewis’s performances all deserve their acclaim. But too often fellow actors are sidelined in their best performances to honor someone previously forgotten.

Among the many changes the Academy needs to make, in addition to attracting younger audiences and maintaining their esteem, is honoring actors at their peak, not in their golden years. It was a joy to see Lupita Nyong’o in 12 Years A Slave or Octavia Spencer in The Help win for masterful turns early their Oscar timelines.

An anonymous Oscar voter told The Hollywood Reporter this week they’re voting for Close. Not because they adored her performance in The Wife, but because they found her “wonderful” in Dangerous Liaisons, a film she was nominated for 30 years ago. “Sometimes you do vote for an accumulation of work, and she’s of a certain age, and I think it’s just time,” they said. 

Perhaps it’s time to stop waiting for the work to accumulate.

 

More on the source:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/make-glenn-close-the-oscars-last-acting-career-winner

 

 

The fact some media, or some people in general feel this way gave me hope. Either way, it is quite thought provoking and insightful article.

[derpmonster 22,412]

I just feel sad that people will assume that Glenn's win (if she wins) is not for her performance but her career. She really could be loved by the academy for her performance too. Or by the voters of some of the awards that she got earlier. 

[Scathach 6,674]

13 minutes ago, derpmonster said:

I just feel sad that people will assume that Glenn's win (if she wins) is not for her performance but her career. She really could be loved by the academy for her performance too. Or by the voters of some of the awards that she got earlier. 

Because her performance in The Wife is not Oscar worthy. Olivia Colman delivered the best performance among the nominees.

[derpmonster 22,412]

4 minutes ago, Scathach said:

Because her performance in The Wife is not Oscar worthy. Olivia Colman delivered the best performance among the nominees.

You say that as if it's objective fact. It's an opinion. 

Has Olivia won major awards yet? Why did Glenn and Gaga tie and not Glenn and Olivia? 

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Just now, derpmonster said:

 

Has Olivia won major awards yet? Why did Glenn and Gaga tie and not Glenn and Olivia? 

Olivia mainly active in her birth country England, she did won BAFTA 

[SarahYuko 1,002]

I agree. If Glenn had won for Fatal Attraction, we wouldn't be discussing this. I believe that role deserved an Oscar. Maybe her other nominations deserved an Oscar too. I would stand by her win this time 100% if she wins for her role alone and not for her legacy, but there's ample evidence she's getting love for the industry's guilt. I can't stand by politics in entertainment. It doesn't go with my values. I will congratulate her when she wins and let that be that, but in my heart I will always resent the Academy for their political crap, not just from this incident alone but from years upon years of ridiculous politics, including Elizabeth Taylor's BA win and Black Panther's BP nomination.

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16 minutes ago, derpmonster said:

You say that as if it's objective fact. It's an opinion. 

Has Olivia won major awards yet? Why did Glenn and Gaga tie and not Glenn and Olivia? 

Olivia did win Best Actress (Comedy) at Globes and CC, as well as Best Actress at BAFTA. She also has way more BA mentions from critics awards, including LAFCA and NSFC.

So far, Olivia is 'objectively' better using these stats. But acting is pretty subjective, so ... 

[Loopy 1,089]

Why make her the Last? Just don't do it, period! 

I forced myself to watch The Wife, a dreadful, long and uneven flick. I'm sorry but that performance, in my view, is objectively not Oscar-worthy. (Nevermind my Gags Obsession here).

That's my respectful and Honest to G opinion and I share it.

[Bio 23,538]

Girl, her performance on The Wife was definitely better than Gaga's, sorry about it. And even if she wasn't in the run, Olivia deserved it more, bottom line cut and dry,

[Bradley 58,735]

32 minutes ago, Bio said:

Girl, her performance on The Wife was definitely better than Gaga's, sorry about it. And even if she wasn't in the run, Olivia deserved it more, bottom line cut and dry,

According to you maybe, but let's not pretend it's a fact.

Edit: I have no problem with Glenn Close winning, I just think their performances are vastly different from each other, giving a definite opinion as if it were a fact is just a little inappropriate to me.

[WildAmerican 13,672]

If Glenn had won before, she probably wouldn't be nominated this year. The Wife had zero impact.

[Bradley 58,735]

I feel like Gaga would fare even better if she competed with Meryl Streep instead of Glenn Close. There were many new actresses who managed to win over Meryl Streep, maybe because Meryl had already earned her place and the Academy and other award show associations didn't feel the need to award Meryl, and instead went for the 'hottest performance/star of the moment' narrative, hence awarding new nominees like Cher, Emma Stone. Madonna also won over Glenn Close and Frances McDormand at the Golden Globes.

I guess Gaga's 'hottest star' narrative is overshadowed by Glenn's 'overdue narrative' this year.

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olivia should win

[MiddleChild 103]

2 hours ago, Bio said:

Girl, her performance on The Wife was definitely better than Gaga's, sorry about it. And even if she wasn't in the run, Olivia deserved it more, bottom line cut and dry,

Doesn’t matter, she’s winning and not because of The Wife bottom line not cut and wet.

[MiddleChild 103]

I’m tired of the Academy giving these long overdue Oscars. Other actresses have to pay the price of their mistakes. Give actors their trophy when they deserve it.