Best Actress?

[Brute_Force]

Until the BAFTA awards were handed out and Marion Cotillard won for best actress over Julie Christie, the bets were on Christie to win the Oscar in this category. Now, the odds are shifting in Cotillard's favor. I pray with all my soul that Cotillard wins it because her astonishing performance in "La Vie En Rose," playing the French superstar Edith Piaf, was mesmerizing.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Until the BAFTA awards were handed out and Marion Cotillard won for best actress over Julie Christie, the bets were on Christie to win the Oscar in this category. Now, the odds are shifting in Cotillard's favor. I pray with all my soul that Cotillard wins it because her astonishing performance in "La Vie En Rose," playing the French superstar Edith Piaf, was mesmerizing.

YES!!!

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

My personal vote goes to Tierra Patrick for her excellent performances this year.

 

[Brute_Force]

I have been unable to even pretend to care for other actresses this year since I fell in love with Cotillard in La Vie En Rose. She is perfection. Ineluctably perfect.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I have been unable to even pretend to care for other actresses this year since I fell in love with Cotillard in La Vie En Rose. She is perfection. Ineluctably perfect.

WINNER!!!!

What a fabulous movie....it made even me cry.

 

[3113]

I have been unable to even pretend to care for other actresses this year since I fell in love with Cotillard in La Vie En Rose. She is perfection. Ineluctably perfect.

I haven't seen the movie--I now want to. From just the clips I found myself rooting for her. It was clear from them that she deserved to win.

And I was very moved by her joy and tears, and by Forrest Witiker friendly arm about her as they walked from the stage

 

[sweetness6280]

I haven't seen the movie--I now want to. From just the clips I found myself rooting for her. It was clear from them that she deserved to win.

And I was very moved by her joy and tears, and by Forrest Witiker friendly arm about her as they walked from the stage

I felt the same way. Now it's a must see.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Until the BAFTA awards were handed out and Marion Cotillard won for best actress over Julie Christie, the bets were on Christie to win the Oscar in this category. Now, the odds are shifting in Cotillard's favor. I pray with all my soul that Cotillard wins it because her astonishing performance in "La Vie En Rose," playing the French superstar Edith Piaf, was mesmerizing.

Do you really care all that much who wins this award. I mean, the world will continue rotating, and the sun will still rise in the east, and water will still follow the path of least resistance.

I mean, c'mon. "I pray with all my soul"?

 

[slyc_willie]

Do you really care all that much who wins this award. I mean, the world will continue rotating, and the sun will still rise in the east, and water will still follow the path of least resistance.

I mean, c'mon. "I pray with all my soul"?

It's about vicariously shared pride, Box. That, and sympathetic realization.

 

[Anna_Malia75]

I mean, c'mon. "I pray with all my soul"?

Well, that and world peace.

 

[Brute_Force]

Vive La Cotillard!

I am happy beyond expression at Cotillard's win! Her performance will go down in history as one of the greatest of all time, and I'm just so glad I was able to witness both the performance itself and the joy, sweetness, and grace she exhibited upon winning.

And to the Boxlicker, well, dear, I think in this case my praying with all my soul worked out pretty well. So, I really don't care about the world turning or any of the other things. Art of the calibre demonstrated in La Vie En Rose means more to me than anything else.

 

[3113]

Do you really care all that much who wins this award. I mean, the world will continue rotating, and the sun will still rise in the east, and water will still follow the path of least resistance.

Same thing could be said about people who get worked up about football games, soccer matches, spelling bees, dog show or any other contest of any sort, including presidential races. The world will continue rotating and the sun will rise in the east no matter who or what wins the prize.

Human beings get vicarious thrills from watching all sorts of contests; and with each contest, no matter how small, even a chid's foot race, there will be those who care (or just enjoy seeing) who wins those competitions. I find coaches and quarterbacks and boxers who say, "God was on my side!" when they win a sporting event to be far more troubling than someone "praying with all their soul" for someone who gave all they had to a stunning performance to be recognized and applauded for that performance.

Are you saying that there's never been any competition were you've prayed for someone to win something you felt they rightly deserved?

 

[shereads]

I think it's sad that there has to be one Best and a lot of also-rans. What makes us so competitive, as a society, that we can't seem to honor excellence without creating losers?

I was trying to remember the other day whether Remains of the Day won any Academy Awards. Looked it up, and learned that Remains had the bad luck to be nominated in the same year as Schindlers List, which swept the Oscars. Without a doubt, Schindlers List was a more important film from a historic and moral standpoint. But was it a 'better' artistic achievement? And why are we so eager to single out a single film/director/actor/actress/musical score/costume designer, etc. for that distinction?

The illogic of film awards (as an extension of story scores and Oympic medals) is highlighted on the rare occasions when a Best Picture winner is passed over for Best Director - as if everything somehow came together perfectly despite the director's presence.

Okay, okay, I'll admit it: I'm still ticked off about Annette Bening not winning the Oscar for American Beauty. I'm ranting! I get to do that.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Same thing could be said about people who get worked up about football games, soccer matches, spelling bees, dog show or any other contest of any sort, including presidential races. The world will continue rotating and the sun will rise in the east no matter who or what wins the prize.

Human beings get vicarious thrills from watching all sorts of contests; and with each contest, no matter how small, even a chid's foot race, there will be those who care (or just enjoy seeing) who wins those competitions. I find coaches and quarterbacks and boxers who say, "God was on my side!" when they win a sporting event to be far more troubling than someone "praying with all their soul" for someone who gave all they had to a stunning performance to be recognized and applauded for that performance.

Are you saying that there's never been any competition were you've prayed for someone to win something you felt they rightly deserved?

The presidntial race is actually of importance, and I wouldn't lump it in with those other things.

I can hope for victory for a story I have entered in a contest, or for a grandchild to win a spelling bee, or for other participants where I have a personal interest.

I can root for a hometown baseball team or for the US Olympic team or for another group that I identify with.

However, even if I were a praying man, I doubt that I would go that far for something of so little actual signifigance as an Academy Award. These things are important for the friends and relatives of those involved, but not to anybody else.

 

[3113]

The presidntial race is actually of importance, and I wouldn't lump it in with those other things.

I would if you're going to talk about the world turning and the sun rising and water running down hill. If you want me to consider the Presidential race to be of importance than you're going to have to use something other than the laws of physics to prove that the Oscars are insignificant.

I can root for a hometown baseball team or for the US Olympic team or for another group that I identify with. However, even if I were a praying man, I doubt that I would go that far for something of so little actual signifigance as an Academy Award. These things are important for the friends and relatives of those involved, but not to anybody else.

Boy are you splitting hairs! And that hometown baseball team is of importance to you because they are your friends and relatives? People stay loyal to baseball teams even when, year after year the players change. They stay loyal even if the team moves to another town. They stay loyal even if that team has players from out of town--from other countries like China or Russia! How do you identify with such a team? It soon has NOTHING to do with your town or the people in that town (it may have traded away every hometown member for people born in other lands!), and yet you do root for it. Because they "symbolize" you even if they're not you.

And this differs from the Oscars...how?

And even if you root for the U.S. in the Olympics because the U.S. team is (presumably) made up of U.S. citizens just like yourself...are you saying that you won't root for, say, another Nadia Comaneci? She was on the "enemy" team and people in the U.S. still rooted for her. That's what human beings do. We root, often, for those unrelated to us, who have no importance to us, no significance, but who show us greatness in just about any facet of human talent--stories, acting, art, athletics.

It's really wrong to call the kettle black, Box. And that's what you're doing. You're saying that someone shouldn't care about who wins the Oscars because they're not related to those people, and hence, such awards are of no significance. And yet you root for things like the Olympics or a hometown team that, no matter how you slice it or try to wiggle out of it, have just as little significance to you, personally. Are there any friends/relatives to us or you in these contests? Likely not. In the grand scheme of things, does it matter who wins them? Not at all. But our ability to cheer for those who show excellence and deserve to be cheered...that matters. And it is in no way insignificant, no matter whether we have a personal stake in the contest or not, for us to involve ourselves in it and care about other people's achievements. It does US good to cheer for such things even if it matters not at all to the person who wins, or to the contest. And that's in no way of "little" significance.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I would if you're going to talk about the world turning and the sun rising and water running down hill. If you want me to consider the Presidential race to be of importance than you're going to have to use something other than the laws of physics to prove that the Oscars are insignificant.


Boy are you splitting hairs! And that hometown baseball team is of importance to you because they are your friends and relatives? People stay loyal to baseball teams even when, year after year the players change. They stay loyal even if the team moves to another town. They stay loyal even if that team has players from out of town--from other countries like China or Russia! How do you identify with such a team? It soon has NOTHING to do with your town or the people in that town (it may have traded away every hometown member for people born in other lands!), and yet you do root for it. Because they "symbolize" you even if they're not you.

And this differs from the Oscars...how?

And even if you root for the U.S. in the Olympics because the U.S. team is (presumably) made up of U.S. citizens just like yourself...are you saying that you won't root for, say, another Nadia Comaneci? She was on the "enemy" team and people in the U.S. still rooted for her. That's what human beings do. We root, often, for those unrelated to us, who have no importance to us, no significance, but who show us greatness in just about any facet of human talent--stories, acting, art, athletics.

It's really wrong to call the kettle black, Box. And that's what you're doing. You're saying that someone shouldn't care about who wins the Oscars because they're not related to those people, and hence, such awards are of no significance. And yet you root for things like the Olympics or a hometown team that, no matter how you slice it or try to wiggle out of it, have just as little significance to you, personally. Are there any friends/relatives to us or you in these contests? Likely not. In the grand scheme of things, does it matter who wins them? Not at all. But our ability to cheer for those who show excellence and deserve to be cheered...that matters. And it is in no way insignificant, no matter whether we have a personal stake in the contest or not, for us to involve ourselves in it and care about other people's achievements. It does US good to cheer for such things even if it matters not at all to the person who wins, or to the contest. And that's in no way of "little" significance.

What I said was that I wouldn't lump the presidential race in with spelling bees, football games, et. al. As for the laws of physics, I merely meant that The Oscars are not really of that much importance.

When I refer to a hometown baseball team, I mean a team made up of persons I know. I was actually thinking of those who were members of a team I used to play for. The team I root for, more than anybody else, is the Chicago Cubs, and they are thousands of miles from where I live.

I cheer and will continue to cheer for American Olympic teams and other US national teams, but I can also appreciate and applaud a performance such as that of Nadia Comechi or Irena Slutskaya or others.

I didn't say people shouldn't care about the Oscars. I don't, but if somebody else does, that's their businesss. However, I did think it was really over the top to say: "I pray with all my soul..." that some particular actress wins one.

 

[Brute_Force]

Not everyone feels the empathic joy of seeing a great actress do something so amazing with a role that she redefines an artform in the process. I thank God on my knees that I do feel that kind of empathic joy. Vive Cotillard!

 

[iluvyou3638]

Until the BAFTA awards were handed out and Marion Cotillard won for best actress over Julie Christie, the bets were on Christie to win the Oscar in this category. Now, the odds are shifting in Cotillard's favor. I pray with all my soul that Cotillard wins it because her astonishing performance in "La Vie En Rose," playing the French superstar Edith Piaf, was mesmerizing.

i am so glad she won. that movie was amazing because of her.