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Saturday, February 18, 2017 at 8:00AM In awards season, if an A- beats an A+, the A- is automatically an F
— Sam Coffey (@SamRS72) February 13, 2017
Five days left of Oscar voting. pic.twitter.com/OpJcQjGiMS
— Rebecca Keegan (@ThatRebecca) February 16, 2017
More truths and amusements and curiousities after the jump including Viola Davis, La La Land, Isabelle & Viggo, Kate McKinnon, and the perfect deployment of Tilda Swinton...
Who among us will take up the essential task of writing a rom-com for these two?? pic.twitter.com/vNOwm85HoZ
— Kate Hagen (@thathagengrrl) February 13, 2017
No, YOU cried at the end of La La Land and are still crying about it days later!
— pat tobin (@tastefactory) February 16, 2017
The montage at the end of la la land was honestly as devastating as the montage at the beginning of up
— Adriana Elena (@AdrianaDynamite) February 15, 2017
I wonder what nitpicking people would say about MOONLIGHT if it were the Best Picture frontrunner?
— Glenn Dunks (@glenndunks) February 17, 2017
Just watched Holding the Man and produced enough snot to make Viola Davis cower in shame.
— Kyle Stevens (@cinementalist) February 18, 2017
Eating tacos instead of going to see SUICIDE SQUAD remains one of the best life choices I've ever made.
— [kie.ran] (@danblackroyd) February 15, 2017
"mom, why is my cousins name joanne?"
— 🔪 (@fltwdmc) February 11, 2017
"because her mom loved gaga"
"what about me?"
"enough questions, nicole kidman's wig in lion (2016)" pic.twitter.com/8R61zQ8cix
Watched LES AMANTS & loved it so much that I feel like I need to pre-apologize to future friends/lovers for having no emotions left to offer pic.twitter.com/6aD2sjN4FV
— Phuong Le (@smallnartless) November 30, 2016
Barbara Covett is my #Valentines spirit animal, since Cate Blanchett won't return my love letters. pic.twitter.com/BNRHqgeyRt
— Chris James (@cwj92movieman) February 14, 2017
Not even 15 minutes into "The Edge of Seventeen" and I've decided that Hailee Steinfeld is the greatest actor of her generation.
— Tyler Coates (@tylercoates) February 18, 2017
POLITICS
(usually through an entertainment lens because that's how we do at TFE)
BREAKING: Trump advisor Stephen Miller confirms it rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again. pic.twitter.com/MJuelRyLMn
— Anthony Breznican (@Breznican) February 12, 2017
What's with these "Can Women Have It All?" stories that think "having it all" means a job and a kid instead of being Galactic Empress?
— Sandra Newman (@sannewman) February 13, 2017
People that believe the world is suddenly overrun with paid protestors should have to try and produce a crowd scene for a low-budget movie.
— Jennifer Liao (@averagejenn) February 11, 2017
How much are you guys making for protesting? I've banked like $34,000. Not complaining, but want to make sure I'm not getting ripped off.
— Dave King (@DaveKingThing) February 12, 2017
Hillary Clinton and the woman who plays her on SNL, Kate McKinnon, had dinner yesterday in the theater district https://t.co/A5t26SUUkP pic.twitter.com/6RqD5XZGNl
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) February 17, 2017
Replace Spicer with Tilda Swinton to do every press conference in last scene of Michael Clayton panic attack, crumbling-before-our-eyes mode
— Michael Cusumano (@SeriousFilm) February 15, 2017
Reader Comments (13)
If Davis won Oscar, she will join 12 Actresses who won triple crown EGOT !!!!!
Kate Winslet only need Tony
CZJ only need Emmy
Julianne Moore only need Tony
Halle Berry ( well i have to included her as well ) only need Tony
Jolie only need Tony
Kathy Bates only need Tony
Hathaway only need Tony
Dame Judi Dench only need emmy
Helen Hunt Tony
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Julianne Moore is not talented enough to thrive in the theatre, much less win a Tony.
Edmund: No kidding. Julianne Moore alternates between great and terrible.
AmazingAmy: Kate Winslet and Kathy Bates Tonys and CZJ Emmy are the only three of those ten that sound plausible. Judi Dench won't commit to a full blown multi-year TV show and the rest of the people hunting for Tonys aren't people that sound fit for the stage.
Julianne Moore was in Vanya on 42nd Street.
Totally agree with kyle Stevens regarding HOLDING THE MAN - the ending has me weeping every time!
NATHANIEL - have you seen HOLDING THE MAN yet?
That list is kind of off, right? Off the top of my head, Hathaway and Jolie don't have Emmys or Tonys. Just Oscars.
Julianne Moore will not win a Tony--and she's upfront about not being a theater actress. But, I'm sorry, she's a superbly talented, one-of-a-kind film actress, which is a very different beast from acting on stage. I think she's one of the greats.
I was really struck by the Sam Coffey tweet: "In awards season, if an A- beats an A+, the A- is automatically an F." This is an aspect of awards season that I find SO frustrating. That kind of mentality is really off-putting to me. In articles and user comments you can practically map the trajectory from: "He/she/it was really good!" to "He/she/it is nominated against my personal favorite and will likely win!" to "He/she/it now sucks and I dislike them and I'm going to hold their win against them for the rest of their careers!" Seriously--it's like the internet collectively decides to have a personality disorder at this time of the year. I appreciate passion and enthusiasm, but the extremism, black-and-white thinking, and drama is just flat-out annoying.
Joe, Hathaway has an Emmy - For voice work in "The Simpson" playing Princess Penelope. She won in 2009.
How are we gonna get Julianne that Tony. Might have to have her dress as a clown again (or, by the same token, Donald tRump) and have her do a comedy routine/bad singing montage. Then a furious and hilarious Melissa Leo-esque campaign for EGOT. It's doable.
I've been trying to get people to see Holding the Man for two years. It's nice when people finally see it.
Having seen Julianne Moore on stage i can tell you that she's meant to be a film actor. She's brilliant with the camera, but at least the time i saw her on stage, she was kind of flat. It requires different skills as an actor. Not every brilliant actor is good at all three sizes of acting (stage/tv/film)
I watched an amateur You Tube mini doc. Possibly made for foreign TV about Bette and Joan. When it discussed their backgrounds and Davis was a stage actress and Joan sort of winged it until she became a pro. It was more understandable why Davis was the superior talent of the two.
Stage acting matters when you're weeding out the weak from the strong. Hollywood's superficial standards benefits the weak.
Julianne Moore has stated in interviews that Broadway intimidated her and she didn't particularly like the experience working in that environment and prefers smaller, more intimate theatres than the grandness and flashiness of Broadway. I could see her doing an off-Broadway show in her future, but I highly doubt she will be a Tony-winning actress. She's one of the best actresses on film though. Period.
That tweet about A- vs. A+ movies is so spot on. The other problem is that you if like but don't love a movie then people automatically brand you a hater. It's so frustrating.