Thursday
Oct242019
108 days til Oscar...
Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 7:00AM Did you know that there are said to be 108 pressure points in the human body? That number factors into many martial arts. In popular fiction you only need to hit five of them to cause instantaneous death. Movies reference this occassionally and most famously, to westerners at least, in Kill Bill Vol. 2, when The Bride slays her titular foe with the "five point palm exploding heart technique".
What are five pressure points Oscar voters have hit in their attempts to kill you? One of mine is skipping Uma Thurman for her most iconic role. Hell, I would've been tempted to give her the actual statue for Kill Bill Vol 1 -- that was such a weird Best Actress year (2003) so why not?
Reader Comments (56)
Mine would look like:
(1) Not nominating Sally Hawkins for Happy Go Lucky
(2) Not nominating Lothaire Bluteau, Ewan McGregor, Juliet Stevenson, Maggie Cheung and Gordon Pinsent
(3) Fernanda Montenegro, Isabelle Huppert and Glenn Close not winning an Oscar
(4) Not letting Sumi Jo and Anohni sing their nominated songs at the Oscar ceremony
(5) Wishing they make more films: Kate Nelligan and Jaye Davidson
Owl -- ugh i'd forgotten about #4 and now i have to be angry about it all over again.
i have a very particular beef that Amy Adams has been nominated 6 times and never won. i think her performance in everything is very good, yet nothing has happened so far. I guess she joins the ranks of Annette Bening and Glenn Close.
Gawrsh, there's so many grievances, how could one choose? Nevertheless, here's a potpourri of bad wins, no wins & non-noms:
1. Teri Garr losing to Jessica Lange (Tootsie)
2. Ralph Fiennes has 1-2 nominations to his name but no Oscar.
3. Sandra Bullock and Renee Zellweger's Oscar wins - both highly questionable
4. Michael Caine wins for a forgettable role in Cider House Rules over at least 2 classic
performances (Osment & Law)
5. Ethan Hawke not nominated for his brilliant work in First Reformed
BONUS: Everything about Crash's nominations and wins in 2005, it's a perfectly awful movie
o yeah, and don't even get me started on Alicia Vikander and Eddie Redmayne for her win (for supporting when she was the lead) and his nom for the airless Oscar bait of the Danish Girl, a movie that no one IRL cares anything about.
Seconding thoughts of KILL BILL and Charlize in YOUNG ADULT — a brilliant performance in a film that also should have given Diablo Cody a second screenwriting nomination. I remember Patton Oswald describing Theron’s performance as a brilliant portrayal of an alcoholic; Mavis only seems to be alive at night. I wonder if KILL BILL was a case of genre snobbery, and if YOUNG ADULT was too dark and cynical for the Academy.
Also Michelle Pfeiffer in BATMAN RETURNS, which is really a portrayal of a woman in the midst of PTSD and a nervous breakdown. It just happens to be in a comic book movie.
MEAN GIRLS not getting an Adapted Screenplay nom when there are over three dozen speaking parts and it was adapted from a non-fiction self-help book.
“Uninvited” getting the Grammy for Best Song from Media and not an Oscar nomination. And I am still bitter about Mariah Carey’s THE STAR not getting a song nomination, because it is presented perfectly in its film and I will die on this hill.