7 time nominated actresses
Monday, March 8, 2021 at 11:30AM It's 7 days until Oscar nominations are announced and it's also International Women's Day so let's talk actresses. (Like we need an excuse, but just go with it). 7 women have been Oscar nominated exactly 7 times for their acting ... and these were their 7th (and final to date) nominations:
- INGRID BERGMAN Autumn Sonata (1978)
- CATE BLANCHETT Carol (2015)
- GLENN CLOSE The Wife (2018)
- JUDI DENCH Philomena (2013)
- JANE FONDA The Morning After (1986)
- GREER GARSON Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
- KATE WINSLET Steve Jobs (2015)
Give out a gold, silver, and bronze medal in the comments from these seven performances only!
Bergman and Garson have long since left us but the others are still working actresses! On March 15th when the nominations are announced it's possible that Glenn Close (Hillbilly Elegy) will depart this list with an eighth nomination (no woman has ever been nominated for acting eight times and not won the Oscar - Geraldine Page won on her 8th try, the longest it took any actress). Amy Adams (Hillbilly Elegy) and Ellen Burstyn (Pieces of a Woman) are both currently at six nominations so either could join this elite club a week from now.
Reader Comments (77)
Gold
Ingrid Bergman - Autumn Sonata
Silver
Cate Blanchett - Carol
Bronze
Glenn Close - The Wife
Blanchett - Gold
Dench - Silver
Winslet - Bronze
I hate Steve Jobs, but Winslet was one of my favorite things about it. Seven nominations at age 45 is pretty impressive.
Gold : Ingrid Bergman
Silver : Glenn Close
Bronze : Judi Dench
Gold
Cate Blanchett, CAROL
Silver
Ingrid Bergman, AUTUMN SONATA
Bronze
Judi Dench, PHILOMENA
Gold: Ingrid Bergman
A truly masterful performance. I wish we'd gotten her working with Bergman more, as he asks things of her that other directors didn't. I think this is one of the best performances in the category, and probably the best among those that lost. If only the academy had waited and given Valentina the Oscar.
SIlver - Glenn Close
I tend to think of her as an actress that goes "BIG" and she does that here, but only after spending 90 minutes slowly stewing and letting flashes of her true feelings come out. Easily her best work since The Shield, and her best film work since the 80s (if not...better?). The scene at the ceremony shows close to be what she is: a true master of her craft. Like Bergman, I think this is in the top tier of losing performances, and I wish Sony hadn't gone with the "it's her time campaign" and instead focused on just how wonderful she is here.
Bronze: Cate Blanchett
She's great here, and the way she looks at Rooney really seals the deal. It's interesting to watch how much Carol hides, all under a sheen of cool, if barely there, confidence.
Cate is obviously going to make it to 8, and likely Glenn too. I hope all of the living actresses get there.
Manos nailed it. I don't care for the other four.
Gold- Bergman
Silver- Blanchett
Bronze- Fonda (an underrated performance although the was the very first Fonda performance I saw and I was taken by her uniqueness/totally natural screen acting)
GOLD - Ingrid Berman
SILVER - Judi Dench
BRONZE - TIE Greer Garson/Kate Winslet
I so want to like Cate Blanchett, but gawd,she leaves me cold. Even when she's being brilliant. Has anyone ever seen her on stage?
What's even more amazing is that ALL SEVEN of Judi Dench's Oscar nominations came over age 65!
That is truly astonishing considering Hollywood's obsession with young ingenues!
Same order as Sean Casey, with a Fonda caveat too: it was one of the first performances I recall seeing through a nomination lens (I was in my teens), so I was very taken with it. Would love to revisit. Bergman is a runaway gold here, though.
Gold, Silver, Bronze, Copper, Paper, Scissors, Rock... Cate Blanchett in Carol
Then Ingrid Bergman
Then Judi
I'm not a fan of the rest of the performances, actually, with special hate towards The Morning After... And I love Jane!
Gold - Ingrid Bergman -- by a mile. It's a luminous performance; she brings a lifetime of skill and emotion. I'd have easily given her the Oscar over a fine Fonda.
Silver - Cate Blanchett
Bronze - Judi Dench
Will they really make Close the female equivalent to O'Toole?
1. Ingrid Bergman - Autumn Sonata
2. Judi Dench - Philomena
3. Glenn Close - The Wife
Gold - Ingrid Bergman
Silver - Cate Blanchett
Bronze - Glenn Close
Cate Blanchett does something extra special in Carol
The final scene alone is Oscar-worthy
REALLY cannot understand all the obsession for Blanchett's performance in Carol. She was fine in the movie but Mara stole the show.
Gold Bergman still one of the best nominations of her career
Silver Blanchett controversial but better here than Blue Jasmine
Bronze Fonda mainly because it's a fairly maligned nomination but I think she's great in it plus she should have had an 8th nod for Youth.
GOLD : Glenn Close - The Wife
SILVER: Cate Blanchett - Carol
BRONZE: Ingrid Bergman - Autumn Sonata
Gold: Glenn Close
Silver: Cate Blanchett
Bronze: Ingrid Bergman
I've never seen Autumn Sonata, so putting that aside:
Gold - Winslet (maybe too high, but I think it's her best work in the last 10 years, and I didn't like the film at all, otherwise, so I was grateful for what she brought to it)
Silver - Blanchett
Bronze - Dench
I remember liking Fonda a lot, but my memory of that performance is hazy.
🥇 Queen Blanchett
🥈 Kate Winslet
🥉 Glenn Close
Judi Dench definitely did not deserve that nomination.
MJC -- ooh love the emoji medals even if we disagree on the medals. I think i'd go
CATE
GLENN
JANE ? (ScottC -- same!)
from this list but awful confession: i haven't seen Autumn Sonata. I DO NOW OWN IT ON DVD THOUGH so i should get to it soon.
🥇 Ingrid Bergman, Autumn Sonata
🥈 Cate Blanchett, Carol
🥉 Glenn Close, The Wife
For those performances:
Gold Blanchett
Silver Close
Bronze Fonda
Bergman is my favorite overall, though
@Nathaniel R - let me spoil it for you. Liv Ullmann is even better than Bergman in Autumn Sonata.
It's a FANTASTIC performance
Gold Bergman
Silver Blanchett
Bronze Winslet
GOLD: Ingrid Bergman, Autumn Sonata
SILVER: Glenn Close, The Wife
BRONZE: Cate Blanchett, Carol
@ Nathaniel R - Please, when you see Autumn Sonata, make it a double feature with Tacones Lejanos (High Heels), I think you haven't seen it either and it's amazing!! To me, so much better than Autumn Sonata, one of my favorite Almodóvars, and one of his most underappreciated movies
Victoria & Marisa >>>>> Liv & Ingrid
Gold: Bergman
Silver: Blanchett
Bronze: Dench (don't hate the player, hate the game—she's outstanding in this, whatever one thinks of the film)
(I should probably see The Morning After and Sunrise at Campobello at some point...but I probably won't.)
Gold, Blanchett. Silver, Bergman. Bronze, Winslet.
Pam, I've seen Blanchett onstage four times. Her Blanche DuBois was without hyperbole one of the most shattering performances I've ever seen. Also saw her with Isabelle Huppert and Elizabeth Debicki in The Maids, which was absolutely bezerk and bonkers; and in Hedda Gabler and Uncle Vanya.
The crazy thing is that she has one set of extraordinary qualities perfect for film, but yet has a whole different set of qualities perfect for the stage. She's incredibly magnetic and arresting onstage.
I don't know what to make of the stories that Ingmar Bergman claimed Ingrid almost ruined AUTUMN SONATA with cliched, old-Hollywoodish acting, and didn't want to take direction from him. It sounds like he almost fired her/she almost quit, before she finally gave in and started giving him the more-raw performance he wanted. But the results are on the screen. She's really impressive in a sodden kind of way. Maybe it shouldn't matter that AS is one of Ingmar's most claustrophobic and simple-minded films: Woman ruins her kids lives by having a career instead of being home more. When I hear people like Peter Cowie call it Ingmar Bergman's best, or near-best film, I'm stunned. For me it's near the bottom of a nearly 50 film filmography, including at least 20 towering masterpieces.
cal roth - I completely agree. Liv's role is thankless (the frumpy drudge of a daughter), but she's brilliant!. Bergman is excellent, too, of course, but she's surprisingly hammy in the English-language section
Gold - Bergman
Silver - Winslet
Bronze - Blanchett
Nathaniel is not the only one in this thread who hasn't seen Autumn Sonata, judging from the lack of Bergman placements!
When I say "stories that Ingmar Bergman claimed" I should have said "fact that Ingmar Bergman claimed." I could pull the quotes from his interviews where he said this.
@EricB - thank you for sharing. Hope to see her on the stage one day. Maybe her blue shark eyes will be warmer in person.
Gold: Ingrid Bergman
Silver: Cate Blanchett
Bronze: Glenn Close
The top two are pretty incredible and anyone whose not seen Autumn Sonata you must especially if your a Bergman fan. Cate is extraordinary and something not from this planet. Glenn is bronze as she’s just so great.
Judi would be my fourth and then the other three women I don’t care much for their performances.
Blanchett I predict will receive her eight whenever Nightmare Alley opens. Winslet I imagine will get another nom and the one who I want nominated most again is Jane.
@Dan, I think a big part of the reason why people love Autumn Sonata is because it's one of Bergman's most emotionally accessible films. Other than Scenes from a Marriage, Fanny, and Wild Strawberries, the emotion really hits home in transparent ways in ways they don't in other films (e.g., Seventh Seal, Persona, Through a Glass Darkly). It's a bit more obvious too, but it just feels identifiable, especially for a late-70s audience dealing with changes to the workplace, and even to one today.
Bergman had a peculiar Oscar history. I don't like any of her wins and she got snubbed for Casablanca, Stromboli and her Hitchock movies, arguably superior.
You can't be an actressexual if you haven't seen Autum Sonata! It's like the ABC of passive agressive relations between mother and daughter. If you don't have the time you can alway check the big fight scene in Almodóvar's High Heels. Marisa Paredes and Victoria Abril even say the same lines.
@Pam, I saw Cate on stage in the present. Not the best play, but she truly was a jolt of energy. Of course, part of this is because of her persona and a big part of it was the role her character has in that play, but everytime she was on stage you could feel the whole theater come alive with energy. In particular, I remember being impressed with how she acted with her whole body. She really gets the medium, and how it's different than film.
Gold-INGRID BERGMAN Autumn Sonata (1978)-When she won for Orient Express I think it was very much the same situation that put the Oscar into Kate Hepburn's hands for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Fabled legend who was perceived to have passed her time as a competitive force so they took the opportunity to honor her, not knowing she would come charging back with some of her best work very shortly after. The difference being that they still gave the Oscar to Kate for Lion in Winter but not Ingrid which is a damn shame since she was best in her category that year and unlike Kate she wouldn't have anymore chances.
Silver-GLENN CLOSE The Wife (2018)-The movie is only okay but Glenn is divine.
Bronze-JANE FONDA The Morning After (1986)-As with Glenn and The Wife Jane's vehicle is somewhat ramshackle but her take on her Gail Russell type character is solid gold.
How I'd place the others:
GREER GARSON Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
KATE WINSLET Steve Jobs (2015)
JUDI DENCH Philomena (2013)
CATE BLANCHETT Carol (2015)-I just don't get the love for the film or her performance.
My Gold would be a tie between Ingrid Bergman in Autumn Sonata and Glenn Close in The Wife: two magnificent, under the top performances in the role of two 'cold' characters that are going to explode in the third act of their films.
Bronze goes to Cate Blanchett's endless charme and silent vulnerability in Carol.
@Joe G. That may be true. I just know that for much of the 1980s and 90s, there was a huge Bergman backlash. If you said you liked Bergman in those decades people thought you were either pretentious, masochistic, or both. (This was the era when Godard or Kurosawa were everybody's favorite classic art house auteurs.) If you asked people why they didn't like Bergman, they inevitably brought up the 70s films and said something like, "I guess I just don't find hour after hour of Liv Ullmann ugly crying my idea of a good time." Of course that's an exaggeration, but one that points to something really oppressive about SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE, FACE TO FACE, THE SERPENT'S EGG, AUTUMN SONATA, etc. Thankfully, by the turn of the last century things started changing, but the reappraisal came after critics like Harlan Kennedy and Thomas Elsaesser encouraged, almost begged, people to go back to the earlier films (everything from THIRST to WINTER LIGHT) and give them a chance.
I'm surprised as many like Jane as I do,no nods from anybody for Greer,I haven't seen it and i'm assuming lots of others haven'teither.
Gold: Bergman
Silver: Blanchett
Bronze: Close
Peggy Sue -- i beg to differ because i co-created actressexuality. But all of us have our blind spots. I did recently get the DVD shipped to me though.
Eoin & Joe G -- i really hope that people will eventually come around on Glenn Close in THE WIFE. I totally believe she deserved that Oscar (among the nominees) that year. And it wasn't for her carer but for the performance itself. So great.
GOLD: Blanchett
SILVER: Bergman
BRONZE: Close
Gold - Ingrid Bergman
Silver - Glenn Close
Bronze - Greer Garson