Re: Best Actress 2009
Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 6:06 pm
This is a horrible lineup. Bullock could be, at best, likable (as she is in some of her comedies), but I'm still sincerely puzzled as to how this performance, in this particular non-movie, this win, even happened. It's really the Academy's lowest point.
I can't for the life of me see why Streep deserves a win other than for the paucity of candidates here – it's a totally light performance, and I don't think she ever "becomes" Julia Child (though, in her defense, the film never allows her to).
Mulligan's stardom is one I absolutely don't get, and Sabin is spot-on in his criticism of her – I don't for a second believe that this innately perceptive girl would be so naive as to fall for that man. Star-making, luminous, heartbreaking – I just don't see it.
In Sofya Tolstoy, Helen Mirren gets a plum role that makes use of her interesting, mature sexuality. It's nice work.
Hers is very much a passive performance, but watching Sidibe react so organically to the characters around her (many of whom I think exist purely for sensationalist purposes in this bloated, overdirected film) feels more real than anything else in the film. I haven't really been impressed by her attempts at being a comedienne, but I can't deny that she was very fine in this role.
I'm not sure who good alternates are – I was really pulling for Cornish, but Bright Star lacked much idiosyncrasy. The Stoning of Soraya M is one of those movies I genuinely despised so I can't really consider Aghdashloo.
I can't for the life of me see why Streep deserves a win other than for the paucity of candidates here – it's a totally light performance, and I don't think she ever "becomes" Julia Child (though, in her defense, the film never allows her to).
Mulligan's stardom is one I absolutely don't get, and Sabin is spot-on in his criticism of her – I don't for a second believe that this innately perceptive girl would be so naive as to fall for that man. Star-making, luminous, heartbreaking – I just don't see it.
In Sofya Tolstoy, Helen Mirren gets a plum role that makes use of her interesting, mature sexuality. It's nice work.
Hers is very much a passive performance, but watching Sidibe react so organically to the characters around her (many of whom I think exist purely for sensationalist purposes in this bloated, overdirected film) feels more real than anything else in the film. I haven't really been impressed by her attempts at being a comedienne, but I can't deny that she was very fine in this role.
I'm not sure who good alternates are – I was really pulling for Cornish, but Bright Star lacked much idiosyncrasy. The Stoning of Soraya M is one of those movies I genuinely despised so I can't really consider Aghdashloo.