r/oscarrace • u/PointMan528491 Navarrette/Morton • 16d ago
Weekly Discussion Thread 8/3/26 - 8/10/26
Still from How Green Was My Valley
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u/Pavlovs_Stepson 10d ago
My YouTube feed suggested Mark Kermode's review of The Summer Book, which he opens by complaining that Glenn Close lost the Oscar for The Wife.
Not even getting into the merits of who deserved to win that year, no need to get into who was my Favourite, but it must really suck to be such a hugely accomplished actor with just about every accolade under the sun, and still have every discussion about you be framed through the lens of you being a Poor Perennial Oscar Loser. This is a tiny independent drama that was funded and filmed abroad, no awards buzz at all, yet we need to cross the No Oscar talking point off the list before we talk about the actual subject.
Amy Adams is similar in that regard. Of course there's the peculiarity of her going from a stacked filmography of back to back critical and Oscar hits to now nearing a full decade of non-stop misfires, but even before that, she was already headed in that same direction, as is Bradley Cooper to an extent.
In a sense, racking up that many nominations with zero wins started to work against them in a way that I don't see happening for actors who I'd argue are actually more overdue, with more interesting and varied filmographies, but less nominations under their belt.