Jennifer Hudson= blah!
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Hypsomnia — 14 years ago(April 14, 2011 05:01 PM)
^^This, and what was up with that "She gave us a PERFORMANCE" crap on the first page? IT'S ALL ACCOUNTED FOR! Peformance = Acting, ALONG with whatever musical number is written with the role and singing well SHOULD NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES CONSTITUTE AN OSCAR WIN OR NOMINATION FOR THAT MATTER. Sorry, but it's about the ALL AROUND performance, not belting out "You're Gonna Love Me." I wanted to sound off on such a stupid comment but it was over a year old. lol
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cocobug1 — 15 years ago(March 02, 2011 05:08 PM)
OH! I agree, honestly I found her whole performance in "you're guna love me" ridiculous. I'm not disputing the fact she has a great voice but stomping around the stage yelling at Jamie Foxx should not have earned her an oscar
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samsan_lee — 13 years ago(May 04, 2012 02:54 AM)
..She wasn't THAT GREAT SERIOUSLY. Tons of GREAT ACTRESSES THAT HAVE BEEN ACTING LONGER AND ARE BETTER(ACTING WISE) AND HAVEN'T WON NOT ONE OSCAR BUT SHE WINS ONE ON HER FIRST TRY, WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH TO WIN ON AMERICAN IDOL BUT CAN WIN A PRIZE(Oscar) THAT TAKES SOME PEOPLE A VERY LONG TIME TO ACHIEVE. PLZ.
Everyone knows "Best Supporting Actor/Actress" is either used to push a new starlet the studios are backing, or to reward a long-time near-Oscar performer with an Oscar (best example being Ben Johnson, who won Best Supporting Oscar for The Last Picture Show).
Politics, marketing and positioning play a big role, and they have huge plans for Jennifer Hudson. She will play in "The Bodyguard" remake, and Clive Davis has already crowned her the next Whitney Houstoni will also say that the Oscars now play a part in trying to gain new audiences by widening the exposure of actresses who wouldnt normally be considered.
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cmichaud — 9 years ago(February 07, 2017 07:21 PM)
If that were always the case though, why did Fred Astaire lose to Robert DeNiro? Unless you consider DeNiro a 'starlet' at that relatively early point in his career?
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frumaatholoid — 13 years ago(September 20, 2012 12:36 AM)
Agreed. She has a great voice, but besides that her performance was unremarkable at best. It's sort of infuriating that she won over the other nominees that year, let's review them:
- Cate Blanchett- Notes on a Scandal
- Abigail Breslin- Little Miss Sunshine
- Rinko Kikuchi- Babel
- Adrianna Barazza- Babel
Every single one of these actresses gave a better performance, even the 10 year old Abigail Breslin. I think Rinko Kikuchi was particularly deserving of the honor. But I think, as the poster above me said, the Academy likes to spread the wealth, and a lot of members vote based on what studio they are loyal to. If I remember it accurately, there was a lot of buzz around Hudson's performance, and she won nearly all the other critic' and guild awards that year. That's what particularly irritates me the most. I think there is a strong possibility that these smaller critic committee's are being paid by studios to vote for a particular performer, so that they build enough pre-cursor award season momentum to become the frontrunner to win the Academy Award. Movie makers think that if viewers hear their film wins an Academy Award, they're more likely to see it. It's really the best explanation to me in regards to Jennifer Hudson winning an Academy Award. Her acting is so amateurish here. This was, along with Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side, the worst performances to win an Oscar in the past 10 years.
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tisket — 13 years ago(February 23, 2013 08:15 PM)
Well, everytime I see Jennifer Hudson in this movie, I cry. She is amazing in this role. This is one of the most brilliant breakout performances in recent years. Her singing and acting were perfect. Nothing about her is bhah.
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dwellman21 — 10 years ago(June 05, 2015 12:00 AM)
Yeah I don't know WTH was with the absurd amount of hype this movie had either. Honestly she didn't even have the best musical number of the movie, and CERTAINLY her acting was an amateurish first-timer performance coming from a script that wouldn't require her to or be ABLE to bring much out of it anyways. Not to begrudge her or anything, that WAS her first film role so I didn't expect her to be Meryl Streep or anything, and she did what she could with a meh script. But a Best Actress of 2006 award? Hell no, she shouldn't have even been nominated. Hell I'd even nominate BEYONCE before her (but again, really no one in this movie should have gotten nominated, not even Eddie Murphy).