Sean Penn did not deserve the oscar
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SteveResin — 14 years ago(February 27, 2012 08:11 AM)
Penn was superb imo and deserved his award. I completely forgot I was watching Penn and not the real Harvey during this film such was his amazing performance.
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clytamnestra — 13 years ago(October 12, 2012 04:31 AM)
this movie was made in 2008.
i don't know what time-machine you arrived in that you would think of playing a gay character as 'brave' and in itself oscar-worthy.
if anything 'hey everybody, look at me playing a gay person in a gay-phobic environment' has been waaay overdone. to the point that it is now a cheap oscar-bait trick, along the line of making a holocaust-movie. -
cassiopee — 14 years ago(September 13, 2011 09:10 AM)
Completely agree with spbutters. Milk was one of the most overrated oscar movies i have ever seen. I was truly dissapointed by this film. Penn was good, but it was not oscar performance. I didn't found his role to be so dificult to play.
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RaxR1991 — 13 years ago(May 13, 2012 09:11 AM)
Sounds like you called Sean Penn ex-gay.
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Paula57 — 14 years ago(September 16, 2011 12:08 AM)
It could be as simple as the fact that Harvey Milk was a real person. Penn had the responsibility to capture his speech and mannerisms. Hollywood loves its biopics. Colin Firth just won for The Kings Speech,and James Franco and Jesse Eisenberg were both nominated, all playing real men. Daniel Day Lewis, Russell Crowe, Morgan Freeman, Meryl Streep, Reese Witherspoon, Marion Cotillard, Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Forrest Whitaker, Denzel Washington, Helen Mirren, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Charlize Theron, and Nicole Kidman have all been nominated or won Oscars for portraying real people. That's a long list, and I had to stop somewhere. There are a lot more.
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mad_roke — 14 years ago(November 13, 2011 12:15 PM)
well it is VERY hard to decide.
This oscar choice is in one line with "Howard DiCaprio Hughes" vs. "Ray Foxx Charles".
I am JUST now watching Milk for the very first time and I believe every second of Penn's performance, as I did with Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler. All of the four movies I mentioned are in my opinion equal to one another and therefore it's no use bashing any of it. They are top notch. -
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toddjacobucci2002 — 14 years ago(January 13, 2012 02:52 PM)
Im with some of you here, and against others. For my money, Penn was good, but not great. Ill take Rourke over Penn for the oscar. I'd also take Richard Jenkins in the Visitor over Penn. Just my two cents.
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hernanmachopaul — 14 years ago(January 25, 2012 10:20 AM)
I can't decide which one between Penn in this and Rourke in "The Wrestler" was better, but the Oscar should have gone to Rourke for the simple reason that in "The Wrestler" his was by far his best acting of his rather pitiful career, at least until that point, and may not happen again. Penn, on the other hand, has been in good movies and has had great roles in the past and will continue to do so in the future
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paynejeremy — 14 years ago(January 30, 2012 07:06 AM)
I agree they were both great, but not with your reasoning as to why Rourke should've got it.
Just as well Javier Bardem didn't go up against them (for Actor) or he would've missed a well-deserved Oscar (for Supporting Actor). -
Doc80 — 9 years ago(October 15, 2016 06:51 AM)
The Oscar isn't supposed to go to the actor with the best performance in his pitiful career, it goes to the best performance of the year. Rourke in The Wrestler was nothing special in particular. He was basically playing himself.