Really?
Worst I've seen her, I don't blame her but I felt like she could hardly act through the English barrier (like a lot of people in the movie I feel), they were doing well if they didn't talk.

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Which Shakespeare in Love girl? If you're talking about Judi Dench, she's in all the most recent Bond movies and she is up in age so making so many movies is getting hard for her.
As for Gweneth Paltrow the younger girl who was Shakespeare's love interest, yeah she's in some string of films called "Iron Man" opposite RDJ and also the "Avengers" film also. She's been in a lot of films in key roles and has appeared in and out of TV here and there.
Btw, time isn't the best evidence to prove whether one can act or not because then you forget popularity. There are a few actors/actresses that are horrible, but keep getting roles because people love them. If you want to use time, look at Shia LaBeouf. After his run on Even Stevens ended, he's been in a lot of movies since 2003, even before Transformers. I don't think he's the best actor by any means, but he keeps getting film roles, except the times where he feels he wants to "quit acting because Hollywood is too shallow and unartistic for him."
I will agree though, the more times you get nominated for an Oscar (although there are biases in the Academy) and sprinkle in wins here and there and you've got the best evidence of how good of an actor you are. Look at Meryl Streep.

I did not watch her in that movie but I saw her in Nine and I think she is a fine actress, much better than many past Oscar winners like Nicole who can never acted without something on her face and that Shakespeare in Love girl I don't even bother with her name.
Where are these 2 now ? Time is the best evidence to prove whether one can act or not, not the oscars.

Exactly. Memoirs of a Geisha just wasn't very good overall.
" after only reading 3 of your posts, I can tell you're a dumbass "

How about just 3 years ago when Marion Cotillard won

What is Oscar ? Of-Special-Connection-American-Relationship. Their awards are NEVER fair. How many times have you ever seen a foreign actress won Best Actress in a foreign language film ? I only recall Sophia Loren; and that is because she hab68s a husband with good connections with the Americans.
I seldom pay attention to it. The other 3 are the real WORLD film awards, Cannes, Berlin, Venice.

She was most likely ditched in favor of Keira Knightley in P&P, which is understandable since P&P was much better reviewed than Memoirs.
I don't think her being Asian had anything to do with it. Her spot was shaky at best, considering her film had only a 35% on rotten tomatoes. She just missed out to a better performance.

Very few asian actors get nominations, though Ken Watanabe got a nominiation for The Last Samurai.
I thought for Crouching Tiger that Michelle Yeoh or Ziyi Zhang should definitely have gotten a nomination considering they gave top notch performances. For Memoirs, I thought Zhang's performance was respectable. I think this is just the academy having some sort of bias against asians sometimes.
I mean to get a best picture nomination, the film most likely has to be both popular and critically acclaimed. How many foreign language films are so much better than the ones that get nominated and don't even get a nod? It's just bias.

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YuL BryNNER and Ben KINGSley have both won OSCARS for BEST actor.

Yeah but asian actors/actresses have NEVER won MAIN BEST ACTOR/ACTRESSES AWARD. Only best SUPPORTING awards. As for Ang Lee h5b4e won a award for best director which is okay for the academy award since it is BEHIND THE CAMERA.

not true there's Asian stars that have won academy awards Miyoshi Umeki won best supporting actress in 1958 for her stellar work in the movie Sayonara opposite Marlon Brando. Maybe the studio didn't lobby enough for Ms Ziyi to be nominated and other actors that work prodminantly in other languages have won Oscars Sophia Loren comes to mind.
"why are you married to him then if you can't work with him how do you live with him?"

Sadly I have to agree. Between the ridiculously beautiful novel, adaptation, and how the actors brought those precious characters to life I was very disappointed at the lack of respect at the Academy Awards.
I don't shut up!

I think all things Asian are snubbed by Oscar. Oscar is mostly a white award.
Ang Lee is honored by Oscar, but mostly for work in white dramatic films. Crouching Tiger won for best Foreign Film, but that was a token award. I think Hollywood looks at Asians the same way they look at American Indians. Asians are a National Geographic magazine subject.