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I think she did a great job of acting and deserved to win.
She also looked really hot! you got to love the high heels and the skin tight outfits!

I know you posted your comment in 2008, but I recommend that you read it again and edit it. Some of the things you wrote are "unbelievable," to say the least. Do yourself a favor. Reconsider, delete and repost. For the record, I am a big fan of Marisa Tomei. She has proven to be a great actress and she totally deserved the Oscar for this film. Her performance in "The Wrestler" was outstanding.

yep she was brill
"You have enemies? Good! That means you've stood up for something,sometime in your life"

As a New Yorker, I was tickled. I thought she nailed the part of Mona Lisa Vito.
Don will fix it. He knows what that nut means to Utz and what Utz means to us.

She got lucky it was a weak year for her category.
Overrated!
I think Mira Sorvino's Oscar-winning performance is overrated as well as Cuba Gooding Jr., Anna Paquin, Holly Hunter, and Kathy Bates.

People don't think of comedy as "Oscar caliber" is what it boils down to it.
She easily stuck out in a weak year. There are years where everyone in the category deserves it but only one person/film gets the award.
I remember when Silence of the Lambs won best picture. There is NO WAY that movie was Oscar Caliber. Excellent movie but that year was so weak. I think Beauty and the Beast by Disney was it's main competition that year.

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i remember the controversy and i absolutely thought she deserved it. she is soooo funny in this and steals the movie. because it was more low budget and the stars hadn't been seen in awhile (pesci, macchiocharacter actors..herman munster), people assumed the meryl streep types would win. well, this girl got it and deserved it and i'm proud of her. she earned it. thank god they let a comedic actress win who isn't pretentious or full of crap.

I'm watching this right now. I haven't seen the performances in the other films nominated (they don't seem to be remembered the way this one has) but I think she's great here!

5. More than 5 people went to see the film
   It's funny 'cause it's true.
   Marisa completely deserved her win. In general I get annoyed with tiresome people who try to demean someone's victory, or worse, try to claim that everyone feels the same way. The honor is in the nomination, since the Academy votes at large for the actual award, but only your peers can nominate you. (That is, actors nominate actors; but the whole Academy votes for the eventual winner.) This is why there are so many boring, obvious choices, and why it's usually a dramawhich is annoying because comedy is much more diffuclt that drama.

I remember seeing the Oscars when she won and I was elated just b/c the Academy finally went w/ a surprise choice for a change! Someone from an actual comedy!

I agree with you 100%! She was great in this! I miss her:(
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you're appears to be more of a hater response to me

What a dumb*ss, hater response. Freakin' tool.
Don't even want to waste my 5 seconds explaining this to you, but.sigh.since you so obviously missed the OP's point: it's not that she didn't fall into ONE of the 10 categories the OP listed, but that she didn't fall into ANY of them. So nitpicking on each one meant nothing- it's the fact that ALL 10 applied in SOME WAY.
Go away hater.
Thank you for your time.

I have no complaints her winning the Oscar. Your list on the other hand.

1. She didnt star in a movie about gays
   How many Oscar-winning movies are there that are about gays? 3?
2. She didnt cry
   She was angry though, sure mark for Oscar-fishing.
3. She didnt speak in a British accent
   Yes, Meryl Streeps trademark.
4. No one had AIDS in the movie
   But what about the crew, grips and sound engineers?
5. More than 5 people went to see the film
   Nearly as many as Titanic.
6. It was a movie that made people laugh
   You have something here. Oscar-winning comedies after 1960:
   The Apartment
   Forrest Gump
   The Sting (comedy/crime)
   Tom Jones
   and few actor-winners from comedies.
7. She didnt pretend to be a man
   This is actually a huge Oscar-winning category.
8. She had the nerve to appear in a movie that appealed to a wide audience
   Like Helen Hunt, bit**es.
9. She didnt star in a movie that preached to people about a social issue
   Yes, like mafiosos money-making troubles or the use of hobbits as vehicles for saving the world.
10. The Coen Bros, Paul Thomas Anderson, or whatever other artsy fartsy director didnt direct it.
    Or like in the good old days, Billy "Artie" Wilder. Even Eastwood has gone artsy.
    Maybe I'll watch Big Lebowski for the umpteenth time right away. I love that fancy artistic elevating feeling I get watching Jeff Bridges head dumped into the toilet.
    Ok, I had too much time sitting here with the flu.

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lol that is the best argument ever i love Marisa still after the 100th time watching that movie she still cracks me up.

But the fact that she presented an award on Oscar night (with Joe Pesci) is a precursor to her (eventual) Oscar win. Every other year, there will always be a winner who is also a presenter on Oscar night (see: Reese Witherspoon, George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Charlize Theron, Tim Robbins, Sofia Coppola, Renee Zellweger). Even Sean Penn was asked to present an award in 2004 (the year he won for Mystic River) but he declined. At least he won that night.

LMAO!! Great post and balls-on, dead accurate!
btw, in retrospect 1992 was a horrible year for movies.

I've never seen her in any other performance, interview etc. How far from her real persona was the one she protrayed in this film ? In other words was this a John Waye/Robert DeNiro kinda thing ? Or is she some mid western preppy type in her private life pulling off this character ? If shes from Queens/Brooklyn, with a typical NY upbringing the role is not that much of a stretch.Go to any mall in L.I. in the 90's and this "type" is the norm. I LOVE this movie, I think I fell in love with her (Lisa) the first time I saw it so I don't mean to diminish her performance - just that I'd be that much more impressed if she wasn't from NY. The stereo type is just too easy for anyone from the area . So, my point is if shes a native the role isn't that big a deal.Her looks didn't hurt either. Imagine if she was just an average woman, 25 pounds or so overweight, I think the role would not seem as impressive - just stereo typical if not a little too masculine for most guys taste ! Am I wrong here ?
Excellent point. The performance was great. But was the acting "hard work" or was it just her natural persona?

Just saw this great film again and I think MT thoroughly deserved her award.
I also, think this bloke on the previous comment is not just smoking tobacco.!!

You make not a lick of sense.
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