I just watched this movie after a few years, and seeing it anew just hammered home so many of its strengths: The editing cool colours in a present-day rundown house melding into bright summer colours in a well-kept 70s home, for example the acting (unsympathetic women at first), and a late subtext that could've brought more attention to teen sexual abuse, are all reasons it should've gotten more attention come awards season.

I just watched it today and I'm just dumbfounded that it didn't get any oscars let alone a single nomination! It's just one of those films that as soon as it starts you're like "ok this is something special, the oscars love these types of movies". The acting is fantastic, the story is great, the editing is done in an interesting way, you can literally feel the salty air on your skin.I don't know.
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Totally agreed. This movie had everything it needed to score multiple noms from multiple panels, but got relatively nothing. It's one of the greatest film awards mysteries, I truly think. Perhaps one of if not the greatest snubs in history.

Totally agree.I will just add Best Editing for the great narration cuts between the flashbacks and present scenes My personal favorite Stephen King adaption along with Shawshank !

Agreed that at the very least they deserved the nominations.

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What's your beef with Braveheart?

Wow, I thought the stand out performance in this film was Strathairn. Never saw this type of performance in him and he is always solid. Bates was also great as was Parfitt.
Leigh was truly bad in some scenes and goods in others. She has a tendency to overreach at times in this film and other.
Plummer was not good in this and I felt miscast.
The best scenes to me were the ones between Strathairn or Parfitt and Bates.

I agree, this movie is great. Excellent ensemble. Perhaps the reason it was not box office/oscar successful, was because of its heavy content. Not an oscar favorite kind.

Judy Parfitt was a revelation, hands down one of the best performances I have ever seen. I watched this last night, had not seen it since it's original release, and it has gotten better with age. She and Bates were both extremely deserving of nominations.
I watched it last night with two friends who had neither read the book nor seen the film before and they loved it.

Agree with most of your list OP. Bates and Parfitt were superb. I'm also glad to see Strathairn getting some respect here, as he took a one-note role in the novel and gave us a multi-dimensional character - abusive, mean, but also pathetic (sometimes almost comically so). His performance in that cringe-inducing flashback on the ferry was very brave (and he has said the scene was very hard to do. Ellen Muth as the young Selena is brave in this scene too, but the focus is more on Joe.). And who can forget the look on his face when Dolores confronts him right before the eclipse?
I'm not so keen on Leigh - she's a very mannered actress and tends to talk like she has marbles in her mouth (much like Mary Louise Parker). But she does hit the right notes in some scenes, particularly with Bates. Plummer's role is one he can do easily and was not, I think, a big challenge.

In fact it's 1996 oscars, not 1995 !
I always wondered why the movie did not receive prizes at that event, truly, at least, Kathy Bates deserved oscar for best performance in a lead role !
The ''Saturn Award'' nominations they received should have been at the golden globes not the Saturn ridiculous !
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Bates should have won Best Actress in a landslide victory - one of the best lead actress performances in cinematic history.

Just saw this film for the first time todayI'm amazed Kathy Bates didn't get best actress, who won that year? Because they'd have to have made the earth stand still to upstage the performance Kathy Bates did.

Parfitt was all-time worthy. If i could give the film ONE oscar, it would be her. But Actress and both your Supporting Actor noms, as well as cinematography and adapted screenplay would have been fine with me.

IMO, it's the BIGGEST Oscar snub in history should have AT LEAST got nominations for all the categories the OP mentioned.

I know it seems a lot, but it definitively should have been nominated at least for best picture, best actress and supporting actrees for both Jennifer and Judy Parffit..
This is an amazing movie, always in my top ten, how or why was / is this underrated I'll never understand
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I totally agree in all categories. Splendidly cast, acted and directed. This is possibly the best King adaptation made, although Cronenberg's 'Dead Zone' is a close runner-up.

It came out too early in the year and was forgotten about
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Yeah, this movie deserved more. So good

I agree this was an amazing movie. Not sure how it wasn't at least nominated for Best Picture, Actress, and Supporting Actress.
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