Cauuuse, THIS tiiiiime, Effie Whiiiite's gonnaaaa aaaa, WIN!!!

The most least deserving oscar win should go to:
Particia arquette for Boyhood. Worst performence ever

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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).

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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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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:

1. Cate Blanchett- Notes on a Scandal
2. Abigail Breslin- Little Miss Sunshine
3. Rinko Kikuchi- Babel
4. 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.

She not only chewed the scenery, she swallowed it, spat it out, then stomped on it a cupla' times just to make sure the point wasn't lost.
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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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..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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She wasn't bad, but Rinko Kikuchi and Adrianna Barrazza (however you spell it) were much better. Oscars are as reliable as the Teen Choice Awards.

stomping around the stage yelling at Jamie Foxx
this made my day, thank you lol
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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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Her character was suppose to be a loud mouth, high confident show girl and that's exactly what she pulled off beautifully. What more do you want? She deserved everything she got.

^^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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I agree with you, she in no way deserved that oscar. Everyone at the oscars when she won was thinking the same thing. All of these amazing actors, watching a great SINGER being awarded an oscar for singing with emotion (pretty much all singers do the same). It's very different than actually acting. The proof is what this oscar winner has done sincehas anyone watched the cringeworthy sex and the city movie? SHE IS ONCE AND FOR ALL NOT A GOOD ACTRESS YOU IDIOTS!
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I'm going to have to agree with the OP here. Terrible actress. Excellent singer! The Oscar win was a travesty. Especially considering whom she was up against. (Why do actresses like Viola Davis, Angela Bassett get looked over) Rinko Kikuchi and Adrian Babarra ran circles around her.
Another sad day in Oscar history.
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I actually saw Jennifer Holiday on Broadway as Effie and Jennifer Hudson merely mimicked Holiday's depiction of Effie, the character which she personally developed. Also, Holiday's renditions of the original soundtrack still stands the test of time 30 years later; see for yourself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC_u_q-iND0
Jennifer Hudson owed Jennifer Holiday more than thanks for her inspiration.

Marisa Tomei = 3 Oscar nods

If anyone thinks Jennifer Hudson is the weakest or worst performer to win an acting Oscar, then you obviously have never seen Louise Rainer, Marisa Tomei, Josephine Hull, or Red Buttons.

She was alright.good even. Her singing was good. The movie was alright
The other 2006 nominees werent anymore spectacular in their supporting categorybut I havent seen 'Babel' yet.

She depends on her singing to cover up her poor acting through the entire duration of the movie. When she is not singing, she may as well not even be there. One of the least deserving Oscar wins in history.
I think that is rather harsh statement about the character development she could only act out what was given to her. She didn't write the movie. I could get into a whole other discussion about that. Loosley based on the Supremes. The movie could have been much more. I think there several legal reasons why the movie didn't develop more and why some parts were accurate and than some were fictious.
I wasn't nearly as critical of the Effie character since Beyonce played Deena. I just don't think Beyonce is that great of an actress. Having said that I still loved Dreamgirls. Jennifer wasn't great but she was good and her singing was awesome. This was also her first movie. In The Secret Life of Bees she brought life to the character Rosaleen and was really great in it. That is also a great read by the way.
I love Anika Noni Rose in all her stuff.