Eddie Murphy's Oscar Loss: A Concensus
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vickyvalle — 18 years ago(January 21, 2008 08:11 PM)
I am also apparently in the minority, but I was not impressed with Eddie Murphy's performance. Oscar worthy? Not in my opinion.
I think he was talented enough to deserve the role, and I think he performed decently. He got some valuable experience here, and he can take it and put it to use in another role, and maybe that role will be Oscar worthy. -
Anderz90 — 17 years ago(April 07, 2008 10:22 AM)
Eddie deserved it, but they probably gave it to Arkin because he is very old and this might be his last chance at an award. Eddie has years to take home the award if he can just lay off the crappy comedies where he plays all of the characters. That's another reason also. Norbit sucked big time. If he'd postponed the release date another month or so, his chance of winning would have been much bigger.
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gloriamichaelc-1 — 18 years ago(January 08, 2008 05:28 AM)
Hey. I always liked eddie, his films gross well over 100 million Domestic. Eddie murphy stoled the show. Also he was robbed! Wait! I hope he didn't go up against forest whitaker? That's a hard one. Mikey!
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rpniew — 18 years ago(January 10, 2008 02:39 PM)
"Well maybe Eddie shouldn't have been a little movie called, "Norbit" "
I stated that earlier. It isn't really fair; the award should, of course, be based upon the performance in that film alone, but if you look at "Dreamgirls" as Eddie's attempt to be taken seriously, and he follows it up with the less-than-usual Eddie Murphy fare, it does, in fact, reflect badly on him. I'm not saying he should have followed it up with "Macbeth", but a well-chosen follow-up would have given him the award. (or a delay in the release of "Norbit", which should have been a no-brainer to all involved.) -
lf1234 — 18 years ago(January 10, 2008 08:39 PM)
Maybe Eddie and those close to him didn't see him as the lock that the rest of us did and didn't think of his chances being helped or hurt by any other projects that he was in. Tough to believe but maybe they were just oblivious to all of this. I mean, Eddie himself thought that the Academy would never give him the award, nominated or not.
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the_darkness_of_poetic_humor — 18 years ago(January 13, 2008 09:01 PM)
I don't think it matters if Eddie Murphy was in Norbit or not..seriously.the award is based on performance, not some other trashy movie you have out..I'm sure over the years we could find several actors or actresses that won a award for one movie and had some piece of beep yarn film they starred inwhew boy!!!
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lf1234 — 18 years ago(January 14, 2008 09:19 AM)
It's funny. I was watching Norbit the other day and realized this: This is what Eddie Murphy does!
What he did in Dreamgirls was wonderful and definitly deserving of recognition, but I think expecting him to turn into some serious actor just because of the political aspects of the Oscars and not giving him the award for doing what he's always done was stupid on the public and the Academy's part.