Sean Penn did not deserve the oscar
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anaconda89 — 14 years ago(August 25, 2011 09:24 AM)
Eastwood gave the performance of his life in Gran Torino and he wasn't even nominated.
You ahbe to remember Penn was playing a gay character, so the academy will award him for being brave to tackle the role. -
holydanny — 14 years ago(September 02, 2011 12:58 PM)
Agreed, but there were a handful of great lead actor performances deserving of a win that year including Rourke, Eastwood, Frank Langella in Frost Nixon and my personal favourite Leonardo DiCaprio giving his best performance to date in Revolutionary Road.
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SteveResin — 14 years ago(February 27, 2012 08:11 AM)
Penn was superb imo and deserved his award. I completely forgot I was watching Penn and not the real Harvey during this film such was his amazing performance.
The memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime -
clytamnestra — 13 years ago(October 12, 2012 04:31 AM)
this movie was made in 2008.
i don't know what time-machine you arrived in that you would think of playing a gay character as 'brave' and in itself oscar-worthy.
if anything 'hey everybody, look at me playing a gay person in a gay-phobic environment' has been waaay overdone. to the point that it is now a cheap oscar-bait trick, along the line of making a holocaust-movie. -
cassiopee — 14 years ago(September 13, 2011 09:10 AM)
Completely agree with spbutters. Milk was one of the most overrated oscar movies i have ever seen. I was truly dissapointed by this film. Penn was good, but it was not oscar performance. I didn't found his role to be so dificult to play.
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RaxR1991 — 13 years ago(May 13, 2012 09:11 AM)
Sounds like you called Sean Penn ex-gay.
My ratings:
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Paula57 — 14 years ago(September 16, 2011 12:08 AM)
It could be as simple as the fact that Harvey Milk was a real person. Penn had the responsibility to capture his speech and mannerisms. Hollywood loves its biopics. Colin Firth just won for The Kings Speech,and James Franco and Jesse Eisenberg were both nominated, all playing real men. Daniel Day Lewis, Russell Crowe, Morgan Freeman, Meryl Streep, Reese Witherspoon, Marion Cotillard, Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Forrest Whitaker, Denzel Washington, Helen Mirren, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Charlize Theron, and Nicole Kidman have all been nominated or won Oscars for portraying real people. That's a long list, and I had to stop somewhere. There are a lot more.
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mad_roke — 14 years ago(November 13, 2011 12:15 PM)
well it is VERY hard to decide.
This oscar choice is in one line with "Howard DiCaprio Hughes" vs. "Ray Foxx Charles".
I am JUST now watching Milk for the very first time and I believe every second of Penn's performance, as I did with Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler. All of the four movies I mentioned are in my opinion equal to one another and therefore it's no use bashing any of it. They are top notch. -
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toddjacobucci2002 — 14 years ago(January 13, 2012 02:52 PM)
Im with some of you here, and against others. For my money, Penn was good, but not great. Ill take Rourke over Penn for the oscar. I'd also take Richard Jenkins in the Visitor over Penn. Just my two cents.