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Without question she deserved it. I agree with a previous poster that politics played against her as well as Samuel A. Jackson. She is a wonderful actress!

absolutely. possibly even a victory. Helen Hunt and Julia Roberts, two of the most ridiculous Actress wins in Oscar history.
i would have also put Sam Jackson and/or Robert DeNiro in the supporting actor race.

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She absolutely deserved an Oscar nomination, along with SLJ. But the right actress hasn't won the Oscar sincewell, for as far back as I remember. And when Halle Berry won it, you knew that was all she wrote.
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I don't know about Julie Christie, but I thought Pam's performance was more more convincing and full of more character complexities than Gwyneth Paltrow's in "Shakespeare in Love". I don't have any respect for the Motion Picture Academy's choices.
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Robert Forster got a deserved nomination but the exclusion of Pam was an absolute joke

Didn't think her performance was particularly Oscar Worthy. Good but not Oscar worthy. I hate to s*** on her but she was never known for her acting ability, let's face it. She was and still is to a certain degree a sex symbol.
Robert Forster was the most captivating, and he deservedly got an Oscar nomination.

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I can't even remember her competition that year, and I am usually good at predicting Oscars and grammys! I know Tarentino was pissed that she didn't win. I thought she should have won it too, but you know the Oscars. I mean, remember when Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburn should have won? Oscars. I don't know what to say about them.

She really should have gotten that Oscar! She deserved it fair and square(I hope i wrote this right). She really made Jackie come to life, and some other actresses won their Oscars just because they waved their boobs or poped their giant lips in close up(No A.J. punn intended)!
Who was her competition? Anything vaguely familiar? Who won the leading female role Oscar that year?

Pam Grier should have been nominated for Jackie Brown, along with Samuel L. Jackson for the same film.

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I too agree that Pam was great as Jackie Brown. And should of receive an oscar. After seeing it, I became more familiar with her other flicks. Though I find it sad that her name isn't well known in Hollywood like other actresses. But I do find her filmograhy to interesting. When she started on in thos5b4e women prison low budget films.

Absolutely. Pam's performance was easily as good, if not better, than Helen Hunt in As Good as it Gets.
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Don't bet your children on this, but I believe the studios decide who they want to push for the gold man and they put together magnificent little package folders with the DVDs inside to send to all the Academy (AMPAS) members. From there I do believe a lot of calling in favours and being extra nice to people goes on.
The academy is populated by people in the movie biz, but mainly the older, richer, duller segment. Of course old fashioned cash bribery generally won't work, coz most members are stinking rich, but of course the possibility of being part of this or that upcoming project must move a helluva lot of votes around.
Personally I think the whole thing is about as honest as a three dollar bill.
But that's just me

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yepp, she deserved it
it was an amazing film, well written
and had some fantastic acting
especially by Pam, she rocked the part, she lived it

f ucking idiots!