Comments on: If she gains/loses 50 pounds to play a psychotic she’ll get an Oscar for sure!

By: jayzhelle

jayzhelle — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:20:47 +0000

sandra did a good job in TBS BUT it is not oscar worthy… it’s like a routine every single year. meryl gives an excellent performance, gets nominated and loses the award to a mediocre actress who was able to give a decent performance for the first time in her life.

she was really good in out of africa and a cry in the dark. if we analyze it, she should have gotten 3 or 4 oscars (for lead actress). amazing how hillary swank has two and meryl only has one for the best actress category.

oh and the bridges of madison county is just one of her perfect performances.

By: details maybe later

details maybe later — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:32:31 +0000

I vote for Holocaust, because I love Meryl Streep and James Woods together. Or for her cameo in Stuck With You, doing a big musical number with Greg Kinnear. Offbeat Meryl rules!

As for the John Hughes tribute, it certainly wasn’t about film achievement, but he had a cinematic legacy nonetheless. The tribute was definitely a Oscar ceremony highlight.

By: pmaligaya

pmaligaya — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:48:41 +0000

The Bridges of Madison County. I never really understood what nuance in acting meant before I saw her performance in that movie.

By: howcomebubblegum

howcomebubblegum — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:59:10 +0000

Death Becomes Her!

By: saintbarry

saintbarry — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:15:08 +0000

I like Meryl Streep, I really think she should’ve won the Oscar for A Cry in the Dark. Anybody who says “A dingo ate my baby” in Aussie accent should win the Oscar. I never really got how Jodie Foster beat her on that (there should’ve been a tie that year if Jodie Foster really was due to win)

By: Curvy

Curvy — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:55:36 +0000

FALLING IN LOVE is a favorite! Haven’t seen PRIME, I think it came and went in cinemas. Must see it on video. Yes, Sandy is charming and all, but Meryl really truly deserved that Oscar.

By: Jara

Jara — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:43:29 +0000

Cracked had a good article a couple of days ago on why the Oscars aren’t what we think they are, that is, a reward for the deserving: http://www.cracked.com/article_18460_5-reasons-oscars-matter-even-less-than-you-thought.html

I guess Meryl wasn’t as ‘due’ as Sandra Bullock (yes, this sort of terminology makes it sound like they are pregnant), though why anyone would think Bullock had tallied more karmic Oscar points than Meryl Streep is beyond me. Bullock’s career is the flophouse around the block from Streep’s Holiday Inn.

By: avignon

avignon — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:29:39 +0000

River Wild, perhaps the closest to an action movie that we could ever imagine Meryl Streep appearing in. I remember reading that she truly navigated that boat like a pro in that film.

She-Devil, the first time I realized that she could do comedy as effortlessly as she does drama. (And the first time I ever saw a pink computer).

I am in awe of her in the quiet scenes where the truth of the character is revealed in the tiniest twitch of a facial muscle, the cold glint in the eye, the display of vulnerability that is there one second and is gone the next. The swing scene with Alec Baldwin at the end of It’s Complicated; the brief session with the therapist in which she asks to be told, just this once, whether she should continue having an affair with her ex or not. That part in Doubt where she discovers a pen lying on the floor and sees it as a sign of deteriorating discipline in the classroom. That scene in a posh Paris hotel room where, eyes puffy from recent crying, she informs Anne Hathaway in The Devil Wears Prada that Anne has to change dinner seating arrangements because her husband had just divorced her. The mother-daughter duet just before the wedding in Mamma Mia.

And Hilary Swank has won the Oscar twice?? :-(