Well, who do you think since the Oscars started, who were you most pleased about winning, and thought they Truly deserved the award.

 

 

I always think of Charlize Theron in Monster, she really did deserve that award :wub:

and also Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

 

I thought she was outstanding in that Movie :wub:

Steve Soderbergh (Best Director) for "Traffic", unlike Scorcese, he got it for the right film....

 

Jack Nicholson (Best Actor) - "One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest" - truly the greatest performance of his long, distinguished career

 

Philip Seymour Hoffman (Best Actor) - "Capote" - One of the 10 greatest actors working in Cinema today IMO..

 

 

i agree with both Jack Nicholson and Phillip Seymour, both outstanding performances.

 

although i havent seen Traffic yet :(

Also you could input, the most undeserving winners too ^_^

Also you could input, the most undeserving winners too ^_^

 

That could be a different thread...

 

That could be a different thread...

Started it ^_^

Best Film - 'Unforgiven', Best Director Clint Eastwood... Unforgiven, truly the greatest of the modern Westerns, and one which deals with the consequences of the violence so prevalent at the time upon all the characters concerned... I see this as really being the ending of a journey which started out in the mid-60s with Clint's classic Sergio Leoni-directed Spaghetti Westerns (although, to call it a 'sequel' would be false, it only has a very loose association in reality..), the iconic 'Man With No Name' finally actually given one... Almost 'Homerian' in its scope and ambition, an odyssey indeed in every sense, and quite an amazing way to end the saga... I reckon "Unforgiven" will probably go down as Clint's single greatest crowning achievement in directorial terms...

I'm not a fan of the Western genre at all, and Unforgiven didn't change my opinion tbh.

 

I did enjoy last year's The Proposition, though.... Ray Winstone was magnificent, as per usual.

 

And talking of Ray Winstone... isn't it time the Academy recognised his work, after shamefully failing to even nominate him for the masterpiece that is Nil By Mouth (one of my favourite ever movies)?

I'm not a fan of the Western genre at all, and Unforgiven didn't change my opinion tbh.

 

I did enjoy last year's The Proposition, though.... Ray Winstone was magnificent, as per usual.

 

And talking of Ray Winstone... isn't it time the Academy recognised his work, after shamefully failing to even nominate him for the masterpiece that is Nil By Mouth (one of my favourite ever movies)?

 

I loved "The Proposition" too, a very intense, psychological Western, a brilliant performance by Guy Pierce, another actor unfairly IGNORED by the Academy and the BAFTAs also.... We expect greatness from Ray Winstone, he never disappoints, even when the film itself isn't exactly great....

 

If you liked "The Proposition", you might also like Jim Jaramusch's excellently bizarre "Dead Man" with Johnny Depp....

 

It's only really certain types of Western I like - bizarre, hallucinogenic ones like "Dead Man"; edgy, gritty, nasty ones like Sam Peckinpah excelled at, the Spaghetti Westerns because they are pretty off the wall ("Django" is just one of the most fukked up films I have ever seen... :lol: ), and in the case of Sergio Leone, really quite marvellously structured and shot... If you cannot find a place for "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" or "Once Upon a Time in the West" in your heart, then I'm not really sure you truly love Cinema....