Is Emily Blunt Humiliated?

Julie Andrews won an Oscar for playing Mary Poppins and Emily wasn't even nominated.

She was a bit grim as Mary Poppins - no warmth whatsoever.

She was good but oddly rather backgroundish as MP. She stood around a lot making faces reacting to what others were saying or doing. That's not leading role work. I like her and think she would have been more fun if given more to do. The few times she spoke she was charming.

Yes, it's the awards season version of bukkake.

No Oscar for Ms Resting Bitch Face.

I assume she doesn't care.

I forget, which one is she married to, Jason Sudekis or John Krasinki?

I think she's married to Chris Pratt?

No wait it's Patrick Wilson.

Of course she cares, she's never been nominated in spite of coming close a few times and being predicted through GG and SAG noms.

She is respected though, just unlucky.

I'd be more embarrassed to be the perennial loser like Amy Adams is likely to be again this year as you stand out more.

Always a Bridesmaid, Amy is, though not in the movie.

Julie only won it for Mary Poppins because she didn't get the My Fair Lady movie role

I woulda gotten her a WIN, you scabs.

She should be. She and her annoying tryhard husband were everywhere campaigning and neither got anything.

John needs to show what a daring actor he is and go fully naked in an artsy movie

[quote]I assume she doesn't care.

False.

Honestly, when I see a young, attractive woman win an Oscar, I just assume she fucked for it. I wish I didn't, but there's just too much evidence.

R17 it doesn't help that almost none of the young winners of the last decade have given a performance that will be remembered as brilliant and they've each one over at least one older actress giving an incredible performance.

Was julie really that good that she won? Who did she beat? I don’t even think it’s an Oscar caliber role. She should’ve won for the Sound of Music.

Julie Andrews got a sympathy Oscar, much like Elizabeth Taylor did for Butterfield 8. Andrews was good but there was nothing extraordinary about her performance. But the film was a huge success for Disney so she benefitted from that as well.

Two of her competitors - Anne Bancroft in The Pumpkin Eater and Kim Stanley in Seance on a Wet Afternoon - gave far better performances, but few people saw those films.

R21 is right. A lot of it had to do with the success of the movies sometimes. My opinion is Bancroft would have won had she not got the 62 award for The Miracle Worker. And Kim Stanley was brilliant in Seance.

There's a shot towards the end of the original film after the Bankses are running out to the park singing "Let's Go Fly a Kite" where Mary Poppins is staring after them, in close-up, with a face of extreme sadness and longing--she adores the family, but she knows their newly discovered happiness means it's now time for her to leave them. A friend of mine always insists this shot alone is what justified Julie's Oscar (although she really [italic]did[/italic] win it mostly because people wanted to stick it to Jack Warner for being so arrogant about casting Audrey Hepburn in "My Fair Lady").

Bancroft is really brilliant in the famous breakdown scene in Harrod's in "The Pumpkin Eater."

Em simply isn’t an “It Girl” like I was.

Lets start a GoFundMe page for that, r15.

Don't love her but don't mind her either *shrugs*, but for sure she'll be pining for that one role that gets her there. Just as any Hollywood type actress.

In a situation like this, most actresses would try the old trick of being "brave" and getting ugly for a role. Blunt's problem is that there's a good chance no one would notice that.

I'm sobbing as I type this!

There's always Jungle Cruise.

She is going to throw herself into Peple!

Rosamunde Pike is a cold fish and she still managed to get nominated.

Will Matt ths Loon mancott these Oscars as well?

Her lack of nomination(s) this year is no tragedy. The MP sequel received relatively tepid reviews, and while she was good in A Quiet Place, it was fraudulent positioning her for a Best Supporting Actress nom, which is what they were doing, so I'm sure many voters were irritated by that and rightfully said "No, thank you," when it came time to nominate in that category.

Her strongest work has been in Girl on a Train and in The Devil Wears Prada. Those were both nomination-worthy performances. If she was unable to score with those two bids, there's no reason why these two 2018 performances should have rung the bell.

I think she'll win someday, but not likely until she's in her 50s or older. She's really more of a character actress than ingenue, despite how she's been promoted these last ten years, so I think when the Industry finally gets it right with her it will be later rather than sooner.

I don't disagree R35. I think she's in the same pool as Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley (although those two actually managed to get nominations). Interchangeable English actresses who aren't very interesting.

Andrews didn't deserve that Oscar, she only won because of the sympathy vote.

And I agree with R35, IMHO Blunt is always good and will have a long career, she'll be one of those Brit actors who does everything forever and will finally get a win for a truly great role when she's older. Of course truly great roles don't come along every decade, but until it happens she'll go along being good in everything she does. Better to work forever than be Jennifer Lawrence, and burn out quickly without fulfilling your early promise.

Rosamunde Pike know who and how to fuck

Maybe Jennifer Lawrence is just taking a well-deserved rest...? After her first nom, for Winter's Bone, in 2010, she released thirteen films between 2011 and 2015, including four Hunger Games films in which she's practically in every scene. It'll be interesting to see if she can stage a significant comeback. She's been in only one film per year since that packed run of flicks.

The Brits are on their way out. They all got in thanks to Weinstein. He started that crap.

She was touted as a big STAR years years ago before she'd proven it, and she still hasn't. Who the fuck is she? Why must *she* be a big star, who decided that? She's had enough chances, just go away now.

Andrews won because Walt Disney was the Weinstein of his day. He pitched to role to her in his bathtub. And the stiff upper lip Andrews didn't flinch. She said she'd do anything for the role and Disney said I'll get you an Oscar and he did. Hepburn didn't put out for Warner and he sabotaged her chances by leaking the info on Nixon.

[quote]I assume she doesn't care.

What delusion is this? Of course actors care, they always care. Blunt was doing all the campaigning events, she was definitely trying to make a nomination happen.

She's another Meg Ryan. She'll never be nominated for an Oscar.

She seemed to have to least amount of screen time than the rest of the leads. The movie really belonged to the Banks family. PS I liked it alot more than I thought I would. If Blunt should have gotten a nom for anything it's Devil Wears Prada which she stole from Meryl and AnnE.

[quote]Rosamunde Pike know who and how to fuck

Who?

No all is lost. She’s doing a movie with the Rock ! Also a movie similar to Girl On A Train.

Good, one I want to go away. Have NEVER gotten her, not even in "Devil Wears Prada". One of those non-stars.

I like her in a Mary zpoppins but she was one note. Rob Marshall wasn’t the right director for this movie even though it turned out okay.

The general public don’t Love her, despite her ease and wit on talk shows. She’s also a major schmoozer and makes friend easily with powerful people but that is never a given in terms of popularity.

She has that weird trouty mouth and cold, mocking eyes and lank hair, that doesn’t help.

Her very best performance is one of her first, as a mean, sexy, teenage rich bitch opposite Paddy Considine and Natalie Press in MY SUMMER OF LOVE directed by Best Director Oscar nominee Pawel Pawelkowski.

A Safe Place is her best work but she wouldn’t have been nominated for Best Actress for that either.

This is MY year , bitches.

Yeah, they could've saved that Power Couple stuff until they each actually got nominations. Probably turned people off. The last minute category fraud probably didn't help.

When she was on Graham Norton promoting A Quiet Place she made a big deal about when they were in London Krasinski put a baseball cap on which, to her, was the ultimate tourist move. Because the Britain Emily Blunt knows is apparently that from the 50s where no Brit ever wears a baseball cap. So either she's incredibly fake and maintaining this image of Britain which doesn't exist, or she's stuck in a snobby bubble and so has no idea what Britain actually looks like anymore.

Both she and her husband come across as elitist.

My question is, what other actress has had a year like this? Where they pull out all the publicity stops, had more than one buzzed about performance, picked up some precursors, but were shut out by the Oscars?

[quote]My question is, what other actress has had a year like this? Where they pull out all the publicity stops, had more than one buzzed about performance, picked up some precursors, but were shut out by the Oscars?

Chastain would be the most obvious answer.

Kidman and Carell had more than one Oscar bust. I don’t know how they campaigned.

I don't think Carell campaigned for anything. It became pretty clear early on that none of his films were good.

Another thread by Matt the Loon

Andrews Oscar was well-deserved. Nice to see a charming, fun performance in a musical win: it's as much an achievement as pulling out all the stops in drama.

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