Leo won me over as an actor with "The Departed", he was also surprisingly great in "Revolutionary Road" which shouldve netted Winslet her Oscar instead of "The Reader".
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I like Leo in a few films - "What's Eating Gilbert Grape", "The Departed" and he wins my Best Actor award in 2002 for "Catch Me If You Can", but I think as he's getting older his lack of range is getting more and more noticeable. He was dire in "Revolutionary Road".
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I didn't really like any of the acting in Revolutionary Road. Shannon hammed up what could have been a showstopper had a mixture of intensity and subtlety been employed, DiCaprio was trying to stretch himself way beyond his limits and Winslet seemed to think that because she was playing a shallow character she could give a shallow performance and get away with it. Bates was my favorite, her performance was definitely flawed but it hit a lot of the marks it needed to and it was even, *gasp*, moving in parts, although I think she should have underplayed in earlier scenes.
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I think Dicaprio was great in "Revolutionary Road". He made the dialogue sound natural. So much expression with his face. Winslet however sounded pretentious with her "truth" soliloquys. I wasn't compelled by her performance.
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They might have been mentioned already, but four actors I'm rooting for to get a Golden Boy are Hope Davis, Laura Linney, Samuel L. Jackson, and Amy Adams.
Jackson especially is ripe. He's still got so much Hollywood cool factor to capitalize on. If he would stop making movies like "Snakes on a Plane" and "Lakeview Terrace" and do some of the serious acting he's capable of he could snag an Oscar in the next 5-10 years.
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Originally posted by booyahboy: Thandie Newton. Still scratching my head over how she got ignored for "Crash."
Same goes for Sandra Bullock.
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Hot? without a doubt Oscar winners? Better luck next life
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Catherine Zeta Jones
Haven't you seen Chicago?
Beyonce and Megan Fox just to cause contrversy and have people here go crazy, as far as CZJ, I would love for her to win another one.
I di agree that I hope Sandra Bullock wins one one day, I don't know why but I hope Emma Watson gets nominated once, she seems like a very promising actress.
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Hot? without a doubt Oscar winners? Better luck next life
quote:
Catherine Zeta Jones
Haven't you seen Chicago?
as far as CZJ, I would love for her to win another one.
I think CZJ should win an award just for those smokin-hot T-Mobile commercials! I'm all down for a "mobile makeover!"
But really, I hope we will see her in more better films, and less like Death Defying Acts, No Reservations, and The Legend of Zorro.
Post-Chicago, the only film that I really enjoyed her in was The Terminal, but then again, she hasn't done much work since, and the films she has done since (minus Terminal) were all not so great...
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