Crappiest actor/actress to win an Oscar?

[maveric]

Its got to be this guy. I cant understand how the Academy gave him the award for "Leaving Las Vegas". I could have done a better job for that role.
Did you happen to catch him in "Windtalkers"? Terrible!

[NNadir]

1. Kevin Costner, hands down.

[maveric]

2. Costner won it for Best Director IIRC.

But I agree he's another overrated actor.

[bertha katzenengel]

14. Yeah, neither he, nor Gibson, has rec'd one for acting.

Thank the Academy.

[driver8]

17. I think Costner deserved it for Best Director...

Dances with Wolves was an amazing movie.

[Kat45]

18. He didn't deserve it vs. Scorsese with "Goodfellas," a great

director and a great movie. And I thought "Dances with Wolves" was boring.

[driver8]

21. Wow! I guess that settles it then...

What was I thinking??

[madinmaryland]

16. why are all of costner's movies 4 hours long?

:wtf:

Does he think if he is on the screen longer it makes the movie better?

[barb162]

74. he doesn't know what the word "edit" means

[barb162]

75. also meant to add back in the late 1930s they did "Casablanca" and

"Wizard of Oz" in a short (relatively) time and they were essentially short in length. Total unbelievable classics and they didn't take 4 hours to tell the story

[gauguin57]

80. Did you see "The Upside of Anger?" I'm no K.C. fan, but he was VERY good

in that role! I was stunned at how much I enjoyed his performance, because I've never thought much of him as an actor.

[Twillig]

3. Thank gawd. I am not alone.

You know, how in that movie(any of his movies), he would pause, AND SHOUT, The Words, He Was Saying, In Order, To Convey, HOW PISSED OFF, his character, was.


I do try not to let an entertainers performance bug me.

I fail.

[Roland99]

4. Halle Berry

[WhollyHeretic]

5. I'll second that one

I saw her in that last James Bond movie and she was painful to watch, the whole movie was terrible but especially her.

[assclown_bush]

12. I agree with you Halle just stinks as an actress.

Only Angelina Jolie is a worse actress than Halle.

[NewJeffCT]

44. I'll give her a pass

she's ok in my book...

[redacted]

88. She's certainly the stupidest.

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

6. I now watch movies that are older than I am....love TMC

Since "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was released there have been maybe 4 or 5 good movies made. You can keep your "Star Wars" and your "Jurasic Parks" and your "Independence Day"'s and your "Matrix"'s....action and adventure will never beat a good story....keep your special effects...they have no special effect on me.

This post is somewhat off topic and is in reply to no one imparticular...just ranting.

[enigmatic]

7. Terry Moore- "Come Back Little Sheba"

Hands down..

[enigmatic]

11. Damn, thought she won!

That makes me feel better...

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

71. OT: I couldn't help spoofing your radio logo. Sorry.

:evilgrin:

[NV Whino]

22. But, but, but...

Howard Hughes liked Terry Moore.

Can't believe there is someone here (other than me) who knows who she is. Worst actress EVER.

[enigmatic]

25. I bought the Playboy where she was nekkid...

Whenever it came out! I read "James Dean: The Mutant King" long, long ago, and the part where he described to friends going out on a "date" w/ Terry Moore to a movie opening is hysterical..

And I finally caught "Come Back Little Sheba" at a revival house about 10 years ago and I swore after seeing her act that if they simply took the key out of her back she'd just stand in place, she was that robotic..

[NV Whino]

27. If you've never seen Mulholland Drive

rent it and watch it. You will recognize the Howard Hughes, Terry Moore referrence... and then the entire movie will begin to make sense to you. At least that was what keyed me in.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

8. Here's a list

http://www.filmsite.org/worstoscars.html

Roberto Begnini. :wtf: was that?

[jonnyblitz]

59. Roberto Begnini annoys me for some reason

even though I liked Life is Beautiful. I saw him in other things. bleh.

[Felix Mala]

68. That's a list is silly. Ben Hur, Silence of the Lambs, The Apartment?

I don't think this person has really seen some of the films listed.


They should be slapped for listing The Apartment. Obviously they've never heard of Billy Wilder.

[Felix Mala]

69. I notice A Man for All Seasons is now gone from this list

since the last time I looked. He must have finally caught that one and realized it's value.

[JohnKleeb]

79. That list is absurd

While it was perhaps not oscar deserving A Beautiful Mind was a great movie. I also loved Begnini's Life Is Beautiful then again my idea of a good comedy is Old School.

[Zomby Woof]

9. Marisa Tomei

One-note performance. Maybe they felt sorry for her.

[assclown_bush]

13. One-not performance is on the nose.

Hang S. Gnor (? not sure of the spelling) in the movie The Killing Fields was also a one note wonder.

[bertha katzenengel]

15. I'll disagree with this one, strenuously. Haing S. Ngor was not an actor.

He was a physician who gave a shocking, amazing performance based on his own experience. AFAIC he deserved the Oscar.

Condensed from Wikipedia: He was a Cambodian refugee who survived Pol Pot's regime by hiding the fact that he was a medical doctor.

He was murdered in L.A. by street thugs when he refused to give up his locket. It held a photo of his dead wife.

Thanks, Wikipedia.

[assclown_bush]

30. If he was not an "actor" then why give him an "acting" award?

and what else did he go on to play? I understand the socio-politico context of his life but, even his horribly violent death cannot be reason for an Oscar. And his Oscar was not posthumous, so his death was obviously not a consideration for the award. I am talking about an "actor" getting an award for "acting". Isn't that what the Academy Awards are supposed to reflect?

[LynneSin]

39. Academy is NOT a lifetime achievement award....

...Ngor was amazingly powerful in that movie and deserved the award. He was the best supporting actor for that movie season!

[assclown_bush]

45. The Academy Award is an award for acting.

Hang S. Gnor was not an actor. At least in my book. He deserved the award as much as Elizabeth Taylor did for Butterfield 8. That's just my opinion.

[bertha katzenengel]

87. "The Academy Award is an award for acting." Exactly.

Who cares that he wasn't an actor? As was said upthread, he got the award because he gave the best supporting performance (male) of the year. Period.

BTW, the members of the Academy voted that award for him. Only performers vote for performers.

[Robeson]

26. Agree.

[Floogeldy]

10. I refuse to participate in bashing actors and actresses.

Most of whom are serious artists, dedicated to their craft.

I see that Hollywood bashing is now no longer limited to the Limbaughs and the Hannitys.

Well, that's just fucking great.

[philosophie_en_rose]

70. Hide thread is your friend.

And do you think that celebrities don't want attention? News to their publicists, I'm sure.

No one is bashing "Hollywood;" this thread is about opinions about acting skills. People are entitled to their opinions.

Most actors are not serious artists, dedicated to their crafts. Many are entertainers, stand up comedians, and other non-actors. Putting someone on a pedestal is just as bad as "bashing."

[Blue Belle]

19. Julia Roberts

She plays every part the same way.

[terrya]

35. I second this. I'll also say Jack Palance for "City Slickers"

I mean, it was basically Palance playing himself.

[huskerlaw]

64. Totally agreed.

She plays "Julia Roberts dressed up in different clothes, standing in front of different scenery" in every freaking movie she's in. Ugh. Oscar-worthy, my ass.

[lpbk2713]

20. Heston got an Oscar for Ben-Hur.

Not because he was a good actor but because he was lucky enough to be cast in the leading role of an "epic" film. It was the role that was awarded the Oscar, not Heston.

[Bullwinkle925]

23. Mel Gibson (Best Director) - Braveheart - blecchhh.

[grace0418]

60. Mel Gibson needs to go away. Braveheart was just another

vehicle to make him the hero so everyone could adore him. I'm surprised he didn't make sure his bare ass got on camera so everyone could kiss it. YECH! And that "What Women Want" movie- Shiva H. Vishnu could you BE more conceited?!

[Seabiscuit]

24. Ernest Borgnine - Marty - 1955.

This may be the only serious post in this thread.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

28. Ben Affleck

though it wasn't for acting

strictly in category, I'd go with that egomaniac jamie fozz for doing an entire movie featuring an impression and not acting range

[Lannes]

32. Crappy actor

Great script.Still cant believe he had something to do with it.

[Shell Beau]

34. Yeah he is, but that isn't what he won for!!!!

[Lannes]

36. He won for best screenplay

[Shell Beau]

38. I have to disagree with Jaime Foxx. I

thought he did wonderful as Ray. He was acting, acting like Ray Charles. Plus he did well in Collateral, too.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

29. Cher

[Felix Mala]

57. That's the only chick-flick I like, not sappy. She carries it.

[Shell Beau]

31. Mira Sorvino, Gwyneth Paltrow, and

did Nicole Kidman win for Cold Mountain? I think she does a great job in her movies, but that one wasn't her best IMO!

[BuelahWitch]

49. No, she won for "The Hours"

Played Virginia Woolf and looked very unglamorous. Many thought it was because she wore a fake nose. I thought she did quite well in the performance.

[Shell Beau]

51. That is right! I never saw that movie so I can't judge her

performance.

[LynneSin]

33. Kevin Costner for "Dancing with a powerful acting Sleeping Pill"

Seriously - I have no opinion on that movie because it usually puts me to sleep about 30 minutes into watching it

[edbermac]

37. Laurence Olivier...a bum...

Shakespeare, give it a rest...

[underpants]

40. Louis ... ... ... Gossett ... ... ... Jr.

They should have retroactively taken it away once he did the "Iron Eagle" movies and given it to Lee Ermey (originally a technical advisor on the set of "Full Metal Jacket").

[Shell Beau]

41. What was his Oscar for?

[underpants]

42. "An Officer and a Gentleman" Actor in a supporting role

http://awards.fennec.org/g/gossett_louis_jr.html

[Shell Beau]

43. I loved that movie. I wonder where Louis is now.

I haven't seen him in a movie in a while.

[underpants]

48. Resting

at the Oscars


http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/02/27.html

[Shell Beau]

50. Aha!! n/t

[asthmaticeog]

46. Over 40 posts and no mention of Marissa Tomei yet?

[Shell Beau]

47. Oh she was mentioned; you must have missed it!

[asthmaticeog]

53. I guess I must have. Whoops.

:shrug:

[Shell Beau]

54. It is an easy thing to do!!

:D

[terrya]

52. Russell Crowe shouldn't have won for "Gladiator",,,

he should have won for "A Beautiful Mind", instead.

That's probably just nitpicking, though.

[Blue Belle]

78. Russel Crowe should have won for "The Insider"...

They gave it to him for "Gladiator" because he was robbed the year before.

[gauguin57]

83. The Academy is forever rewarding PAST performances with Oscars for

less-worthy performances (or roles that, while the actors play them well, just aren't that big or Oscar-worthy).

1) Paul Newman SHOULD have won for "The Verdict," rather than "The Color of Money."

2) Russell Crowe SHOULD have won for "The Insider," not "Gladiator." (and not "A Beautiful Mind," because his dialect is all over the place in that movie. Sloppy, sloppy, Russell)

3) Judy Dench should have won for "Mrs. Brown," instead of her 8-minute turn in "Shakespeare in Love."

Etc. Etc. Etc.

[NewJeffCT]

84. definitely - Newman should have won for The Verdict

& not the Color of Money. That was more like a lifetime achievment award, almost.

Crowe was great in The Insider.

[Felix Mala]

55. Roberto Benigni... Forever a black spot on Oscar

If you don't agree, you have to go rent "Son of the Pink Panther" in which he was supposedly the lost son of Peter Sellers and Elke Summer.

[terrya]

61. Any of the other Best Actor nominees that year would have been...

an improvement over Benigni. Nick Nolte for "Affliction"...Ian McKellen for "Gods and Monsters"...Edward Norton for "American History X"...all were much better than Benigni.

[Felix Mala]

66. Absolutely!

Of course, I've always said that the easiest way to win an Oscar is to do a film on the holocaust. Even a 20 minute interview clip with a survivor would win you a short subject statuette.

[ProfessorGAC]

56. Sally Field (Blech!)

She won twice (and i can't figure it out). She's a charter member of Overactors Anonymous and i find her utterly dreadful. She was horrible in both of the movies for which she won. And, in both of those movies, she wasn't even close to the best actor in the MOVIE, let alone the best in the industry that year.

She is capable of ruining any scene in which she appears. Geez, she almost ruined Absence of Malice, and Paul Newman and Wilford Brimley are in that. How rotten to you have to be to take down a movie with that cast going for it?
The Professor

[grace0418]

58. Couldn't agree with you less. I love Nic Cage. He's weird

and awesome.

[norml]

62. If you haven't suffered through National Treasure yet, don't.

Nick Cage only knows how to act like Nick Cage. Watch The History Channel instead. It has much better acting.

[LynneSin]

63. Ellyn Burstyn was ROBBED - she should have won for "Requiem"

Requiem for a Dream was a masterpiece movie about the horrors of drug addiction. Jared Leto, Marlon Wayans and Jennifer Connelly (also robbed - she was brilliant) were 3 heroin junkies trying to deal with society and how to make it to their next fix. But Ellyn was brilliant as Jared Leto's mom - a typical Brooklyn widow who adores her son so much she doesn't get upset everytime she has to go down to the pawn shop and get her TV out of hock from when her son pawned it for money to buy drugs.

Ellyn was also amazing because she too had her own addictions which was just as horrible as the heroin junkies - she was addicted to diet pills.

The most brilliant scenes was when Ellyn became a part of her favorite game show/infomercial in which Chris MacDonald was the host.

Instead they gave the Oscar to Julia Roberts who did a great job in Erin Brockovich - but great in comparison to other stuff Julia had done previously. Ellyn was 110% better that year

[Felix Mala]

67. At least she won for "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"

One of my favorite Scorsese films that is nothing like that horrible TV show.

[CanuckAmok]

89. Most. Depressing. Movie. Ever.

But brilliant, and I agree that EB was robbed. Every performance in that film is electric. I love the way Aranofsky directs his actors.

That's a movie I cannot bring myself to watch a second time, but I'm often tempted because of the performances. We saw it in the theatre, and I have never seen an audience become so silent. Not a peep was heard as people exited; no whispering, no crunching popcorn, nothing. It was completely creepy.

[Love Bug]

65. Gwynneth Paltrow -- Cate Blanchett wuz robbed!!

Industry insider entitlement princess gets legacy Oscar. Feh!

[Blue Belle]

73. It is truly painful to listen to her British accent...

If it weren't for Joseph Fines being in "Shakespeare in Love" I would have never saw the movie.

[Blue Belle]

72. Renee Zellweger...

Annoying in almost every role (except Bridget Jones). Can't believe they picked her to play Roxie Hart (Bebe Neuwirth wuz robbed there).

[undeterred]

76. Nick Cage is AWESOME

Julia Roberts can't hold my attention for 3 minutes. She plays the same role in every film.

[Old_Fart]

77. Rosie Perez

Topo Gijo in the un-animated form.

[Blue Belle]

81. I don't remeber her winning an Oscar. What did she win it for?

I agree... listening to her speak is like listening to Paul Lind gargle and yodel at the same time. She's very annoying.

[Old_Fart]

86. I can't remember the name of it

I might be wrong :shrug:

[gauguin57]

82. Now, I've been a Cher fan since I was a little kid, but ...

... her performance in "Moonstruck" was extremely sloppy. Not Oscar-worthy AT ALL. Her so-called New Yawk Italian accent was a disaster!

Especially when you consider she won it over Glenn Close
in "Dangerous Liaisons."

The Academy makes me crazy sometimes. Like picking "Titanic" over "L.A. Confidential"? GIMME A BREAK!

[Parche]

85. indeed

I cant stand him, and I dont know what his appeal is

Just like that grin/smirking Renae Zellweger, I cant stand
her, she always looks like she has just sucked on a sour lemon.

[Tikki]

90. John Wayne...very crappy actor..for some movie named....

"True Grit".