So..when I watched Begin Again I became a fan of Keira which made me watch a bunch of her movies including Imitation Game and Pride and Prejudice. My question is do you think she deserved to win the oscar she was nominated for (for either of those roles) over the person who actually won?
I don't know if I would give her the oscar instead of the people who won but I definitely think she deserved to win, specially for Pride and Prejudice
She was great in Pride and Prejudice and The Imitation Game, but the one she should have gotten the Oscar for was A Dangerous Method.
She was absolutely brilliant in it and I still don't understand how some critics and audiences couldn't appreciate her fearless, raw and visceral performance. She wasn't even nominated, but I still think she should have won an Oscar for that performance.
i think she deserved it for P&P- that was a true starmaking performance, and she owned the movie.
i think she could easily win someday if she gets a really great role again.
I honestly don't think she cares that much about winning an Oscar.
If you look at most actors and actresses who keep going for nominations and wins, they have a very set trajectory in terms of the movies they choose, the frequency in which they appear in films and the directors they work with.
Keira is very open to working with anyone on anything, not caring about who she works with as long as the story interests her. Plus, she doesn't seem to care about how many movies she shoots a year.
So, I'm afraid if anyone here waits for her to go for the Oscar win, we'll have a very long wait.
I think she deserved to win for Pride and Prejudice (it should've been a tie between her and Reese that year, because I think Reese was fantastic as well) and The Imitation Game.
shareI do agree with you on this. I mean I'm sure she gets really excited everytime she gets nominated and obviously has confidence in her work but I agree that she just wants to do movies that she likes and that mean something to her instead of just doing any movie that looks oscar worthy like many actors.
I do think that it also has to d with the fact that many oscar winning actors spend so many time promoting their movies but to the point where you know they are searching for that nominations and specially that win because that is some type of "validation" for them. She doesnt do that.
If she ever wins one it will be a total suprise
She's been surrounded by showbiz nearly her whole life and she knows the Oscars can help her career, and you're right she likely gets excited when she gets nominated because that'll help her get good parts.
However, is she as focused as other actors and actresses on getting nominated? She's not. I really do think that she doesn't read a script thinking, can this get me a nomination or even a win, unlike her peers. She reads a script and thinks, is this a good character to play and will it challenge me.
I notice that most of her roles in the last decade has her playing women who are conflicted, have undergone trauma or are fighting the system, and they're usually not the damsel in distress. Some of these roles are not popular (like Sabrina Spielrein in A Dangerous Method), because the character is not a cookie-cutter character that most people are comfortable with.
I love that she doesn't care and that she takes risks, because it's what interests her and not because she could get a nomination.
Lastly, the whole machine around nominations and wins is sickening, and she's never been one to put herself in the middle of that. I heard some actors and actresses even hire Oscar campaign managers to secure nominations or wins, which blows my mind. Nominations and wins should be based on performance and not politics, but more and more it looks like nominations are based on politics and less on performance.
Totally agree. I feel like that's why there's so many outstanding actors who might have one or two nominations but never won because they don't get into that "method" of winning and there's actors who aren't half as good and win, sometimes twice! What I've also noticed about the oscars is that they almost do anything they can to have the people they want win, like when a lead role gets nominated for supporting (Like Alicia this year for The Danish Girl) because given that there were so many good leading roles that gives the actor a better shot at winning because they unfairly have more work for the nom than an actual supporting character. I used to think they winning an oscar was the ultimate thing for an actor but after thinking about it, although it gives an actor a great help in getting roles, it's not as hard to get as people think, or as it used to be.
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