Comments on: Oscar Predictions: Is Kate Winslet a Lock for Best Actress?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:03:28 +0000

I always think it is a shame if a lesser performance wins an Oscar because better performances missed out and/or were not nominated. Being a Brit I would LOVE to see Kate Winslet win an Oscar - so many of her other performances have been deserving (Eternal Sunshine, Sense & Sensibility etc) but I have problems with her performance in this film….and with the film generally. Also, it is not a leading role. Maybe I am being unfair and she is always so good that we are beginning to take her enormous talent for granted. Is it just me? I wonder too, whether our Kate hasn’t appeared just a little too eager to win this year? The strategy has been SO transparent that is may, ultimately backfire on her.

Meryl Streep transcends parochial flag waving. She is in a league of her own. Who would deny her another Oscar for another brilliant performance as she enters her 7th decade? Not, I suspect the Academy voters.

By: KarlaT.

KarlaT. — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:43:14 +0000

Meryl totally deserves it!!!
I mean come on, she is brilliant and not that winslet isn´t good
but I really thinks its meryls time, she is amazing in everything she does and has 15 nominations to prove it, and it has been way to long since she won her last oscar,
Meryl really deserves more than two oscars!

By: Helen

Helen — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:29:00 +0000

Kate is looking better every day. I read here (www.projectweightloss.com) about her anti-pressure diet and , wow, that’s like an universal tool to relax, isn’t it?

By: john

john — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:45:21 +0000

Kate deserving. She is the new Meryl Streep.

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:07:48 +0000

Meryl should and needs to win! If not, she will never win.

WInselt has one box office hit to her name….Titanic,,,other than that, she is box office poison. She needs to stop being nude in her movies and reply soley on her acting skills. The Reader is more supporting than lead. Streep rocked in Doubt and is vastly different in the mega hit Mamma Mia.

10 years from now, Sister Aloyisus will be remembered but Hanna Scmhidt will be forgotten.

By: Theresa

Theresa — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:19:16 +0000

Do we really want this to be Meryl Streep’s legacy, 15 Nominations, 1 lead win and 1 supporting win?

The woman is nearly 60 years old, do we really want to have her sing another 30 years for her supper?

It is chilling when you put up her record there against actresses with far less ability. In the end, it is the win that will speak directly to her incredible talent. These countless nominations and no wins is beginning to be an embarrassment to the entire process.

It’s been nearly 30 years and she has had to sit there 12 times and see the Oscar given to someone else when in fact she has turned in several Oscar worthy performances. I hope they don’t make this #13.

I saw Doubt and her performance was brilliant. It is a memorable script. Cherry Jones got her Tony and rightfully so. Meryl Streep deserves an Oscar for that role. She put in the work in all the complexities of the character she played.

By: Aubrey

Aubrey — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:07:12 +0000

Meryl overacted, that nun act was a caricature, detracting from the work of her fellow ensemble cast. Her outburst at the end was histrionics. Shanley shouldn’t have given her a free reign.

By: Predrag Maletic

Predrag Maletic — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:08:47 +0000

Well.., I think it’s quite time Kate won the Oscar… If she has missed for few times..,now it’s up to the Academy Memmbers to decide…,but let us be honest : Winslet for sure !

By: gary b

gary b — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:52:46 +0000

I hate to say this because I really like Kate Winslet, but Meryl Streep is a superior actor and her role in Doubt was a lot more complicated. I think Streep deserves to win this one. Of course, she has deserved to win many of them and hasn’t.

Critics take Streep for granted. They have higher standards for her and they like underdogs.

By: K Hart

K Hart — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:28:06 +0000

Meryl Streep was the best and always will be the best actress. I am at a loss as to why people can say she was cold in her role. She was outstanding! As for her role in Mamma Mia, I personally thought she was having fun and did and great job. She can really sing. “The winner takes it all” was the best I have ever heard it. I loved it!

By: alluhrey

alluhrey — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:22:01 +0000

MERYL STREEP gave the best performance among the nominated actresses. Where it could easily have been a caricature, Meryl Streep truly invested Sister Aloysius with true humanity, full of contradictions between what she appears to be and what she is. It was a powerful performance and I was blown away!

By: Oswaldo Torres

Oswaldo Torres — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:37:38 +0000

I agree with you… this is complicated. But I dare to tell that, as 1968, the next Academy Awards ceremony will have a tie, this time to Meryl Streep and Kate Winslet, I don’t know but I feel that.

Since 1968 until now, there’s no other year that two actresses will be the favourites -maybe 1988-, and I think that the Academy would like to recognize the Meryl’s15th and the Kate’s 6th nominations with an award to each of them.

Well, I think the moment at the announcement of Best Actress in a Leading Role will be the major moment at night, even that Heath Ledger’s victory.

Regards!