Why didn't Jane Horrocks win the Oscar for "Little Voice?"

She was too tall, Rose!

She's not exactly charm personified. I doubt she cooked for anyone.

"Little Voice" isn't all that good. It's a slight vehicle for Horrocks' impressions.

she's SO overrated

That was one of those years where the winner shouldn't have even been nominated much less won.

She deliberately stomped on my foot!

She wasn’t even nominated, but Brenda Blethyn was...I think.

I saw Little Voice in the theater over 20 years ago, but haven’t seen it since.

Brenda Blethyn and Michael Caine were nominated for Oscars r7

Its Oscars! It's madness! It's Oscars madness!

[quote]She wasn’t even nominated, but Brenda Blethyn was...I think.

She was and I have the DVD signed by her when she was on Broadway with Edie Falco in "Night Mother".

She refuses to get her baps out

It's a great performance at the center of a not-so memorable movie. I saw it once and can barely remember anything about it besides her. She really did deserve a nomination. She was very good.

Odd billing.

We saw 'The Rise and Fall of Little Voice' at the Aldwych in the West End as a replacement for a show that had been cancelled and at first thought it was a little strange, but by the end had warmed up to it. At the time I said to myself "this girl is going places . . ." , then she popped up on AbFab, etc. A little intense but "good strange"; on the other hand a little Jane Horrocks can go a long way :) I think I may still have the original playbill from that night . . .

Jane's Sally Bowles in Cabaret was memorably shrill and intense. Jane could have probably sung the score rather easily, but either she or Sam Mendes decided that Sally should be a horrible singer and that interpretation carried on into the Broadway revival where they stuck any semi-famous name into the role whether or not they could sing a note to not.

Jane has said that she sings better as an impressionist than as herself. She doesn't really know her own voice. Her "Annie Get Your Gun" was apparently a little odd in terms of her ability to sing the score. She'd lost the siren like sound by the time she played Gracie Fields in a TV movie.

It's a shame Jane didn't get to come to Broadway. Perhaps she could have been reined in somewhat. She's a personality, which to me, is the number one quality needed for Sally. There have been too many blah musical theatre types in the role.

Most of the Sallys on Broadway were pretty boring. Molly Ringwald sung better than I'd expected, but was incredibly boring in the role. Michelle Williams and Sienna Miller barely registered in the role in the recent revival, but Emma Stone was excellent and one of the best ones I've ever seen.

I didn’t like her interpretation of Sally. But I guess I didn’t think much of Mendes’s direction.

Her performance went too far in places but I still chuckle at her reading of the phrase "taciturn Malaysian."

Didn't schound like mama at all.

She was actually even more Oscar worthy in Life Is Sweet which is the first time I ever saw her and was introduced to Mike Leigh. I've seen everything both of them have ever made since.

That movie was a hysterical mess.

She overeggs the pudding every time. She seems to exaggerate everything, even in interviews. I can’t watch her.

[quote]She was actually even more Oscar worthy in Life Is Sweet which is the first time I ever saw her and was introduced to Mike Leigh. I've seen everything both of them have ever made since.

It's 30 years since Life Is Sweet was released and the sex scene between Horrocks and David Thewlis was so repulsive I had to stop having chocolate spread smeared over my chest and licked off.

Maybe because she looks too much like gay porn star Derrick Porter

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One of the few times the Oscars have done the right thing in not nominating Horrocks for that horrible performance in that horrible film. How did Brenda Blythen get nominated?

I suppose there was enough good will left over from Secrets and Lies. I can't think of any other reason unless Little Voice was a Harvey film.

I dislike this woman for her performance in 'Absolutey Fabulous'. Her role was NOTHING but outright, mockery of the Mentally Retarded.

Mentally Retardation is NOT a laughing matter!.

I didn't realise until now she was nominated for everything else - a SAG award, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA award- she really was unlucky, but it tends to happen to one or two people every year, nominated for everything else but the big one.

..........

Because she wasn't good enough.

NEXT!

[quote]One of the few times the Oscars have done the right thing in not nominating Horrocks for that horrible performance in that horrible film. How did Brenda Blythen get nominated?

Had Blethyn not been nominated it would have been Laura Linney for The Truman Show, Lisa Kudrow for The Opposite Of Sex, Camryn Manheim for Happiness, Patricia Clarkson for High Art, Anna Paquin for Hurlyburly, Reese Witherspoon for Pleasantville and Olivia Williams for Rushmore.