Sharon Stone deserved an Oscar nomination for Basic Instinct

Oh puleaze. She deserved a raspberry, and a soft one at that.

She got a Golden Globe nomination.

That was the year the rushed Love Field and Passion Fish into release because there were hardly any Best Actress candidates.

I think had the looked at more commercial films they could have filled out the category with Jennifer Jason Leigh in Single White Female, Stone and Pfeiffer as Catwoman.

Mmmmm.... she’s better in her screen test.

OP - it was a trashy film but Stone was great. I agree. She got the reward she was seeking: a movie career and a role in a Martin Scorsese film that nabbed her a nomination.

I distinctly remember sitting in the theatre watching Stone in BI and thinking that she’s a more talented, more beautiful Madonna.

Madonna must have thought that too r5.

Madonna would make a lot of catty remarks about Stone.

I once read an interview where Stone said she doesn't get why Madonna hates her so much. The writer said it is because you gave the performance in Basic Instinct that she's been trying to give her whole life and couldn't do it.

I remember when her name was announced at the globes nomination announcement and you could hear audible gasps. I think r2’s pics of stone, Pfeiffer and Leigh along with Thompson for Howard’s end and Deneuve for Indochine would’ve been pretty fun.

Stone got the role after just about everybody else turned it down, including Geena Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Demi Moore, and Meg Ryan. I think Geena Davis was close to signing but still refusing to do the beaver reveal, so it went to Stone.

I agree. She was sublime

Meh.

Rebecca De Mornay in "The Hand that Rocks the Cradle" would've been a much better nominee.

Sharon Stone is a beautiful woman, but an Oscar winning actress, she'll never be. She's so visually right for Basic Instinct and Casino that some people mistook that for talent. She hasn't got any. Her best performance is in that Schwarzenegger film, to be honest. She can't say lines. Watch her dreadful Law & Order story arc. She's just terrible.

Linda Fiorentino not getting nominated for The Last Seduction 2 years later was a much bigger crime. It was an even weaker year for Best Actress and she was disqualified over some bullshit technicality.

I could have played the role much more convincingly, more real. You would have actually SEEN my clitoris vibrating as Newman watched my WAP. Who else do you know can play sexy and crazy like me?

R10 Yes! Very underrated! That movie was released in January of it's year. I bet that had a lot to do with it. Also, it was directed by Curtis Hanson, who then went on to direct LA Confidential. Confidential won ever major critics award the year it was released, but then the Oscar predictably went to Titanic.

If we're talking 1992, the nomination AND Oscar should have gone to Sheryl Lee for Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.

But the performances we still talk about from 1992 are Stone, Pfeiffer, De Mornay, Lee and Leigh. I love Emma, but I feel the other five performances are the ones I think about more.

Emma Thompson was good but incredibly overrated. The Anglo media called hers one of the greatest female performances in years, which was an exaggeration. Our critics need to get over their habit of fawning over anyone with a posh English accent.

r11 She's an Emmy winning actress though.

Excuse me R15 don't forget us gals from 1992!

My favorite Sharon Stone performance is still her very first of note: as Scarlett O'Hara in Irreconcilable Differences...

r15 Sheryl Lee was the least convincing high school student ever.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me is a terrible movie, perhaps the worst Lynch ever made. Lee was just OK. There's a reason her career didn't go much anywhere.

Mary McDonnell is marvelous in PASSION FISH, and it was the kind of role that encompassed pretty much all she could do as an actress, which is why her career didn't take off. But she's still far more of an actress than Stone ever would be.

Basic Instinct was sleazy. Still is. It was just toxic male wish fulfilment. The Academy wasn’t going to nominate her for that.

It would be if like Bridgerton got nominated for a bunch of awards.

stone was fire in that role. offered way more than a beaver shot.

No way was the Academy nominating Miss Beaver Shot for an Oscar the year they were supposed to be celebrating women in film.

Emma in Howards End was overrated beyond belief for playing her usual one-note posh English twat with a stick up her ass and whispercooing half her lines as though she were Janet Jackson. Mary McDonnell delivered a far more convincing performance than Thompson. Emma won only because the Academy has a hardon for English accents.

So many of those well-remembered thrillers from the 80s and 90s are pretty bad movies. Basic Instinct was schlock, but at least it was stylish femme-fatale noir. I found it more entertaining than Fatal Attraction, which is a pretty terrible Lifetime-level movie with major stars IMO.

The era was full of Sleeping with the Enemy, Single White Female, Unlawful Entry, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and all those women-in-danger thrillers that ended with the woman killing her attacker/stalker, breathing a sigh of relief, being attacked from behind by him, her male love interest either killing the bad guy or trying to and being shot/cut while the woman finishes him off.

I think Basic Instinct stands out because the movie looks slick, including Stone herself, and she was the bad guy instead of the victim.

I too cannot understand why Thompson won every award for her good but not amazing performance in Howard's End.

Tilda was snubbed for Orlando.

Saggy Susan Sarandon got an undeserved nomination for lifetime movie Lorenzo's Oil.

[quote] Tilda was snubbed for Orlando.

Agree! I don't even know who she was up against, but the combination of Woolf's imagination and Tilda's tildaness was magical.

I think Fire Walk with Me is right up there with Mulholland Drive & Eraserhead as Lynch's best. Lee was amazing.

Alfre Woodard also deserved an nomination for Passionfish.

There was one scene where she breaks down crying alone in her room shortly after arriving to nurse Mary's character.

It tells you everything about the character and its a really moving and quiet moment.

I really like her.

Back to Sharon- I think that she deserved a nomination for Basic Instinct. A win? NEVER. But it was worthy of a nomination.

Sharon was good in Basic Instinct for that kind of role, but they never nominate those kinds of performances in thrillers for Oscars. She is good at playing a bitch but with the beaver shot they would never take her seriously as an actress. I personally think she is awful in Casino.

At least I wore panties and sang and danced when I did what she did.

This pretty much disqualified her

It's because you are only rewarded if you are a bored and boring person. If you deviate from that, you will be punished.

R30 you’re awful. The end.