Annette Bening may finally win her Oscar for Nyad

Maybe Annette is just a bad actress. I saw.an old clip from the (1988?) Tonys, and she was terrible.

As long as that Masculine Oscar Thief stays away from the fucking ceremony!

LOL!

And also

R4 fuck off, Hilary STANK!

Goddammit!!!!!

Poor G.

Jodie is on the supporting list now too

WHO????

Annette Bening should have won for her role in "Grifters" at the 1991 Academy Awards, instead of Whoopi Goldberg.

There was nothing special about Whoopi's performance in "Ghost."

Whoopi's was a makeup win after losing for The Color Purple.

^that was her real robbery. Hilary Swank just struck gold twice in roles that were perfectly suited for her. She is in no way as good an actor as Annette Bening but those parts were amazing and she took her opportunities. The thing about that dynamic is that she doesn't really work as a regular woman in any other roles. She can't play every day women. She feels off.

Annette or Lorraine Bravo should have won in 1990. I would have given my 1 to Annette but Bracco a very close second.

Bracco*

I plan to fast-forward to the part where she gets stung by jellyfish. Over and over again!

[quote] Hilary Swank just struck gold twice in roles that were perfectly suited for her. She is in no way as good an actor as Annette Bening but those parts were amazing and she took her opportunities.

I feel the same can be said about Frances McDormand, just that in her case, she struck gold three times. When she won the third time, many at Datalounge were already claiming she was a better actress than Meryl Streep. Absolute bullshit, of course, but people fail to look at other factors as to why certain actresses win over others.

What kind of specs is Jodie wearing?

Bening gets nominations but she is widely unpopular in Hollywood and will never win an Oscar. It’s Fantasia’s to lose for “The Color Purple.”

what did she do to make her so unpopular? Marry Warren?

^brilliantly stated R18. I don't think McDormand deserved the 2 Billboards Oscar. I thought that movie was shit. With giant holes. Still don't get how any police department anywhere closes and how cops can just beat the shit out of people and it's no big deal even in small towns. It's not like the film was dated. Don't even get me started on the holes in the daughter's death investigation. It was an absurd premise. She was wonderful in Fargo and Mississippi Burning but that's it. Amusing in Almost Famous but she should not have 3 Oscars. Shit just fell her way. I'd argue Swank has more claim on her two. She is incredible in both but again they are specialized parts. Not just anyone can play them and she took her opportunities. It's an incredible feat for someone who would be a B list TV actress otherwise. Good on her for taking what was in front of her I must say.

Scissor me timbers!

Carey Mulligan should have won when Fran won the 3rd but the male Academy members would never have rewarded that role. She actually should have won for An Education originally. Bullock was a ridiculous win.

If that Jodie Foster clip is any indication, this movie may be dead in the water so to speak.

Nyad was a bitch!

Can Jodie only play dykes now?

R26: We know she’s a dyke.

What clip R25 they are both being considered major contenders?

I like them both. I think it would be good for Hollywood if they were both nominated. They are both widely like and respected and in Jodie's case even fraus like and respect her as an actress which is why she had more box office hits than a lesbian would have now.

[quote]^that was her real robbery. Hilary Swank just struck gold twice in roles that were perfectly suited for her. She is in no way as good an actor as Annette Bening but those parts were amazing and she took her opportunities.

[quote]It's an incredible feat for someone who would be a B list TV actress otherwise. Good on her for taking what was in front of her I must say.

I love the fact that Hilary Swank was hired for 90210's 8th season and then unceremoniously fired midway through... then a year later she landed her first Oscar-winning role (Boys Don't Cry(. She showed them! haha

Hilary Swank has the acknowledgement of the KARATE KID fanbase, because she did THE NEXT KARATE KID (fourth installment) with Pat Morita and is therefore canon.

Bearded clams for everyone!

The fifth time is the try.

That trailer really got me. Would love to see Annette win.

I wouldn’t. She’ll be the older actress that gets the nom but not the win. And who cares? There are too many award shows. It’s relentless & dull.

R20, I want to hear more about Annette’s unpopularity in Hollywood. Please and thank you.

She’s unpopular because she’s a snob and an arrogant cunt.

Why should I apologize for being good?

Wet she's a star.

That theme song is an instant earworm.

That yelling scene reminds me of The Simpsons shut up shut up scene.

Hillary Swank is reported to be on a nearby rooftop.

Annette just isn't an interesting actress and doesn't have a lot of range.

Hilary will call her BFF Ramzan Kadyrov and have Chechen terrorists eliminate Annette in case she wins that Oscar.

Bening’s skill in the water blew everyone away. “Were like, holy shit. She’s a legitimate graceful, beautiful swimmer, and that was a huge in a lot of ways — that set the tone because then everybody’s like, OK, she put in the work. She’s elevated herself to become an athlete at this age, to do this movie. Everybody needs to step up to the level that she’s playing at,” says Oscar-winning doc makers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin adding: “And granted, we had all these stunt doubles. Well, they never swam.”

Is Jodie playing lez?

I'm surprised Kate McKinnon didn't try weasel her way into playing Diana Nyad.

I always found Diane Nyad so boring. I was sick of seeing her spitting out water and climbing into a boat after failing to swim somewhere. Like who cares? You want to give yourself skin cancer, waterlogged lips, and you want to ingest bacteria that can eat your brain? Go ahead, but why should the media care?

“Watch the incredible history of Diane Nyad as she…..swims.

Big fucking deal.

Let’s do an Oscar bait on a female golfer …

Charlize Theron IS Elin Nordegren.

Där är inte plogat hela vägen fram till dig!

I saw this last weekend….it was refreshing to see Jodie Foster back on the big screen….and not playing a dark, tortured soul tile character. The movie is a big Hollywood wish fulfillment hero movie and is entertaining. The filmmakers actually have you cheering for the whole Nyad team even with her bitchy, cold behavior.

Diana Nyad isn’t a warm and fuzzy character — and the screenwriter Julia Cox wrote a selfish, aggravating, smart, charismatic and driven woman who manages to inspire those around her to help her achieve her goals. “I think one thing that’s kind of tricky about Diana is she’s so well-spoken, and so intelligent and that is also intimidating. But we really wanted to be able to show her warts and all.”

She has warts?

Annette is covered in warts

And the best part of the movie was that one time when Annette got stung in the face by jellyfish!!!!!

“The only who gets to decide when I’m through is me…”

Not good review:

Annette Bening and Jodie Foster float to the top of lackluster drama... clunky, tepid script... it's hard not to feel this would've played better as a true documentary...

Maureen Lee Lenker Sun, 3 September 2023 at 3:23 am AEST·4-min read Nyad, the true story of marathon swimmer Diana Nyad and her determination to swim from Cuba to Florida, has all the trappings of classic Oscar bait.

It marks the narrative debut of award-winning documentarians Jimmy Chen and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (Free Solo, The Rescue) as they pivot from their nonfiction chronicles of extraordinary athletes to this dramatized biopic. Then there are its two stars — revered actresses Annette Bening and Jodie Foster, each turning in impressive work. But all that pedigree can't save Nyad from its clunky, tepid script.

Packed with archival footage from Nyad's first attempt at the swim when she was 28 and real coverage of her later efforts, it's hard not to feel this would've played better as a true documentary.

The film focuses on the older Nyad (Bening), who, at 60, decides to attempt the swim once more. She recruits her best friend Bonnie (Foster) to train her, and together they assemble a team that includes navigator John Bartlett (a careworn, gruffly lovable Rhys Ifans), scientist Angel Yanagihara (Jeena Yi), and shark expert Luke Tipple (Luke Cosgrove).

NYAD. (L-R) Annette Bening as Diana Nyad and Jodie Foster as Bonnie Stoll in NYAD NYAD. (L-R) Annette Bening as Diana Nyad and Jodie Foster as Bonnie Stoll in NYAD Kimberley French/Netflix Annette Bening and Jodie Foster in 'Nyad'

For Bening, Nyad is an undeniably juicy role, a spiky creature whose single-minded obsession with her destiny often expresses itself as brusque self-centeredness. Bening unsurprisingly put in the work, training in the pool for an entire year before filming. As Nyad, she gives a performance utterly devoid of vanity in her display of both Nyad's exacting personality and the grueling physical toll of her training and efforts. Bening insisted on filming the bulk of the swimming scenes herself — and she gives the film its stakes with every shot of her waterlogged face, cracking lips, and sunburnt eyelids.

But it is Foster who is the film's best asset,

Annette should ask around Hollywood if there are movies in development about the election lies. Maybe, she could win an Oscar for playing Sidney Powell.

Fuck that masculine Oscar thief Hilary STANK!

Talent free and the bitch has two Oscars!

Foster is hankering to win that third. It would be hilarious if that went down and Bening is denied a fifth time. This is assuming they’re both nominated. Bening would probably go home after the ceremony and dunk her head in the toilet.

another fucking biopic! Enuff!

We could definitely have a Jodiessance if she gets a supporting nom AND has the True Detective season coming out early next year.

Maybe, I should donate my Oscar to Annette. No, just kidding won't be doing that lol.

Oh wow a movie about ….swimming.

Like anyone gave a shit if this old fart swam from Cuba to FL or not.

[quote] Maybe Annette is just a bad actress

I’ve never understood the hype. She over enunciates her words, which is distracting. If she hadn’t married Warren Beatty would we even know who she is?

At the 2000 Oscars, I thought for sure Bening would win for these reasons...

- Swank won Golden Globe (Drama), but Bening won SAG.

- (Bening also won BAFTA, but that was the last year they were held in April after the Oscars, so they were meaningless at the time. Besides, Swank wasn't eligible that year, but she lost the following year to Julia Roberts in ERIN BROCKOVICH.)

- AMERICAN BEAUTY was the most-nominated film and won 4 of the Top 5 Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Screenplay.

- Bening's husband, Warren Beatty, received the Irving Thalberg Award. In those days, the honorary Oscars were still presented on the actual televised ceremony.

- Bening was heavily pregnant

R65 it may have been a razor thin victory, but Swank blew her out of the water in terms of performance. AB has not aged well. Bening played her role too cutesy and shrill I thought. She’s a talented actress when given the right material, but this imo is her weakest of four nominations.

"What about me finally winning my fucking Oscar."

Bening is consistently good. Should have been nominated for "20th Century Women "but it wasn't a big enough film. She was deserving of a win in "The Grifters" and "American Beauty" and I was cheering for her in "The Kids Are All Right". I'm not surprised she's never won an Oscar. Let's face it, Americans have shitty taste.

R68. Thank you. I absolutely love 20th Century Women, and holy fuck she was amazing in Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (possibly the one she really should have won for-

The haters for her in this thread kind of surprised me. And I have never gotten any vibe that she is a "snobby cunt" in real life- Like, at all.

Annette will win the Oscar when she plays herself in "The Warren Beatty Story" or plays Elizabeth in "The Elizabeth Warren Story."

She needs to play a vile cunt like Sidney Powell in order to get an Oscar.

This place is something else.

Isn't the separation of best ACTOR and best ACTRESS transphobic?

After she did her swim, Andy Kauffman challenged her to a wrestling match. She wisely said no and then Kauffman went around mocking her swim. In fairness, she thought only butch sports were good spotlights for women and called rhythmic gymnastics a sissy sport.

As the first Congressman to swim around Long Island, I look forward to seeing a dramatic movie based on this challenging endeavor starring Chris Pratt as me!

She comes across like a shrill obnoxious tryhard, and I'm sorry, but I cannot ever imagine her fitting into that skin-tight, sleek Catwoman outfit the way that Michelle Pfeiffer did!

This is already off the cards. The Nyad film was politely received at Telluride by no one is talking about it and the film’s subject has become radioactive. Annette probably won’t even get nominated.

Today has Kate Winslet sneaking up as the new fave for Lee.

Who is the audience for this?

Isn’t Annette just playing herself here to a certain degree? A woman who failed four times in accomplishing a goal.

Annette will get nominated but she’ll be her film’s sole nomination. Like Glenn Close for The Wife.

Review of "Lee."

R76 why do you want to imagine that?

Diana NYAD looka like a man!

[quote] Isn’t Annette just playing herself here to a certain degree? A woman who failed four times in accomplishing a goal. —M

Or is that G?

We really could be talking about a number of my competitors.

I would have called them peers, but in order to be a peer, you must be in the same league.

R85: We would call you a peer but you're not in the Triple Crown of Acting.

Nyad not ratified.

R87 what does that mean?

ratified (past tense) · ratified (past participle) sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it officially valid.

Pride Source says A big thanks to whomever decided that Jodie Foster and Annette Bening should do a movie together — because we are forever grateful to that person.

I'm surprised there haven't been any people complaining about straight woman Annette playing a lesbian.

R90 - It was Warren hoping to get into a threesome. Sadly, at this point, he'd need to wear a strap-on too.

Obviously Jodie wanted to play Diana but was unable to gain the bulk.

She was really good in The American President too - even if it was fluff.

Man, the Grifters. That's always an enjoyable rewatch. Cusack, Bening, and Huston all play that pure underlying desperation so well, no matter how together or not together they are on the surface.

Nyad is played by Annette Bening, who trained for a year to ready herself for the physical demands of the role. It’s quite a testament to actorly commitment: This movie can’t have been fun to film, at least not for the person playing the woman who spends so much time working her way through the open ocean. Bening embodies both the grace and the unbearable strain of Nyad’s effort, its grandeur and its ugliness.

She’s a pleasure in the film’s drier scenes too. Bening plays Nyad as a bit of a kook—because, obviously, anyone who would choose to swim for 53 hours straight has to be at least a little weird. Brash and self-involved, Nyad is not easy to love. But Bening thoughtfully maps the character’s insecurity, the loneliness of her tunnel-visioned pursuit. She urges an empathy for Nyad’s intense desire; who among us hasn’t wanted, fiercely, for some crazy thing to happen?

Bening has terrific support from Jodie Foster, an actor of exceeding appeal who does not work near often enough these days. (Not enough from the audience’s perspective, at least; I trust that she’s happy with her work-life balance as it is.) As Bonnie Stoll, Nyad’s best friend and eventual coach, Foster glows with affable charm. Chin and Vasarhelyi, working with Julia Cox’s script, also make room for Bonnie to assert herself, her own needs, devoted as she is to Nyad’s solitary mission—though, I suppose it’s not really that solitary. Nyad had some 40 people on several boats following her as she cut her way across the sea.

Jodie should only have won for SOTL

I’m confused, does she play Nyad sitting in a room looking back on her career and someone younger is swimming?

There's no confusion, Tina. At the age of 60, Diana Nyad felt that she had — 32 years prior, she’d begun an attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida, a 110-mile marathon. Due to strong winds, Nyad was forced to abandon her attempt. Nyad is back in the water and training again for the swim that had eluded her for decades. “You did not make it when you were 28,” she tells her friend. “You’re 60!” But Nyad is undeterred; she will go the distance, no matter the odds.

I don't like to spend time with that kind of person, Nyad. This film sounds tiresome no matter how well it's made and the performances. Maybe I'll give it a try out of respect and blind faith.

But, who plays the younger Diane? Annette with a full head prosthetic?

Good for her. I would have awarded her for the kids are all Right over Natalie Portman's dance double. She was subtle and affecting.

Should have gone supporting for American Beauty

Possibly she should have won for The Grifters if Whoopi had won in 85. I think some of the older female Academy members may have been turned off though as she shockingly shows full tits, ass and muff.

I think they use news footage of the real Nyad when she was young.

The Guardian

Nyad review – swim biopic lifted by Annette Bening and Jodie Foster

Two stellar performances add weight to Netflix’s uneven retelling of the story of Diana Nyad, who attempted to swim from Cuba to Florida at the age of 64.

While a dedicated Bening gives her all in a tough, physically demanding role, deserving of at least another nomination if not necessarily a win, it’s Foster who steals the film with a fine reminder of her easy charisma. We’ve barely seen the actor in the last decade, Nyad allows her to be a real person for once, a test that not many movie stars can ace quite this well. The pair have the chemistry of old friends and when they’re on screen together and on dry land, Nyad is swimmingly good.

It's a good thing for Hollywood for someone like Jodie to be nominated. She's part of the old old Hollywood guard after the Golden Age and almost everyone respects and likes her. After Julia Roberts she is probably that era's most successful and respected actresses.

I disagree with the argument that Annette Bening is overdue for an Oscar win. The Grifters is my favorite performance of hers, but I don't think of it as a must-win work, and Swank was far better in Boys Don't Cry than Bening's shrill caricature in American Beauty. Imelda Staunton should have won over her and Swank in 2004, and I thought Michelle Williams in Blue Valentine was easily the stand out of the 2010 Best Actress roster, which included Bening's most recent bid for The Kids Are All Right.

Bening is a good but uneven actress, and four nominations is ample recognition for her career, especially compared to more talented peers like Kathleen Turner and Judy Davis who managed just one and two nominations for stronger bodies of work.

Variety

Where Diana’s arrogance can be a lot to take at times, as her best friend Bonnie, Foster proves a buoyant presence — like the human equivalent of those adorable pink floaties kids wear in the pool. The movie would sink without her. And so would Diana Nyad.

TIFF

Bening is the best she has ever been as Nyad, embracing the athlete's stubbornness and strong will to a tee. Despite not having a background in swimming, the actress made sure to train her strokes to make them as consistent as possible and it shows. Given that NYAD has multiple underwater sequences both in swimming pools and on high tides, it is impressive to see that Bening continues to keep a steady pace. She might not be a professional swimmer, but she can fool audiences with her ease at sea and unwavering determination.