Ah yes. Let’s blame the young actor who you specifically sought out after watching him in an Irish romantic limited series, rather than blaming yourself for making a piece of shit movie 50 years into your career. This guy needs to grow some balls holy shit

Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler (2014) or Amy Adams in Arrival (2016)?

They're both great performances that made all four major precursors only to miss the Oscars, and their snubs only look worse the more time passes. Especially when you consider that there are painfully obvious 5th place weak links in those lineups that had absolutely zero business getting in over them. (Cooper in American Sniper and Streep in Florence Foster Jenkins respectively.)

If I personally had to pick which snub was worse, I'd probably say Adams.

Gyllenhaal clears every single 2014 Best Actor nominee except Michael Keaton, but the Academy clearly wasn't that high on Nightcrawler seeing as it only got into Original Screenplay and nothing else, so I guess his snub makes sense even if it still sucks that he got snubbed.

Adams not getting nominated for Arrival considering that it showed up in eight other categories including Director and Picture, though, was absolutely baffling then and is even more baffling now. Especially when, like Gyllenhaal, she was better than most if not all of the nominees in that lineup.

1. No Country for Old Men

2. The Departed

3. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

4. Chicago

5. Slumdog Millionaire

6. Million Dollar Baby

7. Gladiator

8. The Hurt Locker

9. A Beautiful Mind

10. Crash

Understated, subtle, far more tender performances than the big and bold.

Olivia Colman - The Father

Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Kirsten Stewart - Personal Shopper

Paul Mescal - Aftersun

Tessa Thompson - Annihilation

If The Penguin was a theatrical movie, could Cristin Milioti AND Colin Farrell have won Best Actress/Actor at the 2025 Oscars?

The actual 2025 acting winners were Mikey Madison for Anora and Adrien Brody for The Brutalist, with the other nominees being Demi Moore, Cynthia Erivo, Fernanda Torres, Timothée Chalamet, Colman Domingo, Ralph Fiennes and Sebastian Stan.

However, if The Penguin had been retooled into a 2–3 hour prestige crime film, with Sofia Falcone and Oz Cobb being the two leads...

For Milioti, the role of Sofia would've seen her play one of the most dramatic arcs, consisting of trauma, grief, rage, psychological deterioration and transformation into a increasingly dangerous person. She'd also need to make Sofia sympathetic, frightening and reveal most of her psychology via facial expressions and body language, along with the occasional breakdowns and confrontations that would be great awards-reel fodder.

Meanwhile, Farrell's greatest benefit would come from a completely different approach; the prosthetics that form the core of Oz's new look would've allowed him to utilise his voice, accent, walk, posture, mannerisms and psychology to create Oz. He'd also be able to utilise his range to make Oz a pathetic, vulnerable, manipulative and terrifying figure, often in the same scene.

So in short, two completely different showcases for a pair of actors who've already had their showcases rewarded; Milioti winning the Emmy for her work as Sofia, and Farrell winning the Golden Globe and getting an Emmy nomination for his work as Oz.

The interesting factor would come down to how each would've measured up to the 2025 fields. Milioti would've been competing against Madison's naturalism, Moore's physical commitment, Erivo's musical showpiece and Torres' restraint, and Farrell would've been going up against Brody's epic drama, Chalamet's musical/biographical transformation, Domingo's emotional reserve, Fiennes' subtlety and Stan's biographical transformation.

But with all that said, I think the performances would've been incredibly strong showcases for both actors, so here's the hypothetical;

Also Both of them scored big during award seasons winning Golden Globes,Bafta,Emmys...

So my question is If The Penguin was a theatrical feature and Sofia and Oz were its two lead performances, would Cristin Milioti and Colin Farrell could have BOTH won Best Actress and Best Actor at the 2025 Oscars?

Would you have given either of them the win over Madison and Brody?

AN ACTRESS CAN ONLY WIN THE BEST ACTRESS AWARD ONCE. I wanted to implement this rule primarily to make this more challenging and fun and at the very least more actors will be getting an Oscar. This isn’t necessarily about awarding the actual best performance, at least not entirely, but more about trying to get those actors that truly deserve Oscars their due.

1990: Kathy Bates - Misery

1991: Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs

1992: Emma Thompson - Howard’s End

1993: Angela Bassett - What’s Love Got To Do With It

1994: Winona Ryder - Little Women

1995: Nicole Kidman - To Die For

1996: Frances McDormand - Fargo

1997: Pam Grier - Jackie Brown

1998 Fernanda Montenegro - Central Station

1999: Annette Bening - American Beauty

I’ve just rewatched the film and it’s as good as I remember. But this I really appreciated the performances way more. Song Kang-ho should’ve won and most of the cast should’ve been nominated. That’s why the fact that none of them were nominated makes me mad. Normally I understand the Academy snubbing international performers cause that’s how it works, but Parasite won lost of awards including picture and director, so I can’t understand it.

• 26: El Mal
• 25: Writing's on the Wall
• 24: I Need to Wake Up
• 23: The Weary Kind
• 23: What Was I Made For?
• 21: No Time to Die

2020- Anthony Hopkins (The Father)

2021- Andrew Garfield (tick… tick… boom!)

2022- Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)

2023- Kōji Yakusho (Perfect Days)

2024- Daniel Craig (Queer)

2025- Lee Byung-hun (No Other Choice)

This doesn't mean that the performance is bad, per se, but more that the screenplay doesn't give the character a lot of depth that the actor who plays that character does bring.

A good example is the Fugitive, Tommy Lee Jones. If I'm not mistaken, the line "I don't care", which really shows who the character truly is, was improvised by Jones.

We’ve finished 1996, so we’re now moving on to 1997.

For anyone joining the game for the first time, we’re doing all four acting categories for one year together, with the results decided over two rounds.

You can see all of the previous lineups here: Alternate Oscars - Reddit

ROUND ONE — NOMINATIONS

For each category, rank your five favourite performances from the year from 1–5.

Your rankings will be worth:

1st — 5 points
2nd — 4 points
3rd — 3 points
4th — 2 points
5th — 1 point

The five performances with the most points in each category will become the official nominees.

You do not have to name five if you don’t want to. If you only want to vote for three performances, for example, they’ll receive 5, 4 and 3 points respectively.

Please make sure your choices are ranked — order matters in this round.

You can vote in as many or as few of the four categories as you like.

ROUND TWO — WINNERS

Once the nominations have been determined, I’ll make a second thread containing the five nominees in each category.

In that round, simply choose ONE nominee per category to win.

There will be no preferential voting or points in Round Two. Each vote counts equally, and whoever receives the most votes wins.

So essentially:

Round One = Who should be nominated?
Round Two = Who should win?

ELIGIBILITY

Performances will be eligible according to the year in which their film was eligible at the real-life Academy Awards.

So, rather than going strictly by festival premiere or first release date, a performance belongs to whichever Oscar year the film itself competed in with the Academy.

If you’re unsure whether a film was eligible for a particular year, this Academy reminder-list archive is a good place to check eligibility.

A few other rules:

• Maximum of five ranked choices per category.
• Anything listed after your fifth choice won’t be counted.
• Honourable mentions won’t count as votes.
• Please include both the actor and film so there’s no ambiguity.
• In cases where there may be disagreement or confusion over whether a performance is lead or supporting, your vote will count only in the category in which you place that performance. Points will not be transferred or combined between categories.
• A performer cannot receive two nominations in the same acting category for different films. If that happens, their higher-scoring performance will be kept and the next eligible performance will move into the top five.
• If there’s a tie for the final nomination spot, I’ll break it by comparing #1 votes first, then #2 votes, #3 votes, etc.

For example:

Actor

1. Person A — Film A
2. Person B — Film B
3. Person C — Film C
4. Person D — Film D
5. Person E — Film E

That ballot would give them 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 points respectively.

The idea is that Round One rewards performances with broad support across people’s ballots, while Round Two gives everyone a straight choice between the five nominees.

Previous Lineup — 1996

BEST ACTOR

• Tom Cruise — Jerry Maguire
• Nathan Lane — The Birdcage
• William H. Macy — Fargo (winner)
• Ewan McGregor — Trainspotting
• Timothy Spall — Secrets & Lies

BEST ACTRESS

• Brenda Blethyn — Secrets & Lies
• Isabelle Huppert — La Cérémonie
• Frances McDormand — Fargo (winner)
• Emily Watson — Breaking the Waves
• Faye Wong — Chungking Express

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Steve Buscemi — Fargo (winner)
• Robert Carlyle — Trainspotting
• Cuba Gooding Jr. — Jerry Maguire
• Tony Jay — The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Edward Norton — Primal Fear

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Joan Allen — The Crucible
• Juliette Binoche — The English Patient
• Pam Ferris — Matilda
• Marianne Jean-Baptiste — Secrets & Lies (winner)
• Renée Zellweger — Jerry Maguire

• Peter Lorre in M
• Erich von Stroheim for Grand Illusion
• Anna Magnani for Rome, Open City
• Takashi Shimura for Ikiru
• Setsuko Hara for Tokyo Story
• Toshiro Mifune for Seven Samurai
• Toshiro Mifune for Yojimbo
• Marcello Mastroianni for 8 1/2
• Ingrid Thulin for Winter Light
• Anne Vernon for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
• Liv Ullmann for Scenes from a Marriage
• Ingrid Bergman for Autumn Sonata
• Irène Jacob for Three Colors: Red
• Marion Cotillard for La Vie en Rose
• Cho Yeo - jeong for Parasite
• Renate Reinsve for The Worst Person in the World
• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas for Sentimental Value

1)With no suprise, it was The Godfather (16.7%)

2) A tie, with Silence of the Lambs and Parasite (13.3% each)

3) Another tie, with The Godfather Part II and One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest(6.7% each)

Specifically looking at these four wins with these specific scenes. I ugly cry when Tammy interviews that AIDs patient in “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”, when Evelyn finally “defeats” Jobu and gets Joy back in “Everything Everywhere All at Once”, when Ani realises she lost everything and breaks down in Igor’s arms in “Anora” and when Agnes lost her child in “Hamnet”.

These scenes genuinely make me incredibly sad for multiple different reasons:
I am an older gay man and the way Tammy spoke, the way she said that God loves us all if something I truly needed in my life.

Again as a gay man and a child of immigrant parents, my Mother was incredibly similar to Evelyn and I felt all the metaphors in EEAAO in my heart and the way they try to fix things at the end of the film mirrors me with my Mother, in a way.

I have worked with many Anora’s in my line of work and many of them have told me about their Cinderella stories and how they lost everything and went back to sex work. Ani reminds me so much of them, plus I was so invested in her story, I really wanted her to win.

And Agnes’ loss of a child is always terribly sad, I am such a cry baby when it comes to Mothers losing their children. Always.

But yeah, just wanted to know if anyone feels the same, lol.

1. American Sniper

2. Joker

3. The Theory of Everything

4. Hidden Figures

5. The Ides of March

6. The Imitation Game

7. Inherent Vice

8. Beasts of the Southern Wild

9. Little Women

10. Jojo Rabbit

11. The Two Popes

12. Captain Phillips

13. The Irishman

14. Mudbound

15. Hugo

16. The Big Short

17. The Martian

18. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

19. Molly’s Game

20. A Star is Born

21. Fences

22. The Disaster Artist

23. Life of Pi

24. Argo

I can see why she got nominated, even though she's sidelined in the film's second half. She had the hardest role since she had to convey a woman who's near death, though at one point she comes across as a zombie. It's a very gruelling performance. I liked it but she was definitely helped by it being a Oscar baity part.

I would have nominated Ewan MacGregor for Best Supporting. His performance doesn't get as talked about as much.

I've seen comments say that Judi Dench could've done her six minutes in Shakespeare in Love in her sleep.

And yeah, I have to agree. She is good in those six minutes, but at the same time, this was not a very challenging or difficult role for the great Judi Dench to pull off at all. (Y'all really gave her an Oscar for THIS and not Mrs. Brown or Notes on a Scandal?)