The English Patient (1996)

Do you think Lauren Bacall should have won Best S. Actress in 1996?

Ok, i know her movie was shit, and her preformance was so-so. But this woman is a screen icon, who had her first ever nomination, despite the fact that she had been around since the 40’s. That award was mean’t for her career, not just that preformance.While Juliette Binoche was good, she only really won because of the tireless campaigning for herself and The English Patient. Besides what else has she done in her career that we would remember her by, besides winning the Oscar? She never did any good or recognizable roles after winning, she just dissapeared. But Bacall lives on. Binoche should have been nominated in the leading category, because she was the lead. If she was in that category, Bacall would have easily won. That way they both could have Oscars. Even Binoche said “I thought Lauren was going to get it, and I think she deserves it.” That night the Academy made a HUGE injustice of denying and robbing Bacall an Oscar that she most certinley deserved.

I’ve seen “The Mirror Has Two Faces” and “The English Patient”, and to tell you the truth, I really didn’t like either of them as much as most other people. But during the Oscars, I actually thought Juliette Binoche deserved to win. Her performance was the most sincere and heartfelt while Bacall was more stiff and one-dimensional. And as for Binoche being nominated in the supporting category instead of the lead actress category, the movie studio wanted to give Kristin Scott Thomas the chance to win in that category for “The English Patient”. But I can understand that you wanted Bacall to win because she’s a screen icon and the performance she gave was the only one the Academy ever recognized. But if she had won, it would have been more of a tribute to her “career” rather than her “performance”. In which case, the other actresses’ performances nominated in the supporting actress category wouldn’t have been worth anything.
Unfortunately, there have been other such instances that somebody was “given” an Oscar when they didn’t deserve it, but it was more of a tribute to their career. Examples being, in 1986, Paul Newman won for “The Color of Money”, when it wasn’t even his best performance, or the best performance of the year. In 1992, Al Pacino won for “Scent of a Woman”, and that performance was nothing compared to his other better and earlier work.
And as for Binoche not doing anything recognizable after winning her Oscar, she WAS nominated for a best actress Oscar for 2000’s “Chocolat”. But ever since then, she’s been doing movies in her native France. Her most recent films being 2005’s “Cache” and 2006’s “Breaking and Entering” and “Paris, je t’aime”.

The English Patient Trailer 2 – Juliette Binoche 1996

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