Best Supporting Actress 1990s Edition

jesus

I pick Wiest. Fun fact: Wiest and Sorvino the only back to back acting winners directed by same guy.

Runners-up: Ruehl (category fraud), Paquin, Binoche maybe.

man poor Sorvino, defining this category for the next decade.

That's subjectively narrowed down from the nominations for the whole decade? There must have been better choices than that.

they're the winners, no?

Sorry, now I get it.

marisa tomei is really good in MCV, the only thing I remember beyond Fred gwynne. Binoche was great and TEP is actually good imo. Dench win was embarrassing if only bc of actual screen time. Basinger was just flat. Idk.

Binoche I suppose.

Basinger lucked out that year, riding the wave of Oscar guilt over having to give something to the critical favourite.

Best Allen-directed performance of the decade was Judy Davis in Husbands and Wives (nominated).

I haven't seen Tomei (who i almost always like) or Jolie. wd vote Wiest.

Wiest - the rest of these are appalling

hate Basinger in L.A. Confidential so much

Tomei's great in MCV, one of the last good, solid studio comedies before the Carrey/Sandler deluge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej8EpWYFhnw

Best Allen-directed performance of the decade was Judy Davis in Husbands and Wives (nominated).

― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko),

Best Allen-directed performance ever.

although i probably like Wiest's role just as much, voting for Sorvino because she was the butt of so many obnoxious jokes about her award being undeserved when it stands up now as a highlight of a pretty solid career

Tomei got it just as bad. There were rumors for years that Jack Palance read her name twice by accident.

sorvino was good in that one yeah, and i do love those 'where are they now' pieces i see which sometimes feature her, i always thought she was at least reasonably good in everything i saw her in.

are you sure you don't mean Tomei, ship? Has Sorvino had a solid career?

i rep for m-sorv in 'romy and michelle' and 'summer of sam' and 'mimic'

I was gonna say Barcelona.

Quick: which of these actresses have gotten other nominations?

tomei, wiest, binoche, dench?

In honor of Sorvino's role as Dr. Susan Tyler, an entomologist who was investigating deadly insect mutations in the feature film Mimic, a compound excreted by the sunburst diving beetle as a defensive mechanism was named "mirasorvone" by Thomas Eisner.

Tomei, Binoche, Dench, Jolie.

what was jolie's for, the changeling?

yep

1999 was the only year I had to look up: I mean wtf at her win. That's one of the more solid list of nominees.

Toni Collette
Chloe Sevigny
Catherine Keener
Samantha Morton

catherine keener should have taken it easy, loved her in BJM

easily!

sorry, was listening to the eagles

witchy woman that Keener

Sorvino never got the late 90s/early 00s role she probably deserved

although i probably like Wiest's role just as much, voting for Sorvino because she was the butt of so many obnoxious jokes about her award being undeserved when it stands up now as a highlight of a pretty solid career

― some dude, Wednesday, August 13, 2014 5:38 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Tomei got it just as bad. There were rumors for years that Jack Palance read her name twice by accident.

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, August 13, 2014 5:40 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol i actually got mixed up in my brain and was thinking of Tomei when i said Sorvino, although i guess it's true of Sorvino too. definitely prefer My Cousin Vinny to Mighty Aphrodite.

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Wiest. (Get off my property, Soto.)

Don't speak.

btw which are the WORST winners?

Mine:

Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost
Angelina Jolie - Girl Interrupted
Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost
Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost

No, the worst winners are:

Mercedes Ruehl - The Fisher King
Marissa Tomei - My Cousin Vinny
Anna Paquin - The Piano
Mira Sorvino - Mighty Aphrodite
Juliette Binoche - The English Patient
Kim Basinger - L.A. Confidential
Judi Dench - Shakespeare in Love
Angelina Jolie - Girl Interruped

you forgot Whoopi

whoopi is great in ghost, y'all are high

(For real, tho, the only outright duds in this cluster are Sorvino and Basinger.)

Mercedes Ruehl should've gotten a Best Actress nod so yeah.

I'd have voted:

Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost
Juliette Lewis - Cape Fear
Judy Davis - Husbands and Wives
Anna Paquin - The Piano
Dianne Wiest - Bullets Over Broadway
Mare Winningham - Georgia
really, anyone but Bacall could get it
Julianne Moore - Boogie Nights
Rachel Griffiths - Hilary and Jackie
Chloë Sevigny - Boys Don't Cry or Catherine Keener - Being John Malkovich

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yea i watched the piano for the first time recently, pacquin was like replacement level idk didnt see the fuss

totally quad-a

much worse than Whoopi's performance was her acceptance speech