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Jan. 17th, 2005 12:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apocalypsosI need to vent about the Golden Globes.
Look, I love Johnny Depp. But I'm going to say this here and now.
Johnny Depp was not robbed. Johnny Depp was probably not going to win, no matter how talented he is or how pretty he is.
I know you don't like Leonardo DiCaprio. Hell, I don't like Angelina Jolie, but I can admit that she's a good actress. I know he got annoying after Titanic. Everybody got annoying after Titanic. That doesn't stop any of them from being good actors. Does he look like he's twelve? Yes. I look like I'm eighteen. At least I don't need my looks to write, but neither does Leonardo. That's why it's called acting. You can look like you're twelve and still act like an adult. That's the point.
As for Johnny ... right. Johnny wasn't robbed this year. Johnny was robbed LAST year. In retrospect, Johnny Depp deserved any accolade he didn't get and every one he did for that role. This year, he's nominated for playing a very subdued role against four men who were nominated for portraying characters dealing with very complex issues. Tell me which one of these things is not like the others: Genocide. Euthanasia. Mental illness. Sexual education. Writer's block.
Hollywood likes roles with heft. They like it when you play physically, emotionally or mentally distressed to extremes. You're insane. You're dying. You're being threatened. You're violent. Out of the five nominees tonight, only Liam Neeson possibly played a less stressful role. Possibly.
And he's not going to be robbed at the Oscars, either. My guess is that he's going to be up against Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Paul Giamatti, and Javier Bardem, and in that field, he's the longshot. (Actually, in that field, anybody who's not Jamie Foxx is the longshot, but whatever.)
If Johnny had won tonight, it would have been because Hollywood likes him (a lousy way to win), he was getting it for his body of work (just as lousy), or because he won a few Best Actor awards before all of the other nominees had their films released.
I just ... just ... GAH.
*headwall*
EDIT: Having looked over the sneak reviews for The Libertine, I'm guessing Johnny will get nominated for that one next year, and with the raves they're giving his performance (if not, in some instances, the movie itself), he appears to have a much better shot in 2006.
Look, I love Johnny Depp. But I'm going to say this here and now.
Johnny Depp was not robbed. Johnny Depp was probably not going to win, no matter how talented he is or how pretty he is.
I know you don't like Leonardo DiCaprio. Hell, I don't like Angelina Jolie, but I can admit that she's a good actress. I know he got annoying after Titanic. Everybody got annoying after Titanic. That doesn't stop any of them from being good actors. Does he look like he's twelve? Yes. I look like I'm eighteen. At least I don't need my looks to write, but neither does Leonardo. That's why it's called acting. You can look like you're twelve and still act like an adult. That's the point.
As for Johnny ... right. Johnny wasn't robbed this year. Johnny was robbed LAST year. In retrospect, Johnny Depp deserved any accolade he didn't get and every one he did for that role. This year, he's nominated for playing a very subdued role against four men who were nominated for portraying characters dealing with very complex issues. Tell me which one of these things is not like the others: Genocide. Euthanasia. Mental illness. Sexual education. Writer's block.
Hollywood likes roles with heft. They like it when you play physically, emotionally or mentally distressed to extremes. You're insane. You're dying. You're being threatened. You're violent. Out of the five nominees tonight, only Liam Neeson possibly played a less stressful role. Possibly.
And he's not going to be robbed at the Oscars, either. My guess is that he's going to be up against Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Paul Giamatti, and Javier Bardem, and in that field, he's the longshot. (Actually, in that field, anybody who's not Jamie Foxx is the longshot, but whatever.)
If Johnny had won tonight, it would have been because Hollywood likes him (a lousy way to win), he was getting it for his body of work (just as lousy), or because he won a few Best Actor awards before all of the other nominees had their films released.
I just ... just ... GAH.
*headwall*
EDIT: Having looked over the sneak reviews for The Libertine, I'm guessing Johnny will get nominated for that one next year, and with the raves they're giving his performance (if not, in some instances, the movie itself), he appears to have a much better shot in 2006.
