# Actors Whose Oscars Should be Recalled & Melted **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 27, 2007, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-oscars-should-be-recalled-melted/417124 "2007-08-27T17:39:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-oscars-should-be-recalled-melted/417124/21 "2007-08-27T21:07:57Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Actually she does; she got them for her performance breaking into Hepburn’s house just before the hearse pulled up. [/QUOTE] Was she kind enough to ship the remaining half-Oscar over to Barbra’s place? Oh, and of course, the obligatory mentions for any such thread: Judy Holliday’s win for _Born Yesterday_ over both Gloria Swanson for _Sunset Blvd._ and Bette Davis for _All About Eve_ was absurd (yes I know, vote splitting and all that, still) and Grace Kelly’s win for her role in [del]_I’m Marrying a Prince Soon_[/del] _The Country Girl_ over Judy Garland in _A Star Is Born_ was, to borrow a phrase, the greatest robbery since Brinks’. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-oscars-should-be-recalled-melted/417124/22 "2007-08-27T21:34:30Z")
[QUOTE=Southern Yankee] But I may change my mind if Ashton Kutcher ever has his name read from within the envelope… [/QUOTE] I had similar thoughts until I saw _The Butterfly Effect_. The boy can do good. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-oscars-should-be-recalled-melted/417124/23 "2007-08-27T21:35:48Z")
[QUOTE=Trunk] Except it has dawned on people (or at least me) that it wasn’t really a great performance, but just a particular role that suited his limited talents. It might have seemed good at the time, but in retrospect, it seems as if it was just him being Cuba Gooding Jr. and not really a great performance. [/QUOTE] I didn’t think it was all that hot at the time either. Compared with William H. Macy in _Fargo_ and Edward Norton in _Primal Fear_, it really fades. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-oscars-should-be-recalled-melted/417124/24 "2007-08-27T21:40:55Z")
Many will disagree, but I’d revoke Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Oscar for _Capote_. He’s a great actor, but the performance just wasn’t imo all that, and it’s vastly inferior to Toby Jones’s performance in (the same movie-different title) _Infamous_ which wasn’t even nominated. I’d give it instead to either David Strathairn or Heath Ledger, both nominated the same year. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-oscars-should-be-recalled-melted/417124/25 "2007-08-27T21:56:22Z")
They shouldn’t take Julia Roberts’s away and melt it; they should just give it to its rightful owner, Ellen Burstyn. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-oscars-should-be-recalled-melted/417124/26 "2007-08-27T22:32:31Z")
Marrisa Tomei should prompty return her Oscar for My Cousin Vinny, since she was clearly struck by the Oscar meteor (lightnight would be too statistically lucky). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-oscars-should-be-recalled-melted/417124/27 "2007-08-28T05:17:07Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] John Wayne won for _True Grit_ over Dustin Hoffman in _Midnight Cowboy_. It was wrong then and it’s still wrong. [/QUOTE] I must say that you, my friend, are sadly mistaken. Wayne earned that Oscar “far and squar” for _True Grit_. A great part in a great movie. Besides, it amounted to a career honor anyway… ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-oscars-should-be-recalled-melted/417124/28 "2007-08-28T05:38:46Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] We really, really need to rescue Judi Dench’s Oscar from Gwyneth Paltrow’s mantle. The sooner the better. [/QUOTE] As **ArchiveGuy** pointed out, Paltrow and Dench won in the same year, for the same movie. Personally, i think Paltrow’s Oscar should have gone to Cate Blanchett for _Elizabeth_. And Emily Watson in _Hillary and Jackie_ would also have been a better choice than Gwyneth. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-oscars-should-be-recalled-melted/417124/29 "2007-08-28T05:39:37Z")
Upon accepting his Oscar, Wayne said, "“If I’d known this, I’d have put that eyepatch on 40 years ago.” ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-oscars-should-be-recalled-melted/417124/30 "2007-08-28T07:31:50Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Agreed. He was also good in _Outbreak_ and _A Few Good Men_, I thought. And _Rat Race_, come to think of it, in a very different role. I haven’t seen any of his other dreck. [/QUOTE] I never saw _Radio_, was Cuba Gooding, Jr any good in that? ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-oscars-should-be-recalled-melted/417124/31 "2007-08-28T11:20:20Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] John Wayne won for _True Grit_ over Dustin Hoffman in _Midnight Cowboy_. It was wrong then and it’s still wrong. [/QUOTE] “Fill your hands, you sons-a-bitches!” ---
**Author:** ![Elenfair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cc9497/32.png) [@Elenfair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elenfair)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-oscars-should-be-recalled-melted/417124/32 "2007-08-28T12:29:18Z")
Someone already mentioned Marisa Tomei, Julia Roberts, Helen Hunt, and Kevin Costner… But… I can’t believe NO ONE said we should organize a Black Ops corps and fetch all the Oscars related to _Titanic_, melt them into a replica of the boat (in the appropriate number of pieces) and then sink 'em with the ship’s remains, at the bottom of the ocean. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-oscars-should-be-recalled-melted/417124/33 "2007-08-28T13:43:45Z")
[QUOTE=Scissorjack] “Fill your hands, you sons-a-bitches!” [/QUOTE] I actually prefer the line which precedes that (given by a very young-looking Robert Duvall): “I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man.” ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-oscars-should-be-recalled-melted/417124/34 "2007-08-28T13:49:21Z")
[QUOTE=USCDiver] I never saw _Radio_, was Cuba Gooding, Jr any good in that? [/QUOTE] Yeah, I thought he was amazing in that. I also liked him in What Dreams May Come, a very silly movie with amazing acting. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-oscars-should-be-recalled-melted/417124/35 "2007-08-28T14:10:31Z")
I came in here to mention that Titanic fiasco. I see I’m in good company though. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-oscars-should-be-recalled-melted/417124/36 "2007-08-28T14:19:51Z")
Slight Hijack: Tony Award Winning Broadway producer Jerry Zaks once asked his good friend Don Imus to send him the script for the musical version of Imus’s book “God’s Other Son,” featuring music by country singer-turned mystery novelist-turned political figure Richard Kinky “Big Dick” Friedman. Imus later asked Zacks if he would be interested in producing it. Zaks replied that not only would he never win another Tony Award if he did produced it, but the Tony Award Committe would no doubt come to his house and take back the Tonys he had been awarded in the past. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-oscars-should-be-recalled-melted/417124/37 "2007-08-28T14:42:15Z")
Another score for _Titanic_, especially Kate Winslet. She’s proven herself to be an otherwise fine actor, but it’s not really that hard to act like a snotty rich girl in love. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-oscars-should-be-recalled-melted/417124/38 "2007-08-28T14:53:54Z")
[QUOTE=olivesmarch4th] Another score for _Titanic_, especially Kate Winslet. She’s proven herself to be an otherwise fine actor, but it’s not really that hard to act like a snotty rich girl in love. [/QUOTE] Luckily, she didn’t win an Oscar for Titanic. ---
**Author:** ![SpartanDC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SpartanDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpartanDC)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-oscars-should-be-recalled-melted/417124/39 "2007-08-28T15:15:04Z")
I know Marisa Tomei’s win is largely regarded as a fluke, but she was nominated for _In The Bedroom_ (which I didn’t see) in 2002. I don’t think she’s necessarily untalented. And, really, as comedic performances go, the one she gave in _My Cousin Vinny_ is pretty good. And what was so bad about Helen Hunt’s performance in As Good As It Gets? And what has she done since then to merit the award being taken away? Anyway, I came in here to suggest Whoopi Goldberg. She went from winning an Oscar for a charismatic role in an (admittedly pretty well-done) popcorn flick to being in a [buddy-cop/dinosaur](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114658/) movie. And now she’s going to be on The Freaking View. Live up to the statue you earned! ---
**Author:** ![j00licious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eada6e/32.png) [@j00licious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j00licious)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-oscars-should-be-recalled-melted/417124/40 "2007-08-28T15:40:31Z")
Angelina Jolie in ‘Girl, Interrupted.’ Not saying she isn’t capable of oscar-caliber performances, but that role wasn’t impressive. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-oscars-should-be-recalled-melted/417124.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-oscars-should-be-recalled-melted/417124.md?page=3)