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Celeb News: Hype for Amy Adams grows, oscar gets closer
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Hype for Amy Adams grows, oscar gets closer
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Gold Standard: Now that DiCaprio has one, it's Amy Adams' turn to win an Oscar, right?
Which brings us to another accomplished actor, one who has earned five Oscar nominations over the course of her distinguished career: Amy Adams.
Adams has two major films playing at Toronto this week — Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi drama “Arrival,” and Tom Ford’s dark, nasty thriller “Nocturnal Animals.” Both films open in theaters in November.
Is it Adams’ turn to finally win an Oscar?
But neither “Arrival” nor “Nocturnal Animals” plays as the kind of movie traditionally embraced by Oscar voters. “Arrival” blends spectacle and intimacy with Adams at the center of the story, playing a linguist enlisted to find a way to communicate with alien visitors. It’s an emotionally rich performance, effectively conveying the wonder of the situation. But it’s also in the middle of a genre movie possessing a story that many academy members might find half-baked at best.
“Nocturnal Animals,” set partially in the L.A. art scene, will likely play better with Oscar voters. In it, Adams portrays a deeply unhappy gallery curator who, one day, receives a manuscript written by her ex-husband (Jake Gyllenhaal), a man she hasn’t spoken to for nearly 20 years. Reading it dredges up regrets and guilt about the past and highlights the isolation of her current life.
The movie, directed by Tom Ford (“A Single Man”), is superbly structured, provocative and laced with acidic humor. And, like “Arrival,” Adams supplies the movie’s crucial center, excelling whether the movie’s flashing back or hurtling forward. But “Nocturnal Animals” is also two movies in one — and Adams isn’t in one of those films. (The action shuttles between Adams’ story and the plot in her ex-husband’s manuscript that she spends the movie reading.) Absence, in this case, might make voters’ hearts look elsewhere.
2013
Nominated for supporting actress: “The Master” (2012)
Lost to: Anne Hathaway, “Les Miserables”
Should Adams have won? Absolutely.
Adams pretty much played two characters in Paul Thomas Anderson’s cult classic — the public and private Peggy Dodd, one motherly and genteel, the other pathologically controlling and suspicious. Married to the leader of the Cause, it didn’t take long to realize who the Master of the title really was. She’d make a meal out of Lady Macbeth.
But Hathaway Dreamed a Dream and, in a single take (sung live on set!), stole the Oscar.
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http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...nap-story.html
Legend Amy, your time is coming 
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Academy Award winner Emma Stone will snatch ha wig tho 
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Originally posted by Dingdong123
Academy Award winner Emma Stone will snatch ha wig tho |
for what did she win? they really give those oscars to everyone these days 
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Viola Davis though. 
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I love Amy a lot, but I don't really see an Oscar for her this year unless she goes to Supporting Actress (and it sounds like Nocturnal Animals maybe could make sense in that category). Even then, Michelle Williams is getting like career-best kinda reviews for Manchester By The Sea.
I want it for her, but I'm not sure this is her year.
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Originally posted by Achilles.
I love Amy a lot, but I don't really see an Oscar for her this year unless she goes to Supporting Actress (and it sounds like Nocturnal Animals maybe could make sense in that category). Even then, Michelle Williams is getting like career-best kinda reviews for Manchester By The Sea.
I want it for her, but I'm not sure this is her year.
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let's keep the hope alive for legend A, there is a long way to go
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Anne Hathaway deserved her Oscar go away with these lies! I hope someone snatches that Oscar out of Amy's hands once again. If anyone should win an Oscar it should be Glenn Close, bye!
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Originally posted by snowpiercer
Anne Hathaway deserved her Oscar go away with these lies! I hope someone snatches that Oscar out of Amy's hands once again. If anyone should win an Oscar it should be Glenn Close, bye!
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she was horrible in the misarables shut up! she was in there for a total of 5 minutes being super over the top and a complete mess 
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It's still WAY to early but Viola and Emma seem to have more steam under them at the moment. But, nobody can state anything for sure in September. Things get super clear in January if there's a clear favorite
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Originally posted by MaRy
for what did she win? they really give those oscars to everyone these days |
She doesn't have one yet but I think she was nominated for Birdman
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Yeah... Anne Hathaway deserved her Oscar. Amy Adams was fine in The Master (which I found rather blah) but not really worthy of a win.
I bet she'll win whenever that Janis Joplin film gets made.
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Originally posted by MaRy
she was horrible in the misarables shut up! she was in there for a total of 5 minutes being super over the top and a complete mess |
The Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and SAG Awards + critical acclaim disagree
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As the award ceremony comes closer, there's going to be a lot of pressure to give Viola a win just because of the desperate lack of diversity. I could see her winning it, deserved or not. Still rooting for Natalie though. #OscarsSoWhite
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Amy is an amazing actress and definitely deserves it but not this year, I guess. We all want it for her though.
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I'm so rooting for her. She deserves it
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Viola or maybe Emma will win Lead.
Michelle will win Supporting.
1x lead nominee Amy will not win. She's never even been runner-up, probably.
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We all want it for her though.
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Who's "we all"?
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Originally posted by snowpiercer
The Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and SAG Awards + critical acclaim disagree
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one word: hype. Same reason most of these awards are given away tbh
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Too early to tell. it seems her publicist is already working on it tho
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