It's bc she's foreign.

Sure, but I remember that Awards Season as if it was yesterday. Julie Christie won Globe, SAG, NBR and Critics Choice, she was the absolute front runner to win. I cried when Marion won the Oscar!

For sure an amazing performance. She made history

Because at the time Julie Christie was the frontrunner, but I think that was mainly due to her being a legend having a comeback performance. She swept the precursors. Ultimately, the right performance won and Julie was happy for her.

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caravaggio31 she was incredible, it was a wonderful preformamce

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Charlize Theron was amazingly as Aileen on Monster, too.

@@alexvilla43 Marion dar best

hum, I'm pretty immersed with myself, it's getting hard to believe that somebody else does.

Earth - it's funny I walked out on that movie halfway because it was just too dark (and I like dark!) but I thought the directing was horrible like just dark dark dark dark dark/no contrast/no lightness for juxtaposition/no letting up at all so I left - but I remember thinking that was the best acting I've ever seen by her.

@@11Garrett11 3:27 even Julie happy 4 her

Wilson Martinez She also had a thick language barrier at that time. Her English was not as good as it is now.

Actually Baftas was the only award body among the major award shows to give her Best Actress prior to her Oscar win because Julie Christie was winning everything else so they did a really good job recognising her and pushing her forward chances to win. Of course she also received a Golden Globes for Comedy/Musical but that was a genre category and only Ellen Page was the Oscar Contender amongst the nominees

Duhh, you completely neglected Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice, probably the greatest female performance in the movies of all time.

Hilary Swank: right actress, wrong role. Swank's performance in 'Million Dollar Baby' was good; but not great. She was truly _great_ in 'Boys Don't Cry', for which she won her first Academy award (fully deserved). The actress who _should_ have won the Academy award the year Swank won her second (for the bafflingly overrated 'Million Dollar Baby') was Imelda Staunton, for her utterly compelling performance in 'Vera Drake'.

***** Dear God man - Reese Witherspoon? Jennifer Lawrence? No! Just no!

***** I see. I did misunderstand you, so I apologise for that. But as subjective as these things always are, I wouldn't have Natalie Portman so high on the list. She's a decent actress but I don't think her perfromance in 'Swan' tops Streep's in "The Iron Lady" or Theron's in 'Monster' .

@@VoxDeiUniversity Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice is a cliche answer. Marion as Edith Piaf was better than that. Charlize Theron in Monster was better than that. Liv Ullman in Face to Face was much better than that.

organboi I was blown away by her acting in The Immigrant too.

She gave one of the best performances of that decade in Two Days, One Night. It was so realistic. That nomination was a surprise one too. She was amazing in Rust and Bone too. One of the best actresses working.

She is so good that the movies that got her Oscar nominations are in French. I mean it’s not often the role of the nominees speak other languages but English. I got to know so many great French movies because of her.

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Cate should have won the first time she played Queen Elizabeth…she was robbed by Gwenyth Paltrow!

Parasite?

Rahul Chembakasseril Parasite wasn’t existing 3 years ago

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And they were Orion miles better than Julianne Moore.

I thought they all gave outstanding performances. Julianne Moore should have won years ago so her Oscar win was a compensation prize. The Oscars like to play catch up when they overlook great actors like Julianne Moore

She's french, she's entitled to wear everything. Actually, I liked her dress very much, quite original!

Cristina Sousa Anyone is entitled to wear everything, not just French. ;) But yes I like her anyway, it's better than always wearing what other pple are wearing.

littlemissdimples88 I said that because I think of France as the world fashion capital, so all the trends are allowed. But of course, everyone is entitled to wear whatever they want to. And yes, it's boring (at least for me) when all the people wear the same outfits, like the same colours... This is pretty common in northern european countries (England, Belgium, Switzerland...) unlike latin european countries (Portugal, Spain, Italy) where each person has their unique style (not very elegant but unique according to their personality).

Cristina Sousa why would she be entitled to wear anything only because she is French?

northern european countries ----Switzerland ?????????????

She was genuinely shocked because she wasn't the frontrunner