Monday, August 20, 2007

Joan Allen is 51


"Now that we’ve found Jason Bourne, you should all devote your time to
locating my Oscar. No excuses. This is top priority!"

13 comments:

John T said...

Wait, wait, I think I've found it-it's at Mira Sorvino's house: GO! GO! GO!

Anonymous said...

Dont you mean Oscars? One for Pleasantville and one for the Upside of Anger?

VS

Kamila said...

Joan Allen is one of the great actresses working in cinema nowadays.

Happy birthday to her!

Anonymous said...

What a shame she is unrewarded. Her turn as Pat Nixon should have at least had an Oscar nomination, as should her turns in Ice Storm, Pleasantville and The Crucible.

Anonymous said...

Damn, forgot my signature...

- The Joan Allen-loving Desplat-loving Australian (and yet, strangely enough, the one time Desplat has scored a Joan Allen film was perhaps a bit short of his usual standard of excellence)

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Anonymous said...

anonymous, Allen was nominated for Nixon. I thought she deserved the win outright.

That said, I hated pretty much everything about The Upside of Anger. She was better in Yes that year.

Anonymous said...

She was nominated for NIXON, you say?! 1996... that must have been the year Juliet Binoche won.

Ah... I do love Juliet Binoche. She should have been given Oscars for BLEU and UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING though. :)

- The Binoche-loving Santaolalla-hating Australia

Ben said...

For those who care (and if you're here, you probably do): Mira Sorvino beat her the year she was nominated for Nixon. I thought it was Binoche, too, but that was the next year, I think...

And yeah, I watched Upside of Anger this weekend and was blown away by her. The movie was meh, but she made it pretty watchable. I kind of love her now. And keep forgetting she was in Pleasantville.

Anonymous said...

Should've won in 95 and 96, with nominations in 97, 98, and 05 (for Yes, not Anger)

NicksFlickPicks said...

Let's not forget how super she was in her nominated turn in The Contender, even though she was overshadowed that year by Roberts, Linney, and Burstyn. I would have nom'd her in Supporting for The Bourne Supremacy, frankly. And she's great in Searching for Bobby Fischer.

Emma said...

Goddess. Absolute Goddess. One of my 5 favourite actresses.

lylee said...

But she DID lose to Binoche the following year, when she was nominated for THE CRUCIBLE. And that was another one of her great, great performances. She was absolutely fantastic as Goody Proctor - a difficult part to make at once cold and sympathetic, yet she somehow does.

I do think she got into maybe too long a run of playing repressed wives/mothers, but damn, no one does it better.