I had asked who, out of the lovely five women nominated in 1990 for Best Supporting Actress, should have walked away with the trophy.
In 5th place our beloved President Laura Roslin - ie Mary McDonnell in “Dances with Wolves” with absolutely no votes. Sniff
In 4th place with a measly 5% we have Dr. Jennifer Melfi herself (aka Lorraine Bracco for “Goodfellas”) hope she doesn’t arrange a hit on the winner – Ohhh I am a riot with me TV references!
In 3rd place we have the crazy ole lipstick face painter Marietta Fortune herself. I actually though Diane Ladd would win this for “Wild at Heart” but she only managed to muster 9%.
Which means 2nd place had a massive lead with 32%. But do we expect anything less from Mrs Warren Beatty? Sure she came close, but Annette Bening’s performance in “Goodfellas’ was not enough to stop…
….Celie from taking gold with a nice lead of 55%. What can we say, the populous wins out (well yeah), and is it any surprise that the winner is probably the most seen film of the bunch?Whoopie Goldbergs performance in Ghost seems at first to be your typical black comedic supporting performance. However under Goldbergs expert delivery it becomes something deeper and much more cunning. Many other actors would have played this role for all the racial stereotyping they could muster. Whoopie however tries to find some truth and depth in a shallowly written role.
Her presence is felt so much in the film that she becomes our emotional anchor. We laugh because of her, we fear for her, we even want her to keep the money she gives to the nuns, but mostly, when it is her turn to say goodbye to Sam, we cry.
We all know it was a make up Oscar for “The Color Purple” but still we are glad she got it in the end.
We move up a year next…fancy that! We will look at 1991 when the nominees to choose from were…..
Geena Davis - Thelma & Louise
Laura Dern - Rambling Rose
Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs
Bette Midler - For the Boys
Susan Sarandon - Thelma & Louise
Go on vote people!!!! Poll is in the side to your right!
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