[GregT] To be fair Scent of a Woman was an excellent performance and was PROBABLY better than the closest contenders, Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven and Denzel Washington in Malcolm X.
I'll still disagree on Lost In Translation. It's all Bill Murray. His performance is strong enough to make up for the fact that it's poorly paced, poorly scripted, poorly shot, and that Scarlett Johanssen doesn't have any settings other than "pout" and "vamp". The tragedy isn't that the film lost Best Picture and Best Director to Peter Jackson, it's that it lost Best Actor to Sean Penn in Mystic River (does anyone even remember that performance today?).
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Date: 2010-03-09 10:03 pm (UTC)I'll still disagree on Lost In Translation. It's all Bill Murray. His performance is strong enough to make up for the fact that it's poorly paced, poorly scripted, poorly shot, and that Scarlett Johanssen doesn't have any settings other than "pout" and "vamp". The tragedy isn't that the film lost Best Picture and Best Director to Peter Jackson, it's that it lost Best Actor to Sean Penn in Mystic River (does anyone even remember that performance today?).