Consolation Award: Difference between revisions

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'''Renton''': What about ''[[The Untouchables]]''?<br />

'''Sick Boy''': I don't rate that at all. <br />

 

== Movies ==

** This trope's [[Distaff Counterpart]] to O'Toole is [[Deborah Kerr]], who earned six Academy Award nominations for Best Actress in a Leading Role over a twelve year period from 1950-1961, and lost all six, coming up short on her last try to Elizabeth Taylor's consolation Oscar for ''Butterfield 8'' (see below). She also received four BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) nominations for Best Actress in her native Great Britain and lost all four of those too, making her the most-nominated performer never to win Best Actress in TWO countries. Both the British and American Academies finally and belatedly presented her with Honorary Awards for lifetime achievement in the 1990s, more than two decades after she had effectively retired from acting.

* [[Martin Scorsese]]'s ''[[The Departed]]'' is not widely considered to be one of his best. So, one can't help but wonder if this trope was in effect when it won Best Picture and he won Best Director, after decades of Scorsese's work never getting the honor. Arguably, though, it might alsto because it was the most successful movie out of that year's Best Picture nominees.

* [[John Wayne]]'s Best Actor win in 1969 for ''[[True Grit]]'' is seen as a consolation for him not winning the award for his work in films like [[Red River]], ''[[The Quiet Man]]'', ''[[The Searchers]]'', and ''[[Sands Of Iwo Jima]]''.

* [[Henry Fonda]] finally won a Best Actor Oscar for ''[[On Golden Pond]]'' -- the last movie he ever made.

* An example of the cycle continuing: In 2001, [[Nicole Kidman]] was nominated for ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'', but lost to [[Halle Berry]]. The next year, she won for ''The Hours'', a film that has been all but forgotten. She beat [[Renee Zellwegger]] in ''[[Chicago]]'', who ended up winning Best Supporting Actress in 2003 for ''[[Cold Mountain]]''. A lot of the reviews of ''Cold Mountain'' actually contained comments along the lines of "just give Renee the Oscar already" (NOTE: She had been nominated for Best Actress in 2001 as well, for ''Bridget Jones's Diary.''

* Aversion: In 1996, it was thought of as certain that legendary Golden Age of Hollywood star [[Lauren Bacall]], who had never been ''nominated'' for an Oscar before, would win the Best Supporting Actress award for the poorly-reviewed Barbra Streisand vehicle ''The Mirror Has Two Faces''. When she '''didn't''' win, instead losing to Juliette Binoche for ''[[The English Patient]]'' (which swept that year's awards), it was a huge shock. (Bacall would receive an honorary Oscar in 2009.)

* James Baskett, the lead actor of ''[[Song of the South]]'', was given an "Honorary Oscar" at that year's Academy Award because at the time, an African American wasn't going to be nominated for a lead role.

* Although [[James Stewart]] gave a solid performance in ''[[The Philadelphia Story]]'', it's commonly accepted that the Best Actor Oscar he won was really for his career-defining work in ''[[Mr. Smith Goes to Washington]]'' the year before.

** It didn't help matters when people looked at the two movies in question. When you look at ''[[The Iron Lady]],'' the reviews frequently said that Meryl was the best part of an otherwise lukewarm film, whereas ''[[The Help]]'' was both a critical and commercial darling.

 

 

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