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Title: Why Oscar Voters Love Gender-Bending Roles
Post by: Shana A on September 06, 2011, 08:01:59 AM
Post by: Shana A on September 06, 2011, 08:01:59 AM
September 5, 2011, 5:00 PM ET
Why Oscar Voters Love Gender-Bending Roles
By Alexis L. Loinaz
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/09/05/does-the-academy-favor-gender-bending-roles/ (http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/09/05/does-the-academy-favor-gender-bending-roles/)
For Glenn Close, the coming fall season is going to be a real drag—and that's a good thing. The acclaimed actress is set to storm theaters with "Albert Nobbs," a passion project in which she plays a woman masquerading as a male waiter in 19th-century Ireland in order to land a job.
It's a performance that's already generating buzz for Close, who played the role in a 1982 Off-Broadway play and won an Obie award for it. Thirty years later, the Emmy- and Tony-winning actress is no doubt hoping her big-screen turn in "Nobbs," which recently screened at the Telluride Film Festival and which she also co-wrote and produced, will nab the one award that has eluded her: an Oscar.
Why Oscar Voters Love Gender-Bending Roles
By Alexis L. Loinaz
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/09/05/does-the-academy-favor-gender-bending-roles/ (http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/09/05/does-the-academy-favor-gender-bending-roles/)
For Glenn Close, the coming fall season is going to be a real drag—and that's a good thing. The acclaimed actress is set to storm theaters with "Albert Nobbs," a passion project in which she plays a woman masquerading as a male waiter in 19th-century Ireland in order to land a job.
It's a performance that's already generating buzz for Close, who played the role in a 1982 Off-Broadway play and won an Obie award for it. Thirty years later, the Emmy- and Tony-winning actress is no doubt hoping her big-screen turn in "Nobbs," which recently screened at the Telluride Film Festival and which she also co-wrote and produced, will nab the one award that has eluded her: an Oscar.
Title: Re: Why Oscar Voters Love Gender-Bending Roles
Post by: tekla on September 06, 2011, 08:05:10 AM
Post by: tekla on September 06, 2011, 08:05:10 AM
If that was true Cate Blanchett would have won as Bob Dylan.
Title: Re: Why Oscar Voters Love Gender-Bending Roles
Post by: Shana A on September 06, 2011, 08:11:05 AM
Post by: Shana A on September 06, 2011, 08:11:05 AM
Quote from: tekla on September 06, 2011, 08:05:10 AM
If that was true Cate Blanchett would have won as Bob Dylan.
Cate Blanchett was truly amazing as Dylan! She should have won.
Title: Re: Why Oscar Voters Love Gender-Bending Roles
Post by: tekla on September 06, 2011, 08:24:10 AM
Post by: tekla on September 06, 2011, 08:24:10 AM
She was robbed.