This year’s Best Supporting Actress race was one of the worst competitions in recent memory, for me, personally, because I thought the two frontrunners were both kind of awful in their respective films. Kate Winslet won the Golden Globe and BAFTA for her performance in Steve Jobs, and Alicia Vikander won the SAG Award and several critics’ awards for her performance in The Danish Girl. And just my opinion: both Winslet and Vikander were the worst parts of their films. So, I was never going to be into this, regardless of who ended up winning.
So, Alicia Vikander won, and she even got a kiss from her happy-looking boyfriend Michael Fassbender (who was seated beside her). She thanked the crew and cast of The Danish Girl, giving special shout-outs to Eddie Redmayne (who looked close to tears from pride) and director Tom Hooper. She thanked her mom and dad and… she did not thank Michael Fassbender. Which I kind of like that she didn’t give him a special shout-out, because that probably would have put me over the edge. At the end, as she thanked her parents, she said: “Thank you for the belief that anything could happen, I could never have believed this.”
Also: there’s a lot of hate for Vikander’s bubble-hemmed butter-yellow LV. We’ll have a lot to say about it tomorrow!
Alicia Vikander stuns in a custom @LouisVuitton dress. See more from the #Oscars red carpet: https://t.co/kng8bBlf6m pic.twitter.com/X03MneumJB
— Vogue Runway (@VogueRunway) February 28, 2016
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Good for her, she has the most beautiful skin it’s a shame she wasn’t given a more nicer gown to wear.
Category fraud.
She belonged in the lead category but Weinstein made sure she and Rooney were put in the supporting just to have a shot at winning.
Jennifer Jason Leigh should have won.
Harvey Weinstein is involved in Carol movie NOT The Danish Girl
Weinstein had zero to do with any of Viklander’s films, and in fact they’re direct rivals of his films. It’s just crazy Fassbender stand who created the rumour about her being a Weinstein girl and him arranging a fake PR relationship for them.
Why are you bringing up Fassbender? I don’t give a s h-t about him personally as I am not a fan.
It is still category fraud and she is close friends with Weinstein, google it. He is also involved with previous work of hers. She belonged in the lead category and you know it so my point still stands. It is ridiculous and unfair to the other nominees, who are actually supporting, to see an actress win in a category she has no business being in.
I think this will taint her award.
@NN: Thought the same thing, she was in the wrong category. Figured that someone thought she could not win on her actual category. So, should this be actually called a win? Loved how you called it.
I think that if you were all for diversity, you should also be against people that get nominated in the wrong category, but that’s just me.
@nn, rooney mara also belonged to the lead actress category. it’s an old trick, they often put forward actresses as supporting because otherwise they wouldn’t qualify for lead. i can name you plenty that did this throughout the years.
@ell:
I understand what you are saying, but instead of saying “it happens”, should the concept be “let’s change it and make it fair?”
Imagine how many people should have been nominated that were not due to this tactic.
I wish lead actors weren’t nominated for supporting actor/actress categories.
I agree. The studio pushed for it and the Academy allowed it to happen.
Yes, this. She should never have been in that category to begin with.
Some people get nominated for “supporting” when they appear on film for 15 minutes though. Judi Dench, for example. It might have been 10 mins actually. How the heck do you draw the line? Do they actually have fixed criteria? Esp with those directors cuts and all different versions coming out, the screen time would vary.
@Pancake: I did read ages ago that there is a criteria of being on screen for X amount of time for you to be nominated for a Supporting Role. The movie that gets nominated / shown in theaters (regardless if there is another longer version out there) is the measure for the time on screen.
I watched Danish Girl last night, and I kind of feel like it’s a bit of a grey area. Redmayne was the lead, Vikander was the female lead (in terms of actor/actress, of course both were playing women) but wasn’t quite the co-lead. If her character had been a man, I don’t think anyone would have an issue with the actor who played him being nominated in the supporting category, because then it’s quite obvious that Redmayne was the male actor with the larger, more central role.
Yes, I feel like Vikander is a more borderline case. Mara was clearly co-lead, though.
Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor for Silence of the Lambs and he was on screen for 16 minutes. I don’t have a problem with him winning but it’s bizarre in retrospect. He was technically supporting, not lead but Hannibal Lecter’s presence was so huge in the story that nobody questioned it.
The record for an acting nomination is 2 minutes on screen!
Seriously, he was only in that movie for 16 minutes??? Wow. As you said, his presence was huge.
And who got the 2-minutes nomination?
I love her gown. Great with her olive skin.
I love the gown too. Butter is perfect with brown hair and eyes. Like belle in disneys beauty and the beast. Bubble hem makes her feet look extra cute and delicate. (Jealous) I’ve never seen her act but gosh she is so youthful and glowing.
Oh please see Ex Machina! Such a great film
She was incredible in Ex Machina. The most amazing combination of alien physicality (which I credit to her dance training) and human mystery. It was the best robot I’ve seen on screen since Aliens 2, possibly better. Better than fassbender in that recent aliens redux movie (the title escapes me) You watch it and can believe she’s a robot.
I have no opinion on her danish girl acting, but i found the clips from it with her in them to be moving, so no real complaints. I thought she was less capable in The Man from Uncle, but she also had much less to work with there. I’m not sure anyone could have made the female part in that movie work (except Rachel Weisz).
Anyway, i’m glad she won. Good for her. Wish they’d done more with her hair tonight. I don’t get a lot of these non-styled hairstyles on the actresses this evening. I like the yellow dress. I think i would have preferred it in white, with her tan skin, and a darker lip color, plus a statement diamond necklace and more structure to the hairstyle. She has such delicate features though, too much makeup probably overwhelms her. I often think the photos probably don’t do her justice. On film, she’s beautiful.
The dress is fantastic!
The bottom of the dress makes her look like she’s wrapped in a duvet. But the color is nice, I agree. The hair is a bit of a mess, like she did it herself.
A duvet bedazzled with glass caterpillar-type creatures
LOL. After she kissed and hugged her mom and got up to go collect her Oscar, I thought she was going to ignore Fassbender (nice payback for BAFTA’s kiss cam) but she gave him a peck in the end.
Counting down to their scheduled post-Oscar breakup (“he could not handle her success”).
Their Oscar-baity movie together isn’t being released until September. I’d expect them to stay together until then at least. But, I confess I like them together so I’m hoping they can stick it a while longer. With both of them constantly working on separate film sets for the past year, I’m sort of surprised it lasted this long.
If, and this is a big if as I have no dog in this fight, they are a pr relationship, remember they have at least one movie coming out later on this year. If they “split up”, they will probably get “back together” in time to plug the movie.
Of course, you’re right about that.
It’s so weird how fans think all hot men are in fake relationships.
@Spiderpig
Yeah, and it’s so weird that all the women in those relationships are usually hated on when the relationship is made public. It’s like people are jealous or something.
@Spiderpig
Fassbender lost his ‘hot’ about two years ago.
Lol. He was definitely an after thought. If he hadn’t reached out she would have ran to the stage.
I thought it was funny that he was an after thought.
hehe, I like that he was her arm candy. 😛
yeah, i mean i like her very much, him… he’s a good actor, but his relationships always seemed to have so much drama. hopefully he’s changed. however he doesn’t seem the type of guy bothered by his partner’s success.
lmao at the pr relationship assumption though, i just can’t. every time i come to cb every relationship is pr; cavill and his child bride are pr, tom hiddleston and the olsen sister are pr, jlaw and chris goop were pr, cumberbatch was forced to marry his completely unknown wife for pr then she faked a pregnancy. it’s like a massive conspiracy theory eVERYWHere oooooh!
Wrong category but she was so good I can overlook it. Congrats to Alicia.
Yea!!! I love her and she was mesmerizing in Ex Machina.
She should have been nominated for Ex Machina instead.
I agree. I think Domhall Gleeson should also have been nominated because he was excellent in both Ex Machina and The Rev. So different in both films.
DG Will get another chance, but I agree he was amazing in ex machina.
agreed, she was wonderful in ex machina, i didn’t find her all that good in the danish girl (but then again i didn’t like the movie very much).
I think the gown is gorgeous. Light and airy, like frothy, creamy butter.
I’ll say this: she looks very comfortable and not poured into it unlike many Oscars dresses.
Yes, I think it’s gorgeous and she looks amazing. Honestly, I didn’t see either of her films so I can only comment on her dress!
However, I kind of loved that the next winner (for costume) had on a bedazzled leather jacket! The Mad Max production folks look like they just kind of stopped by 🙂
She gets to go home with an Oscar and Michael Fassbender. Her night went a little better than mine.
Ain’t that the truth!
you nailed it! 😛
She looks 12 years old but elfin and cute. I can’t help but think any guy who dates her has a lolita complex! She can act and was wonderful in Ex Machina but I haven’t seen TDG so can’t say.
But I’m sooooooooo pleased Kate Winslet didn’t win. She would have made a huge deal of it as usual and pretended to be hyperventilating on stage and done her annoying I love you Leo spiel. Happy for Alicia partly because Kate attention-wh*** mediocre/overrated-actor W didn’t win!
Eh, Michael Fassbender isn’t my favorite, but it’s not exactly a secret who he’s been involved with and it’s not like this is a pattern for him. I would hope that a girlish looking adult woman can find people who are attracted to her without having to date a creep.
I like Fassbender and wasn’t criticising him, but just saying she looks very young.
I am wary of people with a type, and fassbender likes petite women with olive or darker skin tones…. sadly, lunchcoma, I bet it is hard in HW for small, delicate women. I would run RUN RUN.
I just looked up his who dated who and except for Zoe Kravitz, you can’t really say there’s an underage-appearance trend. I mean, Madalina Diana Ghenea, whoever she is, is built like a p%rn star. Nicole Beharie, whom he definitely dated (but is not listed on his WDW), looks her age.
Agreed she’s gamine and has a toddler forever child face like Miranda Kerr and Selena Gomez … Cannot unsee it now :/
I think she looks her age in the face, it’s only her body that looks pre pub because she has no boobs and no waist.
She actually used to have boobs and thighs but she lost a lot of weight after she hit it big.
Agree with @nn, she looks her age in the face. She doesn’t have a baby face at all – fine featured, yes. Baby face, no. But her body has started to look more childlike since she’s become more famous: weight loss and an upshot in tanning (real and fake) have added to the birdlike, almost fragile, air she gives off physically rather than facially.
So it is inappropriate for a grown man to date a grown woman because she has a baby face? Is every man who dates her secretly someone who wants to get with an underage girl? Seriously.
They have an eleven year age difference–and she’s 27. Not 18. Not 19. Not 20. Not 21. 27. And she’s certainly not a shrinking flower.
With you all the way. Enough already.
As someone who has her build, I thank you enthusiastically and gratefully.
as someone who’s much taller than her, but looks ‘pre pub’ with no boobs and no waist (i see you @nn with your gross comments), i thank you as well. let’s get rid of this idea that you’re a woman only if you’re curvy, it’s just as bad the idea every woman should be skinny and hairless. women can be built differently, just like men.
It’s a combination of her body type and her short height.
I actually have a similar body type myself only I have more meat on my thighs. I too have no hips just like Alicia and it is a typical swimmers body.
What I said wasn’t meant to come off as rude as it did. Some people like that body type, however it IS a common body type for those around that age. Short, straight up and down body plus thin frame and very small boobs.
I shouldn’t have used ‘pre pub’ it is offensive you are right, I just commented how I comment on my own body. I actually don’t have any dislike for Alicia other than the category fraud and think she has nice warm eyes and smile.
I just read that she’s 27??? Holy cow!! I thought 19 at most!
I love Alicia so I am happy! Glad that Rooney Mara did not win!
Word. My Rooney schadenfreude wins!!!!
Well deserved loved her dress!
Meh. Category fraud and not that strong of a performance. Still, it’s not like the competition was overwhelming this year, at least among the women actually nominated. I probably would have voted for Jennifer Jason Leigh, though.
I for one, am ecstatic for her, and absolutely love her dress! I think yellow is perfect for her complexion! Congratulations, Alicia!!
Her dress is gorgeous. And she doesn’t look sewn into it! I am going to pretend she won for Ex Machina.
Yass!
a boring and bland win. I wonder what is the deal between oscars and biopics. I found them to be super dull and tepid, the danish girl is no different, both the film itself and the performances.
I agree biopics are BORING. I will only catch this when it’s streaming for free on some legal online channel. And even then I’ll skip to the bits when Matthias Schoenaerts is on screen.
The Oscars generally only consider a handful of movie genres to be appropriate – biopics, issue-driven dramas, historical epics, movies that are in some way about the film business. Occasionally, something else sneaks in for a nomination, but those movies don’t typically win. And, of what’s nominated, biopics are especially appealing because they’re “serious” but also generally not overtly controversial, because they’re focused on the past.
i think oscars need intervention not just in race issue but also in film taste. their taste in films is what driving studio producing even more boring oscar-baity films.
I would agree, but it’s hard for me to think of how to do that besides what they’ve already done to reform membership. People have an idea of what’s an Oscar contender, and that’s hard to change. I only think Mad Max: Fury Road did so well this year because George Miller has had such a long career.
i don’t understand why most people are so much more outraged about category fraud for the martian at the meaningless globes than they are about vikanders category fraud at the oscars.
at least the martian did have lots of jokes. this was just blatant, straight up fraud.
This “fraud” as you put it has been a constant in Oscar history.
Honey, take off the blinders. It IS fraud. And no, this degree of it is not constant throughout Oscar history. Your comment also misses the OPs point entirely.
Fitting for a trade show. Even if art is an after thought. This campaign reeks of offering a product nearing it’s sell-by date. This is a win for the distributor to demonstrate that his “power” is still in tact. After Gwyneth Paltrow won her Oscar, she did “Sylvia” with Daniel Craig: it exposed her limited range next to an unknown at that time and she was less annoying than Vikander in her campaign. To be continued……………
You didn’t saw there movies otherwise you wouldn’t compare Paltrow and Vikander. Therefore she had more than 5 movies, enough to show more range than Paltrow.
Yeah, that doesn’t seem fair to Vikander. I think she was nominated in the wrong category (and possibly for the wrong movie), but she’s been doing good work for awhile now. She also didn’t have the huge stepping stones that Paltrow did in her early career – she worked her way up from television.
It’s obvious why she feels that way, and it has nothing to do with the level or depth of Vikander’s talent.
I’m thinking they should put a stop to the category fraud by issuing strict guidelines as to how much screen time disqualifies someone from being nominated in the supporting categories. Like maybe on a percentage basis, e.g. can’t appear in more than 25% of the screen time.
Hurrah! (or hurra! as we would say in Sweden). Now I’m going to celebrate in my dreams, it’s past 4 AM here, and read about the rest of the winners tomorrow.
Congrats to her but I’m gonna pretend she won for Ex Machina
I hate this dress and her hair is awful. Why LV, why????
Anyway, I think she is a wonderful actress but she was lucky she was on the wrong category in a weak year. I think she should have been nominated for Ex Machina in this category so I’ll just pretend she won for that!
So glad to see Rooney Mara lose!
Everyone should cool it with the category fraud stuff, everyone supported her until the term came out in the Reporter. If she was lead, it still would have come down to her and Larson and she might have actually beat Larson. As for being in Supporting, she was still better than every single person in that category. Her character was not the main character of her film, I think people think otherwise because she carried the whole movie–Redmayne did not shine in it the way she did.
lol, Good for her. She looked good, liked the dress, liked the colour – don’t care about the hem (though I want her off of the LV train stat).
Y’all shouldn’t complain, it’ll keep you in with those ‘smug’ posts you like so much for the rest of the year – so you’re set.
Well, seems like Harvey delivered. No I don’t think she deserved the Oscar but then everyone knows the whole thing is rigged af. The dress is alright. Very much Belle from Beauty and the Beast and I give up on her ever putting some effort in her hair but at least it’s not another domina-Lolita fantasy from LV.
All the remarks about Harvey Weinstein are so sexist ugh
Right ? Like is that what you say when one of the men win too ??
@anon
Yeah I think it’s VERY sexist that this still happens and that skeeves like Harvey Weinstein and Co can pick an unknown but pretty, young actress and buy her the biggest acting award over night. In fact I think the whole business is incredibly sexist and the dynamics of men holding the power in it and abusing the ambitions of women are not going to change soon, unfortunately.
@CornyBlue
I really don’t wanna know what Leo had to do to finally get the award and maybe Mark Rylance too, but I somehow doubt that it involved sexual favours to studio bosses and producers.
Just so we’re clear: I don’t dislike Alicia nor do I blame her. She saw a chance and took it. But I’m annoyed by the people pretending she got where she is through talent and not because she had one of the most powerful men in Hollywood backing her (asking for God knows what in exchange).
“But I’m annoyed by the people pretending she got where she is through talent and not because she had one of the most powerful men in Hollywood backing her (asking for God knows what in exchange).”
receipts?? because there is literally NO proof of what you’re saying.
Danish Girl is a direct rival to Weinstein. Alicia doesn’t have anything to do with Weinstein, it’s all fanfic made up by Fassbender loons.
And I’m even more annoyed by this! Not everyone who thinks that Oscar was bought is a jealous Fassbender stan.
No, you’re right Danish Girl wasn’t one of Harvey’s films, but he’s the one who’s been pushing Alicia the last year and a half.
YES YES YES YES YES !!!!!!! I hpe she went on stage and thanked Micheal Fassbender, leeching on whose fame this poor talentless girl from Sweden has managed to become an Oscar wnner in her first year in Hollywood!
Everyone talkning about category fraud… Honest question here: Is there some specific requirement for what qualifies as “Supporting” and “Main ” Actor/Actress for the Oscars and all the other awards? Like how do you make the distinction?
I don’t think there’ s specific rules, but there are cases that are just obvious. If the movie is about a couple, and the two actors have the same amount of screen time, how can one party be considered leading and the other supporting? From many accounts both Vikander and Rooney had actually more screen time than their respective co-star.How can you then pretend they’re not lead.
Yeah, if your character is the TITLE character and gets most of the film’s screen time, then you’re the lead. Both of which are true of Alicia in Danish Girl.
I’m so happy for her, she’s a wonderful actress.
Fassbender who? Love her and she deserved it. Congrats.
i love louis vuitton generally, but the stuff they make specifically for her isn’t all that good, imo.
Her dresses have been awful this awards season. Really, horribly unflattering.
So happy for her!