Bad Oscar Winning Performances

Sean Penn in Mystic River was a surprise. He was there for only 30 mins in the movie. The whole movie revolved around Tim Robbins, and he was fantastic in it!

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I think he's saying it in response to other people mentioning Penn earlier in the thread.

^^ Yup!

Having watched Mystic River for the first time last night, I'm inclined to agree. That bit where he's all "My daughter's in there!" has Nicolas Cage written all over it (speaking of which, not too sure how he ended up winning for Leaving Las Vegas either).

While I liked Waltz well enough in Django Unchained, I was still surprised to see him win when his character was a more heroic retread of his Inglourious Basterds character. That being said, I don't think DiCaprio deserved a nomination either just because he took his usual bag of acting tricks and deep-fried them with a Southern accent.

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Judi Dench in Shakespeare in Love.

Do you think Dench's role was too small or do you really think it was a bad performance?