What is the worst performance to be nominated at the Oscars?

Which acting performances did you find to be terrible that won or was nominated for an Oscar?

Sandra Bullock's performance in The Blind Side is one that comes to mind. Not only did the Academy award the worst performance of the 5 nominated turns in 2010 (which included Gabourey Sidibe for Precious, Carey Mulligan for An Education and Meryl Streep for Julia and Julia), they nominated one of the worst performances of that year full stop. I hate, hate, hate this patronising mess of a film and Bullock's part in it too. Bullock plays a Conservative house-wife who takes a downtrodden black young man into her family home and helps him make something of his life. It's a condescending, even insulting film that panders to those who like their stories told with the utmost simplicity, of how a white family made themselves feel a lot better by helping someone of another race. It's supposed to be feel good, but all this syrupy nonsense made me feel was a prevailing need to gouge my eyes out with a rusty spoon. Bullock, as the matriarch of the family, is fun and sassy for a few minutes before it's clear what trajectory the film is taking. Just horrible, and I still stay awake at night wondering how it even got nominated for Best Picture.

Submitted December 24, 2020 at 09:55PM by randomspawner https://ift.tt/3nRZC6s