Why Reese Witherspoon was SNUBBED at the Oscars for Election
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Although comedies are frequently ignored at the Oscars, Alexander Payne's Election did manage a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, but where was Reese Witherspoon in Best Actress? In this video, Cody Dericks joins me for a discussion of the 1999 comedy masterpiece Election on its 25th anniversary and why Witherspoon was snubbed at the Oscars. #oscars #academyawards #election #reesewitherspoon #theawardscontender
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Fun Fact : The author of Election, Tom Perrota just two years ago released a sequel novel to Election titled "Tracy Flick Can't Win". It's now in development for a film adaptation with Alexander Payne returning to write and direct with Reese Witherspoon set to reprise her role and produced it. It's planning for a Paramount+ release
That book was really good!
😃 yay
He is my favorite author. I didn't know he'd published that!!! Thank you
@@timrussell2480 Yeah, he's great. I didn't realize he was the author for The Leftovers. I've always loved the series but I didn't know that Perrora was the creator behind it and wrote the damn book
And he wrote Little Children too. I think he was Oscar nominated??
1999 was such a good year for Reese. Outside of Election, she was also in Cruel Intentions. Talk about two movies that are so influential!
The hype people give legally blonde, should be given to election.
Election is a more exciting, well written and well acted movie
Election is such a brilliant film. Really underrated. My favourite performances from both actors, Reese and Mathew.
I think it's important to say how perfectly casted Matthew Broderick was in this movie. He's one of those actors that has a very convoluted carrer, but he has given us some amazing contributions.
Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks were chosen for the role, which went to Matthew
Matthew Broderick was in a low point after road to Wellville, The Cable Guy, Addicted to Love and Godzilla 98 being disasters for Broderick but Election resurrected his career at that time.
I don’t usually like Matthew Broderick but he’s honestly pretty good in this movie. I watched this one more recently and I really liked it.
I love Election! Another Reese Witherspoon movie from this period that I liked (and that dramatically underperformed with both audiences and the Oscars) was Pleasantville although it would be tough to say whether she's the lead actress or Joan Allen is. (How about a Joan Allen and the elusive Oscar video?)
Love Joan Allen. Great work in Pleasantville.
Let’s hope for the sequel so maybe she can be nominated for that character
I’ve always been amazed by how YOUNG Reese looks in that movie, much younger than she does in Cruel Intentions which must have been made around the same time. It’s a testament to her performance, but also to the fantastic costuming and hairstyling-all of those conservative tops, with their collars and turtle necks, and those babydoll curls. In light of Cody’s remarks, it throws into relief her adultification (read: abuse) by the teachers in the film.
Great talk! Always nice to see Cody back.
Election was filmed in summer/fall 1997, Cruel Intentions was filmed in spring 1998
@@bryanalstoncoxing Wow, good to know!
@@bryanalstoncoxing Hard to believe it was not-released for so long, I thought she did just look about as old as or a little older than in Cruel Intentions.
Watched it numerous times... it's a satirical film and never gets old...imho...& btw Reese totally deserve an Oscar for her performance
you can't leave Streep out for Music of the Heart! she learned to play the violin in just a few weeks for the part! if anybody gets the boot it should be Moore! lol
Payne and Taylor do great work here, obviously, but let's show love to Tom Perrotta, who wrote the novel.
Winona Ryder in Girl, Interrupted and Reese Witherspoon in Election should have been nominated in place of Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep. 🤷🏻♂️
I'd say they were definitely more deserving than Streep that year.
Though Moore was at least deserving, Ryder just so-so.
@suarezguy nope. Ryder was incredible. That performance blew me away. Way more memorable than The End of the Affair.
I loved Election when it came out and probably enjoy it even more now as I've gone from student age to teacher age.
I loved Election, in spite of the altered ending from the novel. But my favorite early Reese is Freeway, in part because of Brooke Shields (among many others) in a wonderful supporting role.
Where i can find theses behind the scenes have on video to me watch???
No offense to your lovely collaborators Brian, but I much prefer the solo videos ❤️
Please do a video on ‘The Talented Mr Ripley’
Agreed 1999 was a really great if not best year for movies, so a lot of deserving competition, at least The Green Mile and The Insider also deservedly up there.
Agreed Swank was great but also thought Julianne Moore in The End of the Affair was really strong, deserving.
In 2006 Premiere Magazine published a list of the 100 Greatest Performances of All Time. Just for context, Peter O'Toole in LAWRENCE OF ARABIA came in at #1, followed by Marlon Brandon in ON THE WATERFRONT and Meryl Streep in SOPHIE'S CHOICE. Reese Witherspoon in ELECTION was voted #45. Hilary Swank in BOYS DON'T CRY was #83! Needless to say, Meryl Streep in MUSIC OF THE HEART and Julianne Moore in THE END OF THE AFFAIR didn't make the cut.
I've never been sure about her win for Walk the line but I'm glad she won.... Wild was her strongest performance in my opinion because it took her out of the annoying wanter type of roles she played through the years and gave her a chance to play such a complex and complicated but most of all very human, fragile character!!
I would have given adapted screenplay to The Green Mile, an all time tearjerking classic. I don't think Reese needed a nomination for this and I'm fine with that best actress lineup.
i think this movie could be so much better if it didn’t have a teacher-student sex story line.
If she ran as supporting, i think she could've snagged a nom. Her best role. I genuinely prefer this matt performance over ferris bueller. Chris Klein is a hoot. Reese got snubbed. I'd argue matt as well.
Why no love for TUMBLEWEEDS? Janet McTeer was great in it and deserved her Oscar nomination.
Replace Streep and Moore with Witherspoon and Cecilia Roth (All About My Mother) and it would have been an excellent five nominees. I'd keep Swank as the winner.
Great movie, but Jim's fantasy about Tracy and the scene where he cleans himself to get ready for an affair give me the ick.
Understandable Reese would not get Oscar nominated, the role and film a little too controversial and/or the people who liked or even loved it giving more credit to the script and direction (and some giving credit to script, direction *and* actress but not that many viewers, not enough).
She was good, real good but definitely weird, intense, maybe a little cartoony though at least not too cartoony, and I don't think outright anti-feminist but I can see how others could interpret it like that, understandable that she was well-reviewed but also overall pretty overlooked.
Brilliant film
Reese Withersoon character is better than the.presedential line up..
That tells..you a lot.just saying
I hated that movie but I respect the performances. I did not like Reese’s or Matthew’s characters.
Reese Witherspoon should've challenged Hilary Swank for the Oscar that year.
Sad news: the girl who plays Tammy Metzler passed away not too long ago.
Witherspoon didn't deserve a nomination. She was average in a movie that's average to begin with.
I personally thought the movie was dark
This is definitely Matthew Broderick's best performance as an adult.
YAS he got snubbed too.
This snub reminds me a lot of the Amy Adams snub for Enchanted. There was room in the category. It just wasn't the right genre
Wonderful discussion! I agree with Cody that her lack of a nomination for this film is the type of miss the Academy notices and later rewards an actor.
Being once a competitive overachiever in High School I can relate to this film in many ways. 🙃
Can't wait for the sequel!
Am I the only one who thinks Reese’s career and script choices were better before she won the Oscar for Walk the Line than after? Before 2005, there was Election, Legally Blonde, Freeway, Man in the Moon, and Cruel Intentions. After there was Hot Pursuit, This Means War, and Water For Elephants. Sometimes I think an Oscar win sullies her reputation for choosing good scripts. Election was not a big budget movie like Hot Pursuit was. And now she’s on that Apple TV shoe with Jennifer Aniston. Anyway, she should been nominated for Best Actress that year. This performance is better than both Walk the Line and Wild combined imho.
And on top of that, she didn't deserve an Oscar for Walk the Line, period. So glad you mentioned Freeway. I adore that movie.
That's a good call! Also, before "Walk the Line" were "A Far Off Place", one of my favorite films to rewatch when I was younger, "Pleasantville", and "American Psycho"!
Before Legally Blonde or at least that was probably the last really good script choice.
And vanity fair
@@rebeccag8589 American Psycho was a minor role but she was fitting and good in it, Pleasantville a really weird script/type of movie but she did well in it (and kind of weird to think of her and Maguire being related but that worked).
Best Payne film. Best Witherspoon performance and the ONLY time she deserved an Oscar nomination.
Loved both Election and Sideways, though About Schmidt was just average.
Yup. She in no way deserved it for Walk the Line. That's one of the all time worst Oscar wins for me.
LOVED this video. Brian, your chemistry with Cody is always so effortless & natural. I loved Election, it's so funny and Reese in 1999, I loved her in both this and Cruel Intentions. I'm so happy Election is going to get a sequel on Paramount+ which I hope doesn't disappoint. I do agree she could have replaced Julianne Moore (who should have been nominated in Magnolia for Best Supporting Actress instead) & Meryl Streep (who I like in Music Of The Heart, though could have missed). Both made SAG (& Julianne BAFTA) though so their nominations are not surprising in the end. Another cool video, Brian! Speaking of Reese, a video on Cruel Intentions would be fun celebrating its' 25th anniversary as well.
This!!! Been wondering for a while now. She was really good in that film.
I really wish broderick and Reese had gotten nominated. This is still one of my top ten movies.
I think the movie was seriously mis marketed. I think they were trying really hard to make it look like a teen sex film and it’s totally not. 😹
Oh! And the rare time where the movie is better than the book!
It kind of/almost still is even though not directly.
Definitely in my Top 3 Reese performances, alongside "Wild" and "Walk The Line". Been a fan of hers since 1993, when I was binging Patricia Arquette movies and found her co-starring with Reese in "Wildflower". She also did incredible work in the first season of "Big Little Lies".
Do you think if she had campaigned for Best Supporting Actress she would’ve gotten in?
Yes
Can you rank Nicole Kidman’s nominations, as she was just honored by the AFI?
I don't know if she needed an Oscar nomination, but the movie certainly should have been a Best Picture nominee.
The very least I wish she had won a globe for it.
You hit the nail on the head. I don’t see Reese I see Tracy Flick.
Can you do a video on who makes up the academy and how they are selected ?
Election is way ahead of its time. It's one of my favourite movies from the 90s, it's one of my favourite movies ever made, it's one of my top 5 Reese Witherspoon performances and it's still my favourite Alexander Payne movie (although i'm still debating with myself about this or The Holdovers being his best). I do agree that she should've been Oscar nominated. I mean come on man, Payne and Jim Taylor's script was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay
Mr. Alexander Payne really brings the dark humor in his midwest movies.
I love this movie!!! Reese was not nominated for an Oscar because it was a teen comedy.
new to this channel. i think it’s always fun to look into who is managing these actors because those are the teams that lobby for wins. maybe reese didn’t have a good team back then to advocate for her?
Resse winterspoon is not a strong actress but she was amazing in thos film.
Election is in my top 5 of all time!!
This is one of my all-time favorite movies. Almost every scene has at least one glorious line of dialogue. One of my favorites: Chris Klein to his sister Jessica Campbell "No matter who wins, you or me, there's no hard feelings. We're still brother and sister, even though you're adopted."
Loved it but 1999 was yes really strong year, lots of deserving competition.
Klein was somehow great in Election and American Pie, pretty bad elsewhere.
Blame that on a bad agent who threw him into leading roles when he was no where near ready.
Okay, so I'm not a huge Reese fan, BUT THIS performance is one of my all-time faves. (I also her work in Pleasantville.) As for the '99 race, Meryl shouldn't have been nominated, and Annette should have been in (and won) the supporting category. Reese still would have lost, but that's only because Swank killed it and deserved her statuette. My theory is that Reese wasn't nominated because the character was too dark... and not a heroic figure. She was the bad guy!
Reese Witherspoon was just okay in this. Really enjoyed Matthew Broderick's performance. Also, one image that always stands out in my mind is that of the student who spits at Matthew Broderick's chracter. I never forget the look on his face.
Reece’s performance here is the definition of an Oscar worthy performance - such a brilliantly realised character
The trailer for Election was really bad. It did nothing to build interest in the film.
The End of the Affair was also at least really strong script/adaptation.
She was a longshot. Wasn't probably even in the top most voted