Oscars 2025

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Anonymous wrote:All the awards for Anora were kind of gross. An industry awarding a former heroin addict for showcasing a young actress willing to do softcore porn scenes to raise her profile. Because otherwise you really don’t get an award for being the 10000th actress to do a Brooklyn accent.

Who is the former heroin addict?

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Meg Ryan is starting to look like herself again- back in her Sally days.

She was such a darling back then. I thought she looked great—loved the dress on her.

When the negative publicity about the work you have or have not had done on your face becomes so intense, and it over rides your acting work, actresses make corrections. Because it is too mortifying and bad for your brand.. Thinking of Meg Ryan but also Nicole Kidman, Courney Cox, Sarah Jessica Parker, Goldie Hawn ( who both recently increased procedures). I've almost never seen an actress not eventually do a course correct of some sort when their face becomes the focus, in any way. It might take awhile but they do it.

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Anonymous wrote:Demi

I think she got filler in her cheeks at some point during award season. They are much fuller and almost makes it look like she got a new set of upper teeth as well, but I don't think she did.

I think her upper veneers were changed, they look less boxy and chiclet like, she added more shape variation on the front teeth.

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Anonymous wrote:Ari - its actually a cool dress. Just wish she didnt always look so pained

She looks SO different than she once did.

I thought she was very beautiful about eight yrs ago when she had the long ponytail, was full-on tanned and wore those thigh high boots which became her signature style.

She is still pretty - just not as she used to be.
She looks pale + is much too thin now.
Plus her hair appears very thin now.

Yeah, but the tan was fake, she used to portray herself as Latina, but she’s not she’s Italian.

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Anonymous wrote:Was watching Bill Mayer last night and he did a story on how large number of Best actress awards went to women who played hookers or sex workers. Think it was over 20 or more. Lovely. Anyone could have played that part in Anora it was nothing special.

That's really interesting. I'm sure it's in part due to misogyny and that sex is titillating. But it's also because it sort of goes to the core of the female struggle over thousands of years and so it provides a lot of meat for female actresses dealing with the female condition. At some level, we're all dealing with the comidification of our bodies and trying to find a way to assert ownership of our sexuality and selves.

NP and I think you are giving the academy more credit than they deserve. They love to glamorize sex work and do “research” and thank the sex worker community. They don’t give two sh**s. Sex and nudity sells and they exploit women in movies all the time.

+ 1 billion!!!

And the cycle just repeats as movie houses back movies they know “will sell” sex/nudity. I disagree that stories about sex workers are about THE human condition or even the female condition. They are stories about a subset of people. If they are the only stories honored, is overall disservice to women and reinforces to be in entertainment as a female, greatest odds your roles will be a stripper, sex worker, rape victim or cadaver who was a stripper, sex worker or rape victim.

Hard agree. You’ve nailed i.

I was horrified by the sex worker community thank yous as though any of them will ever talk to a sex worker again.

I met someone who was turned into a sex worker against her will, and it's just not a situation to glorify.

Sean Baker's movies are all about sex workers. He will certainly be talking to them again. Did you see The Florida Project? Or any of his other films?

Yes, I saw the Florida Project. Yes, I know his movies are about sex workers. Obviously, this choice works for him and the awards people appear to love actresses playing prostitutes.

Here's eleven women who won awards for playing prostitutes. If you are a woman and want to win, play a sex worker to increase your chances.

https://11points.com/11-actresses-won-oscars-playing-prostitutes/

Here is another list of women who played prostitutes and won Oscars.

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls002902956/

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Anonymous wrote:Was watching Bill Mayer last night and he did a story on how large number of Best actress awards went to women who played hookers or sex workers. Think it was over 20 or more. Lovely. Anyone could have played that part in Anora it was nothing special.

That's really interesting. I'm sure it's in part due to misogyny and that sex is titillating. But it's also because it sort of goes to the core of the female struggle over thousands of years and so it provides a lot of meat for female actresses dealing with the female condition. At some level, we're all dealing with the comidification of our bodies and trying to find a way to assert ownership of our sexuality and selves.

NP and I think you are giving the academy more credit than they deserve. They love to glamorize sex work and do “research” and thank the sex worker community. They don’t give two sh**s. Sex and nudity sells and they exploit women in movies all the time.

+ 1 billion!!!

And the cycle just repeats as movie houses back movies they know “will sell” sex/nudity. I disagree that stories about sex workers are about THE human condition or even the female condition. They are stories about a subset of people. If they are the only stories honored, is overall disservice to women and reinforces to be in entertainment as a female, greatest odds your roles will be a stripper, sex worker, rape victim or cadaver who was a stripper, sex worker or rape victim.

Hard agree. You’ve nailed i.

I was horrified by the sex worker community thank yous as though any of them will ever talk to a sex worker again.

I met someone who was turned into a sex worker against her will, and it's just not a situation to glorify.

Sean Baker's movies are all about sex workers. He will certainly be talking to them again. Did you see The Florida Project? Or any of his other films?

Yes, I saw the Florida Project. Yes, I know his movies are about sex workers. Obviously, this choice works for him and the awards people appear to love actresses playing prostitutes.

Here's eleven women who won awards for playing prostitutes. If you are a woman and want to win, play a sex worker to increase your chances.

https://11points.com/11-actresses-won-oscars-playing-prostitutes/

Here is another list of women who played prostitutes and won Oscars.

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls002902956/

OMG. Poor Little Thing too!

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Anonymous wrote:All the awards for Anora were kind of gross. An industry awarding a former heroin addict for showcasing a young actress willing to do softcore porn scenes to raise her profile. Because otherwise you really don’t get an award for being the 10000th actress to do a Brooklyn accent.

Who is the former heroin addict?

Sean Baker

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Anonymous wrote:All the awards for Anora were kind of gross. An industry awarding a former heroin addict for showcasing a young actress willing to do softcore porn scenes to raise her profile. Because otherwise you really don’t get an award for being the 10000th actress to do a Brooklyn accent.

Who is the former heroin addict?

The director, Sean Baker. He recovered from his heroin addiction and then proceeded to make film after film about sex workers. In Anora, he cast Mikey Madison, then in her early 20s, to strip and perform graphic sex scenes and gyrations nude without an intimacy coordinator. For this they are both rewarded by the entertainment industry.

Maybe it's his redemption but what a message that sends to young actresses. Meanwhile better performances were overlooked.

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Anonymous wrote:All the awards for Anora were kind of gross. An industry awarding a former heroin addict for showcasing a young actress willing to do softcore porn scenes to raise her profile. Because otherwise you really don’t get an award for being the 10000th actress to do a Brooklyn accent.

Who is the former heroin addict?

The director, Sean Baker. He recovered from his heroin addiction and then proceeded to make film after film about sex workers. In Anora, he cast Mikey Madison, then in her early 20s, to strip and perform graphic sex scenes and gyrations nude without an intimacy coordinator. For this they are both rewarded by the entertainment industry.

Maybe it's his redemption but what a message that sends to young actresses. Meanwhile better performances were overlooked.

What does the recovery from heroin addiction have to do with anything?

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Anonymous wrote:Ari - its actually a cool dress. Just wish she didnt always look so pained

She looks SO different than she once did.

I thought she was very beautiful about eight yrs ago when she had the long ponytail, was full-on tanned and wore those thigh high boots which became her signature style.

She is still pretty - just not as she used to be.
She looks pale + is much too thin now.
Plus her hair appears very thin now.

Yeah, but the tan was fake, she used to portray herself as Latina, but she’s not she’s Italian.

That doesn't mean that the tan was fake. My Italian brother lives in the Southwest and people always think he's Mexican in the summer. He's got thick black hair and tans very olive. Sicily was run by the Spaniards for longer than it was run by the Italians, and was also substantially ruled by Moors/North Africans, like Spain. And Southern Italty isn't that much different from Sicily. The genetic background is almost identical (except for Northern Spain, which is much more Celtic like the Irish, or Gallic like the French).
She got so much crap for having a tan and dark hair that now she's overcorrecting with her bleached out look. She's not a Swede -- she should have dark hair and a tan.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Meg Ryan is starting to look like herself again- back in her Sally days.

She was such a darling back then. I thought she looked great—loved the dress on her.

I said the same about Renee Zellweger in another thread. I don't know how they reverse the procedures that made them look different, but I like to see them look like themselves but older, as it should be.

+1 Same with Darryl Hannah. Her face looked great and like she had gotten rid of all her bad plastic surgery or fillers or something. She looked different and so much better! I do think there is some kind of reversal procedure because I think I saw that Lindsay Lohan had had that done and she looked much better.

Penelope Cruz looked amazing too.

Can I also say that every year I am SO UPSET that they botch the In Memoriam. It's the easiest thing to do and any one of us could probably put together a great montage with clips and beautiful background music. But they make us watch the whole damn thing through a tiny keyhold in the middle of the screen. Plus they should have given 2/3 of that Bond time over to the In Memoriam -- there were some really important people lost this year and they got like a second of air time. I am glad they brought Morgan Cooper out to talk about Gene Hackman. I now want to go watch Unforgiven since I love them both.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Meg Ryan is starting to look like herself again- back in her Sally days.

She was such a darling back then. I thought she looked great—loved the dress on her.

I said the same about Renee Zellweger in another thread. I don't know how they reverse the procedures that made them look different, but I like to see them look like themselves but older, as it should be.

+1 Same with Darryl Hannah. Her face looked great and like she had gotten rid of all her bad plastic surgery or fillers or something. She looked different and so much better! I do think there is some kind of reversal procedure because I think I saw that Lindsay Lohan had had that done and she looked much better.

You can get cheekbone and chin implants surgically removed, and then the fillers will eventually wear off if you don't keep doing them.

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Anonymous wrote:Was watching Bill Mayer last night and he did a story on how large number of Best actress awards went to women who played hookers or sex workers. Think it was over 20 or more. Lovely. Anyone could have played that part in Anora it was nothing special.

That's really interesting. I'm sure it's in part due to misogyny and that sex is titillating. But it's also because it sort of goes to the core of the female struggle over thousands of years and so it provides a lot of meat for female actresses dealing with the female condition. At some level, we're all dealing with the comidification of our bodies and trying to find a way to assert ownership of our sexuality and selves.

NP and I think you are giving the academy more credit than they deserve. They love to glamorize sex work and do “research” and thank the sex worker community. They don’t give two sh**s. Sex and nudity sells and they exploit women in movies all the time.

+ 1 billion!!!

And the cycle just repeats as movie houses back movies they know “will sell” sex/nudity. I disagree that stories about sex workers are about THE human condition or even the female condition. They are stories about a subset of people. If they are the only stories honored, is overall disservice to women and reinforces to be in entertainment as a female, greatest odds your roles will be a stripper, sex worker, rape victim or cadaver who was a stripper, sex worker or rape victim.

Hard agree. You’ve nailed i.

I was horrified by the sex worker community thank yous as though any of them will ever talk to a sex worker again.

I met someone who was turned into a sex worker against her will, and it's just not a situation to glorify.

Sean Baker's movies are all about sex workers. He will certainly be talking to them again. Did you see The Florida Project? Or any of his other films?

Yes, I saw the Florida Project. Yes, I know his movies are about sex workers. Obviously, this choice works for him and the awards people appear to love actresses playing prostitutes.

Here's eleven women who won awards for playing prostitutes. If you are a woman and want to win, play a sex worker to increase your chances.

https://11points.com/11-actresses-won-oscars-playing-prostitutes/

Here is another list of women who played prostitutes and won Oscars.

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls002902956/

sexualization and degradation of young women disguised as faux feminism all so Hollywood can pat itself on the back. Demi's peers should've done better for her

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Anonymous wrote:All the awards for Anora were kind of gross. An industry awarding a former heroin addict for showcasing a young actress willing to do softcore porn scenes to raise her profile. Because otherwise you really don’t get an award for being the 10000th actress to do a Brooklyn accent.

Who is the former heroin addict?

The director, Sean Baker. He recovered from his heroin addiction and then proceeded to make film after film about sex workers. In Anora, he cast Mikey Madison, then in her early 20s, to strip and perform graphic sex scenes and gyrations nude without an intimacy coordinator. For this they are both rewarded by the entertainment industry.

Maybe it's his redemption but what a message that sends to young actresses. Meanwhile better performances were overlooked.

I can’t believe he didn’t use an intimacy coordinator for those scenes. I thought the SAG AFTRA contract rules required them?
Does anyone remember that Oscars where the host went around the room pointing at female actresses and saying “I’ve seen your boobs, I’ve seen your boobs…” I think there was one actress that he hadn’t seen. Seth McFarlane.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Meg Ryan is starting to look like herself again- back in her Sally days.

She was such a darling back then. I thought she looked great—loved the dress on her.

When the negative publicity about the work you have or have not had done on your face becomes so intense, and it over rides your acting work, actresses make corrections. Because it is too mortifying and bad for your brand.. Thinking of Meg Ryan but also Nicole Kidman, Courney Cox, Sarah Jessica Parker, Goldie Hawn ( who both recently increased procedures). I've almost never seen an actress not eventually do a course correct of some sort when their face becomes the focus, in any way. It might take awhile but they do it.

I think Kristin Davis did this between the first and the second season of AJLT. Her face looked more normal later.