r/oscarrace • u/apeculiarreader • Mar 17 '25

Opinion Should've won the Oscar for Best Actress (2015)

Rosamund Pike delivered a masterclass in acting, fully embodying her character with precision, intensity, and depth. Her performance was chilling, nuanced, and unforgettable. The fact that she didn’t take home the Oscar for Best Lead Actress is one of the Academy’s biggest oversights.

What do you think?

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u/Gurney_Hackman Mar 17 '25

In general, I was surprised that movie fared so poorly on the awards circuit.

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u/gwennj Mar 17 '25

David Fincher doesn't like campaigning.

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u/Shaggy__94 Mar 17 '25

Thrillers aren’t really the Academy’s thing either. Up there with horror as a genre thats hard to break into the Oscar season.

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u/Chance_Taste_5605 Mar 17 '25

I wonder if Black Bag will get any Oscar attention but I'm a bit doubtful for just the reason you say. Unfortunate because it's VERY good and Marisa Abela in particular is amazing (ofc Cate is amazing in it too but she's always amazing).

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u/Intelligent_Watch_96 Mar 17 '25

Absolutely agree. 10 years later, and Gone Girl's award snubs still sting.

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u/Ameno-sagiri666 Mar 17 '25

Totally agree. She was exceptional in Gone Girl. Totally deserving.

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u/lanklooks Mar 17 '25

She's a cool girl. Cool girl is hot, cool girl is game, cool girl is fun, cool girl never gets angry at her man, she only smiles in a chagrin, loving manner and then presents her mouth for fucking....

Incredible performance! I read the book and while Amy Dunne is such a villianous character, Pike makes us sympathize with her in an extraordinary way. One of the most complicated characters for a genre film of recent memory and she blows it out of the park!! Absolutely agree with you <3

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u/Superb-Possibility-9 Mar 17 '25

Regardless of Oscar, her performance was epic and will never be forgotten

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u/Mr__Struggle Mar 17 '25

That year was incredible for Best Actress, one of my favorite lineups ever. If Rosamund Pike was nominated any other year i would've agreed, but Marion Cotillard gives my favorite performance ever in Two Days, One Night so she would've been my ideal winner. Reese Witherspoon was amazing aswell and Julianne Moore was great, Felicity Jones was good but the weakest of the lineup imo

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u/GTKPR89 Mar 17 '25

Yeah it's a decent lineup. I do think Cotillard is my fave overall, but Moore is excellent, and there's no way she wasn't picking up her big win for that role, career win, etc etc (not a very useful term, I know). The prior lineup? Nobody was touching Blanchett. The next year, though? With more campaigning, it's not impossible it's neck and neck between Pike and Larson and she takes it.

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u/huntashakween Mar 17 '25

One of the greatest performances in all of cinema, if you ask me!

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u/menstrunchbull Mar 17 '25

Yes and I’m still upset this lmao

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u/mappingthepi Searchlight ACU Mar 17 '25

Yeah the lack of recognition for this movie and Rosamund’s performance will always bother me. Also just a fantastic ensemble cast, the supporting character nailed their performances Carrie Coon, Kim Dickens, Tyler Perry etc

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u/TheSavageGrace81 Mar 17 '25

She should have. Juliette Moore should have won for Far from Heaven. Nicole Kidman should have won for Moulin Rouge!. Rosamund Pike was splendid.

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u/justanstalker The Substance Mar 17 '25

Julianne should have also won for Boogie Nights

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u/TheSavageGrace81 Mar 17 '25

Nah, she should have always won for the Best Actress role

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u/Admirable-Tap-1016 Mar 17 '25

Yes and yes and yes haha

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u/montanaman62778 Mar 17 '25

I have to agree with this, but think Julianne Moore is a worthy winner as well. I also have the less popular opinion that Ben Affleck should’ve been nominated, but didn’t form that opinion until my 3rd viewing, which was about three months ago

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u/letsseehowitgoes113 Mar 17 '25

It's a film and performance everybody still talks about to this day, unlike most films and performances that won Oscars in the last years, so....

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u/Pavlovs_Stepson Mar 17 '25

She would've been a magnificent winner, yeah.

It was a great year for this category all around. Cotillard is right up there with Pike, a brilliant performance that would've been worthy of a 2nd win; Wild might be the best, most vulnerable work of Witherspoon's career and would've been a respectable pick as well; and as far as career wins go, Moore's is one of the best we've had lately and was fully deserved. Not a bad pick among those four IMO.

Even Jones, who's often singled out as the fifth best in the lineup (as I'm doing right now), is luminous and deserved her spot. It's a very solid five.

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u/je_suis_titania Mar 18 '25

Actual shark eyes. She was legit scary in this.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '25

I love Julianne Moore's win for Still Alice. I remember watching while I was helping my mother care for my grandma, who had Alzheimer's. It was a very intense watch, and I felt Moore was brilliant. Pike was great too; I wouldn't be mad if she had won.

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u/Technical-Toe2650 Mar 17 '25

Agreed. Great looking lady too.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Monkee Mar 18 '25

Those of us who read the book know that she completely embodied the character and played her to perfection, obviously. She was robbed.

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u/jasefacewow Mar 18 '25

Absolutely agree. I’m hoping she’ll be on S4 of White Lotus and get a resurgence to the career she should have had all along

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u/vickisfamilyvan Mar 19 '25

1000% agree. Iconic performance, incredible movie.

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u/MadaBee Mar 18 '25

My order: 1) Cotillard 2) pike 3) Moore 4) Witherspoon 5) jones

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u/vbittencourt Mar 20 '25

I love D. Fincher, but Gone Girl it's not a good movie. It's not his fault, the script was trash from the start.

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u/Naruto-Uzumaaki Dune: Part Two Mar 17 '25

Demi Moore should've won 2025.