Kate Winslet

[petitesuite]

I don't have a link, but the one picture I saw of her Oscar dress made it look SO unflattering--for those of you watching, maybe it looks better in motion?

[Atreides]

She looks like she's wearing a shiny garbage bag.

[mochakitty]

Kate at the 2016 Academy Awards (Februay 28th, Hollywood):

Close-up

Full Length Shot

FYI: Kate is wearing Ralph Lauren.

[Ripley]

Oh honey, no.

[Carolina]

You're a star, mochakitty!

Kate pretty much always looks nice. What would possess her to wear a dress made out of material that makes her look twice the size that she is?

[luminosa]

Hmmmm. Be quiet.

Kate said this about Woody in a new interview:

“I think on some level Woody is a woman,” she said. “I just think he’s very in touch with that side of himself. He understands the female characters he creates exceptionally well. His female characters are always so rich and large and honest in terms of how they’re feeling and he just knows how to write dialogue for them to communicate all that.”

[glitterbug]

That is some dumb shit right there.

[groovethang]

Shut up, Kate.

I'm at the point where I'm getting sick and tired of most celebrities. I can't even bring myself to watch award shows anymore. (Though I'll never stop coming here because I enjoy reading what you all have to say about celebrities and current events )

[forever1267]

But looking at just his work, she does have a point. Four women (Diane Keaton, Dianne Wiest, Mira Sorvino and Cate Blanchett) have won Oscars from his work, and several others (Geraldine Page, Jennifer Tilly, someone I'm forgetting...) more have been nominated. Annie Hall is one of the greatest female characters in pop culture history.

[Ginger]

It's been a long time since I've seen a lot of those movies. But I know that Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite was one of the most offensive characterizations of a woman ever put on film. Just because Hollywood loves giving awards to women for playing idiot prostitutes with baby voices does not make that a great role for a woman.

And Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine exemplified the misogynistic archetype Woody created for any female character over about 30 - neurotic, avaricious, overbearing, and pathetic. (I turned that movie off because the movie was so obnoxious and so was Cate Blanchett, so I remember few details.)

I don't find his female characters "rich and honest" at all. I remember watching the scene in Midnight in Paris where Rachel McAdams and her mother go shopping and being disgusted by the misogyny Woody put into those characters - two vicious, materialistic, selfish clucking hens. (If you remember the movie, Rachel McAdams plays the self-involved bitch that Owen Wilson, the writer, dodges a bullet by not marrying. He winds up falling in love with a soft-spoken French woman with no defining qualities other than being very young, very pretty, and very impressed by Owen Wilson introducing her to Cole Porter.)

I don't get how people defend Woody Allen when the evidence of his misogyny is right up there onscreen in every movie he makes.