Shailene Woodley

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Please no. She's an awful actress.

[GoldenFleece]

Aug 7, 2014 17:11:58 GMT -4 @solly79 said:

I'm pretty sure all the critics groups will nominate/award her for TFioS, thus maybe securing her attention from bigger award groups. Not sure if she can go all the way to the Oscars, but award season with Sister Shailene will probably make us all look back fondly to AnnE Hathaway's Oscar season...;-)

I think the Oscar nod depends on how much of her competition from the more conventional awards bait falls by the wayside, so that there will be enough voters willing to give the votes to a performance from a teen cancer drama. She has the reviews and was in two hit movies this year, which helps. However, as much as Team Shailene has followed the JLaw playbook, the latter's Oscar nods have all come from Best Picture nominees with multiple acting nominations, more from the typical "For Your Consideration" pool as opposed to a YA adaptation. If Shialene's busy filming the next Divergent movie she won't be available to do as much PR on the circuit, and voters might not remember her. I think Shailene would be a trip during awards season. I don't remember her being such a flake when she was promoting The Descendants, but she was younger and the limelight wasn't as bright back then.

[pathtaken]

Aren't most Oscar nominated movies from later in the year. Will she even be nominated by the time awards season cranks up?

[GoldenFleece]

Aug 9, 2014 9:47:21 GMT -4 pathtaken said:

Aren't most Oscar nominated movies from later in the year. Will she even be nominated by the time awards season cranks up?

Generally, but it's not impossible for performances from earlier in the year to get nominated. Cate Blanchett was the frontrunner for Blue Jasmine pretty much as soon as it was released last July (not to compare the performances themselves, as Cate's was much more highly regarded). Beasts of the Southern Wild was released in June, The Help was another summer movie, as was The Kids Are All Right, and Winter's Bone was a June release, too. There's usually one performance nominated for Best Actress from a movie released prior to September and sometimes two; the last time it didn't happen was the year Reese won, for 2005 (at the link, if you click the different years going back to 2003 you can see how much the movies from Best Actress nominees made and when they were first released).

[aibohphobia]

Aug 9, 2014 10:05:56 GMT -4 GoldenFleece said:

Aug 9, 2014 9:47:21 GMT -4 pathtaken said:

Aren't most Oscar nominated movies from later in the year. Will she even be nominated by the time awards season cranks up?

Generally, but it's not impossible for performances from earlier in the year to get nominated. Cate Blanchett was the frontrunner for Blue Jasmine pretty much as soon as it was released last July (not to compare the performances themselves, as Cate's was much more highly regarded). Beasts of the Southern Wild was released in June, The Help was another summer movie, as was The Kids Are All Right, and Winter's Bone was a June release, too. There's usually one performance nominated for Best Actress from a movie released prior to September and sometimes two; the last time it didn't happen was the year Reese won, for 2005 (at the link, if you click the different years going back to 2003 you can see how much the movies from Best Actress nominees made and when they were first released).

Yes, plus it helps that so far this year there doesn't seem to be that much competition for leading actress.

Reese Witherspoon is likely for Wild based on early screenings. Plus, she has a narrative going of her producing several films like Gone Girl and being in Inherent Vice too.

Rosamund Pike maybe for Gone Girl, but she's not very well known in the US. Plus, there haven't been any screenings for that film yet, so it may be something that critics like but Academy voters don't like Zodiac, or it might be something that neither likes.

I thought Amy Adams was going to finally win when I first heard about Big Eyes being released this year because she's "due", and she had Harvey Weinstein behind her, but early word of mouth is that it's likely not going to win her the Oscar even if she's quite good in it.

There's always Meryl Streep, but Disney isn't the best campaigner in the world. Still she is Meryl.

Other than those four, there's really not a whole lot out there right now. Jessica Chastain has possibly three movies being released this year, but each of those movies has a lot of cons around them. For now, she probably has the best shot in leading with The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them, but I think because there are three different versions out there will make it too weird for the average voter to go for. Plus, the movie doesn't seem to be that loved even if Chastain's performance is being singled out, so it likely won't do well with critics at the end of the year or with audiences.

There's been talk of Felicity Jones being borderline supporting/leading for The Theory of Everything, but she's another relatively unknown actress here. Plus, I think The Imitation Game will be the genius biopic movie that voters go for this year.

Then, there's Shailene Woodley. I don't know if voters would actually go for something like The Fault in Our Stars, but she was likely pretty close to getting in before with The Descendants, and she'll likely be nominated in the near future even if it's just a "welcome to the club" type of nomination.

I'm still hoping that more candidates emerge because there were a lot of potential contenders, e.g. Michelle Williams, Carey Mulligan, whose films were supposed to be released this year, but whose films are most likely now being pushed to 2015. Right now things are so boring in this category that I'm even hoping that Jennifer Aniston in Cake can blindside everyone. I'm not going to hold my breath of course.

[mochakitty]

Shailene at the 2014 Teen Choice Awards (August 10th, Los Angeles):

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FYI: Shailene is wearing a Peter Pilotto dress and Kurt Geiger shoes.

[Auroranorth]

It looks like three separate dresses collided on her.

[pathtaken]

Aug 11, 2014 9:07:18 GMT -4 Auroranorth said:

It looks like three separate dresses collided on her.

The top is kind of funky but not a good fit on her, would look good in winter with jeans. The skirt? Not sure what was going on there.
It's summer, you're young, dress it.

[smitten]

Totally shallow comment: I find her really unattractive. And her sound bites don't help.

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I came across this article from a few months ago that is a continuation of Shailene's thoughts on feminism.

Basically her thoughts consist of "labels aren't cool maaaaaaaan *peace sign* Apparently Shailene and an old hippie have switched bodies. Somewhere there's a 60-year-old guy tweeting #lifesucksballs and giggling while singing along to 5 Seconds of Summer.