Gwyneth Paltrow uses her Best Actress Oscar as a doorstop: ‘It works perfectly!’
nypost.comdidn’t deserve to win the Academy Award in the first place.“I honestly feel that to be nominated by your peers is about as good as it gets.
And then, I’ve never understood how you could honestly compare performances, you know?” Close said. “I remember the year Gwyneth Paltrow won over that incredible actress who was in ‘Central Station’ and I thought, ‘What?’ It doesn’t make sense,” Close told ABC in 1999, referring to Fernanda Montenegro, who was nominated for her powerful performance in “Central Station.“So I think who wins has a lot of things to do with how things have been, you know, whether it has traction or whatever,” Close continued. “Publicity, how much money did they have to put it out in front of everybody’s sight.
I have to be philosophical about it, if I was upset about it.”Close isn’t the only one that struggled after Paltrow won the statuette.
The “Avengers” star admitted that she lost her after winning Hollywood’s “biggest prize.”“I just wanted to be successful and to be well-regarded.
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