7 time nominated actresses
Monday, March 8, 2021 at 11:30AM It's 7 days until Oscar nominations are announced and it's also International Women's Day so let's talk actresses. (Like we need an excuse, but just go with it). 7 women have been Oscar nominated exactly 7 times for their acting ... and these were their 7th (and final to date) nominations:
- INGRID BERGMAN Autumn Sonata (1978)
- CATE BLANCHETT Carol (2015)
- GLENN CLOSE The Wife (2018)
- JUDI DENCH Philomena (2013)
- JANE FONDA The Morning After (1986)
- GREER GARSON Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
- KATE WINSLET Steve Jobs (2015)
Give out a gold, silver, and bronze medal in the comments from these seven performances only!
Bergman and Garson have long since left us but the others are still working actresses! On March 15th when the nominations are announced it's possible that Glenn Close (Hillbilly Elegy) will depart this list with an eighth nomination (no woman has ever been nominated for acting eight times and not won the Oscar - Geraldine Page won on her 8th try, the longest it took any actress). Amy Adams (Hillbilly Elegy) and Ellen Burstyn (Pieces of a Woman) are both currently at six nominations so either could join this elite club a week from now.
Reader Comments (77)
Haven't seen Autumn Sonata either.
Gold. Blanchett
Silver Close
Bronze Fonda
Golden : Bergman
Silver: Dench
Bronze: Blanchett
Judi Dench's first two nominations (and sole win) came before she turned 65. Whoever said that stat earlier needs a calculator.
Gold: Bergman
Silver: Blanchett
No Bronze awarded.
The perfomances by Close, Winslet, Dench and Fonda simply aren't good.
I never saw Sunrise at Campobello.
Gigi-
It was me and so she was 63 and 64 for her first two nominations. I hope one day to aspire to your level of pettiness.
It's always a good day to be appreciative of Ingrid Bergman's enormous acting talent and storied career.
I too have read and heard that Ullmann is amazing in Autumn Sonata. I ave to watch that masterpiece one day
Blanchett is as someone else has said, magnetic on stage. I saw her in both Streetcar and The Maids. Her Blanche is out of this world. And I could tell she had learn a thing or two from Ullmann. They way Blanchett says the lines and peels of the character, one layer after the other, is just..:WOW
Gold: Blanchett
Silver: Close
Bronze: Dench
Blanchett will most def get 8 and more noms in here future. The same with Winslet. I predict that Blanchett will get a 3rd Oscar as well
Hopefully Glenn Close will get a 9th nom and her 1st win with Sunset Blwd
Gold - Cate Blanchett
Silver - Ingrid Bergman
Bronze - Kate Winslet
Gold: Ingrid Bergman-Autumn Sonata
Silver: Cate Blanchett-Carol
Bronze: Kate Winslet-Steve Jobs
Runner-Up: Judi Dench
I haven't seen the performances of Jane Fonda and Greer Garson while I'm just eh on Glenn Close's performance in The Wife from some of the parts of the film I've seen as I found it to be boring.
Gold: Ingrid Bergman
After the nonsense win for "Murder on the Orient Express" it was great to see the
lady operating at full artistic strength again.
Silver: Kate Winslet
I suspect acting with an on fire Fassbender kept her on her toes.
Bronze: Greer Garson
The Academy was so enamored of Garson in the 40's they often nominated her for
piffle. This unexpected comeback performance so many years later really was
lovely work.
Loving this countdown series!!!
G: Blanchett
S: Winslet
B: Close
Major disclaimer: have only see the 4 recent performances... I have seen High Heels though, and had no idea about the Autumn Sonata connection (thanks, Peggy Sue).
Bergman
Blanchett
Close
By now, I believe that Hollywood just straight up hated Glenn Close.
If Hollywood hated Glenn Close, we wouldn't be talking about her. Hollywood has loved Glennie since the early '80s.
Okay, this has been fun to read.
To me the clear gold winner for me is Bergman. I haven't seen it since 78 but I recall this as being the best.
I'd give second best to Blanchett, but then again, do I just really like her a lot? I like the subtlety of the performance.
Third I think, honestly, I'd go for Jane Fonda. I don't think this was even in her top four or five performances but if I can't for her in They Shoot Horses...then this will have to do.
Caveat, I have not seen or can't remember Sunrise At Campobello but since I've only ever appreciated Garson, but never loved her, I doubt she'd crack the top three.
If Hollywood hated Glenn, why have they nominated her more than any living actress besides Meryl Streep?
I give the medals the way they should won over the competition that year!
GOLD Ingrid Bergman (I hate her Oscar latest Oscar win, but she should had won for Autumn Sonata! Thousand times better than Jane Fonda. Sorry Jane.
SILVER Kate Winslet (She only lost cause Vikanders was a Lead Role. Every time she was against her work in Ex Machina Winslet won and image if Leo had won his first and Kate he second Oscar in the same night! Also must say she should be in the 2 Timers Club! But They ignores her so much since she won her first Oscar. Bevor 6 Nominations betweeen 19 and 33 Years of Age and then only ONE in 12 Years? What is that? And she should had at least nominations for Revoltionary Road (Double nom yes! BAFTA does it, too!), Quills and heavenly Creatures. She was fantastic in Jude, Hamlet, Wonder Wheel, Carnage and Wonder Wheel, but the it cant write other nominees down that years to get room for her, so I am fine with the mention only. ^^ Have to see Ammonite, soon. But in Germany we had to wait! Hope she gets the BAFTA Nom. tomorrow at least! PLEASE!
BRONZE Greer Garson (Maybe not a won, but closest fpr me, cause Taylor was not award worthy and Greer was great. Maybe I love Blanchetts Carol or Glenns Wife more, BUT the right Winner were picked that years. So Greer gets this.
"no woman has ever been nominated for acting eight times and not won the Oscar"
And that my kiddies is how Nathaniel let slip that close is locked and loaded, but he's a bit trigger shy after last time. No need for fear my boy, scream it from the rafters!
You co-created the concept of actressexuality, but you have yet to fully embody it. Ignorant, but not an intentional fraud and easily remedied. Imagine The Film Experience with Nathaniel an active actressexual at long last and the splendor that is Claudio Alves? I can't wait!
Manuel, Blanchett's third and Close's first all have them as current members of The Inevitables, so rest easy.
Gilbert -- yes. Hollywood does love Close. They just take her for granted which is why there's no win. It's the same problem Annette Bening has or that Shirley Maclaine had for many years. Or that Amy Adams sort of has... though Amy is a weird case because they will nominate her when she's not remotely worthy but refuse to give her a win (it's very strange)
Dave -- wait, not even in Mrs Miniver?!?
Ken -- i definitely think Fassbender as co-star really helped. Now that we're past Ammonite being new I have to say that though i thought she was really good in it, I kept wanting Saoirse Ronan to rise to Kate's level. Ronan's been so popular lately but honestly that performance just did NOT do it . Kate was going for it but she didn' have the support to mak it a great back and forth duet that romantic dramas thrive on for their fire.
Gold - Ingrid Bergman
Silver - Cate Blanchett
Bronze - Judi Dench
Gold to Cate Blanchett, Silver to Ingrid Bergman and Bronze to Glenn Close.
@Gilbert To get a nomination, you only have to be one of the five best-liked performances. To actually win you have to be THE most liked. In the words of Willy Loman, Glenn Close "is liked, but not well liked."
I think Glenn Close is liked well enough (but who really knows?). However, the big thing that's kept her from Oscar success is that the Globes weren't really into her in the 80s, slowing her ability to build buzz. The first time she got a globe nomination before an Oscar-nom was with Fatal Attraction. I also think she was hurt by the fact that Dangerous Liaisons, her best shot at winning given the competition, was a December release in a world of early releases. She made it in at Bafta but wasn't even a contender for the Globe...when three actresses split the prize.
I think that's why the Wife felt so different. It was the first time she really built buzz for a performance and was winning. I suspect, though, between the good will she won for her most recent nominations, her celebrated television work, and her work on stage, it's clear many in the industry respect her now.
I do wonder, though, if her bigger problem is with critics. They almost always give her solid to very strong reviews for her performances, but she hasn't won or been a runner-up for a major critics prize since Garp!
Gold - Ingrid Bergman - a legend that lived up to the hype, and she did it with such grace.
Silver - Kate Winslet - I think she is more interesting in this film than Steve.
Bronze - Judi Dench - She makes it look so easy, but those scenes at the convent are intense.
I'm happy to see some respect for Jane Fonda, and Greer Garson is quite good in "Sunrise at Campebello" but the cheerful stoicism just didn't make it a medal performance.
(Love the fact that Nathaniel set this up)
GOLD - INGRID BERGMAN Autumn Sonata (1978)
SILVER - CATE BLANCHETT Carol (2015)
BRONZE - GLENN CLOSE The Wife (2018)
I do think Dench and Winslet are great in their films as well. Haven't seen the Fonda or Garson performances.
Gold: Blanchett
Silver: Bergman
Bronze: Close