11 times the Oscars awarded the right performer for the wrong movie

One needn’t communicate sick of “Nonetheless Alice,” the shifting 2014 indie through which Julianne Moore performs a lady unmoored by early-onset Alzheimer’s, to recommend that her different nominated performances are likelier to face the check of time. As a result of they have already got. Her porn star striver Amber Waves, in “Boogie Nights,” made her a central determine in Paul Thomas Anderson’s earliest options (see additionally: “Magnolia’s” most-memed monologue); “The Finish of the Affair” established her as a succesful channeler of midcentury womanhood; and a pair of extraordinary performances as repressed housewives, in “The Hours” and “Far From Heaven,” landed her a coveted double-nomination in 2003.

It’s the final of those, Todd Haynes’ fantastically realized tribute to the melodramas of Douglas Sirk, that can all the time outline Moore’s legacy for me, and may have gained her the Oscar: As Cathy Whitaker, a prim Connecticut lady whose good life unravels round her, Moore seamlessly enmeshes fashionable approach with interval fashion, producing one of the crucial vividly unique movie performances of the twenty first century. — Matt Brennan