The nominations for the 2008 Constellation Awards have been announced and have recognized the “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” film and actress Emma Watson for awards. First, Miss Watson was nominated in the category of ‘Best Female Performance in a 2007 Science Fiction Film, TV Movie, or Mini-Series’ for her role as Hermione Granger in the fifth film. The next nomination went to the fifth film for its achievements in costuming in the category of ‘Best Technical Accomplishment in a 2007 Science Fiction Film or Television Production.’ Jany Temime, the costume designer for OotP, received this nomination for the film.
The Constellation Awards recognizes the best science fiction and fantasy films and television productions of the past year with emphasis on contributions from Canadian companies and performers. Voting has now begun and is open to all Canadian citizens or permanent residents, as well as attendees of the Polaris 21 convention or members of the TCON Promotional Society. Complete information as well as the ballot and submission guidelines can be found right here. Voting ends on June 15th and the winners will be announced at the upcoming Polaris 22 convention during the weekend of July 11th, 2008.
I think all the nominations Emma’s gotten are based on popularity rather than talent.
Are we supposed to believe that out of the entire cast this girl is giving the best performance? Lets be realistic, Emma is okay, but her acting is far from exemplary. It’s sad that the people with the most talent are often overlooked in favor of those considered the most popular.
I don’t think Emma is a terrible actress, and yes, she does sometimes get a raw deal from fans, who are harder on her than she really deserves.
On the other hand, I don’t think she even comes close to deserving all the awards and nominations she receives, either. Between her, Dan, and Rupert, I honestly think she’s the least deserving of recognition, and it annoys me a little that she’s getting yet another nomination, while Dan and Rupert go unrecognized once again. She’s just not that good, in my opinion. She needs to overcome her unfortunate tendency to overact, for one thing. And though I think Billy’s comment above was overly harsh, I do have to agree that the Brow Acting really needs to go.
Perhaps this is unfair of me, but I can’t help wondering if her “acting” would recieve so much -undeserved- -unmerited- praise if she wasn’t such a pretty girl.
It’s not that Emma is a BAD actress (for the record, I don’t think she is), but I too am bewildered by all the nominations and adulation that keep coming her way, while her co-stars go virtually unnoticed. Huh?
Some have said that Emma is a less impressive actor than both Daniel and Rupert, and I agree. But I would go even further than that and say that I think she’s a less impressive actor than a lot of the kids in supporting roles as well, such as Matthew Lewis, Evanna Lynch, Bonnie Wright, and Katie Leung. Based on the films up to this point I think all of them have outshone Emma when it comes to acting.
Emma (though again, not a BAD actress) has always come across to me as rather phony and over-the-top in the HP films. I used to think that with the right director, with someone who could help her tone down the exaggerated facial expressions and her too-dramatic delivery of lines, she would be a fine actress. Alas, she DID seem to have such a director in OotP, but instead of being phony and over-the-top, she was merely phony and wooden. Sigh.
I still think she has potential, and with an acting coach and a great director, she could be good. But is she at the point right now where her acting truly deserves awards? C’mon. Not even close.
Well put, English Ivy. In my opinion, Rupert deserves awards the most, and he gets the least. Actors like Rupert, Matthew Lewis, Evanna, and Bonnie deserve awards far more. I didn’t really like Katie as Cho, I just didn’t get a Cho feel, but she still played the part well.
She was GREAT in Philosopher’s Stone. GOOD in Chamber of Secrets. ABSOLUTELY BLOODY ABYSMAL in Prisoner of Azkaban and Goblet of Fire. And LESS ABYSMAL BUT STILL PRETTY BAD in Order of the Phoenix.
If her acting skills are coming full circle, with PoA and GoF being the low point, then perhaps she’s now on an upswing, and by the time we get to the second Deathly Hallows film, she’ll be back to GREAT. Hey, we can all hope and dream, right? LOL.
But in the meantime, yeah, put me in the camp of those who are WTF about her being nominated for her performance in OotP.
As much as I like Emma, I do agree with redreh about her brow acting. It’s detrimental in an acting career.
And, personally, I didn’t see much difference in the quality of her acting in OOTP. The trio all seemed much more ingrained in their roles, but Daniel was the one who gave an outstanding performance. I’m wondering why Evanna hasn’t been given some kind of newcomer award (or maybe I’m just not aware that she already has been given an award). She really brought Luna to life. But, maybe since people are saying she acts like that normally, the people who give out these awards don’t consider it “acting”? Hmm.
Emma was nominated because she has talent, and i agree that she needs more training, BUT considering that she doesnt have a ’’manual’’ or an acting teachers opinion, shes doing PRETTY good!
Besides, the people nominating them arent just randomly picking out a name out of a jar :P
What annoys me most is that the wonderful Harry Melling (Dudley) rarely gets praise , not what ive seen anyways. I think hes awsome in his acting! For someone to act like a stupid bully, and make it seem so real without overreacting is great!
We all dislike Dudley right? And if we are actually calling him names under our breaths (or out loud :P ) when we see him in the movie, then hes doing a pretty darn good job !
Oh and the guys playing Crabbe & Goyle too!
I mean cmon, they make me want to punch them in the face! :P
their acting is so gooood!
Also agree that Rupert should get more recognition. If you see him in the movie and then during interviews, you can totally see the difference of how he is in character and then being himself.
Correct me if im wrong, but it seems to me that he somehow is a different person when acting. Almost like he changes personality, which is obvious since hes acting…. lol hope i made sense. If you totally ’’change yourself’’ when acting, then thats got to be saying something how he is as an actor!
and I didnt know that was called eyebrow acting :P and yes its a bit much sometimes…but its not something to panic about.
Libby, you might be on to something there about Evanna, and why she hasn’t been given an award for playing Luna. In fact, that’s pretty much how I feel about her. While I think Evanna is a sweetheart of a girl, and was the most wonderful Luna that ever could have been, I’ve always been hesitant to join with everyone else in praising her to the skies as an actress.
Judging by her interviews, Evanna is very Luna-ish in real life, and so I tend to think that she was more being herself in OotP than actually acting. Not that she wasn’t good, or that she wasn’t acting at all, just that she was in many ways playing herself. It doesn’t seem to have exactly been a stretch for her to play Luna, and so as much as I enjoyed her performance, I hardly think she deserves to be handed an Oscar for it. When I see her nail a role that is the complete and total opposite of her real life personality, then I’ll start lauding her as a great actress. Until then, she was just a really, serendipitously good person to play Luna. :)
(If “serendipitously” isn’t a word, it should be!)
Add me to the group of posters who is not, and never has been all that thrilled with Emma’s “acting”. Her overly dramatic delivery of about 97% of her lines is so distracting, especially when she is in scenes with Rupert and Dan, who are waayyyy more natural with their acting. I have to admit, it took a while for Dan to grow on me, but you can definitely see the progression of his talents over the years. Rupert could always play “movie Ron” with his eyes closed and mouth bound :D. I emphasize “movie Ron”, because “book Ron” has never showed up in the films in my opinion. But Emma…..poor Emma usually butchers Hermione for me. But hey ,after the crappy start of the week for her, I don’t mind her having a bit of good news.
Sugarplum: “and I didnt know that was called eyebrow acting :P and yes its a bit much sometimes…but its not something to panic about.”
LOL. I don’t think anyone is “panicking” about it. ;) For me, it’s just that she takes the eyebrow acting to the point where it’s really distracting. Every time she gets those things moving, it takes me right out of the movie, and right out of the illusion that she’s Hermione Granger (as opposed to just an actress pretending to be Hermione). And that’s not good.
In fact, my husband does a slightly unkind, but hilariously accurate, impression of what he calls Emma’s “Eyebrows and Asthma” method of acting, with his brows going all over the place, and panting so hard you’d think he needed to take a puff from his inhaler. I feel mean for laughing about it, but it’s so spot-on I can’t help myself.
Ok, Dan should have been nominated, he was fantastic in Ootp, and carried it. Emma is nice but she is not a good actress, Imelda Staunton as Umbridge or Helena B C as Bellatrix should have got noms instead.
I think all the nominations Emma’s gotten are based on popularity rather than talent.
Are we supposed to believe that out of the entire cast this girl is giving the best performance? Lets be realistic, Emma is okay, but her acting is far from exemplary. It’s sad that the people with the most talent are often overlooked in favor of those considered the most popular.