I've been reading these posts for a long time now and this is the first time
I've been inclined to respond, not so much because the other posts aren't
worthy, but that this one is just shocking in its artistic ignorance.

Since when does an Oscar nomination determine personal and professional
success? I'm sure it's a thrill to get one, I can only imagine, but at the same
time, it doesn't equate "making something" of one's self.

Along your line of thought, this would mean that actresses like Jennifer Jason
Leigh, or Tilda Swinton, or Lili Taylor are professional failures.

I simply don't understand how someone would actively encourage a good actress
with intellectual sensibilities to "go Hollywood." That's like telling a good
writer to write for Cosmo because it pays better. Hollywood refers to its movies
as "product." It's a product made for profit, with actors as talking heads. I'll
never forget watching Lili Taylor in "The Haunting"... Here is this amazing
actress, playing this caricature of a mentally troubled woman. What's the point?
The movie bombed, the critics destroyed it, and nobody remembers it.

And for the record, Polley has definitely given performances in the past that
could have been nominated with the proper studio backing behind it, like "The
Sweet Hereafter" or "My Life Without Me" (maybe even "The Event"). I'm sorry if
this is a rambling post, but I was just honestly stunned that people still think
Hollywood is "the" place to make movies. It's the place to get paid, not act.

Actors who specialize in Hollywood movies have an expiry date. Actors like
Polley are artists. She's more than made something of herself... As proof, here
we are, discussing her career. And she's not even thirty.


The end.

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