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And by the way, I felt the girls were really happy for me as well. Her fellow nominees were happy, with one exception: “It’s new blood. Maybe because it made him seem like he was second. I’d rehearsed it in the car, but I thanked my husband after my lawyer and everybody laughed and I didn’t understand why.
I will tell you that I did kind of mess up because I had my little crumpled sheet in my hand. Her speech began with “what a thrill”: “That was the one unscripted line. When you go through the footage, you can still see my dad standing up well into the thank-you speech going, “Bravo!” Somebody behind him said, “Sir, you must sit down!” I was like, “Please don’t let it be Scorsese.” I would have felt really happy for anyone because each has a moment in their performance that you’re like, “Yep, yep, yep.” When they called my name, it was a blur. In that moment, everybody has presented such worthy performances that it’s really hard to tell. Yeah, and by the way, everybody deserves to win. They all say, “It’s easy to say that when you’ve won an Oscar.” But for me, that night was the win. It was a dream that Ed would win, and I was thrilled to be there. She thought it was unlikely she would win: “Oh, it was unlikely in my brain. I knew the odds in Vegas were really great against me by the time they came up. I didn’t know how that would balance the scale. She hadn’t even been nominated for a SAG Award or Golden Globe: “That’s right. My mindset was, “Oh great, I’ll go to Texas and get to see my mom! How much fun! Oh my God, they’re flying me everywhere!” Even though I was an established actress at that point, I don’t think I’d ever been on the kind of media tours that Pollock was putting me on. I was busy traveling around the country doing the media thing - going to Texas and Cincinnati, wherever. She was traveling everywhere: “But then it started being in the running, and I had a wonderful publicist at the time, Carri McClure, who understood all of this. I knew he liked my performance, and I knew he and Ed had worked together in editing to allow Lee Krasner to have a little more resonance.” I knew you’d take out ads, but I thought, Doesn’t everybody? I didn’t know how deeply Michael Barker was behind the film. I didn’t know that they had people at five in the morning that announced the Oscar nominations. Positioning, campaigning - all of those things were completely new to me. She didn’t really understand the Oscar campaign thing: “Well, please understand, at that moment, I was a complete Oscar ignoramus. She even spills some tea about one of her fellow nominees being less than pleased with her. The reaction to Harden’s name being called is still pretty iconic! So, anyway, I enjoyed this retrospective interview with Harden in Vulture, twenty years after her surprise win.
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She was up against Kate Hudson in Almost Famous (most people though Kate would win), Judi Dench (Chocolat), Frances McDormand (Almost Famous) and Julie Walters (Billy Elliott). But Harden is excellent, and she deserved the Oscar. The film itself is very good, and very much a labor of love and a tour-de-force performance by Harris. At the 2001 Oscars, there was even a big surprise winner: Marcia Gay Harden! MGH won the Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lee Krasner in Pollock, directed by her friend Ed Harris (who also played Jackson Pollock). People saved their best looks for the Oscars and it didn’t feel like you had already seen the nominees at a million awards shows beforehand. They were a glamorous event and a hot ticket. Twenty years ago, the Academy Awards were still pretty fun.