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What If Russell Crowe Never Won the Oscar for Gladiator?
The Academy’s choice in 2001 echoes in eternity …
In one of the more quietly infamous moments in Oscars history, Polanski’s win was met by a standing ovation (albeit a scattered one) that included Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen, and, of course, Harvey Weinstein. While The Wife ’s Glenn Close is still the favorite to win that year for an even more overdue Oscar (with 1988’s Dangerous Liaisons still a commonly cited example of when she should have won), when Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell open the envelope, it’s Davis’s name they read. That year’s Best Actress race was famously stacked with fellow nominees Judi Dench for Notes on a Scandal, Penélope Cruz for Volver, Kate Winslet for Little Children, and Meryl Streep for The Devil Wears Prada.
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