Last night was the Academy Awards ceremony, and we were upset by the movies and performances that were NOT nominated.
A couple of weekends ago, Alejandro and I went to see the movie "Maria", which imagines the last tragic days of the opera star Maria Callas.
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I suppose that younger people would say, "Maria WHO???". But those of my generation, even those with zero interest in opera, remember the scandals surrounding her. Callas was the mistress of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, until he dropped her to marry Jacqueline Kennedy.
We both thought that it was an excellent movie, and even if it didn't get a nomination for best picture, Angelina Jolie should have most definitely been nominated for best actress. I can't really say that I am a fan of Jolie, but her performance in the film was tremendous. At the end of her short life (she died of a heart attack at the age of 53), she lived in isolation. She had lost her operatic voice, and her great love Onassis had preceded her in death. According to the movie she self-medicated with prescription drugs which provoked hallucinations and ended up weakening her heart.
Jolie was robbed! And I might add that we were also disappointed that neither Julianne Moore nor Tilda Swinton were nominated for their excellent performances in the movie "The Room Next Door" which we saw a few months ago.
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