After 8 losses, Glenn Close to get an Oscar at last

I love the news that eight-time Oscar nominee Glenn Close will be receiving an honorary Academy Award.

“Throughout her extraordinary body of work, Glenn Close’s unparalleled emotional range has brought to life some of the most complex characters in cinema,” the Academy said in a statement.

While this great actress is a three-time Tony winner and a three-time Emmy winner, the Oscar has eluded her. Someone else’s name was called during the years she was nominated for The World According to Garp, The Big Chill, The Natural, Fatal Attraction, Dangerous Liaisons, Albert Nobbs, The Wife, and Hillbilly Elegy. She holds the record (tied with Peter O’Toole) for the most Oscar nominations in an acting category without a win.

I think she was most deserving for Fatal Attraction, Dangerous Liaisons, and Albert Nobbs but lost, respectively, the Cher (Moonstruck), Jodie Foster (The Accused) and Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady).

The most painful loss, it seems to me, was for The Wife in 2018 when she arrived at the Academy Awards as the front-runner after winning such important precursors as the Screen Actors Guild Actor Award, the Golden Globe Award, The Critics Choice award, the Independent Spirit Award and several other awards.

But Olivia Colman, who had beaten Close for the BAFTA Award, won for The Favorite.

Ouch!

Close was nominated two years later for Hillbilly Elegy and lost, again.

All the winners will be honored at a ceremony on Nov. 15 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood, the same complex that hosts the main Oscars ceremony. Close can arrive knowing she is a winner and I hope she enjoys every well-deserved moment!