{"id":228983,"date":"2021-03-16T10:46:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T14:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=228983"},"modified":"2021-03-16T10:46:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T14:46:17","slug":"glenn-close-gets-razzie-and-oscar-nomination-for-hillbilly-elegy-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/glenn-close-gets-razzie-and-oscar-nomination-for-hillbilly-elegy-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Close Gets Razzie And Oscar Nomination For \u2018Hillbilly Elegy\u2019 Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fglenn-close-gets-razzie-and-oscar-nomination-for-hillbilly-elegy-role%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=228983&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1219.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Glenn Close received an Oscar nomination for her role in \u201cHillbilly Elegy,\u201d while also garnering a nomination for a Golden Raspberry (Razzie) award for the same role.<\/p>\n<p>Razzies are notoriously known as the film awards that people are given for a bad performance, rather than honored for the best. Close was nominated for a \u201cworst supporting actress\u201d Razzie award alongside Lucy Hale and Maggie Q in Fantasy Island, Kristen Wiig in Wonder Woman 1984 and Maddie Ziegler in Music. As for the Academy Awards, Close received a \u201cbest actress in a supporting role\u201d nomination next to Maria Bakalova in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Olivia Colman in The Father, Amanda Seyfried in Mank and Yuh-Jung Youn in Minari.<\/p>\n<p>The double-nomination might not come as a surprise for those who followed the release of the film. Critics widely condemned Ron Howard\u2019s adaptation of J.D. Vance\u2019s memoir, \u201cHillbilly Elegy<em>,\u201d&nbsp;<\/em>that was released in 2016. The book tells the story of Vance\u2019s own journey growing up amidst poverty and drug addiction in Appalachia to go on to become a Yale Law School graduate. The book was seen as an insight into the parts of the country that may have felt forgotten by coastal elites.<\/p>\n<p>In the film, Close plays the role of Bonnie \u201cMamaw\u201d Vance, who helps the young J.D. overcome obstacles and teaches him how to work hard in order to improve his life situation. The character was seen by some as an embodiment of the white, working class in America.<\/p>\n<p>On the film ratings site, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/hillbilly_elegy\/reviews?intcmp=rt-what-to-know_read-critics-reviews\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, the movie received a 25% from critical reviews but holds an 85% approval from audience members. On the site, critics described the movie as \u201cthe most laughable movie of 2020,\u201d \u201cobjectively terrible,\u201d and accused it of \u201cfeeding stereotypes.\u201d One critic even said it \u201cshould be a eulogy for Howard\u2019s career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/23\/movies\/hillbilly-elegy-review.html\">The New York Times\u2019 review<\/a> of the film said that the movie is \u201ctoo tasteful, too sensitive for its own good, studiously unwilling to be as wild or provocative as its characters,\u201d adding that the moral of the film\u2019s story \u201cis that success in America means growing up to be less interesting than your parents or grandparents.\u201d Mentioning Mamaw\u2019s character, the review concludes, \u201cThe best thing I can say about this movie is also the most damning, given Mamaw\u2019s proud indifference to anyone\u2019s good opinion of her. It\u2019s respectable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vance, who was involved with the making of the adaption, was not surprised by the negative reviews of the film, citing politics as the reason that many Hollywood insiders panned it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people don\u2019t like me personally, my politics and things I\u2019ve said publicly,\u201d Vance told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hillbilly-elegy-author-movie-critics-might-want-to-look-in-the-mirror\">The Daily Wire<\/a>. \u201cThat reverberated onto the movie a little bit, even though the movie is a different animal \u2026 it cuts out a lot of the socio-political commentary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While actors have been nominated for an Oscar and Razzie in the same year, they have never had the nomination for the same role. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/glenn-close-receives-oscar-and-razzie-nomination-for-the-same-role\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, \u201cIn 2010, Sandra Bullock won the best actress Academy Award for her role in The Blind Side, and also received two Razzies for other films.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Close has been nominated for an Academy Award eight times but has never received a win.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span>member<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Close received an Oscar nomination for her role in \u201cHillbilly Elegy,\u201d while also garnering a nomination for a Golden Raspberry (Razzie) award for the same role. 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