Outrage Over Burstyn's 15-Second Emmy Nomination
08 August 2006
Outrage Over Burstyn's 15-Second Emmy Nomination
Ellen Burstyn's nomination for a Best Supporting Actress Emmy Award is being ridiculed by the US media, because the Oscar winner appears in MRS HARRIS for a mere 15 seconds.
HBO drama Mrs Harris stars SIR Ben Kingsley as DR HERMAN TARNOWER - the man who invented the Scarsdale diet - and Annette Bening as JEAN HARRIS, the woman who murdered him.
Burstyn appears in a flashback sequence, and her character is listed on the Internet Movie Database as 'Ex-Lover Number Three'.
The New York Post writes the 73-year-old's performance "required her to do nothing more than sit in a chair and speak three sentences of dialogue in a vaguely foreign accent".
The newspaper claims Burstyn's nomination in the Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie category is indicative of the "deeply flawed process" leading to the nominations.
Winners will be announced in Los Angeles on 27 August (06).
HBO drama Mrs Harris stars SIR Ben Kingsley as DR HERMAN TARNOWER - the man who invented the Scarsdale diet - and Annette Bening as JEAN HARRIS, the woman who murdered him.
Burstyn appears in a flashback sequence, and her character is listed on the Internet Movie Database as 'Ex-Lover Number Three'.
The New York Post writes the 73-year-old's performance "required her to do nothing more than sit in a chair and speak three sentences of dialogue in a vaguely foreign accent".
The newspaper claims Burstyn's nomination in the Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie category is indicative of the "deeply flawed process" leading to the nominations.
Winners will be announced in Los Angeles on 27 August (06).
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