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Post by barbarama on Jan 15, 2014 21:08:56 GMT
Hélène Joy has been nominated at the Canadian Screen Awards 2014 which will take place on March 9th for best lead actress in a drama for "Murdoch Mysteries". Julia being my favorite character in the show and Hélène one of my favorite actress I'm obviously really happy she got nominated. Let's all cross fingers  |
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Post by fan2tvshows on Jan 19, 2014 17:33:29 GMT
Hélène Joy has been nominated at the Canadian Screen Awards 2014 which will take place on March 9th for best lead actress in a drama for "Murdoch Mysteries". Julia being my favorite character in the show and Hélène one of my favorite actress I'm obviously really happy she got nominated. Let's all cross fingers MURDOCH MYSTERIES is the only one Canadian TV show that I know and watch so I can't compare her with the others nominated actresses. But all I can say is that until I saw her acting in the last scene of the first episode of the fifth season, I wasn't interested by the performances of actresses. So yes I can say Hélène JOY is a very good actress and even the best if I compare her with American actresses. |
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Post by barbarama on Mar 10, 2014 1:27:32 GMT
Well Helene didn't win :/ she was up against Tatiana Maslany and her 7 clones in "Orphan Black" so that is quite the competition.
However she looked fabulously stunning on the red carpet, she's a classy lady that's for sure!!!!
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Post by snacky on Mar 10, 2014 2:49:39 GMT
Well Helene didn't win :/ she was up against Tatiana Maslany and her 7 clones in "Orphan Black" so that is quite the competition. However she looked fabulously stunning on the red carpet, she's a classy lady that's for sure!!!! While I wish Helene, and the entire cast of Murdoch Mysteries, the best of luck in being recognized for their work, I don't feel that Julia's part has been "meaty" enough for her to win. She's mainly been relegated to saying "yay, a puzzle" and "kiss me, William". While there may be a lot of potential in the frontiers of psychiatry, I don't think that card has been well played yet: coroner still seems like the cooler, boundary-pushing job. Psychiatry does not seem to be the key to anything. Julia often seems like a not-all-that-necessary sidekick. William, in one his more pompous moments, even challenged Julia's use of the term "we" in their pursuit of a case. It was like he was patronizing her for being so presumptuous. It reminded me of him dressing down Ruby for "inserting herself" into his cases. Even though he claims to enjoy teamwork with Julia, one has to wonder whether it's because Julia's contributions were on a par with his or he just welcomed the opportunity to hang out with her. I think Helene will win an award if she finds ways to emphasize Julia's moxy - like when she was defending her abortion, when she supported women's contraception, and when she pursued a divorce in the teeth of contemporary mores. In fact, we haven't seen nearly enough of the ramifications of her public notoriety. I would like to see more coverage of suffrage and the struggle for women's rights in general, because today women often don't understand there was a fight for the rights they currently enjoy, and those rights could always slip away in the wake of complacency. By the way, I think the MM writers could squeeze some major drama out of the force-feeding of suffragettes in prison: www.historylearningsite.co.uk/force_feeding_suffragettes.htmCan you imagine William having to stand by while Julia suffered through that?!!! That would be award-winning material. |
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Post by barbarama on Mar 10, 2014 3:06:04 GMT
Well, Helene wasn't nominated for the entire 6th season, she was nominated for the episode "Crime and Punishment" where she goes on trial for Darcy's murder and I have to say, shows quite a palette of emotions. However I think Helene put it quite well in this small interview (link below), where she says that even though the show is a great drama, they usually don't have intense emotional scenes in it and that is what the Academy favors in general. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttKcFglxnQM&feature=youtu.beIndeed, some people were complaining that Yannick Bisson wasn't nominated and while I get why they would be unhappy, the character of William Murdoch is an introvert, doesn't show his emotions easily, even Yannick Bisson mentioned that for him it can be frustrating sometimes not to let it all go; and all these awards show nominate people that are usually giving, raw, crazy, intense interpretations and that is not what "Murdoch Mysteries" is about but it doesn't mean it isn't a wonderful show because it is |
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Post by snacky on Mar 10, 2014 3:46:33 GMT
Well, Helene wasn't nominated for the entire 6th season, she was nominated for the episode "Crime and Punishment" where she goes on trial for Darcy's murder and I have to say, shows quite a palette of emotions. Indeed, some people were complaining that Yannick Bisson wasn't nominated and while I get why they would be unhappy, the character of William Murdoch is an introvert, doesn't show his emotions easily, even Yannick Bisson mentioned that for him it can be frustrating sometimes not to let it all go; and all these awards show nominate people that are usually giving, raw, crazy, intense interpretations and that is not what "Murdoch Mysteries" is about but it doesn't mean it isn't a wonderful show because it is In the US there is an unwritten rule for female actors that they have to go without make up to win an Oscar or an Emmy. It's not just about having the courage to overcome Brand Image and personal vanity: going without make up seems to be a signal that the performance is closer to being "real". In Crime and Punishment, I guess the peril was real, but claiming her almost perfect hair "looked a fright" was not close enough to removing the make up. I agree that MM in general is not "gritty" enough to provide many opportunities for make-up-less performances, but I think it can be done. A lot of Victorian tragedy is about the gap between mask and human needs, especially for women (House of Mirth, Age of Innocence...). I understand Yannick Bisson's problem, too: it's sort of like David Duchovny on the X-Files - his monotone - endlessly over-interpreted by fans - made his character. But how to prove that is acting rather than lack of acting? This problem is even worse in a "fun" show, where no one is going to speculate whether William is suicidal or brain-damaged. Really, the only chance is if circumstances demand some major emotion that somehow puts the entire history of his introversion into a new light (i.e. christens it as "acting" rather than "not acting"). By the way, do the Canadian awards have something for ensemble acting? The entire cast might have a better shot at that. |
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Post by snacky on Mar 10, 2014 3:58:21 GMT
Something just occurred to me. When I was growing up, TV sitcoms would occasionally have "very special episodes" dealing with some serious subject matter. This was seen as educational for the audience as well as an opportunity for the actors to do some serious acting. There would usually be some warning in previews and right before the show itself.
I don't know if Canadian TV has a similar concept. The American way is kind of cheesy, and I've seen Saturday-Night-Live-style send ups of it. I guess the general idea is a formula show can step outside its "comfort zone" if the audience is prepared for that.
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Post by carco on Jun 23, 2014 22:35:04 GMT
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