Five women I want to see win an Oscar

While Emma Thompson is lanquishing in that insipid Nanny McPhee series and in some movie based on a young adult series I could care less about, at least she has two Golden Boys to keep her warm at night.  However, there are actresses who do not have an Oscar.  This post honors those five ladies.

Glenn Close--She's come close to the Golden Boy and should have won for "Dangerous Liasons" over lesbian wackadoodle Jodie Foster's rape victim in "The Accused."  But no cigar.  She can cry on cue, deliver a fiery speech, and cook a rabbit like nobody else.  "Damages" was a fine, but little watched showcase for her.  However, her turn as a woman dressed like a man or whatever that was (I fell asleep) deservedly lost to Meryl last year.  Forget the hamburger--this woman deserves a steak on which to feast and leave all the also rans in the dust.

Michelle Pfeiffer--Another close, but no cigar nominee for "Fabulous Baker Boys."  She lost to Jessica Tandy, who did graciously say she lost her bet on Pfeiffer winning.   This is probably the most honest thing said on an Oscar stage, because Miss Daisy committed highway robbery of the award from the woman who made gorgeous whoopee atop a very lucky piano.  Lately, Pfeiffer has starred in Tim Burton's latest career slider (seriously, name the last movie anyone liked of his) and some incest movie with the cute dude from "Star Trek."  This will not work if she ever wants to be honored as she deserves to be.  She needs to stop letting her husband, David E. Kelley, pick her scripts and go back to being "fabulous."

Kathleen Turner--I know her day is long past.  When the most notable role an actress has had in over a decade is Chandler's sex-changed dad on "Friends," it's community theater time.  However, when she was on fire, she was on fire.  Starting with a scorching debut in "Body Heat," a film that remains in my top five of all time, and continuing with a list of solid films including: "Romancing the Stone," "Prizzi's Honor," "Peggy Sue Got Married," "War of the Roses," and the very underrated "Crimes of Passion," Turner was the Lauren Bacall of our age.  I wish she could find a director who could steer her towards greatness at this stage.  It would be a miracle, but definitely the comeback story of whatever year it happens.

Debra Winger--She is one of those actresses I had honestly forgotten about until the recent "Rachel Getting Married" starring Anne Hathaway, an actress I used to like, but has now fake perked herself into annoyance.  Side note--I don't care how good she sings in "Les Miserables," at this point, I would vote for Flo in the Progressive commercials over her.  Back to Winger, she is so powerful in her 60-second screen time in "Rachel Getting Married," she made the other never-ending two hours I wasted watching the film tolerable.  Add to that her sparring (not a typo) role in "Terms of Endearment" and making Richard Gere and John Travolta sexy in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Urban Cowboy" respectively, and this woman has earned her right for the Golden Boy.

Annette Bening--"Being Julia" is one of my favorite movies about the stage of all time.  "An American President" is one of my favorite movies about Washington D.C. of all time.  "American Beauty" is one of my favorite movies about an unlikeable dude who spends his days jacking off in the basement of all time.  All three movies have one thing in common--Annette Bening.  Why hasn't she gotten the Oscar, which she deserves for staying with known womanizer Warren Beatty alone?  Two words--Hilary Swank.  That's right.  The Karate Kid herself has won two times in the years Bening should have taken home the gold.  I keep having to delete the words of disdain I have for Ms. Swank's acting and her robbery of the luminous Bening.  We'll leave it at I hope that Annette does something else great, because Swank's career is so doomed that when Lena Dunham gave a shoutout to Chad Lowe at the Golden Globes, nobody knew what the hell she was talking about or cared to remember.