According to her Wikipedia page, Amy Adams has won 37 awards. That’s out of 131 nominations, going all the way back to her breakthrough, 2005’s Junebug. That means she wins about a third of the time. And yet people on Twitter have it in their head that the acclaimed actress is the Susan Lucci of movies: Always nominated, never winning. (Though the soap star did win a Daytime Emmy once, in 1998, out of 21 times.)
So when Adams lost once more at this year’s Screen Actors Guild Awards — this time for her harrowing work in the Gillian Flynn miniseries adaptation Sharp Objects — social media lost it.
STOP ROBBING AMY ADAMS pic.twitter.com/jQGw1aX9F0
— paula 🔮 (@nicxlekidman) January 28, 2019
The award for Best Actress in a TV Movie/Miniseries went to Patricia Arquette, for Escape at Dannemora. Some wished it had gone to Adams for her HBO miniseries, in which she played an alcoholic crime reporter investigating the murders of two young girls in her hometown. All the while, she unravels spectacularly, not the least due to reuniting with her domineering mother, played by fellow nominee Patricia Clarkson.
Yes, Adams lost, and yes, she has plenty of trophies to console her. But perhaps it’s because most of those aren’t major awards. Adams has been Oscar-nominated six times (including this year, for Vice), but has never won. She has, however, won two Golden Globes — consecutively, too, for American Hustle in 2013 and Big Eyes in 2014. But she’s also had ten Golden Globe nominations, meaning she’s lost on major awards shows way more than she’s won.
So feel bad for Adams, even if she is technically an award-winning actress several times over.
https://twitter.com/amyslouadams/status/1089703692033576960
https://twitter.com/Superfluously/status/1089709118443597824
What the hell does Amy Adams have to do for you people
— Rob’s Cheaper, Ad-Supported Version (@r0bwatson) January 28, 2019
https://twitter.com/nicolskidman/status/1089704541929517056
Every awards show should have a five-minute segment where everyone gets up and agrees Amy Adams did a good job this year.
— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) January 28, 2019
Some pointed out that this one has really got to sting.
Amy Adams losing another award after giving what is arguably the best performance of her career #SAGAwards pic.twitter.com/o55ckESoQp
— allyson roche (@allyroche) January 28, 2019
Or that she should have been rewarded for her brilliant and insightful portrayal of someone with mental illness.
https://twitter.com/nicolskidman/status/1089707684683755527
https://twitter.com/JenniferLaney3/status/1089705632532439040
Anyway, don’t fret, because we’ll surely all be back here next awards season.
https://twitter.com/arrivhal/status/1087717220237627399
