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Yet another person judging performances based on screentime.... It's 10 minutes, by the way. That's about 9.6% of the film. Heath Ledger was only on screen for about 18 minutes. That's about 11.8% of his film. I don't hear anybody bitching about Ledger, then.

Both stole the scenes in their respective films, so that's why they're nominated and stand really good chances of winning.

So you're suggesting we judge based on how memorable their parts were? The most memorable scenes in that movie were between Streep, Hoffman, and Adams. So, I guess that criterion falls short. Should we base it on whether or not the actor brings something to the role that no other actor could? Again, massive fail. Should we base it on the actor elevating a simple role to something memorable? Again, fail. The character specifically was written in the play to be a dramatic punch; someone who you really get taken aback with: you'd let your son get molested, wha wha? Simply put, I struggle to find ANYTHING Oscar worthy about her performance. It's kitsch, ridiculous, and such a good role that an idiot could do wonders with it. She seems like a sincere nice person, so I don't begrudge her nomination; but I could definitely begrudge her winning. Especially over Adams, who fulfilled all of my aforementioned criteria in her role. Again, to echo one of the previous posters, as long as Taraji and Viola don't win, I'm fine. And that has nothing to do with race, other than...well, one was a black stereotype for three hours, and one was nothing special for 10 minutes. *shrug*

While I'm here, I should mentioned I finally saw The Wrestler. I thought it was really good, had a great flow, a nice arc to it. Marisa Tomei was wonderful but I didn't feel any closure with her character at the end, which made me a little sad. As far as the Rouke V. Penn debates...predictably, I am all for Penn winning this. Yes, it's nice that Rouke is...kinda clean or whatever? But there's no comparison to the lengths Penn went to do something so far away from who he was. Rouke's role didn't require the huge transition that Penn's did. And while Rouke was very, very believable, did a good job, I just prefer Penn ten-fold. Penn took a role that could have reeked of stereotype and did it believably, sympathetically, and very masculinely, if that was even possible.