Tell me, Clarice, did you expect to be receiving lifetime achievement at age 50?
My love of Jodie Foster stems back further than I can imagine and knows no bounds. This mythic lady is obviously difficult to write about in too glowing a fashion considering the terrors of her youth. One doesn't want to ever cross path a line that simply states how incredible a performer she is, what an amazing woman, and what an endless interesting creative creature she proves to be.
As far as Globes go, she's a 7 time nominee and 2 time winner. Her victories for 1988's The Accused and 1991's The Silence of the Lambs matching her two Oscar wins.
Jodie is one of those Hollywooders movie fans wish would work more. Her choices are few, deliberate. Often they're mistaken - often they're simply too similar to something she's already done. But for every Sommersby -- giant sprawler of a film that really didn't amount to much (ahem, Anna and the King) -- there's a Panic Room and an Inside Man great adult thrillers that slipped through very quickly and you all should give another glance.
Obviously Jodie's roles of amazement are Taxi Driver (surprisingly not Globe nominated), The Accused, and Silence of the Lambs. Film stars who've risen to Oscar and Globe victory for similar roles during Jodie's lifetime simply don't hold a candle. The amount of performances obliterated by her work as Sarah Tobias in The Accused and Special Agent Starling in Silence of the Lambs.
Someone takes a run at similar roles every year. Often they win awards for it. But Jodie set the standard.
I will keep this love letter to Jodie brief. Let me just say I hope Mel Gibson is presenting her award. I hope people make serious fun of Nell and don't just focus on, well, her Beaver.
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