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Glenn Close talks Receiving 8 Oscar Nominations without a single win

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Glenn Close talks Receiving 8 Oscar Nominations without a single win

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Glenn Close may not have any Oscars to her name, but she is far from a loser.

Close has been nominated for best actress four times, and at the Academy Awards last month, she contended for her fourth best supporting actress award. When Youn Yuh-jung, the star of “Minari,” won the award, the Los Angeles Times said, “After 8 Oscar losses, Glenn Close is now tied for the most nominated actor without a win.”

“I wish this conversation would cease,” Emmy winner Sarah Paulson tweeted in defense of Close. “She’s brilliant and continues to have an extraordinary and enviable career. Nighty night to this click bait convo to nowheresville.”

After the event, Close told The Associated Press that she hadn’t seen the article or any tweets about her defeat, and she said, “First of all, I don’t think I’m a loser.”

“Who in that category is a loser? You’re there, you’re five people honored for the work that you’ve done by your peers. What’s better than that?” the Hillbilly Elegy star said. “And I honestly feel that the press likes to have winners and losers. And then they say, ‘Who is the worst dressed?’ And, you know, ‘Who made the worst speech?’ Forget it. It’s not what it’s about.”

“I say, f— them!” Close concluded.

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Close has won almost every major award show during her famous and renowned career. She is a three-time Emmy, Golden Globe, and Tony Award winner. With the films “The World According to Garp,” “The Big Chill,” “The Natural,” “Fatal Attraction,” “Dangerous Liaisons,” “Albert Nobbs,” “The Wife,” and “Hillbilly Elegy,” she received three Grammy nominations and competed at the Oscars.

Close was asked by E!’s Giuliana Rancic if she had considered where she would store her prize if she won the Actress in a Supporting Role award ahead of the Oscars last month.

“I actually haven’t, but I have this fantasy — and I think I [would] actually do it — that I might take it to the local library for people to look at; I might take it to the coffee shop I go to a lot,” said Close.

“So that people can actually see what it’s like. [To] kind of bring this world into everyday life. That’s what I will do,” she continued.

The star also stated she loved seeing her friends at the socially distant Academy Awards a year after being homebound due to the epidemic.

“It was wonderful. I mean, they were very strict,” Close said. “We were tested up the wazoo as we had to be. But I’ll tell you what I loved about the Oscars … you got to talk to people whose work you had seen and loved. I got to talk to the wonderful Korean woman who won in my category; got to meet Maria (Bakalova), who was also in my category, the wonderful young actress from Bulgaria.

“And that’s what we need to do. You need to be able to mix with your own kind and … be able to express your appreciation and how much you’ve been inspired by them. And that meant a lot, I think, to everybody,” she remarked.

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