Reply #6: She got screwed in the press, though.

[Nevernose]

Most of the movie reviewers were saying things like: "Oh, everyone says it's good because she's ugly in this movie: and "She only got the oscar because they made a pretty woman ugly."

Total bullshit -- I don't think I've ever seen an actor nail a role as well as she nailed Aileen Wuornos. Traash-talking, spitting, smoking, hard-drinking, ass-kicking, redneck from the South, with a bad attitude to boot, yet stil a human being. Did you notice the swagger she did?

What amazed me even more wasn't just that she got the stereotype right (my aunt had a lover like this, on and off, for a decade, and it was a little frightening to see how well Theron performed it) -- but after watching the documentary of the real Wuornos, she copied every mannerism in perfection.