...and one day you will kiss her ass like blithering fools.
5 months after giving birth to her first born child, Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon, Madonna appeared on the Academy Awards to perform You Must Love Me from Evita in 1997. The song, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, was nominated (and won), her performance in the film was not.
Madonna's brilliant performance as Eva Peron in Evita should have been nominated for Best Actress, as it would have been had it been any other actress portraying her. As with her original penned songs, The Academy refuses to give a nod to Madonna and like the majority of the public, including some fans, they reject any other Madonna than her original role as the dirty pop slut.
For some odd reason, the public is only comfortable with categorizing Madonna as The (Still) Desperately Sought Susan. Unfortunate for all of them. And since that is the case 27 years later, they should have awarded that performance with Best Actress.
