The Weinstein Company didn't submit Jennifer Tilly for Oscar consideration for Bullets Over Broadway, so she did it herself
role into an Oscar nomination, because Miramax sure wasn’t doing it for her. “Dianne Wiest is obviously the lead in the movie. She had twice as many lines as me. She’s a romantic interest,” Tilly explains. “But because she’s a character actor, I had heard that the Weinstein Company thought she had a better chance of winning in the character-actor category—the supporting-actor category.
“And I was really smugly going,The resulting nomination stunned even Tilly’s own publicist—and apparently pissed off Miramax, who were concerned she was going to split the vote in the Supporting Actress category. “I got flowers from everybody. I didn’t get any flowers from Harvey Weinstein or Miramax,” Tilly shares. “Now that I look back on it, I never, ever had a single audition for a Miramax film. For, I got cast by Woody Allen and they sold it to Miramax after it was completed.
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