Marisa Tomei for ‘My Cousin Vinny’ Is the Rare Perfect Oscars Win.

Agreed. She was so damn great in that part and I loved how many people got angry that a relatively-unknown model-turned-actor won for playing a lower-class person in a comedy film. That’s one of the few movies I’ve rewound (VCRs at the time!) 5-6 times just to see her parts again.

I agree with Tomei why so many people — inside Hollywood and out — were scandalized by the win.

“When I was younger, it hurt my feelings,” she said. “It made me quite ashamed, actually. But on the other hand, it’s a load of [expletive]. I think it had to do more with the role that I played—that it was comedic and that it wasn’t upper class. I think it was more of a classist thing, frankly.”

That is one of my favorite film perfomance of all time. And it still holds up to this day.