First answer: Gwyneth, an answer "we all know" was coming; a self-described Gwyneth partisan follows (speaker unresolved). — Amanda Dobbins
After clarifying that the question is simply who won the movie rather than who got praise afterward, the answer is Gwyneth, the only one who got praise.
Case for Garrett Hedlund: Gwyneth is known to be great and this is not among her first eight to ten roles, while it is hard to watch and not wonder why he was not a bigger star. — Bill Simmons
The Hedlund vote is outvoted because both others said Gwyneth. — Bill Simmons
Garrett Hedlund: this should have been his apex with Tron and Country Strong but it did not happen; his apex was probably 2004 and this was his lost Apex Mountain. — Bill Simmons
Hedlund's karaoke audition and country training; Paltrow emailing Robert Downey Jr.; Hedlund and McGraw's Friday Night Lights history; Hedlund crying off-camera; Paltrow losing Kelly Taylor to Jennie Garth; Paltrow turning down The Ring; Paltrow learning guitar; Meester's mother's prison birth
The director said he took four months off, learned guitar, took voice lessons and went to Nashville early to work with producers. — Bill Simmons
Paltrow emailed her Iron Man castmate Robert Downey Jr. to understand addiction and rehab, and he wrote back an amazing email; some would find that pretentious. — Bill Simmons
The director said that in the Dallas goodbye scene, shot on Gwyneth's side first with the camera on the back of Garrett's head, Garrett cried for her performance. — Bill Simmons
Paltrow lost the Kelly Taylor role on 90210 to Jennie Garth. — Bill Simmons
She would have been an amazing Kelly Taylor, though she probably would have left after about four seasons. — Bill Simmons
She turned down The Ring in 2002; her filmography lacks a good horror movie about a house with something wrong with it. — Bill Simmons
Paltrow learned guitar from scratch over several months, and Chris Martin told her she played better than U2's frontman, though her playing in the movie is not great. — Liz Kelly
Leighton Meester's real mother gave birth to her as a prison inmate, and her character's mother is also in prison. — Liz Kelly
Pick: the creepy tour manager Kelly was sleeping with when Garrett Hedlund walks in; the picker does not know his name but has seen him in other things. — Liz Kelly
Question about the category: prepped by the show's producer, the asker first wrote down Tim McGraw and was told that is not a that guy; the reply is that he is Tim McGraw. — Liz Kelly
This is a hard movie for side-character categories because it is dominated by four people. — Amanda Dobbins
