Girls in
The Accused (1988)

As We Count Down to the 81st Annual Academy Awards on February 22nd, Mr Skin Pays Tribute to the Twenty Actresses Who Took Home Oscar Gold for Films in Which They Flashed Flesh

Few actresses make nude debuts as explosive as Jodie Foster’s in The Accused. (Jodie’s earlier nude scenes in The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane were actually doubled by her older sister, as Jodie was underage during filming.) Though she does offer up a good amount of boobage in The Accused, it all comes during a brutal rape scene. Still, the Academy awarded Jodie’s efforts—as they would three years later for Silence of the Lambs—with an Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Luckily Jodie followed up her win with more-pleasant nude scenes in Backtrack and Nell, but neither brought her Oscar gold, though Nell did score her a fourth nomination.

Long-haired, wild-eyed, multitalented Gregory Jacobsen—a.k.a. Fatty Jubbo—is a fixture in the Midwest's art, music, and film undergrounds. A new show at Chicago's ZG Gallery is another leap forward for Jacobsen's aesthetic assault. The show is titled Palpitating Remains: New Paintings and Works on Paper. It opens November 30, 2007, and runs until January 5, 2008.