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- Tue Aug 24, 2010 4:55 pm
- Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
- Topic: Best Supporting Actress 1976
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3588
I truly loathe the idea that a performance has to be a certain length in order to be considered worthy of an Oscar and/or nomination. It's the impact and level of connection with the audience that the actor is able to establish in that short amount of time that should be used to evaluate a performa...
- Fri Aug 20, 2010 1:03 am
- Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
- Topic: Best Supporting Actress 1975
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3822
Even without having seen Once Is Not Enough , I feel completely confident voting for Lily Tomlin. A truly lovely performance from an actress I almost always like, in one of the great American movies. Barbara Harris gets my nod for the fifth nomination over Vaccaro, whose movie I really don't feel a...
- Tue Aug 17, 2010 5:05 am
- Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
- Topic: Best Supporting Actress 1974
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4509
Cortese isn't the best of 1974 by the titanic margin by which she would've been the best of 1973, but for the second year in a row, it simply would not be right to give it to any of the other nominees instead of her. And this year, we actually have the chance to reward her. So I'm taking it. If the...
- Fri Aug 13, 2010 12:30 pm
- Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
- Topic: Best Supporting Actress 1973
- Replies: 48
- Views: 7910
I have a very strong bias against voting for leading roles in the supporting categories, even though O'Neal is miles ahead of the others this year. Moving her up to lead where she belongs and replacing her with Cries and Whispers ' Kari Sylwan gives you my personal lineup, made up entirely of perfo...
- Tue Aug 10, 2010 11:06 am
- Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
- Topic: Best Supporting Actress 1972
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6467
Three excellent performances, and at least one perfectly good one. (I haven't seen Pete 'n' Tillie .) Heckart and especially Tyrrell could easily get my vote here, but I never cease to be amazed by how well Elaine May and her Heartbreak Kid cast do at creating real, identifiable (if not necessarily...
- Fri Aug 06, 2010 12:42 pm
- Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
- Topic: Best Supporting Actress 1971
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4049
Leachman is the easy choice for me, though I also really like the other three I've seen. I haven't seen Who Is Harry Kellerman? , and on Italiano's recommendation I may track it down for Harris' performance, but with even the performance's defender trashing the movie, it's hard to believe she'd be ...
- Tue Aug 03, 2010 12:17 pm
- Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
- Topic: Best Supporting Actress 1970
- Replies: 36
- Views: 9203
Another vote for Karen Black here. Kellerman and Grant would've been fine choices too, but Black is on another level. I'd've replaced the Airport ladies with Black's Five Easy Pieces co-star Lois Smith and The Ballad of Cable Hogue 's Stella Stevens, with Grant's Landlord castmate Pearl Bailey a cl...
- Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:07 am
- Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
- Topic: Best Supporting Actress 1968
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3424
Locke, to me, is in the right category; I don't remember anybody but Arkin having a lead-level role in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter . And I love Carlin's nomination; very raw, very real, and very not in keeping with what got Oscar nominations at the time, which endears it to me all the more. But ho...
- Mon Jul 26, 2010 3:34 pm
- Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
- Topic: Best Supporting Actress 1961
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3226
- Mon Jul 26, 2010 3:22 pm
- Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
- Topic: Best Supporting Actress 1967
- Replies: 38
- Views: 5179
When I feel like I'm faced with two performances of more or less equal quality, I'll ask myself who's in the better movie and use that as a tiebreaker. For this year, I consider Parsons and Natwick to be on equal footing in terms of skillful displays of acting, so I err on the side of the one who's...
- Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:10 am
- Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
- Topic: Best Supporting Actress 1961
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3226
A Taste of Honey was ineligible. It wasn't released in the U.S. until April, 1962. When dealing with movies that didn't score any actual Oscar nominations, I'm willing to fudge my own eligibility rules and go by whatever release date will help me put together a stronger lineup. It's a bit of a cop-...
- Sun Jul 25, 2010 5:34 pm
- Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
- Topic: Best Supporting Actress 1961
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3226
Since my vote-getter is in the lead here with none of the comments so far going in her favor, I'll weigh in. I find Merkel completely unmemorable in Summer and Smoke , and would have given her spot to Dora Bryant for A Taste of Honey . Garland is fine in Judgment at Nuremberg , but as others have s...
- Sun Jul 25, 2010 11:01 am
- Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
- Topic: Best Supporting Actress 1967
- Replies: 38
- Views: 5179
- Mon Mar 29, 2010 3:15 pm
- Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
- Topic: Most Egregious Category Gerrymandering - Lead Roles Incorrectly Pushed to Support
- Replies: 42
- Views: 3566
For me, this is an extremely close four-way race between Tatum O'Neal, Casey Affleck, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Jamie Foxx. Ultimately, I'm going with Gyllenhaal, because not only was he a lead taking up a spot that could otherwise have gone to a worthy supporting actor (in a year that had so many I sti...
- Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:16 am
- Forum: 81st and Other 9th Decade Discussions
- Topic: 2009 Oscar Shouldabeens
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8441