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by mayukh
Wed May 11, 2011 12:27 am
Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
Topic: Best Actress 1974
Replies: 20
Views: 8909

I've always found it interesting that Perrine won Best Actress at Cannes over Burstyn (whose Alice was also screened in competition that year). I voted for her, though, truth be told, my vote oscillates between all five women pretty frequently...what a stellar lineup!
by mayukh
Mon May 09, 2011 4:03 pm
Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
Topic: Best Actress 1976
Replies: 31
Views: 4104

Ullmann and Spacek are brilliant. Why anyone would objectively vote for Dunaway, whom I usually love, when confronted with those two choices I'll simply never understand. But I voted for Barrault, charismatic, rapturous, and sad – her reading of "a year ago I tried to kill myself" has stay...
by mayukh
Sun May 08, 2011 9:21 pm
Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
Topic: Best Actor 1963
Replies: 10
Views: 2151

Voted for Harris. He and Rachel Roberts get my top acting awards for that year – Roberts, especially, had such a built-in tragedy to her face that worked so beautifully in TSL.
by mayukh
Sat May 07, 2011 7:53 pm
Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
Topic: Best Actress 1982
Replies: 40
Views: 4812

Winger can do no wrong. I voted for her. She is perfect in that film regardless of the fact that everything that surrounds her is slaphappy. Working class, angry, on the verge of complete disillusionment, stubborn, defiant, brazenly sexual, vulnerable, filled with pain – all that good stuff. She cre...
by mayukh
Sat May 07, 2011 7:50 pm
Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
Topic: Best Actress 1980
Replies: 23
Views: 3474

I love Sissy Spacek but I never found her particularly interesting or charismatic in Coal Miner's Daughter. Moore is funny in the worst way possible – subtle as a sledgehammer. Just terrible. I voted for Hawn, who delivered a performance of great intelligence and spontaneity, though I now think Burs...
by mayukh
Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:36 am
Forum: The People
Topic: R.I,P. Elizabeth Taylor
Replies: 33
Views: 2649

I'm shocked. RIP to one of the great screen icons of the past century.
by mayukh
Thu Mar 10, 2011 5:56 pm
Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
Topic: Best Actress 1981
Replies: 19
Views: 3723

Sorry to resurrect this thread, but just a question for those who were around at the time – was NSFC/BSFC winner and NYFCC runner-up (albeit in supporting) Marilia Pera able to gain any traction at all for Pixote ? She certainly gave the year's greatest female performance. In lieu of her absence, I...

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