Lead or Supporting no. 29: Tatum O’Neal in Paper Moon

[Sab227 Joined: Dec 29th, 2012 Topics: 36 Posts: 214 View Predictions]

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Tatum O’Neal was only 10 years old when she won the oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Her wonderful performance in Paper Moon. Its obvious to me she is a co-lead with her father and should have been nominated in lead actress. I never understand why awards bodies always nominate childrens performances in only the supporting categories when a lot of the time they deserve to be in the lead categories. Tatum is very much a lead, but what do you all think is she a lead or supporting?

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[zordon Joined: Jul 16th, 2014 Topics: 1 Posts: 88 View Predictions]

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She was definitely lead – and brilliant in the film. Would have been a deserving nominee in the leading category, but that was a very strong lineup, and the weakest nominee (Jackson) won.

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[ArtIsntEasy Joined: Dec 17th, 2011 Topics: 1 Posts: 420 View Predictions]

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This is in contention for being the biggest category fraud of all time.

It certainly wasn’t a bad performance by any stretch of the imagination but I do wish she could’ve been in Lead and that way I would’ve given an Oscar to her co-star Madeline Kahn.

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[keithw Joined: Aug 17th, 2012 Topics: 1 Posts: 86 View Predictions]

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O’Neal was definitely lead. I still hoped Madeline Kahn would have won on Oscar night. She deserved to. I don’t think Tatum O’Neal would have been nominated in the Lead Actress category because every one who was nominated deserved her spot. I consider that year the best ever for Lead Actress. Glenda Jackson deserved her win but so did the other nominees – Ellen Burstyn, Barbra Streisand, Joanne Woodward and my choice Marsha Mason.

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