I remember Judy Davis as the frontrunner for Supporting Actress and Richardson being the alternate. (and Tomei being predicted for 5th place except by Roger Ebert who somehow managed to call one of if not the biggest upset in Oscar history.

Megyn Kelly is going to be interviewed on Tucker Carlson’s show tomorrow. I wonder if she’ll discuss the film. I wonder if she has seen it or had any input.

Have there been any reports about how Kelly is portrayed? It will be odd if she is depicted as a heroic character.

(also odd is how there is that Russell Crowe TV show covering the same material with Kidman friend Naomi Watts playing the same role Kidman is in this.)

That’s interesting that they are all displayed there. I read the story about how the man who accepted one of her 60s Oscars stayed in her LA house while there. He came home and put the Oscar in a paper bag on the shelf of her hall closet. Like 20 years later or something he stayed in the house again and found the Oscar still sitting where he…[Read more]

I remember Dench as being the expected winner. The film was popular and she had just missed out the year before. SAG wasn’t that good of a predictor back then because there were lots of people like Bates and Duvall who had won Oscars but not SAG (because SAG didn’t exist when they were winning their Oscars) so there were sort of these makeup…[Read more]

Picture: Prizzi’s Honor
Actor: Jack Nicholson (some had him as the frontrunner, Hurt was a bit of a surprise winner)
Actress: Whoopi (even with the controversy I think she still would have been the only alternative since agree 3 was just too many for Streep. Lange was a surprise nominee and Bancroft was just lucky to be nominated. Cher in Mask…[Read more]

I think Joan Allen was also in hot contention for the win for Supporting Actress in 95. I remember her getting a lot of last minute buzz. (and they had a great TV/radio commercial with her really going after Hopkins in fury.)

I’d agree except I’d put Angelica Huston in instead of Julia Roberts. Steel Magnolias seriously underperformed. It was touted as the Best Picture of the year and then couldn’t even get a nomination for Best Actress for Field.

I guess Linda Blair in The Exorcist would count sort of.

That’s a good point. I always bought the it was too divisive argument but it did do well in nominations. Maybe Glenn was higher up in the ballots even second. Holly Hunter was a total unknown except for Raising Arizona so that probably hurt her. All her critic’s prizes probably are do in part to the fact that she was playing a journalist and…[Read more]

Pulp Fiction
Paul Newman
Actress is too close to call. I doubt they wanted to give Foster a third in 6 years so Ryder could have made up for just missing out on supporting the year before, Richardson could have swept in for being in so many good movies at that point or even Sarandon could have got some overdo votes.

Interesting tidbit: I’ve…[Read more]

Damn. I must have fallen asleep. I totally don’t remember that. I’ll have to see it again sometime.

I remembered that they said the mother was unstable but I forgot about the abuse. (or maybe I fell asleep. I saw it early in the morning without much sleep the night before!) Is it a long flashback or just a brief mention by the psychiatrist?

When in the film did they say the character was abused as a child? By the mother? I missed that part.

I saw a video once of Shirley MacLaine at the nomination ceremony press conference afterward. (I guess she had announced the nominees.) Anyway she said she didn’t like movies about stabbing. (kind of a dig at Fatal Attraction.)

I agree even though in retrospect it seems Close should have won in actuality she was probably fourth.

I’d say the…[Read more]

Hutton
Nicholson
Gielgud
Caine
Washington
Ngor
Gossett, Jr.
Connery
Ameche

I read somewhere (I think it was Inside Oscar) that William Holden was upset that Finch wanted to go lead. He thought that would eliminate him from contention (which it did.)

I wonder if Network could have pulled off wins in all 4 acting categories.

Patricia Neal in Hud is an odd one. I saw that as a teen on broadcast TV with commercials. It was a little local channel that edited the films. I left it thinking they cut all her scenes but only to find out later she didn’t have that many.

Anthony Hopkins was brave to go for lead. He’ have been an easy winner in supporting. In lead he wasn’t…[Read more]

Sweeney Todd got a Tony for Len Cariou, an Emmy for George Hearn and an Oscar nomination for Johnny Depp.