I thought I’d read that Frank Sinatra spread the word not to vote for her for Rosemary’s Baby. (not sure if that is true since she seemed to stay on good terms with him…maybe just after with Woody Allen, Sinatra didn’t seem so bad.) I guess she was also from TV and that was kind of a stigma back then (although Ryan O’Neal got nominated two…[Read more]

I haven’t seen The Bostonians in a long time. Redgrave could have had a smaller role but I guess in the 80’s big stars went in lead and lesser knowns in supporting. I haven’t seen Shelley Long in Irreconcilable Differences in a long time either but I’d sort of like to knowing now that it is about Peter Bogdanovitch/Polly Platt and Sharon Stone…[Read more]

Lange seems too sophisticated for Places in the Heart. That character is really someone who never really had to take care of herself beyond that era’s housewife responsibilities. The whole movie is about Field learning to take care of her family and even run the farm. Lange would have seemed too strong imo. You’d know she could handle running a…[Read more]

anyone have a link to the ballots? I can’t seem to find them.

Turner did seem to have a lot of conflicts during her career (Burt Reynolds, Nicolas Cage) and she was even threatened with a 25 million dollar lawsuit over the sequel to Romancing the Stone that she didn’t want to do. Oddly she wanted to do The Money Pit instead in Shelley Long’s role. That always seemed like a bad movie to me. Not sure why…[Read more]

Lange dropped out of The River to do Country so Sissy Spacek took over. (They were not happy with her for doing this apparently because if you watch The River you’ll notice the family farm cow that is sick at the beginning is rather disrespectfully named Jessica.)

I like Field too. She just got bad spin because of the “you like me” speech.

I…[Read more]

Jane Campion for The Piano screenplay instead of director

George Clooney started off his Supporting Actor acceptance speech by joking I guess this means I’m not winning director.

Piper Laurie deserves one.

Paul Newman got an honorary Oscar and then won a competitive one the next year for The Color of Money.

I don’t think Glenn getting an honorary award would have any effect on whether she wins a competitive one in the future.

Since they don’t televise the honorary ones anymore most people won’t know she got one and she’d still seem overlooked.…[Read more]

Thanks. I knew about them but I just wanted to keep it simple in the article I was writing about Jolie and make it fathers and daughters. Interesting that no father and son combo have won. I guess Michael Douglas and Kirk Douglas came the closest.

Thanks Jared! Useful link! I didn’t know about the Newman’s winning all those awards. Coincidentally that was the final answer on Jeopardy tonight.

For the 80s Supporting Actresses

1980 (Mary Steenburgen won for a comedy so I’d give Debra Winger in Urban Cowboy the drama one)
1981 (Joan Hackett won for a comedy so I’d give Maureen Stapleton in Reds the drama)
1982 (Jessica Lange won for a comedy so I’d give Kim Stanley in France the one for drama)
1983 no comedy nominees
1984 Christine…[Read more]

This is a fun idea.

Choosing just from the nominees:

I’d pick for comedy:

(starting with the 70s)

1970 Sally Kellerman, MASH
1971 Maureen Stapleton, Plaza Suite
1972 Jeannie Berlin, The Heartbreak Kid
1973 Madeline Kahn, Paper Moon
1974 Madeline Kahn, Young Frankenstein
1975 no comic roles nominated
1976 Shelley Winters, Next Stop Greenwich…[Read more]

Scott had made it clear he would be declining the award. The producer accepted it and congratulated the Academy for voting for Scott. I can see his point. If you are really choosing the best performance you still have to give it to the person even if they don’t want it. (Scott later said he regretted this whole thing. His feelings were hurt…[Read more]

I know the academy knew Little Feather was going to make a speech. They said it was too long. She mentions that in the speech that she can’t address all the issues in the interest of the time but will be happy to do so in the press room.

So I guess they knew the content of the speech, and I guess that he was declining it. Not sure about that…[Read more]

There was an odd press conference today where some reporter asked why Robbie didn’t have more dialogue in the film. Tarantino shot it down and said I reject your premise. Robbie supposedly just laughed it off. It sounded like the reporter was trying to make it a sexist thing. I guess the men have more lines than Robbie. Heard it on the radio…[Read more]

When are the awards announced?