I am going to focus on just the nominees.

1960: The Apartment
1961:Judgement at Nuremburg
1962: Lawrence of Arabia
1963: Lillies of the Field
1964: Dr. Strangelove
1965: The Sound of Music
1966: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967: The Graduate
1968: The Lion in Winter
1969: Z
1970: MASH
1971: A Clockwork Orange
1972: The Godfather
1973:…[Read more]

#1-Meryl Streep, Sophie’s Choice
#2-Sissy Spacek, Coal Miner’s Daughter
#3-Geraldine Page, The Trip to Bountiful
#4-Cher, Moonstruck
#5-Jessica Tandy, Driving Miss Daisy
#6-Shirley MacLaine, Terms of Endearment
#7-Jodie Foster, The Accused
#8-Katharine Hepburn, On Golden Pond
#9-Marlee Marlin, Children of a Lesser God
#10-Sally Field, Places of the Heart

1-Robert DeNiro, Raging Bull
2-Daniel Day-Lewis, My Left Foot
3-F. Murray Abraham, Amadeus
4-William Hurt, Kiss of the Spider Woman
5-Ben Kingsley, Gandhi
6-Michael Douglas, Wall Street
7-Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man
8-Henry Fonda, On Golden Pond
9-Robert Duvall, Tender Mercies
10-Paul Newman, The Color of Money

1930s:
Vivien Leigh, Gone with the Wind
Robert Donat, Goodbye Mr. Chips

1940s:
Olivia de Havilland, The Heiress
Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend

1950s:
Vivien Leigh, A Streetcar Named Desire
Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront

1960s:
Elizabeth Taylor, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Maximillian Schell, Judgement at Nuremberg

1970s:
Faye Dunaway, N…[Read more]

I’ve always found SHAWSHANK to be quite overrated, while FORREST GUMP is entertaining though not Best Picture material.

PULP FICTION gets my vote but even my love for it has dimmed in recent years.

I do have to acknowledge QUIZ SHOW which was a very well made movie that held up well on my somewhat recent rewatch of it. FOUR WEDDINGS, while p…[Read more]

+ LuPone
+ Ebersole
– – Midler

Lea Salonga, Miss Saigon (239)

Glenn Close, Sunset Boulevard (166)

Bette Midler, Hello, Dolly! (84)

Cynthia Erivo, The Color Purple (56)

Chita Rivera, Kiss of the Spider Woman (53)

Bebe Neuwirth, Chicago (47)

Patti LuPone, Gypsy (40)

Audra McDonald, Porgy and Bess (23)

Donna Murphy, The King and I (…[Read more]

I’m going to list three for every year.

1990: Goodfellas, Awakenings, Miller’s Crossing
1991: The Silence of the Lambs, Barton Fink, Beauty & The Beast
1992: The Crying Game, Howards End, Malcolm X
1993: Schindler’s List, Groundhog Day, The Piano
1994: Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show, Ed Wood
1995: The Usual Suspects, To Die For, Seven
1996: Fargo, Secre…[Read more]

Good performances but I had to also go for Lane for giving Roy Cohn some new interesting shades that only he could provide while also being quite surprising.

There are a couple here that I really liked and considered but I ended up voting for Goldsberry

I went with this year’s winner as it was a combo of great performance and such a wonderful career.

I really loved Oslo more than I expected to. It got my vote.

For such a flawed musical, it’s amazing how stellar PIPPIN can turn out when staged and performed by such talented people.

I voted for A View from the Bridge, as it completely made me rethink everything about that show. It was a stunning exercise.

I did love quite a few of these other winners though.

Honestly, I could make a case for several of these but for now, I’m tossing my vote to a Andrew Garfield.

I gave my vote to Platt, but I did also strongly consider Michael Cerveris.

This was a pretty strong set of people but I went with the decade’s first winner: Viola Davis.

For me, it was FUN HOME.

I also want to give a shout-out to last night’s winner HADESTOWN.

I voted for Cynthia Erivo, but I also considered Katrina Lenk as well.

I also really loved Patina Miller and Audra McDonald.

1960: Burt Lancaster, Elmer Gantry
1961: Maximillian Schell, Judgement at Nuremberg
1962: Gregory Peck, To Kill a Mockingbird
1963: Sidney Poitier, Lillies of the Field
1964: Peter Sellers, Dr. Strangelove
1965: Rod Steiger, The Pawnbroker
1966: Richard Burton, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967: Paul Newman, Cool Hand Luke
1968: Peter O…[Read more]

I posted on this thread way back in 2011 but I figured I’d go ahead and post mine again and add more pre-1980 and update it to the present. And it’s strictly based on the nominees and not factoring in people who were snubbed.

1960-Shirley MacLaine, The Apartment
1961-Sophia Loren, Two Women
1962-Katharine Hepburn, Long Days Journey into Nig…[Read more]