I thought the same thing, excellent performance. “Would it make a difference?”
Or a young DiCaprio in Gilbert Grape,
The Academy does a lot of subsequent year second guessing. Next year expect to see lots of minority actors nominated.
Academy members have all nominated films sent to them for review. So by the time they are voting on them, almost everyone who gets to vote (this ISN’T the People’s Choice Award) should have seen every performance for all the major categories. There is some amount of speculation that some of the minor categories aren’t reviewed closely and are voted on by dartboard.
Also, this isn’t the People’s Choice award. Hitchcock was an ass - so was Welles. GREAT directors, but asses. Kubrick hasn’t been real popular among the elite who vote either. The membership is overwhelmingly elite, white, male, American and older.
People, not movies.
He was OK in the movie, but then again, I only found the movie to be OK. I don’t think he was better or worse than Stallone.
I would have given the Best Supporting Actor award to Jason Staham for Spy. He was hilarious in that movie.
I would have been happy for Stallone for sentimental reasons, but Rylance was the only thing about Bridge of Spies that I thought was really excellent. Glad to seem him win.
Just going from this year:
Jacob Tremblay for “Room.” I think he should have been nominated at least.
Michael Keaton’s performance in “Spotlight” was, in my opinion, superior to Mark Ruffalo or Rachel McAdams.
I generally feel that any time Tom Hanks isn’t nominated, he’s probably being overlooked. He’s just consistently excellent. Though I’ll admit that Mark Rylance outshone him in “Bridge of Spies.”
On a related note, Ian McKellen for LOTR. Playing a wizard without making it campy is hard and he nails it.
I was under the impression that the Academy refused to accept his entry because it wasn’t him on the screen, which is strange as he did do the voice, and I thought voiceovers were allowed to be nominated in acting categories.
Steve Martin for All of Me.
Steven Spielberg for The Color Purple. How does a movie get 11 nominations and NOT Best Director?
That was exactly my point with Streisand and *Prince of Tides. *I guess these movies directed themselves.
Emil Jannings over Richard Barthelmess in 1928.
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Similar excuse as not nominating Tron for special effects, because computers did all the work. In reality, actual CGI in that movie was limited to three short sequences and most of the “computer” imagery was painstakingly rotoscoped by hand, frame-by-frame. Nowadays, of course, CGI is routinely nominated for - and wins - Academy Awards. The Gollum character may have been computer generated, but the performance, the soul of the character, the acting was all due to Andy Serkis.
Good catch. Totally agree. In a strong ensemble cast, he was far and away the best, I’d say.
She certainly was great and blew away the rest of the cast (except Fred Gwynne) and has been nominated twice since for dramatic roles.
I like the story of how she got the part. Her agents William Morris didn’t even pass her name to the producers who had previously tried to interest dozens of actresses in the role. Director Jonathan Lynn saw cutting room footage of her while visiting John Landis’s editing suite and thought her comic timing was superb so got her in to audition. The studio didn’t want her because she wasn’t well known but Joe Pesci insisted that they stick with her. As he was the only name they had signed the studio capitulated.
To Sir, With Love, from the Sidney Poitier movie of the same name, is one of my favorite songs from 1967. And I’m not alone, since it was *Billboard’s *#1 pop song of the year. But it wasn’t even nominated.
I know what you’re thinking — the Academy tends to go for songs with more gravitas, not pop songs, even if they have lush strings like* TSWL* did.
Nope, the 1968 Best Song Oscar went to Talk to the Animals, an instantly forgettable piece of fluff from* Dr. Doolittle*.
Another song not nominated that year was Simon and Garfunkel’s Mrs Robinson from The Graduate.
And incredibly, talk about how hard black actor’s have it, Sidney Poitier received no nominations for his three 1967 starring roles in the Best Picture-winning In the Heat of the Night, the previously mentioned To Sir, With Love and* Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.* Rod Steiger and Katherine Hepburn won Oscars opposite him though.
Hadn’t thought of that song in years and years, and just heard it on the radio on Saturday!
To the Academy, Lulu falls into the category of “Rock”, which they made an explicit effort to completely ignore throughout the 50s & 60s.
People were shocked back in 1950 when Judy Holliday won best actress for Born Yesterday. She beat out Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard and both Bette Davis and Anne Baxter in All About Eve. Movie buffs continue to bitch about it to this day, although Holliday was brilliant in her role, IMO.
People constantly complain that comedy never gets rewarded by the Academy, but when it is (Holliday, Tomei), then people complain even more then.
While In the Heat of the Night was bought as a vehicle for Poitier, Rod Steiger just stole that movie from him. An absolutely marvelous performance.