Kevin Kline, Marisa Tomei, Mira Sorvino, Alan Arkin, Cuba Gooding, Jack Palance, John Gielgud, Geena Davis, Olympia Dukakis, Dianne Weist, just from memory.
Best Actress Academy Award, 1977.
Brett Kelly for Bad Santa. You know, the fat kid. Comedic genius.
Decent point, but a number of those characters were in comedies, but not really funny themselves. It’s not a comedic performance.
Peter Sellers for *Dr. Strangelove * (lost to Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady)
Dustin Hoffman for *The Graduate *(lost to Rod Steiger for In the Heat of the Night)
Zero Mostel for The Producers
Yes!
This little-known movie is proof positive that Stallone could actually deliver the goods as a comedic actor. As straight man to a wildly out of control day his timing and deadpan delivery against the likes of Tim Curry, Chaz Palminteri and others was perfect. A truly hilarious movie.
D’oh!
I thought she might’ve.
Further proof of his mastery of the comedic arts: a little gem called Rhinestone.
What are you talking about? Which of these listed was not a comedic performance?
I second Steve Martin, but for Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid.
Peter Boyle deserved an Oscar for the “Puttin on the Ritz” scene in Young Frankenstein. Every time I watch, I truly believe he is a reanimated corpse that has recently learned to tap dance.
Both Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder
Kevin Kline, Marisa Tomei, Mira Sorvino, Alan Arkin, Cuba Gooding, Jack Palance, John Gielgud, Geena Davis, Olympia Dukakis, Dianne Weist
I’d say that a comedic performance is one likely to make thousands of people say, “He/she was hysterical in that!” I don’t think people would say that about Gooding, Palance, and Gielgud. My impressions of Arkin, Davis, and Dukakis’ wins are that they weren’t personally the reason for teh funnay.
Comedy is a personal thing. I like laugh out loud funny movies.
“You Don’t Mess With The Zohan” is new and very funny.
My all time fav is “Dumb And Dumber”. The first time I rented it my son and I laughed so hard we were crying.
The Big Lewbowski, same amount of funny but well you have to see it.
National Lampoons Vacation with granny riding dead on the roof and pulling the dog behind the car, OMG classic. Blazing Saddles, classic. Uncle Buck, Coming To America, Don’t Be A Menace, Idiocracy, My Cousin Vinny, Happy Gilmore… I know I’m forgetting lots of others.
I’d nominate Dustin Hoffman as Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels in Tootsie. Such a terrific performance – both subtle and broad (pun not intended!).
Bill Murray in Stripes. Or any of the other actors in that film.
I get as many laughs from this one now as I did when it came out almost thirty years ago.
I third Steve Martin, for “The Jerk.”