Best Oscar Nomination Classes (by category and year)

I nominate the Best Actor class of 2002. Adrien Brody in THE PIANIST, Nicolas Cage in ADAPTATION, Michael Caine in THE QUIET AMERICAN, Daniel Day-Lewis in GANGS OF NEW YORK, and Jack Nicholson in ABOUT SCHMIDT.

• Best Actress 1988 Best Supporting Actress 1982 Best Actor 1980 (although Donald Sutherland in Ordinary People should have got Jack Lemmon's nod)

• I nominated the Best Actor class of 1999: Russell Crowe in THE INSIDER, Richard Farnsworth in THE STRAIGHT STORY, Sean Penn in SWEET AND LOW DOWN, Kevin Spacey in AMERICAN BEAUTY, and Denzel Washington in THE HURRICANE. Four of the greatest actors of this generation (Crowe, Penn, Spacey, and Washington) and one of the best character actors of his generation (Farnsworth). And, Kevin Spacey won the Best Actor Oscar.

  Dianne

• 1970 Best Song: "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; “Come Saturday Morning,” from The Sterile Cuckoo; “Jean,” from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; “True Grit” from True Grit; and “What Are You Doing for the Rest of Your Life,” from The Happy Ending.

• Best Supporting Actress, 1988: *Geena Davis - The Accidental Tourist Joan Cusack - Working Girl Frances McDormand - Mississippi Burning Michelle Pfeiffer - Dangerous Liaisons Sigourney Weaver - Working Girl

• Best Actor 1951: Bogart, Brando, Clift, Arthur Kennedy, Frederic March Best Actress 1939: Leigh, Davis, Dunne, Garbo, Garson Best Supporting Actress 1944: Ethel Barrymore, Jennifer Jones, Aline MacMahon, Angela Lansbury, Agnes Moorehead Best Supporting Actor 1972: Joel Grey, Eddie Albert, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Al Pacino

• 1982 Best Supporting Actress: Glenn Close - The World According to Garp Teri Garr - Tootsie Jessica Lange - Tootsie (WINNER) Kim Stanley - Frances Lesley Ann Warren - Victor/Victoria

• Best Actress 1962: Bette Davis - Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Katharine Hepburn - Long Days Journey Into Night Geraldine Page - Sweet Bird of Youth Lee Remick - Days of Wine and Roses Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker (winner - but my choice would be Remick). Best Actress 1961: Natalie Wood - Splendor in the Grass Page, again -Summer and Smoke Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffanys Piper Laurie - The Hustler Sophia Loren - Two Women - winner, first in a foreign language.