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Most deserving acting Oscars

We always talk about the undeserving ones. Let’s praise the deserving ones for a change.

I’ll start: Timothy Hutton, Ordinary People. He was fantastic.

by Anonymousreply 35June 7, 2020 7:45 PM

Emma Thompson for Howards End.

by Anonymousreply 1June 3, 2020 12:22 AM

Vivien Leigh - Gone With the Wind

Helen Mirren - The Queen

by Anonymousreply 2June 3, 2020 12:22 AM

Robert De Niro’s wins for Raging Bull and The Godfather, Part II were excellent choices. And so were Meryl’s first two Oscar wins.

Mo’Nique might be incredibly difficult and will probably never give a performance even close to what she did in Precious, but that doesn’t take away just how deserving that win was.

by Anonymousreply 3June 3, 2020 12:31 AM

George Kennedy- Cool Hand Luke

by Anonymousreply 4June 3, 2020 12:45 AM

Chronologically for me: Claudette Colbert, Alice Brady, Robert Donat, Vivian Leigh, Joan Fontaine, James Cagney, Van Heflin, Jennifer Jones, Joan Crawford, Frederic March (Best Years), Claire Trevor, Olivia de Havilland (Heiress), Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper (High Noon), Susan Hayward, Elizabeth Taylor (Virginia Woolf), Liza Minnelli, Eileen Heckart, Sally Field (Norma Rae), James Coburn, Tim Robbins. Haven’t card much since the mid-2000s.

by Anonymousreply 5June 3, 2020 12:46 AM

Martin Landau - Ed Wood

John Gielgud - Arthur

by Anonymousreply 6June 3, 2020 12:46 AM

Sally Field, Places In the Heart.

Agree with OP re: Tim Hutton.

by Anonymousreply 7June 3, 2020 1:23 AM

Hattie McDaniel for Gone with the Wind.

Kathy Bates for Misery.

Christoph Waltz for Inglorious Basterds.

by Anonymousreply 8June 3, 2020 1:40 AM

Cloris Leachman and Tilda Swinton

by Anonymousreply 9June 3, 2020 1:49 AM

Daniel Day-Lewis for MY LEFT FOOT.

Marlon Brando for ON THE WATERFRONT.

Jane Fonda for KLUTE.

Simone Signoret in ROOM AT THE TOP.

Bette Davis in JEZEBEL.

Viola Davis in FENCES.

by Anonymousreply 10June 3, 2020 2:53 AM

Barbra Steisand, Funny Girl

Renee Zellweger for Judy (but not for Cold Mountain)

Vivien Leigh, A Streetcar Named Desire

Marlon Brando, The Godfather

Jamie Foxx, Ray (and I say that as someone who doesn't like him that much overall)

by Anonymousreply 11June 3, 2020 3:50 AM

Olivia de Havilland in "The Heiress." She did a superb job!

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by Anonymousreply 12June 3, 2020 4:12 AM

La Streisand in "Funny Girl." It was a once in a lifetime role and she really deserved to win.

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by Anonymousreply 13June 3, 2020 4:18 AM

Vivien Leigh for her role as a faded Southern belle in A Streetcar Named Desire. Just as good if not better for her Oscar win for Scarlett O'Hara in GWTW.

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by Anonymousreply 14June 3, 2020 4:23 AM

The one Jill Clayburgh should have won for An Unmarried Woman.

by Anonymousreply 15June 3, 2020 4:24 AM

Buck would never have submitted in "Supporting."

by Anonymousreply 16June 3, 2020 4:25 AM

Meryl in Sophie's Choice

by Anonymousreply 17June 3, 2020 12:47 PM

Faye Dunaway- MOMMIE DEAREST

by Anonymousreply 18June 3, 2020 12:55 PM

Sally Field - Norma Rae

Sissy Spacek - Coal Miner's Daughter

Robert De Niro- Raging Bull & The Godfather Part 2

Olivia De Haviland - The Heiress

Susan Hayward - I Want to Live!

Olivia Colman - The Favourite

Jon Voight & Jane Fonda - Coming Home

Jane Fonda - Klute

Diane Keaton - Annie Hall

Vanessa Redgrave - Julia

Mary Steenburgen - Melvin and Howard

Vivien Leigh - Gone with the Wind & A Streetcar Named Desire

Hattie McDaniel - Gone with the Wind

Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost

Mercedes Reuhl - The Fisher King

Hilary Swank - Boys Don't Cry & Million Dollar Baby

Julianne Moore - Still Alice

Peggy Ashcroft - A Passage to India

F. Murray Abraham - Amadeus

Daniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood

Liz Taylor & Sandy Dennis - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Liza Minnelli - Cabaret

Joan Crawford - Mildred Pearce

Katharine Hepburn - The Lion in Winter

Peter Ustinov - Topaki & Spartacus

Shelley Winters - A Patch of Blue

Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine

Octavia Spencer - The Help

Regina King - If Beale Street Could Talk

Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Sean Connery - The Untouchables

Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight & Anastasia

Estelle Parsons - Bonnie and Clyde

Cloris Leachman - The Last Picture Show

Casey Affleck - Manchester By the Sea

Emma Thompson - Howard's End

Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas

Susan Sarandon - Dead Man Walking

Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich

Sean Penn - Milk

Mo'Nique - Precious

Brad Pitt - Once Upon a Time in...Hollywood

Joachim Phoenix - Joker

Dianne Wiest - Bullets Over Broadway

by Anonymousreply 19June 3, 2020 1:23 PM

Ruth Gordon for "Rosemary's Baby".

by Anonymousreply 20June 3, 2020 1:36 PM

R13, Ahem . . .

by Anonymousreply 21June 3, 2020 1:38 PM

LEAD ACTRESS

Sissy Spacek - COAL MINERS DAUGHTER

Meryl Streep - SOPHIE'S CHOICE

Jodie Foster - THE ACCUSED

Kathy Bates - MISERY

Shirley MacLaine - TERMS OF ENDEARMENT

Julianne Moore - STILL ALICE

Elizabeth Taylor - WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOLFF?

by Anonymousreply 22June 3, 2020 2:35 PM

LEAD ACTOR

Humphrey Bogart - AFRICAN QUEEN

Ben Kingsley - GANDHI

William Hurt - KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN

Sean Penn - MILK

Daniel Day Lewis - MY LEFT FOOT

Sidney Poitier - LILIES OF THE FIELDS

Tom Hanks - PHILADELPHIA

Forest Whitaker - THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND

Anthony Hopkins - SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

by Anonymousreply 23June 4, 2020 12:46 AM

Bogart in The African Queen was not more deserving than Marlon Brando in Streetcar. I do like Bogey, though.

by Anonymousreply 24June 4, 2020 2:17 AM

Another vote for La Liz in Virginia Woolf.

I also have to mention to Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny. Still one of my favorite wins ever no matter what people say.

by Anonymousreply 25June 4, 2020 10:51 AM

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Marisa Tomei in MY COUSIN VINNY

Jennifer Hudson in DREAMGIRLS

Mo'Nique in PRECIOUS

Rita Moreno in WEST SIDE STORY

Cloris Leachman in THE LAST PICTURE SHOW

Allison Janney in I, TONYA

Octavia Spencer in THE HELP

Claire Trevor in KEY LARGO

Meryl Streep in KRAMER VS. KRAMER

by Anonymousreply 26June 6, 2020 1:39 AM

Forest Whitaker

by Anonymousreply 27June 6, 2020 1:58 AM

Judy Garland should have won for A Star is Born. Grace Kelly did not win that Oscar for her talent

by Anonymousreply 28June 6, 2020 2:40 AM

Daniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood

Kathy Bates - Misery

JK Simmons - Whiplash

Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine

Marion Cotillard - La Vie En Rose

Christoph Waltz - Inglorious Basterds

Monique - Precious

Casey Affleck - Manchester By The Sea

Natalie Portman - Black Swan

by Anonymousreply 29June 6, 2020 2:47 AM

R29, have you seen no films before 1990?

by Anonymousreply 30June 6, 2020 11:23 AM

R30, 1990 was thirty years ago. That’s still roughly a third of Academy history.

Not everyone has seen every Oscar-winning performance going back to the twenties. (In fact, unless someone has a secret copy of The Way of All Flesh, no one has).

by Anonymousreply 31June 6, 2020 2:57 PM

Rita in WSS too. It was impossible to take your eyes off of her.

by Anonymousreply 32June 7, 2020 9:22 AM

Kathy Bates - Misery

Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine

Diana Ross - Lady Sings The Blues

Jane Fonda - Klute

by Anonymousreply 33June 7, 2020 9:29 AM

Diana didn't win the Oscar, she was nominated but lost

by Anonymousreply 34June 7, 2020 5:29 PM

She loshed?

by Anonymousreply 35June 7, 2020 7:45 PM
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