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.
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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 Anonymous | reply 35 | June 7, 2020 7:45 PM |
Emma Thompson for Howards End.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 3, 2020 12:22 AM |
Vivien Leigh - Gone With the Wind
Helen Mirren - The Queen
by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 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 Anonymous | reply 3 | June 3, 2020 12:31 AM |
George Kennedy- Cool Hand Luke
by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 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 Anonymous | reply 5 | June 3, 2020 12:46 AM |
Martin Landau - Ed Wood
John Gielgud - Arthur
by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 3, 2020 12:46 AM |
Sally Field, Places In the Heart.
Agree with OP re: Tim Hutton.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 3, 2020 1:23 AM |
Hattie McDaniel for Gone with the Wind.
Kathy Bates for Misery.
Christoph Waltz for Inglorious Basterds.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 3, 2020 1:40 AM |
Cloris Leachman and Tilda Swinton
by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 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 Anonymous | reply 10 | June 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 Anonymous | reply 11 | June 3, 2020 3:50 AM |
Olivia de Havilland in "The Heiress." She did a superb job!
by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 3, 2020 4:12 AM |
La Streisand in "Funny Girl." It was a once in a lifetime role and she really deserved to win.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 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.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 3, 2020 4:23 AM |
The one Jill Clayburgh should have won for An Unmarried Woman.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 3, 2020 4:24 AM |
Buck would never have submitted in "Supporting."
by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 3, 2020 4:25 AM |
Meryl in Sophie's Choice
by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 3, 2020 12:47 PM |
Faye Dunaway- MOMMIE DEAREST
by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 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 Anonymous | reply 19 | June 3, 2020 1:23 PM |
Ruth Gordon for "Rosemary's Baby".
by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 3, 2020 1:36 PM |
R13, Ahem . . .
by Anonymous | reply 21 | June 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 Anonymous | reply 22 | June 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 Anonymous | reply 23 | June 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 Anonymous | reply 24 | June 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 Anonymous | reply 25 | June 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 Anonymous | reply 26 | June 6, 2020 1:39 AM |
Forest Whitaker
by Anonymous | reply 27 | June 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 Anonymous | reply 28 | June 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 Anonymous | reply 29 | June 6, 2020 2:47 AM |
R29, have you seen no films before 1990?
by Anonymous | reply 30 | June 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 Anonymous | reply 31 | June 6, 2020 2:57 PM |
Rita in WSS too. It was impossible to take your eyes off of her.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | June 7, 2020 9:22 AM |
Kathy Bates - Misery
Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine
Diana Ross - Lady Sings The Blues
Jane Fonda - Klute
by Anonymous | reply 33 | June 7, 2020 9:29 AM |
Diana didn't win the Oscar, she was nominated but lost
by Anonymous | reply 34 | June 7, 2020 5:29 PM |
She loshed?
by Anonymous | reply 35 | June 7, 2020 7:45 PM |
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