tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post596839777345971792..comments2024-03-27T21:42:56.131-05:00Comments on 1001plus: Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Actress 1972SJHoneywellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-25571838144034382282017-03-03T23:14:13.434-06:002017-03-03T23:14:13.434-06:00As usual, you've mentioned a bunch of movies t...As usual, you've mentioned a bunch of movies that I don't know and haven't seen, which leaves me unable to comment. I get what you're saying about Liza Minnelli, though. She is pretty much too good to be Sally for what Sally is supposed to be. And yet, it's one of the great performances of its decade, and that's hard to ignore for me. Funny to realize that while <i>The Godfather</i> won the big award, <i>Cabaret</i> went 8-for-10. I guess when it comes to Miss Liza, how do you ask someone to <i>not</i> be great?<br /><br />I support Joel Grey winning as well. Another of my favorite performances. SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-7556041011792590102017-03-03T15:55:13.528-06:002017-03-03T15:55:13.528-06:00Of these actual nominees my ranking would be simil...Of these actual nominees my ranking would be similar to yours except while I agree Cicely Tyson is in the incorrect category I’d still place her work about Maggie Smith’s. Normally I love Maggie Smith but I hated her in Travels with My Aunt almost as much as I hated the film. It was supposed to be Kate Hepburn, who bowed out at the last minute, she would have been much more suitable-though I’m not sure the film would have turned out better. Maggie is arch, mannered and false. I think it’s the worst thing I’ve ever seen her do.<br /><br />Liv’s work is lovely in Emigrants but this just wasn’t her year.<br /><br />I’m torn about the top two choices, not because I’m not sure who should get the award-Liza was the rightful winner, but because I didn’t like either of these two films much at all. Ross was never better than here but the film was interminable and there were times where I thought her grasp of the role wasn’t as sure handed as it should have been. <br /><br />This is Liza’s crowning moment and she is exceptional but…and this is surely my own thing, I think that’s what’s wrong with the performance. The root of the problem is she's too talented to be Sally Bowles, a second-rate talent at best playing in a lowdown dive. Her musical numbers are awesome, to me they actually weaken her interpretation of the role. She's compelling but I think it's a major flaw.<br /><br />I’d toss everybody but Liza and Diana and have my ballot run like this:<br /><br />Liza Minnelli-Cabaret<br />Diana Ross-Lady Sings the Blues<br />Barbra Streisand-What's Up, Doc?<br />Tuesday Weld-Play It As It Lays-Winner<br />Susannah York-Images<br /><br />Streisand is the most delightful she's ever been on screen in Doc, loose, daffy and a total hoot. Both Images and Play It As It Lays are scrambled, hard to like films but contain work by their lead actresses among the best either ever offered. Susannah makes the often disorienting narrative of Images worth staying with. But the prize would go to Tuesday Weld for making the fractured Maria Wyeth in the often obtuse Play It As It Lays so layered. It's the sort of work rarely acknowledged but wonderful to find. joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-59159567027172247392017-03-03T14:06:20.169-06:002017-03-03T14:06:20.169-06:00If Lady Sings the Blues had happened the year befo...If <i>Lady Sings the Blues</i> had happened the year before or the year after, Diana Ross would be my winner without much question. SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-13171960115484318932017-03-03T13:33:34.900-06:002017-03-03T13:33:34.900-06:00The only one of these films that I've seen is ...The only one of these films that I've seen is Cabaret, but DANG do I love Cabaret! My parents listened to the soundtrack all the time when I was a kid and I practically had it memorized when I was nine or ten years old. I didn't actually see the movie until I was well into my teens and I watch it every so often, probably more often than any other movie from the 1970s aside from Chinatown and Monty Python and the Holy Grail.<br /><br />So I'll just quietly agree and keep my eyes open for Lady Sings the Blues (which I've been meaning to watch for years) and Travels with My Aunt (because ... Maggie Smith!).Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17921029597363212734noreply@blogger.com