tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post6341984165236253839..comments2024-03-27T21:42:56.131-05:00Comments on 1001plus: Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Actress 1967SJHoneywellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-91866260791089042342019-06-20T11:48:19.627-05:002019-06-20T11:48:19.627-05:00I wouldn't disagree terribly with Deneuve for ...I wouldn't disagree terribly with Deneuve for the win. I'd still go with Dunaway, but Deneuve would absolutely get a nomination in my world.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-2876765316563483392019-06-14T02:52:44.929-05:002019-06-14T02:52:44.929-05:00This is another of those years with plenty of good...This is another of those years with plenty of good movies but only a few with women in prominent roles. Of those Belle de Jour sticks out as the one where Deneuve is the undisputable lead. As she is also outstanding in this role I would give the Oscar to her. <br />Limited to the nominees I agree on placing Dunaway on the top spot.TSorensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12208153011927807857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-49804615680078055782016-01-18T09:28:49.901-06:002016-01-18T09:28:49.901-06:00Man, you really like to jump the gun on my plans. ...Man, you really like to jump the gun on my plans. I'll say that yes, eventually I'll up the frequency of the Oscar posts. However, once I'm reasonably done with my Oscar lists, I've got a few other potential lists that I can go through.<br /><br />Audrey Hepburn is someone I'm happy to see nominated, so I can't really disagree with wanting her to win. SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-59901255913182314012016-01-17T22:10:36.500-06:002016-01-17T22:10:36.500-06:00I haven't seen The Whisperers. Among the othe...I haven't seen The Whisperers. Among the other four I'd jettison Bancroft both because I don't like the film and that I agree with the comment that said it was really a Supporting role anyway. I'd probably go with Audrey Hepburn for convincingly playing blind without cheating by wearing dark glasses over her eyes. It's tough to not focus on anything, especially when you are trying to interact and have done it by instinct your whole life.<br /><br />And I agree Deneuve definitely should have been nominated.<br /><br />On a separate note, are you going to start doing these posts more often? I remember you writing at one point that you were thinking you'd be done seeing the nominees by the end of 2017. Let's call it 100 more weeks of Oscar posts at this point. There are several hundred category/year combinations to write about what should have won, though.Chip Laryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00787403805554027107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-33770881836010511822016-01-16T08:04:12.029-06:002016-01-16T08:04:12.029-06:00See, knowing that Games also has James Caan in it ...See, knowing that <i>Games</i> also has James Caan in it just makes me want to watch it more.<br /><br />I'm adding both to my "you should get to this" list.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-60607964748922604112016-01-16T07:42:44.204-06:002016-01-16T07:42:44.204-06:00Games is an okay film, not a lost gem or anything ...Games is an okay film, not a lost gem or anything but entertaining. James Caan and Katharine Ross do good work in it but it's main value is Signoret's performance. <br /><br />Up the Down Staircase on the other hand is a very good film in addition to Sandy Dennis's excellent performance loaded with great character actors, Eileen Heckart, Jean Stapleton, Sorrell Booke etc., and strongly directed by Robert Mulligan. I actually got more out of it the second time I watched it.joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-9711939941931941772016-01-15T22:56:38.369-06:002016-01-15T22:56:38.369-06:00Dunaway would win for me regardless of lineup as w...Dunaway would win for me regardless of lineup as well. I think I might agree with you on Bancroft's performance being more Supporting as well, but since I'm not a fan of the film, I'm not planning on revisiting it to confirm that notion. I think it's a film I saw too late in life to really appreciate it the way it should be appreciated. <br /><br />I haven't seen <i>Games</i> or <i>Up the Down Staircase</i>, although both are probably worth my time, no? I'm particularly interested in <i>Games</i> because I really like Simone Signoret.<br /><br />I think in my dream nomination list, Deneuve probably comes in second. It's a hell of a fine performance. SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-89895444717670026982016-01-15T22:41:12.766-06:002016-01-15T22:41:12.766-06:00This year is loaded with worthy work but I don’t t...This year is loaded with worthy work but I don’t think most of it ended up in the running. My winner would also be Dunaway, she is so raw and vivid in B&C she makes Bonnie Parker compellingly dangerous despite the glamour treatment the script puts the pair though. But that is where I begin and end in agreement with the academy’s choices. <br /><br />I like and respect Kate Hepburn but this performance while perfectly respectable is nowhere near Oscar level. I think her win was a combo of subject matter and sentimentality, everyone knew she had nursed Spencer Tracy through his last day plus before this film she hadn’t worked in five years, the thinking was that she was wrapping up her career-so this was partial career acknowledgment. Who knew she’d come roaring back the next year with a truly deserving performance.<br /><br />Audrey Hepburn would be in my list of nominees but for Two for the Road. I think she’s terrific in Wait Until Dark, though I’ve always been a bit puzzled why Lee Remick-who played it on Broadway and was a big movie star at the time-didn’t recreate the role in the film, but Audrey’s work in TFTR is more complex. <br /><br />I like The Graduate much more than you and I think Anne Bancroft gives an Oscar winning performance, in Supporting Actress. She’s a large and fierce presence whenever she shows up but she disappears for large swatches of the film. The film is Benjamin’s story and everything that surrounds him props that up.<br /><br />I would take a great deal to get me to watch the grindingly sad The Whisperers again but if I did like you it would be for Edith Evans work. She’s haunting and so very different from her usual somewhat dotty, regal and imperious Grande Dame.<br /><br />Now for who should have been in the running. Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour absolutely deserved to be there but even though foreign language nominations were becoming more commonplace at that point it was still rare. I also thought Simone Signoret was marvelous in Games, far better than the picture the performance was in. One of my favorite performances of the year is Sandy Dennis in Up the Down Staircase. I think it’s the finest performance of her career, playing to her strengths while keeping her tendency towards twitchy excess to a minimum, I’m not a fan of her work in Virginia Woolf at all. I’m unfamiliar with Marina Vlady or her film. <br /><br />Faye would still be my winner but it could have been a stronger lineup.<br />joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-39923258095306106352016-01-15T20:27:15.442-06:002016-01-15T20:27:15.442-06:00I can see that.I can see that.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-60647155150940845202016-01-15T20:21:23.106-06:002016-01-15T20:21:23.106-06:00Finding myself weirdly fascinated by Catherine Den...Finding myself weirdly fascinated by Catherine Deneuve's ribcage.Kevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.com