tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post8833498603622366779..comments2024-03-27T21:42:56.131-05:00Comments on 1001plus: Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Actor 1936SJHoneywellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-79090953476654407392016-12-16T14:38:00.918-06:002016-12-16T14:38:00.918-06:00That's my feeling about Huston as well. He'...That's my feeling about Huston as well. He's genuinely believable in a role that could have easily been a melodrama or someone not worth caring about. He makes the whole story work. SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-8925276508921469092016-12-16T14:37:10.051-06:002016-12-16T14:37:10.051-06:00It's unfair to Ronald Colman that I didn't...It's unfair to Ronald Colman that I didn't bring him up here because I don't love <i>A Tale of Two Cities</i> as a story, but that's definitely the case. I agree that he's the best part of the film. Colman was blessed with a voice that is easy to listen to--talkies showed up at the right time for him. <br /><br />I also agree (although I haven't gotten there yet) that Muni had a stronger case in the 1933 Oscars for <i>...Chain Gang</i>, which still has one of my favorite concluding lines of all time.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-83959721416543116892016-12-16T13:42:17.325-06:002016-12-16T13:42:17.325-06:00Of the lot Sam Huston is my winner as well. He is ...Of the lot Sam Huston is my winner as well. He is the best part in a great movie. Dodsworth is an intelligent movie for and about adults and that is just rare enough that it is worth praising. <br />The thing with Chaplin is that he is just Chaplin. It is the script and the direction that makes that an exceptional movie.<br />I think I liked My Man Godfrey more than you do as a whole. It is hilariously funny and that is not only Powell's doing. He is great, but not the winner here.<br />TSorensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12208153011927807857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-86787474910915161242016-12-16T12:46:49.003-06:002016-12-16T12:46:49.003-06:00Our personal preferences run pretty much right dow...Our personal preferences run pretty much right down the line here. The real shame of Tracy's nomination is that he SHOULD have been nominated this year just not for San Francisco. Fury where he's handed a much better character contains a far superior performance by him.<br /><br />I really like Paul Muni in modern dress roles, he should have won in '32 for I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, but find him fussy and mannered in roles like Louis Pasteur. He reportedly loved them because they gave him a chance to ACT!! under all that makeup and that's just the problem. <br /><br />I'm back and forth on Gary Cooper, sometimes his work is very deep and moving but there are times where I find him dull and disengaged. He's charming in Mr. Deeds but neither he nor the picture really blew me away. That may be partly me though. I'd heard so much about its iconic status before viewing that when I finally saw it I was underwhelmed finding it rather precious.<br /><br />Powell and Huston would both make my personal ballot and of those two I lean slightly towards Bill Powell since both effortless elegance and breezy comedy are hard work to pull off properly and he was one of the best at it. But Huston is very fine in Dodsworth for all the reasons you mentioned so I wouldn't have been disappointed if either won.<br /><br />However if I had my way while both would have been nominated neither would have won. My list would be:<br /><br />Charles Chaplin-Modern Times<br />Ronald Colman-A Tale of Two Cities-Winner<br />Walter Huston-Dodsworth<br />William Powell-My Man Godfrey<br />Spencer Tracy-Fury<br /><br />Chaplin would be my runner-up, though he would have taken the director prize, but I think Ronald Colman is just about as perfect a Sydney Carton as it's possible to find.joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.com