Re: Your Favorite Performances from 1930 to the present
Posted: January 4th, 2024, 2:44 pm
Thanks for giving a nod to Ann Reinking's touching work in All That Jazz.....
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Some comments about your 1981 lists:skimpole wrote: ↑January 15th, 2024, 3:38 am Now it's 1981. Here are the Academy's choices:
ACTOR
Warren Beatty – Reds
Henry Fonda – On Golden Pond
Burt Lancaster – Atlantic City
Dudley Moore – Arthur
Paul Newman – Absence of Malice
ACTRESS
Katharine Hepburn – On Golden Pond
Diane Keaton – Reds
Marsha Mason – Only When I Laugh
Susan Sarandon – Atlantic City
Meryl Streep – The French Lieutenant’s Woman
SUPPORTING ACTOR
James Coco – Only When I Laugh
John Gielgud – Arthur
Ian Holm – Chariots of Fire
Jack Nicholson – Reds
Howard E. Rollins, Jr. – Ragtime
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Melinda Dillon – Absence of Malice
Jane Fonda – On Golden Pond
Joan Hackett – Only When I Laugh
Elizabeth McGovern – Ragtime
Maureen Stapleton – Reds
And the nominees for best picture are:
The Great Muppet Caper
My Dinner with Andre
The Raiders of the Lost Ark
Reds
Time Bandits
And here are my choices:
ACTOR
Warren Beatty, Reds
Burt Lancaster, Atlantic City
Harrison Ford, Raiders of the Lost Ark
Sam Neill, Possession
John Heard, Cutter's Way
ACTRESS
Isabelle Adjani, Possession
Karen Allen, Raiders of the Lost Ark
Diane Keaton, Reds
Susan Sarandon, Atlantic City
Bernadette Peters, Pennies from Heaven
SUPPORTING ACTOR
David Rappaport, Time Bandits
Jack Nicholson, Reds
John Gielgud, Arthur
Jerry Orbach, Prince of the City
Terence Stamp, Superman II
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Maureen Stapleton, Reds
Helen Mirren, Excalibur
Lisa Eichorn, Cutter's Way
Marilia Pera, Pixote
Diana Rigg, The Great Muppet Caper
So if the Academy had to choose from my choices, who would they select? I think the Actual Academy chose Chariots of Fire because they didn't want to chose something as controversial as Reds, as supposedly adolescent as Raiders of the Lost Ark and prettier than the other two nominees. But now they have no choice, since the three new nominees consist of two children's movies and one avant-garde drama. This heavily affects their choices. Gielgud and Stapleton win as they did in reality, with Gielgud not hurt by Arthur not getting a best actor nomination. Since Beatty wins best director regardless, I think Lancaster wins. Adjani obviously has no chance in hell of winning, and I think the better critical support helps Keaton over the other nominee Sarandon.