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Still more of the movies nominated for four of the top five oscars, with the not nominated category in parentheses. Now with the seventies:
Patton (Actress)
Five Easy Pieces (Actress)
The French Connection (Actress)
Sunday Bloody Sunday (Picture)
Cabaret (Actor)
The Emigrants (Actor)
The Godfather (Actress)
The Exorcist (Actor)
The Sting (Actress)
The Godfather Part II (Actress)
Dog Day Afternoon (Actress)
The Goodbye Girl (Director)
Julia (Actor)
The Turning Point (Actor)
The Deer Hunter (Actress)
Heaven Can Wait (Actress)
All that Jazz (Actress)
Kramer vs. Kramer (Actress)
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Still more of the movies nominated for four of the top five oscars, with the not nominated category in parentheses. Now with the sixties.
Sons and Lovers (Actress)
The Sundowners (Actor)
Judgement at Nuremberg (Actress)
Lawrence of Arabia (Actress)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Actress)
Tom Jones (Actress)
Becket (Actress)
Dr. Strangelove, or how I learned to stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Actress)
Mary Poppins (Actor)
My Fair Lady (Actress)
Zorba the Greek (Actress)
Darling (Actor)
Ship of Fools (Director)
A Man for All Seasons (Actress)
In the Heat of the Night (Actress)
Oliver! (Actress)
Anne of the Thousand Days (Director)
Midnight Cowboy (Actress)
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Continuing with movies, this one for the fifties, nominated for four of the best five oscars, with the one missing in parenthesis.
All About Eve (Actor)
Born Yesterday (Actor)
The African Queen (Picture)
High Noon (Actress)
Roman Holiday (Actor)
On the Waterfront (Actress)
Marty (Actress)
Giant (Actress)
The King and I (screenplay)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (Actress)
Sayonara (Actress)
The Defiant Ones (Actress)
Separate Tables (Director)
Ben-Hur (Actress)
The Nun's Story (Actor)
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And here are the movies who were nominated for four of the five oscars in the forties, with the missing nomination in parentheses
The Grapes of Wrath (Actress)
Kitty Foyle (Actress)
Citizen Kane (Actress)
Here comes Mr. Jordan (Actress)
The Little Foxes (Actor)
Sergeant York (Actress)
Random Harvest (Actress)
Casablanca (Actress)
The Song of Bernadette (Actor)
Double Indemnity (Actor)
Going My Way (Actress)
Wilson (Actress)
The Bells of St. Mary's (Screenplay)
The Lost Weekend (Actress)
The Best Years of Our Lives (Actress)
The Snake Pit (Actor)
All the King's Men (Actress)
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And here are the movies that were only nominated for four of the five, with the missing one in italics from 1927/28 to 1939:
7th Heaven (Actor)
The Patriot (Actress)
The Divorcee (Actor)
The Champ (Actress)
Lady for a Day (Actor)
The Thin Man (Actress!)
The Informer (Actress)
Mutiny on the Bounty (Actress)
Dodsworth (Actress)
The Great Ziegfeld (Actor)
Mr. Deeds goes to Town (Actress)
My Man Godfrey (Picture)
San Francisco (Actress)
The Awful Truth (Actor!)
The Life of Emile Zola (Actress)
Boys Town (Actress)
The Citadel (Actress)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Actress)
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Here are my choices for 1942:
Actor
James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy
Joseph Cotten, The Magnificent Ambersons
Chishu Ryu, There was a Father
Errol Flynn, Gentleman Jim
Monty Wooley, The Man who Came to Dinner
Actress
Claudette Colbert, The Palm Beach Story
Bette Davis, Now Voyager
Carole Lombard, To Be or not to Be
Ginger Rogers, The Major and the Minor
Katherine Hepburn, Woman of the Year
Supporting Actor
Walter Huston, Yankee Doodle Dandy
Rudy Vallee, The Palm Beach Story
Tim Holt, The Magnificent Ambersons
Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons
Claude Rains, Now Voyager
Supporting Actress
Agnes Moorhead, The Magnificent Ambersons
Mary Astor, The Palm Beach Story
Gladys Cooper, Now Voyager
Bette Davis, The Man Who Came to Dinner
Anne Baxter, The Magnificent Ambersons
Not seen: Kings Row, The Pied Piper, Random Harvest, Wake Island, My Sister Eileen, Johnny Eager. Tortilla Flat.
If Casablanca is considered a 1942 film, then Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains win.
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I saw four movies this week. Lord Love a Duck strikes me as one of the sixties American films that tried to absorb the innovations of the new wave with only limited success. It's a satire, but of what exactly? Blonde nitwits? Pompous school administrators? Beach blanket movies? It lacks a focus and a certain tone. Macunaima is a Brazillian satire, released a few years later, with somewhat more bite, about a magical Negro, as I suppose one must call him who thanks to more magic turns white, and meets various metaphors for contemporary Brazillian society, some gratuitous female nudity, and a crueler end than the one Roddy McDowall faces in Lord Love a Duck. Marriage, Italian Style isn't as sexy as De Sica's immediately prior Loren/Mastroianni collaboration, and it has some shameful sentimental touches. I'll have to think in due course whether Loren deserved to be nominated for an oscar. Finally, The Uninvited is one of those forties movies whose high reputation is more mysterious than the actual movie.
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And here is the last batch of movies
The Remains of the Day
The English Patient
American Beauty
Million Dollar Baby
Silver Linings Playbook
American Hustle
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Here are the movies nominated for the top five oscars 1961-1991
The Hustler
Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf
Bonnie and Clyde
The Graduate
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
The Lion in Winter
Love Story
Chinatown
Lenny
Network
Rocky
Annie Hall
Coming Home
Atlantic City
On Golden Pond
Reds
(The Silence of the Lambs)
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Here are the movies that have been nominated for the top five oscars 1927-1960:
Cimarron
A Star is Born (1937)
Gone with the Wind
Goodbye Mr. Chips
The Philadelphia Story
Rebecca
Mrs. Miniver
Gentleman's Agreement
Johnny Belinda
Sunset Blvd
A Place in the Sun
From Here to Eternity
The Country Girl
Giant
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Apartment
(More to follow)
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skimpole--my choices would be "Gone With The Wind" (1939), "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951), " and "The Nuns' Story" (1959) (1959's "Ben-Hur" is Way overrated, IMHO).
Peter Finch as Best actor of 1959? Why him over Lemmon in Some Like it Hot or Grant in North by Northwest or Stewart in Anatomy of a Murder?
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The five top oscars are, as you probably know, Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and (relevant category of) Screenplay. Most people probably know that the only three movies to win all five categories are It Happened One Night, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and The Silence of the Lambs. I think it's the actress category is the weak link here to explain why there aren't more of these winners. Usually the best picture should be the best directed or have the best screenplay, or be reasonably close to them. And it usually helps to have a great lead performance. But it doesn't necessarily have to have both a great male and female performance. In my view Louise Fletcher's role is arguably a supporting one, and her win was clearly dependent on the movie's momentum. And arguably the same could be said of Hopkins' role.
In my view, three quite different movies should have won the top 5: Children of Paradise, Vertigo, and Annie Hall. What are your choices?
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I personally don't think that's a good idea. The whole point is to compare these with the oscars, and if the oscars nominate a deserving film in the wrong year, I say we should go along to fit the comparison.
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I suppose Almost Famous and Casablanca fit the category as I put it. Perhaps I should narrow it down. There are excellent reasons for the protagonists not winning the girl. Ilsa is married, her husband needs her, he is a heroic figure in a desperate time who needs all the help he can get, and there are better things Rick should be doing with his time. William is too young, should finish school and isn't a good match for Penny. Can one therefore think of a movie where the hero's heart is broken, even though he (or for that matter she) would be a perfectly deserving suitor, and yet takes the side of the hearbreakers? (In other words, it's like Almost Famous and Casablanca but is much less convincing.)
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The genre of musical biography is not a promising one. Amadeus isn't a bad movie, but it wouldn't make my top 10 for 1984. The Chronicle of Anna Magdelana Bach is a much better movie. The Eddy Duchin Story is oddly affecting, and I suspect that if I saw I'm Not There I'd like it more the first time when I very ill.
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Nazis I find are very pitchforkable.
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Yes, congratulations Lydecker.
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Actor
Humphrey Bogart, The Maltese Falcon
Orson Welles, Citizen Kane
Cary Grant, Suspicion
Errol Flynn, They Died with their Boots on
Jean Gabin, Remorques
Actress
Barbara Stanwyck, Ball of Fire
Mary Astor, The Maltese Falcon
Barbara Stanwyck, The Lady Eve
Bette Davis, The Little Foxes
Joan Fontaine, Suspicion
Supporting Actor
Joseph Cotten, Citizen Kane
Syndey Greenstreet, The Maltese Falcon
Peter Lorre, The Maltese Falcon
Robert Morley, Major Barbara
Claude Rains, Here comes Mr. Jordan
Supporting Actress
Martha Raye, Hellzapoppin'
Teresa Wright, The Little Foxes
Joan Leslie, High Sierra
Sarah Allgood, How Green was my Valley
Rita Hayworth, The Strawberry Blonde
Not seen: Blossoms in the Dust, All that Money can Buy, The Devil and Miss Jones, The Great Lie
(Not seen 1940: Foreign Correspondent, They Knew what they Wanted, Primrose Path)
(Not seen 1939: Juarez)
(Not seen 1938: Alexander's Ragtime Band, Four Daughters, Test Pilot, Algiers, If I were King, White Banners, Kentucky, Of Human Hearts, Merrily We Live, The Great Waltz)
(Not seen 1937: In Old Chicago, One Hundred Men and a Girl, Conquest, Night Must Fall, Topper)
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I vote for CinemaInternational.
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I saw nine movies over the last two weeks: two in the first week, seven in the second. Arabian Nights: the Restless One was afraid the biggest disappointment. I very much liked Miguel Gomes' previous movie Tabu, but this combination of anti-austerity politics and using tales from the Arabian Nights doesn't have the right ratio of imagination to clever insight, being bereft on both fronts. In its defense, I did see the movie in London where for most of the time I was exhausted and ill, so that could have affected matters. Minions is a frenetic, amusing and ultimately insubstantial movie. The minions are cute, ultimately benign and quite incompetent. Perhaps the most interesting part of the movie is having Sandra Bullock and Jon Hamm play a pair of super villians who are also a reasonably happy married couple. The Isle of the Dead is an interesting movie with Boris Karloff giving a subtle performance as a military martinet who is, of course, ultimately doomed when he and the other cast members are quarantined because of a plague. The Ghost Ship is another interesting movie, which has a striking performance by Richard Dix who shifts from reasonable captain to murderous lunatic.
Around the World Under the Sea is the kind of Lloyd Bridges movie that cannot survive Airplane! Ponderous, slow, with Shirley Eaton as the risible romantic interest, it suffers from the fact that underwater photography needs considerable skill not to be boring and dull, and the movie here doesn't even try. A Taste of Honey benefits from a performance of genuine interest from Rita Tushingham, and some nuance in her relationship with her somewhat shabby mother. But the relationships she have with first a black man and a homosexual shows what might be called "Guess who's coming to Dinner" syndrome. There isn't any real insight into what's it like to belong to those two categories. And one guesses that neither the movie makers nor the audience has an interest in knowing them either. But both would like to get credit for a liberalism without effort or insight. Cemetery of Splendour is more a return to Syndromes and a Century compared to Weerasethakul's more plot driven Tropical Malady or his Palme D'Or winner. This subtle movie about soldiers suffering from sleeping sickness and the mystic influences of the past requires considerable patience. One can see signs of Otto Preminger's considerable professionalism in The Cardinal, while not seeing in it than much more than an indulgent portrayal of the Catholic Church that overstates its opposition to racism and the Nazis. (It's hard to believe the Ku Klu Klan would assault a papal envoy in the thirties Georgia. One thinks that the Church would withdraw before things came to that.) Pauline at the Beach starts off as a clever, subtly erotic romantic comedy. It then becomes something more subtle and intelligent and one can enjoy it at that level. But to be fair I do prefer A Summer's Tale on a not dissimilar theme.
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Best Actor
*Cary Grant, His Girl Friday*
Cary Grant, The Philadelphia Story
Henry Fonda, The Grapes of Wrath
Charles Chaplin, The Great Dictator
James Stewart, The Shop Around the CornerBest Actress
*Katherine Hepburn, The Philadelphia Story
Rosalind Russell, His Girl Friday
Margaret Sullavan, The Shop Around the Corner
Bette Davis, The Letter
Eleanor Powell, The Broadway Melody of 1940.Best Supporting Actor
*Frank Morgan, The Shop Around the Corner
Conrad Veidt, The Thief of Bagdad
Cliff Edwards, Pinocchio
Ralph Bellamy, His Girl Friday
Jackie Oakie, The Great Dictator
Best Supporting Actress
*Paulette Goddard, The Great Dictator
Jane Darwell, The Grapes of Wrath
Judith Anderson, Rebecca,
Ruth Hussey, The Philadelphia Story
Virgina Wiedler, The Philadelphia Story
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You've got to like a schedule that has both Napoleon and Children of Paradise.
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And my choices for the rest of the decade:
1929-1930
Emil Jannings, The Blue Angel
Louise Brooks, The Diary of a Lost Girl
1930-1931
Peter Lorre, M
Marlene Dietrich, Morocco
1931-1932
Maurice Chevalier, Love Me Tonight
Jeannette MacDonald, Love Me Tonight
1932-1933
Groucho Marx, Duck Soup
Miriam Hopkins, Trouble in Paradise
Supporting Actor: Chico Marx, Duck Soup
Supporting Actress: Margaret Dumont, Duck Soup
1934
William Powell, The Thin Man
Myrna Loy, The Thin Man
1935
Fred Astaire, Top Hat
Ginger Rogers, Top Hat
1936
Charles Chaplin, Modern Times
Carole Lombard, My Man Godfrey
1937
Jean Gabin, Pepe le Moko
Zhou Xuan, Street Angel
1938
Jean Gabin, Grand Illusion
Katharine Hepburn, Bringing up Baby-
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My choices for 1939
Actor
Marcel Dalio, The Rules of the Game
Jean Gabin, Daybreak
James Stewart, Mr. Smith goes to Washington
Clark Gable Gone with the Wind
Shotaro Hanayagi, The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
Actress
Judy Garland, The Wizard of Oz
Vivien Leigh, Gone with the Wind
Kakuro Mori, The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
Greta Garbo, Ninotchka
Bette Davis, Dark Victory
Supporting Actor
Jean Renoir, The Rules of the Game
Bert Lahr, The Wizard of Oz
Frank Morgan, The Wizard of Oz
Ray Bolger, The Wizard of Oz
Claude Rains, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Supporting Actress
Arletty, Daybreak
Olivia de Havilland, Gone with the Wind
Paulette Dubost, The Rules of the Game
Margaret Hamilton, The Wizard of Oz
Joan Crawford, The Women
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The top five Oscars
in General Discussions
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Still more of the movies nominated for four of the top five oscars, with the not nominated category in parentheses. Now with the eighties:
The Elephant Man (Actress)
Ordinary People (Actor)
Gandhi (Actress)
Missing (Director)
Tootsie (Actress)
The Verdict (Actress)
The Dresser (Actress)
Tender Mercies (Actress)
Terms of Endearment (Actor)
Amadeus (Actress)
The Killing Fields (Actress)
A Passage to India (Actor)
Places in the Heart (Actor)
The Kiss of the Spider Woman (Actress)
Out of Africa (Actor)
Prizzi's Honor (Actress)
Witness (Actress)
Children of a Lesser God (Director)
Broadcast News (Director)
Fatal Attraction (Actor)
Moonstruck (Actor)
Mississippi Burning (Actress)
Rain Man (Actress)
Working Girl (Actor)
Born on the Fourth of July (Actress)
Dead Poets Society (Actress)
Driving Miss Daisy (Director)
My Left Foot (Actress)