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I find that I differ most with the Academy's choices when it comes to supporting awards. Perhaps that is because there are so many gems that the studios were not pushing on voters or in some cases (IMO) in the wrong category. And of course there were no Oscars for supporting roles before 1936. Here are some in the Best Supporting Actor category which I feel should have won but were not even nominated: 2018 - Timothee Chalamet, Beautiful Boy 2017 - Simon Russell Beale, The Death of a President 2016 - Timothy Spall, Denial 2015 - Indris Elba, Beasts of No Nation 2013 - John Arcilla, Metro Manila 2012 - Thomas Bo Larsen, The Hunt 2011 - Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Ides of March 2010 - Justin Timberlake, The Social Network 2009 - Brad Dourif, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans 2008 - Anthony Mackie, The Hurt Locker 2006 - Jack Nicholson, The Departed 2002 - Michael Constantine, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2001 - James Gandolfini, The Man Who Wasn’t There 1998 - Brent Briscoe, A Simple Plan 1996 - Steve Buscemi, Fargo 1990 - John Turturro, Miller's Crossing 1989 - Jack Nicholson, Batman 1988 - Carlos Riquelme, The Milagro Beanfield War 1987 - Lee Ermey, Full Metal Jacket 1985 - Alan Arkin, Joshua Then and Now 1981 - Jerry Orbach, Prince of the City 1979 - Fredric Forrest, Apocalypse Now 1978 - John Savage, The Deer Hunter 1977 - Jose Ferrer, Who Has Seen the Wind? 1976 - Zero Mostel, The Front 1974 - John Cazale, The Godfather Part II 1973 - Dustin Hoffman, Papillon 1972 - Marlon Brando, The Godfather (Best Actor winner) 1971 - Warren Clarke, A Clockwork Orange 1968 - Henry Fonda, Once Upon a Time In the West 1965 - Rod Steiger, The Loved One 1964 - George C. Scott, Dr. Strangelove 1959 - Peter Sellers, I'm All Right Jack 1958 - Joseph Calleia, Touch of Evil 1955 - Ralph Richardson, Richard III 1954 - Humphrey Bogart, The Caine Mutiny (nominated for Best Actor) 1953 - Marlon Brando, Julius Caesar (nominated for Best Actor) 1951 - Marlon Brando, A Streetcar Named Desire (nominated for Best Actor) 1949 - Alec Guinness, Kind Hearts and Coronets 1942 - Claude Rains, Casablanca (nominated in 1943) 1937 - Humphrey Bogart, Dead End 1935 - Charles Laughton, Les Miserables 1934 - Erik Rhodes, The Gay Divorcee 1933 - John Barrymore, Dinner at Eight 1932 - W.C. Fields, If I Had a Million 1931 - Boris Karloff, Frankenstein 1930 - Louis Wolheim, All Quiet on the Western Front

Tuesday, January 28 5:30 p.m. The Yearling (1946). Gregory Peck plays the ideal father in this film about a boy and his pet deer.

The Oscars are really a Los Angeles Film Festival and the qualifications are based on when films are shown there and not nationwide. Hence you get Casablanca winning the Oscar in 1943 when it was released in New York in 1942. Lots of British films are nominated a year or so after they were released in the UK based on their release in Los Angeles.

Here are some in the Best Actress category which I feel should have won but were not even nominated: 2017 - Kristen Scott Thomas, The Party 2016 - Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins 2015 - Lily Tomlin, Grandma 1996 - Lili Taylor, I Shot Andy Warhol 1995 - Nicole Kidman, To Die For 1994 - Rena Owen, Once Were Warriors 1991 - Sheila Florance, A Woman's Tale 1990 - Kerry Fox, An Angel at My Table 1973 - Liv Ullmann, Scenes From a Marriage 1963 - Sophia Loren, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 1961 - Harriet Andersson, Through a Glass Darkly 1959 - Lee Remick, Anatomy of a Murder 1957 - Giulietta Masina, Nights of Cabiria 1956 - Marilyn Monroe, Bus Stop 1954 - Giulietta Masina, La Strada 1948 - Joan Fontaine, Letter From an Unknown Woman 1947 - Deborah Kerr, Black Narcissus 1946 - Deborah Kerr, I See a Dark Stranger 1945 - Celia Johnson, Brief Encounter (nominated in 1946) 1935 - Greta Garbo, Anna Karenina 1933 - Greta Garbo, Queen Christina 1932 - Claudette Colbert, The Man From Yesterday

1982 and I’ve also seen …. Wolmi Island (1982) Gyong-sun Cho, North Korea Pure propaganda piece about four gunnery crews on Wolmi Island who happily sacrifice themselves by blowing up MacArthur’s fleet when he invades Inchon. I don’t think a single model ship escaped being blown up. There are even a couple of merry songs. Sadly it is not quite cheesy enough to be funny. But the post sync work was excellent.

Monday, January 27 5 a.m. Night and Fog (1955). Extraordinary short subject on the holocaust by Alain Resnais.

Here are some in the Best Actor category which I feel should have won but were not even nominated: 2016 - Matthew McConaughey, Gold 2006 - Toby Jones, Infamous 2004 - Bruno Ganz, Downfall 2001 - Jim Broadbent, Iris (supporting actor winner) 1999 - Jim Carrey, Man on the Moon 1998 - Joseph Fiennes, Shakespeare In Love 1996 - Joe Pantoliano, Bound 1995 - Jonathan Pryce, Carrington 1994 - Terence Stamp, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert 1988 - Jeremy Irons, Dead Ringers 1987 - Mickey Rourke, Barfly 1985 - Klaus Maria Brandauer, Colonel Redl 1981 - Robert Duvall, True Confessions 1979 - Robert Duvall, The Great Santini (nominated in 1980) 1977 - John Gielgud, Providence 1975 - Gene Hackman, The French Connection II 1974 - Nino Manfredi, Bread and Chocolate 1973 - Robert Ryan, The Iceman Cometh 1972 - Marlon Brando, Last Tango In Paris (nominated in 1973) 1971 - Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange 1967 - Robert Blake, In Cold Blood 1966 - Eli Wallach, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 1965 - James Fox, King Rat 1962 - James Mason, Lolita 1958 - Laurence Harvey, Room at the Top (winner in 1959) 1955 - Laurence Olivier, Richard III (nominated in 1956) 1953 - Charles Vanel, The Wages of Fear 1952 - John Wayne, The Quiet Man 1951 - Alastair Sim, A Christmas Carol 1950 - Toshiro Mifune, Rashomon 1948 - Humphrey Bogart, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1947 - Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux 1945 - Pierre Brasseur, Children of Paradise 1944 - Laurence Olivier, Henry V (nominated in 1946) 1937 - Cary Grant, The Awful Truth 1936 - Charles Chaplin, Modern Times 1935 - Marx Brothers, A Night at the Opera 1934 - John Barrymore, Twentieth Century 1932 - Marx Brothers, Horse Feathers 1931 - Peter Lorre, M 1930 - Emil Jannings, The Blue Angel

Sunday, January 26/27 4 a.m. Come and See (1985). Excellent Russian WWII film. Highly recommended.

Michael Caine credits Enfield for kickstarting his film career with Zulu. He said that he doubted that any English director would have cast a Cockney in the part of the posh Lt Gonville Bromhead (what a name!) but American Enfield had no problems giving him a shot.

Saturday, January 25 10 a.m. Popeye: Doing Impossikible Stunts (1940). midnight. Try and Get Me (1950). Cy Endfield film with Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan, Richard Carlson and Lloyd Bridges. Maltin rates this noir quite high. Repeats Sunday at 10 a.m.

Sure but this policing is a relatively new phenomenon. I'm not saying that reference or visual of Oscars cannot be used but it would have to be by permission. You may notice the small R behind the words Academy Award now which refers to registered trademark.

I have the book to. If he updated it he would no doubt have to change the title as the Academy won't let anyone near the trademarked names or statue any longer.

My top films of 2019 of 53 seen. I have seen all fo the Best Picture Oscar contenders. 1. The Irishman 2. Marriage Story 3. Knives Out 4. Bombshell 5. 1917 6. Rolling Thunder: A Bob Dylan Film by Martin Scorsese 7. The Cave 8. Parasite 9. The Report 10. Joker Runner Up: Booksmart

Friday, January 24 8 p.m. The Wrath of God (1972). I haven’t seen this Mitchum western.

Here are my current choices for 2019 of the 53 films that I have seen. I have seen all of the BAFTA nominees but have yet to see Harriet or Richard Jewell which have been nominated for Academy Awards. Best Actor 1. ADAM DRIVER (Charlie Barber), Marriage Story 2. JOAQUIN PHOENIX (Arthur Fleck/“Joker”), Joker 3. ANTHONY HOPKINS (Cardinal Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI), The Two Popes 4. ROBERT DE NIRO (Frank Sheeran/“the Irishman”), The Irishman 5. LEONARDO DICAPRIO (Rick Dalton), Once Upon a Time In Hollywood 6. WILLEM DAFOE (Thomas Wake), The Lighthouse 7. JONATHAN PRYCE (Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio/Pope Francis), The Two Popes 8. ADAM DRIVER (Daniel Jones), The Report 9. KRIS HITCHEN (Ricky Turner), Sorry We Missed You 10. ROBERT PATTINSON (Thomas Howard), The Lighthouse Runner Ups: MATT DAMON (Carroll Shelby), Ford v Ferrari Best Actress 1. SCARELTT JOHANSSON (Niole Barber), Marriage Story 2. CHARLIZE THERON (Megyn Marie Kelly), Bombshell 3. SAOIRSE RONAN (Jo March), Little Women 4. BEANIE FELDSTEIN (Molly Davidson), Booksmart 5. KAITLYN DEVER (Amy Antsler), Booksmart 6. DEBBIE HONEYWOOD (Abbie Turner), Sorry We Missed You Best Supporting Actor 1. AL PACINO (James “Jimmy” Riddle Hoffa), The Irishman 2. JOHN LITHGOW (Roger Eugene Ailes), Bombshell 3. JOE PESCI (Russell Bufalino), The Irishman 4. CHRIS COOPER (Jerry Vogel), A Beautiful Day In the Neighborhood 5. ANTONIO BANDERAS (Ramon Fonseca), The Laundromat 6. RAY ROMANO (Bill Bufalino), The Irishman 7. TIM BLAKE NELSON (Ralph Myers), Just Mercy 8. RAY LIOTTA (Jay Marotta), Marriage Story 9. MICHAEL SHANNON (Walt Thrombey), Knives Out 10. WILLEM DAFOE (Paul Randolph), Motherless Brooklyn Runner Ups: ALAN ALDA (Bert Spitz), Marriage Story JAMIE FOXX (Walter “Johnny D.” McMillan), Just Mercy AL PACINO (Marvin Schwarz), Once Upon a Time In Hollywood CHRIS HEMSWORTH (Thor), Avengers: Endgame CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER (Harlan Thrombey), Knives Out ROSS BREWSTER (Gavin Maloney), Sorry We Missed You TIM ROBBINS (Tom Terp), Dark Waters Best Supporting Actress 1. MARGOT ROBBIE (Kayla Pospisil), Bombshell 2. LAURA DERN (Nora Fanshaw), Marriage Story 3. YEO-JEONG JO (Park Yeon-kyo), Parasite 4. JAMIE LEE CURTIS (Linda Drysdale), Knives Out 5. MERYL STREEP (Ellen Martin), The Laundromat 6. KAYA SCODELARIO (Carol Anne Boone), Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile 7. JULIE HAGERTY (Sandra), Marriage Story 8. LIYA AI (Haiyan Li), So Long, My Son 9. MERRITT WEVER (Cassie), Marriage Story 10. MARGARET QUALLEY (Pussycat), Once Upon a Time In Hollywood Runner Ups: EMMA WATSON (Meg March), Little Women Juvenile 1. KIT CONNOR (Older Reginald Kenneth Dwight), Rocketman 2. KATIE PROCTOR (Liza Jane Turner), Sorry We Missed You 3. NOAH JUPE (Peter Miles), Ford v Ferrari

Thursday, January 23 Here we go with the old switcheroo … Body and Soul (1947). Robert Rossen film with John Garfield. That looks like James Wong Howe on roller skates! Replaced in Canada with Show Boat (1936).

Wednesday, January 22 Conrad Veidt day. 6 a.m. Nazi Agent (1942). Veidt rises above the material with a solid performance playing twin brothers.

Y3K3 is coming up.

1969 6. Hitokiri (1969) Hideo Gosha, Japan Shintaro Katsu, of Zatoichi fame pulls out all of the stops in this graphic action packed tale of a ronin who is only too anxious to take on hit job after hit job for his stoic master played by Tatsuya Nakadai. Katsu really goes for it in this one. Recommended.

1. Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 2. Casablanca (1942) 3. Paths of Glory (1957) 4. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 5. Apocalypse Now (1979) 6. The Great Escape (1963) 7. The General (1927) 8. Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) 9. Das Boot (1981) 10. The Longest Day (1962) 11. Grand Illusion (1937) 12. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 13. Twelve O'clock High (1949) 14. Westfront 1918 (1930) 15. Platoon (1986) 16. The Train (1964) 17. Zulu (1964)

Tuesday, January 21 Patricia Neal SOTM. 8 p.m. A Face in the Crowd (1957). Imagine Patrica Neal as the producer of The Apprentice.

Monday, January 20 *NB: I'm in England for a couple of months and over here the times do not appear on the schedule. So for the next while if interested you may have to double check the times that I am posting. When the schedule was originally announced The Member of the Wedding (1953) with Julie Harris was on at 8 p.m. Now it appears to be replaced with ... Nothing But a Man (1964) with Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln and Julius Harris.

1917 didn't blow me away by any means. I thought its basic premise was at fault.

I hope that she likes Pythonesque geysers of blood. Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx is the very best IMO. It you can only catch one, try that.

Sunday, January 19/20 12:30 a.m. Harold Lloyd short subjects starting with Next Aisle Over (1919). The Canadian listings appear to have a different order?