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My own top five candidates for *Oscars biggest snubs are>
Spencer Tracy losing Best Actor in 1958's "Old Man and the Sea"
Chaplin & Garbo never winning an acting statuette
1998's "Saving Private Ryan" stunningly losing BP to *"Shakespeare in Love"
Hitchcock never winning
& I don't include "Kane" losing, because it lost to another magnificent film *"How Green Was My Valley"
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I'm a huge fan of *"The Woodman" Woody Allen & most of this started around 1992/93 when he went with the young Asian girl, of whom both are still together by the way
& I've always liked Mia Farrow a lot-(on screen) but she's driven most of all of his controversy since then The two made (13) together
& who's seen her son Ronan Farrow, originally named Satchel, after *Woody's baseball hero Satchel Paige.
She insists he's *Sinatra's son & true be told they do look a lot alike, especially when "The Chairman" was young. CHECK OUT THE PICTURES & DECIDE FOR YOURSELF He woulda' been about age 72 or so when Ronan was born
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as I cited on heading I believe I may have posted & asked this question on these forums before, but I'll give it a try again just in case
Hope most will reply though
If you were ever lucky enough to be a TCM "Guest Programmer" what four movies would choose to air???
My personal 4 are, again>
Citizen Kane
Captains Courageous OR Bad Day at Black Rock
Some Came running
& Inside Daisy Clover
(P.S. as all; know the station still doesn't own the rights to *The Godfather, which is my #1 & these top 4 are not particularly my all-time favs. they just cover my favorite stars, except I agree that KANE is thee single greatest film ever made!)
(EXAMPLE: *Casablanca, Modern Times, Dumbo, It's a Wonderful Life, The Searchers, Vertigo & The Quiet Man are among my overall top ten)
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Thanx for fast reply! I had thought he was another "GP" though? I do recall; his favorite movie yrs ago was 1973's "Scarecrow"
He also deserves another shot hosting the *Oscars
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WOW! No comments or comparison predix-(though early of course) from anybody??? I'm surprised
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To Jakeem, TopoBilled, LawrenceA,etc I greatly appreciate the in depth list of all tcm "Guest Programmers" you compiled, but do you know what David Letterman had chosen to air?
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As noted on heading these are vey premature& basically only a running tally sheet of whom & what I believe will have their name called on Sunday March,4th, 2018 at ":The Dolby Theatre"-"Hollywood & Highland" & again, by no means final & subject to change until 7 days before official 90th Annual Academy Awards are held
Best Picture "Shape of Water"(revised prediction)
Actor: Gary 0ldman in "The Darkest Hour":-(easiest race to forecast)
Actress: Frances McDormand in "Three Billboards..."
S. Actor: Sam Rockwell, "Three Billboards..."
S. Actress: Allison Janney, "I, Tonya"
Best Director: Guillermo Del Toro for "The Shape of Water"
Adapted-screenplay: "Call Me By Your Name"
Original-=screenplay: "Three Billboards..."
Animated-featrure: "Coco"
Best original-song: "Remember Me" from "Coco"
Best original-score: "Shape of Water" (Alexander Desplat)
Foreign-Language Film: "A Fantastic Woman" (chili)
Cinematography: "Shape of water"
Film Editing: "Dunkirk"
Sound Mixing: ":Dunkirk"
Sound Editing: "Dunkirk"
Make-Up/Hair: "The Darkest Hour"
Visual effects: "War of the Planet of the Apes"
Costume Design: "The Phantom Thread"
Production Design: "Shape of Water"
& the rest coming soon
VS.
What & who I'd vote for?
Best film of the Year: "Three Billboards 0utside Ebbing Missouri"
Actor/lead performance: Gary 0ldman in "Darkest Hour"
& Actress/lead performance: Frances McDormand in "Three Billboards..."
PLEASE GIVE YOUR OWN PREDIX & CAST YOUR OWN PICKS
I THANK YOU
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I thought for sure director Peter Bogdanovich-(l939) had been selected as a tcm "Guest Programmer" If not or I'm right, please fill me in
He obviously stopped helming pictures awhile ago & is in recent years more of a historian & author-(I actually have 1 of his books)
Bogdonovich had a relevent small role on TV's superb "The Sopranos" & he's always on the network talking cinema, especially John Ford, who he made a marvelous docu from 1971 & in my books most of his top 190 favorite films are also Westerns
I also think he'd be a fine tcm host
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Back around 1996 or so Michael J. Fox hoisted a tcm special on his own idol *James (Francis) Cagney & from warner Bros. no less-(& for my $Dough$thee finest tour in Tinsel-Town() But I love the way he started it out by saying "Most of the kids he grew up with wanted to be James Dean, but he wanted to be *James Cagney" unquoite
ANYONE RECALL THIS SPECIAL I STILL OWN IT ON VHS TUCKED AWAY SOMEWHERE
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5 minutes ago, TomJH said:
None, I suppose, unless it's the cold bleakness of the world, as seen through Cody's eyes. What do you think, James?
THANKS HOWARD! great avatar
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6 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
Yes, I think his work in FURY is quite good.
Not sure how I feel about Finch in NETWORK.
Forgot he also had one of Mr. 0sborne's all-time fav. comedies in '36 "Libeled Lady" (M-G-M)
We do split though on him being snubbed for "The Actress" (M-G-M) (strong ***) Wonder what ever became of that Golden Globe-(Best actor-Drama) That's what Cyndi T wanted to know. In reality that character was probably closest to the real man, cranky, impatient,etc But the guy didn't drink much in that film
Holly-(spoke of her before) * used to be on these forums quite a bit, worked on Madison Avenue in NYC & on her break literally ran over to "Sotheby's" where they were auctioning off *Kate's items & she got me & her a lg book of all the things being auctioned. She somewhat alkso knew Cary Grant around her offices, but wasn't a fan???
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1 hour ago, SunAndMoon said:
That's why I liked White Heat so much. Cagney was terrifying in that film, but in the best way possible.
He actually often called it just another hack job & loved things like "Yankee Doodle Dandy" by far instead
In his autobiography he spoke of the true to life tough guys vs Hollywood images
Edward G. Robinson, a superb actor but was so timid even when firing blanks had to have his eyelids taped open!
*Bogey came from a wealthy family & was never truly a tough guy, matter of fact *Jim wrote that when they shot "Angels with Dirty Faces" "The Dead end Kids" gave him holy hell, picking on *Bogart, pulling his pants down,etc
they didn't even attempt that with *Jim though!
But he wrote the toughest true to life guy in all of Hollywood-(thathe knew anyway) was the one note flat actor though in George Raft!
Matter of fact & this is fact based There's even a photo of both he & Edward G. starting a fistfight & Raft just flattened Eddie G. on set of 1941's "Manpower" (WB's) & like in that great 1991 bio "Bugsy" Bugsy Siegel met Virginia Hill on that set & they were such longtime pals that it was Raft that was thje sole individual at Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel's 1947 funeral at the now called "Hollywood, forever, cem"-(again, I could almost hit it & Paramount with a rock from my motel 777n. vine
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4 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Yes, I think Duke deserved an award for THE SHOOTIST. It's my favorite of his films, and I think it's a brave performance, whether or not he knew it would be his last.
& do you that *Peter Finch's utterly magnificent work in "Network" was more in support, where is *Holden was the anchor. think he was the first actor to petition for that leading shot & of course *Hopkins did the same for *"Silence..." only on screen 22 minutes total
& way back for the 1936 *Oscars, *"The Great: Tracy" really wasn't into awards very much & didn't even push for a leading role for "San Francisco" (l936-MGM) But his peers thought him so great,even then, they nommed him for lead instead. Many, even including "His Kate" **** he'd call her thought his role in "Fury" that year more deserving
DO YOU ALSO PAY A ATTENTION TO SPORTS, MOST NOTABLY BOXING-(by far more flix have been made on that sport) or football?
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2 minutes ago, hamradio said:
MARVELOUS JAZZ & I THANK YOU (P.S. there is a very good website about them too!) Is there anyway to forward this to other fans?)
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This is a bit of a long story, but I was lucky enough to know remaining family members of *Tracy's His son John Tracy-(l924-2007) was still alive & sadly one could hear the poor soul in the background, being deaf among many other ailments by then
When he died the family went separate ways I was good friends with Cyndi Tracy-(his grandson's wife) & she was more into the actor then he was, by far-(jerk that he was, he even ruined a postal stamp of *Tracy's getting one!) She was also among chairpeople of "Reel Cowboys.org"-(check it out, very cool site) Anyway, she never knew he once also won a Golden Globe & asked me where is it then. *Tracy was not especially crazy about awards & the Globes were not that pivotal back then either.
Thing is he deserved yet another of his (9) leading noms for it
You be the judge
Best Actor 1953 *Oscars>
*William Holden in "Stalag 17"-(deservedly won in my opinion as Sefton)
Richard Burton, "The Robe"-(this deserved to be his slot)
Montgomery Clift, "From Here to Eternity"
Burt Lancaster, "From Here to Eternity"
& Marlon Brando, "Julius Caesar"
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8 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
Yes, the politics were different in 1949. Republic's Herbert Yates pushed to get Duke's nomination for SANDS OF IWO JIMA. But Duke's acting in that picture did not convey the type of virtuosity we see later in TRUE GRIT.
I think Mayo summed it up correctly. Remember the Red Scare was taking hold, and these were very conservative times. Honoring Cagney's performance would be like honoring social deviants. They couldn't have that!
I really like his "TG" picture, but I personally woulda' voted for him for his grand finale in "The Shootist" (l976) (by no means ruling out official winner Finch in "Network" but it was more of a supporting work)
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20 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
Sounds like something that make a great stage play. "My Night Guarding Cagney."
WOW! You worked as his bodyguard, did you get to speak to him,etc He was likely in the chair by then-(diabetes)
I know a lady that used to be in these forums & via accident she got lost driving in upstate NY & there he was, still walking a bit then, around 1968 or so. So they gave her fuel & then the topper according to her=-is she got to sit w/*Cagney on one of those swinging chairs & when it got cold-(Verney Farms, NY) he got 2 blankets & when she went to leave, he simply said in typical *Cagney way "TAKE IOT!" Think she still has it?
fill me in a bit more on your meeting please
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All heard of these group of actors & they preferred the term "The Boys Club" & would meet every Tuesday-(4 get name of restaurant, probably demolished by now, typically)
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He also deserved *Academy attention for "Man of a Thousand Faces" & 1981'sd great "Ragtime"-(s. actor, but they nommed lead Howard E. Rollins, Jr. instead?)
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1 hour ago, TopBilled said:
Yes, Cagney should have been nominated. Richard Todd was deservedly nominated, and he certainly belongs on the list. Personally, I thought John Wayne was the weakest of that year's nominees and I would have replaced him with Cagney.
Also agree about Margaret Wycherly. Elsa Lanchester doesn't seem like she gave an Oscar worthy performance in COME TO THE STABLE (it was good but not technically marvelous). Lanchester was much more impressive a year earlier in THE BIG CLOCK.
I don't feel ALL THE KING'S MEN should have been best picture. I would have bestowed that honor on THE HEIRESS. So yeah, I think the Academy got a few things "wrong" when recognizing 1949's greatest achievements in moviemaking.
How about Wayne in "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" instead of "Sands?" He & Ford always strongly felt that was the better role
V. Mayo said it best on a tcm bit "That in those days they'd never give a major Oscar to a gangster role" unquote
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Westerns are my runner-up favorite film genre, only after Golden Age Comedies
A couple more runners-up would be>
"Ride the High Country" (l962)
"The 0x-Bow Incident" & "How the West the Was Won" is tremendous!
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& who else greatly admires "Lonesome Dove?" Duvall always picks that as his favorite role
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Thanx for your input though, but "Butch & Sundance" were actually killed around 1901
WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR FAVORITE WESTERNS & TO ALL AS WELL?
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As most probably are already aware tcm is reairing the superb on every level 1969 classic masterpiece "The Wild Bunch" (l969) right now. among the 135 or so movie books I own it's author even rates it among all-time overall greatest films
(TRIVIA: Albert Dekker-(l903-68) killed himself before it's release)
& in Mr. 0sborne's epic masterpiece book on 85yrs of the Oscars, he pointsout that '69 at the cinema had ad distinct Westernflavor "W. Bunch" "Butch & Sundance" "Once Upon a Time in the West" "True Grit" & to some extent *"Midnight Cowboy"
It's also pt of the blame for the MPAA rating system, as was "Bonnie & Clyde" & the forementioned *M. Cowboy"
Typically it's only shots at the *Academy Awards werefor it's screenplay, editing & score-(Jerry Fielding)
How I personally would rank it among all-time Westerns>
1st "The Searchers" (l956-WB's)
2."Shane"(l953-Paramount)
3. "0nce Upon a Time in the West" (l969)-(also my all-time fav. score by *Ennio Morricone!)
4. *"Unforgiven" (l992)
5th "The Wild Bunch"
6. "Red River" (l948-UA)
7. "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"(l962)
8. "High Noon" (l952-UA)
9. "My Darling Clementine" (l946-Fox)
10th choice "Stagecoach" (l939-UA)-(not a huge fan, but must be in the top ten)
(HONORABLE MENTION):
"Lonesome Dove" (l989 tv mini-series & if I rated it with the above top ten I'd cast it as being #4th)
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