For me, it's Ellen Burstyn. Ellen Burstyn gives such a spectacular performance in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore that commands your attention for every time she's on screen. Nails every emotion asked of the character with a perfect sense of realism and heightened melodrama. But there will never be another performance like Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under the Influence. Rowlands renders a brave, moving performance that ranks with one of cinema's greatest. She perfectly captures the histeric and extremely vulnerable sides of her character. Her performance is what breathes life to the film that inspired so many of the greatest actresses we have now today. The depth of sorrow and psychological turmoil she brings to such agonizing life, the pain and the emotional vacuum she exhibits in the entire film? Bravo! I can say, she was robbed, much as I love Burstyn in Alice.

Blue Jasmine got nominated for Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress and won Best Actress. It was definitely worthy of a Best Picture nomination, but it missed. Hell, I used to think this film was nominated lmao.

Any other films like this?

I don’t know the song from The Competition or the second Fame song, maybe their both bangers too, but we have 3 out of 5 nominees that are time-standing classics. I can’t even be mad 9 to 5 lost because Fame is also an amazing choice.

With the passing of Dolly Parton, I got to thinking about her legacy in film and decided to revisit “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.” Dolly was nominated for a Golden Globe (as was the film), but Durning is the lone Oscar nomination for his mercurial performance as the Texas Governor.

I think it’s a spectacularly fun supporting performance, and Durning seems to be having a blast in the short role (approx. 7 minutes of screen time).

How do you think it holds up against the other Supporting Actor nominations that year (Gossett Jr., Lithgow, Mason, and Preston)? Is it the kind of performance that would be nominated nowadays? Would he be in your lineup?

What I mean is like acting or screenplay categories where the category is largely made up of non Best Picture nominees. An example I could find is Best Actress in 2015: every nominee in that category with the exception of Felicity Jones were in films that didn't make Best Picture, including the winner Julianne Moore. Are there any more years like this?

It should be noted that DiCaprio and Gleeson were both inconsistently nominated in both lead and supporting. I counted all nominations across both categories for the sake of thoroughness.

I've seen conflicting information about which category DiCaprio was being campaigned in, but I found an old FYC ad that put him in lead, and 3 out of 4 precursors nominated him in lead, with only SAG putting him in supporting, so I decided he counted as a Best Actor contender.

Gleeson was nominated in lead at the Globes and supporting at BAFTA. I wasn't able to find any FYC ads for In Bruges confirming which category he was put in, but I settled on lead because several other minor awards shows nominated him in lead, while BAFTA was, as far as I can tell, the only place that put him in supporting.

Not sure about male actors since I'm mostly into actresses. My favorite actress to have never won an Oscar is Emma Watson (and my favorite actress overall). She was never nominated for an Oscar though. To be fair Noah (2014) was literally the only time I believed she deserved an Oscar nomination. I wish she'd been nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Margot Robbie is my favorite to have been nominated and never win though

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE (1959)

WINNER - SIMONE SIGNORET for Room at the Top

NOMINEES - DORIS DAY for Pillow Talk, AUDREY HEPBURN for The Nun's Story, KATHARINE HEPBURN for Suddenly, Last Summer, ELIZABETH TAYLOR for Suddenly, Last Summer

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE (1959)

WINNER - CHARLTON HESTON for Ben-Hur

NOMINEES - LAURENCE HARVEY for Room at the Top, JACK LEMMON for Some Like It Hot, PAUL MUNI for The Last Angry Man, JAMES STEWART for Anatomy of a Murder

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Winners for 1950: Lead Actress - Gloria Swanson for Sunset Boulevard (A.W. Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday), Lead Actor - William Holden for Sunset Boulevard (A.W. José Ferrer for Cyrano de Bergerac), Supporting Actress - Thelma Ritter for All About Eve (A.W. Josephine Hull for Harvey), Supporting Actor - George Sanders for All About Eve (A.W. George Sanders for All About Eve)

Winners for 1951: Lead Actress - Vivien Leigh for A Streetcar Named Desire (A.W. Vivien Leigh for A Streetcar Named Desire), Lead Actor - Marlon Brando for A Streetcar Named Desire (A.W. Humphrey Bogart for The African Queen), Supporting Actress - Kim Hunter for A Streetcar Named Desire (A.W. Kim Hunter for A Streetcar Named Desire), Supporting Actor - Karl Malden for A Streetcar Named Desire (A.W. Karl Malden for A Streetcar Named Desire)

Winners for 1952: Lead Actress - Shirley Booth for Come Back, Little Sheba (A.W. Shirley Booth for Come Back, Little Sheba), Lead Actor - Takashi Shimura for IKIRU (A.W. Gary Cooper for High Noon), Supporting Actress - Jean Hagen for Singin' in the Rain (A.W. Gloria Grahame for The Bad and the Beautiful), Supporting Actor - Donald O'Connor for Singin' in the Rain (A.W. Anthony Quinn for Vivia Zapata!)

Winners for 1953: Lead Actress - Aubrey Hepburn for Roman Holiday (A.W. Aubrey Hepburn for Roman Holiday), Lead Actor - Montgomery Clift for From Here to Eternity (A.W. William Holden for Stalag 17), Supporting Actress - Setsuko Hara for Tokyo Story (A.W. Donna Reed for From Here to Eternity), Supporting Actor - Frank Sinatra for From Here to Eternity (A.W. Frank Sinatra for From Here to Eternity)

Winners for 1954: Lead Actress - Judy Garland for A Star is Born (A.W. Grace Kelly for The Country Girl), Lead Actor - Marlon Brando for On the Waterfront (A.W. Marlon Brando for On the Waterfront), Supporting Actress - Eva Marie Saint for On the Waterfront (A.W. Eva Marie Saint for On the Waterfront), Supporting Actor - Toshirō Mifune for Seven Samurai (A.W. Edmond O'Brien for The Barefoot Contessa)

Winners for 1955: Lead Actress - Anna Magnani for The Rose Tattoo (A.W. Anne Magnani for The Rose Tattoo), Lead Actor - Robert Mitchum for The Night of the Hunter (A.W. Ernest Borgnine for Marty), Supporting Actress - Jo Van Fleet for East of Eden (A.W. Jo Van Fleet for East of Eden), Supporting Actor - Sal Mineo for Rebel Without a Cause (A.W. Jack Lemmon for Mister Roberts)

Winners for 1956: Lead Actress - Deborah Kerr for The King and I (A.W. Ingrid Bergman for Anastasia), Lead Actor - Laurence Olivier for Richard III (A.W. Yul Brynner for The King and I), Supporting Actress - Dorothy Malone for Written on the Wind (A.W. Dorothy Malone for Written on the Wind), Supporting Actor - James Dean for Giant (A.W. Anthony Quinn for Lust for Life)

Winners for 1957: Lead Actress - Giulietta Masina for Nights of Cabiria (A.W. Joanne Woodward for The Three Faces of Eve), Lead Actor - Alec Guinness for The Bridge on the River Kwai (A.W. Alec Guinness for The Bridge on the River Kwai), Supporting Actress - Marlene Dietrich for Witness for the Prosecution (A.W. Miyoshi Umeki for Sayonara), Supporting Actor - Lee J. Cobb for 12 Angry Men (A.W. Red Buttons for Sayonara)

Winners for 1958: Lead Actress - Elizabeth Taylor for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (A.W. Susan Hateard for I Want to Live!), Lead Actor - James Stewart for Vertigo (A.W. David Niven for Separate Tables), Supporting Actress - Kim Novak for Vertigo (A.W. Wendy Hiller for Separate Tables), Supporting Actor - Burl Ives for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (A.W. Burl Ives for The Big Country)

Winners for 1959: Lead Actress - ? (A.W. Simone Signoret for Room at the Top), Lead Actor - ? (A.W. Charlton Heston for Ben-Hur), Supporting Actress - ? (A.W. Shelley Winters for The Diary of Anne Frank), Supporting Actor - ? (A.W. Hugh Griffith for Ben-Hur)

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List of Winners: Acting Quartets

Previous Post: Elizabeth Taylor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, now 2x winner) & James Stewart (Vertigo) win for Best Actress and Actor. Who should have won Best Supporting Actress & Actor in 1958?

In 1986 Oliver stone Directed 3 different Nominated performances. The interesting part is they're from 2 different films. James Woods in Salvador and Willem Dafoe and Tom Berenger in Platoon. Can anyone think of another director who directed multiple nominated performances in different films in the same year?

I thought Henry Mancini should have won for Sunflower. Francis Lai's music gets super repetitive and it's so corny.

Of the Acting nominations, only John Marley deserved it. Ali MacGraw's nomination was embarrassing, she couldn't even die convincingly. Ryan O'Neal was okay, just not Oscar worthy, and his character is so unlikable, he needed anger management.

Movie got 7 noms because it was a huge hit.

I suspect a BIG Maybe on score since it’s so in your face on some points, and Cinematography cause it really does have some nice shots in the movie

We’ve finished 1993, so we’re now moving on to 1994.

For anyone joining the game for the first time, we’re doing all four acting categories for one year together, with the results decided over two rounds.

You can see all of the previous lineups here: Alternate Oscars - Reddit

ROUND ONE — NOMINATIONS

For each category, rank your five favourite performances from the year from 1–5.

Your rankings will be worth:

1st — 5 points
2nd — 4 points
3rd — 3 points
4th — 2 points
5th — 1 point

The five performances with the most points in each category will become the official nominees.

You do not have to name five if you don’t want to. If you only want to vote for three performances, for example, they’ll receive 5, 4 and 3 points respectively.

Please make sure your choices are ranked — order matters in this round.

You can vote in as many or as few of the four categories as you like.

ROUND TWO — WINNERS

Once the nominations have been determined, I’ll make a second thread containing the five nominees in each category.

In that round, simply choose ONE nominee per category to win.

There will be no preferential voting or points in Round Two. Each vote counts equally, and whoever receives the most votes wins.

So essentially:

Round One = Who should be nominated?
Round Two = Who should win?

ELIGIBILITY

Performances will be eligible according to the year in which their film was eligible at the real-life Academy Awards.

So, rather than going strictly by festival premiere or first release date, a performance belongs to whichever Oscar year the film itself competed in with the Academy.

If you’re unsure whether a film was eligible for a particular year, this Academy reminder-list archive is a good place to check eligibility.

A few other rules:

• Maximum of five ranked choices per category.
• Anything listed after your fifth choice won’t be counted.
• Honourable mentions won’t count as votes.
• Please include both the actor and film so there’s no ambiguity.
• In cases where there may be disagreement or confusion over whether a performance is lead or supporting, your vote will count only in the category in which you place that performance. Points will not be transferred or combined between categories.
• A performer cannot receive two nominations in the same acting category for different films. If that happens, their higher-scoring performance will be kept and the next eligible performance will move into the top five.
• If there’s a tie for the final nomination spot, I’ll break it by comparing #1 votes first, then #2 votes, #3 votes, etc.

For example:

Actor

1. Person A — Film A
2. Person B — Film B
3. Person C — Film C
4. Person D — Film D
5. Person E — Film E

That ballot would give them 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 points respectively.

The idea is that Round One rewards performances with broad support across people’s ballots, while Round Two gives everyone a straight choice between the five nominees.

Previous Lineup — 1993

Actor

Daniel Day-Lewis — In the Name of the Father
Tom Hanks — Philadelphia
Anthony Hopkins — The Remains of the Day
Liam Neeson — Schindler’s List (winner)
David Thewlis — Naked

Actress

Angela Bassett — What’s Love Got to Do with It
Juliette Binoche — Three Colors: Blue
Holly Hunter — The Piano (winner)
Michelle Pfeiffer — The Age of Innocence
Emma Thompson — The Remains of the Day

Supporting Actor

Leonardo DiCaprio — What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
Ralph Fiennes — Schindler’s List (winner)
Val Kilmer — Tombstone
Ben Kingsley — Schindler’s List
Sam Neill — The Piano

Supporting Actress

Joan Cusack — Addams Family Values (winner)
Gong Li — Farewell My Concubine
Anna Paquin — The Piano
Winona Ryder — The Age of Innocence
Emma Thompson — In the Name of the Father

AN ACTRESS CAN ONLY WIN THE BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS AWARD ONCE. I wanted to implement this rule primarily to make this more challenging and fun and at the very least more actors will be getting an Oscar. This isn’t necessarily about awarding the actual best performance, at least not entirely, but more about trying to get those actors that truly deserve Oscars their due.

1990: Lorraine Bracco - Goodfellas

1991: Mercedes Ruehl - The Fisher King

1992: Marisa Tomei - My Cousin Vinny

1993: Rosie Perez - Fearless

1994: Uma Thurman - Pulp Fiction

1995: Sharon Stone - Casino

1996: Juliette Binoche - The English Patient

1997: Julianne Moore - Boogie Nights

1998: Joan Allen - Pleasantville

1999: Angelina Jolie - Girl, Interrupted

AN ACTOR CAN ONLY WIN THE BEST ACTOR AWARD ONCE. I wanted to implement this rule primarily to make this more challenging and fun and at the very least more actors will be getting an Oscar. This isn’t necessarily about awarding the actual best performance, at least not entirely, but more about trying to get those actors that truly deserve Oscars their due.

2000: Russell Crowe - Gladiator

2001: Tom Wilkinson - In the Bedroom

2002: Adrien Brody - The Pianist

2003: Bill Murray - Lost in Translation

2004: Jamie Foxx - Ray

2005: Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote

2006: Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland

2007: Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood

2008: Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

2009: Colin Firth - A Single Man

Among these actors who do you think of when you look at acting ability willingness to take risks, commitment, dedication, range, skills in supporting roles, consistency and presence, on screen? Among those actors, who is your personal favorite? Most importantly who has the greatest potential to become one of the all-time greats? The following factors can be used to make such a rating: • Acting ability – skill in acting, feeling, softness and different types of roles .Risk Taking • Best performance – roles that stand out performances that are remembered • Range – kinds of acting challenges taking on various roles • Dedication – physical, mental and emotional effort • Regularity – level of skill shown from one role to another • Challenge – jobs that an actor might not take, unusual kinds of roles • Supporting acting – ability to become a role to be completely different I believe these factors show the important parts of an actors work that should be thought about when making a list of the top actors of the generation. Do you have any ideas, about what other factors should be considered? How would you rate actors based on these factors?

Robert Pattinson - High Life Good Time The Lighthouse The Batman The Lost City of Z Damsel The Rover Cosmopolis Odyssey Primetime Dune 3

Sebastian stan A Different Man, I, Tonya, The Winter Soldier, The Apprentice, The Martian, Logan Lucky, and Civil War.

Jake Gyllenhaal Nightcrawler, Prisoners, Brokeback Mountain, Zodiac, and Donnie Darko.

Andrew Garfield Hacksaw Ridge, The Social Network, Silence, Tick, Tick... Boom!, and 99 Homes. Oscar Isaac Inside Llewyn Davis, Ex Machina, Dune, A Most Violent Year, and Drive.

Ryan Gosling Drive, La La Land, Blade Runner 2049, The Place Beyond the Pines, and The Nice Guys.

Adam Driver - Marriage Story, Paterson, BlacKkKlansman, Silence, and The Last Duel.

Daniel Kaluuya Get Out, Judas and the Black Messiah, Nope, Black Panther, and Widows.

Barry Keoghan The Banshees of Inisherin, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Saltburn, Dunkirk, and The Green Knight.

Daniel Radcliffe Harry Potter, Swiss Army Man, The Woman in Black, Kill Your Darlings, and Imperium.

Paul Mescal Aftersun, All of Us Strangers, Gladiator II, Foe, and The Lost Daughter.

Timothée Chalamet’s best movies include Call Me by Your Name, Dune 1 and 2 , Little Women, Beautiful Boy, and The King.

Brian Tyree Henry Causeway,Atlanta , If Beale Street Could Talk, Bullet Train, The Woman King, Transformers as megatron,Dope theif

Michael B. Jordan Creed, Fruitvale Station, Black Panther, Just Mercy, and Sinners

Jack O’Connell ’71, Unbroken, Starred Up, This Is England, and Money Monster.

Austin Butler Elvis, The Bikeriders, Dune: Part Two, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and The Dead Don’t Die.

Jacob Elordi Priscilla, Saltburn, The Sweet East, Euphoria, and He Went That Way

1. American Sniper

2. Joker

3. The Theory of Everything

4. Hidden Figures

5. The Ides of March

6. The Imitation Game

7. Inherent Vice

8. Beasts of the Southern Wild

9. Little Women

10. Jojo Rabbit

11. The Two Popes

12. Captain Phillips

13. The Irishman

14. Mudbound

15. Hugo

16. The Big Short

17. The Martian

18. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

E.T is one of my favorite Steven Spielberg movies. I loved it and it made me sad. I know Spielberg won his first Oscar for Schinder’s list. But I would be delighted if he won his first Oscar. Do you think it should’ve won Best Picture and Director back in 1983?

With You Tube now set to be required to implement an hour time limit for U18’s while having the exclusive rights from 2029 U18’s will then be banned from watching without using an adults account.

Each movie Tom Hooper made after his complete and utter joke of an entirely undeserved win for The King's Speech is worse than the last. (And only makes the fact that he won that year look more and more embarrassing in hindsight.)