Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

1987 Best Picture *Au Revoir les Enfants Jean de Florette Hope and Glory Moonstruck White Mischief Best Actor Gerard Depardieu, Jean de Florette *Michael Douglas, Wall Street Steve Martin, Roxanne Gary Oldman, Prick Up Your Ears Yves Montand, Jean de Florette Best Actress *Julie Walters, Personal Se...

1969 Best Picture Army of Shadows Midnight Cowboy They Shoot Horses, Don't They? *Women in Love Z Best Actor Rex Harrison, Staircase *Dustin Hoffman, Midnight Cowboy Peter O'Toole, Goodbye, Mr. Chips Robert Redford, Tell Them Willie Boy is Here Jon Voight, Midnight Cowboy Best Actress Genevieve Bujo...

1953 Best Picture The Band Wagon From Here to Eternity Shane *Tokyo Story Ugetsu Best Actor *Montgomery Clift, I Confess Glenn Ford, The Big Heat Alan Ladd, Shane Burt Lancaster, From Here to Eternity Richard Widmark, Pickup on South Street Best Actress Doris Day, Calamity Jane Ava Gardner, Mogambo ...

1937 Best Picture *The Awful Truth La Grande Illusion La Habanera History is Made at Night A Star is Born Best Actor *Jean Gabin, Pepe Le Moko Cary Grant, The Awful Truth Fredric March, A Star is Born Robert Montgomery, Night Must Fall Charles Boyer, History is Made at Night Best Actress Jean Arthur...

1943 Best Picture Heaven Can Wait María Candelaria *Ossessione The Ox-Bow Incident Shadow of a Doubt Best Actor Pedro Armendáriz, María Candelaria *Joseph Cotten, Shadow of a Doubt Henry Fonda, The Ox-Bow Incident Charles Laughton, This Land Is Mine Roger Livesey, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp...

1962 Best Picture Harakiri Il Sorpasso Jules et Jim *Lawrence of Arabia To Kill a Mockingbird Best Actor Vittorio Gassman, Il Sorpasso Tatsuya Nakadi, Harakiri *Peter O'Toole, Lawrence of Arabia Gregory Peck, To Kill a Mockingbird Jean-Louis Trintignant, Il Sorpasso Best Actress Anne Bancroft, The M...

Just watched The Hard Way. While the story is nothing new, Ida Lupino gives a superb performance as the ambitious, pushy older sister of Joan Leslie. She clearly deserved a nod in the lead category. Also a surprise to see how good both Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson (in a dramatic part for a change)...

I can never enjoy watching The Yearling as I get distracted by Claude Jarman annoyingly calling Peck ''Paw''! After hearing it for the fiftieth time within the first half hour I've lost interest (though I'm sure I've seen the film in full on tv as a child). And Jane Wyman's severe & humorless M...

Pity nobody mentions / remembers Jodie Foster's superb supporting performance in Stealing Home. This is the film and category she should have won the Oscar for, thus leaving the way open for Glenn Close to win for Dangerous Liaisons.



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But both Victor Bannerji and John Lone were nowhere close to the other five actors who were nominated the years they were contenders for Passage and Emperor.



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My take on the 1940 Best Actress race - Both Hepburn and Roz cancell each other out for their comic performances and Joan Fontaine wins for her dramatic turn in Rebecca!



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I have always thought Straight's win was richly deserved. The size of her role never bothered me. She brings such anguish to that one scene where she berates Holden. Not unlike a similar scene between Miranda Richardson and Jeremy Irons in Damage - for which Richardson was nominated. Edited By Big ...

Milland wins for me by a mile. Am not too fond of any of the other winners on this list.



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