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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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