Best Actress 1967

Post by **FilmFan720** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:40 am

Eric wrote:Regardless of her widely accepted superiority in Two for the Road and the riotous showmanship of her obviously-oughtta-been-nominated co-star Arkin, I almost think we're to the point where Hepburn's work in Wait Until Dark is (dare I say) a teensy bit underrated.

I have to second this notion. I think Hepburn is excellent in the role, and if anyone has seen a lesser production of the stage version, knows that it is not an easy role to pull off.

My wife is a teacher of visually impaired students, and has always demanded that Hepburn is the best performance of a person who is blind she has seen. She gets the mannerisms and physicality down better than anyone else. I think we would both agree she is better in Two for the Road, but that doesn't make this nomination any lesser of a feat.

Post by **Reza** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:37 am

ITALIANO wrote:
ITALIANO wrote:Nice to see the OTHER Hepburn ending up for once with zero votes!
I know, it's a secret vote, etc, but I would REALLY love to know the name of that pure soul who voted for her. Needless to say, he will never confess.

Italiano who would you have voted for in the Best Actress category for 1967? Curious to know your choice in place of Hepburn.

Post by **ITALIANO** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 8:51 am

ITALIANO wrote:Nice to see the OTHER Hepburn ending up for once with zero votes!

I know, it's a secret vote, etc, but I would REALLY love to know the name of that pure soul who voted for her. Needless to say, he will never confess.

mlrg · Post by **mlrg** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:55 am

Having seen all nominated performances, I'll go with Edith Evans

Post by **ITALIANO** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:13 am

Unfortunately, Edith Evans's is one of the few Oscar nominated performances I've never seen (The Whisperers was never shown in Italy, not even on tv), and, I feel, the best of those few. I'm sure that it's a great performance, but of course I can't vote for it.

I would have picked Anne Bancroft, definitely the best of the other four nominees, but I've chosen not to affect what could be a close race by giving my vote to Audrey Hepburn, whom nobody else will vote for this year. Hepburn may have been better in Two for the Road, true, and that was definitely a better movie than Wait Unitil Dark. Yet when you think of what another, lesser actress could have done in the role of a blind woman surrounded by sadistic killers, you realize that Hepburn pulled it off with her usual grace and balance. It's a pleasant performance.

Nice to see the OTHER Hepburn ending up for once with zero votes!

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Post by **Damien** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:01 am

Reza wrote:I, too, voted for Anne Bancroft.......a truly iconic performance.

It's an iconic character, not an iconic performance.

Interestingly, despite the misguided favor for her here, back at the '67 awards, Bancroft was never seriously considered to be in the running (but then again neither was Katharine Hepburn).

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Post by **Reza** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:43 am

Mister Tee wrote:Edith Evans is, no doubt, completely transformed in The Whisperers. When I watched the opening shots, I thought to myself, where's Edith Evans? Is she really that old woman? Evans was always a lively presence in film but, truthfully, she mostly played similar characters -- Lady Bracknell whether she was officially doing that role or not. Here she's like another human being.

My problem? I don't find her an especially interesting human being. I like Bryan Forbes' films from earlier in the decade, but this one seems almost plotless: old age pensioner has bummer life. I didn't feel like the story, or Evans' character, went anywhere. The extremity of the transformation, though, still wows me, and tempts me to vote for her...

...but by a hair I'll settle on the iconic Bancroft performance as Mrs. Robinson. It's not many who win an Oscar and then later create their most famous role. Bancroft is hilarious, menacing, touching, all at once. A great performance, and my final choice in a competitive year.

It took me years to finally catch up with Edith Evans' great performance in The Whisperers. However, I totally agree with Mister Tee's analyses.

I, too, voted for Anne Bancroft.......a truly iconic performance.

My top 5 performances:

Anne Bancroft, The Graduate
Bibi Andersson, Persona
Dame Edith Evans, The Whisperers
Audrey Hepburn, Two for the Road
Faye Dunaway, Bonnie and Clyde

My 6th spot: Catherine Deneuve, Belle de Jour

Post by **Eric** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:37 pm

Regardless of her widely accepted superiority in Two for the Road and the riotous showmanship of her obviously-oughtta-been-nominated co-star Arkin, I almost think we're to the point where Hepburn's work in Wait Until Dark is (dare I say) a teensy bit underrated.

That said, I'm still voting Bancroft here. And I hate The Graduate.

Post by **Damien** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 6:31 pm

Katharine Hepburn's nomination was ridiculous, not to mention her win.

Alan Arkin is the one who should have been nominated for Wait Until Dark. As others have mentioned, Audrey's nod should have come for the sublime Two For The Road.

Faye Dunaway and Anne Bancroft had roles that become classic film characters, but truth be told, the two actresses were used well by savvy directors rather than giving particularly memorable performances.

Even if the competition wasn't so weak, Edith Evans would be a deserving winner. It's a brilliant, hearbreaking, empathertic performance. She soars way above the competition this year.

Best Actress in 1967 was a travesty.

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Post by **Penelope** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 5:34 pm

Having not seen The Whisperers, not particularly caring for Kate Hepburn in one of her least deserving nominations, being lukewarm about Audrey Hepburn in an ok turn and not being as big of fan of Anne Bancroft in The Graduate as others, I'm giving this to Faye Dunaway.

Post by **Mister Tee** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 5:26 pm

This one's a very tough call for me.

First to go is the winner: Katharine Hepburn has deserved many of her nominations, but not this one.

Next is Audrey. dws is completely correct, that the Two for the Road performance -- one of Audrey's very best -- should have been cited, not this enjoyable triviality.

Faye Dunaway made a smashing debut, and is worth considering. But in the end she doesn't quite measure up.

Edith Evans is, no doubt, completely transformed in The Whisperers. When I watched the opening shots, I thought to myself, where's Edith Evans? Is she really that old woman? Evans was always a lively presence in film but, truthfully, she mostly played similar characters -- Lady Bracknell whether she was officially doing that role or not. Here she's like another human being.

My problem? I don't find her an especially interesting human being. I like Bryan Forbes' films from earlier in the decade, but this one seems almost plotless: old age pensioner has bummer life. I didn't feel like the story, or Evans' character, went anywhere. The extremity of the transformation, though, still wows me, and tempts me to vote for her...

...but by a hair I'll settle on the iconic Bancroft performance as Mrs. Robinson. It's not many who win an Oscar and then later create their most famous role. Bancroft is hilarious, menacing, touching, all at once. A great performance, and my final choice in a competitive year.

Post by **Big Magilla** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 4:43 pm

Edith Evans won every award then possible except the Oscar for one of the greatest portrayals of old age ever captured on film. No one else comes close this year.

I agree with all five nominees though I, too, think Audrey Hepburn's nomination should have been for Two for the Road.

Katharine Hepburn's long overdue second Oscar was for the wrong film in the wrong year.

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Post by **dws1982** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 4:07 pm

Had Audrey Hepburn's nomination been for Two For the Road, this would be a hard decision. As it is, it's easy: Edith Evans.

jowy_jillia · Post by **jowy_jillia** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 3:06 pm

I'll Give My Vote to Anne Bancroft. Dunaway is a VERY close second.

1966
1. Elizabeth Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - 15 votes
2. Ida Kaminska - The Shop on Main Street - 3 votes
3. Lynn Redgrave - Georgy Girl - 2 votes
4. Anouke Aimée - A Man and A Woman - 1 vote

1965
1. Julie Christie - Darling - 10 votes
2. Julie Andrews - The Sound of Music - 6 votes
3. Elizabeth Hartman - A Patch of Blue - 2 votes
4. Samantha Eggar - The Collector - 1 vote

1964
1. Kim Stanley - Séance on a Wet Afternoon - 7 votes
2. Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins - 6 votes
3. Anne Bancroft - The Pumpkin Eater - 3 votes
4. Debbie Reynolds - The Unsinkable Molly Brown - 1 vote

1963
1. Patricia Neal - Hud - 15 votes
2. Leslie Caron - The L-Shaped Room - 3 votes
3. Rachel Roberts - This Sporting Life - 1 vote

1962
1. Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker - 7 votes
1. Katharine Hepburn - Long Day's Journey Into Night - 7 votes
3. Bette Davis - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? - 3 votes
4. Geraldine Page - Sweet Bird of Youth
4. Lee Remick - Days of Wines and Roses

1961
1. Sophia Loren - Two Women - 9 votes
2. Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany's - 8 votes
3. Natalie Wood - Splendor in the Grass - 4 votes
4. Geraldine Page - Summer and Smoke - 2 votes
5. Piper Laurie - The Hustler - 1 vote

1960
1. Deborah Kerr - The Sundowners - 8 votes
2. Shirley MacLaine - The Apartment - 6 votes
3. Melina Mercouri - Never on a Sunday - 2 votes
4. Greer Garson - Sunrise at Campobello - 1 vote

1959
1. Simone Signoret - Room at the Top - 9 votes
2. Audrey Hepburn - The Nun's Story - 6 votes
3. Katharine Hepburn - Suddenly Last Summer - 1 vote
3. Elizabeth Taylor - Suddenly Last Summer - 1 vote

1958
1. Rosalind Russell - Auntie Mame - 8 votes
2. Susan Hayward - I Want to Live! - 6 votes
3. Elizabeth Taylor - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - 3 votes
4. Shirley MacLaine - Some Came Running - 2 votes

1957
1. Joanne Woodward - The Three Faces of Eve - 6 votes
2. Anna Magnani - Wild is the Wind - 4 votes
2. Lana Turner - Peyton Place - 4 votes
4. Deborah Kerr - Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison - 2 votes

1956
1. Ingrid Bergman - Anastasia - 10 votes
2. Carroll Baker - Baby Doll - 2 votes
2. Nancy Kelly - The Bad Seed - 1 vote
4. Katharine Hepburn - The Rainmaker - 1 vote
4. Deborah Kerr - The King and I - 1 vote

1955
1. Katharine Hepburn - Summertime - 11 votes
2. Anna Magnani - The Rose Tattoo - 4 vote
3. Eleanor Parker - Interrupted Melody - 2 votes
4. Susan Hayward - I'll Cry Tomorrow - 1 vote

1954
1. Judy Garland - A Star Is Born - 14 votes
2. Grace Kelly - The Country Girl - 2 votes
2. Jane Wyman - Magnificent Obsession - 2 votes
4. Audrey Hepburn - Sabrina - 1 vote

1953
1. Audrey Hepburn - Roman Holiday - 10 votes
2. Deborah Kerr - From Here to Eternity - 4 votes
3. Leslie Caron - Lili - 1 vote
3. Ava Gardner - Mogambo - 1 vote

1952
1. Julie Harris - The Member of the Wedding - 5 votes
2. Susan Hayward - With a Song in my Heart - 4 votes
3. Shirley Booth - Come Back, Little Sheba - 3 votes
3. Joan Crawford - Sudden Fear - 3 vote

1951
1. Vivien Leigh - A Streetcar Named Desire - 21 votes
2. Shelley Winters - A Place in the Sun - 3 votes

1950
1. Gloria Swanson - Sunset Blvd. - 13 votes
2. Bette Davis - All About Eve - 9 votes
3. Anne Baxter - All About Eve - 1 vote
3. Eleanor Parker - Caged - 1 vote

1949
1. Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress - 13 votes
2. Deborah Kerr - Edward My Son - 3 votes
3. Susan Hayward - My Foolish Heart - 1 vote
3. Loretta Young - Come to the Stable - 1 vote

1948
1. Jane Wyman - Johnny Belinda - 9 votes
2. Olivia de Havilland - The Snake Pit - 6 votes
3. Barbara Stanwyck - Sorry Wrong Number - 2 vote

1947
1. Rosalind Russell - Mourning Becomes Electra - 5 votes
2. Susan Hayward - Smash Up - 4 votes.
3. Joan Crawford - Possessed - 3 votes
4. Loretta Young - The Farmer's Daughter - 2 votes

1946
1. Celia Johnson - Brief Encounter - 15 votes
2. Olivia de Havilland - To Each His Own - 3 votes
2. Jennifer Jones - Duel in the Sun - 3 votes
4. Jane Wyman - The Yearling - 1 vote

1945
1. Joan Crawford - Mildred Pierce - 8 votes
2. Gene Tierny - Leave Her to Heaven - 6 votes
3. Ingrid Bergman - The Bells of St. Mary's - 4 votes
4. Jennifer Jones - Love Letters - 1 vote

1944
1. Barbara Stanwyck - Double Indemnity - 16 votes
2. Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight - 5 votes

1943
1. Jean Arthur - The More the Merrier - 6 votes
2. Jennifer Jonies - The Song of Bernadette - 4 votes
3. Ingrid Bergman - For Whom the Bell Tolls - 2 vote
3. Joan Fontaine - The Constant Nymph - 1 vote

1942
1. Bette Davis - Now, Voyager - 8 votes
1. Greer Garson - Mrs. Miniver - 7 votes
3. Katharine Hepburn - Woman of the Year - 1 vote

1941
1. Barbara Stanwyck - Ball of Fire - 9 votes
2. Bette Davis - The Little Foxes - 5 votes
3. Olivia de Havilland - Hold Back the Dawn - 1 vote
3. Joan Fontaine - Suspicion - 1 vote

1940
1. Katharine Hepburn - The Philadelphia Story - 10 votes
2. Joan Fontaine - Rebecca - 7 votes
3. Bette Davis - The Letter - 5 votes

1939
1. Vivien Leigh - Gone With the Wind - 24 votes
2. Greta Garbo - Ninotchka - 2 votes

1938
1. Bette Davis - Jezebel - 6 votes
1. Wendy Hiller - Pygmalion - 5 votes
3. Margaret Sullavan - Three Comrades - 3 votes
4. Norma Shearer - Marie Antoinette - 1 vote

1937
1. Irene Dunne - The Awful Truth - 7 votes
2. Greta Garbo - Camille - 6 votes
3. Barbara Stanwyck - Stella Dallas - 2 votes
4. Janet Gaynor - A Star is Born - 1 vote
4. Luise Rainer - The Good Earth - 1 vote

1936
1. Carole Lombard - My Man Godfrey - 11 votes
2. Irene Dunne - Theodora Goes Wild - 1 vote
2. Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld - 1 vote

1935
1. Katharine Hepburn - Alice Adams - 8 votes
2. Claudette Colbert - Private Worlds - 2 votes
2. Bette Davis - Dangerous - 2 votes
4. Miriam Hopkins - Becky Sharp - 1 vote

1934
1. Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night - 7 votes
2. Bette Davis - Of Human Bondage - 2 vote

1932/33
1. Katharine Hepburn - Morning Glory - 6 votes
2. May Robson - Lady for a Day - 3 votes

1931/32
1. Marie Dressler - Emma - 6 votes
2. Lynn Fontanne - The Guardsman - 1 vote

1930/31
1. Marlene Dietrich - Morocco - 8 votes
2. Marie Dressler - Min and Bill - 1 vote
2. Irene Dunne - Cimarron - 1 vote
2. Norma Shearer - A Free Soul - 1 vote

1929/30
1. Greta Garbo - Anna Christie - 4 votes
2. Norma Shearer - The Divorcee - 2 vote
3. Ruth Chatterton - Sarah and Son - 1 vote
3. Greta Garbo - Romance - 1 vote

1928/29
1. Ruth Chatterton - Madame X - 4 votes
2. Jeanne Eagels - The Letter - 1 vote

1927/28
1. Janet Gaynor - Sunrise - 7 votes
2. Janet Gaynor - Seventh Heaven - 3 votes
3. Janet Gaynor - Street Angel - 1 vote

Most Winns:
Katharine Hepburn - 5
Bette Davis - 2
Vivien Leigh - 2
Rosalind Russell - 2
Barbara Stanwyck - 2

Actual Winners who didn't recieve any vote
28/29. Mary Pickford - Coquette
31/32. Helen Hayes - The Sin of Madelon Claudet
40. Ginger Rogers - Kitty Foyle
50. Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday
60. Elizabeth Taylor - Butterfield 8

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