Best Actress 1961
Re: Best Actress 1961
I haven't seen any of these nominees, but this is a strong year outside of them - including wonderful work from an actress I'm usually bored by, Deborah Kerr:
1. Hideko Takamine, As a Wife, As a Woman
2. Jeanne Moreau, La notte
3. Deborah Kerr, The Innocents
4. Hideko Takamine, Immortal Love
5. Lucyna Winnicka, Mother Joan of the Angels
1. Hideko Takamine, As a Wife, As a Woman
2. Jeanne Moreau, La notte
3. Deborah Kerr, The Innocents
4. Hideko Takamine, Immortal Love
5. Lucyna Winnicka, Mother Joan of the Angels
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I voted for Laurie. She may be supporting (I haven't seen The Hustler in years) but she gives my favourite performance of the category, and I don't feel like I'm robbing anybody else with the category fraud (my second condition for disliking fraud).
I'd probably go with Harriet Andersson overall.
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I'd probably go with Harriet Andersson overall.
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Voted for Loren, whose performance I recently watched for the first time and in the original language. Simply superb. However, is it bad that I voted for her considering that I haven't seen Summer & Smoke? Prior to my experience with Two Women (that sounds quite good actually) I would have voted for Hepburn in Breakfast. Wood in Splendor is one of my father's all-time favorite performances, but I've never been such a fan. I stick to everybody's argument about Laurie.
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Too young maybe, though in movie terms she could look 30, and back then Italian women could become mothers very, very young. But otherwise Loren was very close to Cesira, she came from that part of Italy, and from a very poor family... So no, I wouldnt say that she was so wrong for the part.Uri wrote:The grand, inherently glamorous, 25 year old Loren is as realistic as a hard beaten mother of a teenager daughter as Katharine Hepburn's Midwestern spinster was. Yet it was a powerful performance, especially for those who were willing to embrace that somehow fantasized everything-you-see-I-owe-to-pasta embodiment of Italianism. Did anyone mention "iconic"?
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Well, I'll be careful with that in the future. It didn't used to work that way (maybe on the old board), because I know I waited to vote on occasion (like, during Oscar season when I hadn't yet caught up to a nominee or two) but was always interested in checking the vote tally.Big Magilla wrote:Confirmed. I created a test poll and clicked the "view results button" and got the "you have already voted message". I then left the thread and when I went back to it the "you have already voted" remained even though there were zero votes in the poll.Uri wrote:And for the record, once you pushed the "view the results" button, you get a " You have already voted in this poll" message.
I do remember seeing the button before but I guess I conditioned myself to ignore it over the years, probably from having made the same mistake Cinemanolis did.
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Confirmed. I created a test poll and clicked the "view results button" and got the "you have already voted message". I then left the thread and when I went back to it the "you have already voted" remained even though there were zero votes in the poll.Uri wrote:And for the record, once you pushed the "view the results" button, you get a " You have already voted in this poll" message.
I do remember seeing the button before but I guess I conditioned myself to ignore it over the years, probably from having made the same mistake Cinemanolis did.
The grand, inherently glamorous, 25 year old Loren is as realistic as a hard beaten mother of a teenager daughter as Katharine Hepburn's Midwestern spinster was. Yet it was a powerful performance, especially for those who were willing to embrace that somehow fantasized everything-you-see-I-owe-to-pasta embodiment of Italianism. Did anyone mention "iconic"?
I passed – I don't go for "foreign" performances, so no Loren, who was the best of this bunch, yet there were other non English speaking actresses at least as award worthy as her that year – Jeanne Moreau, Harriet Andersson, Emmanuelle Riva, Monica Vitti, Anouk Aimee and so on. What a glorious era that was.
Hepburn was so disarmingly lovely everyone, including me, is willing to ignore the harm her casting made (people do it rather often – the way Johnny Depp's Ed Wood is embraced for all the wrong reasons). Wood's turn (Natalie, that is) was very passionate and heart felt, so in result, quite effective, but it couldn't fully masquerade her basic inefficiencies as an actress. Laurie was very good, but indeed supporting. That leave me, by default, with Page who is impressive, if too old, (and she wasn't helped by having to perform opposite that cluts, my next door neighbor's cousin, Harvey). But I never really liked her.
I'd go with Rita Tushingham, but her film wasn't eligible until the following year. So what, a third for Kerr, a second in a row? It is a bit too much. Leigh was fascinating, but not always for the right reason. I'm lost.
And for the record, once you pushed the "view the results" button, you get a " You have already voted in this poll" message.
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I passed – I don't go for "foreign" performances, so no Loren, who was the best of this bunch, yet there were other non English speaking actresses at least as award worthy as her that year – Jeanne Moreau, Harriet Andersson, Emmanuelle Riva, Monica Vitti, Anouk Aimee and so on. What a glorious era that was.
Hepburn was so disarmingly lovely everyone, including me, is willing to ignore the harm her casting made (people do it rather often – the way Johnny Depp's Ed Wood is embraced for all the wrong reasons). Wood's turn (Natalie, that is) was very passionate and heart felt, so in result, quite effective, but it couldn't fully masquerade her basic inefficiencies as an actress. Laurie was very good, but indeed supporting. That leave me, by default, with Page who is impressive, if too old, (and she wasn't helped by having to perform opposite that cluts, my next door neighbor's cousin, Harvey). But I never really liked her.
I'd go with Rita Tushingham, but her film wasn't eligible until the following year. So what, a third for Kerr, a second in a row? It is a bit too much. Leigh was fascinating, but not always for the right reason. I'm lost.
And for the record, once you pushed the "view the results" button, you get a " You have already voted in this poll" message.
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It's always been there, but it doesn't prevent you from casting a vote later. It's just a way to see the results before you make your own pick.Big Magilla wrote:I didn't realize there was such a button!Cinemanolis wrote:Just for the record i would have voted for Loren, but i accidentally pushed the "See the results (Null vote)" button.
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