Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 1:54 am
I am abstaining from voting this year because I haven't seen Cathy Burns's performance.
I was 14 at the time, and couldn't get into the X-Rated Last Summer, despite the homemade identification card I made clearly stating I was 18. And I haven't come across the movie in the years since.
(Sometimes I'll vote while having seen only 4 nominees, because the unseen individual seems highly unlikely to garner my vote, either because of other work of hers I've seen, or the nature of the current vehicle for which she's been nominated. But the reputation of Burns's performance is so strong that I can't participate without having seen it.)
Of the other 4, Susannah York's riveting work as a would-be Harlow is the strongest. Dyan Cannon is absolutely delightful in Bob and Carol.
Sylvia Miles is negligible in Midnight Cowboy. Within a few years, with The Sugarland Express and Shampoo, Goldie Hawn would develop into a first-rate actress, but she was far from that in Cactus Flower. Her comic timing is off, she puts the emphasizes on the pathetic side of her character -- a disastrous choice -- and she's no fun at all, one of the most unappealing Dumb Blonde performances ever. Her win isn't as egregious as Helen Hayes's the following year, but it is still a pretty bad outcome.
1969 was the year I got sent off to boarding school, and, imprisoned on campus with only occasional access to movie theatres, this period was my low point in movie attendance. There are many major releases from 1969-71 I still haven't seen. (1971-73, my junior and senior years I had much more freedom to come and go as I pleased so I'm much more caught up at that point.)
My Own Top 5:
1. Susannah York in They Shoot Horses, Don't They
2. Janet Margolin in Take The Money And Run
3. Marie Windsor in The Good Guys And The Bad Guys
4. Dyan Cannon in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
5. Anne Francis in The Love God?
I was 14 at the time, and couldn't get into the X-Rated Last Summer, despite the homemade identification card I made clearly stating I was 18. And I haven't come across the movie in the years since.
(Sometimes I'll vote while having seen only 4 nominees, because the unseen individual seems highly unlikely to garner my vote, either because of other work of hers I've seen, or the nature of the current vehicle for which she's been nominated. But the reputation of Burns's performance is so strong that I can't participate without having seen it.)
Of the other 4, Susannah York's riveting work as a would-be Harlow is the strongest. Dyan Cannon is absolutely delightful in Bob and Carol.
Sylvia Miles is negligible in Midnight Cowboy. Within a few years, with The Sugarland Express and Shampoo, Goldie Hawn would develop into a first-rate actress, but she was far from that in Cactus Flower. Her comic timing is off, she puts the emphasizes on the pathetic side of her character -- a disastrous choice -- and she's no fun at all, one of the most unappealing Dumb Blonde performances ever. Her win isn't as egregious as Helen Hayes's the following year, but it is still a pretty bad outcome.
1969 was the year I got sent off to boarding school, and, imprisoned on campus with only occasional access to movie theatres, this period was my low point in movie attendance. There are many major releases from 1969-71 I still haven't seen. (1971-73, my junior and senior years I had much more freedom to come and go as I pleased so I'm much more caught up at that point.)
My Own Top 5:
1. Susannah York in They Shoot Horses, Don't They
2. Janet Margolin in Take The Money And Run
3. Marie Windsor in The Good Guys And The Bad Guys
4. Dyan Cannon in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
5. Anne Francis in The Love God?