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--Sabin wrote:Did Lee Grant deserve the Oscar over Lily Tomlin?
No way. Lee Grant is intermittently amusing and has some good zingers but it's not a very challenging role at all.
I think an all-Nashville lineup would have been one of the greatest slates of all time. Blakley. Chaplin. Harris. Tomlin. Welles. I'm getting a little giddy just thinking about it!
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Bekleme odasi (2004) Zeki Demirkubuz 5/10
Wendy and Luck (2008) Kelly Reichardt 9/10
Tom Brown's School Days (1951) Gordon Parry 7/10
Wendy and Luck (2008) Kelly Reichardt 9/10
Tom Brown's School Days (1951) Gordon Parry 7/10
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The performance that was criminally ignored was Beatty's. His was easily the year's best lead comedic work. He should have been nominated in place of Walter Matthau's hambone crapola in The Sunshine Boys.
The Sunshine Boys is on my shelf waiting to be seen, part of my accolade of seeing all acting nominees since 1970, but I agree with you on Beatty.
Ironically, although I think Busgy and Bonnie and Clyde still remain as my favourite Beatty's performances, I think he is very good on comedic roles.
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Hal Ashby's first seven films as a director - The Landlord, Harold and Maude, The Last Detail, Shampoo, Bound for Glory, Coming Home and Being There - were quintessential 1970s films. Every one of them is worth revisiting from time to time.
All of them feature great performances. The greats in Shampoo were Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn and Lee Grant. I didn't care for either Jack Warden or Carrie Fisher. Warden's best screen performance IMO was in The Verdict seven years later.
Grant though good, was better in The Landlord. Lily Tomlin and Ronee Blakley were the year's standout supporting actresses in Nashville but Grant was considered due.
The performance that was criminally ignored was Beatty's. His was easily the year's best lead comedic work. He should have been nominated in place of Walter Matthau's hambone crapola in The Sunshine Boys.
All of them feature great performances. The greats in Shampoo were Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn and Lee Grant. I didn't care for either Jack Warden or Carrie Fisher. Warden's best screen performance IMO was in The Verdict seven years later.
Grant though good, was better in The Landlord. Lily Tomlin and Ronee Blakley were the year's standout supporting actresses in Nashville but Grant was considered due.
The performance that was criminally ignored was Beatty's. His was easily the year's best lead comedic work. He should have been nominated in place of Walter Matthau's hambone crapola in The Sunshine Boys.
--Sabin wrote:Really want to see Shampoo. I'm a very big Ashby fan. Did Lee Grant deserve the Oscar over Lily Tomlin? I can't imagine a better performance that year.
I still have to see Nashville but I think Grant fully deserved at least a nomination. Jack Warden for me is the one who deserved it.
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I agree, Grant is fabulous, it's a showy role, but she doesn't ham it up the way she did in subsequent films.
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--Sabin wrote:Really want to see Shampoo. I'm a very big Ashby fan. Did Lee Grant deserve the Oscar over Lily Tomlin? I can't imagine a better performance that year.
You should definitely see it, Sabin. It's fun, evocative, dated but in a hilariously good way and just a good ole romp. Lee Grant is fabulous. You really feel for her character at the film's climax. Better than Lily Tomlin? I can't really say. Both are wonderful in their own ways.
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