Still who knows she may just come back and win a supporting award 20 years from now.
I´m still waiting for her comeback.
For all of her nominated performances I think she deserved to win in 1977 for The Goodbye Girl and in 1973 for Cinderella Liberty.
Movielover wrote:If the list was made up or not, I'm happy it mentions Marsha Mason in Only When I Laugh.
I agree and I'm coming out of the closet to out myself as a Marsha Mason fan. Love her in Chapter Two as well.
I may as well start by saying that I'm a coward. Since you have outed yourself, I may as well too. I was also a fan of Marsha Mason and always hoped that an eventual 5th nod would finally net her the elusive Oscar like it did for Susan Hayward and Shirley MacLaine. Unfortunately that was not to be. Still who knows she may just come back and win a supporting award 20 years from now.
I would like to add, though, that Chapter Two is not one of my favorite Marsha Mason performances. She is too teary and whiny in this for my liking. And the film goes on too long. I thought she was great in The Goodbye Girl (despite another teary and whiny performance). However, she did not deserve to win for any of her 4 nominated performances. Am hoping for the ''comeback'' that should net her the award.
Movielover wrote:If the list was made up or not, I'm happy it mentions Marsha Mason in Only When I Laugh. I think that's a terrific performance. As much as I love Katharine Hepburn, the Oscar should have gone to Marsha.
Live and learn! I thought Marsha Mason fans were all dead and buried! She was the Norma Shearer of the 1970s and 1980s. Today both actresses' multiple Oscar nods get violent reactions. At the time both actresses were very popular mainly because of the important men in their lives. Shearer was married to Irving Thalberg and Mason to Neil Simon. No doubt that helped them getting nominated time and again.
If the list was made up or not, I'm happy it mentions Marsha Mason in Only When I Laugh. I think that's a terrific performance. As much as I love Katharine Hepburn, the Oscar should have gone to Marsha.
This is very clearly B.S. The Academy and PriceWaterhouse are so obsessive and paranoid about voting results that this kind of informaton would never be accessible on the accounting firm's computers. Sounds like a Gold Derby poster cying for attention.
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Here is what somebody posted on the GoldDerby forum. Truth or a lie - judge for yourself??
''I know many will not believe me but I dont care. I have been a poster at this board for 2 and half years and have never started any thread like this before. Anyways I cant reveal too much info. so I dont get anyone in trouble, but my brother is a lawyer at this veyr important accounting firm which will remain unnamed. His friend who works in this department has access to some important documents on his company computer that list the winner and runnerups of every Best Actress and Best Supporting actress winner since 1979. The actor categories were not on the same file. The list lists the winner in each category and right below it has the runner up in parantheses. He emailed it to my brother and I am now holding it in my hands. While I know many wont believe me I'll post it here for those who arent so skeptical and are open minded. Believe me, I wouldnt waste my time typing this all out if it wasnt legit. You already know who won, but who came in 2nd? Well here it is.
2002- Runner up Actress- Julianne Moore
Runner up supporting Actress- Meryl Streep
2001- Runner up Actress- Sissy Spacek
Runner up Supporting Actress- Marisa Tomei
2000- Runner up Actress- Ellen Burstyn
Runner up Supporting Actress- Julie Walters
1999- Runner up Actress- Annette Bening
Runner up supporting actress- Chloe Sevigny
1998- Runner up Actress- Cate Blanchett
Runner up supprting actress- Kathy Bates
1997 Runner up Actress- Helena Bonham Carter
Runner up supporting Actress- Joan Cusack
1996 Runner up Actress- Brenda Blethyn
Runner up supporting actress- Lauren Bacall
1995 Runner up actress- Meryl Streep
Runner up supporting actress- Joan Allen
1994 Runner up actress- Miranda Richardson
Runner up supporting actress- Jennifer Tilly
1993 Runner up actress- Angela Bassett
Runner up supporting- Rosie Perez
1992 Runner up actress- Michelle Pfeiffer
Runner up supporting actress- Judy Davis
1991 Runner up actress- Susan Sarandon
runner up supporting actress- Kate Nelligan
1990- Runner up actress- Julia Roberts
Runner up supporting- Lorraine Bracco
1989- Runner up actress- Michelle Pfieffer
runner up supporting- Lena Olin
1988- Runner up actress- Glenn Close
runner up supporting- Sigourney Weaver
1987- Runner up actress- Holly Hunter
Runner up supporting- Anne Ramsey
1986- Runner up actress- Sigourney Weaver
Runner up supporting- Maggie Smith
1985- Runner up actress- Whoopi Goldberg
runner up supporting- Meg Tilly
1984- Runner up actress- Judy Davis
Runner up supporting- Geraldine Page
1983- Runner up actress- Debra Winger
runner up supporting- Cher
1982- Runner up actress- Jessica Lange
runner up supporting- Teri Garr
1981- Runner up actress- Marsha Mason
Runner up supporting- Joan Hackett
1980- Runner up actress- Mary Tyler Moore
runner up supporting- Cathy Moriarty
1979- Runner up actress- Marsha Mason
runner up supporting- Jane Alexander