What a great video. I knew little about who won these awards but knew the actors and loved how you edited in the photos and other videos and I can honestly say for the first 5 seconds I had no idea that was Goldie Hawn on film. Great video. I love this Channel! Thanks PS Margaret Rutherford who I knew from Blythe Spirit as Madame Arcati!
I think her vindication came with her subsequent nominations, proving that her win was neither a mistake nor a fluke. It's unfortunate she had to endure that kind of humiliation.
Agree completely, it was a deserving win and her subsequent nominations are also fantastic performances. Loved her in “In the Bedroom” which is an acting masterclass from everyone in it.
Marisa , Linda and Goldie are my favorites from this lineup. Marisa doesn’t deserve all the questioning of her win. She’s one of the best and most deserving.
In my eyes Marisa Tomei should have 3 Oscars under her belt. All the years she was nominated, for My Cousin Vinny, In The Bedroom, and The Wrestler, she was my personal choice for the win each year. In my perfect world she would have 3.
She may very well win another in the future. If/when she does, I hope she goes up to the podium, holds up the card with her name on it, and asks the Director for an EXTREME close-up!
Claire Trevor is one of the most unsung Actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age, and is the 'Queen Of Film Noir.' Her performance in 'Key Largo' almost steals the show from Bogart, Bacall and Robinson.
I adore Penelope Cruz's story about her father putting the 'plate' on her Oscar upside down. But I don't think that the chat show host understood what she was trying to say.
The Academy does not take comedy seriously. Marissa Tomei nailed it in one of the best comedic performances of all time. I mean, to this day, if I am feeling down, all I have to do is think of her saying "posi-traction" and I am smiling.
Rutherford practically stole The Importance of Being Earnest. I'm glad she got an Oscar for something, anything. She is the type of actor the Academy so often ignores.
I've always wondered why the Academy awarded Supporting winners with plaques in the first few years. It made their wins/categories seem "lesser." Good for Astor for asking for a "real" one!
I knew that Angelina Jolie won the Oscar for girl interrupted. I’ve never seen the movie - just in watching this clip, Jolie is frighteningly good. Girl interrupted is not my kind of movie but Jolie’s performance in this clip alone flies off the nitrate, so to speak.
Jolie was definitely frightening in the role. The film's subject is disturbing (my background is in Psychology so I was fascinated by the story). Definitely an Oscar-worthy performance.
Margaret Rutherford gave excellent performances in Blithe Spirit and The Importance of Being Earnest, reflecting her outstanding British stage career. She is forever memorable as the Miss Marple in four Agatha Christie based films. Her Oscar was a career award and otherwise a weak win. She benefitted from 3 nominations for actresses in Tom Jones. Yet Edith Evans would have been a stronger choice and an equally strong career nod.
Spot on with everything you wrote. The more I watch her performance, the more amused I am by it. Oscar-worthy? I dunno. And she definitely competed in a very weak year (I would have gone with Lilia Skala, whose screen time was more than the other 4 nominees combined!).
@@oscarman42 Yes, it was a weak year in this category. I agree. I love Edith Evans in a variety of films so here is her career award :) I think 1963 is fascinating in so many ways. The Foreign Film category boggles the mind with Fellini's 8 1/2, actually not only the best Foreign Film but the Best Film of the Year by any reasonable hindsight evaluation, and Knife in the Water and Two Sisters. The Leopard should have been nominated. Goodness. Great films like 8 1/2, Tom Jones, Hud, America America, The Leopard, and real clunkers like Cleopatra, How the West Was Won and others. Hollywood is changing...
@@williamreed2558 As you know, this was an era where Hedda Hopper and her ilk publicly stated that they would boycott the Oscars if anything but American films won. As you know, she was very powerful, so this kind of nonsense was tolerated (but not much longer, thankfully).
@@oscarman42 Yes, thank God no one in journalism is that powerful anymore and we appreciate(in my case, usually prefer) international films more. Parasite winning recently is hopeful, as well as regular international Best Film nominations now too.
I couldn't choose one of the two veteran actresses of the 1940s in this Supporting Actress category who was more artistically effective than the other: Claire Trevor in Key Largo (1948) and Mary Astor in The Big Lie (1941). These two prodigious Oscar-winning performers were immeasurable in their roles, where Astor was the spoiled scheming pianist who menaced cruelty to a woman wanting to raise her child, and Trevor, a downtrodden alcoholic bullied unsparingly by her boyfriend mob thug. After years of successful costarring in major films, I am delighted Claire Trevor won her much-deserved Oscar playing Gaye, an attractive but aging former stage singer who succumbed to the bottle and hopelessly at the mercy of Johnny Rocco. But I couldn't dismiss the performance of Mary Astor, who provided a mixture contrast of malice and poisonous deliveries in the 1941 classic. In short, her acting truly is solidly impressive. I can't pick one of the two, but I have a problem with Marisa Tomei, who won inappropriately an undeserved Oscar for My Cousin Vinny. (1992) What in God's name was the AMPAS thinking of offering her statuette for her silly and dipsy performance that was, to put it bluntly, "embarrassing?" Her screeching, sassy Bensonhurst, Brooklyn accent and wild demeanors were by far LESS humorous and immaterial. I'd put up with Tiny Tim's preposterous singing than watch this film again, upon my soul. It's another one of the Academy's long lines of unfortunate blunders. Thankfully, we hold testament that we have great vintage film actors like Trevor and Astor as cinema paramount of the silver screen.
Trevor's performance and win are one of my favorites. I thought it was brave and gutsy - you could feel her humiliation at being exposed for being so desperate for a drink, then rejected for it.
I found myself thinking that Astor won for "The Maltese Falcon," not "The Great Lie." Bette Davis starred opposite three nominees in two different films in that category, the others being Teresa Wright and Patricia Collinge in "The Little Foxes." I wonder if any other actor has done the same.
A word or two about the extraordinary Mary Astor: In her book "A life on film," she stated that as honored as she was to receive the Oscar for "The great lie," given her 'druthers, she would have preferred to receive it for "The Maltese falcon." In the same book, she went into detail about how the piano-playing sequences were filmed/dubbed. (The books is a fun read, as she discusses in detail many of her films, as well as many of her colleagues, both in front of and behind the camera.)
@@oscarman42 Thanks, Oscarman. And while on the subject of Mary Astor, in my opinion, her portrayal of the aging hooker in 1948's "Act of violence" was worthy of another "Supporting actress" nomination. Unfortunately, MGM it regarded it as a routine film and just threw it out for general distribution.
@@oscarman42 Sad to say, yes it does. (Same as the hard-as-nails campaigns launched for questionable performances, which way far too often result in nominations - and, God help us, sometimes even wins - while far worthier performances are shut out.)
For 1948, I still would have voted for Agnes Moorhead for JOHNNY BELINDA over Claire Trevor in KEY LARGO. FYI, the school of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of California at Irvine is named after her. She was married to Donald Bren, a very successful real estate developer who donated a lot of money to the school.
I loved Tomei in the show 'A Different World' and that may have made me a little biased for her Oscar win. But, but her scene in the courtroom just made that movie that much better and it was impactful for sure. If I had to pick the best of the group, I'd pick Margaret Rutherford.
You know, with Tomei, had I not gone into the movie not knowing she was the winner I would never have noticed the performance. My rankings based on the performances I have watched: 1. Linda Hunt 2. Penelope Cruz 3. Angelina Jolie 4. Goldie Hawn (confused about this one as well) 5. Marisa Tomei
She won the Golden Globe, but I still think her win was a surprise given that she was only known as a TV comedienne, and up against some formidable competition.
Mary Astor -- along with Olivia DeHavilland, Anne Baxter and Gena Rowlands -- was one of the few actresse3sthat Bette Davis respected. Astor said that she and Davis pretty much took over the film, improvising the dialogue as they went along. Astor said also that she would have preferred to have won the Oscar for THE MALTESE FALCON. I suspect most moviegoers would agree.
Astor and Davis spent time re-writing what they felt was an inferior script. And yes - Davis did speak of her respect for those co-stars. We know the list of who she didn't care for was more extensive (Faye?).
Oh no!! Don’t get me started on the great Claire Trevor. I didn’t know that Key Largo had its sole Oscar go to Claire Trevor for her great supporting actress performance. One of the great performances ever on film. Claire Trevor is on my list of “just give her the Oscar again” because what she did in this clip was untouchable. And we’re in 2024 and no actress could’ve done this. Your heart breaks for the character - each time you watch …. And …. Her character was important to the film’s plot line so her Oscar win was not a one-shot scene stealing Oscar win.
@@oscarman42 Can't wait! As we have both said, she is amazing in Interiors. Love her drunk dancing to Wolverine Blues and knocking over one of Eve's precious vases.
Angelina won because she was the “it” girl at the time. Same with Gwyneth Paltrow. Nothing against Angelina, she is a great actress. She should have won for Changeling. It showcased her acting chops more. I think Chloe Sevengy was a better choice for Boys Don’t Cry
"It girl" has nothing to do with that role and if not Angelina, Chloe still had no chance of winning but still she was the best and won. Do you think to play that type of character is easy?
I think people felt Tomei was over acting...she wasn't...If you lived in the Tri-State area, her character is probably UNDER-acted! She deserved it...She was funny, blue collar and VERY New Yawk...lol
My Cousin Vinny (perhaps a little dated), is still an excellent comedy, the whole cast is solid and while I understand hers was the sole nomination, Marissa Tomei absolutely nailed that role & every single scene. (Not directed at you, oscarman42) Why do Oscar aficionados clutch their pearls or are dumbfounded when a Thriller/Horror garners best actress or a Comedy best supporting actress? I think the late, unbelievably great Madeline Kahn was absolutely robbed in 1975. Ingrid Bergman was fine but c'mon, when classic films and classic performances are being discussed, who's bringing up Greta Ohlsson in Murder on the Orient Express over Lili Von Shtupp in Blazing Saddles...No One.
I completely agree with you! Kahn's two nominations were so deserved (be sure and check out next week's video 😉). I did a video last year ranking the Best Supporting Actress wins of the 1970s...you can guess where Bergman's win came in (to be fair, even she didn't think she deserved it).
@@oscarman42 Wonderful! I'd hate to think it was lost forever just to be found in a storage unit in Beverly Hills or something. Unrelated, good for Mary Astor to demand a full statue and not a plague. Glad they do full statues since 1943.
@@outinsider Or that Tomei would have to suffer the indignity of asking for a duplicate of an Oscar some think she hadn't deserved! As for Astor...I would have demanded the "real thing" at the ceremony!
@@oscarman42 I wonder why it took so long for that issuance of the full statue. I understand the Great Depression may have had an influence of the making, but it would have been wonderful to learn about.
@@oscarman42If Hawn could win for playing a dumb blonde, why couldn’t Reese Witherspoon and Anna Faris snag Oscar noms for Legally Blonde and The House Bunny?
@@Robert-zx2ir I think it's all timing. Hawn made her debut at the height of Laugh-In's popularity, so I gather a lot of Academy members knew her from that.
