I saw Gandhi again today, for the 16th time in my life, and it never gets old for me. Ben Kingsley deserved the Oscar for it. I don't think any actor alive today can match his role as Gandhi.
@@aarone1038 paul newman was good in the verdict but ben kingsley was superb in gandhi. that year he swept up most of the critic awards, golden globe, and bafta, he was the deserving oscar winner.
***** I know the lineup was amazing. Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie, the dudes you mentioned, Jeremy Irons in Moonlighting (sucks he wasn't even nominated). But he is so dead-on as Gandhi, it is perhaps the closest real-life film portrayal ever.
What a line up. Somehow these things doesn't happen anymore. It's so rare that an entire line up is deserving of an Oscar. Now it's mostly two or three that truly deserves it.
+Damian Bailey just his opinion (maybe) because he's a bitter loser. If it's all popularity, how do you explain so many deserving winners and nominees? It's the people who pay the least amount of close attention who do most of the bitching. Many academy members are really turned off by the ads.
I think people have realised the Academy Awards are largely a joke ever since "Shakespeare in Love" won Best Picture. It's an open secret that the award was largely paid for (which Gervais even jokes about in one of his Golden Globes speeches), especially clear when you look at the other nominations for Best Picture that year, all of which were significantly better films than Shakespeare
+CaptainObvious And The Greatest Show On Earth winning over High Noon, and Oliver winning over 2001: A Space Odyssey didn’t already make people feel that way?
No contest, Gandhi was Godfather-level epic movie magic at its finest and Ben actually BECAME Gandhi in the most thorough way an actor can ever portray a subject
Even though I'm a Sri Lankan , hearing that music made me cry.. It just remembered me how much of good Great Mahathma Gandhi have done for all of us and what kind of sufferings he went through . And after all of this 😢
Raghupathi Ragav musical in the background, gave me goosebumps. Its great that he mentioned visionaries like Nehru, mentioning Ambedkar would have been icing the cake.
He mentioned Nehru and other people because they helped in the creation of the film. The film was dedicated to Nehru and the other two people because Attenborough actually contacted them and got support from them. Ambedkar was long dead before this film was made.
The other nominees were legendary actors deserving of utmost respect, but Sir Ben Kingsley's win remains as one of the best decisions ever made by the Academy.
He was by far the least known nominee that year, as he was nominated with four men who were already legends and he was still legend to come in future, but all those legends stood no chance against his performance in Gandhi. That performance was simply perfection.
@@djokerdevil fyi it represents his culture, as Gandhi is Indian, u know, so is The guy.. To be represented by Americans without stereotype at that era is quite rare instance
As a Hindu and a hyper nationalist I feel ashamed of distorted version of Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram of Gandhi. The real bhejan has no Allah in it. Godse zindabad. Subhash Babu Zindabad. Savarkar Zindabad
Definitely a well-deserved Oscar-winning performance. 1982 considered to be one of the best years of leading acting. Although, Albert Finney's Shoot the Moon was criminally overlooked. It is simply phenomenal performance, as always he made acting seem natural.
All nominees were Oscar-winning performances, no doubt about that, especially Dustin Hoffman and Paul Newman, but they simply stood no chance against Ben Kingsley's performance in Ghandi. That performance was perfection.
The craziest thing about it all is that the role of Gandhi was never originally meant for Ben Kingsley. It is well known fact that it was originally offered to Dustin Hoffman, who declined in favor of Tootsie. It was only than that somebody suggested to Richard Attenborough to go and watch than unknown stage actor Ben Kingsley in a play. No matter how amazing Hoffman is as an actor, it would never have worker out.
RIP Paul Newman (January 26, 1925 - September 26, 2008), aged 83 RIP Jack Lemmon (February 8, 1925 - June 27, 2001), aged 76 RIP Peter O’Toole (August 2, 1932 - December 14, 2013), aged 81 You will always be remembered as legends.
The man needed no introduction to the world.. but Ben Kingsley introduced Gandhi to the western world.. Mahatma Gandhi with his undying love for truth and his experiments proved more than ever in year 2020 that his vision saw Globalalised world.. tallest leader India produced and among the greatest in simplicity World produced
My goodness, Gandhi was one of the greatest films of all time. Kingsley in the role of a lifetime. Well deserved award... and great kudos to the runners up. A strong year to be sure.
I just finished watching Ghandi not more than an hour ago, looked up Ben Kingsley, saw this video and cheered. Watching this clip was like a current Oscar event to me, haha! So glad he won!!
An incredible year - arguably career best work from ALL of the nominees. Personally I think Jack Lemmon in MISSING is the finest english language performance of the last 50 years, but one could make a case for any of the other four - Peter O'Toole is absolutely hysterical in MY FAVORITE YEAR.
Thank you for the upload. What an amazing lineup. Mr. Newman wanted it so badly for this performance and deserved it, it was his 6th time up to bat, spanning 4 decades. He transcended his honed skills into effortless art with this role. Wish it had been a tie, but Mr. Kingsley was quite magnificent.
Ben Kingsley could have waited a couple more years to win he deserved it but Paul Newman was so overdue he should have one for The Hustler when he finally won for The Color of Money he chose not to attend and when asked by the press how he felt about it was very blase I don't blame him
🇮🇳 It's a pity India with its powerful film industry has still not made a movie on Gandhi which people say 'wow'. For a Indian film maker, this is a golden opportunity.
And I hope we never make one cuz our biopics are nothing but distorted facts and drama....plus I don't think most Indians can relate to the philosophy and methods of Gandhi.
Gandhi has become a film forgotten in the public consciousness, but remains one of the greatest ever. It's a shame that the legacy of E.T. (how it came to be, I don't know) has overshadowed such a tremendous film. For all of the British actors who the American public lauds incessantly, Kingsley seems perpetually lost in the shuffel, which is a massive shame. This performance remains one of the greatest to claim Oscar gold, and what a worthy actor Kingsley was for the role of Gandhi.
He has played much more shitty roles than in dictator. E.g. Idiot villain in Iron man 3, vampire in bloodrayne, etc. I think he accepts all roles for money.
@@th-hannibal because after a certain age that's what you have to in order to make money. Stranger things have happened like Robert De Niro doing Dirty Grandpa.
All of the Best Actor Nominees of 1982 except for Peter O' Toole have won at least 1 Oscar: Ben Kingsley: Gandhi Paul Newman: The Color of Money Dustin Hoffman: Kramer vs. Kramer and Rain Man Jack Lemmon: Mister Roberts and Save the Tiger
That year was one of the MOST difficult years ever...... Dustin, Ben, Jack, Paul and Peter, this will NEVER repeat in Oscar history, god bless all of them and R.I.P to Jack and Paul.
Ben Kingsley: "I don’t know why I wore a white jacket. I just thought: 'Well, I’m not going to win so I might as well enjoy dressing up.' I got it in the sales and it was a little tight. I went to the barber the night before; I had grown a thin moustache for a stage role and had a bit of hair back then, which needed a trim. The barber suggested some tan for my face; by the time I got back to my room and looked in the mirror my face was orange. Lifting my Oscar, with the jacket and the moustache and the orange face, I looked like a mad wine waiter asking: 'Who ordered the chardonnay?'"
