Don Ameche Wins Supporting Actor: 1986 Oscars 

He always appears so humble, I hope your life is going as planned, so jealous that you met him.

Excellent memory. 😊

I’m a massive Don Ameche fan and I live near Tacoma. May I ask what town?

I hope you post the recording if you still have it! That's amazing. What a lovely man

Beautiful story about you meeting, Mr. Ameche. You can tell by his Oscar acceptance speech that he was a class act.

I met Mr. Ameche as he was a customer at the Beverly Hills bookstore where I worked. He was looking for a work of St. Thomas Aquinas - we had it. And yes he was gracious, nice, and intelligent.

MsRandomnotes1 poo o

MsRandomnotes1 No one else could have played Shadow.

MsRandomnotes1 Lucky 😮👍🏻!

He always seemed to be just what you mentioned above!

Since 1997 when Titanic won 11 Academy Awards, the Academy Awards Ceremony from 1998 with Billy Crystal has gone completely down Hill 😭😭😭😭😭

Because today,s young people and the current world of lawlessness and woke crap has changed people into monsters, the academy awards hasn,t been watchable since 1999 !!!!!

Because the young people of today 35 and under have no idea what decency and being appropriate in public or recognizing a superb actor like this man.They don't want to know about the past and couldn't care less either!!!!!

I feel the same way too. He is such a wonderful actor and a gentleman - which you don't see anymore.

I cry each time I view this video of Don Ameche winning the Oscar. RIP Mr. Don Ameche - you deserve this and more - thank you for your talent.

And that voice: rich, honeyed, caramel-drenched baritone. Only John Huston comes close.

My favorite movie with Don is "Heaven can wait " 1943. With Gene Tierney. Beautiful movie and funny too.

Yes, yes! Mine too! Perfectly cast and a great script. My favorite scene is when he is trying to convince Gene Tierney to come back to him, having followed her to her parents' house in Kansas. It's also my favorite Ernst Lubitsch film.

yes, the epitome of one.

+justess martin Liked him too. But the award was ridiculous.

How so????

Have you seen his performance in the movie- He had no scene at all except for his " break dancing" scene. Wilford Brimley deserved to be nominated over Mr. Ameche. He simply did not do anything in this movie to warrant an nomination, let alone a win. It is a very heartwarming and popular movie and he is okay in it, but Come On - An Oscar

What's all this ABOUT TIME You give me ANY TIME he even sniffed a nomination in his entire lifetime of movies I'll wait

His career goes back to the 1930s!

This often happens at the Oscars, an award given for a career. However, I thought he did give a great performance in Cocoon. It was just a more lighthearted role, which is often compared unfairly in performance to deeper roles. It's also why comedies are so often overlooked by the Oscars. Just my opinion.

ladycplum What’s your problem?

rgrndu Cesspool of hypocrisy that celebrates philanderers such as Harvey Weinstein then offers him as a scapegoat for the masses

@@rgrndu political correctness dear

No political tirades in those days. The Oscars were about celebrating film, not about muh current year politics.

Which episode? I know he had Haing S. Ngor’s.

@@ImVee10 It was changed to Don Ameche for syndication due to Haing S. Ngor’s tragic murder after the episode first aired.

@@thefilmscholar Oh. I don’t watch syndicated reruns, as three minutes are tragically cut for more commercial time.

Charlie Harrison LOL the thing on her head makes her look like a peacock .

@@martinpascoe5904 Her performance in Mask was great, and she should've been nominated. I loved her in Moonstruck, but think she only got that Oscar as a consolation for the Mask snub.

@@mrnocal NO, she was terrific in Moonstruck all the other great performances in that movie revolved around her character.

I believe, in this case, Mr. Ameche's Oscar was a sort of Lifetime Achievement thing. He made a return to film in 1983 after a 13-year-hiatus, and I guess the Academy wanted to find a way to properly honor him.

I disagree about Cronyn, imo Wilfred Brimley was the best actor in Cocoon. His arc was more moving as he had the story of the grandpa and the grandson which breaks my heart every time I watch it, and he had more heavy dramatic lifting to do. Hume did the best in the 2nd one, his arc in that one was quite sad. Brimley's monologue after their decision where he tells the grandson they are leaving and he has to grow up on his own is so heartbreaking to watch yet he nailed it. That alone deserved a nomination, I woulda been happy with him or Brandauer or even Hickey winning it (Hickey's journey to the nom is as moving as Ameche's was.) Don's performance was the more lighter of the 3 in Cocoon. Granted he went threw his own arc and was fun to watch, but when push came to shove he didn't really do much emotional stuff in either Cocoon film. He was the loudmouth who told a lot of jokes and had the most fun, not exactly an Oscar winning performance but he made the movie more fun. This was definitely an achievement award more than anything, No offense to Don he seemed like a wonderful man but it wasn't the best performance of 85 for that category.

Of course it was a sentimental choice...but what's wrong with that...more than anything these prizes are either an indication of your commercial value or in Ameche's case how well loved you are by your peers...notice that a few years later Lauren Bacall did NOT get the sentimental oscar 😉....she was ..let's say..more divisive among her tribe.....

Danny Glover should have been nominated for Best Actor.

@INTERNETWORK he shouldve been

@@KingMe725 Best Supporting actor Oscar you mean?

That's how I found out about him