Faye Dunaway's Dangerous Women | Best Actress 1977 

"I'm saving [Mommie Dearest] for its own video." *Brings out a bucket of popcorn* I'm ready.

Can’t stop thinking of the time Bette Davis said she wouldn’t work with Faye for a million dollars

No matter her "work style" Faye Dunaway is one of the important actors of the late 20th century. She needs more love and respect as an artist.

I strive to be described as having "big stealthy energy"

"Elizabeth Taylor enthroned with her Butterfield 8 trophy is probably the greatest post-Oscars photo ever taken. Next would be a picture of Faye Dunaway breakfasting atThe Beverly Hills Hotel the morning aftershe won Best actress for Network.Lounging by the poolside in her creamy silk dressing gown, newspapers scattered at her feet,Dunaway contemplates her Oscar with a tinge of ironic detachment and fatigue. This bleak, brilliant photo marks the arrival of a new generation in Hollywood, hip, smart, and cynical. The mythic grandeur of old Hollywood and its pantheon of celestial stars is already gone." (Icon) *Camille Paglia*

I have met Faye Dunaway. One of the best experiences of my life so far. She is truly classy and a film nerd like myself. We talked about the process of filmmaking, I was amazed of how much she knew in detail about the whole process from the director's point of view. It is true that she is a diva and very difficult, but to me she was always really nice during those days I spend with her, her son and some friends in common that we had. She did screamed at me once when I folded her hat hahaha, but even that was terrifyingly cool. True that she hates when people mention "mommy dearest" or the "Oscar fiasco" to her, but I consider her performance in Network amazing. I fell in love of her after watching that movie during my filmschool. Was a dream come true to have had spend some time with her. A TRUE LEGEND!

I would love a video about Liv Ullmann specially in contrast with the Hollywood machine. You talk about this a little bit but it's a really interesting subject.

I'll never understand how Faye Dunaway hasn't won the AFI Life Achievement Award. She's given brilliant performances in three movies on the AFI's 100 Best American Movies -- "Bonnie and Clyde," "Chinatown," and "Network." I realize that "Mommie Dearest" was polarizing, but some of us -- including Pauline Kael -- thought that Kaye Dunaway was excellent in it. She's one of the greatest of all American actresses.

Fun fact: Faye Dunaway played Serena Joy in a little known and not very good film adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale in the early 90s, a version of the character more similar to the book: older, somewhat past her prime, and bitter. Given the overall quality of the film (not very high), the role is definitely in her wheelhouse, she gives a fantastic performance, and I think that it could have been one of her most iconic performances with a better...... everything else 😂

I don't think it should be overlooked how her performances were always alongside some of the most intense and masterful actors of the late 20th Century. Warren Beatty, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Tommy Lee Jones, Mickey Rourke, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, William Holden. She consistently delivered opposite every one of those performances and was never out shadowed by them.

Faye Dunaway is always grouped in my mind with Debra Winger, in that both women had this dynamic, almost trapped energy that could combust in their movies. Maybe difficult to work with, but amazing and captivating talent.

Faye: *watches video* Faye: "Be Kind Rewind I wanna talk to you..." Be Kind Rewind: "..." Faye: "In the OTHER room."

'I wrote this before the coup' ended me. I was hoping you would bring that up because Network is all I could think of as Wednesday unfolded.

Also: an interesting, weird anecdote about Network: Finch, Dunaway and Straight each won an Oscar for their performances, but at no point in the film do any of them appear on screen sharing a scene.

I love Faye in Network. Truly every performance in that film is so deliciously mad and over the top. One of the best ensemble acting showcases in filmdom.

I ran into Ms Dunaway in West Hollywood when she was walking with her doggie a few years ago. She was so sweet and kind and we laughed together. Great sense of humor!! Legendary actress, one of the last great classic actresses!! A true movie star ⭐

The way I SQUEALED when you said an entire video about Mommie Dearest was coming.

Faye played this role so well! One of the best best actress winning performances ever imo!

Faye Dunaway is the penultimate icon of the American New Wave. As much as I love her (and I think she was superb in Network, she deserved that Oscar), I really like how you deliver some justice for all of Liv Ullmann's ridiculously overlooked work. Plus, if there is anyone out there who knows how to masterfully blend a generous dose of humour in their essays, it's definitely you.

is so scary how network holds up TODAY the first monologue by mister beale and the last by the businessman could be said today I I wouldn't change a thing

I loved this SO MUCH and nearly screamed at the mention of saving Mommie Dearest for another day - cannot wait!

Faye in the earlier years of her career is like a mix between Jane Fonda and Meryl Streep By the way, Talia Shire in Rocky is DEFINITELY a supporting role

This channel just keeps getting better and better 😌🖐

Faye Dunaway asked me for directions at the 59th Street Columbus Circle subway stop. Then I ran into her 2 hours later. I helped her with her packages down to the subway again. It was quite something!

I will die on the hill that “Eyes of Laura Mars” is a criminally underrated masterpiece and one of Dunaway’s best roles.

Faye Dunaway a gem so much poise such a remarkable quality.

Faye is a wonderful actress and is not puffed because of her success. She is a good actress and well developed from the time I knew her. I am proud of her. God bless you Faye.. Vince Manno

"Frankly, sometimes it's just cathartic to hear an issue so clearly articulated out loud" Same reason why we subscribe to this channel!

Your channel inspired me so much, decided to start my own channel. Your attention to detail and unique dry humour is so well done. Honestly, I feel like I'm watching a professional doc on PBS. You should feel very proud of yourself!!

Faye Dunaway just happens to have lead roles in 3 of my top 10 movies.. Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown and Network. She's one of the best in my opinion.

I may be alone here, but when I think of Faye, what come to mind is Milady de Winter in The Three and The Four Musketeers... Loved her in that. Great video!!

Network will always be one of my all-time faves!

What like about Faye is the same kind of "controlled intensity" I see in Michael Shannon for example, and The Network and Chinatown show that, she commands a scene without having to scream or losing her grip and I really like that

Lol the late great Bette Davis hated her.. I wonder if bette ever commented on Faye playing Joan ?!

5:55 faya was a pain in the ass. It's absolutely true that women gets way more hate for being "difficult" than men

Another class act video! Dunaway’s win is one of the best in that category but it’s still a shame that Ullman never won an Oscar.

One of the most beautiful and talented actresses in history.

Bonnie and Clyde's last caper was a daring Moonlight robbery, after which they almost escaped with the gold to La La Land. :D

One of my most favorite best actress-winning roles! I love Faye so much as Diana Christensen (that she becomes some sort of a morbid role model LMAO) Network is in my definite top 5 films of all times too and it still amazes me how Diana and Howard Beale never even shares a scene together, yet they both win the leading acting Oscars!

Just the thought of you doing a Mommy Dearest essay gave me literal chills. YES PLEASE!

Faye's win is one of the best in the Best Actress category. And Network won three acting awards (William Holden lost to his co-star Finch and Ned Beatty was nominated for his only scene if I remember correctly). That's a HUGE achievement.

"I wrote this before the coup"

I am waiting if you look for the Piano with Jane Campion with her passionable screenplay and directing. And Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin taking Actress and Supporting Actress that year.

Network seemed ahead of its time. The first time I watched it was just last year. It was uncanny how close the movie portrayed what executives in the Reality TV genre are assumed to be like.

Loved her in “Barfly” with Mickey Rourke and the Gucci ads!

Like her or not, you have to admit, she’s starred in some of the greatest movies ever made. Too bad Mommie Dearest ruined her career.

I CANNOT wait for the Mommie Dearest episode.

Check out Faye's performance in Three/Four Musketeers from 1973 and -74! Her performance is unforgettable and she is the definitive Milady to me. Mysterious, elegant, cold, dangerous - all check! I wasn't born back then, but I doubt many did Charismatic Villain better than her.

So um...my mom is high school alumni with the guy who wrote the play Tea at Five. I got to attend the premiere in Boston and met her briefly at the after party. She was nice enough when we were introduced, my mom and I left pretty soon after since we had to drive an hour back home. Later my mom and I saw the New York Post article about her slapping a crew member, demanding no one wear white as it was “distracting” and I think there was a mention of her having her lines fed through an ear piece. As for the play itself, it was very good, it was like being let into Katharine Hepburns home while she tells you juicy stories from the past. I’d love to see it again once a new actress is cast. Supposedly they were aiming for the West End with another actress after Faye ruined their chance at Broadway.

Excellent video. I thought she was so pretty when I saw Bonnie & Clyde as a child. Chinatown and her performance still remains a favorite. I worked in TV and her performance was spot on in Network, I could go on and on. She had a bad reputation behind the scenes as well. All in all, she was an amazing talent.

The scene in Network where everyone is yelling out of their windows about how mad as hell they are to the accompaniment of thunder and lightening is great to watch even though the scene is obviously demonstrating a flair for the overly dramatic.

Please do a video on Liv Ullmann, I watched Autumn Sonata two weeks ago and it keeps haunting me

Miss Dunaway also had a most prestigious Broadway stage debut in 1965 for 'Hogan's Goat' in which she won the Theater World Award for outstanding New York City stage debut performance on or off Broadway. Fortunately 'Hogan's Goat' was filmed later by PBS with Miss Dunaway opposite Robert Foxworth.

Can't wait for the Mommie Dearest video. That movie encapsulates my own conflicted attitude towards Dunaway and her work.

I thoroughly enjoyed this look at Faye's rise to Oscar A-lister. Great work! 😎

So glad you decided on Faye, especially her work in the 70s, as the focus of this video. I was a kid in the 70s, and Faye Dunaway was the epitome of Hollywood glamour to me growing up; seeing her first in "the Towering Inferno" (because my parents thought it was fine for an 8 year old to watch a film about mass death in a conflagration) certainly cemented that sense. Her career has been so defined by "Mommie Dearest" that younger people may not realize how freaking good she is. "Network" is a brilliant performance - and you so deftly explained the experience of watching it now (my own journey was "it's over the top satire" as an 80s college student, "it's got something to say, but it still too exaggerated" by the time 9/11 happened, to "it didn't go far enough" today). However, I would really recommend people check out "Three Days of the Condor" if they haven't seen it. She plays a very "normal" character in that one, who falls in love with Robert Redford after he kidnaps her, which is "problematic," to say the least. She pulls it off, though (doesn't hurt that she's acting opposite Redford), and it's a really nuanced, finely crafted performance.

Those eyes are piercing! She’s a stunner.

Faye Dunaway's comeback film after Mommy Dearest and a six year layoff was the little independent masterpiece BARFLY. It is my favorite Faye performance and we in my little circle still always quote her lines. She is incredible as Wanda the damaged, but woundedly wise wino. And I find her riveting in every role. Like Debra Winger. Extraordinary actors, extraordinary women.

The Eyes of Laura Mars and Chinatown are my FD faves.

The part that got me was five minutes of screen time and won. supporting actress!

"I wrote this before the coup" really is a mood these days

You've got to do one on Liv Ullmann!

I love how I stumbled upon this channel because of your _A Star Is Born_ video, and stayed to be educated on everything you have posted. Love it. Your voice is just.. comfort.

Never hit the “LIKE” so fast. I feel like I’ve been waiting for this all my life.

Faye's career died mostly of self-inflicted wounds, but I've no doubt that the men in Hollywood did what they could to push her aside. She was a threatening presence to most of them. Sensitive beta males and power-mad directors didn't want to face an alpha female on a film set. She was a threat because she wouldn't tolerate their insecurities. That being said, yes, Mommy Dearest is a high camp film, but Faye's performance is wildly underrated. It's one of my personal favorites!

These videos are so well researched and thought out. It's honestly got me into classic film. Thank you BKR!!

Network is one of my all time favourite films (and really should've won best picture that year) and a large part of that is because of Faye. She somehow manages to make such a crazy plot in which she says insane lines sound totally plausible and realistic. It was the first film of her's I'd seen and I instantly was enamored with how fantastic she was

Network's actually a really interesting film to dissect Oscar-wise: all of its acting nominations are within the top ten shortest nominations for their categories. It's just an incredible film that communicates its characters' worldviews and motivations very effectively. It's a story where everyone on screen, even incredibly minor roles, feel like real people. I think part of that is the screenplay but the direction and also deserve high amounts of praise.

I love Faye Dunaway's performance in Network (1976) and I love all the contexts you put in for her win and her career. Eagerly awaiting your Mommie Dearest(1981) video.

This channel has provided all the serotonin i needed in quarentine! I’d love to suggest the following winners if I may: - 1991: Kathy Bates - because a win in that genre is the exception not the norm -1987: Marlee Matlin - because non speaking roles especially ASL are rarely oscar gold -1974 : Glenda Jackson because WTF considering Ellen Burstyn in the exorcist -1967: Elizabeth Taylor because sometimes It really is about the performance 1951: Judy Holliday because Norma Desmond and amargo Channing stood the test of time And more recently i’d say 2015 : Julianne Moore and the body of work compensation Oscar.

Liv Ullmann was so criminally underrated

Great video. I've only seen Network, bonnie and clyde, chinatown, and mommy dearest but I'll definitely check out more of her work.

I been waiting for this one, turn it up!!!🤠

Liv Ullmann is phenomenal in Persona, Autumn Sonata, & Shame.

thanks for another great video! Finally watched Network recently and it was amazing experience - basically like acting class. Faye was iconic in her role. This is when her over-the-top persona shines. And Beatrice Straight! Winning an Oscar for literally 1 scene! And absolutely deserving this. Also thank u for Liv Ullman appreciation. I was so surprised when I go to her wikipedia page and found she never had any oscar and was nominated only 2 times? How it's even possible?

Network is probably the most important film of the 20th century and the most pertinent film to predict the future.

Another A-1 post; so glad to see one of my favorite wins make it among your elite selections. I was fortunate to see an interview with Ms. Dunaway at a screening of "Network" several years ago. She demonstrated great intelligence and insight while discussing her work in the film, and how she approached playing the character while closely collaborating with Lumet and the cast. She also came across as much more gracious than legend would have it, and even a little timid concerning her abundant talent- she mainly focused on the importance of the work involved in bringing such an outrageous character as Diana to life in a believable manner. I always have loved the way Faye mixes comic and dramatic elements in the role- such a skillful, electric and fun performance.

Her Oscar was one of the most well deserved. Her character of some who would execute her own grandmother on live TV for ratings is so believable.

This is the first time I’ve already seen the movie that they’re talking about and oh my god when I tell you that it is a high

"i wrote this before the coup ;)" is sending me i cant fucking believe i have to live in this country

Yes don't worry about the last part of your video when you mention worrying about your tone or delivery not being entertaining enough... you are literally so fun and easy to listen to! Even when I first subscribed, your voice, jokes, and infliction were literally my favorite part second to your interesting video essays!

Have you ever considered doing a documentary Glenda Jackson and her two Oscar wins for “woman in love” and “a touch of class”? She had this remarkable career in the early seventies then have it all up. A real Oscar anomaly. Not least of all because she won two best actress awards.

Yaaaaay a Mommie Dearest video!! Can't wait for that perspective. This was a good video to start with Faye Dunaway. I also just rewatched your Feud video :D

Network is one of the most prophetic movies I have ever seen, if anything it falls short of predicting the utter destruction of our information/news landscape in favor of sensationalism, depravity and stupidity. Several of the monologues, though heavy handed, are just brilliant. The subplot with the Ecumenical Liberation Army is great satire - or maybe its only seems like that in retrospect. Also the dialog in that movie is downright Sorkin-esque especially the scene that won Beatrice Straight her supporting Oscar.

OMG yess I will wait for Mommie Dearest with all my heart!!!! Your work is just amazing!

I remember watching 'Network ' for the first time and thought somebody in casting liked red-headed ( or at least Auburn hair) women.

Another winner! You're wonderful❤️ and thank you.

Your essays are so thoughtful, I appreciate the details you provide -- and the care you take with them is obvious. Stellar work, as usual! :)

Faye Dunaway is a great actor. Those films from 1967 to 1977 is a list of essential films for all cinephiles. Thank you for posting this video about her. I hope it encourages more people to check out her work. Also, I look forward to you discussing “Mommie Dearest” in another video.

Can’t wait for the Mommy Dearest video. Watched it in the late 80’s as a kid (I know) and still watch it to this day. One of my favorites.

I just want you to know I really appreciate you

I love it when you make these series, as there are some movies I’ve never seen yet sound very much up my alley! I’m definietly watching Network now

Another brilliant video! I can’t wait for the next one!

Love your work! So informative and yet, we can see the research that goes to each actress, or events taken. Not just, oh the Oscars and here you go. It's more then that!

Ohhh what a great video to watch after the hellish beginning of the year we have had. Thanks BKR

Who plucks a hair out of someone's head without asking. Good for him he's a pariah today

Oooh! I'm looking forward to the mommie dearest video. I absolutely love your content!

I know your channel focuses on Hollywood culture/history/actresses, but I'd love to see more about Liv Ullman! I really liked how you included some of her backstory in this video.

Always such a pleasure to watch your video essays.

SO excited for this! Network is my favorite film of all time. Can’t wait for the Mommy Dearest episode. May have to rewatch in preparation