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I never would have guessed Frances McDormand would have been on this list. When I think of Fargo (one of my all time favorites)...Marge is always the first thing that comes to mind!! It didn't occur to me she's on screen for only 27% of the movie!!
Frances McDormand said in an interview once that Marge was a supporting character. But when you think of “Fargo” you immediately think of Marge. She looms large over the entire film. Oh, ubetcha, yah!
I remember patricia neal and geraldine pages performances being short, but still such memorable performances from both ladies. Still wonderful to watch.
I love it when you teach me a lesson, Mr Brown. I know the five shortest winners very well indeed but you got me on the nominees!!! Firstly, I'm shocked Dresser had such little screen time, she the only thing I remember of A Ship Comes In. Secondly, I had no Idea that Parker was nominated back to back years (in truth she stood no chance against the field and the field stood no chance against Leigh). Finally, thank you sir, for this wonderful homecoming.
@@oscarman42 I love the silent era, it really is a whole different game. 1927/28 was the peak year with most of the era's best here. I've attempted to watch all of the first Oscar nominated films but some I can't get a stream for. The General, Metropolis, Sunrise, 7th Heaven and The Passion of Joan of Arc would be my top five for this year (Wings is very good but nothing on these films). The Passion of Joan of Arc is one of the greatest films and performances (Maria Falconetti) of all time, sadly condemned by the church so, no Oscars.
@@oscarman42 oh, and I could name a top 10 Lilian Gish must see list alone, who should've won the Academy Award for Best Actress in The Wind the following year, no nomination!!! (but I think that was the year when no "formal" nominations were given).
Most forget how good Eleanor Parker was in her early days because most remember her as Baroness Schraeder in TSOM. I actually remember when McDormand was nominated for BA, when I thought this was a supporting performance, and then she wins. Signoret should be on this list for RATT too. I wasnt thrilled with NK winning for The Hours, when her co-nominees that year were better.
Parker did some of her best work in the 1950s - underrated actress. Signoret clocked in at 38:07 (32%), so not likely in the Top 10 here (loved her performance, btw).
I know a lot of people snicker when Luise Rainer's name is mentioned, but her "telephone" scene is memorable. I think she would be better remembered if she had a longer career in Hollywood and didn't bad mouth Hollywood was much as she didi.
Really surprised that Viola Davis for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is not one of the five shortest nominated performances. And Geraldine Page should have won Best Actress in 1978 for Interiors - with Maureen Stapleton winning Best Supporting Actress.
Gotta disagree. I felt Jane Fonda was a deserving winner that year, though Ingrid Bergman in Autumn Sonata was also very good. Coming Home is an excellent film as is Autumn Sonata which is my all-time favorite. What a highly competitive year 1978 was! I also really liked Midnight Express and Deer Hunter that year.
I thought Lily Gladstone would be here. She's definitely an honorable mention for shortest Best Actress Oscar nominated performances (that didn't win). 🙃 It would also be great to compare these nominations/wins with the LONGEST Best Supporting Actress performances.
@@jonathanvelazquezph.d.2719 Considering the film's 3+ hour's length, it makes sense that her percentage is low (and gives credence to your belief that her performance was much briefer).
I haven't seen Louise Dresser in A Ship Comes In. I guess Frances McDormand is the most surprising as she seems to be the central character of the film Fargo. These clips reminded me of 4 extraordinary performances whether longer or shorter: Deborah Kerr in FHTE, Patricia Neal in Hud, Geraldine Page in Interiors and Nicole Kidman in The Hours. How each one amazed me, taking us fully and deeply into their respective characters.
McDormand has been mentioned a lot here, proving that a memorable characterization can have a great impact. I know we both agree about Page in Interiors - it's such a bleak film, but I really liked it (I've mentioned this to you before - Page and Stapleton in the same film!).
@@oscarman42 Yes, we agree for sureI . Page and Stapleton are the perfect contrast of character types in the film. Each one embodies their character so naturally and powerfully. They would have beat Fonda and Smith that year easily for me since I don't think it was eithers strongest year.
Honestly I feel Deborah korer could’ve won her Oscar for from here to Eterinty if she was nominated in best supporting actress her co star Donna reed end up winning there but I feel there was the politics of that time was leading actress goes to A-list movie stars and supporting actress goes to lesser known but respected character actresses plus Audrey Hepburn was having the moment of all moment that year similar to Jennifer Lawrence in 2012 and Emma stone in 2016.
As with several other performances in this video, Kerr was the "leading" actress in the film; hence her category placement. But that hasn't always been the case, as we have seen with other "lead" nominees who were placed in supporting!
I like the timing and percentages, though I still feel screentime percentage doesn't equate impact of performance itself. Of the winners you listed, Frances McDormand and Patricia Neal have the most impact in their short performances that define their influence in the film and thus, their respective Oscars. I would add Reese Witherspoon to the winners list for Walk The Line (2005). I second Viola Davis in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) for the nominations aspect of this video series. I am still keeping in mind all of these actors impacted their films in their performancs in some way. Whether or not the Academy felt that impact speaks only to the winners.
I think Fletcher benefited from being in a juggernaut of a movie, one of only 3 to take the top 5 prizes. But still, it was a powerful and deserving performance.
Most definitely. I remember her being asked by a reporter if she should have been nominated for Supporting (of course she was insulted - talk about poor timing!).
Patricia Neal made use of every nanosecond that she was on screen in the movie HUD. Patricia Neal gave one of the great performances of her career. - while Paul Newman and his nicely manicured look and presence always stuck out as a sore thumb … in my humble opinion.
I have no problem with Neal's performance. I just wish she had been placed in Supporting (as she was for the Golden Globe). That category was weak and she easily would have won - allowing Leslie Caron to win for The L-Shaped Room.
Neal in The Subject was Roses is heartbreaking..Great little film...I think Newman had to be prettiest in his earlier films...just go look! in a couple poor Woodward looked like the plainest Jane one could ever imagine.
Eleanor Parker‘s performance was very good and her character was integral to the plot of the movie Detective story. A true supporting actress performance.
Supporting in length, but like some of the others (e.g. McDormand), the "Lead" Actress of the film. It's a tricky situation that the Academy doesn't always get right.
@@oscarman42 as usual I did get mixed up between the actress and best supporting. Eleanor Parker was the most important part of the movie Detective story and she did deserve a nomination as best actress.
Watching Part I, I realized...sigh...they don't make melodramas like they used to. The breathy, pinched line delivery, the "mid-Atlantic" accents, the dramatic pauses...those were the days.
@bpure2560 Two separate videos.. One is about nominees. The other is about winners. Christie did not win, so she doesn't make the top 5 of those nominated.
I feel Eleanor Parker didn't receive the acknowledgment of a gifted actress after participating in 28 films (Caged (1950) was one of her notable roles) before Detective Story (1951). Her abbreviated performance as the detective wife who held a dark secret of an imperative abortion she engaged in was agonizing yet poignant, especially in the scene where she retells having relations with a mobster who left her pregnant and resorted to an abortionist who terminated her impregnation. Even though the conventional Parker appeared guiltless and tame but performed significantly in the film, she hadn't received much fanfare despite spanning fifty years in show business with three nominations for Best Actress, especially for Detective Story.
Yeah Gladstone has more screentime minute wise and even precentage than any of them here she's closer to Shirley MacLanie in Some Came Running or even Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins but Shirley is probably the better comparison as people think Julie is in a lot more of Mary Poppins than she actually is. Winner wise my favorites are Patricia Neal and Frances MacDormand . Frances isn't even in the first third of the film and then she's in and out of the action so her short time is logical .Her in support and Brenda in lead would have been a dream come true ; My favorite nominee here is Deborah Kerr.
Yes on McDormand and Blethyn! I would have been happy with those two wins! MacLaine clocked in at 38:45 (28%) and Andrews was on screen for 41:37 (33%).
@@oscarman42 it's interest because while you know Julie isn't on all the time her screentime seem like more than it actually is. That would have made for quite a year both Blethyn and MacDormand .
Ĺouise Fletcher's Nurse Ratchet is one of cinemas great villalns along with Jane Greer's Kathy Moffatt in Out Of The Past, Kathy Bates' Annie Wilkes in Misery & Kathleen Turner's Matty Walker in Body Heat among others.
I don't the love for Geraldine Page here. With a few exceptions -- A TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL, the original version of THE BEGUILED and maybe SUMMER AND SMOKE --- I just don't see much in her performances. Sorry, I know this is heresy to some people here in the forum.
@@oscarman42 Funny you should ask that question. I watched INTERIORS on Netflix several years ago and it bored me to tears. When I was in college back in the late 1970s (yes, I am old), several of my friends went to see INTERIORS, expecting the film to be a "funny" Woody Allen movie. Needless to say, my friends were very disappointed in the film. I do have to eat some of my words. Looking over Ms. Page's credits, I saw a couple of performances of hers that I did like, especially the works of Truman Capote. Do I think that Geraldine Page is the best actress in the world as described by F. Murray Abraham? Not really. Do I think she deserved the Oscar for A TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL? Yep.
@@user-dm1vn1ug5c The film was certainly different for Allen and disappointed many who were used to "Sleeper" and "Annie Hall." I found the theme and its treatment fascinating. But that's what makes films (and the Oscars) fun to discuss!
In 1963 Natalie Wood should definitely won over Patricia Neal. She was in in almost every scene in the movie. Patricia Neal gave the smallest time in a film. It was not fair at all.
The Hours is one of my favorite movies. But a win for Kidman as Wolfe?! She should have won for Moulin Rouge, the year before. Louise Rainer in The Great Ziegfeld was perfect.
@@oscarman42 I agree, and I have probably a very unpopular opinion but I would have given Kidman the Oscar for Rabbit Hole, she is perfect in that role. I can't imagine any other actress being able to pull that role off. It is one of those roles that is so great you can only watch it once.
