Watch Feud: Bette and Joan's Backstage Tracking Shot at the Oscars 

The actor portraying Oscar winner/director David Lean is Anthony Crivello (me). Working opposite brilliant Jessica Lange was a joy. Stellar set up and steady-cam work by director Ryan Murphy and DP Nelson Craig... and sound, make-up, hair and costume design departments. This difficult shot was blocked out and executed at the original site of The Oscars that year, The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in three takes.

One of the best long tracking shots ever filmed.

Jessica Lange is a goddess of acting

Loved this shot, kind of reminded me of the long shot in Goodfellas with Henry escorting Karen through the kitchen maze of the nightclub. Both shots required much forethought along with perfect timing.

This scene was so captivating when it aired 🤩

0:55 MAMACITA!!

Good. God. The. Glamour. *clutches pearls and faints*

Amazing! Instant classic.

Jessica is amazing even if she just walk

Fantastic tracking shot. Best episode of the series. In a great career, this is the finest performance I have scene Jessica Lange do. That is saying a lot!

That was beautiful.

iconic

Loved this series

What a shot!

I love this scene so much

BRILLIANT SHOW. THANK U JESSICA ….AND RYAN.

Susan and Jessica were amazing on this😍😍

So freaking Love this scene

Wow, that was a long walk .

reminds me to the amazing shot from "Goodfellas" when Ray Liotta and Lauren Bracco walk into the restaurant

Love this shot, reminds me of the restaurante long shot in "Godfellas"!!

The movie was a lot kinder to those two than the book was. Bette and Joan {The Divine Feud} by Shaun Considine did NOT paint either actress with complimentary colors. This movie does a better job at being balanced. I believe BOTH were EGOTISTIC to the enth degree, but there has to be some sort of middle ground.

This Scene Is Marvelous

Jessica Lange is truly one of the best Actresses in American Cinema. And the World.

One of the best shots ever done in television history, IMHO

I always wondered if they padded Jessica Lange's waist, hips, and butt to make her look heavier as an older Joan Crawford. I don't remember seeing Lange this full figured in "American Horror Story" episodes.

I love how she says "Bob" when the guy is turned while he is peeing...as if she could ID someone in the dark....she just instantly know its him

She looks a little like Elizabeth Taylor in this scene...

Fabulous shot, reminiscent of Scorsese's in "Good Fellas". One absolutely bizarre moment - they go through the men's room and Joan puts her hand on the back of a guy relieving himself into the urinal. WTF?!?!?!?

Omfg imagine she gets all the way to the end of the shot and the guy's lighter doesn't work 😭😭😭

Anne Bancroft winning Best Actress cane up watching this

I feel like I got my steps in for today

This tracking shot was West-Wing worthy!

Team Crawford!!!

Did she walk by a guy with door open standing at a urinal? Or am I seeing things?

Why is there a urinal in the hallway?

It’s so sad that these two powerful women and superb actors hate each other

Audrey Hepburn at 0:27...Could be? Was that Night?

I got lost.

She didn't walk through the parking lot. 🤪

lol

How about some props to the set designers and builders? What a feat!

Anybody know the song played during this shot?

I don't understand why it was such a big deal: accepting the oscar for someone else isn't like winning it yourself.

Male comfort room is the alley

That urinal right in the middle is bothering me.. 😢

As much as Bette Davis would want you to believe, she was NOT particularly well liked in Hollywood. And her scenery chewing in Baby Jane was some of her overacting at its worst. Hollywood got it right that year by going with Anne Bancroft and Anne didn't even campaign for her Oscar as she was holed up in NYC doing a stage play.

Didn't Joan have PINK fingernails that night?

very goodfellas

Joan was jealous of Bette Davis

Distracting ripoff of Goodfellas.

I must be the only one that doesn't find anything about this realistic. Joan was always a thin lady. Jessica Lange seems to carry little bit more weight than Joan would actually have even in her older years. The whole scenery that I see as Jessica is walking down the hall pat somebody on the back while peeing in the hall, and right across there is photo opts with photographers, and in the next room an elegant dine in party, then next thing is unreal. This is stupid to me.

this was a really long scene

a rip off of a far superior tracking shot/scene in Goodfellas. Most of what Ryan Murphy does is a direct rip off.

I don't think that Jessica Lange was the right choice for the role. I think that Susan Sarandon was chosen, not for her ability to act like Bette, but because of their striking physical resemblance. As a fan of both Crawford and Davis, I simply don't get the spirit of either in these actresses portraying them.

A good idea I suppose but the execution of this project was very uneven and overly simplistic. As gifted as Jessica Lange may be she did no convince as actress Joan Crawford, and I’m not sure many actresses today could convince in this part. All in all something over a wasted opportunity, much like the Hopkins/ Mirren so called bio pic of Alfred and Alma Hitchcock.

I should've known, we wouldn't be able to make it through even two minutes without a LOVING CLOSEUP OF A FILTHY CIGARETTE. This is why we don't get Pay TV, and do not pay for movies. Without the cig, though, the scene WOULD HAVE BEEN brilliant.

The tracking shot here is exceptional! Should have won an award for editing at the Emmys!

I loved this, first time I watched it I was blown away!!!

Pats random peeing guy on the back, "good job".

This is the first appointment show I've had since Mad Men went off in May 2015. This extraordinary series ought to be lining up for a slew of deserved Emmy nominations. We'll know this summer.

Crawford was the one

Incredible shot and camera work. There is something similar in Alfred Hitchcock's ''Frenzy'', but the camera is going the opposite direction starting at a closed door of an apartment, around a stairwell, down a hallway, and then outside and into the street ! It's especially chilling because there is no music, and you know that at that moment, a murder is taking place in the apartment where the shot started.

A diva's long shot in motion.

Geez, that's a long walk!

I love them

I like how she patted the man urinating in the gents without a word.

I couldn't help it....but I played "Then He Kissed Me" in the background.. :-D

So why did they walk through the men’s bathroom??😂

0:41. I loved the man at the urinal. Put that on your resume!

What kind of floor plan is it that Joan Crawford walks through a men's restroom that can be looked directly into from the rooms on either side? What about doors? Usually restrooms are arranged so that from the doorway you see a partition of some kind or maybe you see sinks but not stalls and urinals. Was there a uni-sex bathroom backstage in the auditorium? seems far-fetched for that era. Apparently we're seeing an accurate floor plan here but, I still find it odd. Maybe a little bit of this scene is for shock value? Overall it's still a brilliant scene though I question some of its accuracy.

Where’s the feud??

I saw Audrey Hepburn

So well produced, this Feud. But it's an irony that its writers insist that the feud was concocted by the greedy studio and Hedda Hopper yet this film stages several scenes of bitchy confrontations between Crawford and Davis, none of which actually happened. (This scene didn't happen either. Ushers are always on hand to quickly escort the winners to the press room.)

There were two tracking shots. The first one ended at 1:05.

She walked right through the men's room, huh? :-)

I don't get this part. Cool shot, but am I missing something? She walks David Lean back and he's confused. That bathroom part, lol

I will not sleep for one second until I see the creators of this show punished

Faye Dunaway really captured Joans image back in 1980. Jessica isn't bad but Faye really nailed it.