1980's Oscar Nominees

there's a Final Cut docu too which is great and on You Tube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdcRiPLp4oU

You didn't need the "but," E.

Goodfellas was at least a medium popular hit, no? Raging Bull flopped at the b.o.

RB is much more like a mix of Bresson/Kazan than, i dunno, Somebody Up There Hates Me.

def even if we can't swap Melvin & Howard for CMD (which is good but conventional), this is one of the better BP lineups.

Checking the box office, I was surprised to learn CMD was a pretty big hit.

esp in country country. Haven't seen it in eons, i should again.

In Alternative Oscars, published in the early nineties and an essential text for young me, the author awards Burstyn the Best Actress trophy because he gives it to Spacek for Carrie and the next year's Raggedy Man (a good little movie btw).

*Alternae

yeah, i've seen that book, by Danny Peary (who played the conference head in Computer Chess).

He was really great in that movie.

He came to Toronto a couple of years ago to introduce his documentary on film critics. Interesting Q&A, as I remember it. Doesn't like Kael much.

I remember his best actor for 1963 is Jerry Lewis.

That doesn't narrow the field down much these days.

Not enough discussion of french toast being passive-aggressively jammed down the drain itt

Or of Conrad swimming.

just no Judd Hirsch plz

even Robin Williams woulda been better

Best Foreign Language film (winner first)

Moscow Does Not Belive in Tears (Menshov, USSR)
Confidence (Szabó, Hungary)
Kagemusha (Kurosawa, Japan)
The Last Metro (Truffaut, France)
The Nest (de Armiñán, Spain)

I've only seen The Last Metro and that was in high school. Apart from that and Kagemusha, anything else worth watching?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS7s6YkVKEI

Always worth a look at the screenplay noms, too.

Original
Brubaker – Screenplay by W. D. Richter; Story by W. D. Richter and Arthur Ross
Fame – Christopher Gore
Melvin and Howard – Bo Goldman
Mon Oncle D'Amerique – Jean Gruault
Private Benjamin – Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer and Harvey Miller

Adapted
Breaker Morant – Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens and Bruce Beresford
Coal Miner's Daughter – Tom Rickman
The Elephant Man – Christopher DeVore, Eric Bergren and David Lynch
Ordinary People – Alvin Sargent
The Stunt Man – Screenplay by Lawrence B. Marcus; Adaptation by Richard Rush

Four-part analysis of the sweaters of Ordinary People:

http://theyarnmonkey.blogspot.com/2007/12/ordinary-sweaters-yoke-collar.html

Yass on all of this look:

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Donald Sweaterland.

You're all invited to the Burstyn retro in Brooklyn next month, with a 35mm print of Resurrection!

http://www.bam.org/film/2014/ellen-burstyn

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Same Time, Next Queer.

I want that newspaper.

There needs to be some network for collecting ridiculously obscure movie props. That way, you can get your Same Time, Next Year San Francisco Gazette and I could get my Goin' Down the Road Satie vinyl.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

*sigh*

oh c'mon, surely you expected this

It was a sigh of contentment that it was that close.

like a nylon lemon peel

if you take the five directors' career oeuvres, Redford's is the worst

Are you ignoring Scorsese the last fifteen years?

(Lynch got great around when Scorsese went into the toilet)

making bad movies for 15 years doesn't erase 25 of good/great

Scorsese's been uneven the entire time, with the peaks and valleys strewn in every direction.

My vote for Ordinary People had nothing to do with Redford.

just your long-aborning Elizabeth McGovern fantasies

Let's have a great year. Let's have the best year of our whole lives, OK? We can, you know. This could be the best year ever.

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adorable category fraud

I can't argue with Mary Steenburgen winning Best Supporting Actress this year, but not nominating Dyan Cannon for Honeysuckle Rose strikes me as a sizable oversight--she's excellent, even if I wish the script hadn't called for her to let Willie Nelson off the hook at the last second. Very much one of those early-'80s films (Melvin and Howard, Coal Miner's Daughter) that feels like a continuation of the '70s; except for a far-fetched sequence in Mexico with Nelson and Slim Pickens, quite liked it. I see that Amy Irving got a couple of those worst-awards for her performance. Silly--she's fine.

Eileen Brennan – Private Benjamin
Eva Le Gallienne – Resurrection
Diana Scarwid – Inside Moves

Haven't seen any of these--could one of them have been bypassed to make room for Cannon?

I watched Scarwid in both Mommie Dearest and Inside Moves within a short time frame around '83 or so, and remember thinking she was pretty good in the latter, not so much in the former. But I don't know if my opinions were worth much then or now.