1980's Oscar Nominees

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*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.