I guess it's my turn. I'm feeling like a feisty old woman today, so for my 5th pick I'm going with Best Supporting Actress: 1968 - Ruth Gordon - Rosemary's Baby
The annoying, pushy neighbor who's just too nice. It's always the nice ones that turn out to be the most evil.
Looks like Jagger is AKed. In Best Supporting Actor, I'll take Kevin Spacey as Verbal Kint, aka Keyser Soze! From Usual Suspects, 1995. The whole movie spins around Spacey's performance, both on screen and narrating.
Jolie next took the supporting role of the sociopathic Lisa Rowe in Girl, Interrupted (1999), a film that tells the story of mental patient Susanna Kaysen, and which was adapted from Kaysen's original memoir Girl, Interrupted. While Winona Ryder played the main character in what was hoped to be a comeback for her, the film instead marked Jolie's final breakthrough in Hollywood. She won her third Golden Globe, her second Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Variety noted, "Jolie is excellent as the flamboyant, irresponsible girl who turns out to be far more instrumental than the doctors in Susanna's rehabilitation".
Yeah, she kissed her brother, but I'm willing to look past that.
PS - Looks like Jagger's Best Director pick got placed on my row on the draft board.
As Jim Carrey hilariously opined recently, "Where is the bad film on this woman?" With my next pick, I'm proud to select one of the greatest actresses to ever grace the silver screen, in the category of BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, Meryl Streep for Kramer vs Kramer (1979).
First off, this is a top notch movie. If anyone hasn't seen it, put it on your list. You will not be disappointed.
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I know that I should go with a deep and dramatic song, but instead I am going with one that I love, and yes it is from a cartoon.
So as my winner of Best Original Song, from Monsters Inc. - If I Didn't Have You.
MattyC AK'd, he and EG can pick whenever they pop back in...
I'll very proudly select, in my mind the single greatest film director to ever walk the planet... who was 4 times nominated, but never took home the big prize. These continuous snubs of his work (and by extension, his overall career) are scars that the Academy will never be able to live down.
In the It's an Honour Just To Be Nominated category, I'll select, Stanley Kubrick - Best Director (Barry Lyndon, 1976)
1976 in particular was a great year for film and a tough choice for Best Director. Joining Kubrick in the nominations were Milos Forman (who won for One Flew Over The Cookoo's Nest), Sidney Lumet (Dog Day Afternoon), Robert Altman (Nashville), and Federico Fellini (Amarcord).
However:
1965 Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove) loses to George Kucor (My Fair Lady)
1969 Kubrick (2001) loses to Carol Reed (Oliver!)
1972 Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange) loses to William Friedkin (The Fr. Connection)
Pretty much ouch across the board!
Anyway, glad we have this category so I can show Stanley some love.
I'm following liamenator's excellent pick with a very similar one in the It's an Honour Just to be Nominated category. Like Kubrick, he's a widely acclaimed writer/director whose movies are on pretty much everyone's top 10 lists. Like Kubrick, he won once for writing, but it was a shared award. Unlike Kubrick he was only ever nominated in any category for one of his many great films, which I think is a travesty. Unlike Kubrick he was also an excellent and prolific actor. And, unlike Kubrick he did get a "Lifetime Achievement" award - the "we didn't really appreciate you enough during your career, but you showed us" award.
If you guessed Orson Welles, you're correct. In particular, I'm thinking about Touch of Evil, which was considered a failure in its day, but now (partly thanks to a new edit based on Orson's production notes, and not the studio's hack job) is considered his masterpiece, even over Citizen Kane. IMHO, he also should have won best supporting actor for The Third Man.
Newly edited amazing crane shot from the opening sequence of Touch of Evil:
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