Comments on: Oscar’s favorite parts

By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:21:15 +0000

You forgot to mention things to do with the Holocaust. That’s another good way to win an Oscar.

By: deslily

deslily — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:23:24 +0000

one movie I remember well, and just checked in IMDb,because at my age I’m lucky I remember my own name!.. is My Left Foot (1989)… and indeed Daniel Day Lewis won the Oscar for portraying cerebral palsy victem Christy Brown who learned how to write and paint with his left foot.

By: Al Lowe

Al Lowe — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:29:45 +0000

I’m thinking of people who played roles in that category and should have been nominated.
Such as:

The slow witted Ditto, played by Edward Brophy, who nearly stole The Last Hurrah from the rest of its distinguished cast;

The disfigured Gloria Graham in The Big Heat;

Maximillian Schell, as a man who received dreadful war injuies in The Young Lions;

William Bendix, losing his leg in Lifeboat;

Edward G. Robinson, never nominated for anything, incredibly enough, losing his sight in The Sea Wolf;

Nominee Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig in Pride of the Yankees;

John Garfield, blinded in Pride of the Marines;

and Robert Walker’s madman in Strangers on a Train.

It seems amazing Walker wasn’t nominated until you stop and realize that was the year of Brando’s Streetcar, Clift’s Place in the Sun, the previously mentioned Mr. Kennedy and Bogart’s African Queen (the winner).