Comments on: Oscar Oversights: They Shoulda Been Contenders, Part Two http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/02/27/oscar-oversights-they-shoulda-been-contenders-part-two/ MovieMorlocks.com is the official blog for Turner Classic Movies (TCM). No topic is too obscure or niche to be excluded from our film discussions. And we welcome your comments on our blogs and bloggers. Thu, 24 May 2012 20:27:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: BRIAN http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/02/27/oscar-oversights-they-shoulda-been-contenders-part-two/#comment-13024 Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:20:02 +0000 http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=19696#comment-13024 Some Humphrey Bogart Roles
Black Legion
Maltese Falcon
Treasure Of The Sierra Madre(Both John Huston Dir and Walter Huston both got the Oscar that year.Bogie wasnt even considered.Figure that out)
High Sierra
Petrified Forest(Made Bogie a star.Warner Brothers wanted to use Edward G Robinson,but Leslie Howard told them to forget about using him unless they used Bogie)

]]> By: madam nose http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/02/27/oscar-oversights-they-shoulda-been-contenders-part-two/#comment-11808 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:47:30 +0000 http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=19696#comment-11808 * Because I’ve learned to expect the worst from the Academy, I’m always astounded if they actually ever make a rare astute choice about anything whatsoever … This is the outfit that gave a BA to Lee Marvin for the goofy Cat Ballou when Rod Steiger was up for the Pawnbroker (almost the best acting performance IMAGINABLE !!)… ‘Nuff said !!!

* Re typecasting: Ah yes, typecasting — the ultimate left-handed compliment … If you perform a role so superbly that you not only embody it but become an icon for it — then it seems a little ludicrous on the one hand but understandable on the other hand to then complain that the price of your triumph is so high that it becomes a curse … You can scarcely expect a lot of sympathy for that complaint from your adoring public!! Right, Tony Perkins? N’est-ce pas?, “Tony” James Gandolfini? Where can you go from here? Well, you can go into the pantheon resting on your laurels, that’s for sure — and that’s a lot more than most of ‘em can say!!!

]]> By: kingrat http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/02/27/oscar-oversights-they-shoulda-been-contenders-part-two/#comment-11729 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:54:55 +0000 http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=19696#comment-11729 According to the book of interviews Cameron Crowe did with Wilder, Billy did not want Tom Ewell in THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH. Instead, he wanted a little-known actor named Walter Matthau. The studio made him use Tom Ewell.

]]> By: Jeff http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/02/27/oscar-oversights-they-shoulda-been-contenders-part-two/#comment-11728 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:16:13 +0000 http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=19696#comment-11728 Al,

I think you’re right. Sometimes too many great performances in one film tend to cancel each other out. I often wonder what might have happened the year John Wayne won for TRUE GRIT if Jon Voight & Dustin Hoffman both weren’t running for Best Actor for Midnight Cowboy.

]]> By: Al Lowe http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/02/27/oscar-oversights-they-shoulda-been-contenders-part-two/#comment-11727 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:42:02 +0000 http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=19696#comment-11727 In the 40s and 50s leading actors and actresses were reluctant to be nominated for what were really supporting roles. I guess they were afraid, that win or lose, they would be demoted to supporting performers. I’m sure that’s why there were no nominations for Rosalind Russell in PICNIC, Jose Ferrer in THE CAINE MUTINY, Edward G. Robinson in DOUBLE INDEMNITY, John Garfield in GENTLEMEN’S AGREEMENT and Barbara Stanwyck in EXECUTIVE SUITE. It is a shame because they might have won Oscars.

You came up with another great list in this post. Dourif in WISE BLOOD, Perkins in PSYCHO and Douglas in WONDER BOYS (filmed in my wonderful home town of Pittsburgh). How did those slip by the Academy? While we’re at it, I’d like to mention the great supporting cast of TWELVE ANGRY MEN; instead the Academy that year chose to nominate the supporting players in PEYTON PLACE. Red Buttons won for SAYANORA. If you wanted to watch great acting, which performances would you watch?

]]> By: Mr. Blobby http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/02/27/oscar-oversights-they-shoulda-been-contenders-part-two/#comment-11726 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:05:12 +0000 http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=19696#comment-11726 Ok, no English actors except James Mason who became a Hollywood transplant – those are the unstated rules, I suppose? In that case, definitely Bogart for IN A LONELY PLACE, Richard Widmark for WHEN THE LEGEND DIES, Stacy Keach for FAT CITY. Robert De Niro for THE KING OF COMEDY and this is probably a left field one – Bud Cort for HAROLD AND MAUDE.

]]> By: wilbur twinhorse http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/02/27/oscar-oversights-they-shoulda-been-contenders-part-two/#comment-11721 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:34:59 +0000 http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=19696#comment-11721 Dear MJ, That is the best picture of HDS, what a good lead off visual. Thanks for mentioning so many films that don’t seem to get any words these days. Yeah, I was born in 1950. Ivan Dixon looks real familiar, and that’s the first time I’ve read anybody citing WISE BLOOD!! “The Church of Jesus Without Christ”! amen. Long Live Warren Oates and his GTO!! cheers

]]> By: Jerome Wilson http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/02/27/oscar-oversights-they-shoulda-been-contenders-part-two/#comment-11720 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:22:52 +0000 http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=19696#comment-11720 I haven’t seen every performance you list here but the ones I have I completely agree with you on, especially Warren Oates and Harry Dean Stanton. Those are two of my favorite acting jobs of all time. Also I just watched In A Lonely Place for the the first time. Bogart? Hell, yeah…

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