And John Ford belongs on anyone’s Mt.
Rushmore of great directors.
But it’s noCitizen Kane.
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It isn’t now and it wasn’t then.
It’s the Academy that would wind up looking foolish in the eyes of history.
Albert Finney forMurder on the Orient Express.
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All of the others would be nominated again.
In the immortal words of another famous Pesci role,“Do Iamuseyou, Academy?
1939 has been called (more than once) the Greatest Year in Hollywood History.
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The performances weren’t bad either.
Laurence Olivier inWuthering Heights, Jimmy Stewart inMr.
Smith Goes to Washington, and Clark Gable inGone With the Wind, to name a few.
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None of them won.
That honor would go to Robert Donat for the pre-war weepieGoodbye, Mr. Chips.
But you are no Cate Blanchett, so fantastically layered and irascible asno mans Elizabeth.
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This was a make-good award, plain and simple reparations for past snubs.
That’s just baloney.
Winning for that film makes even less sense.
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Especially considering that Kelly went up against Judy Garland inA Star Is Born.
There’s no competition there.
It’s big and bright and busy…and there isn’t an honest moment in it.
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David Fincher’sThe Social data pipe, on the other hand, was a movie of its moment.
Maybethemovie of its moment.
Hollywood, once again, was years behind the curve.
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2002 Jim Broadbent wins Best Actor over Ben Kingsley as Don f—‘in Logan?!
Don’t even try.
But her warbling ingenue Mia alsofelt(unlike her spectacular turn inThe Favouritethis year) like a Globes-caliber performance.
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), and Yalitza Aparicio (Roma) was perceived to be splitting the table scraps of remaining votes.
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Laurie Sparham; Merrick Morton
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