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Post by dirtypillows on Oct 19, 2018 8:47:45 GMT
I have to give it to Martin Landau in "Ed Wood".
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Post by OldAussie on Oct 19, 2018 8:52:08 GMT
De Niro from the choices.
Ben Johnson overall.
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Post by jcush on Oct 19, 2018 8:52:50 GMT
De Niro
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Post by dirtypillows on Oct 19, 2018 8:57:14 GMT
De Niro from the choices. Ben Johnson overall. Oh, shit! I forgot all about Ben Johnson. I loved him in TLPS and if I had remembered I would have put his moving, low key performance in my top ten and found somebody besides Landau and Leto to get rid of.
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Post by Archelaus on Oct 19, 2018 14:21:00 GMT
Robert De Niro
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Post by politicidal on Oct 19, 2018 14:51:41 GMT
Found ALL ABOUT EVE okay if overrated but man, George Sanders was awesome in that.
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Post by moviemouth on Oct 19, 2018 16:47:12 GMT
Christopher Walken, The Deer Hunter
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Post by marth on Oct 19, 2018 16:55:39 GMT
Robert De Niro - "The Godfather, Part 2"
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Post by dirtypillows on Oct 19, 2018 20:16:58 GMT
Found ALL ABOUT EVE okay if overrated but man, George Sanders was awesome in that. Yes, it was the role Sanders was born to play.
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Post by dirtypillows on Oct 20, 2018 5:33:47 GMT
I have to give it to Martin Landau in "Ed Wood". Unusual selection of actors there Mr. Dirty.
I went through each one and I agree about Landau. He was a revelation in Ed Wood and a truly deserving winner.
It was fun coming up with the polls, Mr. Cheesy! I just went with the ones that were my personal favorites and used those ones to comprise the poll. Like I had to have both Dianne Wiest's wins on the BSA group, because she gave two amazing performances, both of which I find exceedingly enjoyable. It was not that hard to come up with ten for each category, except for some reason the Best Actor category I was only able to come up with two winners that I would have personally found worthy to place. (Jack in OFOTCN and Jon Voight in "Coming Home", even though I found that movie not much more than average. I have never seen "Patton", but if I did I would probably find that George C. Scott was tremendous.) The only exception to my was Elizabeth Taylor in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" because I have never been very enthusiastic about her performance in that movie. But I love Elizabeth Taylor so much and I know you know how I have gone on and on for years about her performance in "X, Y and Zee", so I just am taking a liberty here and substituting Taylor's 'Martha' for Taylor's 'Zee' and it all evens up in the end. And I do know that many people find Taylor's performance in "Woolf" to be a stunning achievement, so that's okay with me. Landau was absolutely hilarious in "Ed Wood". "Nobody gives two fecks for Bela! I'm just an ex-boogeyman!" What a transformation! Who knew Landau had it in him? He won the Oscar for 1994, same year as Dianne Wiest won for her hilarious turn as diva extraordinaire Helen Sinclair in the wonderful "Bullets Over Broadway". Both Landau and Wiest swept every major group that year, so everybody was in agreement about these two performances, which i think is very cool. The only one that was missed was Wiest did not win the Boston Film Critics' award. Landau got every single one. Big congrats to both of them!
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Oct 20, 2018 5:46:49 GMT
I'm going Landau.
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Post by ck100 on Oct 20, 2018 6:53:23 GMT
Probably De Niro.
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Post by dirtypillows on Oct 20, 2018 7:15:13 GMT
It was fun coming up with the polls, Mr. Cheesy! I just went with the ones that were my personal favorites and used those ones to comprise the poll. Like I had to have both Dianne Wiest's wins on the BSA group, because she gave two amazing performances, both of which I find exceedingly enjoyable. It was not that hard to come up with ten for each category, except for some reason the Best Actor category I was only able to come up with two winners that I would have personally found worthy to place. (Jack in OFOTCN and Jon Voight in "Coming Home", even though I found that movie not much more than average. I have never seen "Patton", but if I did I would probably find that George C. Scott was tremendous.) The only exception to my was Elizabeth Taylor in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" because I have never been very enthusiastic about her performance in that movie. But I love Elizabeth Taylor so much and I know you know how I have gone on and on for years about her performance in "X, Y and Zee", so I just am taking a liberty here and substituting Taylor's 'Martha' for Taylor's 'Zee' and it all evens up in the end. And I do know that many people find Taylor's performance in "Woolf" to be a stunning achievement, so that's okay with me. Landau was absolutely hilarious in "Ed Wood". "Nobody gives two fecks for Bela! I'm just an ex-boogeyman!" What a transformation! Who knew Landau had it in him? He won the Oscar for 1994, same year as Dianne Wiest won for her hilarious turn as diva extraordinaire Helen Sinclair in the wonderful "Bullets Over Broadway". Both Landau and Wiest swept every major group that year, so everybody was in agreement about these two performances, which i think is very cool. The only one that was missed was Wiest did not win the Boston Film Critics' award. Landau got every single one. Big congrats to both of them! X,Y and Zee is one I must see. Michael Caine is in it also and I love your wild card recommendations. I am reading Caine's second auto bio at the moment, The Elephant To Hollywood. All he seemed to do was party when he got there in the late 60's. This lady he met tried to marry him off to Wood, Streisand or Sinatra...
I am never sold on actor performances as much as I am actress. F. Murray Abraham though in Amadeus is one performance I think is terrific as well. And of course Donald Sutherland should have been nominated for Ordinary People and won for 80', not a lumbering beast of a performance by De Niro who got praise for ad-libbing and getting fat.
Yes, Scott is tremendous in Patton and while I am not big on war movies, this one is a tremendous as well. Great character study of a very complex and passionate, albeit self-aggrandizing man, and superb direction.
Michael Caine gives a very good performance in "X, Y and Zee" and so does Susannah York. But Liz is the whole show here. She is a barracuda and leaves the other two performers in the dust.
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