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Post by DanaShelbyChancey on Mar 20, 2021 15:10:03 GMT
I loved Love Story when I was a kid. I saw it again and Ali MacGraw was awful. I thought, this has to be the worst performance to ever get an Oscar nomination.
What's yours?
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Post by politicidal on Mar 20, 2021 23:19:45 GMT
John Mills in Ryan's Daughter.
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Post by OldAussie on Mar 21, 2021 0:07:22 GMT
Laurence Olivier - The Boys from Brazil
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Mar 23, 2021 21:43:05 GMT
John Mills in Ryan's Daughter. That's one that leaps to mind
As to a winner, Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman. Okay, not talking Tor Johnson-esque here, but SOAW was not one of his best performances. He acted like a blind person and said "HOO WAH". Big fat soggy deal. And, yeah, it was a "make up" Oscar, like Henry Fonda in On Golden Pond or John Wayne in True Grit.
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Post by snsurone on May 2, 2021 7:47:54 GMT
John Mills in Ryan's Daughter. That's one that leaps to mind
As to a winner, Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman. Okay, not talking Tor Johnson-esque here, but SOAW was not one of his best performances. He acted like a blind person and said "HOO WAH". Big fat soggy deal. And, yeah, it was a "make up" Oscar, like Henry Fonda in On Golden Pond or John Wayne in True Grit.
Definitely agree about Wayne. IMO, that Oscar should have gone to Dustin Hoffman for MIDNIGHT COWBOY.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on May 2, 2021 10:21:06 GMT
That's one that leaps to mind
As to a winner, Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman. Okay, not talking Tor Johnson-esque here, but SOAW was not one of his best performances. He acted like a blind person and said "HOO WAH". Big fat soggy deal. And, yeah, it was a "make up" Oscar, like Henry Fonda in On Golden Pond or John Wayne in True Grit.
Definitely agree about Wayne. IMO, that Oscar should have gone to Dustin Hoffman for MIDNIGHT COWBOY. Wayne should have won for The Searchers. Not even nominated
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Post by darksidebeadle on May 2, 2021 11:34:03 GMT
That guy for Freddy Mercury
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Post by dirtypillows on Jul 26, 2021 17:57:03 GMT
I loved Love Story when I was a kid. I saw it again and Ali MacGraw was awful. I thought, this has to be the worst performance to ever get an Oscar nomination. What's yours? Yeah, Ali MacGraw was pretty bad in that movie. |
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Post by darksidebeadle on Jul 27, 2021 0:27:24 GMT
Heath Ledger
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Post by phantomparticle on Aug 22, 2021 6:39:11 GMT
Broderick Crawford in All the King's Men, a 1-note performance in a 1-note career.
WINNER
BRODERICK CRAWFORD
All the King's Men
NOMINEES
KIRK DOUGLAS
Champion
GREGORY PECK
Twelve O'Clock High
RICHARD TODD
The Hasty Heart
JOHN WAYNE
Sands of Iwo Jima
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Post by onethreetwo on Aug 22, 2021 7:26:54 GMT
Sean Connery - The Untouchables
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 23, 2021 2:44:13 GMT
Definitely agree about Wayne. IMO, that Oscar should have gone to Dustin Hoffman for MIDNIGHT COWBOY. Wayne should have won for The Searchers. Not even nominated
It is fine if you think Hoffman should have won, but that doesn't make The Duke's win the worst ever. Wayne was fine in that role simultaneously parodying his image and creating an interesting and complex character on its own.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Aug 23, 2021 3:25:46 GMT
Wayne should have won for The Searchers. Not even nominated
It is fine if you think Hoffman should have won, but that doesn't make The Duke's win the worst ever. Wayne was fine in that role simultaneously parodying his image and creating an interesting and complex character on its own. I didn’t say that True Grit was Wayne’s worst person. He had a lot worse, The Green Berets, The Conqueror, Jet Pilot. He had better, Red River, Liberty Valance, Iwo Jima. I thought Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman was one of the worst. And there are probably worse than that. |
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 23, 2021 3:34:34 GMT
It is fine if you think Hoffman should have won, but that doesn't make The Duke's win the worst ever. Wayne was fine in that role simultaneously parodying his image and creating an interesting and complex character on its own. I didn’t say that True Grit was Wayne’s worst person. He had a lot worse, The Green Berets, The Conqueror, Jet Pilot. He had better, Red River, Liberty Valance, Iwo Jima. I thought Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman was one of the worst. And there are probably worse than that. That's not what I meant. I meant that wanting someone else to have won doesn't make the winner's performance the worst ever to be nommed. No matter how good Dustin was, Duke was still deserving.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Aug 23, 2021 5:58:21 GMT
I didn’t say that True Grit was Wayne’s worst person. He had a lot worse, The Green Berets, The Conqueror, Jet Pilot. He had better, Red River, Liberty Valance, Iwo Jima. I thought Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman was one of the worst. And there are probably worse than that. That's not what I meant. I meant that wanting someone else to have won doesn't make the winner's performance the worst ever to be nommed. No matter how good Dustin was, Duke was still deserving. And my argument isn’t for Hoffman over Wayne. It’s for many performances over Pacino. I thought all the nominees were much better. Robert Downey in Chaplin, Denzel Washington in Malcolm X, Stephen Rea in The Crying Game and Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven. Hell, I thought Gary Oldman in Dracula, Tom Cruise in AFew Good Men, Daniel Day Lewis in Last of the Mohicans were better. |
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Post by hi224 on Aug 28, 2021 10:32:27 GMT
I loved Love Story when I was a kid. I saw it again and Ali MacGraw was awful. I thought, this has to be the worst performance to ever get an Oscar nomination. What's yours? I love David Niven but not really great at all within Tables so definitely him Also Cliff Robertson within Charley( screw you). |
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Post by hi224 on Aug 28, 2021 10:35:52 GMT
I didn’t say that True Grit was Wayne’s worst person. He had a lot worse, The Green Berets, The Conqueror, Jet Pilot. He had better, Red River, Liberty Valance, Iwo Jima. I thought Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman was one of the worst. And there are probably worse than that. That's not what I meant. I meant that wanting someone else to have won doesn't make the winner's performance the worst ever to be nommed. No matter how good Dustin was, Duke was still deserving. So Goodman's not allowed to prefer Hoffman over Wayne if he wants? Thought we were simply stating what wins/ nominations we disagree with. |
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 28, 2021 13:48:37 GMT
That's not what I meant. I meant that wanting someone else to have won doesn't make the winner's performance the worst ever to be nommed. No matter how good Dustin was, Duke was still deserving. So Goodman's not allowed to prefer Hoffman over Wayne if he wants? Thought we were simply stating what wins/ nominations we disagree with. But, if that's all he meant, that's not what the O.P. asked for. The question was: What Was The Worst Performance To Win or Be Nominated For An Oscar. GoodMan answered, "Wayne over Hoffman." At first it seemed as if GoodMan was saying that if his choice didn't win, the actual winner was the worst ever. I see now that his reply was just off topic.
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Sept 17, 2021 19:22:57 GMT
Whoopi Goldberg in Ghost. WTF? Really? ugh
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Sept 17, 2021 19:24:02 GMT
Okay, now you're just trolling
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