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@OscarWildPod @sophia_cim @sauerkraut27 Such interesting takes on Oscar history and favorites! Sophia, I’m with you: Faye Dunaway was EPIC and towers above all others in her performance in “Network” which I consider the best American film of my lifetime. I love listening to your podcasts. Happy holidays!

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@OscarRunnerUp Imagine the Best Actress films of this and the previous 4 years were all released in 1988. Who would have won: Field, Page, Matlin, Cher or Foster?

Recording the 1988 Best Actress episode soon! Send in your questions now and we'll try to answer them on the show.

@OscarRunnerUp How did Matlin squeeze past the others, all big players? Did she have the “new face” luck like Joanne Woodward, Anne Bancroft, Simone Signoret, etc.?

Recording the 1986 Best Actress episode soon! Send in your questions now and we'll try to answer them on the show.

@OscarRunnerUp Thank you for your reply! I almost agree and your logic might still persuade me… Thank you so much for your podcast. I really enjoy your insights and rapport with your guests except for Joey Gentile—he’s a monster on the level of Addison de Witt! (Just kidding!)

@westsidewoof Already recorded this episode so I'll just answer here. I'd probably rule out Hepburn and Field. Maybe Page too, despite her narrative. So between Streep and MacLaine, I may actually lean MacLaine considering she had the perfect combo of narrative/performance and Streep just won.

Recording the 1985 Best Actress episode soon! Send in your questions now and we'll try to answer them on the show.

@OscarRunnerUp @awards_watch @OscarWildPod @ryanmcquade77 @InSessionFilm @MMandOscar @JRParham @AwardsConnect @FritzandOscars @oscars_central @CinemaGals @300Passions MacLaine won because she was the grandest dame on the grandest ship of the year: “Terms of Endearment.” None of the other nominees could approach her momentum.

This week on AND THE RUNNER-UP IS 🥈, @awards_watch joins me to break down the 1983 Best Actress race, where Shirley MacLaine beat Jane Alexander, Meryl Streep, Julie Walters, and Debra Winger. Listen now on all podcast platforms! linktr.ee/andtherunnerup…

@FritzandOscars ALL magnificent performances in strong, strong films. I remember thinking at the time that Hopkins’ performance was the best of my generation. I wonder if my opinion will have changed.

Best Actor 1993! The Nominees were: Daniel Day-Lewis, In the Name of the Father Laurence Fishburne, What's Love Got to Do with It Tom Hanks, Philadelphia Anthony Hopkins, The Remains of the Day Liam Neeson, Schindler's List Vote for your winner!

@OscarRunnerUp I thought Burstyn’s performance was measured and resonant. I agree that the Sam Shepard storyline was not done well, but Burstyn’s journey to grace and compassion was effective and moving. Unfortunately it didn’t have the flashiness needed to make much of a dent in the race.

Ellen Burstyn earned her fifth Oscar nomination for playing Edna Mae McCauley in Resurrection (1980). What do you think of Burstyn’s performance?

@JoeyGentile1992 @OscarRunnerUp Re: Ellen Burstyn: I think this is the first time I’ve agreed with you. LOL

@OscarRunnerUp Ellen Burstyn should’ve won her 2nd Oscar here imo after The Exorcist. She was very open about how Universal ignored her film in the campaign process for Coal Miners Daughter and pushed Sissy. Do you think studios pitting the money maker vs the performances hurts talent?

Recording the 1980 Best Actress episode soon! Send in your questions now and we'll try to answer them on the show.

@NoContextHumans “Oliver!”—the 1968 musical

@OscarRunnerUp And/or put the modern-day actresses into the 1970s roles.

@OscarRunnerUp Recast “Oceans 8” (Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Awkwafina, Rihanna, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson) with 70s winners: Glenda Jackson (2x), Jane Fonda (2x), Liza Minnelli, Ellen Burstyn, Louise Fletcher, Faye Dunaway, Diane Keaton, Sally Field.

Recording the 1979 Best Actress episode soon! Send in your questions now and we'll try to answer them on the show. This will also be the final episode of the season, so feel free to ask any general questions about Best Actress in the '70s!

@OscarRunnerUp I think Keaton wouldn’t have won if she hadn’t also done some heavy lifting that year in “Looking for Mr. Goodbar.”

Diane Keaton won her Best Actress Oscar for playing the title role in Annie Hall (1977). What do you think of Keaton’s Oscar-winning performance?

@MisterRorke @OscarRunnerUp I saw it done as a play. It was terrible. The medium is part of the message in this case: the camera as assassin.

@OscarRunnerUp Accomplished but cold. Of her three noms, I thought she was way better in the other 2 films. Network is really a play.

Faye Dunaway won her Best Actress Oscar for playing Diana Christensen in Network (1976). What do you think of Dunaway’s Oscar-winning performance?

@OscarRunnerUp I was born in 1963 and consider “Network” to be the best American film of my lifetime. Never mind that it was so prescient. Faye Dunaway deserved her win for a controlled hurricane of a performance. It may be the Best American Actress performance of my lifetime.

@FritzandOscars Judi Dench. It took her only 8 minutes to steal that confection of a movie and dominate the field. Queen, indeed so.

Best Supporting Actress 1998! The Nominees were: Kathy Bates, Primary Colors Brenda Blethyn, Little Voice Judi Dench, Shakespeare in Love Rachel Griffiths, Hilary and Jackie Lynn Redgrave, Gods and Monsters Vote for your winner!

@OscarRunnerUp “Garbo Talks.” I miss real New York movies.

What's your favorite Anne Bancroft performance, outside of her Oscar-winning turn in The Miracle Worker and her nominated work in The Pumpkin Eater, The Graduate, The Turning Point, and Agnes of God?

@OscarRunnerUp Maybe asked before: The Nobel Prize Committees announce winners each year but release the list of nominees only after 50 years have passed. Would it be realistic to lobby the Academy to do the same in each category with the ranking/vote totals of runners-up?

@OscarRunnerUp @JoeyGentile1992 @OscarWildPod @AwardsConnect @awards_watch @JRParham @FritzandOscars @300Passions @MMandOscar @InSessionFilm @ryanmcquade77 @academy_queens CONTEXT: Music videos didn’t really exist in 1975. “Tommy” broke ground & led to the music video form as we now know it. Ann-Margret was well-liked & got the nod for a performance no one had expected from her or seen before in a wild film during a wild era in film. She earned it.

This week on AND THE RUNNER-UP IS 🥈, @JoeyGentile1992 joins me to break down the 1975 Best Actress race, where Louise Fletcher beat Isabelle Adjani, Ann-Margret, Glenda Jackson, and Carol Kane. Listen now on all podcast platforms! linktr.ee/andtherunnerup…

@nytimes It’s like the NIGHT, FIGHT, TIGHT, SIGHT, LIGHT, MIGHT, RIGHT puzzle from a while back. Hated it.

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