I couldn't agree more. One of my all time favorites. A few more that you might enjoy: Claire Trevor in "Key Largo", Celeste Holm in "Gentlemen's Agreement", and Angela Lansbury in the original "Manchurian Candidate" - you won't see any resemblance to Jessica Fletcher.
Yeah I'm gonna have to disagree. I don't have anything against Emma Watson and I think she's a good actress for the most part, but she is not at the same level as the vast majority of the women on this list. I have yet to see her in a performance that absolutely deserves an Oscar nomination.
Or a performance that even kinda deserves an Oscar nomination. She doesn't even really act. I can only think of maybe five movies she's been in other than Harry Potter, and the only one with any gravitas was Little Women, in which she was maybe the seventh-best performer and was clearly out of her league among the likes of Saoirse Ronan and Meryl Streep. Emma Watson seems like a nice person, but she's no great shakes as an actress. Not yet, at least.
Why not? Scott's made some good movies. Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, American Gangster, and The Martian all come to mind.
He's made more classics than half the directors that have won the award. Sure it isn't as much of a travesty that he's never won as it is for the rest of those listed above or Hawks, Kurosawa, Chaplin, or a few others for that matter but I'd say there's been more than one occasion where he deserved it.
Mostly agree with what Modestus said. Yeah, Scott's made some crap other the years, but he's made more good movies than people like Ron Howard or Tom Hooper, who've both won the Best Director Oscar before.
It makes you someone who's spent way too much time memorizing useless trivia. I'm one of those too, but not for this particular list. I got nearly every one going back to 1965 (which predates my birth by nearly a decade) and a scattered few recognizable names in the right hand column, but I don't really care who won best actress for a movie made in the 1930's that I don't even want to see. I've tried watching really old movies, but if I'm watching something made prior to 1950, chances are I'll be asleep before the end of the first act.
Usually, the ceremony's year is tied to the year the films came out, not the year the ceremony is held. That is, it's not recorded that Cate Blanchett won the 2014 Best Actress; she won the 2013 Best Actress, as the ceremony was honoring movies from 2013. I suppose it makes no difference for this quiz because it's consistent throughout, but for future trivia endeavors, the award is tied to the year its film was released, which is always the calendar year before the award is given.
I exhort you to reconsider. The year of the ceremony makes less sense. I'm sure you don't want to go back and change all the previous quizzes, but it really does make a lot more sense to have the year of the movie correct when doing these. There's also the glaring contradiction that all of the Superbowl quizzes here use the year the season started rather than when the Superbowl took place.
And McDormand wins *again*. She is now the third person in Academy history to win at least three lead acting Oscars, behind Katherine Hepburn and Daniel Day-Lewis. I honestly don't get it.
McDormand is great, but remember the Oscars are an annual affair, so not all of them are created equal. For example, Pacino and Nicholson were nominated for Best Actor in the same year for Godfather 2 and Chinatown, respectively. Those are both towering performances worthy of Oscars, but they can't both win. (And to make it even more insane, neither of them won that year.) You need to be great to get three Oscars, no doubt, but it doesn't make you a better actress than someone who only has one, or even none. Pacino only has one, and he's much better than people with several. I'd only add the exception that Daniel-Day Lewis is the best screen actor of all-time, and he deserves more than the three he has. He absolutely should have won for Gangs of New York, and maybe for Phantom Thread as well.
Shoutout to Katherine Hepburn for winning Oscars in 1934 and 1982, nearly 50 years apart!! Not to mention her two wins in the '60s. Greatest actress of all time?
"My ex-husband! Now there's a man who really was afraid of Virginia Woolf."
Ted: "Why?.....Was she stalking him or something?"
Also, I thought Mildred Pierce was just the name of a Sonic Youth song. Never knew it was a reference to a movie.