Cyril Cusack did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Sam in The Homecoming.The Homecoming is a bare bones play adaptation detailing the turmoil resulting when a man takes his wife to visit his strange family. Cyril Cusack is rather unique character actor from the period as his even in small roles there is usually something a bit different based on his atypical screen presence. This is a particularly effective quality for his role...
Friday, 31 March 2017
Thursday, 30 March 2017
Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1973: Christopher Lee in The Wicker Man
Posted on 18:30 by allenales
Christopher Lee did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man.The supporting performances of the Wicker Man all have this eerie consistency as they portray this strangely sinister happiness within all the pagan denizens of the island, which stands in stark contrast to Edward Woodward's portrayal of the devote Christian and police officer Howie there to find a missing little girl. All of the supporting performances...
Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1973: Sterling Hayden in The Long Goodbye
Posted on 13:53 by allenales
Sterling Hayden did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Roger Wade in The Long Goodbye.Sterling Hayden is best known for his cold tough guy roles in films like The Killing and The Asphalt Jungle, even his best performance in Dr. Strangelove is a subversion of that idea. His performance in The Long Goodbye is a complete departure from that type. We first see Roger Wade, a successful novelist, as Elliott Gould's Philip Marlowe finds him...
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1973
Posted on 03:33 by allenales

And the Nominees Were Not:Richard Jordan in The Friends of Eddie CoyleSterling Hayden in The Long GoodbyeYul Brynner in WestworldChristopher Lee in The Wicker ManCyril Cusack in The Homecom...
Tuesday, 28 March 2017
Alternate Best Actor 1973: Results
Posted on 17:34 by allenales

5. Robert Mitchum in The Friends of Eddie Coyle - Well this is unpleasant. I hate putting any of these performances "last" because they're all great, but I have to choose one. Anyway Mitchum gives a great performance giving this quietly devastating portrait of a man who essentially wasted his life. Best Scene: "what a future he’s got, huh"4. Robert Shaw in The Hireling- Shaw gives a heartbreaking performance here showing a different shade...
Alternate Best Actor 1973: Robert Shaw in The Hireling
Posted on 16:11 by allenales
Robert Shaw did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Steven Ledbetter in The Hireling.The Hireling, though at times curiously directed, is an effective film about the relationship between a recently widowed Lady and her chauffeur.Although I've been an enthusiastic supporter of all of Robert Shaw's many memorable supporting turns until this performance I have never reviewed any of his leading turns. This is the first and a rather different...
Monday, 27 March 2017
Alternate Best Actor 1973: Edward Woodward in The Wicker Man
Posted on 12:58 by allenales
Edward Woodward did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Sergeant Howie in The Wicker Man.The Wicker Man is an effective horror film, other than a couple of strange musical choices, about a police officer traveling to a remote Scottish island to investigate the disappearance of a girl.Edward Woodward plays the police officer and is our entry point into the strange island which is the setting of the film. There is a brief introduction on...
Saturday, 25 March 2017
Alternate Best Actor 1973: Robert Mitchum in The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Posted on 16:28 by allenales
Robert Mitchum did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying the titular Eddie "Fingers" Coyle in The Friends of Eddie Coyle.The Friends of Eddie Coyle is a terrific film, finding the tone Killing Them Softly failed to find in adapting this film's source material's followup, about an intersecting group of criminals centering around an old small time crookRobert Mitchum plays the lead role of Eddie Coyle, though this is technically a smaller...
Friday, 24 March 2017
Alternate Best Actor 1973: Donald Sutherland in Don't Look Now
Posted on 13:22 by allenales

Donald Sutherland did not receive an Oscar nomination, despite being nominated for a BAFTA, for portraying John Baxter in Don't Look Now.Don't Look Now is an effective horror film about a husband and wife dealing with strange events after the drowning of their young daughter.Well once again returning to Donald Sutherland in a leading role and once again curiously dealing with a role in which his character is dealing with the death of his child due...
Tuesday, 21 March 2017
Alternate Best Actor 1973: Elliott Gould in The Long Goodbye
Posted on 20:04 by allenales

Elliott Gould did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Philip Marlowe in The Long Goodbye.The Long Goodbye is a terrific neo noir by Robert Altman that modernizes private detective Philip Marlowe.Elliot Gould after his breakout in the late 60's found himself in a career slump due to his behavior on the set of the film that eventually became What's Up Doc, and I would imagine his performance in Ingmar Bergman's The Touch did not help matters....
Monday, 20 March 2017
Alternate Best Actor 1973
Posted on 08:58 by allenales

And the Nominees Were Not:Donald Sutherland in Don't Look NowRobert Shaw in The HirelingRobert Mitchum in The Friends of Eddie CoyleElliott Gould in The Long GoodbyeEdward Woodward in The Wicker Man...
Sunday, 19 March 2017
Alternate Best Supporting Actor 1947: Louis Jouvet in Quai des Orfèvres
Posted on 18:55 by allenales
Louis Jouvet did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Inspector Antoine in Quai des Orfèvres.Quai des Orfèvres is a very effective mystery film, though in actuality it is more a comedy of errors than a thriller.The veteran French actor Louis Jouvet does not enter the film until about halfway through. That first half focuses on the difficult relationship between an incredibly flirtatious singer Jenny (Suzy Delair) and her jealous husband...
Friday, 17 March 2017
Alternate Best Actor 1947: Results
Posted on 20:47 by allenales

5. Orson Welles in The Lady From Shanghai - Welles's accent is more than a little problematic but he's good when he's silent. Best Scene: Hall of mirrors. 4. Claude Rains in The Unsuspected - Rains is an easy highlight of the film giving an effectively diabolical performance explaining his villain even as the film fails to do. Best Scene: A final broadcast. 3. Isao Numasaki in One Wonderful Sunday - Numasaki gives a moving and very honest depiction...
Alternate Best Actor 1947: Orson Welles in The Lady From Shanghai
Posted on 19:47 by allenales
Orson Welles did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Michael O'Hara in The Lady From Shanghai.The Lady From Shanghai is an effective and visually stunning film noir, though like Citizen Kane Welles could've told some of his actors to tone it down a bit, about an Irishman who falls into a strange web of corrupt people by taking a job from a rich lawyer due to his fascination with the man's wife.After watching Welles's version of Macbeth...
Thursday, 16 March 2017
Alternate Best Actor 1947: Pierre Fresnay in Monsieur Vincent
Posted on 18:39 by allenales
Pierre Fresnay did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Saint Vincent de Paul in Monsieur Vincent.Monsieur Vincent tells the true story of a French Catholic priest who dedicated himself to helping the poor.This is a rather different part than the other two performances I've seen from Pierre Fresnay such as Grand Illusion where he played an aristocratic soldier with a particularly strong connection with his captor, and The Murderer Lives...
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Alternate Best Actor 1947: Claude Rains in The Unsuspected
Posted on 17:57 by allenales
Claude Rains did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Victor Grandison in The Unsuspected.The Unsuspected, though fairly well directed by Michael Curtiz, is a very oddly written thriller about the murders surrounding a mystery radio host.The Unsuspected is so strange as it opens with brutal murder of the radio host's secretary. The film than proceeds to introduce a set of characters all around the host, Rains's Victor Grandison. It seems...
Sunday, 12 March 2017
Alternate Best Actor 1947: Isao Numasaki in One Wonderful Sunday
Posted on 17:41 by allenales
Isao Numasaki did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Yuzo in One Wonderful Sunday.One Wonderful Sunday, if you'll forgive the repetition, is a wonderful bittersweet film about a young couple attempting to spend the day together with very little money.One Wonderful Sunday is Akira Kurosawa's last film before his first collaboration with the one and only Toshiro Mifune, and concerns a far more average sort of individual as played by Isao...
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