1936 oscar race. did the right woman win? opinions please

I know Bette thought Kate should have beaten her that year... but for me, she was never more captivating than in this movie. Not a great movie, but its hugely watchable almost entirely due to her. I think they got it right.

Kate deserved it. Bette was awful (but that's more the script's fault)

Davis as Joyce Heath in Dangerous managed to show a greater emotional range than Hepburn did in Alice Adams (I've seen both performances) and the academy tends to honor the performance and not the film, in case Davis hadn't been snubbed the year before for her performance in "Of Human Bondage" which was a better film than Dangerous or Alice Adams as far as I'm concerned, there wouldn't be such a fuzz about which of the 1936 nominees was the best. Davis considered the award a consolation prize and declared with the honesty she was famous of, that Hepburn deserved the award more than she did. Well I would make a correction in Bette's statement saying that among the nominees for the oscar in the female lead in 1936 she was the most deserving, but the woman who deserved the award more than anyone else in 1936 wasn't even nominated and that was Greta Garbo for "Anna Karenina"...

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Of the nominated actresses, I would have award Katharine Hepburn for Alice Adams. Kate could exchange it for the one she received in 1934 for Morning Glory which should have gone to May Robson in Lady for a Day.





"Fortunately, I keep my feathers numbered for just such an emergency."

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No, they didn't get it right that year. It's so predictable that the Davis queens would claim here that Kate was doing too much "acting" and that Davis was more "believable". Typical, uncritical, biased opinions by boys (no matter what age, they're all still "boys") who have no faculties of honest critical judgment when it comes to their "goddess".


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaPUjinFgek