Pamela Franklin's extraordinary performance deserved an oscar

Pamela Franklin matched Maggie Smith every step of the way with a superb performance and in this film with many excellent supporting performances this was no mean feat. Her powerful confrontation scene with Maggie Smith near the end should have been a lock in.

Syliva Miles—as entertaining as her cameo was in 'Midnight Cowboy'—gets a nomnination for about 5 minutes of screen time, while Franklin who helped anchor this film gets ignored by the myopic Academy.

Goldie Hawn who won for Cactus Flower' was probably the best choice of the supporting actress bunch; but it wasn't untill 5 years later in Steven Spielberg's Sugarland Express' did she really give a performance that was worthy of an oscar win.

As indignant and cliched as this sounds: Franklin was robbed!