this should have been the moment Burton finally won an Oscar
Alas, the Academy gave the statue to a younger American named Richard. Pitiful.
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Burton was terrific but so was Dreyfus - it was a tough call for best actor than year.
But it was Peter Firth who should have won - he is just mind-blowing.
Perhaps the voters were tired of giving Oscars to actors in Sidney Lumet films (4 in previous three years)
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Richard Dreyfuss was very good, but Richard Burton was even better – and Woody Allen was equally excellent in "Annie Hall," I'd say. Rounding out the competition was John Travolta in some dance flick and Marcello Mastroianni in "A Special Day," the only nominee here I haven't seen.
1977 was a great year for film and actors, wasn't it? Quick: Can you name last year's nominees without Googling? How about just the winners?
At the time, I was all for Dreyfuss. But today, Burton seems the obvious choice.
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While the prizes for Best Picture & Best Director should have gone to "Star Wars" - not "Annie Hall"!
And "The Turning Point" should have picked up at least one statuette!
Boy was this one of the most flawed ceremonies ever.
One of those rare occasions where the Academy got it right. Annie Hall is a masterpiece and truly was the best film of the year. Star Wars was just another routine war movie gussied up with special effects and that mythological crap that fanboys seem to love so much. It wasn't even as good as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which was, at least, a real science fiction film.
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Richard Burton was equally impressive in about a half-dozen other films from the 1960's. Unfortunately, he damaged his reputation by mostly appearing in trash during the 1970's, to the point where by the time Equus was made, many people stopped taking Burton seriously as an actor.
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