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2 Best Actress Oscars in the same year, why wasn't it for 1982?

posted 15 years ago by JulianneM_TildaS_VanessaR
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If the Academy ever felt the need to give 2 Best Actress Oscars in the same year, why wasn't it for 1982?

Jessica Lange got the short straw and was overseen for this remarkable and important performance.

Meryl deserved all the critics award and OSCAR for Sophie's Choice.

But what I don't understand if the heck did the Academy feel the need to give to OSCARS in 1968, when clearly neither winners truly deserved it: my win was Vanessa Redgrave in "Isadora". People who love Kate Hepburn in "Lion" should know that the performance is pale in comparison to her work in 1962's "Long Day's Journey into Night".

need to watch In Bruges

[–] TrentinaNE 12 years ago

It's not like the Academy voters get together and agree to give two awards rather than one. In 1968, among the independent ballots cast, there was a tie vote for Best Actress; in 1982, there was not. It's that simple.

[–] fa7999 8 years ago

Actually I prefer Lange's Frances to Meryl's Sophie. The acting style Lange adopted here was so easy to go over the top but amazingly she did it right on all notes. It was a one woman show for 140 min and she had one intense scene after another. I cannot imagine another actress in this role. This is one of the best 5 female performances of all time (Falconette, Masina in nights of Cabiria, Watson in breaking the Waves and Ullman in face to face).

It's funny that Hepburn won four Oscars and she never won for a top tier Hepburn performance. She should have won for Philadelphia story, Long day's journey into the night, and maybe Alice Adams. She was very good in African queen, summertime and lion in winter, but there were someone that was better than year.

[–] rudeboymurray (3241) 4 years ago

I'd give Hepburn Oscars for Alice Adams and Long Day's Journey into Night, and that's it. Two is enough for her. Perhaps Philadelphia Story if it had come out another year but 1940 had so many great roles for women.

I wouldn't grant her so much as a nomination for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and On Golden Pond.