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'my mom's getting an Honorary and they couldn't even give me a lousy nomination for my brilliant screenplay for Postcards from the Edge'
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at 9:00AM 
[Hollywood Royalty problems]
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She totally deserved it, too. (Hell, I'd give her an Oscar nom for the DVD's audio commentary alone!)
Deserved it over the winner in the category, to be honest. I feel like women get shafted when adapting their own work. Maybe it will turn around with Emma Donoghue this year.
She and Shirley both should have WON that year.
I've never seen much of a resemblance between Debbie and she but I definitely do in this particular picture.
Carrie would be a deserving winner but then look how long it's taken Hollywood to get around to honoring her mother whose been owed since Singin' in the Rain 63 YEARS ago!!
This post made my morning - it reminded me that Debbie is finally getting an Oscar!
Perfect!
That oversight still rankles, especially since "Postcards from the Edge" is a film that has held up so well over time. Comedy is so often overlooked by the academy, somehow it's not considered worthy. Idiots.
Well, maybe if she hadn't let her skirt TWIRL UP, this wouldn't have happened.
Very, very quotable screenplay, BUT you could quibble that it's very little adapted from the book.
Debbie got her competitive nomination - that's the most that I think any actor/writer can expect to achieve. It's all any of them need to ensure that obsessive so like us will hunt down their filmography in 100 years' time!
Those without a nomination are the ones I feel for - Marilyn Monroe and Rita Hayworth being prime examples - it somehow diminishes their legacy?
Debbie Reynolds so DESERVES an Oscar. I can't remember why she wasn't nominated for Postcards - was it a problem with her being Leading vs Supporting? We've seen category fraud heaps of times so placing her in Supporting wouldn't have been a problem.
And yes Carrie Fisher's screenplay was fantastic and worthy of an nomination.
Fingers crossed they allow the recipients of the honorary awards some recognition during the main show. I'd like to see the three of them appear on stage together and give the Best Picture award.
Much better than seeing Jack Nicholson or Steven Spielberg AGAIN.
Didn't Carrie get an Emmy for her stage show? If she didn't, what the fuck?
I'm pretty sure that Shirley insisted on campaigning in Lead, alongside Meryl, and not what was considered a weak Supporting Actress field. She very likely would have won a second over Whoopi Goldberg''s scene stealing work in "Ghost".
Politics.
Yes I agreed Fisher's screenplay was unfairly o/looked, but she was not the only snub
MacLaine was a BLAST in Postcard!!! She was nom in best supp at the Golden Globes & lead at BAFTA, I was quite surprised that she wasn't nom...Maybe its true that she insisted on campaigning in Lead, thereby costing her a slot in supp cat