Yes, it's true. The Smackdowns will return. StinkyLulu was gracious enough to let us reboot the series here. In our one bifurcated season thus far (Aug 2013 thru Sept 2014) we covered 1941, 1952, 1964 (which special guest Melanie Lynskey) 1968, 1973 (with special guest Dana Delany) 1980, 1989, and 2003. So... where to now?
Let's look at our options after the jump...
The Smackdown will return on Sunday May 24th but which film years should we cover? StinkyLulu's original site covered over 30 years of Supporting Actress competitions so unless we switch categories (which we might start doing to spice it up every so often) only these years remain:
AVAILABLE YEARS
Let us know which of these contests you think would make a great smackdown. We're still trying to line up special guests but hopefully we'll nab an actress or two. Whether or not we do you'll get a panel of great critics.
1943 - Cooper | Goddard | Paxinou | Revere | Watson
1947 - Barrymore | Grahame | Holm | Main | Revere
1948 - Bel Geddes | Corby | Moorehead | Simmons | Trevor
1954 - Foch | Jurado | Saint | Sterling | Trevor
1963 - Cilento | Evans | Rutherford | Redman | Skala
1965 - Gordon | Redman | Smith | Winters | Wood
1979 - Alexander | Barrie | Bergen | Hemingway | Streep
1981 - Dillon | Fonda | Stapleton | Hackett | McGovern
1984 - Ashcroft | Close | Crouse | Lahti | Page
1986 - Harper | Laurie | Mastrantonio | Smith | Weist
1987- Aleandro | Archer | Dukakis | Ramsey | Sothern
1991 - Ladd | Lewis | Nelligan | Ruehl | Tandy
1995 - Allen | Quinland | Sorvino | Winningham | Winslet
1997 - Basinger | Cusack | Driver | Moore | Stuart
1998- Bates | Dench | Blethyn | Griffiths | Redgrave
2000 - Dench | Harden | Hudson | McDormand | Walters
2001 - Connelly | Mirren | Smith | Tomei | Winslet
2002 - Bates | Moore | Latifah | Streep | Zeta-Jones
2004 - Blanchett | Linney | Madsen | Okonedo | Portman
2005 - Adams | Keener | McDormand | Weisz | Williams
UNFORTUNATELY WE CAN'T DO
1937 | 1938 | 1944 | 1946 | 1951 | 1957 | 1960 | 1972 | 1977
At least 1 or two films from each of these shortlists is either a) too costly to obstain or b) totally not available anymore *sob*... 1960 and 1977 would make G-R-E-A-T smackdowns but fall into the latter worst kind of retrospective problem
NO INSTANT REEVALUATION SO NOT YET ON...
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014