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Celebrate the 100 Oldest Living Oscar Nominees & Winners
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This tradition is more important than ever. Thank you Nathaniel. I dont know why ia m so emptipnal, but i cried
Carol Channing being biracial makes recognition for her especially important to me.
You left out Walter Bernstein, the screenwriter, nominated for The Front in 1976. He's 97.
Rita Moreno (12/11/31) Dancer. Actress. Singer. Perfection.
That sums it up about right! :)
Quick fix: in the Angela Lansbury bit it says she's 89. I think she is 91, no?
I thought Neil Simon had an Osacr?
...and how about having Lifetime Achievement and Humanitarian Awards given ON the broadcast, like they used to be, and as they SHOULD be?
LOVE the picture of Livvy and Kirk having a tête–à–tête!!
A packed list of amazing talents. Here are some suggestions of outstanding work besides those given for some of these greats.
Olivia de Havilland-The Strawberry Blonde-This is one of the films that put Rita Hayworth on the map but Olivia and Jimmy Cagney have a beautiful interplay to their scenes. Also Hush…Hush Sweet Charlotte, she does a lot with what could have been a stock character.
Kirk Douglas-Ace in the Hole-an essential Douglas performance. A Letter to Three Wives-his role as George Phipps is much more low-key than would come to be his norm. He and Ann Sothern have a nice chemistry and the film both his part and overall is a great one. He gives one of his very best performances in the underrated Lonely Are the Brave.
It’s not anywhere near a good movie but if you haven’t seen Carol Channing in Skidoo you’re missing one trippy experience.
I absolutely agree Where the Hell are Glynis & Doris’s Honoraries!!! If they’re not deserving who is?
Glynis Johns-She’s bewitching in everything but Encore, The Sword & the Rose, The Great Manhunt and The Chapman Report are good places to start.
Doris Day-Love Me or Leave Me is essential but after that her first two Romance on the High Seas and My Dream is Yours are fantastic.
Stanley Donen-The film he made with Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant “Indiscreet” is a charming soufflé.
Eva Marie Saint-She wonderful along with Angela Lansbury in the dark All Fall Down.
Dorothy Malone-Love her but most of her output was in routine stuff, even the Oscar only netted her a few better roles before she switched over to TV. Glad to see the mention of Tarnished Angels aside from that she had a good role in Man of a Thousand Faces and The Last Sunset.
Angela Lansbury-So many but I’d say State of the Union, The Reluctant Debutante, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
Most of Lee Grant’s best opportunities came on television but she’s a scream with Walter Matthau as the panicky mother in the third vignette of Plaza Suite.
Give Joan Plowright an Honorary damn it! So wonderful and unique and now because of the loss of her vision she’s finished acting. Time for her body of work to be honored.
That clip with Gena Rowlands is terrific. Someone give the woman a role that will get her up on that stage with an Oscar in her hand. While they’re at it convince Gene Hackman to come back and costar with her.
It pains me that Joanne Woodward is so diminished by Alzheimer’s but Rita Moreno is still a firecracker surely someone can find a decent role for her.
Love the suggestion of an Honorary for Ian Holm. A very fine actor with too many great performances to mention though Joe Gould’s Secret shouldn’t be missed.
Lee Grant is 90.
Miss Channing also legendarily beats Barbra for the Tony battle of all time between Dolly and the Funny Girl.
Glynis is also the original Desiree on Broadway.
Sondheim IS still composing with his new show based on those crazy movies by Bunuel.
May the force be with us and these young people in 2017!
And WHERE IS BETTY WHITE?! how can no one has given her the Kennedy Center Honors?!
New Year's goal: Watch Divorce, American Style for both Norman Lear and Debbie Reynolds' work.
Nathaniel, I really do appreciate these posts. You do a wonderful job of highlighting cinema history. Your opinion has shaped how I feel about the Honorary Oscars and the presenter of the Best Picture Oscar (more women! I would love to hear your opinion about the In Memoriam portion of the Oscars. I recently watched several from past years on YouTube, and here are some thoughts.
1. I understand people feel its tacky to do the aplause-o-meter, but as a teen watching the Oscars, the only way to know the size of a legacy is by the amount of applause. I can remember them clapping louder for someone I'd never heard of and thinking, "Well, I obviously need to figure out who that is."
2. On that note, I feel like this segment (and the Honoary Oscars) should be all about cinema education and appreciation. I like how the old In Memoriam segments would list the names of the some of the movies that the directors, producers, writers, etc. had worked on, so you knew what exactly they were involved with. Lately, all they do is show a picture and a job title.
3. I disliked 2015's where they don't even show clips from the movies the actors were in. |
4. Hollywood legends start and end the in memoriam, and great actors and actresses are shown saying one of their best lines.
5. I am worried that they are going to mess up this year's big time. Like in 1994, Audrey Hepburn didn't get a line, but Fred Gwynne did????
I would LOVE if you did a post sharing your wish list for the perfect In Memoriam segment honoring so much wonderful talent this year.
Rita Moreno = Queen of the EGOT (she is the only actress alive to have really pulled it off*)
*Whoopi's Emmy is not a Primetime Emmy for acting.
Might I throw in composer Michel Legrand, who won three Oscars out of 11 nominations and scored such classic films as 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'? He was born 24 February 1932.
Milano & Mr W -- added these two men. Thanks so much. I try to be thorough but there are no easy ways to search for these things.
Demanding an Honorary Oscar for Glynis Johns is as out of proportion as giving one to Angela Lansbury. Oscar needs to stop rewarding marginal figures of motion picture history instead of the true legends.
Is Doris Day still lying about her birth year? She's 94.
Oscar-nominated producer and director Lewis Gilbert is 96. He's directed two great (Alfie and The Spy Who Loved Me) and several good films.
Willy -- i guess that's where we don't see eye to eye (among many places). I think major enduring and talented supporting actors (like Lansbury & Johns) are just as important to film history as movie stars or costume designers or composers of what have you.
We don't see eye to eye, because your subject wasn't their "importance" in general, but the Honorary Oscar.
But since you chose to change the subject, I do think that 1 nom for Johns and 3 noms for Lansbury do reflect their general "importance" quite accurately (or even more than they deserve). But the Honorary Oscar is (or would be) a joke, especially when you take a look at much more "important" people who can't get even a single nomination.
Willy -- i know you just like to argue for the sake of argument, but how is the discussion of "importance to film history" changing the subject from "Honorary Oscars". THESE ARE THE SAME TOPIC. OR AT LEAST NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR TOPICS.
And I know that you like to treat everyone who dares to disagree as if he or she would somehow behave inappropriately. And for that reason let me translate our little conversation.
Genius: As far as Honorary Oscars go, I deny the worthiness of Glynis Johns and Angela Lansbury.
Lord and master: Aha, then you deny the worthiness of supporting actors! So let me tell you that they are in fact important.
Genius: I don't deny the importance of supporting actors, I merely submit that Johns and Lansbury are well served by their nominations, especially with a look at some never nominated legends.
In short, you unsuccessfully tried to twist my words by changing the subject.
And just for the record, I also don't agree with an Honorary Oscar for Neil Simon, cause the movies he wrote aren't really enduring classics, except for - maybe - The Odd Couple. Simon should be happy that he's got 4 nominations.
How can you mention Stanley Donen and not say FUNNY FACE or TWO FOR THE ROAD?
Where is Cicely Tyson? She was nominated for Sounder. She's already 92.
carlos --thanks! I'm guessing the only reason that wasn't listed is years ago when i started this list there was confusion about her birthday (two different dates listed on internet.) but it's long since been cleared up so my bad. She was added in.
Cicely Tyson is on the list. great / amazing job. thanks for posting.
I've been bingeing on Frasier on Netflix for the past few weeks and recently watched the episode guest-starring Christine Baranksi as a Dr. Laura Schlessinger type and Piper Laurie as her abusive mother. Even when doing comedy Laurie is an ace at being a monster mom.
I really appreciate your updates to the list. Anne V. Coates, recent Honorary Award plus a win for Lawrence of Arabia, and Mark Rydell, director of On Golden Pond, should be on the list.
Liv Ullmann (born in 1939) and Max Von Sydow (1929).
I have been begging for these two to be honored for years. Please please please.
GS -- thanks for that. the list has been updated.