The 1972 Smackdown was long delayed but it's finally happening a week from this Sunday on April 28th with this awesome panel. If you still want to play along you have time to vote...
- Jeannie Berlin, The Heartbreak Kid
- Eileen Heckart, Butterflies are Free [iTunes | Amazon]
- Geraldine Page, Pete N' Tillie
- Susan Tyrrel, Fat City [iTunes | Amazon]
- Shelley Winters, The Poseidon Adventure [iTunes | Amazon]
YOU (the collective you) are the final panelist for each smackdown so your votes count toward the outcome. To vote e-mail us with 1972 in the subject line by Friday April 26th. Give each performance that you've seen a 1-5 heart rating.
OTHER SUPPORTING WOMEN OF 1972 THAT WEREN'T NOMINATED ARE AFTER THE JUMP...
Marisa Bereson must have been very close to a nomination for "Cabaret"
Just for fun and if you have some spare screening time (haha, I know right), here are the only other 8 supporting performances I could find that were honored in some way that year. There weren't even a tenth as many awards bodies around in the early 70s -- even the Los Angeles Film Critics Association hadn't started up yet!) -- so there aren't as many people who are documented as being "in the discussion" as there would be in any contemporary year.
- Sian Barbara Allen, You'll Like My Mother (Globe "promising newcomer" nominee)
- Marisa Berenson, Cabaret (Globe nominee, BAFTA nominee, NBR win... so the obvious just-miss of the year for the Oscar nomination in this category) [Filmstruck | Amazon]
- Mary Costa, The Great Waltz (Globe "promising newcomer" nominee - this might be a leading role? I'm not familiar with this movie but it's about the composer Johann Strauss and she plays his mistress. Costa was not principally an actress but an opera singer and also the voice of Aurora in Disney's Sleeping Beauty !)
- Madeline Kahn, What's Up Doc? (Globe "promising newcomer" nominee) [Amazon | Filmstruck]
- Helen Kallianiotes , Kansas City Bomber (Globe nominee) [Amazon]
- Ida Lupino, Junior Bonner (runner up at both National Society of Film Critics AND New York Film Critics Circle)
- Victoria Principal, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (Globe "promising newcomer" nominee)
- Cybill Shepherd, The Heartbreak Kid (National Society of Film Critics, 4th place)
Other actresses in supporting roles that year...
Diane Keaton received no honors for her performance in "The Godfather"
- Ellen Burstyn, The King of Marvin Gardens [Filmstruck]
- Ava Gardner, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
- Blythe Danner, 1776 [iTunes]
- Diane Keaton, The Godfather [iTunes]
- Sissy Spacek, Prime Cut
- Sally Struthers, The Getaway [iTunes]
- Louise Lasser and Lynn Redgrave in Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex... [iTunes]
- Susan Anspach and Diane Keaton, Play it Again Sam [iTunes]
- Nell Potts and Roberta Wallach, The Effect of Gamma Rays...
- Virna Lisi and Raquel Welch, Bluebeard
- Carol Lynley and Stella Stevens, The Poseidon Adventure
And once again we weep at how hard it is to find certain movies to stream or buy affordably! How, pray tell, are Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Richard Burton, and Joanne Woodward movies from 1972 or Oscar favorites like The Heartbreak Kid unavailable period OR if they are available $50 and up?!