Introducing the Smackdown Panel for '65
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 at 11:47PM Are you ready for the the penultimate episode of this super-sized Supporting Actress Smackdown season? Up next 1965. The Nominees Were: Ruth Gordon (Inside Daisy Clover), Joyce Redman AND Maggie Smith (Othello), Shelley Winters (A Patch of Blue) and Peggy Wood (The Sound of Music). Once you've watched that quartet of films, send in your ballots with "1965" in the subject line and a 1 (poor) to 5 (perfection) rating for each of the five performances. You're the collective final vote. Let's meet your fellow panelists, shall we?
PLEASE WELCOME...
SPENCER GARRETT
Spencer Garrett is a third generation actor whose career spans 30 years in film, television and theatre. Feature film highlights include Once Upon a Time ...in Hollywood, Bombshell, Public Enemies, Air Force One, Charlie Wilson’s War, and Lovely and Amazing. He will appear oppsite Ana De Armas in the upcoming Blonde for director Andrew Dominik. Garrett's numerous guest and recurring roles on television include Chicago P.D, Mad Men, Madam Secretary, Bosch, The Magicians, Masters of Sex, House of Cards, All the Way and Game Change. This fall he stars opposite John C.Reilly as legendary Lakers broadcaster Chick Hearn in Adam McKay’s Showtime for HBO.
In addition to acting he produced Below The Beltway (Best Film, Newport Film Festival), the global hit podcast ‘America 2.0’ and this year's 'Quarantine' for IGTV to raise funds and awareness of the SAG-AFTRA Covid19 Relief Fund. A supporter of numerous charities over the years, Garrett has performed 15 times in support of the NBCC (National Breast Cancer Coalition) in the 'Les Girls' cabaret and supports The Motion Picture and Television Fund and Broadway Cares, Equity Fights AIDS. He attended Duke and Fordham Universities and currently teaches a master class at The Ruskin School in Los Angeles. [Twitter | Instagram | IMDb]
BABY CLYDE
Oscar obsessive, Golden Age Hollywood fanatic, and new contributor to TFE, all of which can be attributed to witnessing Geraldine Page’s Best Actress win when he was a small child. Nothing was ever the same again. Casting director and model agent by trade, he begrudgingly makes time for this in between watching Classic films and re-ranking Academy Award nominations. He has been waging a war on category fraud for decades. It’s a battle he is currently losing. He thinks Spice World is a masterpiece. His love of Movie Stars is equalled only by his love of 90’s Supermodels, Track and Field, Basset Dogs and Cher. [Twitter | Letterboxd]
KAYLEIGH DONALDSON
Kayleigh Donaldson is a pop culture writer and critic. She is a features writer for Pajiba, where she specializes in the intersections between celebrity, gossip, the industry, and pop culture history. Her work can also be found on Screen Rant, SYFY FANGRRLS, and What To Watch. She's the co-host of the podcast The Hollywood Read alongside Sarah Marrs. She lives in Dundee, Scotland, and spends most of her time on Twitter. [Twitter | Official Site]
KEVIN JACOBSEN
Kevin Jacobsen is a writer for Gold Derby and AwardsWatch, covering the Oscars, Emmys, and most other award shows. He is also a member of the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics and hosts the And the Runner-Up Is podcast, which reviews the presumed runner-up for Best Picture at the Academy Awards in any given year. Unfortunately, this has turned him into an Oscar completist. Kevin resides in Connecticut. [Twitter | Instagram]
TERENCE JOHNSON
Terence Johnson is the owner of LeNoirAuteur.net and a member of the Hollywood Critics Association. He also directed/co-wrote a sci-fi/horror web series The Vampyr Resistance Corps. In his spare time, he likes to cosplay, watch unnecessary amounts of television, and curate his Pinterest boards. [Twitter | Instagram | Pinterest]
HOSTED BY...
NATHANIEL ROGERS
Nathaniel is the creator and owner of The Film Experience. He is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association and The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics and a longtime Oscar pundit here at TFE. His writing has also appeared at other publications including Vanity Fair, Vulture, Slate, and Towleroad.
If you are a working actor, a renowned critic, film historian, a novelist, or an arts professional of some kind, chances are good that he has meant to invite you to a Smackdown panel, or would have if he happened to know you were obsessed with supporting actresses. [Twitter | Contact | Instagram]
Reader Comments (19)
BABY CLYDE AND KEVIN!! :)
Welcome to all, and thank you to Nathaniel for his marvelous ability to seek out and gather the most interesting guests. I hope everyone enjoys themselves immensely.
Baby Clyde giving me serious 78 Sylvester and i'm thankful for it.
LadyEdith -- thank you. Corralling these panels is stressful but in the end always worth the effort. :)
Baby Clyde!? (said to the tune of Tiffany “New York” Pollard’s “Beyoncé??”)
Baby Clyde and Kevin...my heart skipped I'm so excited!!!
Welcome Aboard!!
the TASTE jumped out. Cannot wait for this
I'm psyched! The guest panelists this season have been stellar and this crew looks like no exception. I've already turned in my ballot for '65 and have just started watching the ladies of 1987. When the smackdown wraps for the year I'll hardly know what to do with myself!
I thought I should dress up for the occasion (And '78 Sylvester was EXACTLY the look I was going for!!!).
Okay you are seriously killing it with these panels! I'm excited.
Welcome panelists! Can't wait to hear your thoughts.
I was so hungover on Sunday and I listened to your episode on Kevin Jacobsen’s podcast in bed and it made me feel so much better. Thanks guys!
Fabulous!!
Great panel here to discuss a list of nominees that honestly after a recent viewing is not my most favourite of lists. There were a lot of great women who should've been nominated but as it seemed where no were near the conversation,
I've watched some 65 titles but if anyone has any recommendations feel free to mention because I've seen a lot but I'm confident there is some things that were released in the states that year that I'm missing.
eoin -- please offer up some recommendations. I can't pull a 1938 binge watch of titles this month but i would love to see more supporting actress suggestions in particular.
Nathaniel - in terms of great supporting actress performances.
Joan Blondell - The Cincinnati Kid
Thelma Ritter - Boeing, Boeing
Anne Vernon - The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Eleanor Parker - The Sound of Music
Giulietta Masina - Variety Lights (from my research it didn’t get an American release till 65)
Flora Robson, Maggie Smith - Young Cassidy
Eoin-thanks for the alternatives, outside of Parker (I guess she wasn’t nominated because she didn’t have a song, because otherwise it would seem like she would have been an obvious candidate considering it’s a showy role which she nails and she was nominated several other times prior) and Blondell I was having a hard time coming up with other candidates. Vernon is a great pick, had totally forgotten about her but she’s lovely in that movie. I basically *like* the nominees but it does seem like one of those “we didn’t have many options” kind of line-ups. Which imo always leads to the most interesting smack down discussions.
I imagine a lot of the comments about Othello are going to be directed toward controversy. I am someone who thinks that we should not judge past productions with current thinking. Even productions from 10 or 20 years ago would look bad. My problem with the nomination of Sir Laurence Olivier is that it took away the more deserved nominations of Omar Sharif in Doctor Zhivago and Sidney Poitier in A Patch of Blue.
_Best Non-nominated Best Supporting Actress 1965:
Charmian Carr - The Sound of Music
Eleanor Parker - The Sound of Music
Geraldine Chaplin - Doctor Zhivago
Martha Hyer - The Sons of Katie Elder
Wendy Craig - The Nanny