1965: The Golden Globes' Alternate Choices

Each month before the Supporting Actress Smackdown Nick Taylor selects performances for an alternate ballot...

Of the Golden Globes’ Supporting Actress nominees in 1965, three of their five were transplanted to Oscar’s lineup. Globe winner Ruth Gordon in Inside Daisy Clover, Joyce Redman in Othello, and Peggy Wood in The Sound of Music (who we all basically agree was not the best option from her movie) all made the cut, while Redman’s co-star Maggie Smith was imported from the Globes' Lead Actress-Drama category. Only Shelley Winters, who wound up winning the damn Oscar for A Patch of Blue, failed to show up anywhere at the Globes. The two Globe nominees left out to pasture come Oscar nomination morning were NBR winner Joan Blondell in The Cincinnati Kid and never-winning Academy regular Thelma Ritter in Boeing Boeing. Both of the unlucky actresses co-starred in films that were blanked by the Academy completely. But should they have made the cut? Let’s find out...

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Showbiz History: Sigourney's Wedding, Matthau's Centennial, and Johnny's First Guest

10 random things that happened on this day, October 1st, in showbiz history

1920 Walter Matthau born in New York. He goes on to become a Tony and Oscar winning film star with muliple hits spanning four decades in the 60s, 70s, and 90s including Charade, The Odd Couple, Cactus Flower, The Sunshine Boys, California Suite, Bad News Bears, and Grumpy Old Men  Happy Walter Matthau Centennial -- do you have a favourite of his?

1937 Madame X, starring Gladys George, is released in movie theaters. It's the fourth film adaptation of the play and there would be six more including the arguably most famous version in 1966 starring Lana Turner. 

1962 Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the first time. The legend Joan Crawford is his guest...

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September. It's a wrap

We're entering the last quarter of this film-light year. But we're still finding things to talk about. We hope you enjoyed all the Emmy and 1938 coverage, and (currently ongoing) Oscar predictions and NYFF coverage. Here's a look back at September at the blog...

10 You Shouldn't Miss
• Nomadland at Venice ...and at NYFF Elisa and Murtada both react
• The Wolf of Wall Street Quaaludes, man
• John Cazale in Dog Day Afternoon was this the closest he came to an Oscar nod?
• The Human Voice - Pedro and Tilda wow in short film form
• Fred & Ginger, Ranked Cláudio ranks their 10 musical pairings
• Handmaid's Tale during a pandemic Juan Carlos gets personal about why it's his favourite show ever
• 1938's Best Pictures a ranking from The Citadel to Robin Hood
• Yes No Maybe So: Dune the sci-fi epic gets another adaptation
• The Furniture: Doctor Zhivago what a way to kick off '65 coverage 

5 Most Discussed
• New Oscar Rules AMPAS gets serious about representation and inclusion
• Timothée What do you see in the Chalamet's future?
• Smackdown 38 You Can't Take Jezebel With You! 
• West Side Story Delayed so few movies competing for the Oscars
• The Baroness Nick on The Sound of Music's most overlooked turn

Coming in October 
Calgary & Middleburg film festivals, a Montgomery Clift centennial celebration, and the 1965 Supporting Actress Smackdown, and more. 

Kajillionaire: The Latest from Miranda July

By Abe Friedtanzer

I still remember when I convinced a few high school friends that the next movie for us to watch together should be Me and You and Everyone We Know. I was fully enthralled by the feature directorial debut of writer-director Miranda July, which explored unconventional romances and perspectives, and, to me, was the definition of experimental and arthouse filmmaking at the time. My friends were not quite as amused, and are still probably angry at me for making them watch it if they haven’t fully blocked it from their memories fifteen years later. 

July’s follow-up, The Future, was intriguing but ultimately disappointing. I was nonetheless very much on board to see July’s latest, released a full nine years after her second, when it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this past January. For the first time, July doesn’t appear in her film, and it builds on the transition she made between her first two films to feature a more typical narrative. The concepts continue to be totally peculiar, but the way in which the story is presented is actually quite normal...

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New Oscar Predictions: Screenplays and International Submissions

OKAY. Finally we have succumbed to the enthusiasm that there just might be a winter movie season after all. Maybe? Perhaps? Might? So it's time to update all those Oscar charts. We'll work our way quickly up to the the acting categories, don't worry, since all the charts are in heavy progress behind the scenes. The following charts are now up: 

• Supporting Actor - Which we just discussed via Trial of Chicago 7 though I've altered one key detail from fears that Judas and the Black Messiah will not arrive at all by late February
• Screenplays - Original & Adapted Contenders
• International Feature Overview - Overall Stats & Wild Guesswork
• International Submissions Pt 1: Albania through Greece
• International Submissions Pt 2: Germany through Norway
• International Submissions Pt 3: Pakistan through Vietnam

What do you think will score in the screenplay categories?