The epic gay 1983 supporting actress battle.

Nowadays Linda Hunt would be called racist for yellowing her skin for the role but this was the 80s.

Vote!! (you can also vote for Amy Irving's strangely comatose work in Yentl or G in The Big Chill though her teeny tiny titties probably traumatized a lot of gay boys or Alfree Woodard who was actually really good as always.)

by Anonymous

reply 49

July 8, 2018 11:20 AM

Damn. Cher is for Silkwood not Moonstruck.

by Anonymous

reply 1

July 2, 2018 2:02 AM

I actually like Close and The Big Chill the best. And I'm not even a baby boomer.

by Anonymous

reply 2

July 2, 2018 2:05 AM

I've always thought Melinda Dillon deserved a nomination for A Christmas Story.

by Anonymous

reply 3

July 2, 2018 2:12 AM

Way more diverse nominees than any time since it's just delightful.

by Anonymous

reply 4

July 2, 2018 2:18 AM

Hunt deserved the award, but Cher would have been a fine winner, everyone rightfully adores Alfre Woodard and Close would have spared DL a decade of terrible M posts. So there were several good choices.

Amy Irving has the dubious distinction of being one of two people nominated for both an Oscar and a Razzie for the same performance. The Razzies got it right. I’d probably have Tess Harper from “Tender Mercies,” Michelle Pfeiffer from “Scarface” or another actress from “The Big Chill” take her place.

by Anonymous

reply 5

July 2, 2018 2:25 AM

Cher should have won it because she deserved it, and then Glenn would have won for Fatal Attraction so we could have killed two birds with one stone.

by Anonymous

reply 6

July 2, 2018 2:27 AM

Is Hunt Asian at all?

I never really believed she was a man. I don't know what it would have been like seeing the film not knowing she was a woman.

by Anonymous

reply 7

July 2, 2018 2:36 AM

God, can you imagine the shitstorm over Linda Hunt (a white woman playing an Asian man) if The Killing Fields were made today?

by Anonymous

reply 8

July 2, 2018 2:40 AM

Hunt won all the critics awards but Cher won the supporting actress globe. I think Hunt was fine but looking back 35 years later I don’t think it was really a transformative brilliant acting performance. She cut her hair short and looked like a small man. Plus I think at this point Cher really wasn’t taken THAT seriously as an actress and maybe seen more as a flash in the pan. Plus Hunt I think had the “she will never have another shot at winning an Oscar” factor that helped her vote tally.

It’s been years since I’ve seen TYOLD but I really don’t remember a big Oscar scene from Hunt in it. Close was just carrying the torch for the rest of the cast as the lone nominee. Irving of course didn’t do anything special in Yentl. But Woodards nomination was deserved.

by Anonymous

reply 9

July 2, 2018 2:50 AM

R8 "The Killing Fields" cast Asian actors as Asian characters, so it would probably be the same if it were remade today.

by Anonymous

reply 10

July 2, 2018 2:56 AM

But r10 a white woman played an Asian man. That would not go over well in 2018 SJW-World.

by Anonymous

reply 11

July 2, 2018 2:57 AM

Ann Jillian should of been nominated fir Mr. Mom.

by Anonymous

reply 12

July 2, 2018 2:58 AM

R11 I think you have mixed up "The Killing Fields" with "The Year of Living Dangerously".

by Anonymous

reply 13

July 2, 2018 3:01 AM

I was shocked that Loni Anderson was overlooked for "Stroker Ace"

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by Anonymous

reply 14

July 2, 2018 3:19 AM

Silkwood is a perfect movie

by Anonymous

reply 15

July 2, 2018 3:32 AM

r15 agreed. I think it's Meryl Streep's best performance. She is so un-Meryl in it. Not once do I detect Meryl - she completely becomes Karen Silkwood. Mike Nichols was a wonderful director. Streep, Kurt Russell and Cher were all excellent.

by Anonymous

reply 16

July 2, 2018 3:39 AM

r6 Glenn Close did not deserve an Oscar for Fatal Attraction. She should be glad she was even nominated.

by Anonymous

reply 17

July 2, 2018 4:02 AM

But Glenn did deserve it for Dangerous Liaisons, so this would have made up for losing that.

by Anonymous

reply 18

July 2, 2018 4:22 AM

Glenn Close gave a fantastic performance in Fatal Attraction. 30-plus years later, that movie is still part of the American cultural lexicon, which is no small achievement.

by Anonymous

reply 19

July 2, 2018 4:36 AM

Plus Close was typecast as the good woman prior to Fatal Attraction so it really came as a shock that she could change directions so drastically.

by Anonymous

reply 20

July 2, 2018 4:37 AM

I still think Cher deserved her Oscar for Moonstruck but 1987 was a tough year - many great performances. Close's performance was just as deserving.

by Anonymous

reply 21

July 2, 2018 4:52 AM

Most haven't seen Alfre Woodard's great performance in CROSS CREEK, a little-known film that is almost all but forgotten today. She is remarkable.

And I'm with R3: Melinda Dillon should have been nommed for A CHRISTMAS STORY.

The only one that really doesn't belong on this list is Amy Irving. So many other worthy choices. Was she still Mrs. Steven Spielberg then? Is that how that happened?

by Anonymous

reply 22

July 2, 2018 5:11 AM

She was still married to Spielberg at that time.

by Anonymous

reply 23

July 2, 2018 5:27 AM

The nominees that year should have been:

Cher, Silkwood

Alfre Woodard, Cross Creek

Melinda Dillon, A Christmas Story

Sandra Bernhard, The King of Comedy

Michelle Pfeiffer, Scarface

by Anonymous

reply 24

July 2, 2018 5:50 AM

oh yes. Sandra Bernhard was that year. She won a critics circle award. I've heard her say she didn't know how to play the publicity game back then. Nowadays she said she would have hired a publicist to parlay the National Society Award into an Oscar nomination.

(and back then there were only like three or four pre-critics awards so they meant more.)

by Anonymous

reply 25

July 2, 2018 6:30 AM

The thinking was they nominated Irving just to spite Streisand.

After she was overlooked in all categories she couldn't claim they didn't watch the film since Irving was nominated.

by Anonymous

reply 27

July 2, 2018 8:07 AM

[quote]Most haven't seen Alfree Woodard's great performance in CROSS CREEK, a little-known film that is almost all but forgotten today. She is remarkable.

I love her in that film. She's so unique and even funny at times.

by Anonymous

reply 28

July 8, 2018 5:13 AM

Annette Bening in Grifters

by Anonymous

reply 29

July 8, 2018 5:20 AM

You're off by several years, R29.

by Anonymous

reply 30

July 8, 2018 5:42 AM

I just like Annette Bening. She was robbed for Best Supporting Actress in Grifters and Best Actress in American Beauty.

by Anonymous

reply 31

July 8, 2018 5:55 AM

I would have nominated Kathleen Turner in “The Man With Two Brains” over Glenn that year.

by Anonymous

reply 41

July 8, 2018 7:06 AM

Wasn't Linda Hunt playing a man? What is the matter with you ignorant assholes? Linda was fabulous, didn't she win the Oscar?

by Anonymous

reply 43

July 8, 2018 8:08 AM

R9 is an ignorant turd, Linda's acting was superior.

by Anonymous

reply 44

July 8, 2018 8:14 AM

Is TYOLD based on a true story ? Why not change the character to a woman? It happens all the time.

by Anonymous

reply 45

July 8, 2018 8:17 AM

Fuck you, you stupid cunt, it was originally a book and probably a true story. Even though Mel and Sigourny were in the film, Linda was the star in that movie.

by Anonymous

reply 46

July 8, 2018 8:45 AM

It was a novel, I guess. It was a beautiful, wonderful film. It is a shame that Mel was in it, he is a Nazi and not fit...he did look gorgeous and of course you can't tell that he is a Nazi.

by Anonymous

reply 47

July 8, 2018 8:53 AM

Don’t let Linda’s short stature fool you...I think she probably could kick Cher’s chapless ass. The low center of gravity works in her favor.

by Anonymous

reply 48

July 8, 2018 9:16 AM

Cher should have won, she was terrific in Silkwood. It and Mask are her 2 best performances IMO. Glenn was fortunate to be nominated for this and The Natural in 1984. She got no other nominations for either performance.

Glenn should have won for Fatal Attraction in 87 and Meryl should have won for A Cry in the Dark in 88 - still her best performance to this day and much superior to Foster in The Accused.

by Anonymous

reply 49

July 8, 2018 11:20 AM