1982's Oscar Nominees

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A fairly standard template for all years that followed. Castor oil cinema, a well-regarded moneymaking machine, artlessly professional craftsmanship (ideally set in and around the courtroom), populism "validated" by its exploration of social "themes" ... Which is the winner?

Poll Results

OptionVotes
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, producers (Universal) 21
Tootsie, Sydney Pollack and Dick Richards, producers (Columbia) 16
Missing, Edward Lewis and Mildred Lewis, producers (Universal) 2
The Verdict, Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown, producers (Twentieth Century-Fox) 2
Gandhi, Richard Attenborough, producer (Columbia) 1


nu hollywood (Eric H.), Monday, 8 June 2009 16:39 (sixteen years ago)

Tootsie no contest

Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 8 June 2009 16:42 (sixteen years ago)

I've only seen two of these...disgraceful.

unicorn poop evaluator (WmC), Monday, 8 June 2009 16:42 (sixteen years ago)

I was a stand-up tomato: a juicy, sexy, beefsteak tomato! Nobody does vegetables like me! I did an evening of vegetables off-Broadway! I did the best tomato, the best cucumber... I did an endive salad that knocked the critics on their ass!

Brundlefly (kenan), Monday, 8 June 2009 16:47 (sixteen years ago)

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say Morbs and I are voting the same on this one.

nu hollywood (Eric H.), Monday, 8 June 2009 16:49 (sixteen years ago)

I'd join you guys, but Tootsie is the only Oscar-nominated comedy besides Annie Hall that deserved to win.

Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 June 2009 17:05 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOUWQBDbtso

Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 June 2009 17:06 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0u__fj14Tg

Brundlefly (kenan), Monday, 8 June 2009 17:25 (sixteen years ago)

I used to think Tootsie/Hoffman was crazy smug, but I like it a little better now. Still, gets awfully drippy in the last hour.

nu hollywood (Eric H.), Monday, 8 June 2009 18:15 (sixteen years ago)

Well, that last half hour also has one final hilarious Bill Murray routine, Michael Dorsey knocking over the mime in the park, and George Gaynes' great last line.

Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 June 2009 18:27 (sixteen years ago)

OK, that still leaves 59 minutes of Hoffman making nice with misty Lange and grumpy Durning. (Or maybe it's just the music score that really bothers me.)

nu hollywood (Eric H.), Monday, 8 June 2009 18:31 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, the score is treacly. I have more patience with the farm scenes because they're so well acted. If the movie had been about a lesbian soap opera actress who falls in love with her costar it still would have worked.

Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 June 2009 18:38 (sixteen years ago)

yeah I watched Tootsie again recently and the sappiness at the end is hard to take. But all of E.T.'s sappiness is awesome.

Matt Armstrong, Monday, 8 June 2009 19:56 (sixteen years ago)

Blech! Tootsie, I guess. Completely forgot about the existence of The Verdict until this very moment.

Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 8 June 2009 22:30 (sixteen years ago)

David Mamet wrote The Verdict's script, but you wouldn't know it. It's an ok movie with a preposterous conclusion. Mason is at his silken best.

Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 June 2009 22:33 (sixteen years ago)

Y'know waht annoys me about "Tootsie"? The scene where Hoffman and Durning meet in a bar and Hoffman orders a couple of "beers" - without even specifying any brand. Why are some filmmakers loath to allow the faintest whiff of innocuous product placement at the expense of virisimilitude?

I wish he hadn't adapted my critique of his "ilxor" moniker (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 08:49 (sixteen years ago)

A movie in which everyone is fooled into believing a preposterous drag queen is a real woman, and you're criticising its verisimilitude because Hoffman doesn't specify a beer brand?

Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:10 (sixteen years ago)

i watched tootsie recently and liked it just fine, not as much as i remembered liking it. i was struck by how fast it moves. too fast, i think. although if they made it now it would be 2h45m so i guess we have to be thankful for small mercies.

i vote ET

jed_, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:13 (sixteen years ago)

E.T. no contest, Gandhi last

Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:22 (sixteen years ago)

artlessly professional craftsmanship (ideally set in and around the courtroom),

So artless [sic] it's beyond the maker of The Bonfire of the Vanities.

Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:26 (sixteen years ago)

No arguments here.

nu hollywood (Eric H.), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:53 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Friday, 19 June 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

None of this have aged well, have they?

Alex in SF, Friday, 19 June 2009 23:31 (fifteen years ago)

BE GOOD

Dr Morbius, Friday, 19 June 2009 23:36 (fifteen years ago)

Still comparing to this years Oscar winners these seem positively brilliant.

Alex in SF, Friday, 19 June 2009 23:43 (fifteen years ago)

nominees, ahem

Alex in SF, Friday, 19 June 2009 23:44 (fifteen years ago)

Voting Tootsie, I guess. I wish I remembered Missing better.

Alex in SF, Friday, 19 June 2009 23:44 (fifteen years ago)

Morbius and Eric OTM.

Barely remember Gandhi, and only saw Missing once when it was out originally. The Verdict still pretty good for at least supplying a decent Newman monologue and Mason's performance. And Miles O'Shea and Charlotte Rampling shore things up nicely.

Chubby Checker Psycho (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 19 June 2009 23:50 (fifteen years ago)

Tootsie. About the first half of ET is great though.

DavidM, Friday, 19 June 2009 23:54 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Saturday, 20 June 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

The Verdict is better than Missing, goddamn it.

Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 21 June 2009 01:18 (fifteen years ago)

the verdict is kinda silly, but i like how small-scale and grubby it all is, even its conspiracy. newman, mason and jack warden are all grizzled and great. the hardest part to swallow is charlotte rampling's character -- but still, it's charlotte rampling.

us_odd_bunny_lady (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 21 June 2009 01:25 (fifteen years ago)

and yeah it's definitely better than missing, which is fine but not interesting.

us_odd_bunny_lady (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 21 June 2009 01:27 (fifteen years ago)

The hardest part, among many, to swallow in The Verdict is the ludicrous ending, and the judge, who might as well have a mustache to twirl for the audience's sake.

Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 21 June 2009 01:35 (fifteen years ago)

I like it fine, and will not change it if it's on, but it's not a great movie.

Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 21 June 2009 01:35 (fifteen years ago)

I do like the scenes with Mason cross-examining the black "expert witness." Very well done.

Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 21 June 2009 01:36 (fifteen years ago)

Morbs and I obviously doth protested too much on other threads.

bad crack (Eric H.), Sunday, 21 June 2009 02:43 (fifteen years ago)

Do the year Barry Lyndon was nominated cuzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 21 June 2009 02:45 (fifteen years ago)

OK, will do.

bad crack (Eric H.), Sunday, 21 June 2009 03:20 (fifteen years ago)


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