Oscar's Greatest Losers - Actor's Edition

For virtuosity alone, I might vote for the guy you (intentionally?) left off: Peter Sellers in Strangelove. Among the other nine, it'd come down to Brando, Pacino, or De Niro, because they all have names that end in "o." (I won't be the first one to suggest omissions; if someone else does, I'll chime in.)

Nope -- accident. I knew my math was wrwong.

I'd actually vote for James Stewart in Anatomy of a Murder if Lemmon weren't in this category.

monty or de niro

deniro or otoole

Brando

Ack! Sellers complicates things when I'm already torn between Brando, Hoffman, and DeNiro.

He's gone. Concentrate on essentials.

Tempted to go with Hoffman on the grounds that, while all four three of my picks later won, Hoffman's Oscar was for a much less interesting film/role than what the others eventually got theirs for.

10 personal favourites; Welles (Kane), Stewart (It's a Wonderful Life), Lemmon (The Apartment), Newman (The Hustler/Hud), Burton (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold), Voight (Midnight Cowboy), Nicholson (Five Easy Pieces/Chinatown), Pacino (Godfather II), Denzel (Malcolm X), Nolte (Affliction), Farnsworth (The Straight Story), Murray (Lost in Translation). Well, a couple extra.

How can you compete?

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

"My place is cleared...You want me to clear your places?"

In descending order:

Marlon Brando - A Streetcar Named Desire
Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver
Dustin Hoffman - Tootsie
Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain
Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove
Montgomery Clift - A Place in the Sun
Jack Lemmon - Some Like It Hot
James Stewart - Mr Smith Goes to Washington
Peter O'Toole - Lawrence of Arabia
Al Pacino - Dog Day Afternoon

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voted for stewart just for the last 10 minutes, when he's suddenly kind of terrifying (as he so often is in the last 10 minutes of movies).

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Well, yeah.

Not sure if this guy will put one together, but my actress list:

Barbara Stanwyck: Double Indemnity
Shirley MacLaine: The Apartment
Piper Laurie: The Hustler
Audrey Hepburn: Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Katherine Hepburn: Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Sissy Spacek: Carrie
Jill Clayburgh: An Unmarried Woman
Jessica Lange: Sweet Dreams
Holly Hunter: Broadcast News
Laura Linney: You Can Count on Me

(Yeah, I know--Davis/Baxter/Swanson in '50.)

That's a good list. I'd throw in Margaret Sullavan in Three Comrades too.

Well, yeah.

yeah, who is De Niro w/out Brando?

where is Method acting, especially by men, w/out Stanley Kowalski? (and those guys didn't see it on Broadway when they were in grade school)

I wonder if Kazan wrote in his autobio about MB's Stanley on stage vs screen...

clift persistently underrated around here imo

People today tend to find him 'boring' bcz his career is short on titanic, volcanic emotional displays?

What? Very few actors seemed to have as much boiling below the surface as he did.

Anyway, he won an Oscar for a performance that's arguably better than the one listed here, so that probably accounts in part for the low vote total.

Monty never won an Oscar -- unless you mean Brando.

above the surface always gets more attention, eg Clift vs Dean

Oh right, I always remember him winning an Oscar for From Here to Eternity for some reason.

I like his Rivers best, Red and Wild.

morbs otm

ppl in athens fucking love clift, one of the bands here did a song about him and anytime suddenly, last summer is on tcm it's all over facebook. lotta old queens and spinsters.