Question re: Auntie Mame

[madbrian]

Question re: Auntie Mame#1

Posted: 6/29/13 at 9:28pm

Auntie Mame is playing on TCM right now, so I was browsing through info on it on both IMDB and IBDB. While doing so, I noticed that it received an Oscar nom for best picture, although it did not receive a Tony nom for best play. Anyone know if this has happened before or since?

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[AC126748]

Question re: Auntie Mame#2

Posted: 6/29/13 at 9:53pm

On Golden Pond

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[best12bars]

Question re: Auntie Mame#2

Posted: 6/29/13 at 10:08pm

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" received no Tony nominations and closed after 82 performances.

It won Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Adapted Screenplay.

That's the "Grand Slam" of Oscars, all the "major" awards, shared only with It Happened One Night and Silence of the Lambs.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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Updated On: 6/29/13 at 10:08 PM

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Question re: Auntie Mame#3

Posted: 6/29/13 at 10:12pm

A Few Good Men - no Tony nom, but a Best PIcture nom.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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Question re: Auntie Mame#4

Posted: 6/29/13 at 10:19pm

Picnic - no Tony nomination for Best Play.

It won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was nominated for Best Picture.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[henrikegerman]

Question re: Auntie Mame#5

Posted: 6/30/13 at 1:09am

The Lion in Winter and Lenny, both best pic nominees based on Broadway plays not nominated for a tony for best play.

The Lion in Winter won the best adapted screenplay award (beating an adaptaton of a tony nominee for best play and a tony winner for "best author" (The Odd Couple) and that year's best picture winner, adapted from a tony nominee for best musical (Oliver!)). in addition, Lion won the Director's Guild Award (for Anthony Harvey), the Writers Guild award for best drama screenplay, the golden globe for best dramatic movie and best dramatic actor (Peter O'Toole), and the New York Film Critics Award for best film.

Cliff Gorman won a best actor tony for Lenny (Dustin Hoffman was oscar nominated). Rosemary Harris won a best actress tony for Lion (Katharine Hepburn won the oscar for Lion, tying with Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl).









Updated On: 7/1/13 at 01:09 AM

[Jon]

Question re: Auntie Mame#6

Posted: 7/1/13 at 12:46pm

To be fair, the movie version of "Cuckoo's Nest" bore little relation to Dale Wasserman's stage version. The play kept the idea of the story being told through Chief Bromden's eyes, and was somewhat surrealistic, while the movie was totally naturalistic. The play is a closer adaptation of the original novel than Milos Forman's film was.

For that matter, Forman also made significant changes to Hair and Amadeus, which WERE based on plays.

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Question re: Auntie Mame#7

Posted: 7/1/13 at 2:24pm

There's no fairness there. It was a film adaptation of the play as well as the book, no matter how significant the revisions were.

Michael Douglas's father Kirk starred in the Broadway play and owned the rights to it. Michael produced the movie, based on both. The film credits say it is based on the play and the book.

(Unlike The Elephant Man, which is not based on the play at all.)

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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