How Did Carol Burnett Not Get The Oscar For ANNIE?
How Did Carol Burnett Not Get The Oscar For ANNIE?
#1How Did Carol Burnett Not Get The Oscar For ANNIE?
Posted: 4/14/12 at 9:20pmI think it's a crime. We're watching it now and seriously, even if you've seen this movie four and a half thousand times, she still causes you to burst out laughing with every line. It's a genius performance and should have been recognized.
#2How Did Carol Burnett Not Get The Oscar For ANNIE?
Posted: 4/14/12 at 9:21pmAre you being serious?
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#3How Did Carol Burnett Not Get The Oscar For ANNIE?
Posted: 4/14/12 at 9:25pmI agree. Perfect casting, and a perfect performance. In a bloated film. Another director, another approach, she would've moved her career into another sphere. Everything about the context for her fearlessness and art was a let-down. She was born to play the role, and it's clear.
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#4How Did Carol Burnett Not Get The Oscar For ANNIE?
Posted: 4/14/12 at 9:25pmLook at who she would have been against. No way she deserved it.
#5How Did Carol Burnett Not Get The Oscar For ANNIE?
Posted: 4/14/12 at 10:06pmTotally agree with Jordan (and I'm being serious too). John Huston's ANNIE is a disaster, albeit an extremely watchable one in a can't-take-your-eyes-off-it car crash sort of way. Burnett walks off with the movie and gives a legitimately great performance. "Little Girls" and "Easy Street" are the only two numbers that really work for me in the film.
#6How Did Carol Burnett Not Get The Oscar For ANNIE?
Posted: 4/14/12 at 10:54pmThis movie is the reason I was afraid of Carol Burnett for the first ten years of my life. And yes, Easy Street is a delight, the way three greats play off one another!
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#7How Did Carol Burnett Not Get The Oscar For ANNIE?
Posted: 4/14/12 at 11:27pm
The real question is how did Carol Channing not win the Oscar for Thoroughly Modern Millie. Biggest. Robbery. Ever.
That pic sums it up. How could she not win? The "raspberries" scene alone should have clinched it! Streep in Sophie's Choice, Taylor in Virginia Woolf, Leigh in Gone with the Wind, Loren in Two Women, and Channing in Millie.
Updated On: 4/15/12 at 11:27 PM
#8How Did Carol Burnett Not Get The Oscar For ANNIE?
Posted: 4/14/12 at 11:30pmDollypop has 2 screen names. How wonderful.
#9How Did Carol Burnett Not Get The Oscar For ANNIE?
Posted: 4/14/12 at 11:36pm
I'll take that as a compliment. Never thought I would be mistaken for the great Dollypop!
(I honestly do love you, Dolly!)
#10How Did Carol Burnett Not Get The Oscar For ANNIE?
Posted: 4/14/12 at 11:38pmBe careful what you say. You might end up having to babysit the demon spawn Elizabeth (The girl THE OMEN was based on).
#11How Did Carol Burnett Not Get The Oscar For ANNIE?
Posted: 4/14/12 at 11:43pm
It's all for you Elizabeth!
ALL FOR YOU!
Updated On: 4/14/12 at 11:43 PM
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#12How Did Carol Burnett Not Get The Oscar For ANNIE?
Posted: 4/15/12 at 11:14am
Nominees that year:
Best Actress: Julie Andrews- Victor/Victoria; Jessica Lange - Frances; Sissy Spacek - Missing; Meryl Streep - Sophie's Choice; Debra Winger - Officer and a Gentleman;
Best Supporting Actress: Glenn Close - World According to Garp; Teri Garr - Tootsie; Jessica Lange - Tootsie; Kin Stanley - Frances; Lesley Ann Warren - Victor/Victoria
Seems like Victor/Victoria took all of Annie's nominations. The Academy was only allowed to honor one non-animated "musical" picture a year, outside of the music categories.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#13How Did Carol Burnett Not Get The Oscar For ANNIE?
Posted: 4/15/12 at 12:28pm
You really have to watch this movie sober to appreciate how spectacularly awful it is.
Burnett is a great entertainer, but NOT a good actress, this role and Huston allowed her to play every trick in her bag, and the character and film suffered for it. Her performance in this film is not any more deserving of an Oscar than Quinn’s.
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Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#15How Did Carol Burnett Not Get The Oscar For ANNIE?
Posted: 4/15/12 at 12:50pm
Burnett was horrendously dreary. The movie was horrendously horrendous.
EDIT: Now a Razzie nomination? She was ROBBED.
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Updated On: 4/15/12 at 12:50 PM
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#16How Did Carol Burnett Not Get The Oscar For ANNIE?
Posted: 4/15/12 at 1:12pmI wouldn't say she was bad just nothing really special.
#19How Did Carol Burnett Not Get The Oscar For ANNIE?
Posted: 4/15/12 at 1:20pm
So you think she should have beat Meryl Streep or Jessica Lange?
Updated On: 4/15/12 at 01:20 PM
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#20How Did Carol Burnett Not Get The Oscar For ANNIE?
Posted: 4/15/12 at 1:28pmWell, the only cheap trick she DIDN'T pull was jizzing in our face; which is kind of surprising, considering how masturbatory her performance was.
PEACE.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#19How Did Carol Burnett Not Get The Oscar For ANNIE?
Posted: 4/15/12 at 5:27pm
Well, considering what she was surrounded by, can you blame her for wanting to enjoy herself? I personally like the performance.
For the record, I thought Teri Garr should have won the Oscar that year.
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morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#20How Did Carol Burnett Not Get The Oscar For ANNIE?
Posted: 4/15/12 at 6:16pmTeri Garr would have been fun as Hannigan.
ChildrenwillListen
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#21How Did Carol Burnett Not Get The Oscar For ANNIE?
Posted: 4/15/12 at 8:25pmCarol Burnett is the only good Hannigan
#22How Did Carol Burnett Not Get The Oscar For ANNIE?
Posted: 4/15/12 at 8:26pmYeah, forget that amateur Dorothy Loudon.
#23How Did Carol Burnett Not Get The Oscar For ANNIE?
Posted: 4/16/12 at 7:46amTOTALLY agree . . . no way should Lang have taken supporting from Garr. What was the Academy thinking?
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Rypm25
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#24How Did Carol Burnett Not Get The Oscar For ANNIE?
Posted: 4/16/12 at 8:12am
Many people feel that supporting actor oscar really belongs to Garr or Lesley Ann Warren that year, but that the academy was really awarding Lange's performance in Frances, also nominated that year against Meryl's Sophie Choice performance (which no one was going to beat).
Updated On: 4/16/12 at 08:12 AM
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