How Did Carol Burnett Not Get The Oscar For ANNIE?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/14/12 at 9:20pm

I 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.

[ChenoKahn]

Posted: 4/14/12 at 9:21pm

Are you being serious?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/14/12 at 9:22pm

Deadly serious.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 4/14/12 at 9:25pm

I 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.

[ChenoKahn]

Posted: 4/14/12 at 9:25pm

Look at who she would have been against. No way she deserved it.

[ABB2357]

Posted: 4/14/12 at 10:06pm

Totally 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.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 4/14/12 at 10:54pm

This 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!

[Matt2]

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

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/14/12 at 11:30pm

Dollypop has 2 screen names. How wonderful.

[Matt2]

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!)

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/14/12 at 11:38pm

Be careful what you say. You might end up having to babysit the demon spawn Elizabeth (The girl THE OMEN was based on).

[Matt2]

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]

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]

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.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/15/12 at 12:32pm

[best12bars]

Posted: 4/15/12 at 12:50pm

Burnett was horrendously dreary. The movie was horrendously horrendous.

EDIT: Now a Razzie nomination? She was ROBBED.

Updated On: 4/15/12 at 12:50 PM

[ChenoKahn]

Posted: 4/15/12 at 1:12pm

I wouldn't say she was bad just nothing really special.

[ChenoKahn]

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]

Posted: 4/15/12 at 1:28pm

Well, the only cheap trick she DIDN'T pull was jizzing in our face; which is kind of surprising, considering how masturbatory her performance was.

[Borstalboy]

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.

[morosco]

Posted: 4/15/12 at 6:16pm

Teri Garr would have been fun as Hannigan.

[ChildrenwillListen]

Posted: 4/15/12 at 8:25pm

Carol Burnett is the only good Hannigan

[ChenoKahn]

Posted: 4/15/12 at 8:26pm

Yeah, forget that amateur Dorothy Loudon.

[Hanna from Hamburg]

Posted: 4/16/12 at 7:46am

TOTALLY agree . . . no way should Lang have taken supporting from Garr. What was the Academy thinking?

[Rypm25]

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