Who's your favourite supporting actor/actress? which movie?!
Question:
Who's your favourite supporting actor/actress? which movie?
Answers: For Supporting actor...Frank Sinatra in "From Here to Eternity." The role of Maggio could have been written for him!
For Supporting Actress...Hattie McDaniel in "Gone With the Wind." The role was "Mammie" a slave who was also a beloved family member; a very complicated role!
BTW, Hattie was the first Afro-American to be nominated, much less win, an Academy Award. The awards were held in the ballroom of a large hotel in Hollywood, but Hattie wasn't allowed to enter through the front door; "coloreds" were required to use the back door. She was required to wait in the alley outside until her name was called, and then she had to leave immediately. True story! Kevin Spacey- The Usual Suspects! "How do you shoot the devil in the back???? What if you miss????" Denholm Elliot in Trading Places. Steve Corell in Anchorman.
"I love...chair." Jonathan Lipnicki in "Jerry Maguire". He was too cute in that!
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Ray: D'you know that the human head weighs 8 pounds?
Jerry Maguire: Did you know that Troy Aikman, in only six years, has passed for 16,303 yards?
Ray: D'you know that bees and dogs can smell fear?
Jerry Maguire: Did you know that the career record for hits is 4,256 by Pete Rose who is NOT in the Hall of Fame?
Ray: D'you know that my next door neighbor has three rabbits?
Jerry Maguire: I... I can't compete with that! Would have to say Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs - he was so evil but in a nice way - quite an accomplishment.
Guess that would be one of the reasons he won Best Actor for it - the movie won Best Picture - and not to let her out of the picture but Jodie Foster won Best Actress.
There was a total of 5 awards for this movie that year. Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride...I love that movie.... Ann Miller in the original of Kiss Me Kate Juliette Binoche in The English Patient. That's easy. Male--it's James Mason.
My favorite I'd say is "Fall of the Roman Empire" as the philosopher who always has a third alternative.
Female---it's Flora Robson, especially for anything before 1973, especially "Guns at Batasi".
The problem here is, the best actors--Eve Arden, Keith Andes, Patricia Morison etc. got to play some leads but ended up classified as supporting actors while leads were given to untrained, merely pretty or popular types.
I think Keith Andes in "Back From Eternity as Joe Brooks, and Eve Arden in "The Kid From Brooklyn" as the gangster's girlfriend are as good as it gets--but in my world, they'd have been playing the leads in those films.