What movie should Deborah Kerr have won an Oscar for?!


Question: The dear lady died last week never having won a competitive Oscar, despite six nominations:

1949 - Edward, My Son (won by Olivia De Havilland, The Heiress)

1953 - From Here to Eternity (won by Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday)

1956 - The King and I (won by Ingrid Bergman, Anastasia)

1957 - Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (won by Joanne Woodward, The Three Faces of Eve)

1958 - Separate Tables (won by Susan Hayward, I Want to Live)

1960 - The Sundowners (won by Elizabeth Taylor, Butterfield 8)


Answers: The dear lady died last week never having won a competitive Oscar, despite six nominations:

1949 - Edward, My Son (won by Olivia De Havilland, The Heiress)

1953 - From Here to Eternity (won by Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday)

1956 - The King and I (won by Ingrid Bergman, Anastasia)

1957 - Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (won by Joanne Woodward, The Three Faces of Eve)

1958 - Separate Tables (won by Susan Hayward, I Want to Live)

1960 - The Sundowners (won by Elizabeth Taylor, Butterfield 8)

I think Deborah Kerr is a wonderful actress. Yes, I know that she died recently, However, I think the winner in each of those years was for a standout performance. It truly was an honor for her to be nominated in their company, as well as the nominees not listed.

My question is this: Why wasn't she nominated for "The Innocents" (1961), which could be her most remarkable performances ever. As the governess in this film based on Henry James' "Turn of the Screw", she has to cover a wide range of emotions and get through some extraordinarily demanding scenes. She keeps us guessing whether she grasps the situation or is mentally unstable and imagining all of it.

Nominees that year were:
Anne Bancroft~The Miracle Worker THE WINNER
Bette Davis~What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Katharine Hepburn~Long Day's Journey Into Night
Geraldine Page~Sweet Bird of Youth
Lee Remick~Days of Wine and Roses
She would have had equally tough competition, wouldn't you say?

Sometimes I question why someone didn't win for a noteworthy performance, then I look at the nominees that year and generally realize that it probably went the way it should have. Consider the number of wonderful actresses and actors who never received a nomination.

EDIT: Yea! The poster below brought up another great one: "Black Narcissus" (1947). Nominees that year were:
The Farmer's Daughter~Loretta Young WINNER
Gentleman's Agreement~Dorothy McGuire
Mourning Becomes Electra~Rosalind Russell
Possessed~Joan Crawford
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman~Susan Hayward
Actually, I'd be tempted to take out "Possessed", replacing Joan Crawford with Deborah Kerr in "Black Narcissus". That doesn't mean that she would have won against Loretta Young's remarkable performance.

Sorry, she was a wonderful actress, but no, she was not unfairly deprived of the award any of those years.

Black Narcissus (not even nominated)
The Sundowners
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

An Affair To Remember (1957)

If she deserved an award for anything it is that movie.



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