The 58th Academy Awards: If I could turn back time

Damn, John Huston and Akira Kurowsawa in the same category.

Huston remains the oldest director nominated for an Oscar, so everyone was not so young at the 86 Oscars...

Streisand was so gorgeous.

I enjoyed the clip right up until the end when I got a little nauseous.

I thought M and Pollack didn't get along very well on that film?

And who could ever forget F. Murray Abraham's cringeworthy Best Actress pronouncement.

Adolescent Angelina Jolie at the 2:00 mark (and her father giving her brother the death stare).

No, Pollack had nothing but praise for M:

"Harrison Ford has this charismatic thing that makes you want to watch him, and yet he doesn't has the ego and narcissistic baggage that goes with being in that position. I felt that way working with Meryl Streep, too. A gift."

Pollack aged well into quite a DILF. He's actually much more handsome in his 60s and 70s than he was as a younger man.

The Way We Were was a far superior film in every way to Out of Africa and it didn't win any Oscars.

At least TWWW is one of the most beloved films of all time. Few people have seen Out of Africa, or even like it.

At least Redford gave a performance in "The Way We Were"; he was a complete non-entity in "Out of Africa", miscast and dialing it in. They might as well have used CGI instead of him.

[quote]At least TWWW is one of the most beloved films of all time.

?????

[quote] Pollack aged well into quite a DILF. He's actually much more handsome in his 60s and 70s than he was as a younger man.

And he’s absolutely gorgeous now!!!

R10 I agree but I like OOA a lot, too. By the way, I could have given Oscar to all of them.

Out of Africa was a pretty decent hit - Wikipedia says it grossed $228 million on a $28 million budget. But it doesn't seem well-remembered now. My parents dragged me to see it as a kid and I thought it was a snoozefest.

The Way We Were is one of the best movies ever.

Out of Africa was on tv this weekend. It's a very silly film, looks great though. Meryl is good. Redford is terrible in it. Klaus Maria Brandauer is fantastic, sort of has a dangerous charisma, acts them both off the screen.

R6 - we have had previous threads on this clip but I still like the sour look on Jessica Lange's face as if she knows she aint gonna win, and Anne Bancroft's reaction to Abraham's pomposity.

Unbelievable. The absolute least deserving nominee wins. That they gave it to Pollack over Kurosawa for the extraordinary, masterful RAN is criminal. If they'd given it to Huston (the second most deserving) for the extremely good Prizzi's Honor, it would've been, at least, understandable and one could accept it, but Out of Africa !?! That movie is utter middlebrow Hollywood pablum. Pretty stars in pretty locations. Dreck. Awful.

Here's Anjelica's win.

I liked Out of Africa much more than TWWW. Same director? Is that why you guys are comparing the two?

Same director.

Tootsie was his masterpiece.

To think the elder Huston wouldn’t even be here in less than two years.

[quote]The Way We Were was a far superior film in every way to Out of Africa and it didn't win any Oscars.

Really?

Burt Bacharach was one hot piece of ass back in the day. I wonder if her swung both ways? Is that Valerie Perrine presenting with him?

Everyone was so still alive.

[quote] Is that Valerie Perrine presenting with him?

Ann-Margret

Sally still not able to forget "You really like me" long after everyone has forgotten it.

Wow surprising Harrison Ford didn't show up for his only Oscar nomination.

Before he became a Deplorable my friend always hated Jon Voight from the 70's because he always wears a white scarf with his tuxedo.

R30, Jon Voight has been wearing that tired tuxedoed white scarf look since '70s and continues to do so today. It bugs me too.