LEAST deserving Best Actress Winner - 1960s edition

I actually like Butterfield 8 as a guilty pleasure....but Liz did not deserve the Oscar

[quote]I'm omitting Katherine Hepburn's win for The Lion In Winter. If you felt this was the weakest please do write it in

Yes, I'm writing it in. I clicked on this thread to vote for it and am disappointed it's not there.

I was hungry for that Oscar!

Oh, and in lieu of that I 'vote' vote for Katherine Hepburn in Guess Who's Coming To Dinner. .

OP, it's Katharine Hepburn...with an "a"...and she was a co-winner with Barbra, so come on. Work with us here. And yes, she is also my choice as least deserving for "Dinner"...this one seems pretty obvious...particularly since she beat Faye in "Bonnie and Clyde" and Anne Bancroft in "The Graduate."

Sorry guys I only left Katharine out as there seems to be a lot of support for her win for The Lion In Winter (with some people going as far as saying it's the only Oscar she actually deserved!) I will count up the number of times she's listed here for that though so it won't be ignored.

Deb Kerr for The Sundowners should have Liz's first Oscar, but I voted for Barbra anyhow.

Mama, I was the slut of all time!

I was always of the mind Marilyn should have started in The Apartment opposite Jack Lemmon but having recently seen it for the first time (!) no way was she right for the role. While Maclaine was excellent here I found it very presumptuous and arrogant that she claimed "I lost to a tracheostomy!" when Deborah Kerr was amazing in The Sundowners and should have won it.

You can fuck right off with the Patricia Neal entry. She was sublime- the dish towel fly slap alone was worth the Oscar.

Patricia Neal is in the Anthony Hopkins "limited screen time but still somehow a lead" category.

Neal is in the “so good that screen time doesn’t matter” category, along with Hopkins. She gave the very best performance that year, full stop. I’ve always thought that supporting actors should never be penalized for going lead; it’s like an athlete competing in a higher weight class.

Taylor for Butterfield is the worst. The only merit the movie has is camp value, with the whole “slut of all time” speech, but camp alone is never enough. Her winning for purely narrative reasons makes it even worse, as it always does in the long run.

Although, to defend Liz, I would have left out her second win over leaving out Hepburn’s. If I had to choose the one unassailable win from the decade, it’s her in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. She had the worst, but she also had the best.

Are you a dunce OP- most of those listed are great performances. Or are you just being a troll?

Are morons like R13 going to keep asking why polls judging the winners from a particular decade include the winners from that decade?

For the 1960s in Best Actress, there were 11 winners based on a tie and DL polls have only ten slots, but even with that complication the logic shouldn’t be that hard to figure out, unless you’re a complete imbecile.

Just say Jean Brodie recently and Maggie was indeed terrific, especially in that scene where she's breaking down while projecting her holiday shots to "her gerrrllls"

Was Sophia any good in Two Women? I think it's the only one of the bunch I haven't properly seen

If the voters were aware of how good Katharine was in TLIW would someone else have won in 67?

Or if TLIW was released first would she still have won for GWCTD?

R16. Si, si.

Did Shirley really deserve to win for The Apartment?

Anybody who votes for anyone other than Liz Taylor for BUtterfield 8 doesn’t know what they’re talking about. The only reason she won is because people thought she was going to die.

To her credit, she gave one of the most deserving performances in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf.

Very much so, r19, i saw it again recently and she is perfect. The exact right combination of moving and aloof. It is even more admirable considering what appears to be her true personality.

Thanks R21 I've just started to watch it for the first time (!) Jack Lemmon is a bit samey, like he was in SLIH, not a bad thing though. Only got as far as Shirley's first scene in the elevator and she was good so far!

Katharine bores me.

R2, why are you choosing Katharine Hepburn's win for The Lion In Winter? That is probably the best of her 4 Oscar wins and the most deserving.

Taylor in BUTTERFIELD or STREISAND as Fanny Brice. Watching the latter again it hasn’t aged very well to me.

Hepburn's role in GWCTD is really such a nothing part. The only reason she got a nomination was because of who she was. However, I will say that she has one very effective scene where Spencer is giving a little speech and the camera goes to her and she has tears running down her face. You can tell that she knew that he was not long for the world.

I chose Smith because I don't think she was really feeling the role in Brodie- just squawking lines in an irritating nasal whine.

She showed more depth playing a teacher on Carol Burnett.

6 you’ve made that same post in other threads. IIRC, and I do.

I don’t understand the (well established) hate for Butterfield 8. The first 10 silent minutes are pure camp. Then you have the whore of all time ans the slap and earlier, a very bitchy exhange with Dina Merril. Sure, the movie is far from perfect but still highly entertaining. I voted for Streisand, who had no business to being in movies.

Barbra is too vain for movies

BUtterfield 8 is not horrible, but it’s high camp and not your usual Oscar fare. Plus, it’s widely acknowledged Taylor only won because she was beloved and thought to be at death’s door.

Fortunately, she went on to give the best performance of the decade.

I'm a little late for the poll,but wanted to add that Patricia Neal's best actress Oscar/ performance is right up there with the greatest in my opinion-along with both of Vivien Leigh's and Meryl Streep's Sophie's Choice win. But Neal's performance is the one that haunts me the most-so sublime and understated. I also think Paul Newman gave his greatest performance in the same movie .

[quote]r20 Anybody who votes for anyone other than Liz Taylor for BUtterfield 8 doesn’t know what they’re talking about. The only reason she won is because people thought she was going to die.

Liz is such an innately boring actress. She’s good in a couple of things, but I imagine the rest of us would be, too, if we made 100 movies!

Funny Girl is so boring. Columbia really milked the fuck out of that with roadshow presentations, etc. I remember they even re-released it in like 1972. I can’t believe it got a Best Picture nomination.

Barbra really was doing something though. She re-defined movie glamour and played the ugly duckling element of it to the hilt. It’s like she has her own story that she’s telling to the camera. Aside from her obvious talent, it’s what made her a star. The 2nd half is still dull though.

R27, this is a bizarre story but perhaps the reason Smith showed so much more depth in that Family sketch is because they did it in rehearsal twice, Once as a drama and the second as a comedy. Burnett said that it gave so much subtext that when they got to performing it in front of an audience, it was like flying.

Taylor should've gotten it for "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". Butterfield 8 was a consolation prize.

Smith doesn't really convey Brodie as unconventional---she seemed like an mildly eccentric starchy teacher who like Nazis. Not really charismatic,

I wrote this before. I had never seen Mary Poppins & had eye roll reaction to ever watching it. Julie Andrews isn’t all sweetness. There’s an edge. Her singing is super. Anyway - she’s excellent in Mary Poppins. Did she deserveit an Oscar? IDK. Still - a very good debut