Friday, July 23, 2021

Alternate Oscars: 1987 (Re-Do)

This is one of those years I exercised the "dingoes ate mah baby!" card and skipped over very actor-ly, Oscar-nominated performances by Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep in Ironweed, a mediocre and largely-forgotten drama about a couple of skid row drunks. I opted instead for a pair of iconic performances that the Academy ignored, John Candy in Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Jennifer Grey in Dirty Dancing.

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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.

7 comments:

  1. I could t in good conscience give an Oscar™️ to any of the nominated actors, so I abstained from that category.

    We pick on some years as being slim pickins

    This is such a year, sez I

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  2. Slim Pickins was great in Dr Strangelove!

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    1. I had a $500 bet riding with Watson that you’d respond with him !

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  3. I had a $500 bet riding with Watson that you’d respond with him !

    Me, too! I sure hope I can collect!

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  4. I could t in good conscience give an Oscar™️ to any of the nominated actors

    Wait, when did you develop a conscience?

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