Sunday, January 4, 2009

Best Supporting Actress Survey

I have decided to take up Edward Copeland's open offer to continue on his annual Oscar survey; (see here, here and here) for the ones from previous years. Continuing on what I see to be the pattern, I have decided to do a Best Supporting Actress Oscar survey. (It also helps that I have a personal interest in the category.)

The rules of this survey as are follows:
  1. You pick the FIVE BEST Best Supporting Actress Oscar performances that you consider to be the best to have won the award. Then, you also pick the FIVE WORST Best Supporting Actress performances to have won the award. You then rank them, from 1 to 5. 1 will receive 5 points, with each rank receiving one less point. (Note: These are more or less separate surveys run together; the points do not get counted together.)
  2. You then e-mail those choices to me at brookebrooks at gmail dot com. It would be a delight for those participating to comment on the performances in question and why you chose them, in as much length or brevity as you like. When I do the posts, I will corraborate all of the comments and integrate as many as I can into the post under each performance. If provided, names/pseudonyms and links will be added to the comments.
  3. You do this by February 10th, though I will extend this date if I feel it necessary to do so. I will streamline the posts at one a day, so that I will do the posts in groups rather than all at once (15 best, the rest of the best; 15 worst, the rest of the worst).
And that's how simple it is. I would also appreciate any word-of-mouth you can give this little survey; these things have been great back at Edward Copeland of Film, and I really want this to continue to be as much of a success as it has been in the past. So if you could link to it on your blog, or tell other film-minded people about it, I would be very, very indebted to you and you will be duly thanked in the final round-up.

A list of all the winners, just in case you need some refreshing:

1936 - Gale Sondergaard - Anthony Adverse
1937 - Alice Brady - In Old Chicago
1938 - Fay Bainter - Jezebel
1939 - Hattie McDaniel - Gone With The Wind
1940 - Jane Darwell - The Grapes of Wrath
1941 - Mary Astor - The Great Lie
1942 - Teresa Wright - Mrs. Miniver
1943 - Katina Paxinou - For Whom The Bell Tolls
1944 - Ethel Barrymore - None But The Lonely Heart
1945 - Anne Revere - National Velvet
1946 - Anne Baxter - The Razor's Edge
1947 - Celeste Holm - Gentleman's Agreement
1948 - Claire Trevor - Key Largo
1949 - Mercedes McCambridge - All The King's Men
1950 - Josephine Hull - Harvey
1951 - Kim Hunter - A Streetcar Named Desire
1952 - Gloria Grahame - The Bad and The Beautiful
1953 - Donna Reed - From Here To Eternity
1954 - Eva Marie Saint - On The Waterfront
1955 - Jo Van Fleet - East of Eden
1956 - Dorothy Malone - Written on the Wind
1957 - Miyoshi Umeki - Sayonara
1958 - Wendy Hiller - Separate Tables
1959 - Shelley Winters - The Diary of Anne Frank
1960 - Shirley Jones - Elmer Gantry
1961 - Rita Moreno - West Side Story
1962 - Patty Duke - The Miracle Worker
1963 - Margaret Rutherford - The V.I.P.s
1964 - Lila Kedrova - Zorba the Greek
1965 - Shelley Winters - A Patch of Blue
1966 - Sandy Dennis - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
1967 - Estelle Parsons - Bonnie and Clyde
1968 - Ruth Gordon - Rosemary's Baby
1969 - Goldie Hawn - Cactus Flower
1970 - Helen Hayes - Airport
1971 - Cloris Leachman - The Last Picture Show
1972 - Eileen Heckart - Butterflies are Free
1973 - Tatum O'Neal - Paper Moon
1974 - Ingrid Bergman - Murder on the Orient Express
1975 - Lee Grant - Shampoo
1976 - Beatrice Straight - Network
1977 - Vanessa Redgrave - Julia
1978 - Maggie Smith - California Suite
1979 - Meryl Streep - Kramer vs. Kramer
1980 - Mary Steenburgen - Melvin and Howard
1981 - Maureen Stapleton - Reds
1982 - Jessica Lange - Tootsie
1983 - Linda Hunt - The Year of Living Dangerously
1984 - Peggy Ashcroft - A Passage to India
1985 - Anjelica Huston - Prizzi's Honor
1986 - Diane Wiest - Hannah and Her Sisters
1987 - Olympia Dukakis - Moonstruck
1988 - Geena Davis - The Accidental Tourist
1989 - Brenda Fricker - My Left Foot
1990 - Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost
1991 - Mercedes Ruehl - The Fisher King
1992 - Marisa Tomei - My Cousin Vinny
1993 - Anna Paquin - The Piano
1994 - Diane Wiest - Bullets Over Broadway
1995 - Mira Sorvino - Mighty Aphrodite
1996 - Juliette Binoche - The English Patient
1997 - Kim Basinger - L.A Confidential
1998 - Judi Dench - Shakespeare in Love
1999 - Angelina Jolie - Girl, Interrupted
2000 - Marcia Gay Harden - Pollock
2001 - Jennifer Connelly - A Beautiful Mind
2002 - Catherine Zeta-Jones - Chicago
2003 - Renee Zellweger - Cold Mountain
2004 - Cate Blanchett - The Aviator
2005 - Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener
2006 - Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
2007 - Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton

Happy surveying!

2 comments:

  1. I think you're missing "to have been the worst" in rule #1.

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  2. Before I partake in the survey here as I did last year at Edward Copeland's, I'd be interested in knowing what you mean by "personal interest". Not that I am suggesting some unfairness, just that you threw is out.

    P.S. I posted this survey on my Facebook page as a note. I hope this gets a lot of participants.

    Best,

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