Won and should've won: Jack Nicholson, Terms of Endearment Overlooked: Steven Bauer, Scarface Scatman Crothers, Twilight Zone: The Movie Jeff Daniels, Terms of Endearment Scott Glenn, The Right Stuff Ed Harris, The Right Stuff Jerry Lewis, The King of Comedy John Lithgow, Twilight Zone: The Movie Darren McGavin, A Christmas Story Kurt Russell, Silkwood This performance marked Torn's first (and to date, final) Oscar nomination. Events involving Marsh and Ellie's cherished deer Flag inspire Marjorie to pen what will become her most famous work - The Yearling. Torn portrays Marsh Turner, a farmer in rural Cross Creek, Florida who, alongside daughter Ellie (the wonderful Dana Hill), welcomes aspiring New York author Marjorie (Mary Steenburgen) into town. The 1983 Oscar nominees in Best Supporting Actor were. Reynolds would no doubt go on to regret that decision, as his replacement, a certain Oscar-winner, would go on to score his second golden trophy.
Brooks wrote the juicy role of retired astronaut Garrett Breedlove with Burt Reynolds in mind but, on account of a commitment Reynolds made to headline the comedy Stroker Ace, the actor turned down the offer. Given Brooks' track record, expectations were sky-high for his feature film directorial debut, a screen adaptation of Larry McMurtry's acclaimed novel Terms of Endearment. Brooks' first foray onto the silver screen, as screenwriter of 1979's Oscar-nominated Starting Over, was also a home run. Brooks emerged one of the most powerful and successful forces on the small screen as the creator of mega hits Room 222, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda and Taxi. Nicholson would fare a whole lot better the following year. While now often looked upon as one of the more underrated Nicholson films and performances, the picture garnered a lukewarm critical reception at the time and was in and out of theaters within a month. Most of his subsequent efforts, while often critically acclaimed, failed to generate much interest at the box office.Īmong Richardson's final films was 1982 's The Border, a Nicholson vehicle that cast the star (opposite Harvey Keitel and Valerie Perrine) as a corrupt border enforcement agent. Richardson, unfortunately, would never direct another picture as commercially successful as Tom Jones. The film, based on the beloved Henry Fielding novel, was the toast of that year's Oscars, scoring four victories, including Best Picture, on its nine nominations. In 1963, while a little-known Jack Nicholson was taking on supporting turns opposite horror legend Boris Karloff in a pair of Roger Corman-directed B-movies ( The Raven and The Terror), English filmmaker Tony Richardson barnstormed Hollywood with Tom Jones.
0 kommentar(er)
