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Still Angry about 1965 Oscars


I am still mad they gave the best actress Oscar to Julie Christie over Julie Andrews in 1965 ---

Her performance in Sound of Music is arguably the greatest female acting performance in the history of film --- Just because she had won the year before they didn't want to give her the award in back to back years ---

To me one of the 3 biggest mistakes in Academy history ---

1. Julie Andrews being slighted for Sound of music
2. Raging Bull in 1980 losing to Ordinary People (OMG)
3. Joan Blondell losing to Kim Hunter in 1952 ---

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No. I think it was Christies year to win. Darling was up for BP too and while Julie should have won for The Sound of Music, I wished it had been released a couple of years before. That way Andrews could have played Eliza Doolittle.

I know, I'm reaching. But of her stage roles Eliza was the best and the best suited to Andrews.

I'm sure Andrews pulled quite a few votes from Christie, but she and won the year before and was a relative newcomer. A talented one, but she was only about 30.

Btw, Ordinary People isn't that bad. Also it's a story about upper middle class WASP. The Academy was more comfortable. A lot of worthy nominees haven't won BP for one reason or another.

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It's been a long time, man. Oscars aren't important; they're decoration, nothing more.






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Andrews didn't deserve her win for POPPINS-64'. Had she not won for this, she may have won for SOM. I haven't seen Christie's film; but from what I have read, she still sounds like a deserving winner.

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I think Andrews was quite deserving in both years.

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Andrews didn't deserve the Oscar for The Sound Of Music OR Mary Poppins. Christie deserved it for Darling and Kim Stanley should have won for Seance On A Wet Afternoon.

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While Hepburn didn't do her own singing, she was a big box office draw at the time and better looking than Andrews. If Andrews was whining about it, I suppose it could have been an understandable disappointment over not having the opportunity to play Doolittle on the screen; but she just didn't have the box office clout at the time. She was being naïve and I suppose like you have mentioned entitled. I don't care for either of these musicals and I loath Sound Of Music, so Andrews or not in MFL, I couldn't have cared less who was cast.

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