Hume Cronyn


Every year they give out academy awards. Sometimes they go to deserving people, sometimes not.

Now, I would like to you imagine a "plantinum" academy award, that would go, not to one of the nominees for one particular year, but to the best director/actor/writer/whatever ever.

My contention is that the platinum academy award for "best supporting actor" would have a lot of good nominees, from, say Sydney Greenstreet in "The Maltese Falcon" through to William H Macey in "Seabiscuit."

But the winner would be Hume Cronyn for "The Postman Always Rings Twice"

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Unquestionably.

Whoi else would you give Platinums to?

I would give the best actor award to John Wayne in "The Searchers"

Best Actress: Maria Falconetti in "The Passion of Joan of Arc"

Best supporting actress: I'm not so sure. I would have to think about that.

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I would give the best supporting female actor oscar to Olivia de Havilland in "Gone With the Wind".

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I concur with the idea of the "Reward".
If not Claude Raines then Val Kilmer in "Tombstone"

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Val Kilmer in 'Tombstone', what the hell are u talking about?

I agree: Claude Rains in Casablanca is a great performance.

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Best makeup for "The Elephant Man"

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My picks:

Best Picture: Casablanca
Best Director: Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo
Best Actor: Humphrey Bogart, In a Lonely Place or James Stewart, Vertigo
Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman, Casablanca
Best Supporting Actor: Claude Rains, Notorious or Casablanca
Best Supporting Actress: Jean Arthur, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

Yes, I'm a fan of the classics.

Did he train you? Did he rehearse you? Did he tell you exactly what to do, what to say?!

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Hume had an amazing role in this.

Rushmore - Best Picture
Bill Murray - Best actor (Rushmore)

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Best Picture: L.A. Story
Best Director: Woody Allen, the early funny ones
Best Actor: Chevy Chase, Fletch
Best Actress: Kathleen Turner, Romancing the Stone
Best Supporting Actor: Dan Aykroyd, Ghost Busters
Best Supporting Actress: Karen Mistal, Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death

A little topheavy with modern comedies, but we vote with our feet, and these are the ones I have watched most repeatedly.

You played it for her, you can play it for me.

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Hume was great but the Best EVER? I don't think I'd go that far. And William H. Macy I would cite not for Seabiscuit, but for Fargo.

For me the "platinum" would be either Thomas Mitchell in Gone With The Wind (1939) or Burl Ives (1958) in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (which is odd because both those actors won Oscars those years, but for other movies).

"Well, for once the rich white man is in control!" C. M. Burns

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He's a great one. As is Dub Taylor in many films.

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Hume was by far the best thing about this film. Blew everyone else off the screen in every scene he was in.

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UMMM ok....

There is no way this is a good movie, everyone in it was good if that. I'm not a troll or a hater. But Hume Cronyn (which I love) was way to gimmicky and silly. I LOVE classic but not htis one. IMHO :p

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UMMM ok....

There is no way this is a good movie, everyone in it was good if that. I'm not a troll or a hater. But Hume Cronyn (which I love) was way to gimmicky and silly. I LOVE classic but not htis one. IMHO :p


The movie, I feel, is good. It is not great. "Gimmicky" applies more to the overall structure of the film, and that hokey DA. I thought Hume was really a bright spot. Outclassing Lana isn't hard, but he owned Garfield as well, and that takes some doing.

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Laird Cregar in "I Wake Up Screaming."

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