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Danielle Darrieux Robbed Of an Oscar!!

posted 16 years ago by HarlowMGM
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How can anyone possibly think Audrey Hepburn in the charming but slender ROMAN HOLIDAY was a superior performance to Danielle Darrieux's bewitching work in MADAME DE...? At the very least she deserved a nomination. Of course I doubt any performers in foreign language films ever received Oscar nominations before this time, I think Sophia Loren's win in 1961 may be the first and then she was a mega star very popular in America at the time whereas Danielle was much less known in America despite her many successes.

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[–] livingskeleton 14 years ago

Her performance belongs to my top 10 female performances and my 1953 Best Actress. She's just not the popular star that Catherine Deneuve and Sophia Loren were (and their nominations were not even their best performances). The Oscars have always been a farce anyway what with all their extravagant campaigns and predictability.

[–] robhiphop 13 years ago

The three leads were all fantastic in this, to be fair.

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[–] doug7347 12 years ago

This movie wasn't released in the USA until 1954, received one Oscar nomination for black and white costume design, and the best performance by an actress award that year went to Grace Kelly for "The Country Girl".

Danielle Darrieux's superb performance was the best of the year, and perhaps the best of her great film career. Two years earlier Laurence Olivier suffered a similar fate for his great performance in William Wyler's "Carrie". Hollywood seldom makes awards to movies that don't succeed at the US box office.