Rate Elizabeth's performance. Did she deserve Oscar that year?

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I've only seen one of the competitors (Auntie Mame) so I can't judge whether she deserved the Oscar. But people get too wrapped up in awards like that anyway. It was a great performance in a great movie.

Butterfield 8 is something else I haven't seen. But it's pretty widely held that it was a lesser film and performance, and that ET won both out of sympathy for a recent health scare and to "make up" for not awarding other performances. I don't think that applies to Julia Roberts, though. Her performance in Erin Brockovich was both a classic "great actress" moment and it made the film. She deserved the award as much as anyone ever has. Those who say otherwise seem to have some kind of complex about Julia Roberts.

Yes Yes Yes a 1000 times YES!!! Maggie the cat was a performance of a lifetime for Liz

Life's too short live it to the fullest!!!

I havent finished it but she's good.

This will sound dumb but I'd like her performance better if it was less high like I imagined it before I heard her speal.

"Rawr, I'm a dinosaur!" No. Rawr, you're an idiot.

Taylor is great as Maggie. It is certainly a performance that *could* have won an Oscar. I can't say whether it *should* have won because I haven't seen I Want to Live (for which Hayward beat Taylor). Hayward was also a very good actor in the right role and the woman-on-death-row thing is the kind of role that the Academy has always liked to go for.

I agree that Butterfield 8 is a much weaker movie. However, Taylor is quite good in it. In fact, from a modern perspective, her performance is probably the main reason to bother checking out the movie at all (unless you happen to be a particular fan of one other principals). In some ways the B8 performance is more impressive than the Cat performance, just because she is getting less from the rest of the cast to play off of.

As a performance seeing it for the first time, then many times after that, I would definately say that was a worthy Oscar performance. Wouldnt have looked out of place.
Compared with the others that year, it wasnt the easiest but she was in the top 2 or 3. Even Paul Newman wouldnt have looked out of place with an Oscar for his performance, maybe not as much as Elizabeth Taylor but the male category for that year was a fair bit tougher for the men.

I've always thought she was in waaaayy over her head in this role. She's trying too hard to convey "Suthen, Honey." Her accent is laughable (notice Newman's accent is so much more low key). She needs to take it down a notch or three.

Susan Hayward was a worthy winner. Rosalind Russell gave an iconic performance as Auntie Mame. ET in "Cat?" Scenery chewing at its best. She's the weakest performer in the cast.

That just goes to show you. You go someplace and there you are.

she gave one of the top performances of all time in COAHTR, truly remarkable. I guess it doesn't matter in the long run who won and who lost. we're still talking about it 50+ years later, that's the important thing

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