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Heston's oscar win - You must be kidding me.


Heston winning was simply pathetic, Very poor choice, Nearly every nominee was better, James Stewart is easily best for Anatomy of a Murder, Similar to his performance in Mr, Smith goes to Washington.

They gave Heston the award to make history, The first film ever to win 11 academy awards, Laurence Harvey gave a terrific performance in Room at the top, And don't forget about Lemmon's performance Very stupid choice choosing Heston over 3 completely superior performances. At least Heston was better than Muni.

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Stewart won for the Philadelphia story when his friend Henry Fonda was far more deserving for The grapes of wrath.

Fair is fair. Ben Hur is a much bigger and more important film

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