Everyone nominated for Best Actor and Actress deserved to win. They should have just ordered ten statues and declared them all winners.
It's still hard to believe that Angela Lansbury didn't get the Best Actress in a Supporting Role award that year for her chilling performance in The Manchurian Candidate.
Bette Davis was robbed that year, too.
shareI love her in Baby Jane but don't think she was robbed. I think Bancroft was more deserving, but best of all was Katharine Hepburn in Long Day's Journey into Night. She's not an actress I always love but she is staggeringly good here. Remick was excellent, too.
shareJust got done listening to the DVD commentary. Blake Edwards says basically the same thing: Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird) and Anne Bancroft deserved their Oscars, but Lemmon and Remick were just as worthy. Then, after the greenhouse scene, he says "I think that killed *three* mockingbirds!" Hee!
shareI think the voters were uncomfortable voting for Lemmon that year because alcoholism is rampant in Hollywood and his performance hit a little too close to home for some people.
shareJack Lemmon must be one of the most unlucky actors in Hollywood. He has these great rolls in Movies where he deserved the Oscar, Mr. Roberts, The Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, The Odd Couple and he couldn't win in any of them.
There is more Gravy about you then the Grave. Scrooge.
1962 was one of the best years for performances (and film in general). All the nominees were deserving indeed.
Hey there, Johnny Boy, I hope you fry!
I'm a big fan of "The Apartment" and think that movie should have swept the Oscars for 1960.
shareYes, it was a vintage year for the Best Actor category -- I actually think that Mastroianni was the weakest link but that's simply because I didn't find Divorce Italian Style all that funny -- he was, of course, one of the greatest actors of all time and any nomination for him is welcome.
I'd have voted for Lemmon in what I think is his greatest dramatic performance but, really, it's hard to argue with ANY of the contenders that year as a worthy winner. Not something we can say very often these days!
Let's not forget who wasn't nominated: Robert Preston for THE MUSIC MAN; Roz Russell and Natalie Wood for GYPSY; Joan Crawford for BABY JANE; Robert Mitchum for CAPE FEAR; Montgomery Clift for FREUD; Jackie Gleason in GIGOT; James Mason and Peter Sellers in LOLITA; Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey in THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE; Sidney Poitier and Bobby Darin in PRESSURE POINT; Anthony Quinn for REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT;
and how about no nomination for supporting actor Ross Martin in EXPERIMENT IN TERROR.