Jon Voight deserve the Oscar?

I think he did. As an actor he gave a great portrait of many men in the end of the 60's who faced the obstacles of crippling because of that war. He Was ragous and yet extremely fragile, and scenes like the one with urine, the one when he ties himself to the gates, and the one who really made me cry my eyes out was the one with Billy who could'nt play his guitar, so he huged him so hard, feeling his pain, it was so beautiful.

No question, but I guess I better be careful and say "in my opinion"

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In my opinion, he didn't. He's a teriffic actor, but he wasn't the best that year. 1978 was a year of "political correctness" in Hollywood and this film won far too many awards (in some categories, it didn't even deserve a nomination). Best Actress winner, Jane Fonda, was especially overrated in her role, as was the work done by the Director, Hal Ashby (it played more like a made-for-TV movie than a feature film).

Gary Busey in the Buddy Holly Story was probably the best actor that year, followed by Laurence Olivier in Boys From Brazil. Heck, even Warren Beatty's performance in Heaven Can Wait was as least as good as Voigt's.

personally i think gary busey should have won for the buddy holly story

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Oh Hell yeah!!. Sure he was pitted against Robert Deniro for his role in THE DEER HUNTER, whom was no slouch himself. However Voight's perfromace was just hands down brilliant. One of the best acting roles I've ever seen. His caracter trasformed from a bitter paraplegic veteran to a good man with a purpose to hold his head high. Through out the whole movie he was briliant, but at the end, that speech just sealed the bag, right then and there you knew he was going to get best actor. At that last speech he was very true and genuien to the role to the point where you began to believe that he himslef had been through the war. So yes he deserved the Academy Award for beat actor.