I remember that year. Pacino was going to get that Oscar no matter what. The movie could of been Plan Nine From Outer Space Part 2 and he would of won it. He had been one of the top actors in the business for years and never received one. It was the we own you a Oscar, Oscar. Scorsese got one a couple of years ago. And Paul Newman got one for The Color of Money. The ones they give out so the movie industry feels better about themselves for not giving one to them when they deserved one. Pacino had made a really bad movie called Cruising which hurt his career for a while. No matter what you want to think Scarface when it first came out was not that greatly received and his performance was way over the top. I remember people laughing during the movie. So when he came back it was a slow one. So by 1992, Hoffman, DiNiro had gotten theirs so it was Pacino's year.
IMO Robert Downey was robbed, but I knew he did not have a chance. Rea came in second IMO. Robert Downey will never have another great performance like Chaplin and like John Travolta who I think the same about in his role in Saturday Night Fever. Most people will never have performances like that. And they both were robbed. I think my favorite Rae role was Citizen X. Heartbreaking. But that was a tv movie.
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