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Thursday, March 26, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Oscars aren't won only for talent; sentiment is vital
Did you know that, according to Las Vegas oddsmakers, the Academy Awards are second only to the Super Bowl in the number of people who place bets on their outcome? It's true, and that makes movie buffs like myself very hap-
Bob Hart Columnist
The toughest race to call is in the best actress category. Marlee Matlin, who is hearing-impaired, is the obvious sentimental choice. However, the academy rarely gives Oscars to performers for their screen debuts, and that's probably the reason Whoopi Goldberg failed to win last year. The academy usually chooses someone who has given several good performances and has been overlooked — someone like Kathleen Turner.
Matlin and Turner are the favorites to win this category, but they could easily split the vote and throw the award to a third nominee — Sissy Spacek, who already won best actress awards this year from the New York Film Critics and the Golden Globes. All three actresses have a good chance of winning, but I'm going to pick the long shot, Sissy Spacek, just so I can gloat if I'm right.
I make predictions every year, and usually do pretty well. The thing to remember is this: what deserves to win does not necessarily win. As in a lot of competitions, some politics are involved.
major categories, with an asterisk by my picks. Oh, yeah, one more prediction: the production numbers on Monday night's show will, as usual, be the unintended comic highlights of the evening.
"Platoon" undoubtedly will win this year's Best Picture Award, and should pick up several others along the way. I'm positive that Paul Newman will get his long-overdue提名 from Dennis Hopper and Diane Weist will take home the supporting awards.
Best Picture
Woody Allen, "Hannah and Her Sisters"
BEST PICTURE
"Children of a Lesser God"
"Hannah and Her Sisters"
"The Mission"
*"Platoon"
"A Room With a View"
This is a list of nominees in the
Best Director
James Ivory, "A Room With a View"
Roland Joffe, "The Mission"
David Lynch, "Blue Velvet"
"Oliver Stone, "Platoon"
Best Actor
Dexter Gordon, "Round
Midnight"
William Hurt. "Children of a Lesser God"
Bob Haskins, "Mona Lisa"
*Sissy Spacek, "Crimes of the Heart"
*Paul Newman, "The Color of Monev"
James Wood, "Salvador"
Best Actress
Kathleen Turner, "Peggy Sue Got Married"
Jane Fonda, "The Morning After"
Sigourney Weaver, "Aliens"
Marlee Matlin, "Children of a Lesser God"
Best Supporting Actor
Tom Berenger, "Platoon"
Michael Caine, "Hannah and
Her Sisters"
Think you're up on your Academy Awards trivia? Here's a chance to find out. This is my personally designed quiz for measuring your O. Q. (Oscar Quotient). Answer each of the following 15 questions, and give yourself one point for each correct answer.
Test Your O.Q.
1. This person has won more
Oscars than anyone:
A. Walt Disney
B. Michael Jackson
C. Louis B. Mayer
D. Spencer Tracy
2. This film won more Oscars
... any other:
A. "Bun-Hur"
B. "Gig"
C. "Gone With the Wind"
D. "West Side Story"
1. The only living two-time Best Actor winner:
A. Marlon Brando
B. Jack Lemmon
C. Jack Nicholson
D. George C. Scott
4. Only horror movie to win a
major Oscar:
B. "Dracula"
B. "Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde"
C. "Frankenstein"
D. the Pendulum"
D. "The Pit and the Pendulum"
B. "Gunga Din"
5. This film had all three of its stars nominated against each other for Best Actor:
A. "The Godfather, Part II"
B. "Ganga Dih"
C. "Mutiny on the Bounty"
D. "Network"
6. He won four Best Director awards, which is more than anyone else;
A. Frank Capra
B. John Ford
C. Alfred Hitchcock
D. William Wyler
7. Of the following, the only pair
4. Of the following, the only pair of siblings are not both Oscar winners:
A. Lionel and Ethel Barrymore
B. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine
C. Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine
D. Peter and Jane Fonda
8. Humphrey Bogart won his
only Oscar for this film.
A. "The African Queen"
B. "The Caine Mutiny"
C. "Casablanca"
D. "The Maltese Falcon"
9. This movie, called "the worst film of the century" by the Harvard Lampierre, was a nominee for
the best Picture Oscar:
A. "Cleopatra"
B. "Doctor Doolittle"
C. "Hello, Dolly!"
D. "The Towering Inferno"
10. Only performer who won an Oscar for a foreign-language role:
A. Ingrid Bergman
B. Sophia Loren
C. Anthony Quinn
D. Liv Ullman
11. Sidney Poliiter, the only black
Bee, Aster wilmer, got his award
for this movie:
A. "The Defiant Ones"
B. "In the Heat of the Night"
C. "Lilies of the Field"
D. "To Sir with Love"
12. Only three-time Best Supporting Actor winner:
A. Walter Brennan
B. Catherine B.
C. Jason Robards
D. Peter Ustinov
13. Only two-time Best Support-
mg Adesha Winner-
B. Thelma Ritter
B. Thelma Ritter
C. Maggie Smith
D. Shelley Winters
Scoring System
0-4 Correct Answers: Skip Monday night's show. You'd like the "Barnaby Jones" nuer better.
14. Youngest performer to win a
5-9 Correct Answers: Okay, so you're average. But don't freet. Thomas Edison, who invented this whole film business in the first place, was considered retarded as a youngster.
10-14 Correct Answers: Good job! Ever worry that you're turning into a mole person? Get out of that dark theater and into the sunshine.
competitive Ocear:
A. Jake Goochie
B. C. Tatum
C. Tatum O'Neal
D. Shirley Temple
15. Only person to win an Oscar
15 Correct Answers: Come on! You either peeked at the answers or called Siskel and Ebert for help.
posing music:
A. Julie Andrews
B. Hoagy Carmichael
C. Donald 0' Connor
D. Barbra Streisand
Answers
A. A
A. B
A. B
C. C
D. D
B. A
A. A
10. B
11. C
12. A
13. D
14. C
15. D
William Dafoe. "Platoon"
William Dancro, Plattom Denholm Elliott, "A Room With a View"
*Dennis Hopper, "Hoosiers"
Best Supporting Actress
Tess Harper, "Crimes of the Heart"
*Dianne Weist, "Hannah and Her Sisters"
Piper Laurie, "Children of a Lesser God"
Maggie Smith, "A Room With a View"
Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie and John Cornell, "Crocodile Dundee"
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, "The Color of Money"
Laurorette *Oliver Stone "Platoon"*
John Cornell, "Crocodile Dundee"
Hanif Kureishi, "My Beautiful
Laundrette"
Woody Allen, "Hannah and Her Sisters"
Oliver Stone and Richard Boyles, "Salvador"
Best Adapted Screenplay
Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff, "Children of a Lesser God"
Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon, "Stand By Me"
Beth Henley, "Crimes of the Heart"
*Ruth Prower Jhabvala, "A Room With a View"
Richard Price, "The Color of Money"
Best Cinematography
Jordan Cronweth, "Peggy Sue Got Married"
*Chris Menges, "The Mission"
Dan Peterman, "Star Trek IV"
Tony Pierce-Roberts, "A Room With a View"
Robert Richardson, "Platoon"
Robert Richardson, "Platoon"
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