Post by pacinoyes on Jul 13, 2020 16:15:37 GMT
in Amour vs. Driving Miss Daisy
Jessica Tandy is sort of like James Earl Jones to me - but better maybe and also without her own thread on MAR (um)
but exemplary in what she did - a Triple Crown winner - with 4 Tony wins (!) ..........yet............. she's also like Christopher Plummer - no Oscar nods until 80+! She also gets dissed a lot because wackjob Spike Lee didn't like the movie or something.........but she handles the text of the play beautifully. She's used to being dissed anyway - see Streetcar Named Desire where everyone from Broadway got the movie EXCEPT her..........grrrrr
Riva of course here got her first and only nod and gives much of this performance in silence which may make some (wrongly) question how good it is. On some level I have no clue who will win this poll.......they're so opposite.
I could see Riva getting a whole lot of support for her movie and arty niche support too and the fact that it's so unique ........I could see Tandy getting getting a lot of trendy "she was just the original elderly "Karen!" (um).............. (still find that quite racist......but um I digress!)............ and like Farnsworth/Dern these are the 2 oldest BA candidates in their category.........and both performances have to be in perfect sync with their male co-star to work too.
Who do you got?
