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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 8, 2020 18:30:11 GMT
In 2021 (I think?) Joel Coen takes a big time crack at Macbeth with 2x Oscar winners Frances McDormand and Denzel Washington.Only once has an American female - Norma Shearer (1936) and an American male - Marlon Brando (1953) been nominated at all. Shearer is Canadian with a dual citizenship even which makes Brando even more unique. Only once has anyone won the Oscar for Shakespeare - Laurence Olivier in Hamlet (1948). Olivier himself has been nodded for 4 Shakespeare roles no one else has more than 1. There have only been 12 acting nods - ever. Coen's film - The Tragedy of Macbeth will be the biggest attempt since Branagh's Hamlet (1996) and for Oscars maybe since Olivier's Othello (1965) - which garnered 4 acting nominations - by far the most ever.......it will also be (by far) the biggest American production ever in its leads. Which is your favorite of the 12 Shakespeare Oscar nominated roles to date?   |
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Post by stephen on Aug 8, 2020 18:38:25 GMT
Gonna rank them just ‘cause:
1. Jean Simmons
2. Frank Finlay
3. Laurence Olivier (Richard)
4. Maggie Smith
5. Marlon Brando
6. Laurence Olivier (Hamlet)
7. Basil Rathbone
8. Kenneth Branagh
9. Joyce Redman
10. Laurence Olivier (Henry)
11. Laurence Olivier (Othello)
12. Norma Shearer
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Post by cheesecake on Aug 8, 2020 19:04:41 GMT
Simmons.  |
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Post by TerryMontana on Aug 8, 2020 22:20:46 GMT
Olivier as Richard and then as Hamlet.
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Post by franklin on Aug 9, 2020 10:04:42 GMT
I think Al Pacino as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice should have been nominated for an Oscar.
One of his most underrated performances ever.
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Post by countjohn on Aug 9, 2020 20:26:31 GMT
You can't beat the Olivier performances. I can't imagine anyone playing Hamlet better even if he was too old so that was my vote.
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Post by sirjeremy on Aug 9, 2020 21:30:03 GMT
I voted for Olivier in Othello and looking at that list makes me think it was a shame that one of the best Shakespeare performances wasn't nominated - Kenneth Branagh's Iago.
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