Quote of the Day: Parenthood

Julie: [door slams as Tod leaves after having a fight with Julie] If he thinks I’m having his baby now, he’s crazy!
Helen: [shocked] Baby?
George Bowman: Your daughter’s having a baby?
Helen: [even more shocked] A baby?
George Bowman: You’re going to be a grandma?
Helen: [laughs incredulously] No, no, no, no. I’m too young to be a grandmother. Grandmothers are old. They bake, and they sew, and they tell you stories about the Depression.
[shouts]
Helen: I was at Woodstock, for Christ’s sake! I peed in a field! I hung on to The Who’s helicopter as it flew away!
[gestures wildly]
George Bowman: I was at Woodstock.
Helen: [shouts] Oh yeah? I thought you looked familiar!

Happy 62nd birthday to director Ron Howard!!!

Remember That Song: 2/29/16

Can you name the artist and song:

The sun shines
And people forget
The spray flies as the speedboat glides


Last Song: “I Want a New Drug” by Huey Lewis and the News from Sports (1983)

Great job Robert (@mishouenglish), Scooter (@sneely71), and Andy (@andytorah)!!!

One that won’t make me nervous, wonderin’ what to do.
One that makes me feel like I feel when I’m with you

Academy Awards: 1984-1986

56th Academy Awards

The 56th Academy Awards were presented April 9, 1984. Johnny Carson was once again the host.

The Best Supporting Actress winner this year was unique. 4′ 9″ Linda Hunt (Now on NCIS: Los Angeles) won the award for her role as Billy Kwan – a male Chinese-Australian photographer – in Peter Weir’s The Year of Living Dangerously, making her the first actor to win an Oscar for playing a character of the opposite sex.

Here are the nominees and winners of the acting categories, as well as Best Picture and Best Director:

Best Picture

Winner: Terms of Endearment

The Big Chill
The Dresser
The Right Stuff
Tender Mercies

Best Director

Winner: James L. Brooks – Terms of Endearment

Peter Yates – The Dresser
Ingmar Bergman – Fanny and Alexander
Mike Nichols – Silkwood
Bruce Beresford – Tender Mercies

Best Actor

Winner: Robert Duvall – Tender Mercies

Michael Caine – Educating Rita
Tom Conti – Reuben, Reuben
Tom Courtenay – The Dresser
Albert Finney – The Dresser

Best Actress

Winner: Shirley MacLaine – Terms of Endearment

Jane Alexander – Testament
Meryl Streep – Silkwood
Julie Walters – Educating Rita
Debra Winger – Terms of Endearment

Best Supporting Actor

Winner: Jack Nicholson – Terms of Endearment

Charles Durning – To Be or Not to Be
John Lithgow – Terms of Endearment
Sam Shepard – The Right Stuff
Rip Torn – Cross Creek

Best Supporting Actress

Winner: Linda Hunt – The Year of Living Dangerously

Cher – Silkwood
Glenn Close – The Big Chill
Amy Irving – Yentl
Alfre Woodard – Cross Creek


57th Academy Awards

The 57th Academy Awards were presented March 25, 1985. Jack Lemmon was the host.

This ceremony is best-remembered for perhaps the most quoted and famous Academy Award acceptance speech ever. Upon winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Places in the Heart, Sally Field exclaimed, “The first time I didn’t feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can’t deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!” (often misquoted as “you really like me!”)

The winner of Best Supporting Actor was also significant. Haing S. Ngor, a Cambodian surgeon who survived the horrors of the Khmer Rouge, won the award for his performance as Dith Pran in Roland Joffé’s The Killing Fields, despite having no previous acting experience. Ngor and Harold Russell are the only two non-professional actors to win Academy Awards for acting.

77 year-old Peggy Ashcroft won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in A Passage to India, making her the oldest winner in that category.

Here are the nominees and winners of the acting categories, as well as Best Picture and Best Director:

Best Picture

Winner: Amadeus

The Killing Fields
A Passage to India
Places in the Heart
A Soldier’s Story

Best Director

Winner: Milos Forman – Amadeus

Woody Allen – Broadway Danny Rose
Robert Benton – Places in the Heart
Roland Joffe – The Killing Fields
David Lean – A Passage to India

Best Actor

Winner: F. Murray Abraham – Amadeus

Jeff Bridges – Starman
Albert Finney – Under the Volcano
Tom Hulce – Amadeus
Sam Waterston – The Killing Fields

Best Actress

Winner: Sally Field – Places in the Heart

Judy Davis – A Passage to India
Jessica Lange – Country
Vanessa Redgrave – The Bostonians
Sissy Spacek – The River

Best Supporting Actor

Winner: Haing S. Ngor – The Killing Fields

Adolph Caesar – A Soldier’s Story
John Malkovich – Places in the Heart
Noriyuki Pat Morita – The Karate Kid
Ralph Richardson – Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

Best Supporting Actress

Winner: Peggy Ashcroft – A Passage to India

Glenn Close – The Natural
Lindsay Crouse – Places in the Heart
Christine Lahti – Swing Shift
Geraldine Page – The Pope of Greenwich Village


58th Academy Awards

The 58th Academy Awards were held on March 24, 1986. They were hosted by Alan Alda, Jane Fonda, Robin Williams. The ceremony was watched by 38.93 million viewers, tying the 78th Academy Awards as the third-lowest rated telecast since 1966. The 80th Academy Awards still holds the distinction of the least watched ceremony of 31.76 million.

Here are the nominees and winners of the acting categories, as well as Best Picture and Best Director:

Best Picture

Winner: Out of Africa

The Color Purple
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Prizzi’s Honor
Witness

Best Director

Winner: Sydney Pollack – Out of Africa

Hector Babenco – Kiss of the Spider Woman
John Huston – Prizzi’s Honor
Akira Kurosawa – Ran
Peter Weir – Witness

Best Actor

Winner: William Hurt – Kiss of the Spider Woman

Harrison Ford – Witness
James Garner – Murphy’s Romance
Jack Nicholson – Prizzi’s Honor
Jon Voight – Runaway Train

Best Actress

Winner: Geraldine Page – The Trip to Bountiful

Anne Bancroft – Agnes of God
Whoopi Goldberg – The Color Purple
Jessica Lange – Sweet Dreams
Meryl Streep – Out of Africa

Best Supporting Actor

Winner: Don Ameche – Cocoon

Klaus Maria Brandauer – Out of Africa
William Hickey – Prizzi’s Honor
Robert Loggia – Jagged Edge
Eric Roberts – Runaway Train

Best Supporting Actress

Winner: Anjelica Huston – Prizzi’s Honor

Margaret Avery – The Color Purple
Amy Madigan – Twice in a Lifetime
Meg Tilly – Agnes of God
Oprah Winfrey – The Color Purple

Academy Awards: 1981-1983

53rd Academy Awards

The 53rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1980, were presented March 31, 1981. The ceremony was originally scheduled for the previous day, but was postponed due to the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.
Johnny Carson was the host. The year’s winner of acting categories marked the closest age span between the four winners, all of whom were under 40 when they won the award. Robert De Niro was aged 37 when awarded Best Actor, Sissy Spacek was aged 31 when awarded Best Actress, Timothy Hutton was aged 20 when awarded Best Supporting Actor, and Mary Steenburgen was aged 28 when awarded Best Supporting Actress. In addition, Hutton was the youngest ever Best Supporting Actor winner.

Best Supporting Actress nominee Eva Le Gallienne was born in 1899, which made her the last acting nomination to ever happen at the Oscars for someone born in the 19th century.

Here are the nominees and winners of the acting categories, as well as Best Picture and Best Director:

Best Picture

Winner: Ordinary People

Coal Miner’s Daughter
The Elephant Man
Raging Bull
Tess

Best Director

Winner: Robert Redford – Ordinary People

David Lynch – The Elephant Man
Martin Scorsese – Raging Bull
Richard Rush – The Stunt Man
Roman Polanski – Tess

Best Actor

Winner: Robert De Niro – Raging Bull

Robert Duvall – The Great Santini
John Hurt – The Elephant Man
Jack Lemmon – Tribute
Peter O’Toole – The Stunt Man

Best Actress

Winner: Sissy Spacek – Coal Miner’s Daughter

Ellen Burstyn – Resurrection
Goldie Hawn – Private Benjamin
Mary Tyler Moore – Ordinary People
Gena Rowlands – Gloria

Best Supporting Actor

Winner: Timothy Hutton – Ordinary People

Judd Hirsch – Ordinary People
Jason Robards – Melvin and Howard
Michael O’Keefe – The Great Santini
Joe Pesci – Raging Bull

Best Supporting Actress

Winner: Mary Steenburgen – Melvin and Howard

Eileen Brennan – Private Benjamin
Eva Le Gallienne – Resurrection
Cathy Moriarty – Raging Bull
Diana Scarwid – Inside Moves


54th Academy Awards

The 54th Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1982. The ceremonies were presided over by Johnny Carson.

Chariots of Fire was the surprise winner (Reds was the favored nominee) of the Best Picture Oscar this year. It was the first time in 13 years that a British film won the Academy’s top honor. Next year’s winner, Gandhi, was also a British production.

Henry Fonda won his only competitive Oscar this year, as Best Actor for On Golden Pond. At 76 years of age, Fonda became the oldest winner in the Best Actor category in Academy history. The only other nomination he received in his career was Best Actor for his performance in The Grapes of Wrath 41 years ago – a record gap between acting nominations. His co-star, Katharine Hepburn, won her fourth Best Actress award that year, making it the most amount of Best Actress wins by any actress.

This year’s nominations also marked for the very first time that there’s three different films to be nominated for the “Top Five” Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay. The three films were On Golden Pond, Atlantic City and Reds. However, none of them winning the Best Picture prize, losing to Chariots of Fire. This also marked the first year that the award for Best Makeup was presented; the winner was Rick Baker for his work on An American Werewolf in London.

This year was the last year till the 2005 Oscars where all 5 picture nominations were also nominated for best director.

Here are the nominees and winners of the acting categories, as well as Best Picture and Best Director:

Best Picture

Winner: Chariots of Fire

Atlantic City

On Golden Pond

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Reds

Best Director

Winner: Warren Beatty – Reds

Louis Malle – Atlantic City
Hugh Hudson – Chariots of Fire
Mark Rydell – On Golden Pond
Steven Spielberg – Raiders of the Lost Ark

Best Actor

Winner: Henry Fonda – On Golden Pond

Warren Beatty – Reds
Burt Lancaster – Atlantic City
Dudley Moore – Arthur
Paul Newman – Absence of Malice

Best Actress

Winner: Katharine Hepburn – On Golden Pond

Diane Keaton – Reds
Marsha Mason – Only When I Laugh
Susan Sarandon – Atlantic City
Meryl Streep – The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Best Supporting Actor

Winner: John Gielgud – Arthur

James Coco – Only When I Laugh
Ian Holm – Chariots of Fire
Jack Nicholson – Reds
Howard E. Rollins, Jr. – Ragtime

Best Supporting Actress

Winner: Maureen Stapleton – Reds

Melinda Dillon – Absence of Malice
Jane Fonda – On Golden Pond
Joan Hackett – Only When I Laugh
Elizabeth McGovern – Ragtime


55th Academy Awards

The 55th Academy Awards were presented April 11, 1983. The ceremonies were presided over by Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor, and Walter Matthau.

Louis Gossett, Jr. became the first African-American actor to win Best Supporting Actor for his performance as the tough and principled drill sergeant Emil Foley in An Officer and a Gentleman.

Here are the nominees and winners of the acting categories, as well as Best Picture and Best Director:

Best Picture

Winner: Gandhi

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
Missing
Tootsie
The Verdict

Best Director

Winner: Richard Attenborough – Gandhi

Wolfgang Petersen – Das Boot
Steven Spielberg – E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
Sydney Pollack – Tootsie
Sidney Lumet – The Verdict

Best Actor

Winner: Ben Kingsley – Gandhi

Dustin Hoffman – Tootsie
Jack Lemmon – Missing
Paul Newman – The Verdict
Peter O’Toole – My Favorite Year

Best Actress

Winner: Meryl Streep – Sophie’s Choice

Julie Andrews – Victor/Victoria
Jessica Lange – Frances
Sissy Spacek – Missing
Debra Winger – An Officer and a Gentleman

Best Supporting Actor

Winner: Louis Gossett, Jr. – An Officer and a Gentleman

Charles Durning – The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
James Mason – The Verdict
Robert Preston – Victor/Victoria
John Lithgow – The World According to Garp

Best Supporting Actress

Winner: Jessica Lange – Tootsie

Kim Stanley – Frances
Teri Garr – Tootsie
Lesley Ann Warren – Victor/Victoria
Glenn Close – The World According to Garp

Remember That Song: 2/26/16

Can you name the artist and song and complete the lyrics:

One that won’t make me nervous, wonderin’ what to do.
One that makes me feel like I feel ____ __ ____ ___


Last Song: “Don’t Mean Nothing” by Richard Marx from the album Richard Marx (1987)

Great job Robert (@mishouenglish) and Penny (@pennyelaines)!!!

It Don’t Mean Nothing
Till you sign it on the dotted line

Remember That Song: 2/25/16

Can you name the artist and song/lyrics:

It _____ ____ _______
Till you sign it on the dotted line


Last Song: “I Melt With You” by Modern English from After the Snow (1982)

Great job Scooter (@sneely71)!!!

You’ve seen the difference and it’s getting better all the time
And there’s nothing you and I won’t do

Quote of the Day: Midnight Run

Jack Walsh: Where am I? I’m in Boise, Idaho; no, no, no, wait a minute: I’m in Anchorage, Alaska. No, no, wait: I’m in Casper, Wyoming; I’m in the lobby of a Howard Johnson’s and I’m wearing a pink carnation.

Eddie Moscone: What the fuck are you talking about?

Jack Walsh: I am not talking to you, I am talking to the other guys.

Eddie Moscone: What other guys?

Jack Walsh: Well, let me describe the scene to you: There are these guys, see? They’ve probably been up for like two days; they stink of B.O.; they have coffee breath; they’re constipated from sittin’ on their asses for so long; they’re sitting in a van, and they’re probably parked right up the street from your office Eddie, YOUR PHONE IS TAPPED!

Remember That Song: 2/24/16

Can you name the artist and song:

You’ve seen the difference and it’s getting better all the time
And there’s nothing you and I won’t do


Last Song: “What Is Love?” by Howard Jones from Human’s Lib (1984)

Sometimes I find you doubt my love for you
But I don’t mind
Why should I mind
Why should I mind