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McQueen deserved the Oscar

posted 12 years ago by foreverskins1976
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I just got done watching my Blu-ray of this classic. In my opinion, "Papillon" features the GREATEST performance of Steve McQueen's career.

It STUNS me that McQueen didn't win the Oscar for this film. Instead, it went to Jack Lemmon for "Save the Tiger" (a film I've never even heard of). I like Jack Lemmon, but again, the Oscar for Best Actor should have gone to "The King of Cool".

Anybody agree with me?

"Go out there and win just one for the Zipper". Leslie Nielsen in Airplane!

[–] frankzappayay 8 years ago

I've only a seen a few of his films and never really cared for him, but this was an amazing performance.

[–] chewtoy45 8 years ago

McQueen definitely should have been nominated, but Pacino should have won for Serpico.

I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.

[–] KhurramAtta 8 years ago

You have proved urself as an idiot. You didnt even saw Save the tiger and assumed that Mcqueen gave a better performance than Lemmon. First, see the flipping movie and then judge the performances, you ignoramous. Jack Lemmon delivered his best performance in Save the Tiger and deserved his Oscar. Mcqueen was very good in Papillon but not oscar worthy.

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[–] MoviemanCin 8 years ago

I agree 100%!

Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar and doesn't.

[–] flickfiend 8 years ago

You may be right about that.

He really put everything he had into this role.