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Pacino should have won Best Actor for Serpico


no one remembers Save The Tiger.

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Jack Nicholson in The Last Detail - perhaps his greatest performance - would be my pick. Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris would have a lot of advocates, too.

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YES...NICHOLSON WOULD HAVE BEEN MY PICK. WITH LEMMON SECOND AND PACINO THIRD.

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I remember it & watched it again just a few months ago. It's still a fine, heartbreaking film, too. Though I agree that it was a great year for fantastic performances; I wish they could have given out more than just one Best Actor award that year.

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I agree. Lemmon did well, but I do feel Pacino gave a more timeless performance (which is still remembered today; whereas people have forgotten this movie)

The Academy ended up giving Pacino the award for "Scent of a Woman" decades later, to make-up for his failure to ever win an award. Serpico would have made a better win in his resume than Scent of a Woman

But at the same time --- I think the Academy felt that Lemmon was due; at the time, Lemmon had never won for Best Actor (only once for Supporting Actor). The Academy couldn't let him go winless, they felt

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This is a great movie --- NOT shown enough

Jack did a better job than the others

Jack Gilford SHOULD have won Best Supporting Actor

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Absolutely agree!

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It's unjustly forgotten. Some fine films are, unfortunately.

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