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Rare Oscar Sweep

posted 10 years ago by GuyOnTheLeft
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It won Best Picture, Best Director (Robert Benton), Best Actor (Dustin Hoffman), and Best Supporting Actress (Meryl Streep). Other movies have won more Oscars, but it's rare to get the top two (Picture and Director), one of the top acting awards, plus a Supporting. In the 35 years since, only two other films have matched this feat (Terms of Endearment and Million Dollar Baby), and one beat it (The Silence of the Lambs, which got Best Actor and Best Actress). I think this is the best of the four, but it seems to have become more forgotten than the others, sadly.

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[–] daughterofolaf 9 years ago

I don't think this movie has been forgotten at all.

It's a good movie but it really sucked how it knocked out so many other great films and actors that year (ahem, Roy Scheider, who obviously should have won over Hoffman). Good film and every time it is on I watch it but I don't think it was so great that it deserved *quite* as much praise as it got. It's definitely a tearjerker though which is almost certainly why it won over some of the other great films that year!

Dick, I am VERY disappointed.

[–] ghtx 9 years ago

It also won best adapted screenplay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramer_vs._Kramer#Awards_and_nominations

I think that it should count as an honorary member of the "Big Five" winners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Big_Five_Academy_Award_winners_and_nominees, since Meryl's win for Best Supporting might as well have been for lead (nowadays she may well have been nominated for lead, not supporting, in that role).

[–] GuyOnTheLeft 9 years ago

Good point! Especially since it's not like there's anyone else in the movie who could have plausibly been up for that award--what I mean is that I think Streep must have had more lines than any other female actor in the film.

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