Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 12, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press. Monday january 12, 1976 cuckoo s nest hatching most promising Oscar fledglings tit " Nwa i. R Kane As. The fragile supporting performance i s sooner. Chris Sarandon As the could add a special nod to to anew Lifis 1 lilies tinn fim inf lint Mirn _. _ n. To the los Angeles limes Hollywood the Aca Demy award season seems to Start earlier each year. The campaigning for the 1975 oscars nominations due feb. 17, finals March Lias been in Progress for weeks special screenings at the studios on the biggies reminders in newspaper ads that Academy voters have the hottest freest pass of them All their membership card. The Early solicitations were aimed at the technical branches primarily Art direction cinematography and the like. Special committees within each Branch Brake Quarter final lists of not More than 10 movies from which the whole membership of the Brantli vote the five nominations. The Quarter final lists Are the first blood in any year s Academy shoot out closely watched for clues to the ultimate survivors. For what makes the oscars More than a ritual is that they still matter where it matters at the Box office. This year As before the Academy Hoard of governors in the official Rule Book warns against outright excessive and vulgar solicitation of votes but they note philosophically that there has been that heedless number who have gone their own crude and ambitious whether the solicitations which Range from massive and campaigns in the Trade press to the simple Dis Tribu lion albums to the music voters do any Good or any backfiring harm is Al most impossible to say for sure. Ads can Rescue a Good supporting performance from obscurity but can t make it a better performance than it was. And there does seem Little Milit that too urgent and obviously expensive a Campaign can work against itself. In More recent years the push Lias been simply to get a picture seen by the voters at screenings in the Paris House 300 Kennedy relax with our Fri sch Styll Sissions open 24 hours also Oul Calls 942-6705 theatres and now on pay Cable. There is still no system which requires that the the Academy voters prove they have seen the movies they re voting on but there ought to to be As Many in the Aca Demy agree and one Day there May be. Meanwhile pre guessing the Oscar contenders is exactly that Guesswork a mixture of Hope and reality. This unrich year for movies is More Likely than most to produce Surprise. What Fol lows is a checklist Best actor Well populated this year although ii this in t Jack Nicholson s year for one flew Over the cuckoo s nest it will have to be for reasons having Noth ing to do with ins performance which was the year s disciplined unwind ii gent astonishingly Subtle and affecting Al Pacino seems a certain nominee for ins High Energy work in dog Day afternoon. Beyond them there Appeal to be few sure things. Rich Ard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw will be in Contention particularly if there is a wave of support for jaws. Gene Hackman was impressive in night moves and French connection ii and in bite the Bullet come to that. W a r r e n Beatty was persuasive in shampoo although some locally who disliked the film not on its merits but on the severity of its views on pm a y girl studios to artist Frei Sauna with All afternoon unions 322 Kennedy strip 943-6019 1-4 if unique is what you seek Call key girl out Calls and studio sessions 280 Maryland St. 772-2767 Ftp fire Gui far All occasions the Way we live. Donald Sutherland s perform Ince in Day the Locust survived the general disappointment with the Peature. Waller Matthau Hul cd make the Sunshine boys one of the year s most successful films. Bruce Dern gave another of first rate portrayals in smile and Jeff Bridges invade on ingratiating hero in hearts of the West. A Maximillian Schell was excellent in the Man in the Glass Booth As was Alan Bates in in Celebration Al though the american film theatre work has been consistently snubbed by the Aca Demy. A late arrival which is to say it will have been seen by few Academy voters was scent of a woman with its crackling starring role by i Ivorio Gassman As a blinded but still Lusty officer. An admiring Salute As Well to Robert Mitchim Farewell my Bobert Bedford three Days of the Glynn Turman c o o 1 c y Michael Moriarty re port to the commissioner and commissioner and Michael came the Man who would be Best actress the no doubt about it pick Here would be Louise Fletcher for her. Full dimensional portrait of the Virse in cuckoo s nest in she managed to be but not a inti Ster hateful but not Gro Tesque the very Model of the Good citizen doing the Job disastrously. Carol Kane As the fragile but Iron willed wife in Hester Street is another High Mark performance Here. Jeanette Clift As the heroine of the hiding place Drew highest Marks from Kevin Thomas Gle Iida Jackson excellent in the maids from american film theater along with us s a n n a h York and Vivien merchant created another Star turn in Oledda. Ann Margret was striking in the arduous role As the Mother in Tommy. Stockard Channing made Clear she is a Superior comic actress in the ill fortunes the Fortune. There were As Well bar Bra Streisand in funny lady Diana Ross in Maho Gany Florinda Bolkan in a Brief vacation and the much honoured Isabelle and Jani from the Story of Adele h. Columbia is pushing both Julie Christie and Goldic hawn for their excellent portrayals in shampoo. The Campaign underscores the Point that the line be tween a performance and a Tiffany s out Calls pm. 772-6341 Plaza motor inn 9 . . Brentwood Ockenh 9 . . 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