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Originally Posted by Kasept
Louisiana, but that is anecdotal. I don't believe there is a reference to the state in the film.
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BEN KINGSLEY in "Gandhi", Dustin Hoffman in "Tootsie", Jack Lemmon in "Missing", Paul Newman in "The Verdict", Peter O'Toole in "My Favorite Year"
Steve was it looked at as a" poltical" Oscar when Kingsley won for Ghandi that year?
The AA have always had a sort of flakiness to some of it's victors. The sentiment at the time was probably that PN was not the actor you gave Oscar to as he was never a "yes" man despite his many acts of charity and selflessness. The politics of the movie industry has always played a huge role in who gets the spoils. This was one time that sentiment would grow louder in protest as time went on and now that Mr N is gone the voice just turned up the volume on this one.
Actually all of the movies for best actor in 1982 were pretty damn good.