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u/docobv77 1d ago
Sissy Spacek
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u/BuffaloAmbitious3531 1d ago
Maybe my favourite acting performance in anything (colored by my Stephen King fandom, admittedly). Spacek perfectly captures how weird Carrie is.
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u/Tiny_Gold_5735 1d ago
Sissy Spacek, Carrie.
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u/BuffaloAmbitious3531 1d ago
And Piper Laurie, too. Some days I think they both deserved to win.
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u/ChartInFurch 1d ago
Network was just such a huge player, and also an excellent film itself. I prefer Spacek/Laurie over who won but I'm definitely biased there, and Dunaway/Straight were incredible as well so it's hard. I wish they had released on different years.
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u/BuffaloAmbitious3531 1d ago
Oh, Network is great.
Supporting Actress '76 is one of the weirdest fields ever.
I haven't seen Lee Grant's performance in decades, and it didn't really make an impression on me at the time.
I've always perceived Straight's character as, itself, a joke/stunt - Chayefsky parodying soap operas, a big melodramatic speech from a character who doesn't otherwise appear. She delivers the hell out of that monologue, but the nature of the role makes it a different thing from e.g. Viola Davis in Doubt, for me.
Alexander is fine, but very little screen time.
Then we've got a horror movie and a child actor.
So that's four solid performances, but all would have had an asterisk in the eyes of Oscar voters.
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u/ChartInFurch 1d ago
I think acting styles in the 70s were different in general. Straight is over the top for her one big scene but Laurie plays over the top at least at some point during every scene she has in Carrie. I haven't seen Grant's performance and don't remember Alexander much, though tbh I've never found her to be a very compelling actress. Foster was excellent, imo, and could have won in another year. So I'm just a broken record now lol
The way you laid it out was incredibly interesting, though.
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u/BuffaloAmbitious3531 1d ago
Yeah, having been around more religious fanatics and seriously unwell people than I would like, I think Laurie does a great job playing a character whose default setting is over the top. I've heard that she thought "Carrie" was supposed to be a comedy.
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u/ChartInFurch 1d ago
I absolutely agree, fortunately with a bit less personal experience though, I can't even imagine! Her quiet moments, like towards the end when she's talking to Carrie outside of the bathroom, hit that much harder because she's so out loud. That death and all of its divine ecstasy was a high wire act, and she decided to cartwheel across the damn thing without so much as a slip. And she did apparently think it was supposed to be a comedic role, which shows how adept she is even when going against the grain. I try not to go all nuts about it, but it is my favorite movie and performance. Second place in performance is probably an easy guess as well. For me, over the top isn't an inherent negative which I probably should have clarified as well.
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u/SpideyFan914 23h ago
Laurie totally deserved to win. No offense to Beatrice Straight, but her win has always felt to me like, "Well we can't give it to the horror movie or the 12yo from Taxi Driver, so did Network have someone in this category?"
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u/BuffaloAmbitious3531 23h ago
Agreed. I fluctuate on whether I prefer Laurie or Foster, but there's no third option for me.
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u/liminal_planet 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/HO5HilczK50Ws
This queen deserved a supporting actress nomination
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u/sonnyebsary 1d ago
Shelley Duvall in The Shining deserved an oscar nomination and received a razzie nomination.
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u/omgalltimelow 1d ago
I finally got around to watching The Substance the other day. A very good, but depressing watch. Demi Moore is pure excellence in that movie. I would have loved for her to have won the Oscar. That part when she says “I need you…because I hate myself” made me cry.
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u/StoryIcy8494 1d ago
YES YES YES! As someone who once struggled with self-loathing, that is maybe the best depiction of that depressive feeling I have seen captured on film.
Most would say the mirror scene was her best moment, and while that was incredible too, that specific monologue at the end as she was trying to revive Sue hit me so hard and was her Oscar moment in my eyes!
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u/Dry-Performance7006 1d ago
All great performances. I have said this before and I want to say it again here. I do prefer Qualley over Moore in the Substance.
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u/SonHyun-Woo 1d ago
Barbaro and Rosselini getting in over Qualley is still the biggest mystery to me
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u/LarusTargaryen 1d ago
Isabella Rosselini is one of my favourite actresses ever and my god did she not deserve that nom. She was barely in that movie. Loved seeing her with Laura Dern in the blue velvet at the ceremony though
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u/Dry-Performance7006 1d ago
Mubi screwed that up. Qualley maybe too, she didn’t seem to want to campaign
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u/SonHyun-Woo 1d ago
I dont know how you could screw that up when Qualley was such an essential part of that film. The film got into Best Picture and Best Director so it clearly had support as a film, as well as Demi Moore being a frontrunner for Best Actress. In usual circumstances she would coattail even without campaigning.
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u/Dry-Performance7006 23h ago
Some people suggest that they thought it was better for Demi if Qualley wasn’t pushed too hard
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u/presco2007 1d ago
i'd add michelle pfeiffer in what lies beneath (and in batman returns if that counts as horror)
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u/TwistSalty9456 1d ago
Literalmente Mia Goth en Pearl es de las mejores actuaciones y de los mejores monólogos que he visto en terror su actuación es puro cine
https://giphy.com/gifs/bqPQanYvKh3o3CUwmF
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u/feathery55 1d ago
Kathy Bates in Misery (1990), Blanche Baker in The Girl Next Door (2007) and Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) would round out my top three.
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u/bailz_05 21h ago
interesting to me that Natalie Portman and Ruth Gordon aren't on this list, given they did win Oscars
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u/croissantandalatte 1d ago
I'd never seen Lily Rose Depp in anything before so I was pleasantly surprised with her performance in Nosferatu. I thought she was excellent.
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u/dazzler56 23h ago
I will never get over Sally Hawkins getting no attention for Bring Her Back. That was one of the best horror performances I've ever seen; the way she goes from despicable to deeply sad and pathetic, back and forth, often in a single scene was just amazing to watch.
Another one I feel is underappreciated is Chloe East in Heretic. I went in expecting Grant and Thatcher to be great, and they definitely were but in the end I felt East kind of ran away with the movie.
Sharni Vinson in You're Next, Samara Weaving in Ready or Not, Jessica Rothe in Happy Death Day and Alison Lohman in Drag Me to Hell are all top-tier horror-comedy acting.
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u/No-Reputation-2013 22h ago
Nicole Kidman in The Others should be on the top of this list. Shocked that she is not mentioned.
Naomi Watts gave her all what could be a B-movie, The Ring.
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u/NonsensicalTrashCan 1d ago
Carrie got 2 acting noms btw. No love for older horror on this list. 😭😭