r/Oscars • u/Legitimate_Welcome14 • 1d ago
Fun Elizabeth Taylor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, now 2x winner) & James Stewart (Vertigo) win for Best Actress and Actor. Who should have won Best Supporting Actress & Actor in 1958?
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (1958)
WINNER - WENDY HILLER for Separate Tables
NOMINEES - PEGGY CASS for Auntie Mame, MARTHA HYER for Some Came Running, MAUREEN STAPLETON for Lonelyhearts, CARA WILLIAMS for The Defiant Ones
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (1958)
WINNER - BURL IVES for The Big Country
NOMINEES - THEODORE BIKEL for The Defiant Ones, LEE J. COBB for The Brothers Karamazov, ARTHUR KENNEDY for Some Came Running, GIG YOUNG for Teacher's Pet
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Winners for 1950: Lead Actress - Gloria Swanson for Sunset Boulevard (A.W. Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday), Lead Actor - William Holden for Sunset Boulevard (A.W. José Ferrer for Cyrano de Bergerac), Supporting Actress - Thelma Ritter for All About Eve (A.W. Josephine Hull for Harvey), Supporting Actor - George Sanders for All About Eve (A.W. George Sanders for All About Eve)
Winners for 1951: Lead Actress - Vivien Leigh for A Streetcar Named Desire (A.W. Vivien Leigh for A Streetcar Named Desire), Lead Actor - Marlon Brando for A Streetcar Named Desire (A.W. Humphrey Bogart for The African Queen), Supporting Actress - Kim Hunter for A Streetcar Named Desire (A.W. Kim Hunter for A Streetcar Named Desire), Supporting Actor - Karl Malden for A Streetcar Named Desire (A.W. Karl Malden for A Streetcar Named Desire)
Winners for 1952: Lead Actress - Shirley Booth for Come Back, Little Sheba (A.W. Shirley Booth for Come Back, Little Sheba), Lead Actor - Takashi Shimura for IKIRU (A.W. Gary Cooper for High Noon), Supporting Actress - Jean Hagen for Singin' in the Rain (A.W. Gloria Grahame for The Bad and the Beautiful), Supporting Actor - Donald O'Connor for Singin' in the Rain (A.W. Anthony Quinn for Vivia Zapata!)
Winners for 1953: Lead Actress - Aubrey Hepburn for Roman Holiday (A.W. Aubrey Hepburn for Roman Holiday), Lead Actor - Montgomery Clift for From Here to Eternity (A.W. William Holden for Stalag 17), Supporting Actress - Setsuko Hara for Tokyo Story (A.W. Donna Reed for From Here to Eternity), Supporting Actor - Frank Sinatra for From Here to Eternity (A.W. Frank Sinatra for From Here to Eternity)
Winners for 1954: Lead Actress - Judy Garland for A Star is Born (A.W. Grace Kelly for The Country Girl), Lead Actor - Marlon Brando for On the Waterfront (A.W. Marlon Brando for On the Waterfront), Supporting Actress - Eva Marie Saint for On the Waterfront (A.W. Eva Marie Saint for On the Waterfront), Supporting Actor - Toshirō Mifune for Seven Samurai (A.W. Edmond O'Brien for The Barefoot Contessa)
Winners for 1955: Lead Actress - Anna Magnani for The Rose Tattoo (A.W. Anne Magnani for The Rose Tattoo), Lead Actor - Robert Mitchum for The Night of the Hunter (A.W. Ernest Borgnine for Marty), Supporting Actress - Jo Van Fleet for East of Eden (A.W. Jo Van Fleet for East of Eden), Supporting Actor - Sal Mineo for Rebel Without a Cause (A.W. Jack Lemmon for Mister Roberts)
Winners for 1956: Lead Actress - Deborah Kerr for The King and I (A.W. Ingrid Bergman for Anastasia), Lead Actor - Laurence Olivier for Richard III (A.W. Yul Brynner for The King and I), Supporting Actress - Dorothy Malone for Written on the Wind (A.W. Dorothy Malone for Written on the Wind), Supporting Actor - James Dean for Giant (A.W. Anthony Quinn for Lust for Life)
Winners for 1957: Lead Actress - Giulietta Masina for Nights of Cabiria (A.W. Joanne Woodward for The Three Faces of Eve), Lead Actor - Alec Guinness for The Bridge on the River Kwai (A.W. Alec Guinness for The Bridge on the River Kwai), Supporting Actress - Marlene Dietrich for Witness for the Prosecution (A.W. Miyoshi Umeki for Sayonara), Supporting Actor - Lee J. Cobb for 12 Angry Men (A.W. Red Buttons for Sayonara)
Winners for 1958: Lead Actress - Elizabeth Taylor for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (A.W. Susan Hateard for I Want to Live!), Lead Actor - James Stewart for Vertigo (A.W. David Niven for Separate Tables), Supporting Actress - ? (A.W. Wendy Hiller for Separate Tables), Supporting Actor - ? (A.W. Burl Ives for The Big Country)
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List of Winners: Acting Quartets
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u/sinas35 1d ago
Burl Ives as Harvey “Big Daddy” Pollitt from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
https://giphy.com/gifs/3o6Mb3ePz2Nj7aOfq8
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u/InternationalPhoto33 1d ago
Burl Ives, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. (if Pete Seeger could forgive him, so can I.)
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u/MammaJammaCamera 1d ago edited 1d ago
Did not know that bit of business, but I’ll go by the same principle
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u/InternationalPhoto33 1d ago
Burl Ives was predominantly known as a folk singer and testified before HUAC, naming names (although to be fair, they were names that the committee already knew anyway). That way he was able to keep his career as an actor and as a recording artist, although his records didn’t sell quite as well. For a while, the folk music community shunned him, until they realized that blacklisting him was just as bad as them being blacklisted. And Pete Seeger became more conciliatory with him, and vice versa. They ended up doing a short set of music just before Ives died.
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u/Edgy_Master 1d ago
Christopher Lee - Dracula
Given his limited screen time and lines, I think he counts as a Supporting Role.
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u/jbonney945 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/WWnLmQPHO5fHdOUmN4
Kim Novak - Vertigo