Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ways of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences can be less baffling than Peking's, but only slightly. This year TIME made its own type of best actor nomination with the cover story on George C. Scott (March 22). Though Scott had scorned the Oscar, the Academy in the end also found him irresistible. Following another hunch, the editors recently sent Contributing Editor Mark Goodman to England for an interview with Glenda Jackson; she turned out to be the dark-horse winner in the best actress category. "It was good to see a magnetic screen talent rewarded...
...Goodbye, Columbus. But-by Academy standards-didn't the film deserve a big prize for being one of Hollywood's all time runaway box-office triumphs (well over $30 million so far)? And hadn't Ali's husband, Bob Evans, earned an Oscar or two for his contributions to Paramount's growing profits...
...best original screenplay (Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund North); Glenda Jackson (Women in Love) for best actress; John Mills (Ryan's Daughter) for best supporting actor; Francis Lai (Love Story) for best musical score. It was too much to expect that she would also have picked the Oscar ceremony's best decolletage, which clearly and defiantly belonged to Sally Kellerman (M *A* S*-H). The major surprise was the unwanted Oscar that went to Scott, whose well-publicized determination to snub Hollywood's "meat parade" was the butt of what passed for the evening's jokes...
...Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences concurred with Richard Nixon last night as it named Patton best picture of 1970, in its annual Oscar presentations...
...Hope consoled Ali McGraw and company, saying, "Winning an Oscar means never having to say you're sorry...