Both Jessica Lange and Teri Garr were both up for Supporting Actress, with Lange winning a much deserved Oscar. After watching the film, I was surprised that Garr was nominated, because she really didn't do anything Oscar worthy. She was mildly funny, but she didn't have the impact that Lange did on the film as a whole. Any thoughts?
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Could not disagree more! Lange's performance was beautiful! She essentially played the "straight man" and pulled it off wonderfully. Teri was good but Lange got the long monologues (3 I believe). Should she have been in the supporting category? Probably not. But that's the Oscars for ya!!
shareI personally liked Garr's character much more than Lange's!
shareI liked Garr better than Lange. Lange bugs the crap out of me although Pollack directed her correctly in this to keep her annoying persona from ruining her performance.
shareTo me, Lange kind of gave a dramatic performance in a COMEDY film. All other actors Hoffman, Murray, Garr, Durning, and Pollack were funny. Lange wasn't. Her character just seemed out of place in this movie, to me.
shareGarr was every bit as deserving as Lange. If anything, her role was the more difficult of the two to pull off. I gotta agree with those who said Lange should have been in the Best Actress category and not Supporting, but there's no way in hell she would have received a second Best Actress nom for this film over her role in Frances. Her win for Tootsie was her consolation prize.
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Lange deserved the Oscar only because the scales were uneven - she got more screen-time, was painted very sympathetically, as many have said this was more of a lead role.
Also factoring into this was that Kim Stanley was nominated for 'Frances,' as well, making it even more obvious that Lange was going to walk off with the Supporting Actress Oscar. It was already obvious she was going to lose for Frances, but it would have been humiliating to also lose to either Stanley (who gave her the idea to do Tootsie) or Garr (who I do believe deserved it).
I feel for Lange because in any other year, Frances would have won her Best Actress. Actually, save for the gut wrenching "Choice" scene, and a few of the Auschwitz scenes, I find Streep's performance to be somewhat overrated. Not bad by any means, but not as spectacular as people say either. Lange seemed to have a real connection to the Frances character, and arguably should have won.
But, I sympathize more with Sigourney Weaver in 1988 - losing both Best Actress and Best Supporting that year, at least Lange won something.
I think its the other way around really. Garr was the hilarious, Oscar worthy one of the pair while Lange smiled, looked radiant and just walked through the movie...
shareI was shocked to see Garr didnt win the oscar and equally shocked that Lange won it. Lange was okay but not amazing, and like others said anyone could have played the part. To me Garr gave the better performance.
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I can't think of anyone from that time period that could have played the role of Julie like Lange did. Anyone? really? Who? Michelle Pfeiffer could have played it in the 90s. But I can't think of anyone in the early 80s who would have given the role that Monroe quality that Lange so naturally exhibited.
Garr was very good, but played the same quirky,angsty type of woman ,she played all through the 80s. She played it very well, but so did Goldie Hawn,Mary Steenburgen or Colleen Camp
Lange,however gave her role so much luminosity and sadness. What could have been a silly,quirky cross dressing comedy, became a classy film with some actual reality. And that reality,for the most part,belonged to Jessica Lange. No one else could have played that role as well.
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I thought Garr was better.
I agree with the earlier replies - I felt they gave it to Lange because they knew she wasn't going to win the Best Actress Oscar for Frances (see: no one was going to beat Meryl Streep that year).
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