here is my list of the most underated oscar-winning performances in film:
-daniel day-lewis-MY LEFT FOOT(1989)
-john mills-RYAN'S DAUGHTER(1970)
-ben johnson-THE LAST PICTURE SHOW(1971)
-hugh griffith-BEN-HUR(1959)
-louis gossett jr.-AN OFFICER AND A GENTLETMAN(1983)
-hattie mcDaniel(GONE WITH THE WIND(1939)
-edmund gwynn(MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET(1947)
-richard dreyfuss-THE GOODBYE GIRL(1977)
How is Day-Lewis's win underrated? At the Oscars when he won, I remember the entire audience giving him a standing ovation. Not to mention the critics went ga-ga over his performance.
I guess his performance is underrated to viewers, but only because I am sure a lot of people have never even heard of the film. Which is a shame.
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Jon Voight - Coming Home 1978
Jack Lemmon - Save the tiger 1973
William Hurt - Kiss of the spider Woman 1985
F. Murray Abraham - Amadeus 1984
the greatest performance to win an Oscar!!! DD Lewis was totally amazing, and for one of the few times the Academy got it right!!!
Others who actually deserved to win and did...
Ellen Burstyn-"Alice doesn't live here anymore."
Sally Field-"Norma Rae."
Hilary Swank-"Boys Don't Cry, and Million Dollar Baby."
Joel Grey-"Cabaret"
Anthony Hopkins-"The Silence of the Lambs"
Jessica Lange-"Blue Sky"
Dustin Hoffman-"Kramer vs. Kramer"
Elizabeth Taylor-"Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf"
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