Maggie Smith 1979 Oscar

[littlelottesangel]

I felt that Meryl Streep should have won

[flicfan416]

There's NOTHING creepy about the way that guy is staring at Brooke Shields...

[misterashley]

An okay movie overall but, Maggie Smith and Michael Caine's story is enough to keep me watching; or at least fast forwarding to their scenes. How ironic that she wins for this character? Love it.

[UFOSPACE1999]

@misterashley Your are 100% right...the film is just ok...but Maggie and Michael in their scenes make the film come alive. AND in fact..Maggie Smith won an Oscar for a film role in which she LOST the Oscar in California Suite. Very good..

[caleb6868]

So THAT is who Maggie smith is lol

[mrsbeccabaran]

And it's ironic because in her role in the film she lost the Oscar :P

[sanfrancisco89]

I love Maggie Smith, but what exactly are the criteria for best actor/actress. How can anyone compare performances, especially when there are different genres? So silly. Still, I'd like to win one!

[dinasztie]

I just cannot believe this win. I mean, this is one of the best wins ever in any category but I'm shocked that the Academy went with her. She didn't have anything going for her, didn't have the sentiment on her side, except her marvelous, astonishing performance. There were times when you could win based on a terrific performance alone. I miss that.

[Tsenio]

way to go,minerva!!

[lolitalemonlove]

Maggie Smith and Meryl Streep in the same room? You must be kidding.

[Lukytazcuervo]

meryl está en todos lados !

[emma41093]

She should have given Diana's speech minus the part about the can lol

[dralockhart]

Maggie Smith looks like Tilda Swinton here. I would love them to play family in a movie.

[JOJO22858]

Had the high honor to meet Dame Maggie Smith backstage in London in 2007

after seeing her in the Edward Albee play "The Lady from Dubuque." Even had

my picture taken with her and kissed her hand goodbye. She is a real Class

Act in the old-school English tradition and one of the greatest actresses to ever

perform on stage or screen!!

[mikeparez]

Professor McGonagall

[astralagosto]

Dyan Cannon looks so arrogant when all the nominees named are announced. She's one of the worst actresses in Hollywood and is not in the same league as her fellow nominees. She only slept with Cary Grant to get famous. To bad he couldn't tell what conniver she is.

[Arshabyn7]

great actress

[JagopersonOfficial]

My best friend's Grandma was room mates with her!

[gth1234890]

even back in the freaking 80's Meryl Streep was notmminated for an Oscar.

[sumskater999]

@gth1234890 Actually, she started getting nominated (and won one) in the 70s. In the 80s alone, she got like 5 nominations, and won another.

[gth1234890]

@sumskater999

Well thanks for letting me know that. It's so silly of me because I love Meryl Streep and I know that she

won two Academy Awards: one was for Kramer vs. Kramer and the other one was for Sophie's Choice.

Both movies were in the time slots that you mentioned...I should've remembered that.

[Shade1234321]

I love how when they say Maggie's name, Maureen Stapleton is like "WTF" then is all like "shit on camera *clapclapclap*"

[goolagong68]

@Shade1234321 i hope your not having a go at the brilliant Maureen Stapleton, and by the way i dont see Maureen reacting in any way but happiness for Maggie. Maureen would win a few years later for REDS.

[awhitershadeofpail]

I wish someone would post her 1970 win for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie." While I love Maggie, that year's Oscar really should have gone to Jean Simmons, "The Happy Ending," which is so horrendously overlooked.

Go, Maggie, Go!

[bman560]

@awhitershadeofpail Jean Simmons is brilliant in Happy Ending but Maggie Smith was beyond that in Jean Brodie. Mesmerising.

[tadge72]

bloody hell she beat meryl! she is wonderful!

[dinasztie]

Both wins of Dame Maggie were one of the best ones in their respective categories. She was brilliant in both of them. I think she also deserved an Oscar for Gosford Park and should have at least been nominated for A Private Function (she was better than Sally Field and the others) and The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearn. She's the GREATEST LIVING ACTRESS and though I love Meryl, she's not even CLOSE to Maggie.

[narayandivya88]

@dinasztie i completely agree with you...

this is what you call an oscar acceptance speech...halle berry, gwyneth paltrow, julia roberts, take note...

[TrelleStar]

Adored Maggie and look at Meryl w/ all that flowing hair.

[maiii0608]

what a shame that we weren't able to see her expression when her name was called out! sooo incredible, she deserved it! she's one of the best actresses ever!

[JerseySurvivor]

@maiii0608

I agree. Funny but I remember that time and Maggie was considered one of the least likely to win (behind Penelope Milford). The odds were split between Maureen and Dyan (a Hollywood favorite). Maggie's win (like her first) was a total surprise. I remember the moment that she won. At that moment I realized the Academy made the BEST choice. Took until Tilda before I felt that again!!

[ArmondodevonStrizer]

BEAUTIFUL SPEECH

[FredNotJorge]

love the win.

meryl looks gorgeous with her long hair.

[0732jamie]

Such a classy woman, who really knows how to give an acceptance speech!

[TheSuppActress]

Obviously Maggie Smith was the best, but Meryl Streep and Maureen Stapleton was also very good.

[TheTrwebster]

Anybody see Maggie Smith and Timothy Bottoms in "Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing"? First movie I saw her in and I fell in love; I will watch ANYTHING with her in it, even the flops, just so I can watch her! What an amazing actress.

[robrichpo]

@TheTrwebster : I first saw "Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing" on TV years ago and I am glad to have bought a DVD for multiple viewing for this wonderful gem.

[TheTrwebster]

@robrichpo - thanks for sending on the Oscar Speech; I either missed that or forgot I'd seen it. My copy of "Love and Pain..." arrived a short time ago and I am close to wearing it out, if that's possible.

[TheTrwebster]

Anybody see Maggie Smith and Timothy Bottoms in "Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing"? The first movie I saw her in and I fell in love and have remained so ever since. I will watch ANYTHING with her in it, even the flops.

[geanjerity]

PROFESSOR MCGONAGALL!!

[fkd1963]

Well deserved. I am tired of people looking "down" on comedy performers and performances. In fact there is quite a bit of this perf which is touching and "dramatic." Ms. Smith deserves a lifetime achievement Oscar for all her brilliant work, a good chuck of it still NOT on DVD. For example 'The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne' from 1987 that should have won her an Oscar.

[maryyre]

i adore her she is so great! and so talented she diserve that academy award

[gomamon100]

She is one of my favourite actresses..

[ModernFrench]

McGonagall?

[jkfromcincty]

Smith is a terrific actress. Her Best Actress Oscar for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" in 1969 is one of the most well deserved in the award's history. However, this fluffy (and now, dated) movie was hardly a stretch for her talent. To say that she is the best thing in the film, shouldn't imply that she should have received an Oscar. Maureen Stapleton should have won handily for her sharply etched character in Woody Allen's "Interiors". Watch Smith in "The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearn". _

[dmce1]

I completely agree with you on all counts

[andrewdisney1]

Who are the Presenters???

[ronnykmarshall]

Brooke Shields and George Burns

[roccoh21]

What a great performance it was. Well deserved.

[TMTGeneralDeath]

whos the girl on the stage?

[etraig]

who, the presenter with george burns? that's Brooke Shields.

they had done a film together called "just you and me, kid".

[beatsofsoultrain]

@TMTGeneralDeath brooke shields

[iamthescotti]

holy crap meryll streep was old enough to be nominated!?

[thanth11]

she was nearly 30 here!

[CherryDee18]

Maggie is one of the best winners ever!

Penelope Milford was absolutely awful. How dare they nominated her? One of the biggest mystery in the Academy history.

[BillyL96]

I love Maggie Smith! A deserved Oscar, indeed!

[frankd1965]

She is a great actress. A decade earlier she won for Best Actress in The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie in 1969

[alicetheactress]

Yay for Mags! As a Meryl and Maggie fan, I'm still happy Maggie one...I know, the dear hunter was a superior film and all that but Maggie had me in stitches the entire film....she was and still is a brilliant actress!

[Steolicious]

Maggie Smith and Michael Caine are the only good thing in that movie, I love to see her win her second oscar.

[TopDog69]

Erm, she has won two?

[Steolicious]

Yes, she also won an oscar for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (1970)

[alecs1976]

that's not true, jane fonda and alan alda are also very good in this film. smith/caine and fonda/alda had the best writing in this film!

[etraig]

and did you know that Dana Plato played Alda and Fonda's daughter in the film?

i love anything by Simon.

[sacklet23]

@Steolicious This is her second oscar win^

[funkybum]

@Steolicious This actually was her second win

[MephistophelisedHam]

She was hilarious in this movie.

[eliud777]

The film was in the movie theaters in 1978, and the Oscar ceremony was in 1979, so my dear NATYRA 22 you're wrong

[natyra22]

The dates not right on this clip. She won this award in 1978 not 79. She won the same year Jane Fonda won best actress for Coming Home. Meryl Streep actually won the in award in 79 for Kramer vs Kramer.

[MDSCFALNM]

She won the award in 1979 because the film debuted in 1978.  Therefore, the ceremony was in 1979.

[natyra22]

If you say so, but I'm certain she did not when this award in 79. One of the other nominees is nominated for Coming Home. I guarantee that anywhere you look it up it wlll tell that she and Fonda won the actress awards in 78. Sally Field and Streep won the actress awards in 79. Its real easy to find out.

[MDSCFALNM]

Yes, California Suite and Coming Home opened in 1978. The Academy Awards for ACHIEVEMENT in 1978 were held on April 9, 1979. Meryl Streep and Sally Field won their Oscars on April 14, 1980 for films released in 1979. This year (2009) the Oscars celebrated films of 2008. It's not complicated. The Oscars celebrate the films of the previous year. "It's real easy to find out."

[natyra22]

Heres what I would like you to do if you choose. I want you to find Merly's win for K v K. I then want you to look up at the description of the vid read that it says her acceptance speech at the 52nd ocars in 1979. i then want you to go to wikipedia or where ever the hell else you want to look and look up Maggie, Merly, and Best support actress (oscars) and I can assure you all of them will say that Merly won in 79 and Smith won in 78(AT THE AWARDS). Everybody cant be wrong.

[MDSCFALNM]

I don't why my last two posts have not appeared, so let me post it again: She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress of 1978, which was given on April 9, 1979. How can you give an award for accomplishments in a given year while the year is still in progress? The 51st Annual Academy Awards WERE in 1979 and that is when Maggie Smith won her Oscar. Meryl Streep won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress of 1979 for Kramer, which was given out on April 14, 1980.

[natyra22]

Haha ok whatever you say..I'm bored with this.

[Capricaquarius89]

Love Maggie Smith. She was absolute perfection in a very flawed film. How cool is it that she won an Oscar 4 playing an actress who looses the Oscar.

Btw: Does ne one else think Maggie Smith of 1979 looks a lot like Tilda Swinton?

[musicaltheatergeek79]

On the other token, Judy Garland lost the Oscar for playing an actress who won the Oscar in A STAR IS BORN.

[fanstreep]

OSCAR FOR MERYL. But yeah, she was amazing in deer hunter. I know this is her first nomination, but she was so great. But OK. I mean Maggie was good.

[TheSuppActress]

To see all the Supporting Performances, go to my channel!!!

[chrisno27]

the guy @ 0:18, looks like one of the members of Boyzone.

I love Maggie Smith, she is a wonderful actress.

[myfilmblog]

it's Dyan, not Dianne.

and George Burns noticed that and corrected her :D

[kaejae24]

He didn't correct her - he said - You're doing fine

[qdfjbmaria]

She is the BEST! <3

[Lapetitedanseusedu75]

She 's amazing!

[awhitershadeofpail]

Maggie is one of my favorite actresses! Meryl looks absolutely stunning! Also, I miss Mighty Mo Stapleton, and what's Dyan Cannon up to lately- she's hilarious!

[mikelheron20]

Great to see an actress accept an award with grace, dignity and modesty. What a contrast with the likes of Kate Winslett, Halle Berry, Gwyneth Paltrow etc. with their interminable speeches, tears and self obsession.

[jeminijemini]

oh please. when u win an academy award you can say your speech anyway you want. i dont understand why people have to be so critical about award speeches. they earned that time to say whatever they want and how they want.

[mikelheron20]

I don't dispute their right to behave that way. I'm simply saying that I would prefer them not to. Each to their own opinion.

[HumbleHarry]

I don't mind a demure, elegant and classy winner like Maggie Smith every now and then, but the show would be a crashing bore if all of the winners were like that. We need some of them to wobble up to the podium, weep uncontrollably and hyperventilate.That's drama, and it adds to the spectacle, which is 90 percent of the reason I watch the Oscars at all.

[HumbleHarry]

True. To each his own. I love Maggie Smith, by the way. She's truly one-of-a kind, and a phenomenal actress no matter what film she's in. Smith is absolutely among my all-time favorites, and she richly deserved this honor for her brilliantly funny, yet heart-rending performance in "California Suite. " I loved Meryl Streep in "The Deerhunter," too.

[mikelheron20]

I think you're confusing drama with dramatics.

[HumbleHarry]

Perhaps. But we both agreed: To each his own. At the Academy Awards, I appreciate both the Maggie Smiths and the Halle Berrys. I don't want them to all act the same. That's all I was trying to say.

[mikelheron20]

Fair enough.

[notthatoriginal]

check out penelope's dress

[01lrollo]

shes also in hook and the secret garden

[JimmyHopkins2]

She was the Mother Superior in Sister Act

Professor McGonnagal in Harry Potter

Angry Goddess in Clash of the titans

and...thats all i got atm at the top of my head

[Grutz100]

who are presenting???

[han1231]

brooke shields presented

[Grutz100]

haha a 3 time razzie winner presents lol. Penolpe milford looked like she knew she wasant gonna win. She was really good though. and Maureen thought they called her cause she heard Ma- and thought she it was Maureen

[mikederek]

and george burns

[shaw1]

her voice is very recognizable...now and then.

[zentropy78]

Thank you thank you thank you for putting this up!

[ffrancesccaaaa]

god if you people only know her form sisterACT and harry potter then thats horrible

[JimmyThatcher]

Swinton isn't nearly as good as Smith

[loveliferocks]

Meryl Streep?? mann.. how old is she? 1979 is like almost 30 years ago!

I like Maggie Smith in Sister Act.. the whole mother superior thingy suits her =)

[BitchErica1]

If u only remember Maggie from Sister Act, then you need slapped.

[pixiel87]

i think people need to be a little bit kinder here - yes maggie smith has done a LOT of other, wonderful work - but who cares if people remember her from Sister Act or Harry Potter? she did those roles too, I don't think she would be ashamed of them. Just because something's not high art does not mean it's not worthwhile or funny or entertaining. So lay off, it's not that big of a deal.

[emmjay8]

I agree. I for one feel that anything Maggie does becomes high art! She is amazing! I'll watch any film she does.

[henrysinaga]

I'm gonna slap anyone who says "HEY look it's Prof. McGonagall..!!" Maggie Smith is no one trick pony, she has a wonderful gallery of iconic characters, my favorite is from "Room at the Top"

[zim83]

"A Room With A View", I guess. "Room At The Top" starred Simone Signoret.

[henrysinaga]

I always got those two mixed up :P

[ModernFrench]

Yes, she is a great actress indeed but bu the new generation she is best known as "Prof. McGonagall".

That's how I met her, in HP series' movies.. and even though she is a master of dramatic Arts, thats how she looks to me. :)

[trikid2200]

She's so cute!!!

[031729126]

harry potter

[GuidoJuno]

i love her to death! she's one of the best actress in the world! she has such a face, very unique expretions and a sexy voice!! Love her in anything she does!! Most of all comedy (Sister Act, First Wives Club, Ya Ya Sisterhood -she was the only thing that was good in that movie-)

[JoshFi]

Does anyone else see the resemblence that Tilda Swinton has nowadays to what Maggie Smith looked like in 1979? I don't know why but I think they look very similer.

[GuidoJuno]

Man, I think you're alone. I don't think they are similar in any way. But I do think Swinton is a really good actress.

[matthewthedollahan]

completley!!!!

when she was young like this, they look almost identical.

[storybellz]

@JoshFi No, I just took a quick glance at Tilda, and while they don't look worlds apart, they don't look similar. Actually, Tilda looks more like Cate Blachette in my opinion. But, I'll admit I only really know a lot about Maggie...don't really know about them.

[AthenaPallas]

young maggie :)

[mskw2]

Meryl's first nomination! Who was to guess what the future would bring.

[ShaneSomers]

Does anyone have the award for best picture? I want to see John Wayne

[JerseySurvivor]

I have the whole show but I"m hesitant to post anything because the Academy jumps on it.

Iv'e never seen it but I'd like to know if anyone thought to get a picture of Maggie & Wayne together as they both won the lead Oscars 9 years before.

[zim83]

I don't think they took any picture of them together as Smith didn't attend the ceremony that year. She was in London when she won.

[JerseySurvivor]

I meant a picture of them in 1979. Maggie won for SUITE and was present and Wayne presented the Best Picture and hung around onstage at the end. I've never seen a photo of them together.

[zim83]

You're right, silly me. I misread your post. The only one I've seen of that year is one of Smith and Stapleton backstage prior to the former's win.

[JimmyThatcher]

The only British actress to win in both Best and Supporting acting categories. Blazin!