Ellen Burstyn winning Best Actress

[EinsteinattheMovies]

Faye Dunaway sure does look excited

[BellaKiersten]

Diahann Carroll's performance in Claudine WAS THE BEST! She should have took home that oscar!

[whotaughtyou]

OPRAH WINFREY

[Abdulmalik773]

I think she is my favorite actors

[cinephilia1]

Marty looks like a fugly kike in the video =)

[shortsmurf425]

'Alice' was a great movie, but it was the Academy's way of saying, "We screwed you for The Exorcist," and that's the way it goes. If you ask me, Burstyn should have two of these gold boys; one for Exorcist and one for Requiem.

[dcalris]

I agree that she should have won for "requiem for a dream" also!

[MisterModular]

As much as I love Ellen Burstyn and think her performance in Alice was excellent, Gena Rowlands deserved to win. Her performance in A Woman Under The Influence is staggering, quite possibly the best performance ever committed to film. That said, this was an amazing lineup of actors - '75 was a great year!

[itamars23]

The applausing of the audience says everything. Gena Rowlands should have won...

[MegRamseyWebseries]

Look at Angelica Huston sitting right next to Faye Dunaway. She looks like a stone faced bitch and doesn't even applaud. Yikes! Oh, there Nicholson next to her.

[anthonyfranco88]

Oh wow -- Martin Scorsese is hot!!!

[miguelatq]

Well, Ellen Burstyn is a very professional actress without doubt. She preferred the job instead the ceremony and the glamour. 

[miguelatq]

Miss Gena Rowlands deserves the award. I like Ellen Burstyn, but Rowlands was at her best in 'A women under the influence'.

[getclutch72]

Agreed. Her nervous looks and funny gestures are wonderful to watch.

[PrimaveraPictures]

Scorsese's beard deserves an Oscar.

[fullmetalchrus]

Martin Scorsese is so nervous

[Ivanatis]

I think Gena was the favourite.

[0774343006]

The applause of the audience while presenting Rowlands' candidacy speaks for itself. She should've won.

[hithr3000]

ellen deserved it. i'm glad the academy didn't hold it against her that she didn't show up.

[zenarcade64]

Oh no, not another fake Indian ;-p

[FroshtySeanyBoy]

Faye Dunaway always has that icy stare, creeps me out. I feel like I'm gonna turn to stone afterward.

[NJNupe1911]

@FroshtySeanyBoy

LOL!! That's a good one!

[SteezeWizard99]

Gena should've won...



[SteezeWizard99]

Gena should've won...

[Jako32]

oh and the thing with miss queen Faye is she was confident enough to know she wouldnt win but carried it with class yet TOTALLY knew her time would come very very soon

[Jako32]

laawd when just everything and everyone and everything they did was just raw ART, cool and sexy 1000% organically !! Everything people do or "try" to emulate nowadays is all from this 4ver golden era of life and art as we used to know it!!

[jimbodu61]

gena is the best.

[dylanbonnar]

Gena Rowlands loos like the beautiful Kim Stanley here.

[XPressPlayX]

Hahaha Faye mouthing "Knew It" to her partner.

[SueSnell]

This was the stiffest competition ever! They all could have won.

[Kirandera]

She REALLY should have gotten a second one twenty-five years later. You guys know what I'm talking about.

[CrazyDazey]

Damn Marty! That's a power 'stache if I ever saw one!

[duckwrangler]

Marty was a mere boy then

[celinetakingchances]

faye dunaway looks as glum as ever



[derris]

Gena Rowlands was SO BEAUTIFUL and charming. Plus, she was AMAZING in

"A Women Under the Influence" she should have won

[raycomb30294]

Is that a pissed off Angelica Huston next to Faye Dunaway? Damn? Why does she always look so pissed off?? lol

[redsoxgirl1986]

@raycomb30294 I was just thinking the same thing, i think I just watched Whoopi's acceptance speech and it cuts to Angelica huston with a scowl on her face there

[bradley583]

Gena Rowlands looks like Tori Spelling at 0:38 -- I dont know if its a compliment but...

[MissLizaMay]

I met Ellen last week and she is still a delightfully beautiful woman. She totally deserved this Oscar, a shame she wasn't there to accept, but she deserved it none the less. I love you Ellen, you're a goddess!

[ABALLAM3]

It amazes the quality difference between 1973 and 1974 Academy Awards. The in 1973 when announcing Best Actress were really slow (presenters being Charlton Heston and Susan Hayward). Here, Jack Lemmon's announcing gets to the point. Same with Best Actor announcing, Glenda Jackson does a phenominal job at presenting. Why is the Academy Awards announcing process better in 1974 than 1973.

[Googopqp]

Still say she should have been at least nominated for Requiem for a Dream!

[ooks]

@Googopqp she was...

[whisperingfox]

@Googopqp She was nominated for requiem For A Dream. Lost to Julia Roberts

[sunxxl01]

@Googopqp she was nominated, but lost to Julia Roberts

[phistickie]

BAHAH what is up with Scorcese's hair situation??

[eniben4]

So scorsese didn't get an oscar til 2006 but made an accpetance speech 32 years earlier.

[TheMaverickChinaman]

Gena Rowlands should have taken home that Oscar ! You watch those two movies back to back today.. Rowlands blows me away

[footvideo2]

Ellen Burstyn didn't deserve this oscar for Alice, but she deserved for the exorcist and requiem for a dream.

This year, Faye Dunaway deserved it

[yairc19]

@footvideo2 I totally Agree. I'm a big fan of Ellen and I love her bodywork. I think she was shamelessly robbed for Requiem For A Dream (one of AMPAS biggest mistakes ever), but I thkink that year the award should had gone to Mrs. Rowlands.

[footvideo2]

@yairc19

For me, this performance in Requiem for a dream was the best performance ever !!!

[yairc19]

Why are they so surprised? Who was the favourite that year? Didn't they expect Ellen to win?

by the way, does Gena say OH SHIT??

[dkelly26666]

Sadly, that was the first time Scorsese held and accepted an Oscar (not even his own), and it would be the last time, until 32 years and many snubs later. He FINALLY got his long overdue Oscar in 2006.

[sliat1981]

haha the blone one mouthed "oh shit!"

[BonaDun]

@sliat1981

looks more like she says "oh, she knew it"

Read Faye Dunaway's lips - "knew it"

[TheChosenTidus]

thumbs up if you are here because of " requiem for a dream "

[Marty01Mcfly]

faye dunaway sat next to al pacino.

[ABALLAM3]

@Marty01Mcfly Pacino was also nominated that year, but did not show up to the awards ceremony, so that is not him. Notice Anjelica Houston and Jack Nicholson next to Dunnaway on her left.

[tlcarpenter1]

@Marty01Mcfly That's not Al Pacino next to Dunaway. That's her husband Peter Wolf of the J. Geils Band.

[thelousyllama]

Holly fork!!!! is that martin scorcese

[hallowedbeeddie]

martin was very hot

[pestanorum]

should have won for "requiem for a dream" also!

[yairc19]

@pestanorum That Julia Whore STOLE IT :(

[AgrarianReformist]

Cassavetes stole his one scene in this clip.

[TheNoirNoir]

The look of Valerie Perrine's face when Ellen is announced is classic.

[demondeacon18]

she didn't even show up?! Who doesn't show up to accept an Oscar?! Screw the play you're doing! LOL. have the understudy do it...

[pudgeuncle]

@demondeacon18 Screw the play? Tell that to an audience who paid Broadway prices to see her! And what if she had lost? That was very stiff competition and any one of those actresses could have won.

[mensahcarrelle]

Why is Angelica Huston always so cold?She didn't even applaud :(

[hardrich2]

@mensahcarrelle Probably because Jack was screwing everyone in the room

[nikasvani]

Gena Rowlands: "O Shit"

[blinkzone1]

@nikasvani haha nobody didn't even notice that!

[nikasvani]

Gena Rowlands: "O Shit"

[asherhawke]

@nikasvani I noticed that...quite funny

[GETOSUPASTAR]

No shade to Ellen, but Diahann was robbed...

[redsonjaiscoming]

faye dunaway: "knew it"

awesome.

[lloydmcc120]

Why was Charles Manson receiving the award for Ellen Burstyn?

[eniben4]

@lloydmcc120

That's Marty Scorses one of if not the best living director.

[predlycon]

marty scorsese looked better with the beard.

[Karosanyo]

Ellen Burstyn also should have won for "The Exorcist" and "Requiem for a Dream"...

[outinsider]

Shame that was the last great leading female role that Scorsese ever did.

[awhitershadeofpail]

I'm sorry to press the point, but Rowlands deserved this, while Burstyn deserved the year prior for "The Exorcist." Glenda Jackson's prior win for "A Touch of Class" was not conducive for Burstyn. You have to look at both their hardships and exhaustion factors (e.g. which both Burstyn and Rowlands exhibited in their respective films).

Another example of this regards Jane Fonda's win over Jill Clayburgh (Unmarried Woman) in 1979, when Fonda had already won before for "Klute."

[BonaDun]

cool clip

[smichelle65]

Faye Dunaway's then-husband, Peter "J. Giles Band" Wolf--looking stoned out of his gourd!

[brandonhytr]

wow everyone looked shocked

[KOHF34]

I love how their jaws drop simutaneously when Ellen's name is called.

[HollywoodHillsCookie]

Wow...Gena Rowlands is quite the glamourpuss that night! But doesn't it look like she says, "Oh sh%t" when Burstyn's name is announced???????

[IliveinMA]

lol @ :50 Anjelica Huston looks pissed

[lookatmekimmie68]

@IliveinMA if you watch the clip of Whoopi Goldberg winning her Oscar, AH is clapping, but looks slightly p-o'ed for her costar Annette Bening.

[elvaelvirababe]

pfft, he should be up there to get his best directing while he's at it. ;)

[griffin324]

haha marty was so young...

[Guimapg]

Daniel Day Lewis must have been inspired bt this Martin Scorsese look to his character in Gangs of NY, directed by the own Marty. lol

As for Ellen, I love her performance and I think she should have won in 2001 too, for Requiem for a Dream!

[mensahcarrelle]

I love Ellen Burstyn but Gena should have won this one.

Ellen should have won for THE EXORCIST & REQUIEM FOR A DREAM.

[jealousofmypuddin]

@mensahcarrelle and for "Gloria".

[YouriYuri]

i've only seen alice dosen't live here and chinatown. if i compare the two performance, i'd choose chinatown and therefore i think faye should've gotten the oscar for that, and liv ullman for face to face as opposed to faye for network

[oscarlover100]

Gena Rowlands should have won, but this truly was an amazing year! My ranking:

1. Rowlands

2. Burstyn

3. Dunaway

4. Perrine

5. Carol

[MDSCFALNM]

One of the greatest rosters ever assembled.

[PadrethePio]

One of the few years where every actress nominated deserved it. What a year!

[ooks]

any one of these nominees could've won and they would've ranked among the best winners in the category. the amazing diahann carroll, fantastic cannes winner valerie perrine, legendary gena rowlands, iconic faye dunaway, and of course the great ellen burstyn. they're all phenomenal.

[zim83]

@ooks I agree. However, I tend to think Valerie Perrine should have been included in the supporting actress category, where she should have swept the film. Anyway, given the controversy sorrounding "Lenny" that year, maybe she would have lost that one as well...

[NJNupe1911]

@ooks

I couldn't agree with you more!

[MikeysGayToday]

@ooks I agree completely!

[SCREENINGROOM3]

God Bless Jon Calley for greenlighting a film as different and as important as "Alice Doesn't." Marty was SO young, but the intelligence and wisdom was already there. Too bad it just wasn't Gena's year -- it easily could have been. Now, that was a stage that says "OSCAR!" Why don't they design 'em like that anymore, I wonder ...?

[Tigerlily21]

Scorsese was probably on a lot of coke during this time. lol.

[zim83]

This was Gena Rowlands' Oscar, no matter how amazing Ellen Burstyn is.

[dustylacson]

i've been waiting to see this!

[nauvalyazid]

Ellen Burstyn is one of my favorite actresses of all time. I watched ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE twice or three times already, and it always moves me at different points, which enrich my empathy towards her character. Yet, I love her most in SAME TIME, NEXT YEAR.

[ooks]

the whole eligibility rule that barred liv ullmann from being nominated was absurd!

[cokieblume]

@ooks Oh you've intrigued me now, after a quick google and wiki I've yet to find out anything about this, what eligibility rule? Was this Scenes from a Marriage? That was a brilliant performance!

[lilchuy01]

i will be honest then only nominee i have seen that year was gena rowlands in a woman under the influence and she was incredible

[redegel1985]

omg look at martine scorsese here!!! i didn't see ellen burstyn on this film, but I don't know why she won for the exorcist she gave a great performance that year

[lonelygnome1]

MARTIN'S THE MAN.

[dinasztie]

Rowlands should have won IMO. But Burstyn was great too.

[MisterFezMartin]

I hate it when the winner is the only one that didn't show up for the ceremony.

[leafyutube]

Scorsese is a big inspiration for buying razor blades.

[GusHammond]

Nothing against Burstyn, but Gena REALLY should have won.