Anne Bancroft wins Best Actress - with Clips!

[@darylchin53]

Yes, one of the most impressive line-ups for Best Actress in the history of the Academy Awards! Can't wait to see your analysis of this particular year.

[@WilliamNihart]

Great performances by all. In my opinion the best performance won. Miss Bancroft was outstanding.

[@Dennisanyone-]

Should’ve been a five way tie. One of the best lineup of lead actress candidates in Oscar history.

[@johnscanlan9335]

So absolutely true!

[@paulvoorhies8821]

Seems like people say this all the time. In this case, it happens to be true. What an amazing stellar lineup.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

I love Anne Bancroft at every stage of her career.

[@RobertPagano226]

Another brilliant clips montage of the nominees, please keep them coming Fritz. Loved it👍

[@oscarman42]

Awesome! This is a great year! Excellent video!

[@Silentstotalkies]

This was so cool- thank you!

[@chucho_qmp]

This is brilliant!

[@mr29]

Incredible lineup 👏 🙌

[@elpatruca]

This is GREAT!

[@TheWeremuscleForest]

Four of the five women in this category are among the greatest of all time. It doesn't get better than that.

[@paulvoorhies8821]

Wow. That is a helluva group.

[@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc]

It was the cream of the crop.

[@tiffanywitherspoon8722]

What a great year.

[@woodedlane]

I believe this was a continuance of the feud between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Crawford apparently made a deal with Bancroft who she knew wouldn't be attending to accept the award for her should she win, turning that screw just a little deeper into Bette's brain. lol I mean - look at her smile. They really did despise each other.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

Surely the last time 80% of the nominees were shot in beautiful black and white (Sweet Bird of Youth was shot in Metrocolor by MGM)

[@FritzandtheOscars]

The same actually happened the next year (Irma La Douce was the only color nominee)

[@Marcel_Audubon]

@@FritzandtheOscars that's quite remarkable that late in film history!

[@raycarr1389]

Wow! What a line up. They were all talented actresses. Love Anne Bancroft, but this should have been Bette's third Oscar. Which performance today do people still remember and quote more often? "but you are Blanche, but you are". 😅

[@kendallrivers1119]

Disagree Anne deserved that Oscar more than anyone because her performance was transformative and iconic. I'd also say more people remember and talk about The Miracle Worker than Baby Jane. Look at how many adaptations have been done since.

[@raycarr1389]

The Miracle Worker has had more adaptations, yes, but only because no one can remake the magic of the original Baby Jane. The Redgrave sisters tried, but no comparison to Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. Helen Keller's life was more inspirational for audiences in all generations, that's why there are more adaptations.

[@JUANACAMI1961]

Dear ❤

[@leightonbate7516]

Stellar year though as good s as they are i'd leave out Remick and Page to have Crawford in 5th and Rita Tushingham's amazing debut for A Taste of Honey in 4th,Davis is my winner Bancroft a close 2nd then Hepburn 3rd,thanks Fritz,I used to read your blog about 10 yrs ago,keep these videos coming,1986 would be a good one or 88,89.

[@FritzandtheOscars]

Thanks a lot! Yes, my blog, that's a long time ago - nice that you still remember!

[@SamuelLanderos-xr6ue]

Joan all done up in White/Silver CLASSIC ☆

[@stephanierhodes675]

Are we going to get the breakdown for this year?

[@FritzandtheOscars]

Maybe :)

[@warrenwhite5285]

Bette Davis !!!!!

[@MauriceRivers415]

Father Time is not kind to any of us, but especially those whose public image is tied to their acting work. Wanting to accept someone else's award, rather than your own, comes across as very sad. Joan should've been more realistic about the breakdown of the Old Hollywood studio system in the 50's, and about her age working against her. Because by this time (1963), Marilyn Monroe was dead, and Lana Turner/Rosalind Russell/Ava Gardner would've been at the height (and apex) of their film careers. Bette and Joan were both over 50, and racing against time for meaty roles that were worthy of them. However, time was not on their side, and with the film studio system beginning to focus on QUALITY over QUANTITY, a new crop of film actors/movie stars were staking their claim (Anne Bancroft, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Shirley MacLaine, Tab Hunter, Ann-Margret, etc). They both should've retired after "What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?", rather than spending the 60's and 70's taking film & television roles that diminished their legacy. Those later roles just cemented them as washed-up hags to the younger generation of moviegoers.

[@call2872]

Anne Bancroft, a newcomer beat Katherine Hepburn and Bette Davis for Best Actress. That accomplishment alone speak volume of her acting talent.

[@slomo1716]

Wonderful that Anne won! She was the BEST!! I loved Bette, she was superb. As always good old Kate and her overacting, never a believable actress. Both Geraldine and Lea Remmick gave great performances but cannot compare with Bancroft.

[@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc]

Anne Bancroft was also terrific in the movie, The Graduate.

[@robertkinkhorst5697]

Katherine Hepburn remains one of the most beautiful women in the world 🥰

[@michaelverbakel7632]

Many people have said that Katharine Hepburn's performance in the film version of the play was Long Day's Journey into Night was better and stronger than any of the four Academy Awards that she won in other films. She was Anne Bancroft's closest competitor in 1962. I would still give the Oscar to Anne Bancroft that year. As for Bette Davis' performance in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. Why the hell was she even nominated. Her whole performance was bad, crappy, hysterical melodramatic overacting.

[@susanb2015]

Joan Crawford campaigned to keep Bette Davis from getting the Oscar.

[@Garsons-oq4lh]

She did not. Please cite a quote from someone whom Joan asked not to vote for Davis.

[@susanb2015]

@@Garsons-oq4lh I just heard it. I like both Joan and Bette.

[@AmriZeraus]

@@Garsons-oq4lh Whoever was a receiver of Crawford's hideous campaign against Davis would not come out and say it. The fact that Crawford called at least one of the nominees to offer to accept their Oscars (Geraldine Page said that Crawford called her without her even saying that she was not going to attend the ceremony), shows that Crawford despised Davis and took pleasure in enfuriating her.

[@paulvoorhies8821]

Crawford is sooo tacky!

[@SamuelLanderos-xr6ue]

& how . . By excepting a friend's award? Haha lol

[@paulvoorhies8821]

@@SamuelLanderos-xr6ue I love that you typed excepting vs accepting. I don’t know if was purposeful or not, but it’s certainly quite apropos!! 😜

[@SamuelLanderos-xr6ue]

@@paulvoorhies8821 Welcome! ! 🥳 Now further urself on why she's sooo tacky?

[@paulvoorhies8821]

@@SamuelLanderos-xr6ue Because she personally went to Bancroft and Page, 2 actresses she didn’t even really know, and asked if she could accept the Oscar for them in the event that they won and could not be present at the ceremony, all to upstage Bette Davis. But you knew that already.

[@SamuelLanderos-xr6ue]

@@paulvoorhies8821 Not so much upstaging but fair game. Ud think Bette would of been appreciative being asked to work on the movie. Joan knew Bancroft well enough .Tacky or upstaging even fair game. It was quick & creative.

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