Why Diana Ross didn't win the Oscar for " Lady Sings The Blues " movie ?

[@chriskneubuhl2557]

David here I been a movie buff for over fifty years and I thought you did a great job on your video. 😊

[@jeffreypattie7150]

Boy do I rem the night she didn't win the awardd she deserved..love liza, and sounder was extreme competition..but Diana deserved it

[@AnthonyChambers-y4k]

Diana Ross should’ve definitely won. She’s still here. Doing well in that crazy business. She’s done VERY well Has a great family and career. One of the greatest superstars EVER!!!

[@dddddadadad1796]

Diana Ross or Cicely Tyson definitely should HAVE won that night. Diana Ross more though bc she was a new actress, and what she did in her role was OUTSTANDING

[@brucescott4261]

Dddd Dada dad ...Diane was running against legendary actresses: Cicely Tyson, Liza Minnelli, Maggie Smith and Liv Ullman. Now, if Cicely Tyson wasn't going to win, what makes you think that Diane Ernestine Earle Ross was going to win? "Lady Sings the Blues" was mostly fictionalized, PERIOD!!!

[@rickymoody3239]

@@brucescott4261 Tyson wasn’t legendary in 1972 tho. Ross was a major superstar by then in her own way.

[@rickymoody3239]

@@brucescott4261 Actually none of those women were legendary yet.

[@brucescott4261]

​​​​@@rickymoody3239 ...False!!! You weren't even around when Cicely Tyson's career began. Cicely was already a notable actress on stage and television. Read a book, fanboy!

[@rickymoody3239]

@@brucescott4261 Neither we’re legendary by 1972. Get a fucking grip.

[@Grania52]

Back then, I'd never seen a performance by an actor that affected me as much as Diana's. Not only her acting, but her rendition of Billie Holiday's songbook. She didn't try to sound like Billie... who could? But she interpreted those songs so beautifully. I bought the LP a day or so later and listened to it over and over. I sang them in the shower ('cause I can't sing anywhere else) and I stole every lick from her. She had stiff competition (I hadn't even seen Sounder yet) but I felt disconsolate when she didn't win. It still bothers me to this day.

[@francorossville7359]

nice reflections

[@maxrolon2815]

Diana Ross Deserves an Honorary Academy Award!!! She Should Have Won Even Liza Minelli Admitted in a interview She Thought Dianas performance was Better than Hers!!! Diana was Overlooked Due to Racism in 1972 Diana is a Winner!!!

[@ivorypayne4672]

BET💯

[@brucescott4261]

@maxrolon2815 ...An "Honorary Academy Award?" GET REAL!!! Tyson was a better actress, and it's documented, PERIOD!!!

[@tirrahevans6980]

Tyson was a whistle blower complained about certain roles and stopped a lot of black actors money

[@metrogoldwyn]

Diana' s no movie star so why should she get an Honorary Academy Award? Her last film was nearly 50 yrs ago. "The Wiz" was a critical and commercial bomb that put a well deserved end to her film career!

[@maxrolon2815]

She is a Movie Star she was Nominated Twice for an Academy Award!

[@clbernier2]

Fantastic footage!

[@francorossville7359]

thanks

[@FunnyAtv-oz8wu]

DIANA ROSS IS JUST LIKE my mom 😊😢

[@christopherramon-reid2000]

Mine too

[@lisabaxter7786]

Nomination is excellent

[@loveyu2778]

Diana, clearly shóuld have won.🏆

[@cathfarren3968]

Miss Ross should ov wone it she is amazing x

[@brucescott4261]

@cathfarren3968 ...Cecily Tyson was a better actress. Diane Ross didn't have a chance, PERIOD!!! It's been over fifty years ago. GET OVER IT!!! If Tyson wasn't going to win, what makes you think that Diane was going to win?

[@cynthiagordon2088]

Yes, she was absolutely beautiful in her tribute to Queen B. Her attributes weren't needed from them. Also recordings done by the voice given to her, was astounding. Lady Sings the Blues is a jewel all alone. I proudly accept it to be a treasure that belongs ONLY to us. Diana needed not to be mentioned, for the legacy of this film, the characters and the music. We were able to see her real face, real hair and her real body having a wardrobe made to fit. YESSSSS. An Oscar is not needed to define. Shoot, I'm a candidate for the Oscar on a daily basis.

[@themirrorsofmymind]

8:21 There she is with Michael Jackson... Wow!

[@ivorypayne4672]

I SO SO ADMIRE LOVE AND RESPECT MISS TYSON SHE IS THE IPITAME OF CLASS ELEGANCE AND A TRUE SUPERSTAR I ESPECIALLY WAS IMPRESSED WITH WHAT SHE SAID ABOUT WHY SHOULD SHE HAVE A PROBLEM OR CONSIDER DIANA A RIVAL OR DISLIKE HER ECT IS A LESSON TO BE LEARNED FOR EVERYONE THAT IS A HATER, CRITICAL, JUDGMENTAL SANCTIMONIOUS ASSANINE HIPOCRIT

[@lisabaxter7786]

Excellent women talented

[@enricovankeeken1624]

❤‍🔥in a way Her beautiful / sad RAGE reminds me of Jessica Lange in Frances

[@amiehampton7070]

Today it wouldve be Billie Holiday's Birthday and Diana Ross is now 80 already. Its time Motion Picture Academy will honor her with Oscar Honorary Award soon.

[@metrogoldwyn]

Why? She's no film star. Her last film "The Wiz" was in 1978 and it was disaster that put a well-deserved end to her movie career

[@johnlewis195]

I was still in my momma's belly...arrived 4 months later

[@DawnMartinOfficial]

Diana Ross' performance was unmatched in Lady Sings the Blues❗ Ms. Ross was CHEATED OUT OF HER OSCAR BECAUSE OF HER RACE, very unfair‼😠

[@metrogoldwyn]

actually , she was christened as Diane.

[@stevenrobinson4207]

Watch Audra McDonald do Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill if you want to see the real Billie come to life.....I was mesmerized by her performance. Audra had all of her mannerisms down to a science. Voice, pathos, movements ...the works. Ross should have got it for Mahogany because she played the hell out of Tracey Chambers. Tracey Chambers was a fictional character that Ross fit very well. By then the industry was over Barry Gordy because he was gaining too much power.

[@iriswood3744]

I know why we all know why Miss Ross didnt Win Judy Garland never Won One so they gave it to her Daughter Liza for Caberet, Motown and Suzanne De Passe knows why Racism thats what it is...but Suzanne/Motown wont say that "Word"

[@francorossville7359]

I agree with you

[@iriswood3744]

@francorossville7359 Thank you I have the DVD and The CD Lady Sings The Blues

[@enricovankeeken1624]

*it´s also nice to be a COMPLETELY Free no❔one*

[@shoe909]

I didn’t realize Desi Arnaz Jr. could be such a jerk… leaving Diana Ross off the nomination list, mispronouncing her name, then asking if she was truly eligible for the award. And what was the look Liza Minnelli gave when DR’s name was announced at the Oscars? She was dating Desi at the time. I think DR put up with a lot of crap being such a successful African American artist and has yet to get the full credit she deserves.

[@travelagent1279]

“Deana” not Diana

[@ivorypayne4672]

LOL HOW LUCY'S SON SEEMED LIKE AN IDIOT EVEN A CHILD COULD PRONOUNCE DIANA AT AT THAT TIME SHE HAD BEEN AROUND ABOUT 20 YEARS

[@enricovankeeken1624]

*i F´d up alot `here´, but i nÉver meant to..~ / i met you once (tn 1981) in NY.City, and you were só kind to me..X*

[@rickymoody3239]

Desi throwing shade but Ross is a bigger legend than he could ever dream to be.

[@grahamsimpson-ve5rr]

Miss Ross was robbed period. Her performance in lady is just incredible

[@ah7910]

I understand that we all love Diana Ross… I understand too that we all feel actresses like Diana were overlooked… but conveniently sweeping aside the very same statistics and glowing reviews and accolades bestowed on Bob Fosse’s technically ground-breaking film Cabaret and Ms Minnelli’s incredibly nuanced portrayal of Sally Bowles, not to mention the iconic songbook presented in the work of Kander &. Ebb, perpetuates an idea that Diana Ross was robbed somehow - that she lost to something inferior. Her performance in Lady Sings The Blues is one that surprised us all, and Ms Holiday never got her fair dues either - none of which are fair - but the point I am trying to make is that Diana Ross lost to another very strong contender that year and so for me, there is no great conspiracy there. If she had lost to some vanilla garbage, I would ‘cry foul’ but unfortunately for Diana, there was something else very special that year that was also up for the award. Liza who had already lost out for The Sterile Cuckoo had continued to mature in front of the camera and worked hard and was also due the credit she deserved for her talents.

[@storybookz3070]

Liza Minnelli was great in "Cabaret" --I loved her -- BUT Liza basically played herself, she played Liza. DIANA on the other hand had an extremely difficult role because no one believed she could play a Jazz singer to begin with & NOBODY believed she could tackle those drug scenes with the ferocious power that she did. Unlike Liza....Diana is on screen virtually every single scene & her co-stars aren't really given big enough parts the way that Michael York & others helped shoulder Cabaret. Liza didn't have all the layers & "ages" that DIANA was required to play. LIZA herself stated before the Oscars that she believed Diana would win it and that Diana deserved it. I believe the death of Judy Garland just 5 years prior gave LIZA a lot of sympathy support (and guilt by the Academy that they failed to award Garland back when they should have for "A Star Is Born"). Let's not forget that Minnelli told Dick Cavett that Sally Boles was a lot like herself and that it wasn't too hard for her to understand Sally. Liza's performance just WAS NOT as shocking or transformative as Ross's (and of course, having Cicely Tyson up for the Oscar that year --she was barely in SOUNDER & wasn't the star of it, Cicely played a supporting role in SOUNDER -- came off as a political ploy to siphon votes from Ross). It worked. DIANA WAS ROBBED ....SHE REALLY WAS. Her performance is absolutely astonishing and astounding, especially for a newcomer in their first role.

[@williameaston8057]

STORY BOOKZ reply is spot on!!! I agree 💯%!

[@dddddadadad1796]

@@storybookz3070 EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for telling the TRUTH

[@johnfulton4061]

I thought Liza was superb and Cabaret was a better film but I thought Diana gave an amazing performance and deserved it Hollywood felt guilty that they never gave her mother an Oscar also race played a role back then and now look at how Danielle Deadwiller and Viola Davis were both snubbed at the nominations this year when they were both nominated for most of the awards including the BAFTA awards Danielle was probably the most glaring omission WELCOME TO HOLLYWOOD!!!

[@johnfulton4061]

I'm not playing the race card or talking about an affirmative action move but something is wrong when a brilliant performance like the one Danielle gave isn't even nominated and she played the game like everyone else that tries to get nominated publicity private sceenings

[@MizzNee796]

because Berry Gordy and her weren't "in" the hollyweird isht!

[@abigailweir7287]

Overall, It showed white America in an extremely bad light; that's one reason it never won Best Picture and the beautiful and multi talented Diana, Best Actress at those Oscars.

[@TremelYoung]

Diana Ross has unbelievable haters.

[@tomlangdon9157]

Diana Ross gives a really good performance in a mediocre movie that has little to do with Billie Holiday. Liza gives a great performance in a great film.

[@KevinMccormick-r8n]

Yes. You hit the nail right on the head. "Cabaret" is an enduring classic that holds up five decades later and "LSTB" does not! Diana was good but Liza was better. Period. Get over it, it was a50 yrs. ago

[@christopherramon-reid2000]

Desi Arnaz Jr. was being a jerk.

[@jeffreypattie7150]

Skin color too..liza with a z

[@brucescott4261]

Attention Diane Ross fanboys and fangirls: Diane Ernestine Earle Ross wasn't anywhere near Cecily Tyson, PERIOD!!! The latter didn't win, either! Most of you weren't even around when Lady Sings the Blues was released in 1972. I saw the movie. Berry Gordy ruined Diane's career as an actress, PERIOD!!! Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, Anita O'Day, Peggy Lee, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Roy Eldridge, Gerry Mulligan, Gloria Lynne, Nat "King" Cole, Billy Eckstine, Frank Sinatra, Art Tatum, Mal Waldron, Harry Edison, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Frankie Newton, and countless others knew and/or performed with Lady Day. I have twenty LPs by the late, great Billie Holiday (Eleonora Fagan). Audra McDonald also portrayed the great Lady Day as well. Diane Ross wasn't Billie Holiday in that so-called bio-pic. Rumor or fact was floating around about Berry Gordy trying to pull a slick move on the Oscars' committee. I knew Diane wasn't going to win, and it had nothing to do with hatred, PERIOD!!!

[@aintnothingliketheoldskool]

I would be careful on what you say to diana ross Stan's they can get really violent and cruel and evil. They can tear you into pieces.

[@brucescott4261]

​@@aintnothingliketheoldskool ...Turn it off!!!

[@abigailweir7287]

​@@aintnothingliketheoldskoolLOL. Biggest load of nonsense I've read.

[@aldodanilo]

She lost because her performance wasn’t good enough. That’s why.

[@francorossville7359]

......"She lost because her performance wasn’t good enough " ??? She lost because in the committee of the Academy awards there were Judy Garland and Vincent Minnelli ( Liza Minnelli's mother and father ) and their Hollywood' friends ! Infact, far away from the Academy awards , Diana Ross won t he " Cesar " award ( the French film Oscar) and a " Golden Globe"( the jury of the Golden Globe Awards is made up of critics of the foreign press accredited in Hollywood ). And , when to Liza Minnelli was asked who would win the Oscar, she replied: " two words,: Diana Ross" . And, again ,Liza Minnelli, after many years, in an interview was sincere and said : " Diana Ross' performance was better than mine ".

[@metrogoldwyn]

that 's right. and "The Wiz" , a snooze from 1978 is a testament to that!