Oscar Flashback Archive

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The Oscar 100: The 100 Greatest Oscar-Nominated Performances

#100-96: Kathleen Turner, Shelley Winters, Rosie Perez, Lesley Ann Warren and Kathy Bates
#95-91: Gary Busey, James Stewart, John Hurt, Glenn Close and Maureen Stapleton
#90-86: Morgan Freeman, Sally Kirkland, Jill Clayburgh, George Sanders and William Holden
#85-81: Robert De Niro, Michael O'Keefe, Judith Anderson, Michael Caine and Jason Miller
#80-76: Dustin Hoffman, Bette Davis, Meryl Streep, Fredric March and Elizabeth Taylor
#75-71: Agnes Moorehead, Piper Laurie, Sissy Spacek, Barbara Stanwyck and Jean Hagen
#70-66: Jane Alexander, Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn, Martin Landau and Natalie Portman
#65-61: Angela Lansbury, Shirley MacLaine, Vivien Leigh, Jane Darwell and Faye Dunaway
#60-56: Brenda Blethyn, Olivia de Havilland, Dorothy Malone, Geraldine Page and Thelma Ritter
#55-51: Kim Stanley, Teri Garr, Susan Tyrrell, Patricia Neal and Meryl Streep
#50-46: Ingrid Bergman, James Coburn, Nick Nolte, Joan Allen and Anthony Hopkins
#45-41: Robert Duvall, William Holden, Marlon Brando, Barbra Streisand and Whoopi Goldberg
#40-36: Ellen Burstyn, Katharine Hepburn, Julianne Moore, Ian McKellen and Roy Scheider
#35-31: Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Joanne Woodward, Joan Crawford and Angela Bassett
#30-26: Al Pacino, Edith Evans, Judy Garland, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
#25-21: Peter Sellers, Orson Welles, Montgomery Clift, Katharine Hepburn and Robert Forster
#20-16: Jodie Foster, Martin Landau, Jessica Lange, Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft
#15-11: Charlie Chaplin, Timothy Hutton, Mary Tyler Moore, Ida Kaminska and Gregory Peck
#10-6: Jack Nicholson, Gloria Swanson, Shirley Booth, Anthony Hopkins and Rod Steiger
#5-1: Henry Fonda, Juanita Moore, Montgomery Clift, Celia Johnson and Gena Rowlands

Nicholson at the Oscars

2002: About Schmidt
1997: As Good As It Gets
1992: A Few Good Men
1987: Ironweed
1985: Prizzi's Honor
1983: Terms of Endearment
1981: Reds
1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1974: Chinatown
1973: The Last Detail
1970: Five Easy Pieces
1969: Easy Rider

20 Years of Streep

2016: Florence Foster Jenkins
2014: Into the Woods
2013: August: Osage County
2011: The Iron Lady
2009: Julie & Julia
2008: Doubt
2006: The Devil Wears Prada
2002: Adaptation
1999: Music of the Heart
1998: One True Thing
1995: The Bridges of Madison County
1990: Postcards from the Edge
1988: A Cry in the Dark
1987: Ironweed
1985: Out of Africa
1983: Silkwood
1982: Sophie's Choice
1981: The French Lieutenant's Woman
1979: Kramer vs. Kramer
1978: The Deer Hunter

HORROR at the Oscars!

Chapter I (1928-1959)
Chapter II (1960-1979)
Chapter III (1980-1998)
Chapter IV (1999-present)

82 Years of Best Original Song

2015: Someday, Diane Warren, You'll Get This
2014: Everything Is Awesome at the Oscars!
2013: Sorry Bono, Idina's Got This
2012: Adele Heals 007's Oscar Wounds
2011: Longing for the Rainbow Connection
2010: Ahem, Where Is Cher?
2009: Where the Wild Things Weren't
2008: Slumdog Hits the Oscar Jackpot
2007: Falling for "Falling Slowly"
2006: Dreamgirls No Match for Melissa
2005: Give Dolly an Oscar Already!!
2004: Counting Crows? Why, Academy, Why?!?!
2003: A Mighty Wind Blows the Oscars
2002: The Academy Loses Itself
2001: Randy Newman Catches a Break
2000: Attack of the Swan!
1999: Phil Collins' Oscar-Winning Sleeping Pill
1998: Whitney and Mariah Belt to Victory
1997: Titanic Steamrolls the Oscars
1996: Space Jam on the Sidelines
1995: The Long, Long Randy Newman Losing Streak
1994: The Lion King Rules the Oscars
1993: Songs from the City of Brotherly Love
1992: Whitney Wakes Up the Oscars
1991: Beauty and the Beast (and Bryan Adams)
1990: Sondheim Goes Home with Oscar
1989: A Love Letter to Howard Ashman
1988: Carly Simon's Grand Oscar Moment
1987: The Year We Had the Times of Our Lives
1986: The Year That Took Our Breath Away
1985: The First Time Madonna Was Robbed
1984: Stevie Ain't Afraid of No Ghostbusters (Or Kevin Bacon)
1983: The Great Barbra Streisand-Jennifer Beals Duel
1982: I Love You, Dorothy Michaels
1981: "Endless Love, from the Endless Movie Endless Love"
1980: Don't Mess with Dolly
1979: That Time Norma Rae Squashed Kermit
1978: Disco Dominates the Oscars
1977: No Bee Gees, No Liza, No Dice
1976: When Barbra Beat Rocky and Satan
1975: Divas Live '75! Barbra, Diana, Olivia and...Keith?
1974: Another Maureen McGovern Disaster
1973: Misty Watercolor Oscar Memories
1972: Not Even Gene Hackman Can Save This
1971: The Willy Wonka Robbery
1970: Julie Andrews Stops the Show
1969: Here Comes Liza!
1968: Hitler Was Robbed!
1967: Burt Bacharach vs. Baloo the Bear - The Ultimate Showdown
1966: Dionne Warwick Did It Better
1965: Nat King Cole's Swan Song
1964: When the Oscars Snubbed Bond and the Beatles
1963: It's a Meh, Meh, Meh, Meh Category
1962: Walking on the Wild Side
1961: Sorry, Holly Golightly...
1960: Wait, Where Are Blair and Tootie?
1959: The One Where I Finally Pick a Sinatra Song
1958: Gigi? Seriously, Academy?
1957: The Unsinkable Debbie Reynolds
1956: Doris Day ne déçoit jamais
1955: Long Before Patrick and Demi...
1954: The Biggest Robbery Since Brink's
1953: Jerry Lewis Ruins Everything
1952: The Snubbin' of Singin' in the Rain
1951: Ah, To Be Young, Rich and Pretty
1950: The Ultimate Battle - Nat King Cole vs. Cinderella's Fairy Godmother
1949: Warming Up with Esther Williams
1948: Doris Day's Delightful Debut
1947: The Oscar Win Disney Won't Speak Of
1946: A Jolly Train Ride with Judy
1945: Vera-Ellen Steals the Show
1944: That Time Bing Hijacked Judy's Trolley
1943: God Bless Ethel Waters
1942: My Apologies to Bing and Judy...
1941: All Hail Those Andrews Sisters
1940: Pinocchio, Bing, Fred, Mickey and Judy, Oh My!
1939: That Glorious, Untouchable Rainbow
1938: Oscar Memories
1937: Searching for Snow White
1936: When the Tunes Were Like Heaven
1935: Before Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga...
1934: Bing vs. Fred & Ginger x2