Oscar Nominee of All Time: Round 1, Group A

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ANNA MAGNANI (1908-1973)

NOMINATIONS:

Lead- 1957 for Wild is the Wind

WINS:

Lead- 1955 for The Rose Tattoo

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JACK NICHOLSON (1937-)

NOMINATIONS:

Supporting- 1969 for Easy Rider, 1981 for Reds, 1992 for A Few Good Men

Lead- 1970 for Five Easy Pieces, 1973 for The Last Detail, 1974 for Chinatown, 1985 for Prizzi's Honor, 1987 for Ironweed, 2002 for About Schmidt

WINS:

Lead- 1975 for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1997 for As Good As It Gets

Supporting- 1983 for Terms of Endearment

Marilyn Monroe and Marlon Brando promoting the premiere of “The Rose Tattoo”, in New York, November 1955.

Marilyn Monroe at the premiere of The Rose Tattoo, 1955.

Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe photographed by Milton H. Greene promoting the Actors Studio Benefit which screened the film The Rose Tattoo, November 1955.

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Anna Magnani (Rome Open City, Mamma Roma, The Rose Tattoo)—don't take my word for it, here are some of the things she was called during her career: "la lupa (the wolf) of Italian cinema," "passionate, fearless, and exciting," "the volcanic earth mother of all Italian cinema," "one of the most impressive actresses since Garbo," "Whenever Magnani laughs or cries (which is often), it's as if you've never seen anyone laugh or cry before: has laughter ever been so burstingly joyful or tears so shatteringly sad?" and maybe best of all, from Tennessee Williams, who wrote multiple roles specifically for her: "She is simply a rare being who seems to have about her a little lightning-shot cloud all her own...In a crowded room, she can sit perfectly motionless and silent and still you feel the atmospheric tension of her presence, its quiver and hum in the air like a live wire exposed, and a mood of Anna's is like the presence of royalty."

Nutan (Bandini, Anari, Seema)— In an era where plump and petite women were considered the height of beauty, Nutan was thin and gangly. While her beauty is obvious today, she was considered somewhat unusual throughout her acting career, which contains over 70 films. Contrary to the belief that female actresses careers ended after marriage, Nutan won four of her five Filmfare Awards after her marriage and the birth of her son. Nutan was known for her gorgeous, emotive brown eyes and her incredible singing voice.

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Anna Magnani:

An icon of post-war neorealist italian cinema - an unbelievably good actress. Also, the first non-english speaking actress to win the Oscar for Best Actress (in 1956)!

realness!! amid the typical hollywood pristine glamour anna magnani stuck out as sexy in a really real, grounded way. so much so that even shallow 40s hollywood allowed her to come over from italy to be in some high profile movies. an icon

She smoked, she drank, she didn't give a f-. Her acting was described as explosive, with a lot of emotions and drama and they called her a she-wolf. Playwright Tennessee Williams became an admirer of her acting and wrote The Rose Tattoo (1955) specifically for her to star in, a role for which she received an Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first Italian – and first non-English speaking woman – to win an Oscar.

Nutan:

Marilyn Monroe, The Rose Tattoo premiere at the Astor Theatre in Times Square, New York, 12th December 1955

Marilyn Monroe and Marlon Brando at the premiere of The Rose Tattoo, 1955.

R.I.P. Marisa Pavan, seen here in a promotional photo for THE ROSE TATTOO taken by Milton Greene in 1955. Pavan was the twin of Pier Angeli who died in 1971.

Oscar Nominee of All Time Tournament: Round 1, Group A

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MARISA PAVAN (1932-2023)

NOMINATIONS

Supporting- 1955 for The Rose Tattoo

ELIZABETH BERGNER (1897-1986)

NOMINATIONS

Lead- 1935 for Escape Me Never

MARISA PAVAN (1932-Died December 6th 2023,at 91).Italian actress who first became known as the twin sister of film star Pier Angeli (Anna Maria Pierangeli) before achieving success in her screen career. She received an Academy Award nomination and won a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the 1955 film The Rose Tattoo. Marisa Pavan - Wikipedia

Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield in 1955 at the premiere of "The Rose Tattoo".

Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe at the premiere of The Rose Tattoo, 1955.

Marilyn Monroe en el estreno de "The Rose Tattoo". En el Astor Theatre de Nueva York en 1955

Anna Magnani in Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1962)

Cast: Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini, Luisa Loiano, Paolo Volponi, Luciano Gonini, Vittorio La Paglia, Piero Morgia. Screenplay: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Cinematography: Toninio Delli Colli. Art direction: Flavio Mogherini. Film editing: Nino Baraghli.

Putting a force of nature like Anna Magnani in among the unknowns and non-professionals of the rest of the cast almost upends Pier Paolo Pasolini's Mamma Roma, and it reportedly caused some friction between actress and director during the filming. If Pasolini really wanted the naturalistic Magnani of Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini, 1948) it was much too late: By then, she had won an Oscar for The Rose Tattoo (Daniel Mann, 1955) and had become the flamboyant, histrionic Magnani who shows up on-screen in Mamma Roma. That said, Pasolini certainly gave her every opportunity to present herself that way, starting with the opening scene in which she herds pigs into the wedding dinner of her former pimp, Carmine (Franco Citti), and culminating in one of the greatest scenes (or rather, pair of scenes) of her career: the long-take tracking shots in which she walks down a Roman street at night, delivering a monologue on her life, as people appear out of the darkness and recede back into it, serving as interlocutors. It's stunning the first time Pasolini (aided by his cinematographer, Tonino Delli Colli) does it, and even more remarkable when he reprises it after a crisis in her life. I think Mamma Roma is some kind of great film, notwithstanding Pasolini's tendency to be somewhat heavy-handed in his symbolism: witness the staging of the wedding dinner as a parallel to Leonardo's The Last Supper and of Ettore (Ettore Garofalo) strapped to a restraining bed to echo Mantegna's painting of the dead Christ.

Top: Ettore Garofalo in Mamma Roma. Below: Andrea Mantegna, Lamentation Over the Dead Christ, c. 1475-78