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Ginger and Ray
No I don't think you missed anything as far as the NON inclusion of Susan in the various montages and flashbacks.
Ray has listed some of the featured players and there were indeed quite a large number included overall, but she was not among them, I'm sure.
It seemed a strange method of selecting just who would be shown, as most of the acting award flashback montages appeared to commence in the 50's and then rapidly move up to the most recent winners in 2007 via some 'representatives' from the decades in between ?
I noticed that Alec Guinness who won for 'Bridge On the River Kwai' in 1957 was shown, and David Lean as Director for that year, as was Joanne Woodward for 'The Three Faces of Eve' also from '57 - then jumping to 1959, Chuck was shown in a clip from 'Ben Hur' (that of course won Best Pcture that year), but nothing from 1958, which featured winners like Burl Ives, Wendy Hiller, David Niven etc in the various top categories and significantly, Susan.
Ginger, I take your point about Whoopi Goldberg. Perhaps omissions in the acting categories are inevitable owing to the vast number of people involved, but due to her place in Oscar history ( re the firsts that you mentioned) as far as hosting goes, she certainly warranted a nod I agree.
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I think the ceremony was hurriedly put together due to the writer's strike, thus a lot of disorganized flashbacks, but leaving Whoopi (am I spelling her name wrong???)out was unforgivable. I'm thinking that maybe she might have really gotten under someone's skin among the higher ups, but I'm just speculating. Even so, she should have been recognized.
I think this was the first year in my life I had not seen any of the nominated films. I had only seen clips of La Vien Rose, but when I saw them I really had my "money" on the actress who won ( can't think of her name) She had the most gracious acceptance speech I think, except for the best supporting actor (can't think of his name either..ha).. but I like the way he thanked his mother in Spanish and truly honored her at the Oscars.
I don't really care too much for Jon Stewart but I appreciated him calling the young woman back to express her thoughts about winning. She and her partner had won for the best song and also had performed the song. She was very gracious and I like the way she encouraged independent musicians.
