As per IMDB, Miss Moore deliberately was aloof offcamera to Mr. Hutton while they filmed this so he could more naturally react to her character having been a cold,rejecting parent to him. It's great seeing that them having bonded after the movie!
MTM said she never saw herself playing this role, but Redford did. He saw something in her that would shatter the girl-next-door image of Mary from her television show
This movie was so hard to watch so many years after watching the first time. Every moment was gut wrenching. Timothy Hutton broke my heart in every scene.
The film is stomach-churning as you watch: you KNOW something is wrong but you are dragged emotionally through the entire thing until the ah-ha moment when it becomes clear. VERY well directed, acted, paced....
@@DoofsterDan my father used to talk about this movie often. But I have never the chance to watch it. Right now, I could watch the last ten minutes and it's so involving and about real life. I miss my family and it unkward how our entire family changed. My parents divorced, my mother tried suicide several times and somehow it was just she and I. It was so hard to keep myself at the same place that her, she had never drunk a glass of wine before and suddenly we were at hospital every week. My father got another family. I still remember during the winter we used to drive until a place to see the temperature, my brothers and I were just children and we tried to guess the right temperature. Poverty was all around but we all had hope. Now my father has a new family, and my mother a boyfriend. My brothers left, and I still want to watch this entire movie. They marked my heart forever, and I love them all. Cheers from an ordinary guy from Brazil
Eduardo Oliveira your comment just made me cry. Maybe because I love this movie, too. Or maybe because I personally understand how divorce can tragically affect a family and sometimes even destroy lives ..... especially children’s. I’m so very sorry for all you’ve been through. This is a superb movie. I was 20 yrs old when it first came out and it’s stayed with me all of these years. Hard to believe it’s been 40 years now, wow. I hope you get the chance to see this movie. It’s gut-wrenching but so very good ... just like life sometimes ..
I agree, hard to watch especially if you have dealt with mental illness, I think the hardest was when he needed help the most, his mother was struggling to deal with his illness and practically ignored him.
I can’t believe my mother let me watch that movie when I was 11 years old. I still remember it at 52 and not many movies stand out to me like that one did.
Robert Kirby True. How far writers have strayed from greatness these days. Today we have the nephew in Manchester by the Sea. That's what we are all supposed to think is great writing and acting now.
@@dangrifdhsbxjs8424 Completely disagree personally... But I respect your opinion. Acting wise, Hutton's nuanced and absolutely complex portrayal is on a whole another level.
At age 20, he was the youngest male actor ever to win an Oscar. He still holds that record today, 30 years later. What a moving performance he gave in "Ordinary People". He thoroughly deserved his award.
I remember going to see Ordinary People in 1980 when I was in college. Afterwards, I was so depressed I just rode around on a city bus for like 3 hours, staring out the window. Such a great film. Timothy Hutton deserved the honor.
You and I must be about the same age. I am 62 and vividly remember watching Ordinary People at the campus cinema of my university. I could really relate to the emotions of the son and father although luckily my family had not suffered a tragedy like the one in the movie.
I depressed me that not every son in the world would’ve received to love and support my way by my real parents and not every son if given the same situation. Watching the film when I was 18 in 1980 made me realize how lucky I was not to have the parents or at least Beth Jarrett as my mother. I started out in life with two of then best human being on the planet, my mom and dad who loved me without a doubt and I loved them. Their support was my backbone while I was forming my own backbone. Watching Conrad go through the struggles he had in the film made me very emotional, it brought so much gratitude for the people my parents were./ are.
Timothy Hutton was superb in this film and obviously deserved the Academy Award for his performance. I was moved when Timothy paid tribute to his late father, Jim, who I thought was terrific as Lieutenant Graham in Sam Peckinah’s film, “Major Dundee” and as Ellery Queen in the unfortunately short-lived NBC detective series.
I've always thought the supporting Actor/Actress are about awarding the best actual performance, politics or 'dues paying' be damned. The lead acting awards seem to be the opposite. They're more 'lifetime achievement' awards.
Timothy Hutton finally gets that kiss and affection from Mary Tyler Moore ;). This is a very well deserved win! Hutton was brilliant as the guilt ridden Conrad Jarrett.
Academy judges are retards in general...but that year they must have been smoking some potent leaf if they seriously thought that Hutton was the supporting Actor and MTM was the lead...
The Studio make the decisions about what categories they attempt to get people nominated in. I think they felt that he would stand a better chance of winning if it was in that category. They were right I think because he would have been up against DeNiro in Raging Bull. He wouldn't have stood a chance.
...and poor Jason Robards almost gets forgotten and to boot, never gets his picture up on the screen ....but Timothy Hutton was the right choice, by far.
Every few years I re-watch Ordinary People, and every time there's flashbacks and pain, as I marvel at how much the Mary Tyler Moore character resembles my late mother. The icy control, the demands, the emotional remoteness and inability to feel the pain of her children or get beyond her own needs, as she pursued only those things that would enhance her public image. But this year was different. I saw past that powerless, lonely child that I once was to understand how limited, crippled, and lonely my mother must have been. She only knew what she knew and I forgive her. Looks like I'm finally becoming a grown-up. Such a great film.
I felt crippling dislike for my father in the same way however I also realized he grew up during the second world war on the wrong side of it, his father was shot and all his family were terribly mistreated... growing up with parents that fail to get past their childhood trauma is a tough disconnect
This was Mary's first television appearance since the death of her son, and the irony of the moment was inescapable. When the winner turned out to be Timothy Hutton, her cinema son, and he bounded on stage to receive an Oscar and a hug from Mary, half the audience held their breath and choked back tears.
Thank you very much for letting us know. While I did know about Mary's real-life son's passing, I hadn't realized it was so close to this telecast. What a poignant moment!
MTM's son died of an accidental gunshot wound a month after ORDINARY PEOPLE opened in theaters. This was in the fall, so the Oscars were right around the corner.
@@musicaltheatergeek79 tatum o'neal I think still holds the record for youngest oscar winner ever at age 9. Such talent wasted do to drugs bc her mom was an addict the beautiful joanna Moore & her viscious narcissist of a father ryan. Neither patent took her to the Oscar's & when she win the oscar ryan decked her. True story. He made a bet with her that barry Lyndon would out gross bad news bears bc they opened the same time. Tatum won & daddy dearest decked her again. Funny he had 4 kids the only child that didnt become an addict was patrick o'neal bc he was kept away by his mom leigh taylor young. That cant be a coincidence esp when u read Tatum's book or how griffin speaks of him. Redmond I'm sad that farrah didnt shield him from his brutal father. Shes another of Ryan's victims. She was doing much better when she was farrah Fawcett majors.
@@natalieps2387 Shirley Temple is the youngest person ever awarded an acting Oscar, a special juvenile award at the age of 6; Tatum O'Neal is the youngest to win in standard competition at the age of 10.
@@damianop100 oh , so I guess since they got rid of that category tatum is recognized as the youngest ever. Timothy still holds the record for youngest male ever. If we go by categories I think richard dreyfuss by days over adrriane brody is the youngest man to win the lead actor. Not sure which female is the youngest in lead actress as the academy notoriously awards young ingenue best actress over an older woman while it's the opposite in the men's Category where they snub the most deserving if they are young for the pay back oscar or the sentimental oscar. See art carney beating al pacino for the godfather. It's too absurd. Pacino should have been the lead category so he did not bother to show up as he had way more screen time than brando & then not even to win supporting is so ridiculous. Biggest robbery in history. He carried both original films & both are considered the best ever so how is that possible that the films are the best when the man who makes both films work wins nothing. He got it for scent of a woman but that is not even in his top 5 performances.
Ordinary People is Redford's masterpiece which I have watched more than any film because it is much like my own childhood. Timothy Hutton was perfect for the part and deserved the award, as did Robert Redford.
Film critics wanted Martin Scorsese and his film "Raging Bull" to win the top prizes that year. The only top prize the film got was Robert De Niro for best actor, it remains his only Oscar to this day
Whatever happened to Timothy Hutton after his Oscar win for Ordinary People. He seems to have disappeared completely from Hollywood forever. I have not seen or heard from him in any film or TV show since this film was released. It's hard to believe Ordinary People came out 42 years ago and Timothy Hutton is now in his 60's.
Ordinary People was and still is a timeless film with some of the best all around acting you will ever see. Hutton obviously giving homage to his late father Jim who was an excellent and well liked actor who tragically died at 45 due to liver cancer. This ceremony was about 1 1/2 years after Jim died.
@@ME-mq2ub It's definitely worth seeking out! One of my fave parts was that right before Ellery Queen would reveal whodunnit, he'd review with the viewers what each suspect had said and done so the viewers could see if they might have reached the same or a different conclusion! Yeah, it's tragic that the elder Mr. Hutton would die so young.
I agree, he was truly a lead...his performance was incredible. I wish the award could have gone to Judd Hirsch too. Tim Hutton’s role was so intense and moving . Fantastic starring cast.
Yes, I know the whole cast was strong and integral. But, I don't really understand why he wasn't considered a lead actor in it, instead of a supporting one. I saw him as the main character.
Hutton did give an unforgettable performance WAY beyond his years-and the incomparable Mary Tyler Moore cast WAY against type as the cold, unloving mother-still holds up as a terrific film
Well said. I agree. On a less serious note, I've always thought Hutton in this film and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones a year later went a long way in influencing men's hair lengths. In the 70's it was rare to see a man under 50 even showing his ears. Those two guys made very popular movies with hair much shorter than the current style, but that would soon change.
One of Oscar's biggest mysteries.. How Timothy Hutton was in Best Supporting category.. He was CLEARLY the main actor in that film.. I heard it had something to do with not having to go up against Deniro and a better shot to win
Rampage Clover I hadn't thought about that. Mary gave a truly great performance, but Sissy Spacek was epic. Mary probably would have won in the supporting category. Oh well.
They did the same thing to Marcia Gay Harden when she won Best Supporting Actress for Pollock. There was no way anyone other than Julia Roberts was going to win Best Actress that year. I like Julia Roberts, but thought Ellen Burstyn and Joan Allen gave better performances..
Tatum O'Neal received best supporting actress at the Academy awards in 1973, for Paper Moon. She clearly had the lead role in the film ~ Tatum O'Neal was nominated along with Madeline Kahn for supporting actress in Paper Moon ~ If they had put Tatum in best actress category, who knows if Madeline would have won for her killer performance in Paper Moon. The monologue Kahn delivered on the hill, .... you're gonna ruin it, ain't ya.' ~ perhaps one of her best screen moments, e v e r.....
OMG After all these years never knew this was Jim Hutton's son who looks just like him. Did not know Jim Hutton died at 45 years old four weeks after being diagnosed with cancer. Loved his work.
His acting in Ordinary People was beyond amazing. I'm surprised he hasn't had more success as an actor. It seems like his career never reached the peak it should have after such an unbelievable performance. But at least we all had the joy and impact of his talent in this movie. Thank you, Tim!
stitchesful Even though he started-out in such an incredibly amazing fashion with Ordinary People - and an Oscar, to boot - and his next film, Taps, did well with both critics and audiences, Timothy Hutton's career then basically took a nose-dive with flops like Iceman, Daniel, Turk 182, Made in Heaven, and Q&A (although I loved that particular film). By 1990, Timothy Hutton had been declared box-office poison, and has never since had a starring role in any substantial movie, although he did experience somewhat of a comeback in the highly successful series "Leverage" from 2008 - 2012 on TNT.
stitchesful every once in awhile a role and actor come together perfectly. Tim Hutton as conrad Jarrett, Garland as Dorothy. Spaces as Loretta Lynn. His performance in my opinion is one of the very best in the history of films. Never a false move in a very demanding role that asked him to display every emotion at the right pitch. Perfection. Those that have seen it will never forget it.
“Ordinary People” is one of my very favorite movies. Timothy Hutton gave one of the most heartbreakingly believable performances I have ever seen on film. Everyone in that movie was brilliant.
I just finished watching Ordinary People for the first time & the acting was amazing but he should've won the Oscar for LEAD actor! There's no way it could only be classed as a "supporting" role!
TIMOTHY HUTTON really was the lead actor in ORDINARY PEOPLE, however, the competition in the Best Actor category of 1980 was so overwhelming with actors such as ROBERT DeNIRO (who actually won), JOHN HURT, PETER O'TOOLE, JACK LEMMON and PETER SELLERS that the powers that be deemed that young Tim had a MUCH better shot at winning (which he deserved MORE than ALL the other actors combined) only IF he was nominated in the Supporting Category. The Oscars are ALL the same height and weight so the only diff is the category engraved on it. Any way you shake it out, TIMOTHY HUTTON deserved to win for his amazing performance in ORDINARY PEOPLE.
Judd Hirsch said to Timothy when he got there "Remember it's enough just to win" and he almost fell down when he shook Robert Redford's hand. I loved Judd Hirsch as the psychiatrist.
I also loved Ordinary People but I can't believe it beat Raging Bull for best picture I also could not believe that Mary Tyler did not do that many if any feature films after Ordinary People
It's a great credit to actors who are not only convincing, but defines characters and so close to real, even 42 years later, it has the same emotional impact.
This movie was incredible on every level. The acting made it feel so real. The entire cast nailed their parts. Timothy Hutton's performance was absolutely believable. This film was so heart wrenching. ❤
He was amazing in the role..............I want to ad that much to my surprise at the time, Mary Tyler gave amazing, surprisingly astoundingly performance...........
Yes, she should have won... her performance was towering. Brilliant. Sutherland's performance was beautifully realized as well. 3 brilliant performances from its 3 key roles.
IF you watched the Mary Tyler Moore show regularly, as I did, you shouldn't have been surprised at all. Even though the show was a comedy, she made her character real and genuine and warm, and also touching in the more emotional episodes. It didn't surprise me how good and subtle she was in a more dramatic role. She was absolutely superb.
I saw this movie for the first time this weekend with my Dad and I have to say this might be the most depressing movie I’ve ever seen. Movies NEVER make me cry and I was on the verge of tears the entire movie. And crying by the end.
I saw this movie in 1980 when I as a 14 year old was in a hospital kinda like Conrad. The feelings the character felt from his mother were the same I felt for my mother. I don’t remember much from those days but I remember the feelings I had watching it. I cried but didn’t understand why I felt so awful until years later. I’m now 56 and although I don’t think about those days much seeing the movie again seemed to bring it all back. It’s the sign of a great movie is how deeply it speaks to you and this movie still speaks to me after all these years.
This is a little surreal. As I read this I recognized the voice in the comment was my own voice. The ages and timeline lined up perfectly, and the experiences were identical. I even complimented myself on having written such an honest first-person connection to the movie. ……then I looked at the top of the comment and realized I hadn’t written it at all. Someone else my age encountered the movie the same time I did, connected it to the exact same awful truths I endured growing up, and during the exact same timeframe I had. Holy shit…
Ordinary People was really an ensemble movie. It's hard to imagine the same movie without Mary Tyler Moore, Donald Sutherland, Judd Hirsch. Hutton's performance really is extraordinary. You suffer along with him, cry with him, hope with him. He won deservedly. Michael O'Keefe was brilliant in The Great Santini too.
For everything Mr Hutton went through with losing his father months before & what he went through during filming Ordinary People you can see how much of himself he put into the character. It was brilliantly directed by Redford in his first time at the helm. Absolutely a timeless piece of art that stands up to this day.
One of my favorite male acting performances of all time. Timothy Hutton was simply transcendent in ORDINARY PEOPLE, and to have been such a novice at the time made it all the more stunning. He should have went on to be a great star, but I think he was more interested in being a "Serious Actor."
I learned an enormous lesson from this film, it was hirsch charactor, he had to draw it out of hutton, conrad finally seems to relax and says" boy you do one WRONG thing". And the shrink ask " and what was tge one wrong thing you did"? Conrad answered " i hung on". But it never would have dawned on me to ask that, and it being the key to conrads peace, im frigging crying thinking about it, a very powerful film!
This was one of those Hollywood anomalies: the intelligent, adorable, intuitive Timothy Hutton was, after this, poised to be a great star...and yet, typically, fate would have that no scripts appeared which really could have carried him, developed him, given him Hollywood longevity...fame married to esteem is still somehow a twist of fate.
Thank you very much for uploading....!!!! Ordinary People is the one of the best films to me....! I didn't know the presenter was Mary Tyler Moore whose performance was also splendid!! And I remember that it was Redford's debut as a director...!
What happened to Timothy Hutton's film career after Ordinary People. He seems to have totally disappeared from Hollywood and I haven't heard a word in the more than 40 years since Ordinary People and he is now in his 60's.
He gave one of the most moving and touching performances that I've ever seen. The film itself seems so honest and raw in a way that isn't often seen at all anymore, I don't think. It's also so cathartic. I'm glad I found and watched it. Wow, 19 yrs old and his first film. He totally deserved this award.
He was awesome at portraying Conrad in Ordinary People; an extraordinary movie and one of my favorites. Very emotional, heartfelt, and beautiful. I think that it's fucking horrible that they do not make films like this anymore. To me Timothy wasn't only a supporting actor in this film--HE WAS TRULY THE LEAD ACTOR!!!!!! and should've won the best actor Oscar in my book. Not only is he a wonderful actor and young man but he is FUCKING HOT TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You must be kidding me. Or you just probably havent even seen Raging Bull, if you have, then you obviosly dont know a shit about acting, also, A. Hepburn sucks btw.
One of the BEST performances EVER by an actor on film in a dramatic role. Really would have preferred MTM winning Best Actress as well in a performance that was completely against type for her, but I guess you can't win them all.
Truman Capote I can’t help feel that the academy wasn’t going to give the award for really was Mary’s first big movie part . She made others but they were not academy material. She was a TV person and at that time liked to separate TV actors and film actors.
@@jako3214 She wasn't hard or cold at all. Read any interview with her co-stars on her series about how unusually generous she was with her fellow actors and letting them have episodes where they got to shine. She never played the "I'm the star and you're not" card, even though she could have.
I just love Jack Lemmon - one of my all time faves. So sweet the way he kissed Hutton. Love the shot of Jack with Mary's puffy shoulder. Almost a two shot!
What an outstanding actor. I just saw in Mr & Mrs Loving and he was amazing (again!). Also love being able to see him on Leverage. I never get tired of his work.
Timothy Hutton looks so much like his late dad, Jim, in this clip. I never watched the movie because I knew it would break my heart. He was fabulous as Archie Goodwin in the Nero Wolfe TV series on A&E, when it was still about Art and Entertainment.. They cancelled it because it was too expensive to make!
I particularly like the way Timothy Hutton shook Robert Redford's hand, rather thank hugging and falling all over him inn floods of tears as would happen these days. Nice to see things done properly.
“ordinary people” broke my heart as was so profoundly moving I remember the emotions decades later. I’m the type of person that wants to hold anyone in pain and remove it. Amazing cast and crew. Thanks for uploading
absolutely wonderful film, so real and relatable. I for one am glad he was in Supporting, because if he had been in Lead Actor, he would've been up against DeNiro in Raging Bull and probably would've lost. I think Ordinary People is one of those films where all the principles (Timothy, Donald, Mary) could've been nominated for Lead or Supporting because the film really was about their dynamic as a family following such a great tragedy
Robert Redford follows a long line of "actor's" directors such as Cukor, Kazan, Lumet, and Pollack. He has an ability to solicit great performances from his actors. Timothy Hutton's performance (his Oscar was well deserved) is only one example of it.
Okay. I'll have to check it out. But just so you know: you'll never hear an actor badmouth a director. Because they view all directors as future employers. They're always on the lookout for their next job/gig and they're hopeful said director will cast them in their next movie or the one after that...
Lynn Turman Well just about everyone--actors, directors, writers, wives, kids--everyone bad mouthed Richard Brooks--he was a very talented man who made and wrote some good films, gave Poitier some nice breaks (Brooks didn't like bigotry) but wow was he mean.
racourdav interesting. I like Richard Brooks, myself. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF is one of my favorites of all time. And speaking of great performances, I think it's one of Newman's best. I've never heard that Brooks was mean. Where did you hear that?
I read the book in high school and was able to watch the movie on TV. Timothy Hutton deserved the award in my opinion. Judd Hersch did an amazing job as the therapist.
Timothy looks so young. I liked him in Beautiful Girls and The Last Mimzy, mutually distributed by Alliance Atlantis. He teamed up with Michael Clarke Duncan in Mimzy and David Arquette in Beautiful Girls. Those two were in See Spot Run.
For some reason watching Timothy Hutton receiven the kiss he never had in Ordinary People from Mary Tyler Moore comforts me.
My sentiments exactly.👍
That's how great they all were as actors.
As per IMDB, Miss Moore deliberately was aloof offcamera to Mr. Hutton while they filmed this so he could more naturally react to her character having been a cold,rejecting parent to him. It's great seeing that them having bonded after the movie!
MTM said she never saw herself playing this role, but Redford did.
He saw something in her that would shatter the girl-next-door image of Mary from her television show
I love your heart
This movie was so hard to watch so many years after watching the first time. Every moment was gut wrenching. Timothy Hutton broke my heart in every scene.
The film is stomach-churning as you watch: you KNOW something is wrong but you are dragged emotionally through the entire thing until the ah-ha moment when it becomes clear. VERY well directed, acted, paced....
@@DoofsterDan my father used to talk about this movie often. But I have never the chance to watch it. Right now, I could watch the last ten minutes and it's so involving and about real life. I miss my family and it unkward how our entire family changed. My parents divorced, my mother tried suicide several times and somehow it was just she and I. It was so hard to keep myself at the same place that her, she had never drunk a glass of wine before and suddenly we were at hospital every week. My father got another family. I still remember during the winter we used to drive until a place to see the temperature, my brothers and I were just children and we tried to guess the right temperature. Poverty was all around but we all had hope.
Now my father has a new family, and my mother a boyfriend. My brothers left, and I still want to watch this entire movie.
They marked my heart forever, and I love them all.
Cheers from an ordinary guy from Brazil
Eduardo Oliveira your comment just made me cry. Maybe because I love this movie, too. Or maybe because I personally understand how divorce can tragically affect a family and sometimes even destroy lives ..... especially children’s. I’m so very sorry for all you’ve been through. This is a superb movie. I was 20 yrs old when it first came out and it’s stayed with me all of these years. Hard to believe it’s been 40 years now, wow. I hope you get the chance to see this movie. It’s gut-wrenching but so very good ... just like life sometimes ..
I agree, hard to watch especially if you have dealt with mental illness, I think the hardest was when he needed help the most, his mother was struggling to deal with his illness and practically ignored him.
I can’t believe my mother let me watch that movie when I was 11 years old. I still remember it at 52 and not many movies stand out to me like that one did.
One of the best Oscar wins ever. There has never been a better film portrait of a teenage boy than Timothy Hutton in Ordinary People.
Robert Kirby True. How far writers have strayed from greatness these days. Today we have the nephew in Manchester by the Sea. That's what we are all supposed to think is great writing and acting now.
Both Lucas Hedges and Timothy Chalamet are killing it lately in that category
Timothée Chalamet in Call Me By Your Name was better IMO
@@dangrifdhsbxjs8424 Completely disagree personally... But I respect your opinion. Acting wise, Hutton's nuanced and absolutely complex portrayal is on a whole another level.
Well said!
At age 20, he was the youngest male actor ever to win an Oscar. He still holds that record today, 30 years later. What a moving performance he gave in "Ordinary People". He thoroughly deserved his award.
Straordinario ❤
Timothy Hutton was AWESOME.
I thought he was 19 when he won the award.
True.But he was lead in OP, not a supporting player. The Oscars often place young people in supporting regardless.
It's now been 40 years...and he still holds the record!
I remember going to see Ordinary People in 1980 when I was in college. Afterwards, I was so depressed I just rode around on a city bus for like 3 hours, staring out the window. Such a great film. Timothy Hutton deserved the honor.
You and I must be about the same age. I am 62 and vividly remember watching Ordinary People at the campus cinema of my university. I could really relate to the emotions of the son and father although luckily my family had not suffered a tragedy like the one in the movie.
I am a bit younger but saw it in high school and was so impacted. One of my favorite moves of all time.
I depressed me that not every son in the world would’ve received to love and support my way by my real parents and not every son if given the same situation. Watching the film when I was 18 in 1980 made me realize how lucky I was not to have the parents or at least Beth Jarrett as my mother. I started out in life with two of then best human being on the planet, my mom and dad who loved me without a doubt and I loved them. Their support was my backbone while I was forming my own backbone. Watching Conrad go through the struggles he had in the film made me very emotional, it brought so much gratitude for the people my parents were./ are.
One of the most deserved Oscars ever!
No way, he was the LEAD ACTOR in that movie, not a suppporting one
Him or Hirsch both deserved it from this film
@Ryan Akwar No way Timothy Hutton's was much better in Ordinary People..
@@Wendlinger they probably wanted him to win and he would have gone up against De Niro. Timothy deserved this HANDS DOWN!!!!!!❤❤❤❤
Timothy Hutton was superb in this film and obviously deserved the Academy Award for his performance.
I was moved when Timothy paid tribute to his late father, Jim, who I thought was terrific as Lieutenant Graham in Sam Peckinah’s film, “Major Dundee” and as Ellery Queen in the unfortunately short-lived NBC detective series.
It must have been a thrill for Timothy to have been presented his oscar by his "movie mother." Great performance, unforgettable film.
She was nicer to him here than she ever was in the movie!
And I’m sure his dad, Jim, was watching proudly! ❤️💕
The first Oscars ceremony that caught my eye and witnessed. Thanks to Tim Hutton's youthful and classy gallantry and how handsome he is.
So much like his late father, Jim, such class acts!!!!!❤
Timothy deserved that Oscar, he was incredible
I've always thought the supporting Actor/Actress are about awarding the best actual performance, politics or 'dues paying' be damned. The lead acting awards seem to be the opposite. They're more 'lifetime achievement' awards.
Timothy Hutton finally gets that kiss and affection from Mary Tyler Moore ;). This is a very well deserved win! Hutton was brilliant as the guilt ridden Conrad Jarrett.
He should have won the Best Actor for his performance in Ordinary People. jmho
Yes that was obviously a leading role.
Academy judges are retards in general...but that year they must have been smoking some potent leaf if they seriously thought that Hutton was the supporting Actor and MTM was the lead...
The Studio make the decisions about what categories they attempt to get people nominated in. I think they felt that he would stand a better chance of winning if it was in that category. They were right I think because he would have been up against DeNiro in Raging Bull. He wouldn't have stood a chance.
cyberlucy don't be so sure. either about the studios pushing the category (back then) or RD winning best actor
Michael O'keefe, a great actor, so great that he looked exactly like Martin Scorsese.
Yea, the best example of method acting, that Ive seen in a long time. He actually became the part, literally...
That's just called lazy camerawork, or camera operator
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Poor Michael. Bet he still gets hit with jokes about it.
...and poor Jason Robards almost gets forgotten and to boot, never gets his picture up on the screen
....but Timothy Hutton was the right choice, by far.
Every few years I re-watch Ordinary People, and every time there's flashbacks and pain, as I marvel at how much the Mary Tyler Moore character resembles my late mother. The icy control, the demands, the emotional remoteness and inability to feel the pain of her children or get beyond her own needs, as she pursued only those things that would enhance her public image. But this year was different. I saw past that powerless, lonely child that I once was to understand how limited, crippled, and lonely my mother must have been. She only knew what she knew and I forgive her. Looks like I'm finally becoming a grown-up. Such a great film.
I felt crippling dislike for my father in the same way however I also realized he grew up during the second world war on the wrong side of it, his father was shot and all his family were terribly mistreated... growing up with parents that fail to get past their childhood trauma is a tough disconnect
This was Mary's first television appearance since the death of her son, and the irony of the moment was inescapable. When the winner turned out to be Timothy Hutton, her cinema son, and he bounded on stage to receive an Oscar and a hug from Mary, half the audience held their breath and choked back tears.
Thank you very much for letting us know. While I did know about Mary's real-life son's passing, I hadn't realized it was so close to this telecast. What a poignant moment!
MTM's son died of an accidental gunshot wound a month after ORDINARY PEOPLE opened in theaters. This was in the fall, so the Oscars were right around the corner.
Aww I didn't know that 😢
She lost her sister to suicide around the time of her sons death.
yes
Timothy Hutton was so damn cute...
Twaddles McGee he looks exactly like his dad Jim Hutton - actor in the 1960's.
Twaddles McGee hello.. I wanna see this movie but I can't find it. have you seen this?
Timothy Hutton is still very, very handsome!
@@WilliamsElaine ABSOLUTELY, a mirror image! Both are adorable!!!!😘
@@annaexx6708 it is free on roku tv channels if you have one.
Definitely a grand shout-out to Judith Guest for writing a masterpiece.
Timothy is actually the youngest man ever to win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. He was 20 years old here.
He's pretty much the youngest actor to win the Oscar, since Adrien Brody (the youngest Best Actor winner) was 29 when he won.
@@musicaltheatergeek79 tatum o'neal I think still holds the record for youngest oscar winner ever at age 9. Such talent wasted do to drugs bc her mom was an addict the beautiful joanna Moore & her viscious narcissist of a father ryan. Neither patent took her to the Oscar's & when she win the oscar ryan decked her. True story. He made a bet with her that barry Lyndon would out gross bad news bears bc they opened the same time. Tatum won & daddy dearest decked her again. Funny he had 4 kids the only child that didnt become an addict was patrick o'neal bc he was kept away by his mom leigh taylor young. That cant be a coincidence esp when u read Tatum's book or how griffin speaks of him. Redmond I'm sad that farrah didnt shield him from his brutal father. Shes another of Ryan's victims. She was doing much better when she was farrah Fawcett majors.
@@natalieps2387 Shirley Temple is the youngest person ever awarded an acting Oscar, a special juvenile award at the age of 6; Tatum O'Neal is the youngest to win in standard competition at the age of 10.
I was his exact age when I saw this movie when it first came out. I’d forgotten about that. Loved this movie so much ..
@@damianop100 oh , so I guess since they got rid of that category tatum is recognized as the youngest ever. Timothy still holds the record for youngest male ever. If we go by categories I think richard dreyfuss by days over adrriane brody is the youngest man to win the lead actor. Not sure which female is the youngest in lead actress as the academy notoriously awards young ingenue best actress over an older woman while it's the opposite in the men's Category where they snub the most deserving if they are young for the pay back oscar or the sentimental oscar. See art carney beating al pacino for the godfather. It's too absurd. Pacino should have been the lead category so he did not bother to show up as he had way more screen time than brando & then not even to win supporting is so ridiculous. Biggest robbery in history. He carried both original films & both are considered the best ever so how is that possible that the films are the best when the man who makes both films work wins nothing. He got it for scent of a woman but that is not even in his top 5 performances.
Back when these awards made sense. He was absolutely perfect as Conrad. Bravo Timothy!
He deserved the oscar for this performance, and I really appreciated the long applause for Redford. One of the best movie ever.
Ordinary People is Redford's masterpiece which I have watched more than any film because it is much like my own childhood. Timothy Hutton was perfect for the part and deserved the award, as did Robert Redford.
Film critics wanted Martin Scorsese and his film "Raging Bull" to win the top prizes that year.
The only top prize the film got was Robert De Niro for best actor, it remains his only Oscar to this day
Rest in Heaven Mary Tyler Moore and Jack Lemmon😭😭😭
in heaven
And Jim Hutton
And Donald Sutherland…. RIP
I was touched by his performance in Ordinary People. He totally deserved it.
Whatever happened to Timothy Hutton after his Oscar win for Ordinary People. He seems to have disappeared completely from Hollywood forever. I have not seen or heard from him in any film or TV show since this film was released. It's hard to believe Ordinary People came out 42 years ago and Timothy Hutton is now in his 60's.
He does a good amount tv and he like a character actor in lot movies
@@michaelverbakel7632 I'm just now watching and re-watching him and his brilliant performance in the Nero Wolfe episodes. A class act.
@@michaelverbakel7632 He was the lead in a TV show called Leverage a number of years back. He’s been around, specifically in television.
Finest performance of Timothy's career and his father was a fine actor also. rip
He never topped that!
@@humboldt777 , I concur-stunning performance
Ordinary People was and still is a timeless film with some of the best all around acting you will ever see.
Hutton obviously giving homage to his late father Jim who was an excellent and well liked actor who tragically died at 45 due to liver cancer. This ceremony was about 1 1/2 years after Jim died.
First time I saw it was in 2008. It hasn't left my mind since then.
His Dad never had a career like his son....he was great in the movie and tv I saw him in tho..
Jim Hutton had a memorably brilliant TV run in the mid 70s whodunnit series, Ellery Queen
@@ME-mq2ub It's definitely worth seeking out! One of my fave parts was that right before Ellery Queen would reveal whodunnit, he'd review with the viewers what each suspect had said and done so the viewers could see if they might have reached the same or a different conclusion! Yeah, it's tragic that the elder Mr. Hutton would die so young.
I agree, he was truly a lead...his performance was incredible. I wish the award could have gone to Judd Hirsch too. Tim Hutton’s role was so intense and moving . Fantastic starring cast.
Yes, I know the whole cast was strong and integral. But, I don't really understand why he wasn't considered a lead actor in it, instead of a supporting one. I saw him as the main character.
Hutton did give an unforgettable performance WAY beyond his years-and the incomparable Mary Tyler Moore cast WAY against type as the cold, unloving mother-still holds up as a terrific film
This movie was so well done and broke my heart. Timothy was innocently brilliant and portrayed deep pain.
Well said. I agree. On a less serious note, I've always thought Hutton in this film and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones a year later went a long way in influencing men's hair lengths. In the 70's it was rare to see a man under 50 even showing his ears. Those two guys made very popular movies with hair much shorter than the current style, but that would soon change.
One of Oscar's biggest mysteries.. How Timothy Hutton was in Best Supporting category.. He was CLEARLY the main actor in that film.. I heard it had something to do with not having to go up against Deniro and a better shot to win
Best Actor nomination would have been better for him and MTM winning for Best Supporting Actress. Fucking dumbass judges giving her a lead nomination
Rampage Clover I hadn't thought about that. Mary gave a truly great performance, but Sissy Spacek was epic. Mary probably would have won in the supporting category. Oh well.
They did the same thing to Marcia Gay Harden when she won Best Supporting Actress for Pollock. There was no way anyone other than Julia Roberts was going to win Best Actress that year. I like Julia Roberts, but thought Ellen Burstyn and Joan Allen gave better performances..
Tatum O'Neal received best supporting actress at the Academy awards in 1973, for Paper Moon. She clearly had the lead role in the film ~
Tatum O'Neal was nominated along with Madeline Kahn for supporting actress in Paper Moon ~
If they had put Tatum in best actress category, who knows if Madeline would have won for her killer performance in Paper Moon. The monologue Kahn delivered on the hill, .... you're gonna ruin it, ain't ya.' ~ perhaps one of her best screen moments, e v e r.....
He was on almost every scene for God’s sake,an amazing performance from Hutton,I think he would of taken best actor too even though de Niro was great.
His father, Jim Hutton, would have been so proud that night!!
He is so awesome in Ordinary People..he is one of the best actors of his generation love him :)
Mary was so wonderful in that movie and you can see how happy she is for Timothy Hutton on the win.
Such a rare, gracious speech from a dear young man who looked just like his father from a time long, long ago and far, far away.
Loved Jim Hutton in Ellery Queen. He was not appreciated enough as an actor
OMG After all these years never knew this was Jim Hutton's son who looks just like him. Did not know Jim Hutton died at 45 years old four weeks after being diagnosed with cancer. Loved his work.
Michael O'Keefe looks like a young Scorsese.
+M Lorne Yes, very careless camerawork to show Scorcese there. O'Keefe is seen at 0:54
Haha from 2017
He looks like Alfie Allen.
Poor O'Keefe,the cam did focus other actor
Richard Beymer
RIP Mary Tyler Moore
His acting in Ordinary People was beyond amazing. I'm surprised he hasn't had more success as an actor. It seems like his career never reached the peak it should have after such an unbelievable performance. But at least we all had the joy and impact of his talent in this movie. Thank you, Tim!
stitchesful Even though he started-out in such an incredibly amazing fashion with Ordinary People - and an Oscar, to boot - and his next film, Taps, did well with both critics and audiences, Timothy Hutton's career then basically took a nose-dive with flops like Iceman, Daniel, Turk 182, Made in Heaven, and Q&A (although I loved that particular film). By 1990, Timothy Hutton had been declared box-office poison, and has never since had a starring role in any substantial movie, although he did experience somewhat of a comeback in the highly successful series "Leverage" from 2008 - 2012 on TNT.
stitchesful every once in awhile a role and actor come together perfectly. Tim Hutton as conrad Jarrett, Garland as Dorothy. Spaces as Loretta Lynn. His performance in my opinion is one of the very best in the history of films. Never a false move in a very demanding role that asked him to display every emotion at the right pitch. Perfection. Those that have seen it will never forget it.
Hutton recently starred in the ABC series American Crime and was nominated for an Emmy for Season 1 and should have won.
He's now on How to get away with murder!!!
@@bobthebear1246 Does he work behind the scenes??
It crushes my heart to see Judd Hirsch anticipate.
Fact is, he is Brilliant.
This was one of the first movies to portray a psychologist in a positive role. The other thing is that most of the main cast was playing out of type.
“Ordinary People” is one of my very favorite movies. Timothy Hutton gave one of the most heartbreakingly believable performances I have ever seen on film. Everyone in that movie was brilliant.
the film is so damn good. It kills me when people say Pesci should've won, or Raging Bull. They just have no inner feeling whatsoever.
I just finished watching Ordinary People for the first time & the acting was amazing but he should've won the Oscar for LEAD actor! There's no way it could only be classed as a "supporting" role!
TIMOTHY HUTTON really was the lead actor in ORDINARY PEOPLE, however, the competition in the Best Actor category of 1980 was so overwhelming with actors such as ROBERT DeNIRO (who actually won), JOHN HURT, PETER O'TOOLE, JACK LEMMON and PETER SELLERS that the powers that be deemed that young Tim had a MUCH better shot at winning (which he deserved MORE than ALL the other actors combined) only IF he was nominated in the Supporting Category. The Oscars are ALL the same height and weight so the only diff is the category engraved on it. Any way you shake it out, TIMOTHY HUTTON deserved to win for his amazing performance in ORDINARY PEOPLE.
I thought Donald Sutherland who played his father did an excellent job especially in that last scene just between him and his son. Excellent!
Judd Hirsch said to Timothy when he got there "Remember it's enough just to win" and he almost fell down when he shook Robert Redford's hand. I loved Judd Hirsch as the psychiatrist.
God, 5 great memorable performances. Can't say that about the oscars these days
One of my favorite films ever till this day ! Extraordinary acting ..
I also loved Ordinary People but I can't believe it beat Raging Bull for best picture I also could not believe that Mary Tyler did not do that many if any feature films after Ordinary People
Nice to see MTM giving Hutton an actual hug after that painful cold shoulder she gave him in that Ordinary People scene!
It's a great credit to actors who are not only convincing, but defines characters and so close to real, even 42 years later, it has the same emotional impact.
This movie was incredible on every level. The acting made it feel so real. The entire cast nailed their parts. Timothy Hutton's performance was absolutely believable. This film was so heart wrenching. ❤
It was also one of the few films I have ever seen where every scene had great and interesting dialogue, no matter what characters are in it.
He was amazing in the role..............I want to ad that much to my surprise at the time,
Mary Tyler gave amazing, surprisingly astoundingly performance...........
+mamatibbors cassady Mary Tyler Moore should have won best actress. Every time I watch "Ordinary People," I am in awe of it and her performance.
Yes, she should have won... her performance was towering. Brilliant. Sutherland's performance was beautifully realized as well. 3 brilliant performances from its 3 key roles.
MTM was outstanding.
IF you watched the Mary Tyler Moore show regularly, as I did, you shouldn't have been surprised at all. Even though the show was a comedy, she made her character real and genuine and warm, and also touching in the more emotional episodes. It didn't surprise me how good and subtle she was in a more dramatic role. She was absolutely superb.
I saw this movie for the first time this weekend with my Dad and I have to say this might be the most depressing movie I’ve ever seen. Movies NEVER make me cry and I was on the verge of tears the entire movie. And crying by the end.
My Mom came home and cried telling me a little about it and then took me to see it later that evening..You never forget it it's a Masterpiece ...
Jim Hutton RIP.
i can't help but watching the moment when his name was announced.. so happy and love that pure and genuine laugh!
This is from one of my classic movies, that i watch every number of years, always makes me happy and sad.
I had a big crush on Timothy hutton back then he was so cute and such a great actor.
I saw this movie in 1980 when I as a 14 year old was in a hospital kinda like Conrad. The feelings the character felt from his mother were the same I felt for my mother. I don’t remember much from those days but I remember the feelings I had watching it. I cried but didn’t understand why I felt so awful until years later. I’m now 56 and although I don’t think about those days much seeing the movie again seemed to bring it all back. It’s the sign of a great movie is how deeply it speaks to you and this movie still speaks to me after all these years.
My god, same 🫂😔
This is a little surreal. As I read this I recognized the voice in the comment was my own voice. The ages and timeline lined up perfectly, and the experiences were identical. I even complimented myself on having written such an honest first-person connection to the movie. ……then I looked at the top of the comment and realized I hadn’t written it at all. Someone else my age encountered the movie the same time I did, connected it to the exact same awful truths I endured growing up, and during the exact same timeframe I had. Holy shit…
Ordinary People was really an ensemble movie. It's hard to imagine the same movie without Mary Tyler Moore, Donald Sutherland, Judd Hirsch. Hutton's performance really is extraordinary. You suffer along with him, cry with him, hope with him. He won deservedly. Michael O'Keefe was brilliant in The Great Santini too.
For everything Mr Hutton went through with losing his father months before & what he went through during filming Ordinary People you can see how much of himself he put into the character. It was brilliantly directed by Redford in his first time at the helm. Absolutely a timeless piece of art that stands up to this day.
One of my favorite male acting performances of all time. Timothy Hutton was
simply transcendent in ORDINARY PEOPLE, and to have been such a novice
at the time made it all the more stunning. He should have went on to be a great
star, but I think he was more interested in being a "Serious Actor."
Donald Sutherlabd was great too.
Imo, Donald also gave an Oscar worthy performance
Yes. He was great. The entire cast was magnificent.
Donald Sutherland is always great. But he really deserved an award for this one.
Timothy Hutton was brilliant in Ordinary People. Brilliant film too. Love it
He broke my heart in that movie. A very well deserved Oscar
I learned an enormous lesson from this film, it was hirsch charactor, he had to draw it out of hutton, conrad finally seems to relax and says" boy you do one WRONG thing". And the shrink ask " and what was tge one wrong thing you did"? Conrad answered " i hung on". But it never would have dawned on me to ask that, and it being the key to conrads peace, im frigging crying thinking about it, a very powerful film!
This was one of those Hollywood anomalies: the intelligent, adorable, intuitive Timothy Hutton was, after this, poised to be a great star...and yet, typically, fate would have that no scripts appeared which really could have carried him, developed him, given him Hollywood longevity...fame married to esteem is still somehow a twist of fate.
I think he did satisfactorily. I do believe he picked what he wanted and even directed some mobies at s very ypung age. You gotta hand that to him
He's had a long career in thrillers, tv...it's not like he vanished like Haley-Joe Osment or something.
Thank you very much for uploading....!!!! Ordinary People is the one of the best films to me....! I didn't know the presenter was Mary Tyler Moore whose performance was also splendid!! And I remember that it was Redford's debut as a director...!
His performance in Ordinary People was outstanding. He deserves it without a doubt.
What happened to Timothy Hutton's film career after Ordinary People. He seems to have totally disappeared from Hollywood and I haven't heard a word in the more than 40 years since Ordinary People and he is now in his 60's.
He gave one of the most moving and touching performances that I've ever seen. The film itself seems so honest and raw in a way that isn't often seen at all anymore, I don't think. It's also so cathartic. I'm glad I found and watched it. Wow, 19 yrs old and his first film. He totally deserved this award.
Canon in D is the movie theme in Ordinary People and the rest is history.
outstanding acting, he really had that suffocating feeling when you loose a loved one. His face, his voice he really was Conrad J.
One of the few films that brought me to tears multiple times
Why Tim didn’t do more movies being such a good actor. He deserved an Oscar in “Taps” as well.
He rocks that part
A James Dean of the 1980's
and his speech is humble and straightforward
He was awesome at portraying Conrad in Ordinary People; an extraordinary movie and one of my favorites. Very emotional, heartfelt, and beautiful. I think that it's fucking horrible that they do not make films like this anymore. To me Timothy wasn't only a supporting actor in this film--HE WAS TRULY THE LEAD ACTOR!!!!!! and should've won the best actor Oscar in my book. Not only is he a wonderful actor and young man but he is FUCKING HOT TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You must be kidding me. Or you just probably havent even seen Raging Bull, if you have, then you obviosly dont know a shit about acting, also, A. Hepburn sucks btw.
One of the best Oscar-winning performances in this category
If MTM was in the Supporting category she would have won this... and DESERVED.
Agreed
One of the BEST performances EVER by an actor on film in a dramatic role. Really would have preferred MTM winning Best Actress as well in a performance that was completely against type for her, but I guess you can't win them all.
Sorry when I look at MTM I do NOT see Mary Richards at all lol. I see a very hard, cold looking woman. :/
Definitely if it wasn't for Sissy Spacek's wonderful portrayal as Loretta Lynn I think Mary would've won, they were all powerhouse performances in OP
Truman Capote I can’t help feel that the academy wasn’t going to give the award for really was Mary’s first big movie part . She made others but they were not academy material. She was a TV person and at that time liked to separate TV actors and film actors.
Sissy Spacek ABSOLUTELY deserved her Oscar.
@@jako3214 She wasn't hard or cold at all. Read any interview with her co-stars on her series about how unusually generous she was with her fellow actors and letting them have episodes where they got to shine. She never played the "I'm the star and you're not" card, even though she could have.
I just watched Ordinary People. It was excellent.
Such a wonderful movie and he was great in it! Well-deserved!
yes marvolous actor that is still underappreciated
I just love Jack Lemmon - one of my all time faves. So sweet the way he kissed Hutton. Love the shot of Jack with Mary's puffy shoulder. Almost a two shot!
Hutton gives one of the most brilliant, deep, human and powerful performances in all times!
Extraordinary!!!!!!
Timothy Hutton should have gotten the Best Actor Oscar. He was the main character.
Donald Sutherland should have been nominated at least...
@@stevefowler5970 Donald Sutherland never getting nominated for an Oscar was a real crime by the Academy.
What an outstanding actor. I just saw in Mr & Mrs Loving and he was amazing (again!). Also love being able to see him on Leverage. I never get tired of his work.
Timothy was in virtually every scene of the movie, he should of won best leading actor that year.
So lovely that he thanked his father
Timothy Hutton looks so much like his late dad, Jim, in this clip. I never watched the movie because I knew it would break my heart. He was fabulous as Archie Goodwin in the Nero Wolfe TV series on A&E, when it was still about Art and Entertainment.. They cancelled it because it was too expensive to make!
I particularly like the way Timothy Hutton shook Robert Redford's hand, rather thank hugging and falling all over him inn floods of tears as would happen these days. Nice to see things done properly.
“ordinary people” broke my heart as was so profoundly moving I remember the emotions decades later. I’m the type of person that wants to hold anyone in pain and remove it. Amazing cast and crew. Thanks for uploading
Jim would have her so proud of his son!😭
Sorry, his son.
God bless you, Timothy Hutton! I love you! xoxo God bless your dad, Jim Hutton, too!
absolutely wonderful film, so real and relatable. I for one am glad he was in Supporting, because if he had been in Lead Actor, he would've been up against DeNiro in Raging Bull and probably would've lost. I think Ordinary People is one of those films where all the principles (Timothy, Donald, Mary) could've been nominated for Lead or Supporting because the film really was about their dynamic as a family following such a great tragedy
I wish all actors who accept awards are as gracious and as brief as Hutton was.
Timothy Hutton he was EXCELLENT in this movie and i do mean EXCELLENT ☆☆☆☆☆🎬📽
Oh my god, he looks so much like his father here.
Robert Redford follows a long line of "actor's" directors such as Cukor, Kazan, Lumet, and Pollack. He has an ability to solicit great performances from his actors. Timothy Hutton's performance (his Oscar was well deserved) is only one example of it.
Rob Reiner too -- if you get a copy of A Few Good Men on DVD, listen to what the actors have to say about working with him :-)
Okay. I'll have to check it out. But just so you know: you'll never hear an actor badmouth a director. Because they view all directors as future employers. They're always on the lookout for their next job/gig and they're hopeful said director will cast them in their next movie or the one after that...
Lynn Turman Well just about everyone--actors, directors, writers, wives, kids--everyone bad mouthed Richard Brooks--he was a very talented man who made and wrote some good films, gave Poitier some nice breaks (Brooks didn't like bigotry) but wow was he mean.
racourdav interesting. I like Richard Brooks, myself. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF is one of my favorites of all time. And speaking of great performances, I think it's one of Newman's best. I've never heard that Brooks was mean. Where did you hear that?
Lynn Turman Woody Allen?
A tender and moving performance that of Timothy Hutton. One not to forget.
Timothy Hutton should be in Leading Actor category his role is cleary a leading roel
IT is politics and they prpbably did not want to offend the older Judd Hirsch.
Just came across this. I'm absolutely stunned....they let the guy make his entire acceptance speech without playing him off. amazing..
who knew timothy hutton was this young once... :)) and dashing, positively dashing!
Very sweet tribute by Tim to his father, actor Jim Hutton, who died suddenly around the time Tim was filming Ordinary People, at just 45 years old.
This was a remarkable film, he deserved this win.
I read the book in high school and was able to watch the movie on TV. Timothy Hutton deserved the award in my opinion. Judd Hersch did an amazing job as the therapist.
Timothy looks so young. I liked him in Beautiful Girls and The Last Mimzy, mutually distributed by Alliance Atlantis. He teamed up with Michael Clarke Duncan in Mimzy and David Arquette in Beautiful Girls. Those two were in See Spot Run.
Timothy Hutton deserved that award! Brilliant performance. Wish Jim Hutton had been alive when he won. ❤
This is so ironically sad. Happy that Hutton got his first award but it must've been tough for Mary. :'(
Especially with the Loss of her son around this time.