I recently read that the real controversy was that many Academy members thought it was unfair to put Tatum in the Supporting Actress category, since she is in 100 of the 103 minutes of the film. By rights, she should have competed in the Lead Actress category....if she had, who knows?? Linda Blair might have won for The Exorcist.
"pacegry01" is Tatum O'Neal still the youngest person to ever have won the award? Has any younger person won it since? I hear Justin Henry almost won it for "Kramer VS Kramer" and also an 11 year old won a few years back for "Into The Woods" ( I am not so sure about the movie's title). Is there information as to who is the youngest male actor to win? I think that Jackie Cooper or Jackie Coogan might have won it decades back , or at least was nominated.
No se si entiendas mi mensaje. Pero para ganar el oscar lo que mas se ve es los dialogos como los interpretan los actores y ñinda blair mas se movia en su cama casi noo tenia monologos que la hicieran acreedora de un premio asi
I still don’t think Linda would have got up....I just think Silvia Sidney would have also been a nice choice, although I have never seen it but I’d love to
I just watched this movie. She was in just about every second of it. It was a leading role and she should have been nominated as Best Actress, regardless of her age. It was unfair to the other nominees. Her performance in the movie was so good that I think she may have made the cut for Best Actress, although she probably wouldn't have won it.
I think the real reason why they didn’t put her in the best actress category was they figured she had a much better chance of winning the best supporting actress award.
Leading and Supporting categories have always been questionable with the Oscars. While excellent and deserving of an Oscar, Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs was more of a supporting role...he had less than 20 minutes of screen time, but won for best actor.
She has the record for winning this particular Oscar as the youngest competitive recipient and the longest screen time of anyone that’s won it. Amazing child actress. Linda Blair probably just lost by a fraction
@@brian7333 I agree. Linda should have gotten the Oscar. I understand that William Friedkin was unpopular in Hollywood and his enemies campaigned against him. As a result, anyone associated with the movie suffered. There was, also, the issue that Mercedes McCambridge who did the demon voice sued, because she didn't get credit for her voiceover. Still, Linda Blair went through a lot in her role as Regan including hours of makeup and special effects that thrashed her around. Tatum didn't have to go through that and most important, Linda was very believable as Regan and she had great chemistry with Ellen Burstyn who played her mother Chris.
Tatum O'neal deserved this Oscar she was absolutely outstanding in Paper Moon. I wasn't born when the movie came out nor when she won her Oscar. I watched the movie on TV once.
"Gillian Campbell" and yet, after her role in Paper Moon and also The Bad News Bears, she was said not to be such a good actress in the greatest sense. When she made a movie with Kristy McNichol called "Little Darlings" one critic said that that movie is awful in concept and execution but it is obvious that Kristy McNichol is a greater acting talent than Tatum O'Neal. Reportedly too, when Tatum won the award for Paper Moon the directors and actors who worked with her on the film said they were surprised that she won because it was hard for her to memorize her lines. It seems as she grew older the roles dried up. Or maybe she walked away from acting.
You owe it to yourself to see this film for all of it. Kahn was excellent. Ryan was great. She was perfect. This was Bogdonavich's best. It still holds up. Great, great movie.
+nobama What does Kanye have to do with this video? I can't stand him. What an arrogant asshole. And now he says he's running for President? Hope he's kidding since he can't even speak English properly and he is married to a total bimbo.
I love the moment at 0:29 when Bronson has said "And the winner is..." All of the actresses look so nervous and I'm sure Tatum was too but her sweet face peaking through her fingers, looks like a normal little girl wondering if she's won a small door prize at a children's party
@@lauragomez9332 I've never heard the slapping story but he was jealous and held a grudge for years, which is such a shame. But they at least reconciled later in life.
He was jealous of her, his own daughter. Tatum called him that night after winning the Oscar and said "Guess what I have in my hand, Daddy?" Her father replied, "Guess what i have in MY hand?" and hung up. Vicious, narcissistic bastard - Ryan O'Neal.
+xorganic_vibesx he was emotionally and physically abusive to Tatum. It was found out years later he beat her for winning those following days, or something along those lines
he wasn't that mad. tatum wrote a book that bashed him, but then wrote another that praised him. he was angry that he gave one of his best performances in paper moon and wasn't even nominated. he let tatum do plenty more movies. but yes, he really should have been there. i do agree with that.
Sylvia Sidney had paid her dues, was excellent in so many of her films, but I have to admit Tatum O'Neal was absolutely astonishing in "Paper Moon", and a lot of the credit really has to go to Peter Bogdanovich who made such a wonderful film.
She's thanking her father and he was away somewhere being resentful and jealous. Such a shame. Have those two come to terms with each other after all these years?
@@dobazajr I know I always think to myself I'm a father of two teenage girls now how important that must have been for her and how devastated that was that he wasn't there.and she still mentioned him. I mean s*** man with when your little girls receiving a perfect attendance award in grammer school you do what you got to do to show up for it
Who else besides me kept replaying 0:26 , looking to see the other nominees reactions when they heard Tatum win, lol. Paper Moon is one of my favorite movies of all time. Tatum was absolutely fantastic.
Linda Blair turned out a solid performance in the Exorcist. She did exactly what was needed for a horror flick. However, Tatum is a natural actress... unfettered by the conventions of acting. Had she continued acting, she could have had an illustrious career akin to that of Jodie Foster, but she fell in love with a tennis player and the rest is history. I still marvel at how Tatum beat out her co-star Madeline Kahn for supporting actress... Amazing!
in 1974 the actors of terror movies They did not win prizes oscar this rule broke withc anthony hockins in the silent of lamb the inglish no is my firth language sorry for spelling errors
Nooooo. I'm a fan of Tatum's but she never had the potential to ever be in the same league talent-wise with Jodie Foster as an actress. She's never shown the depth of emotion that Jodie has been known to bring forth in her performances. Even after O'Neal had been acting for a few years, in the movie, Little Darlings, for instance (which I loved), Tatum is clearly out-acted by her co-star, Kristy McNichol (now there's someone who maybe could have been more on par with Foster had she been able to iron out her personal and mental demons). Foster's performances in movies like The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, obviously Taxi Driver, Foxes, and Carny, for example, was blowing the work that Tatum was doing around the same period as a young actress, right out of the water. (Tatum was also getting very mixed reviews or bombing out altogether in her last couple movies before marrying John McEnroe, actually.) No, I've always liked Tatum O'Neal but I never at all saw any indication that could ever equal the level of talent that Foster has.
Truthfully speaking, both Tatum and Linda should have been put in the Best Actress category. But if I had to choose between the two, Linda would have gotten my vote. It's pretty clear that Tatum won, because of the backlash "The Exorcist" received behind the Mercedes McCambridge voice over scandal, which wasn't that big of a deal to me.
@ Jay King - I don't remember a big scandal over the voice over. I was an avid moviegoer at that time - when movie critics analysis was just beginning to make or break a movie. Can't recall it being a big issue. Exorcist was seen as fun, horrific, big budget terror candy. The biggest media hype machine product of that time. It set the standard for blockbuster special effects films that came after- i.e.,Towering Inferno, Jaws, Star Wars but Linda Blair was never a serious contender for that Oscar - it was the head-spinning, pea soup spewing fx that made Linda famous not her performance. Mercedes McCambridge's contribution was just a part of the fx. The acting kudos were to Ellen Burstyn and Max von Sydow but the Academy voters who are older, conservative didn't favor giving the best pic/director to a "horror" movie which is how it was viewed. Tatum O'Neal's performance stood out for it's freshness and the marvelous naturalness of her performance. It was a supporting role because it was Ryan O'Neal's character she was supporting. She made him look better than his usually more wooden appearance snot to mention in every scene she's in she's able to take the focus without overacting, mugging or being coyingly cute. A feat most actors find difficult to do in comedy. And you have to see it in the context of its times. There had been no other child performance like hers at that time. The image of a wise-cracking, cigarette smoking, adult-child who could hold up her end of a scene was new, innovative and refreshing (although no doubt a young Jodie Foster could've done as well if not better). Prior to that we had our Shirley Temple sugary sweet image of children's film roles (although Shirley in her first blockbuster Little Miss Marker is tough and strangely seductive). It was after Tatum that we saw others like Jodie in Taxi Driver, Brooke Sheild's in Pretty Baby. And she was the sentimental favorite - the Academy members who vote were of the generation who remembered the Depression era Dust Bowl mid-west very well and so to see it remembered more accurately than it had been since Grapes of Wrath and yet so beautiful had to have played a part in their voting. To see a major motion picture in black and white, again. And to see a father-daughter acting duo all worked together to Tatum's award. At that time critics felt the actual best performance was given by Silvia Sydney who had been a 30's actress in B movies but of the quality of Kate Hepburn or Bette Davis who'd returned to the screen in an adult, quiet drama, the kind critics love but the general public avoids. Then again in that year's Best Film category, The Sting beat out Ingmar Bergman's Cries and Whispers and American Grafitti which are two movies that have stood the test of time far better. Exorcist has certainly stood the test of time but not for Linda Blair's performance. And Paper Moon stands up to the test of time for many reasons but especially because of Tatum O'Neal's performance.
afrogirl757 It was widely known and was no scandal. Linda Blair didn't win simply because she wasn't very good and The Exorcist, like most movies from the 70s, has had no legs.
+Nick Mayor "most movies from the 70s has had no legs"? ARE YOU SERIOUS, or are you just saying that to elicit responses from people? The seventies have been the BEST decade for motion pictures. In fact, I've always said that if all the movies from all of the other decades were destroyed but we still had access to the movies from the seventies, we'd be MORE than all right (not that I would ever want that to happen -- nor would it ever -- of course). By the way, Linda Blair was great.
+erasure1378 She didn't get it because of the high amount of special effects that were used to enhance her character. At least that's what's generally believed.
Ryan Gillis this isnt true at all. She was never even considered a lead actress in the film at any point. That had to do with her age, the academy even admitted, over her competition. Glenda Jackson won Best Actress that year. If youre saying "who"? I rest my case. Her performance in A Touch of Class isnt even groundbreaking. Dont even get me started that Javkson won before that for Women in Love which is ALSO incredibly mediocre. 1970 to 1975 had some very low lows in Hollywood. Stop spreading false information.
@desp00 . I agree. I loved Tatum's performance of Paper Moon, but after re-watching The Exorcist, Blair's performance was so extreme yet one you can't forget.
The Exorcist was better, but performances alone it was all Tatum. The majority of Linda Blair in it was her in it was with a shit ton of make up and some other dude providing her voice.
I used to think lindas work was oscar worthy until i found outbthe demon was voiced over by another actress. Now the role she played seems rather a joke.
Linda Blair's performance was all technical. Make-up, lighting, camera angles, dubbed voice overs, special effects. I'm not putting the actress or the performance down. I am merely stating the facts. Tatum O'Neal was actually in the wrong category! She should have been in the Lead category. That 8 year old kid supported no one. Everyone supported her including her Father. She was the star of that film and she was spot on-pure dynamite in every scene!
I have to agree with you but I thought Linda did do well anyway with the special effects she did won the golden globe award. I also met her in 2001 and took some photos with her they are very special to me. Thanks for your comment.
I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but another factor was Mercedes McCambridge did a lot of the vocal work in "The Exorcist," which clearly was a major contributing element to Linda's performance. McCambridge mentioned her work on the film to the press before the Oscars, as she was not being given credit for it, while the film and Blair were scoring phenomenal success.
+Mariana Trindade She was so cute! Tatum was a happy little girl who came and get his Oscar very simply and she thanked her Pa..It is just adorable! She had no pride and manners ..
rare to see charles bronson at an awards ceremony like this. he didn't do it very often, but i imagine his wife jill ireland talked him into it. he never really did talk shows either. but despite that he became a mega star of the 70's. he was different then other actors. instead of doing what he wanted to do, he gave the public what they wanted to see. i've always admired bronson.
I’ve always adored Charles Bronson. I remember as a kid, hearing that he and his wife had adopted a teenage girl; I was so pissed, like, ‘Noooooooooooo! He should have adopted ME! (Oh hai, daddy ...😂).
When you consider her age during the time of the filming of this movie (8 1/2) this must be considered one of, if not THE, greatest acting performance in the history of cinema. According to the director, Peter Bogdanovich, the very long clip of her and Ryan driving down the road (when they pass the family whose truck had broken down) was the hardest scene of the movie to film. There is no trick photography in this scene, they are actually driving in a car - if I remember right they were being towed by a truck with the cameras and sound equipment in it. Whenever they flubbed their lines they would have to turn around and drive all the way back to the beginning where they would have to start the drive all over again. It took 2 days of filming and 39 "takes" to get it done correctly. The reason was because there is so much dialogue in this scene that it was very hard for both Tatum and Ryan to get all their lines remembered and delivered perfectly, and added to that was the fact that the scene had to be done in one long sequence without any camera breaks in the filming. The fact that Tatum could complete this scene at all at her age at the time is reason enough for the Academy Award she won. If you watch that section of the film closely you will see that even in the FINAL cut Ryan's lips at one point are not moving to the words we hear. It was still not right but they fixed it with a voice-over ... BUT ... Tatum's were all correct.
Yes Linda blair was good but I've always felt the exorcist was campy. Still it's a comedy performance. Tatum O'neal deservedly won the Oscar. You have to watch paper moon. The banter between her and Ryan O'neal is hysterical. Plus her expressions could cut a bitch. I loved it.
My heart goes out to Tatum, who was neglected and abused by everyone a person SHOULD be able to go to for love and for help. She has had an awfully rough life; I can relate, though I'm not a celebrity. A person is a person after all...An amazing performance deserving of "lead actress" status. I hope her father can come to terms with the past and try to make amends to her before it's too late for them both.
Actually for those who don't know, Linda Blair did do the lines, but it was dubbed over later because they didn't think it was frightening enough (there's a vid on youtube). Also she did have a good chance since she won the Golden Globe, until the "scandal".
To the people saying Linda didn't do any of the stunts and her performance revolved around solely on make-up, special effects and voice dubbing are wrong. She was the one in the majority of her scenes, there are only two short cuts that are of Eileen Dietz (the back of her when she backhands the Dr and the scene where Regan is possessed and slowly vomiting on the purple stole-that's it) Everything else is Linda which has been referenced in many documentaries and footage. No one can turn their head completely around so people expecting that of any actor is ridiculous. I'm sure if she could've done that she would have. She withstood hours in the makeup chair, hours in freezing cold temperatures, she sustained back injuries during the convulsion scene and she put everything she had into that performance, whether it included special effects scenes or not. Without a convincing child actor to carry such a role, we wouldn't have one of the most memorable films in cinema and that's the truth. Linda deserved to be awarded for such a pivotal performance.
Come on, she does a good job in those early scenes but for the majority it's a huge stunt performance - no room for genuine spontaneity or emotional insight because by design that's not what the movie intended. She didn't deserve the Oscar for that. Tatum gives a full-bodied, hilarious and humane performance where she actually acts and does it much better than Blair.
How adorable is Tatum? She did deserve the Oscar for Paper Moon...she was extraordinary. Tatum is dressed in the tux as she was inspired by fashion icon Bianca Jagger. Tres cool!
She was adorable and phenominal in Paper Moon and absolutely deserved to be there. Ryan's absence on such a historic night speaks volumes and I totally believe her sad revelation (in her book) that Ryan punched her in the face she got home that night from the Oscars.
@@derekreid9072 Yes, he wasn't even in the country. He was under contract filming a movie abroad which is why he couldn't attend. There are rumors that he slapped Tatum when they got the news that she had been nominated and he was not but now that father and daughter have reconciled, neither one has said if this is true or not.
@@raea3588 He was probably more angry at the time filming "Barry Lyndon", a project that did him no favors in his career. Actually, I really can't think of anything he did after Paper Moon that ever equaled what he had done before...
Tatum was amazing in the role in the movie 'Paper Moon'. Anyone who has not seen it should give it a try. It is an incredibly entertaining movie. I think she deserved it over the others.
Sylvia Sidney had been very vocal after the nominations came out, saying she wouldn't attend the Oscars because she considered it an insult to be nominated against 'a bunch of kids.' (Sidney was by far the oldest of the group at 63; Madeline Kahn was 31; Candy Clark was 26; Linda Blair was 14; Tatum was only 10.) Too bad they didn't give Sidney's nomination to someone who would have appreciated it and benefited from it: Cindy Williams or MacKenzie Phillips in 'American Graffiti,' P.J. Johnson in 'Paper Moon', Eileen Brennan in 'The Sting,' Dyan Cannon in 'The Last of Sheila' or Carol Kane in 'The Last Detail' would all have been good choices. I remember thinking then that Sylvia Syms in the little-seen "The Tamarind Seed" was a great performance. She played the beard/wife of a gay British diplomate targeted for blackmail. Maybe the Academy just gave the nomination to the wrong Sylvia.🙂
Fue una sensación Hollywood no gustaba nunca en dar un Oscar a un niño pero Tatum con esa actuación cautivo a todas hasta ahora es la de menos de edad en recibirlo por su magistral papel en Luna de Papel . Un discurso breve emotivo sin tantas payasadas una niña . Ricardo Alegria Zambrano Popayan cauca Colombia
Paper Moon is one those films I've been meaning to see for years. After stumbling on this video a few days ago, I finally decided to watch it. And you're absolute right, it's worth seeing. And worth seeking out. Oh, and I'd like to add that cinematography was amazing. The film made excellent use of the sweeping but sparse Depression era black & white visuals.
Linda Blair was Robbed her performance was unforgettable, still today people talk of her Outstanding performance that changed the meaning of Horror .... "THE EXORCIST" received 10 Academy Awards Nominations.
love that the audience clapped for her in the nominations, and that she reacted so honestly when she heard her name. And by the way, if you watch all of the faces when they announce Tatum as the winner, the only face that seems to disapprove is Linda Blair's.
@@ambershalom33keep in mind that her nomination for Wakanda Forever was 30 years after What’s Love Got To Do With It, and it was probably her last chance at winning an Oscar. She had every right to be upset
it's crazy to go back to google search and see how these people look like now - not that she looks bad. it almost feels like they would never age anymore - then you realize :)
She should have been up for actress in a leading role and won. Of all the performances that year her performance in Paper Moon was the best and most iconic.
You wanna know what I was doing at 10 years old, well I was eating dirt and arguing with my cousin about legos
Abril Cruz well, from what she has written about her life at the time, she might have wished her childhood was more like that.
@@CarlyUTube And, sadly, she never acted in anything worth mentioning after Paper Moon.
a very healthy routine! i did the same! but with my brother!
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Dirt at TEN? Wow.
"Supporting" actress? WTH.....
She literally was in every scene and carried the movie.. wow.
Like Viola Davis in fences
Like Haley Joel Osment in “The Sixth Sense”. Tom Hanks in “...Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood”, although I didn’t see it.
Yeah, I thought that too.
Unfortunately, talented minors talent is downplayed at the Academy Awards. They can’t win Best Actor/Actress.
It’s bs.
For some reason the Oscars never give kids leading categories.
I recently read that the real controversy was that many Academy members thought it was unfair to put Tatum in the Supporting Actress category, since she is in 100 of the 103 minutes of the film. By rights, she should have competed in the Lead Actress category....if she had, who knows?? Linda Blair might have won for The Exorcist.
"pacegry01" is Tatum O'Neal still the youngest person to ever have won the award? Has any younger person won it since? I hear Justin Henry almost won it for "Kramer VS Kramer" and also an 11 year old won a few years back for "Into The Woods" ( I am not so sure about the movie's title). Is there information as to who is the youngest male actor to win? I think that Jackie Cooper or Jackie Coogan might have won it decades back , or at least was nominated.
@@obscurelyvague Justin Henry was only nominated, but he didn't win. Plus, he was much younger than 11.
No se si entiendas mi mensaje. Pero para ganar el oscar lo que mas se ve es los dialogos como los interpretan los actores y ñinda blair mas se movia en su cama casi noo tenia monologos que la hicieran acreedora de un premio asi
@Sumaya Aden What movie?
I still don’t think Linda would have got up....I just think Silvia Sidney would have also been a nice choice, although I have never seen it but I’d love to
I just watched this movie. She was in just about every second of it. It was a leading role and she should have been nominated as Best Actress, regardless of her age. It was unfair to the other nominees. Her performance in the movie was so good that I think she may have made the cut for Best Actress, although she probably wouldn't have won it.
+larrydirtybird agreed-outstanding for such a young person--movie is always worth watching
larrydirtybird I agree. She was the lead in paper moon, not a supporting character.
I think the Academy thought she was too young for a lead.
I think the real reason why they didn’t put her in the best actress category was they figured she had a much better chance of winning the best supporting actress award.
Leading and Supporting categories have always been questionable with the Oscars. While excellent and deserving of an Oscar, Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs was more of a supporting role...he had less than 20 minutes of screen time, but won for best actor.
I still think her award should have been best actress. Not supporting role.
Tatum should of won for leading and Linda should have won for supporting.
Agreed
Agreed
@squrtile101: learn English.
She looks like a boy.
@@rookanga607 ???
She has the record for winning this particular Oscar as the youngest competitive recipient and the longest screen time of anyone that’s won it. Amazing child actress. Linda Blair probably just lost by a fraction
Linda should've gotten it maybe, with Tatum up for Best Lead
@@brian7333 I agree. Linda should have gotten the Oscar. I understand that William Friedkin was unpopular in Hollywood and his enemies campaigned against him. As a result, anyone associated with the movie suffered. There was, also, the issue that Mercedes McCambridge who did the demon voice sued, because she didn't get credit for her voiceover. Still, Linda Blair went through a lot in her role as Regan including hours of makeup and special effects that thrashed her around. Tatum didn't have to go through that and most important, Linda was very believable as Regan and she had great chemistry with Ellen Burstyn who played her mother Chris.
Or a tie..could have been perfect..
linda should have won it, tatum's father abused her because he felt jealous of his daughter's success after that win
Her performance is brilliant. We still quote “I want my TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS!” to this day.
I'm a girl, not a boy!
I will sometimes tell my kids to eat their Coney Island when we're having hot dogs.
Eat your Coney Island! :)
For years I've wished I could meet Tatum, maybe at book signing, and say to her "Now Tatum, lots of people got the same jaw!"
You still owed me $200
That's the best Oscar speech ever! I just watched 'Paper Moon' for the first time, and there is never a dull moment in the movie.
Tatum O'neal deserved this Oscar she was absolutely outstanding in Paper Moon. I wasn't born when the movie came out nor when she won her Oscar. I watched the movie on TV once.
"Gillian Campbell" and yet, after her role in Paper Moon and also The Bad News Bears, she was said not to be such a good actress in the greatest sense. When she made a movie with Kristy McNichol called "Little Darlings" one critic said that that movie is awful in concept and execution but it is obvious that Kristy McNichol is a greater acting talent than Tatum O'Neal.
Reportedly too, when Tatum won the award for Paper Moon the directors and actors who worked with her on the film said they were surprised that she won because it was hard for her to memorize her lines. It seems as she grew older the roles dried up. Or maybe she walked away from acting.
"EAT YOUR CONEY ISLAND!"
You owe it to yourself to see this film for all of it. Kahn was excellent. Ryan was great. She was perfect. This was Bogdonavich's best. It still holds up. Great, great movie.
I Have always had a soft spot for Tatum even today. I love Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland may they RIP.
Still a better speech than anything Kanye has ever given
+nobama What does Kanye have to do with this video? I can't stand him. What an arrogant asshole. And now he says he's running for President? Hope he's kidding since he can't even speak English properly and he is married to a total bimbo.
Best rap album, 47th grammys speech. Watch it
ann landers lol fast forward a year and your statement could apply perfectly to the Trump!
okay i got it up to 199 likes. somebody wanna make it 200?
Drumattic Matt whats your point moron?
I love that the audience clapped for her in the nominations, and that she reacted so honestly when she heard her name.
She was 10 ...
I love the moment at 0:29 when Bronson has said "And the winner is..." All of the actresses look so nervous and I'm sure Tatum was too but her sweet face peaking through her fingers, looks like a normal little girl wondering if she's won a small door prize at a children's party
Según cuentan el padre la abofeteo cuando la nominaron , ni siquiera fue a acompañarla
@@lauragomez9332 I've never heard the slapping story but he was jealous and held a grudge for years, which is such a shame. But they at least reconciled later in life.
Linda should've won, hands fucking down. I do love Tatum, but Linda's performance still haunts peoples dreams to this day.
She won't let me sleep one time... her performance was so great.. She scared my childhood.
people will remember the exorcist in 100 years, not Tatum o'neal in a movie called paper moon.
@@joanna7350 well, you have a point there definitely.
I feel like none of you have actually seen paper moon.
Linda Blair should have won an Oscar for The Exorcist. The stuff she had to go through, and her performance itself was unbelievable!
She was the frontrunner until Mercedes McCambridge spilled the tea.
Nah, Tatum O'Neal deserved that. Paper Moon is a great film and her performance was great.
@@iWatchtrashTV I’m not saying Tatum’s performance wasn’t good, but Linda went through things that most child actors could never do.
Traumatized for life these kids.
@MusicHorrorFanatic didn't an older lady play alot of Linda Blairs part?
Such a shame her father wasn't there to support her.
He sell some bibles.
He was jealous of her, his own daughter. Tatum called him that night after winning the Oscar and said "Guess what I have in my hand, Daddy?" Her father replied, "Guess what i have in MY hand?" and hung up. Vicious, narcissistic bastard - Ryan O'Neal.
+xorganic_vibesx he was emotionally and physically abusive to Tatum. It was found out years later he beat her for winning those following days, or something along those lines
he wasn't that mad. tatum wrote a book that bashed him, but then wrote another that praised him. he was angry that he gave one of his best performances in paper moon and wasn't even nominated. he let tatum do plenty more movies. but yes, he really should have been there. i do agree with that.
he should have been there no matter what, without question. she loved him so much and thanked him even though he wasn't there.
Sylvia Sidney had paid her dues, was excellent in so many of her films, but I have to admit Tatum O'Neal was absolutely astonishing in "Paper Moon", and a lot of the credit really has to go to Peter Bogdanovich who made such a wonderful film.
The youngest to ever win an Oscar.
Tatum deserved it.
I love her.
She's thanking her father and he was away somewhere being resentful and jealous. Such a shame. Have those two come to terms with each other after all these years?
mgeek1 Ryan beat her after the ceremony.
@@dobazajr Had to watch this for film class. How to do you know???
He was in England making Barry Lyndon.
She’s tried. He has a hard time getting past his sensitive & rather inflated ego.
@@dobazajr I know I always think to myself I'm a father of two teenage girls now how important that must have been for her and how devastated that was that he wasn't there.and she still mentioned him. I mean s*** man with when your little girls receiving a perfect attendance award in grammer school you do what you got to do to show up for it
Just watched Paper Moon-what a great film, and an outstanding performance by Tatum. Such a cutie! love tomboy's...
Deserved..Paper Moon is a complete classic..Her portrayal of Addie Loggins is sublime
Great movie and great performance especially for a kid
hmmm wow a nice comment
Loved the movie. She was perfect in it, and should have been nominated for best actress.
She 110% deserved that oscar!
Tatum O'Neal- subverting gender stereotypes since 1974
shut up
O V S T Go fuck your self, you just can't stand that people don't fit into your narrow, conservative view of how the world should be.
Daenerys Targaryen I'm not saying it is as a negative, I'm mentioning how the asshole above me thinks it's one
Henry Jackson Dipshit
Ugly Troll Youre a fucking joke.
Who else besides me kept replaying 0:26 , looking to see the other nominees reactions when they heard Tatum win, lol.
Paper Moon is one of my favorite movies of all time. Tatum was absolutely fantastic.
+Starlene JIviden I do with EVERY award show! :D
I totally did! Haha!
Linda Blair had a kind look in her eyes as if she were happy for Tatum
Tatum should’ve won best actress and Linda too!
Linda Blair turned out a solid performance in the Exorcist. She did exactly what was needed for a horror flick. However, Tatum is a natural actress... unfettered by the conventions of acting. Had she continued acting, she could have had an illustrious career akin to that of Jodie Foster, but she fell in love with a tennis player and the rest is history. I still marvel at how Tatum beat out her co-star Madeline Kahn for supporting actress... Amazing!
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Good post. Where do you live?
Nooooo. I'm a fan of Tatum's but she never had the potential to ever be in the same league talent-wise with Jodie Foster as an actress. She's never shown the depth of emotion that Jodie has been known to bring forth in her performances. Even after O'Neal had been acting for a few years, in the movie, Little Darlings, for instance (which I loved), Tatum is clearly out-acted by her co-star, Kristy McNichol (now there's someone who maybe could have been more on par with Foster had she been able to iron out her personal and mental demons). Foster's performances in movies like The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, obviously Taxi Driver, Foxes, and Carny, for example, was blowing the work that Tatum was doing around the same period as a young actress, right out of the water. (Tatum was also getting very mixed reviews or bombing out altogether in her last couple movies before marrying John McEnroe, actually.) No, I've always liked Tatum O'Neal but I never at all saw any indication that could ever equal the level of talent that Foster has.
and became a drug addict ....
best speech ever
Zac Wolf mmm just a little better than Joe Pesci´s speech winning for Goodfellas!.
When I saw Paper Moon as a kid, I said to myself, "I can do that." Tutum Oniel was a hero of mine. One of the best child actors of all time.
Truthfully speaking, both Tatum and Linda should have been put in the Best Actress category. But if I had to choose between the two, Linda would have gotten my vote. It's pretty clear that Tatum won, because of the backlash "The Exorcist" received behind the Mercedes McCambridge voice over scandal, which wasn't that big of a deal to me.
@ Jay King - I don't remember a big scandal over the voice over. I was an avid moviegoer at that time - when movie critics analysis was just beginning to make or break a movie. Can't recall it being a big issue. Exorcist was seen as fun, horrific, big budget terror candy. The biggest media hype machine product of that time. It set the standard for blockbuster special effects films that came after- i.e.,Towering Inferno, Jaws, Star Wars but Linda Blair was never a serious contender for that Oscar - it was the head-spinning, pea soup spewing fx that made Linda famous not her performance. Mercedes McCambridge's contribution was just a part of the fx. The acting kudos were to Ellen Burstyn and Max von Sydow but the Academy voters who are older, conservative didn't favor giving the best pic/director to a "horror" movie which is how it was viewed. Tatum O'Neal's performance stood out for it's freshness and the marvelous naturalness of her performance. It was a supporting role because it was Ryan O'Neal's character she was supporting. She made him look better than his usually more wooden appearance snot to mention in every scene she's in she's able to take the focus without overacting, mugging or being coyingly cute. A feat most actors find difficult to do in comedy. And you have to see it in the context of its times. There had been no other child performance like hers at that time. The image of a wise-cracking, cigarette smoking, adult-child who could hold up her end of a scene was new, innovative and refreshing (although no doubt a young Jodie Foster could've done as well if not better). Prior to that we had our Shirley Temple sugary sweet image of children's film roles (although Shirley in her first blockbuster Little Miss Marker is tough and strangely seductive). It was after Tatum that we saw others like Jodie in Taxi Driver, Brooke Sheild's in Pretty Baby. And she was the sentimental favorite - the Academy members who vote were of the generation who remembered the Depression era Dust Bowl mid-west very well and so to see it remembered more accurately than it had been since Grapes of Wrath and yet so beautiful had to have played a part in their voting. To see a major motion picture in black and white, again. And to see a father-daughter acting duo all worked together to Tatum's award. At that time critics felt the actual best performance was given by Silvia Sydney who had been a 30's actress in B movies but of the quality of Kate Hepburn or Bette Davis who'd returned to the screen in an adult, quiet drama, the kind critics love but the general public avoids. Then again in that year's Best Film category, The Sting beat out Ingmar Bergman's Cries and Whispers and American Grafitti which are two movies that have stood the test of time far better. Exorcist has certainly stood the test of time but not for Linda Blair's performance. And Paper Moon stands up to the test of time for many reasons but especially because of Tatum O'Neal's performance.
afrogirl757 It was widely known and was no scandal. Linda Blair didn't win simply because she wasn't very good and The Exorcist, like most movies from the 70s, has had no legs.
+Nick Mayor "most movies from the 70s has had no legs"? ARE YOU SERIOUS, or are you just saying that to elicit responses from people? The seventies have been the BEST decade for motion pictures. In fact, I've always said that if all the movies from all of the other decades were destroyed but we still had access to the movies from the seventies, we'd be MORE than all right (not that I would ever want that to happen -- nor would it ever -- of course). By the way, Linda Blair was great.
Saying that The Exorcist and other movies from the 70s have no legs is incredibly/blatantly/shockingly ignorant.
Linda gave one of the best performances by a child in the history of filmmaking. Possibly the best ever. She deserved the Oscar. She really did.
+erasure1378 Agreed. Horror films are always overlooked at the oscars. Shame.
+erasure1378 She didn't get it because of the high amount of special effects that were used to enhance her character. At least that's what's generally believed.
I think there was hesitation about the fact that her voice was dubbed by another person in parts of it
+Summer She still had to act it.
And all these idiots that don't know anything about Paper Moon that say Linda Blair was robbed can go kiss my ass.
I'm happy she won, but 'supporting actor'? Seemed like 'lead actor' to me.
They knew there was no way she could compete with the lead nominees that year, so she was put in with supporting instead
Ryan Gillis this isnt true at all. She was never even considered a lead actress in the film at any point. That had to do with her age, the academy even admitted, over her competition. Glenda Jackson won Best Actress that year. If youre saying "who"? I rest my case. Her performance in A Touch of Class isnt even groundbreaking. Dont even get me started that Javkson won before that for Women in Love which is ALSO incredibly mediocre. 1970 to 1975 had some very low lows in Hollywood. Stop spreading false information.
Clips of vintage oscars make me more curious about these recognized films and their performances in the past. I wana see them all!!!
Paper moon is one of my most favorite movies. I have even read the book which is really alot different than the movie.
Linda Blair should've won no question about it
I disagree. She was good, but her demonic voice was done by Mercedes McCambridge.
+tom blinzig that has nothing to do with her incredible acting.
+klassicalmuzik I think Linda Blair should have won Best Leading Role.
it's leading role, not voice acting, smh
I agree Linda Blair was robbed!!!
Her strength is just incredible ❣️
@desp00 . I agree. I loved Tatum's performance of Paper Moon, but after re-watching The Exorcist, Blair's performance was so extreme yet one you can't forget.
Awesome Tatum!! 😃☺😇, i luv that movie paper moon. She should have received best actress award. I purchased the dvd. ☺
Not like Tatum wasn't awesome in Paper Moon, I love that movie. But Linda Blair in The Exorcist. fucking come on. It's iconic.
not Lynda's voice but actress Mercedes macambridge who did the satanic growls and speeches
I don't think anyone actually thought LInda did the voice acting I was more impressed with her acting in the non-demon scenes.
The Exorcist was better, but performances alone it was all Tatum. The majority of Linda Blair in it was her in it was with a shit ton of make up and some other dude providing her voice.
Gunnhild Edwards When Linda was acting outside of being a demon she sounds sedated
I used to think lindas work was oscar worthy until i found outbthe demon was voiced over by another actress. Now the role she played seems rather a joke.
I prefer these speeches, than the long drawn out speeches of today
Linda Blair's performance was all technical. Make-up, lighting, camera angles, dubbed voice overs, special effects. I'm not putting the actress or the performance down. I am merely stating the facts. Tatum O'Neal was actually in the wrong category! She should have been in the Lead category. That 8 year old kid supported no one. Everyone supported her including her Father. She was the star of that film and she was spot on-pure dynamite in every scene!
Olly4Ever Linda was robbed. Period.
Olly4Ever LINDA SHOULD HAVE WON! NO QUESTION ABOUT IT!!!
"Olly4Ever" actually yes.
I have to agree with you but I thought Linda did do well anyway with the special effects she did won the golden globe award. I also met her in 2001 and took some photos with her they are very special to me. Thanks for your comment.
I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but another factor was Mercedes McCambridge did a lot of the vocal work in "The Exorcist," which clearly was a major contributing element to Linda's performance. McCambridge mentioned her work on the film to the press before the Oscars, as she was not being given credit for it, while the film and Blair were scoring phenomenal success.
Tatum O'Neal is me when I receive award at school, omg. Love her, so cutie ♥
+Mariana Trindade She was so cute! Tatum was a happy little girl who came and get his Oscar very simply and she thanked her Pa..It is just adorable! She had no pride and manners ..
She honestly walked there and accepted it like a boss. Not nervous at all.
Tatum O'Neal had so much confidence,walking to the podium and collecting her Oscar.
She was terrific but should have been nominated for Best Actress. Linda Blair should have won this category.
Linda Blair should have been nominated for the Best actress category.
rare to see charles bronson at an awards ceremony like this. he didn't do it very often, but i imagine his wife jill ireland talked him into it. he never really did talk shows either. but despite that he became a mega star of the 70's. he was different then other actors. instead of doing what he wanted to do, he gave the public what they wanted to see. i've always admired bronson.
I’ve always adored Charles Bronson. I remember as a kid, hearing that he and his wife had adopted a teenage girl; I was so pissed, like, ‘Noooooooooooo! He should have adopted ME! (Oh hai, daddy ...😂).
When you consider her age during the time of the filming of this movie (8 1/2) this must be considered one of, if not THE, greatest acting performance in the history of cinema. According to the director, Peter Bogdanovich, the very long clip of her and Ryan driving down the road (when they pass the family whose truck had broken down) was the hardest scene of the movie to film. There is no trick photography in this scene, they are actually driving in a car - if I remember right they were being towed by a truck with the cameras and sound equipment in it. Whenever they flubbed their lines they would have to turn around and drive all the way back to the beginning where they would have to start the drive all over again. It took 2 days of filming and 39 "takes" to get it done correctly. The reason was because there is so much dialogue in this scene that it was very hard for both Tatum and Ryan to get all their lines remembered and delivered perfectly, and added to that was the fact that the scene had to be done in one long sequence without any camera breaks in the filming. The fact that Tatum could complete this scene at all at her age at the time is reason enough for the Academy Award she won. If you watch that section of the film closely you will see that even in the FINAL cut Ryan's lips at one point are not moving to the words we hear. It was still not right but they fixed it with a voice-over ... BUT ... Tatum's were all correct.
she is like "What the heck i am doing here"? 0:21
What a Genuine and Honest Speech. Truly from the Heart of a Child.
Look at that little sprite! Cutest thing on the planet! Poised, collected, articulate. Smiles all around...
that was a fine example of a good oscar speech! seriously, awesome, honest and to the point!
Yes Linda blair was good but I've always felt the exorcist was campy. Still it's a comedy performance.
Tatum O'neal deservedly won the Oscar. You have to watch paper moon. The banter between her and Ryan O'neal is hysterical. Plus her expressions could cut a bitch. I loved it.
"Zeus Becerra" "The Exorcist" was "campy" ?
@@obscurelyvague only to superficial queens
Linda Blair was brilliant and flawless and Tatum was good.
People believed in God in those days. It was scary back then. It is campy today because your generation is atheist.
Hank Williams I’m not an atheist. Linda blair was a super freak.
My heart goes out to Tatum, who was neglected and abused by everyone a person SHOULD be able to go to for love and for help. She has had an awfully rough life; I can relate, though I'm not a celebrity. A person is a person after all...An amazing performance deserving of "lead actress" status. I hope her father can come to terms with the past and try to make amends to her before it's too late for them both.
I just watched it for the first time and I thought she was great.
Actually for those who don't know, Linda Blair did do the lines, but it was dubbed over later because they didn't think it was frightening enough (there's a vid on youtube). Also she did have a good chance since she won the Golden Globe, until the "scandal".
+Lucas Gellar She still had to act it/
+musicaltheatergeek79
I'm on her side. Tatum should've been in leading.
Mercedes McCambridge was the dubbed voice actress.
linda Blair was so cute and in just a few years HOT
To the people saying Linda didn't do any of the stunts and her performance revolved around solely on make-up, special effects and voice dubbing are wrong. She was the one in the majority of her scenes, there are only two short cuts that are of Eileen Dietz (the back of her when she backhands the Dr and the scene where Regan is possessed and slowly vomiting on the purple stole-that's it) Everything else is Linda which has been referenced in many documentaries and footage. No one can turn their head completely around so people expecting that of any actor is ridiculous. I'm sure if she could've done that she would have. She withstood hours in the makeup chair, hours in freezing cold temperatures, she sustained back injuries during the convulsion scene and she put everything she had into that performance, whether it included special effects scenes or not. Without a convincing child actor to carry such a role, we wouldn't have one of the most memorable films in cinema and that's the truth. Linda deserved to be awarded for such a pivotal performance.
I´m 100% with you
100% agree
Come on, she does a good job in those early scenes but for the majority it's a huge stunt performance - no room for genuine spontaneity or emotional insight because by design that's not what the movie intended. She didn't deserve the Oscar for that. Tatum gives a full-bodied, hilarious and humane performance where she actually acts and does it much better than Blair.
100% disagree.
I agree with you totally. It was because of the dubbing of Mercedes mccambridge. Linda did all the work.
How adorable is Tatum? She did deserve the Oscar for Paper Moon...she was extraordinary. Tatum is dressed in the tux as she was inspired by fashion icon Bianca Jagger. Tres cool!
Exactly. I'm not saying Linda Blair wasn't worthy of the nomination but Tatum O'Neal owned that Oscar.
She was adorable and phenominal in Paper Moon and absolutely deserved to be there. Ryan's absence on such a historic night speaks volumes and I totally believe her sad revelation (in her book) that Ryan punched her in the face she got home that night from the Oscars.
@@derekreid9072 Yes, he wasn't even in the country. He was under contract filming a movie abroad which is why he couldn't attend. There are rumors that he slapped Tatum when they got the news that she had been nominated and he was not but now that father and daughter have reconciled, neither one has said if this is true or not.
wrong, Tatum said she had no memory of it happening. It was her brother Griffin who said it in his book.
@@raea3588 He was probably more angry at the time filming "Barry Lyndon", a project that did him no favors in his career. Actually, I really can't think of anything he did after Paper Moon that ever equaled what he had done before...
i like the genuine smile by the wonderful Sylvia Sydney when tatum's name is announced.
I do too.
Almost 50 years later yet Everyone remembers Linda Blairs performance
Exceptional performance for such a young age
Tatum was amazing in the role in the movie 'Paper Moon'. Anyone who has not seen it should give it a try. It is an incredibly entertaining movie. I think she deserved it over the others.
I've seen all the performances and Linda Blair clearly deserved it, Tatum's was a leading performance so I find it quite unfair.
Sylvia Sidney had been very vocal after the nominations came out, saying she wouldn't attend the Oscars because she considered it an insult to be nominated against 'a bunch of kids.' (Sidney was by far the oldest of the group at 63; Madeline Kahn was 31; Candy Clark was 26; Linda Blair was 14; Tatum was only 10.) Too bad they didn't give Sidney's nomination to someone who would have appreciated it and benefited from it: Cindy Williams or MacKenzie Phillips in 'American Graffiti,' P.J. Johnson in 'Paper Moon', Eileen Brennan in 'The Sting,' Dyan Cannon in 'The Last of Sheila' or Carol Kane in 'The Last Detail' would all have been good choices.
I remember thinking then that Sylvia Syms in the little-seen "The Tamarind Seed" was a great performance. She played the beard/wife of a gay British diplomate targeted for blackmail. Maybe the Academy just gave the nomination to the wrong Sylvia.🙂
Fue una sensación Hollywood no gustaba nunca en dar un Oscar a un niño pero Tatum con esa actuación cautivo a todas hasta ahora es la de menos de edad en recibirlo por su magistral papel en Luna de Papel .
Un discurso breve emotivo sin tantas payasadas una niña .
Ricardo Alegria Zambrano
Popayan cauca Colombia
Paper Moon is one those films I've been meaning to see for years. After stumbling on this video a few days ago, I finally decided to watch it.
And you're absolute right, it's worth seeing. And worth seeking out.
Oh, and I'd like to add that cinematography was amazing. The film made excellent use of the sweeping but sparse Depression era black & white visuals.
Couldn't believe that was her first time acting! T.O. was magnificent! And quite funny too!
Linda Blair was Robbed her performance was unforgettable, still today people talk of her Outstanding performance that changed the meaning of Horror ....
"THE EXORCIST" received 10 Academy Awards Nominations.
I dis agree, Tatum O'Neal role in paper moon is amazing,one my favorites, well deserve. Honestly any of them were deserving of their wins
Tatum is so adorable! I love that movie. So glad she won - she is brilliant.
Tatum O'Neal deserved that Oscar for her wonderful performance in the film.
A well deserved Oscar! Great job, Tatum!
Gosh I love this little girl, and the fact she’s wearing my dream outfit 😭
She deserved that Oscar, but not in this category because it was a leading performance.
BRAVO! (Tatum actually deserved BEST ACTRESS, period)
I love the reaction of Sylvia Sidney!
What a great movie it is. She's so superb in it.
love that the audience clapped for her in the nominations, and that she reacted so honestly when she heard her name. And by the way, if you watch all of the faces when they announce Tatum as the winner, the only face that seems to disapprove is Linda Blair's.
My goodness they only showed her for a few moments. She didn't act like she was disappointed, plus she was clapping.
Linda had a good reaction I thought. She looked relieved actually
Nah. Linda had some disappointment for a sec, but she smiled and clapped.
Ive seen adults who handled loss less gracefully
@@BradiKal61Angela Bassett?
@@ambershalom33keep in mind that her nomination for Wakanda Forever was 30 years after What’s Love Got To Do With It, and it was probably her last chance at winning an Oscar.
She had every right to be upset
I just found this movie at Barnes & Noble‘s. It’s always been a favorite of mine.
you forgot William Holden, He only said "Thank you" and walked off.
Don't forget JOE PESCI who accepted Best Supporting Actor in 1991 with only TWO words: "My privilege."
who knew her dad was so jealous of her success behind the scenes. amazing story this chick has.
LATER THAT NIGHT....
TATUM (on the phone): Guess what I've got in my hand, Daddy?
RYAN: Guess what I've got in MY hand? >hangs up<
True story.
Wishing you love and peace Tatum.
Boy....do you deserve it.. ☮️
No way ! Tatum's performance in Paper Moon is simply awesome
The best actress of the five by far was Sylvia Sidney. She was a member of the Group Theater.
She’s so adorable 🥰
When they announced Candy Clark as a nominee they put the camera on someone else. I would be pissed.
"I want my two hunnert dollahs!" "I. don't. have. it." "Then...git it!" If only every Oscar speech could be that concise and charming.
Such a shame her dad was a monster. He was so jealous she won this.
Thank God she didn't ask for her 200 dollars,
One of the most deserved Oscar from a beautiful movie.
Lead actress.
it's crazy to go back to google search and see how these people look like now - not that she looks bad. it almost feels like they would never age anymore - then you realize :)
Only a few words, but I still teared up.
come on Linda of course!
Great Speech.
This award should have been handed to Linda Blair. Her role in "The Exorcist" was both frightening and superb!
She should have been up for actress in a leading role and won. Of all the performances that year her performance in Paper Moon was the best and most iconic.
i was waiting for her to say "i want my 200 dollars!"
she has such a beautiful smile
So adorable
This is so cute!! 🥺
If she was the SUPPORTING actress in Paper Moon, the who was the MAIN ACTRESS???
The kid deserved the BEST ACTRESS AWARD