![]() There were fewer movies made, fewer viewing options, no/limited internet, no/limited cable….just the Big 3 Networks. In years past, the Academy Awards presentation was one of the few places where the era’s “movie stars” showed up in people’s living rooms on prime time TV. Having said that, let me address one point, and suggest that there are plenty of reasons for Oscar viewership to be cratering that have zero to do with politics. I’d like to very strongly suggest – and I’m thinking that CP would concur – that politics be kept off this blog, unless there’s a tangible connection to Columbo topics. And she felt ‘absolutely groovy’ about it… After missing out in 1966 for her role in Inside Daisy Clover, Ruth Gordon ( Try & Catch Me) won Best Supporting Actress for her terrifying role in Rosemary’s Baby in 1969.Myrna Loy from Etude in Black received an Honorary Oscar in 1991 for her exceptional career.He was twice nominated in the same category in 19 for his efforts in Tucker: The Man and His Dream, and Crimes and Misdemeanors. Martin Landau ( Double Shock) won Best Supporting Actor for his amazing Bela Lugosi turn in Ed Wood (1995).She also had back-to-back Best Supporting Actress nominations in 1950 and ’51 for Come to the Stable and All About Eve respectively. She won the 1948 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Gentlemen’s Agreement. Celeste Holm had a blast playing hysterical Phyllis Brandt in Columbo episode Old Fashioned Murder.She was also nominated for Best Actress for All About Eve in 1951, but went home empty handed. Head’s Columbo episode co-star Anne Baxter also has a statuette of her own, winning the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Razor’s Edge in 1947. Peter Falk even presented her with one of them, in 1974, for her designs for The Sting. She won a record eight Best Costume Design Oscars in her stellar career – some of which appeared in the background in Requiem. Costume design legend Edith Head had a cameo in Requiem for a Falling Star in 1973.Dean Jagger (Walter Cunnell in Most Crucial Game) won Best Supporting Actor for his role in Twelve O’Clock High (1950).Rod Steiger ( Strange Bedfellows) won Best Actor for his role in In the Heat of the Night in 1968. ![]() ![]() The following year Falk again just missed out, this time to West Side Story‘s George Sakiris. Interestingly, Falk was also up against two future Columbo co-stars that year: Sal Mineo (who appeared as murder victim Rachman Habib in Case of Immunity in 1975) and Jack Kruschen (lovable Russian chessmaster Tomlin Dudek in 1973’s Most Dangerous Match) for their roles in Exodus and The Apartment respectively. ![]() Sadly for Falk, it went to Peter Ustinov for his admittedly excellent turn in Spartacus. Many tipped him for the Oscar in ’61, so much so that rumour has it he even stood up in anticipation when the name ‘Peter…’ was announced as winner. Peter Falk was twice a Best Supporting Actor nominee at the Academy Awards, for Murder Inc (1961) & Pocketful of Miracles (1962). Have a look below at Columbo‘s Oscars pedigree. And the stars of Columbo, both from in front of and behind the camera, have a shedload of Oscars between them – as well as nominations galore. No silver screen accolade is more coveted than the Academy Award. But do you realise quite how good that pedigree is? We all know that Columbo was a great show, and one that could call on stellar talent as easily as the Lieutenant could pull on his wrinkled raincoat. ![]()
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