Supporting Actress 1975: The Outcome

5. Lee Grant in Shampoo

"Despite showing flashes of Felicia's desperation and longing for something real and different, Grant's Felicia never seems to be totally in sync with the rest of the film, and because Grant stays on the same on the same tiresome note of pouty fussiness that the performance loses steam and shrivels up into a into a shrill caricature."

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4. Sylvia Miles in Farewell, My Lovely

"Jessie could have been a loud, broad caricature who we feel nothing for, yet Miles humanizes the character with flashes of longing and desperation, while effectively underplaying Jessie's antsy intentions and desires with grace, subtlety, and nuance."

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3. Brenda Vaccaro in Once Is Not Enough

"Vaccaro could have followed the rest of her costars and acted as an empty shell, but she seizes the opportunity and creates a genuinely funny and memorable character. Brenda's Linda is a delightful side-line character infused with authentic verve and gusto without ever forcing her comedic effects, resulting in a wickedly fun and enduring comic creation."

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2. Lily Tomlin in Nashville

"Tomlin conveys the longing and despair, communicates the urges hiding beneath Linnea's cover and her backstory, and its in that face and those eyes where she transports us to places, experiences, and emotions that are both descreetly secretive and startlingly public. Subtle, compelling, magical work that's some of the best the category has ever seen." 

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1. Ronee Blakley in Nashville

Throughout her performance, Blakley emanates a spirited, happy, and radiant disposition which forms superb contasts to Barbara Jean's haunting emotional truths, while remaining earthy, grounded, and incredibly humane. Her singing is exquisite, and she ably displays the real engimatic, puzzling disconnection between the soulless, fragile, unstable being she really is, and the flawless goddess she appears to be; a disconnection she masks with uncertain hope. Emotionally honest, haunting, compelling, and angelic. In other words....perfection.

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Oscar picked Lee Grant

But Twister see's things a bit differently by giving his vote to Ronee Blakley (duh).

What say you?