Question: Besides being world famous Hollywood icons, what do Danny DeVito, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Grant, Jim Carrey, Mia Farrow, Richard Gere, and Rita Hayworth have in common?
Answer: They were never in the final round for an Oscar…and they are featured in an upcoming Queens program.
Snubbed Forever: Great Actors, No Nominations runs at the Museum of the Moving Image from Saturday, Feb. 1, to Sunday, March 9.
A total of 21 films will screen with a bonus: For Your Consideration, which is considered to be the funniest movie ever made about the experience of being snubbed for an Oscar nomination.
General admission is $20.
Although times are subject to change, the full lineup is below. The snubbed actors are included in the titles.
Feb. 1 at 1 pm and Feb. 2 at 3:30 pm
Dog Day Afternoon: John Cazale
Director Sidney Lumet. 1975, 125 minutes. Cazale with Al Pacino, Chris Sarandon, Carol Kane, and Charles Durning. Pacino is desperate crook Sonny Wortzik in this NYC crime drama that’s based on the true story of a 1972 bank robbery in Brooklyn.
Feb. 1 at 3:30 pm and Feb. 2 at 6 pm
Barton Fink: John Goodman and John Turturro
Directors Joel and Ethan Coen. 1991, 116 minutes. Turturro and Goodman with Judy Davis, Michael Lerner, and John Mahoney. Turturro is an idealistic East Coast playwright who goes to Hollywood to write studio scripts in the 1930s. Facing writers’ block while cooped up in a rotting Los Angeles hotel, he befriends a diabolically charismatic traveling salesman (Goodman) who’s staying down the hall.
Feb. 1 at 6 pm and Feb. 2 at 1 pm
Batman Returns: Danny DeVito
Director Tim Burton. 1992, 126 minutes. Devito with Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Christopher Walken. Keaton’s brooding Caped Crusader takes on two archrivals: Pfeiffer’s mousy, abused secretary Selena Kyle (aka Catwoman) and DeVito’s demeaned, abandoned orphan Oswald Cobblepot (aka The Penguin).
Feb. 7 at 4 pm and Feb. 9 at 4 pm
3:10 to Yuma: Glenn Ford
Director Delmer Daves. 1957, 92 minutes. Ford with Van Heflin. Ford is outlaw who is being guarded and brought to justice by a civilian rancher (Oscar-winner Heflin).
Feb. 7 at 7 pm and Feb. 8 at 6 pm
Rosemary’s Baby: Mia Farrow
Director Roman Polanski. 1968, 137 minutes. Mia Farrow with John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, and Ralph Bellamy. A newly pregnant woman (Farrow) moves with her actor husband (Cassavetes) into a Manhattan building with a haunted past. She begins to suspect her seemingly normal elderly neighbors (Gordon, Blackmer) have sinister plans for her and her baby.
Feb. 8 at 1:30 pm and Feb. 9 at 6 pm
The Quiet Man: Maureen O’Hara
Director John Ford. 1952, 129 minutes. O’Hara with John Wayne and Barry Fitzgerald. Sean Thornton (Wayne) is an ex-heavyweight from Pittsburgh who returns to his ancestral home in the Irish countryside, where he gets the fight of his life from strong-willed local girl Mary Kate Danaher (O’Hara).
Feb. 8 at 4 pm and Feb. 9 at 2 pm
The Magnificent Ambersons: Joseph Cotten
Director Orson Welles. 1942, 88 minutes. Cotten with Agnes Moorehead, Tim Holt, Dolores Costello, and Anne Baxter. This film is a cynical adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s novel about a turn-of-the-century family unwilling to change with the times. It’s a ruthless portrait of a tradition-minded young man whose vice grip on his family leads to its downfall. Cotten is the motorcar manufacturer seen as an unwanted interloper.
Feb. 14 at 3 pm and Feb. 15 at 2 pm
The Girl from Missouri: Jean Harlow
Director Jack Conway. 1934, 75 minutes. Harlow with Franchot Tone, Lionel Barrymore, and Patsy Kelly. Sultry Harlow plays a waitress and dance girl who escapes with her loose-lipped pal (Kelly) to New York from dead-end Kansas City to start over. In the hopes of landing a millionaire without sacrificing her virtue, she falls into one startling occurrence after another.
Feb. 14 at 5:30 pm and Feb. 15 at 3:45 pm
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Jim Carrey
Director Michel Gondry. 2004, 108 minutes. Carrey with Kate Winslet, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, and Tom Wilkinson. Carrey is the lovelorn Joel, who undergoes an experimental procedure to erase memories of his former flame Clementine (Winslet, who did receive a nomination).
Feb. 14 at 7:45 pm and Feb. 16 at 12:30 pm
An Officer and a Gentleman: Richard Gere
Director Taylor Hackford. 1982, 124 minutes. Gere with Debra Winger, Louis Gossett Jr., David Keith, Lisa Blount, Robert Loggia, and Lisa Eilbacher. Gere is Zack Mayo, who attempts to turn his life around after his mother’s suicide by entering Aviation Officer Candidate School to become a Navy Jet Pilot.
Feb. 15 at 6 pm and Feb. 16 at 5:30 pm
Maurice: Hugh Grant
Director James Ivory. 1987, 140 minutes. Grant with James Wilby, Rupert Graves, Denholm Elliott, Simon Callow, and Billie Whitelaw. In this adaptation of E. M. Forster’s posthumous novel about a gay man’s coming of age in Edwardian England, Wilby plays Maurice Hall, who falls for dashing school chum Clive Durham, played by Grant.
Feb. 21 at 5:15 pm and Feb. 23 at 2 pm
Carmen Jones: Harry Belafonte
Director Otto Preminger. 1954, 105 minutes. Belafonte with Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll, and Brock Peters. Belafonte plays the young soldier Joe and Dandridge is the alluring parachute-factory worker Carmen Jones in this World War II adaptation of Bizet’s Carmen.
Feb. 21 at 7:30 pm and Feb. 23 at 6 pm
Blue Collar: Richard Pryor and Yaphet Kotto
Director Paul Schrader. 1978, 114 minutes. Pryor and Kotto with Harvey Keitel and Ed Begley Jr. Pryor and Kotto are Detroit auto workers who take matters into their own hands after being mistreated by management and their Union bosses. After deciding to commit an ill-planned robbery at union headquarters, they come upon papers linking their organizers to a crime syndicate.
Feb. 28 at 3 pm and March 1 at 2:15 pm
Scarlet Street: Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett
Director Fritz Lang. 1945, 102 minutes. Robinson and Bennett with Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay, and Rosiland Ivan. Robinson is a browbeaten, retired Greenwich Village cashier and amateur painter who falls into a trap set by a shady local girl who dangles a romantic affair in front of him while swindling him out of cash.
Feb. 28 at 5:30 pm and March 2 at 4:45 pm
For Your Consideration: Catherine O’Hara
Director Christopher Guest. 2006, 86 minutes. O’Hara with Harry Shearer, Parker Posey, Michael McKean, Bob Balaban, Jennifer Coolidge, Eugene Levy, and Larry Miller. Focusing on the hellish Oscar-prognostication media landscape as much as the Tinseltown fools who buy into it with self-destructive relish, Guest’s film gives O’Hara one of her greatest screen roles as Marilyn Hack, who discovers that she has been tapped for a possible Oscar nomination for the ridiculous ethnic melodrama she’s currently shooting.
Feb. 28 at 7:30 pm and March 1 at 4:30 pm
Cutter’s Way: John Heard
Director Ivan Passer. 1981, 109 minutes. Heard with Jeff Bridges and Lisa Eichhorn. Heard plays a broken-down, one-eyed Vietnam veteran determined to exact revenge on the death of a young woman whose body is discovered by his friend Bone (Bridges). Although no one can be sure who the murderer is, Cutter’s conspiracy theories lead them to believe a local tycoon is responsible.
March 1 at 6:30 pm and March 2 at 2:15 pm
Saint Jack: Ben Gazzara
Director Peter Bogdanovich. 1979. 112 minutes. Gazzara with Denholm Elliott, James Villiers, Peter Bogdanovich, and George Lazenby. In this adaptation of a Paul Theroux novel, Gazzara is American expat Jack Flowers, an amiable pimp in Singapore who knows everyone by name, never turns down a drink, and wears the blues with a grin.
March 1 at 12:30 pm and March 2 at 12:30 pm
The Body Snatcher: Boris Karloff
Director Robert Wise. 1945, 78 minutes. Karloff with Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Bela Lugosi, and Russell Wade. Karloff is a struggling cab driver in 19th-century Edinburgh who helps procure bodies from freshly dug graves for a local doctor. Soon enough, the bodies he delivers become a little too fresh.
March 7 at 7:30 pm and March 8 at 5:30 pm
Don’t Look Now: Donald Sutherland
Director Nicolas Roeg. 1973, 110 minutes. Sutherland with Julie Christie, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, and Renato Scarpa. Married couple John and Laura Baxter (Sutherland and Christie) journey to Venice, where they try to come to terms with their daughter’s accidental death. In this decaying, labyrinthine city, John and Laura meet a pair of weird sisters who claim to have seen their dead child, sending the couple into a spiral of hope, fear, and unspeakable horror.
March 8 at 1 pm and March 9 at 1 pm
The Lady from Shanghai: Rita Hayworth
Director Orson Welles. 1947, 88 minutes. Hayworth with Orson Welles and Everett Sloane. In addition to being the director, Welles plays an Irish sailor who falls head over heels for Elsa (Hayworth), the enigmatic wife of a crooked lawyer (Everett Sloane), recently arrived in New York from Shanghai.
March 8 at 3 pm and March 9 at 5:30 pm
Vertigo: Kim Novak
Director Alfred Hitchcock. 1958, 128 minutes. Novak with James Stewart and Barbara Bel Geddes. Hitchcock’s psychological thriller follows a San Francisco private detective who comes out of retirement to trail an old schoolmate’s beautiful wife, who appears to be haunted by a figure from her ancestral past. Stewart’s acclaimed performance as a man who falls into spirals of psychosis is matched at every turn by Novak’s ethereal work as two different, yet equally tragic women: the inscrutable Madeleine and the earthy Judy.
Museum of the Moving Image is located at 36-01 35th Ave. in Astoria’s Kaufman Arts District.
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