I agree. Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman in DMD is one of my all time favorite pairings in movies. Incredible chemistry. 💖

Given the strength of her performance, I think she returned to her (acting) prime at least for a while.

What gets me every time is when she is so lost in every way yet when hoak comes to her she reaches for his hand and tells him.." your my best friend" omg I lose it every time! 😢

Ive watched DMD about a million times...I ADORE Jessica Tandys acting.

Don't forget Hume.

Haven't watched,saw her in a movie batteries not included....kid friendly too cute

Same emotions here. After losing my dear father it was impossible for mother to continue. He was the central focus of her life and eventually it was necessary to move her into a carefully selected caring facility and sell the house. I don’t think she even realized the transition as when I took her out for visits, she would let me know when she thought it was time to “Go home”. At first those words hurt me to the core but I was advised by an experienced nurse that she had transitioned and made that place ‘home’. Thank God for that.

She thanked the rest of the cast.

Morgan Freeman made the movie as good as it was.

She wasn't cast for this role because she was seen as promoting equality. Staying true to her character she represents that type of old entitled thinking where her mind and brain do not go to the depths of awareness required to understand the greatness of others in supporting your success or even creating your success... she only knows the constructs of racism that have given her so much privilege and this award speech was the crowning moment for that privilege of course she's not going to think Morgan Freeman because in her mind she deserves this award and the unsung heroes have to go unsung and unseen.

@@a_leaf She was 80 years of age. People tend to be forgetful at that age. Even during big occasions like the Oscars. She even forgot to mention her husband. Give the grievance shtick a rest. You'll feel all the better for it.

@michaelmuldowney8: She was not stiffed and Vivien Leigh was chosen after playing the role on the London stage and making her second Hollywood film 12 years after her first, GONE WITH THE WIND. It came down to box office and Miss Leigh had that and talent. Four years later after doing MacBETH on stage with Olivier, with 4 Best Oscars between them, they couldn’t get backing for a film version. That, unfortunately is shoe business which explains why Lucille Ball (and a $2 million contribution to the budget, got the film role of MAME and not Angels Lansbury. Talk about getting stiffed, screwed and f**ked over!!

​@@johnpickford4222 Your comments about Vivian Leigh and "box office draw" were very interesting. The movie you also mentioned with Lucille Ball should have been retitled "Lame" since it was only worth watching for scenes with Bea Arthur!

​@@johnpickford4222 Correction, that should be "LAME"!!

@@johnpickford4222Many commentators still maintain she was deprived of the opportunity to preserve her Tony Award winning performance on film, especially as she was the only one of the principal Broadway cast who was denied this opportunity.

I didn't know whether her husband Hume Cronyn was still alive at that point but was happy to see him next to her. He was a very gifted actor.

I had heard about this movie but never watched it until today. I loved Morgan Freeman's role. Ms. Daisy was mean and surly but in the end her heart was softened by Hope was that his name?

@@streetsofgold378 Hoke 💙

The wonderful thing about film is that you don’t have to miss her talent, although she isn’t with us. Great talent always lives on and inspires us all. FRIED GREEN TOMATOES is a masterpiece and she is amazing in it. And so different than Driving Miss Daisy. And often overlooked because people think it’s a sci-Fi film is COCOON. All these films deal with how you live your life being the most important thing. And in each she is a totally different person (Cocoon is also wonderful because her husband is in it). Most people don’t realize that she was gravely ill when she made all these films. She wasn’t supposed to be working. But she felt she has something else to say. And these ended up being her biggest films and most beloved. And in her 80s. Watch those other two films so you can laugh and cry and have the best time.

It was glorious, seeing her rise to the top in her golden years.

No comparison

As much as I love seeing all of the movie stars, I agreee with you; 1 Presenter is all they need. I think this years oscars looked sloopy. The age of the Glamours movie star is gone.

@@mikeytrahant943 Thank you Mikey, help me start a petition

Every one of the major actors/characters in the film did a wonderful job. Superb acting in my view

She forgot to mention her husband too, but hey, she’s in front of all Hollywood and she was , what, 80? It’s understandable! I’m 62 and I can’t remember what color my underwear are.

@@lindazwart7048 She was 81, still the oldest actress to ever receive a Best Actress Oscar.

Morgan should have won also.

Mr. Freeman was asked to speak @ her funeral! It wasn’t intentional that she left him out of her thank you’s! She just had a temporary loss of memory! She was 80!😂

Not sure what clip you watched...

@Jimmy Yanes It was the Mark Ruffalo/Mark Rylance of that year

Lange had no chance and she knew it. Pfeiffer deserved it more than her for "Fabulous Baker Boys".

Que dices Lange debió ganar por Caja de música , se lo robaron igual que en Francés Farmer

I suspect many, many more people than me would disagree. Michelle was lovely; she could sing and use her beauty to charm men, but she did not have the strength of Jessica Tandy to inhabit the character, which is what real acting is. Jessica won many awards in her life--4 Tony Awards + Golden Globe + Emmy + BAFTA, one of the most gifted actresses of her time.

His name is Morgan Freeman, and he is a gentleman!

This category came down to Tandy vs. Pfeiffer. I still hope Michelle Pfeiffer wins the Oscar, but she hasn't been in movies past 20 years.

There are two thousand more people in the theater. I’ll wait for you to rattle the rest of them off.

If that were the case, Driving Miss Daisy wouldn’t have won Best Picture. The movie is nothing without her and Freeman. Pfeiffer was excellent, but the performance is stuck in a downer for a movie. And nothing really resolves itself. Pfeiffer should have accepted the role as Clarice in Silence of the Lambs- which won Jodie Foster her second Oscar just two years later. Michelle would have easily played that part well and prevailed to the stage. Tandy deserved her Oscar and it was nice to see a lighter performance win.

Exactly!

Absolutely. And Tandy's performance, while very good, shouldn't have won either. That said, there have been worse Best Picture choices recently but in 89/90 there were some inexcusable absences.

@Dale Longwood hey hey..no need for that

Lol...just as well it won for Best make up...seems they deserved it too...if you were so well fooled. Lol

@@alisdairmckenzie LOL very accurate, Alisdair! Now, I see that the make-up award was completely intended to sustain my delusional fic theory. Thanks, academy! LOL 😅👏🏻😁🤣

You should be rooted out for that awful comment. Jessica Tandy was never racist. Who do you think you are? You comment is disgusting.

She was nominated the following year for FGT.

Her husband, another great actor, Hume Cronen

That was messed up.

She did thank the cast; maybe she didn't wish to single anyone out. If I were standing up there, I would probably forget my own name.

@@paulsuchy6210 Me too. And they say it is obviously a surreal moment, when you are on that stage, with that award in your hand. So I can understand when they forget to thank someone. Like Nicole Kidman said when she was up there and she thanked her daughter and her mother. But she forgot to thank her father. Who was right there. lol. So she regrets that, of course, but it's understandable.

Noooooooo!!! , Daniel Day Lewis performance in My Left Foot was by far ,and I mean by far the Best performace by an actor that year, AMPAS nailed it ! ,getting into the ceremony the name that was expected to prevail was Tom Cruises Born on the 4th of July, but Lewis performance was just too good to be ignored ,as for Morgan Freeman, his performance was one of the best ,but it was never the frontrunner.

Actually many in Hollywood predicted Cruise would win for Born on 4th July. Such a tight, tight category, but hell, Daniel Day Lewis painting with his foot, what a sight ! He's the only male actor with Three Oscars !

If there were a god, Trump would be gone.

Emmm - Jessica Tandy was BRITISH !!

@@michaelmuldowney8 but she speaks in english...

@@michaelmuldowney8 Uh, last I checked Tandy was American, but the lady who played Daisy on Broadway was British. Adjani had no chance, bottom of the list.

@@shihlin1 Check again. Jessica Tandy was born and raised in London. She didn't come to the US until she was a young adult and didn't become a US citizen until 1952 when she was in her early 40's.

No way ...she was very good, but her range does not compare to Ms. Tandys

If Driving Miss Daisy was not released in 1989, then Pfeiffer will definitely win.

So let's face it...Jessica Tandy was a very nice woman and a good actress, but I don't think this was her best performance. Michelle Pfeiffer gave her best performance in "The fabulous Baker Boys",so that she deserved this award. Jessica Tandy deserved to win for another movie.

The lady was old she had to win such a performance. Michelle can always win later

She's Christian, you i d i o t

distasteful!!!

You are despicable and need to go crawl back into your hole. And, BTW, Ms.Tandy is not Jewish.

@@nancysexton545 Thats you. I watched the film Freeman was the active item. She has nothing to do with the oscar excet jewdism. You like it or not. Not her only anything relates to the jews should definitly has an oscar.

She's the forgotten one, but she won some awards that year and her performance was terrific.